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Speaker 1: gonna start talking about some other sports, some basketball, a
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Speaker 1: bit about that Ali Raceman testimony, so a lot of
Speaker 1: things come in. Um, don't don't freat just that football
Speaker 1: is winding to a close. We also, like I said,
Speaker 1: we always are talking about you know, players safety, the CTE,
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol. While I have a story on the
Speaker 1: other side. UM interesting story, Uh about almost four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars was raised to go to CTE research. I'll
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Speaker 1: drama is more the Cleveland Cavaliers going on right now
Speaker 1: with Kevin Love. Is he's sick? Is he not? The
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs with Kawuhi Leonard being disconnected from the team.
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Speaker 1: y'all were in the chat room and y'all were saying
Speaker 1: that we need a Manimal cam. We need a camera
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Speaker 1: you guys don't really want to see the Manimal at work.
Speaker 1: You can get a little hectic down there in the
Speaker 1: fantasy pit of mystery. But we gotta look into that.
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Speaker 1: that's what y'all want in uh in the chat room,
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Speaker 1: up at spitting speeds. Let's get into this news and
Speaker 1: notes from around the NFL. Biggest news coming out today
Speaker 1: is that a Dallas where Steven Jones says and Steven
Speaker 1: Jones obviously Jerry Jones kid, he's one of the vice
Speaker 1: presidents of the team, says that Dez Bryant quote unquote
Speaker 1: can be a distraction. That is not the kind of
Speaker 1: language you want to hear about yourself here in the
Speaker 1: off season. I don't think they're not gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: have some kind of divorce. Dez Bryant will be a cowboy.
Speaker 1: My question though, is are they kind of priming the
Speaker 1: pump to ask Dez Bryant to take a pay cut.
Speaker 1: I've been saying all season long. If you listen to
Speaker 1: the show, if you're part of the cipher, you know
Speaker 1: I do not believe Dez Bryant is an elite receiver.
Speaker 1: He is not getting separation. And when you were just
Speaker 1: a boss and can box out, that's one thing. But
Speaker 1: I was telling you, up against good cornerbacks this season,
Speaker 1: they are making him disappear. Whether it was Peterson, whether
Speaker 1: it's Jack Rabbit, Jenkins and others, he was not able
Speaker 1: to really do it against the best. Check out what
Speaker 1: um Stephen Jones had to say and that quote. The
Speaker 1: chemistry between Dac and Dez is different than between Tony
Speaker 1: Romo and Dez. It hasn't hit on all cylinders how
Speaker 1: the connection works. It's a work in progress, he said,
Speaker 1: and we just have to really get our hands around it.
Speaker 1: When you look at the full body of work together
Speaker 1: where that's headed. And I'm telling you I don't disagree
Speaker 1: with Steven Jones. You saw a ton of times this
Speaker 1: season Dead is throwing tantrums on the sideline. So this
Speaker 1: bears watching. I think though, Like I said, just prime
Speaker 1: in the pump for him to to ask him basically
Speaker 1: to take a pay cut and renegotiate his contract. Also,
Speaker 1: keep an eye Peter King says, you need to watch
Speaker 1: for Levy on Bell potentially this offseason going to the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. That would be very very interesting. Remember I
Speaker 1: philosophized at one point it was really out there. I
Speaker 1: was talking about the Detroit Lions as a potential spot form.
Speaker 1: You know, you got the stable quarterback entering his prime,
Speaker 1: unlike Big Bend who's probably got one year left. You
Speaker 1: have an improving offensive line well in Oakland, you have
Speaker 1: one of the best offensive lines in the NFL. You
Speaker 1: also have a young, ascending, stable quarterback and by I
Speaker 1: mean stable as per his contract situation right and a
Speaker 1: team at is you know, ready to go. So that
Speaker 1: could be very interesting at least that's what Peter King says,
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on that. Other news, Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: this quarterback out of Wyoming. Many people expect him to
Speaker 1: be a first round, if not a top ten pick
Speaker 1: in the upcoming NFL Draft. There are reports now that
Speaker 1: he says he wants to be part of the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: He wants the Browns to take him at one or four. Overall,
Speaker 1: he would be happy to be a quarterback in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And I quote he says, I want to be the
Speaker 1: guy that turns it around there. Whoever does that will
Speaker 1: be immortalized in Cleveland forever. And listen, I like the
Speaker 1: way the kids thinking okay. Same could be said for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers after Lebron gets him that team, they
Speaker 1: are immortalized forever. If you are the guy that turns
Speaker 1: around the Cleveland Browns, it will be even better than
Speaker 1: the guys who were on the Red Sox when they
Speaker 1: want after the curse or the curse of the Billy
Speaker 1: Goat in Chicago with the Cubs and that team that
Speaker 1: is now, you know they will never have to pay
Speaker 1: for ink in that city again. Same could be said
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen if he would go into the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns and actually turned them into a contender. Here is
Speaker 1: the other thing though, this kid might be crazy like
Speaker 1: a fox right because it sounds like they've got Todd
Speaker 1: Haley now as an offensive coordinator. It sounds like they're
Speaker 1: still gonna have Hugh Jackson as a quarterback. A lot
Speaker 1: of people that can help develop a young quarterback. Remember
Speaker 1: what I said when the Titans wound up hiring of
Speaker 1: Rabel and some of these other defensive hires. The priority
Speaker 1: needs to be to develop the quarterback, and in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: with Hailey and Hugh Jackson, they do have the capability
Speaker 1: to do so. The question is will the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: actually pulled the trigger on a guy like Josh Allen
Speaker 1: also back up in Minnesota? Remember the Minnesota Vikings, but
Speaker 1: were eliminated on Sunday by Philadelphia Eagles. Their head coach,
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer is noncommittal on bringing case Keenum back as
Speaker 1: his quarterback. He's been noncommittal about case Keenum all season long.
Speaker 1: The question remains, though, will case Keenum still be tied
Speaker 1: to Pat Shermer, who remember he just accepted a job
Speaker 1: as the new head coach of the New York Football Giants.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, uh, that is more likely with Keenum moving
Speaker 1: along now. I've been saying for a while, I think
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer wants Teddy Bridgewater. The question is will he
Speaker 1: be able to pay for Teddy Bridgewater and still have
Speaker 1: a viable backup because remember Teddy Bridgewater has missed a year,
Speaker 1: year and a half of action after that catastrophic knee injury.
Speaker 1: We still have yet to see him. Remember he was
Speaker 1: only a second year player before the injury. And it's
Speaker 1: not like he was a pro bowler either. Okay, so really,
Speaker 1: do you want to push your chips into the middle
Speaker 1: of the table with Teddy Bridgewater? I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the stats over beat cipher I
Speaker 1: said the Minnesota Vikings would have a very interesting decision
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position with all three of them being
Speaker 1: free agents. And now you know Keenum regressed in that
Speaker 1: last game. Do you want to offer him fifteen million
Speaker 1: dollars a year? I don't think you do. Can you
Speaker 1: offer Teddy Bridgewater that kind of cash when you haven't
Speaker 1: seen him? Sam Bradford is made out of bubble wrap,
Speaker 1: So will that work? I don't think so either. They
Speaker 1: gotta figure it out. I'm interested to see what the
Speaker 1: Vikings do. Last piece of news and note, I'll give
Speaker 1: you Larry Fitzgerald still has not decided on his future
Speaker 1: in the NFL, if he's going to retire or not,
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm sort of thinking that even if he
Speaker 1: doesn't retire, he won't be back with Arizona. If he does,
Speaker 1: he'll go somewhere like New England where he can just
Speaker 1: try to win a ring. They said he had a long,
Speaker 1: quote unquote in depth talk with their new head coach,
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes. But again, this is another defensive mind. So
Speaker 1: what does that mean for the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: You got David Johnson, you could have Larry Fitzgerald, but really,
Speaker 1: do you have anything else? And is that enough to
Speaker 1: go to war? In the NFC West when you have
Speaker 1: the likes of Russell Wilson, you have the ascending Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams with Jared goth and Todd Gurley, and everybody knows,
Speaker 1: you've got Jimmy g Q and Kyle Shanahan there in
Speaker 1: San Francisco speak King of Jimmy g Q. He's doing
Speaker 1: pretty well for himself and everybody loves him out there
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. But check this out. Do you
Speaker 1: realize that he still has bonus clauses from his new
Speaker 1: England Patriots contract. Do you realize that because the Patriots
Speaker 1: have already made the Super Bowl Jimmy Garoppolo and his
Speaker 1: backup quarterback contract, he is already got seventy nine thousand
Speaker 1: dollars as a bonus. Check this out. If the Patriots
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl in a week and half, he
Speaker 1: gets another bonus of another hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Get this. If the Patriots lose the Super Bowl to
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, Jimmy g Still via bonus, will pocket
Speaker 1: another fifty six thousand dollars. He's got seventy nine already.
Speaker 1: He's guaranteed from the Patriots playoff run to get at
Speaker 1: least another hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in bonuses.
Speaker 1: This where he is building his legend in San Francisco
Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan and the forty niners. I find that
Speaker 1: very very interesting. Okay, here's the other thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about. I told you about the CTE research
Speaker 1: that just got a boost. I tell you all the
Speaker 1: time here in the stats over beat Cipher, how we
Speaker 1: talk about player safety. Is it real? Is it not? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember Rashaan Salam. Rashan Salam
Speaker 1: was a running back. I believe he went to Colorado
Speaker 1: in college, won the Heisman Trophy. Okay, he won the
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy back in the day. I was in and
Speaker 1: out of the league, mostly with Chicago and the NFL.
Speaker 1: He fell on hard times. He sold his Heisman Trophy
Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen, and then unfortunately in December of
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, he died and what was ruled as
Speaker 1: a suicide. Remember they believed his family believes he had
Speaker 1: ct pretty much all running backs, probably due because of
Speaker 1: the collisions, right, and so we don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: He ultimately took his own life in two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: We'll check this out though. There's a company SCP Auctions
Speaker 1: of California where what they do with their auctions is
Speaker 1: they raise money for CTE research. Rashaan Salam's Heisman went
Speaker 1: via auction forget this, three hundred and ninety nine thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and eight dollars over the weekend. That is
Speaker 1: a record for any sale of the Heisman Trophy or
Speaker 1: any auction of the Heisman Trophy. The previous record was
Speaker 1: three hundred ninety five thousand for Bruce P. Smith's trophy
Speaker 1: of the ninety one Heisman Award winner and yes O J. Simpson,
Speaker 1: who won the award in nineteen sixty eight. His award
Speaker 1: was sold via auction in nine for two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. I want to tip my cap right
Speaker 1: quick to SCP Auctions of California, raising nearly four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to CTE research. And I think it's very
Speaker 1: fitting that it was Rashaan Salam's Heisman trophy that did that,
Speaker 1: because unfortunately Rashaan Salam took his own own life in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, many people believe he had ct
Speaker 1: and now it is going forward. At least that trophy
Speaker 1: is going to fund more research when we come back
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Speaker 1: love the status overbeat Cipher. The poll question that I
Speaker 1: have up is which of these top two NBA teams
Speaker 1: do you think is going to be more distracted by
Speaker 1: some of the news, some of the drama that's in
Speaker 1: their orbit these days. And I'm talking about the Spurs
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the Calves, and ironically, they play
Speaker 1: each other tonight, so I thought it was a fitting
Speaker 1: time to talk about this a little bit. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: talk first about the Spurs. Kauai Leonard one of the
Speaker 1: best I don't know four players in the NBA. You
Speaker 1: got Lebron, you got Steph you got you know, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: you got Anthony Davis, and then you know, you got
Speaker 1: Kauahi Leonard has a two way All Star. Okay, Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard has missed a lot of time this year because
Speaker 1: of a quad injury that the Spurs are just saying
Speaker 1: is not responding to rehab, is just not healing the
Speaker 1: way they expect. And there are a lot of reports
Speaker 1: out there right now that Kauai, after months of the
Speaker 1: rehab and the starting and the stopping and the treatment
Speaker 1: that he's getting on this quad, is being diagnosed by
Speaker 1: the way right now as quad tendon opathy. And there's
Speaker 1: been talk and reports out there that he's got a
Speaker 1: little disgruntled that he is quote unquote distant and disconnected
Speaker 1: from the San Antonio Spurs and the GM of the team, R. C. Buford.
Speaker 1: He discussed this a little bit. Okay, so check this
Speaker 1: out and I quote there is no issue between the
Speaker 1: Spurs organization and Kauai. Beauford says, from day one, all
Speaker 1: parties have worked together to find the best solutions to
Speaker 1: his injury. This has been difficult for everyone. It's been
Speaker 1: difficult for Kauai. He's an elite level player. It's been
Speaker 1: difficult for the team. They want to be able to
Speaker 1: play with a great teammate. And it's been difficult for
Speaker 1: our staff because historically we've been able to successfully manage injuries.
Speaker 1: But this rehab hasn't gone simple, and it hasn't gone
Speaker 1: in a linear fashion. I think this is very interesting.
Speaker 1: It's kind of you see how they're like trying to
Speaker 1: cover their own but already they're like, oh, it's not
Speaker 1: only hard for Kauai. It's hard for the teammates because
Speaker 1: they want to play with Kauai. It's hard for our
Speaker 1: staff because we can't figure out how to make him better.
Speaker 1: And I can see listen, this is also a team
Speaker 1: similar to the Patriots, right where it is one voice,
Speaker 1: it is Greg Popovich, and that's about it. You see
Speaker 1: the way pop does, like the in between quarter interviews.
Speaker 1: You know, he similar to Bill Belichick. People think say
Speaker 1: he's funny that when you get to know him, but
Speaker 1: he's very cold, very stern, and it's one voice coming
Speaker 1: out of that franchise. You don't usually ever hear about
Speaker 1: any Spurs feeling disgruntled. This is a first, but it's
Speaker 1: actually a second because earlier this season and right before
Speaker 1: the season, we heard reports that LaMarcus Aldredge also maybe
Speaker 1: wanted to request the trade, wanted to maybe get out
Speaker 1: of San Antonio, and then you know, him and Pop
Speaker 1: kind of hashed it out and now they're on good
Speaker 1: terms and now everything's all good. But I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit concerned about this because listen, Kauhi Leonard. When Kauai
Speaker 1: was on the Spurs, they even remember, if you remember
Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals, they had the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: in that first game, they were by like thirty points
Speaker 1: on them in game one, and then Kauai goes down
Speaker 1: and you know the rest, Golden State roles to their
Speaker 1: NBA championship, their second in three years. Here's what I
Speaker 1: think is also interesting. Continuing in my opinion, Buford and
Speaker 1: the organization to try to go a little c y
Speaker 1: A and not necessarily really back up their m v P.
Speaker 1: Can that a Kauai Leonard? They also said R. C.
Speaker 1: Beauford says, we sought outside expertise with the best tendon
Speaker 1: experts in the world. But get this, it worked beautifully
Speaker 1: for Tony Parker, but it hasn't worked the same for Kauai.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they're throwing up their hands saying, listen,
Speaker 1: we do everything we can. They worked fine for Tony Parker,
Speaker 1: we don't know why it's not working with Kauai. Almost
Speaker 1: like putting the blame on Kauai for him being injured
Speaker 1: and him missing all this time Kauai Leonard has missed.
Speaker 1: He missed the first twenty seven games of the season,
Speaker 1: then he played in nine games, and then they shut
Speaker 1: him down again. Remember Greg Popovich said that he didn't
Speaker 1: re injure it. He just said he hasn't responded the
Speaker 1: way we wanted to. And we're airing on the side
Speaker 1: of costume. Here's the thing. The Spurs are still thirty
Speaker 1: and eighteen there the three seed in the Western Conference
Speaker 1: right now. But I wonder like They're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get past Houston or get past Golden's date
Speaker 1: without Kauai Leonard. So I wonder if they're really if
Speaker 1: it's right to let him rest up, let him rehab,
Speaker 1: and then you know, come late February comes back for
Speaker 1: the stretch run of like the last thirty games or so.
Speaker 1: But you're starting to hear cracks in the Spurs facade.
Speaker 1: Similar in my opinion, very much to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's Belichick and Brady or whether it's
Speaker 1: Popovich and you know his chain of stars. In San Antonio,
Speaker 1: we're talking about fifteen twenty years of a run literally
Speaker 1: at the top of the sport that doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 1: Might it be coming to a close in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: The other place is the Cleveland Cavaliers. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys have seen this, but I think this
Speaker 1: is an issue. Uh So, Kevin Love left the recent
Speaker 1: game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which they want up
Speaker 1: losing by like points, giving up a hundred forty eight
Speaker 1: points to Oklahoma City. Love left after three minutes and
Speaker 1: he's say he was sick. Then he missed the team
Speaker 1: practice on Sunday said he was sick. In Monday, they
Speaker 1: had a team meeting, players only meeting where teammates quote
Speaker 1: unquote question the legitimacy of his illness. A lot of
Speaker 1: players are also acknowledging after a loss last week to
Speaker 1: Golden State, that there's been some finger pointing in the
Speaker 1: locker room, growing discontent in the locker room. And listen,
Speaker 1: this has happened before with Cleveland. Remember last year heading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, they look like bland, guts trash and
Speaker 1: then they proverbially flipped the switch. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't think they can flip the switch this year this
Speaker 1: time around, and there's a lot of reasons why. One,
Speaker 1: their roster is a lot older than it's been in
Speaker 1: previous seasons. My man Tony Senkada last hour also added
Speaker 1: that they don't have enough size. They're playing Kevin Love
Speaker 1: at the five, Tristan Thompson comes in. That's the only
Speaker 1: rim protection, rebounding they have. So it's a smaller team,
Speaker 1: more wear and tear. You got Isaiah Thomas and like
Speaker 1: five ft eight playing point guard, but give up. Their
Speaker 1: defensive issue is lately have been pretty crazy. They've given
Speaker 1: up over a hundred points in ten of their last
Speaker 1: eleven games. They are twenty nine in the NBA and
Speaker 1: deficient defensive efficiency rating nine out of thirty. Okay, they've
Speaker 1: gone one in six against the top teams in each conference.
Speaker 1: They've gone three and nine in the last twelve games
Speaker 1: that they are now, I believe the four seed in
Speaker 1: the East or the three seed in these and sinking
Speaker 1: like a rock. When you got Boston already at the top,
Speaker 1: Toronto getting ahead of them, you got other teams in there,
Speaker 1: like Um. After Toronto, you got like Washington as well.
Speaker 1: They are not the studs in the East. They used
Speaker 1: to be like kind of a fatal complete for Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I think it's been in the NBA finals the last
Speaker 1: seven years in a row. Keep an eye on this.
Speaker 1: Lebron James himself says, and I quote M we would
Speaker 1: easily get bounced early in the playoffs if they started
Speaker 1: next weekend. I haven't even begun to think about the postseason.
Speaker 1: The question is will they make a move. Will they
Speaker 1: make a move and make a trade where here are
Speaker 1: reports that George Hill, the guard out of Sacramento, may
Speaker 1: go there. But here's the thing for me, Lebron, You've
Speaker 1: already gotten all the moves. The team is comprised exactly
Speaker 1: how you wanted. People joke that Lebron is the general
Speaker 1: manager of the Calves. He got a coach fired and
Speaker 1: David Black last year. You know they wanted. He wanted
Speaker 1: the organization to resign his boy Tristan Thompson, and they did.
Speaker 1: They got Isaiah Thomas already. They signed his other boy,
Speaker 1: Dwyane Wade, to come on back. Lebron is pretty much
Speaker 1: getting everything he wants. He has Isaiah Thomas, he has
Speaker 1: Dwyane Wade, he has Kevin Love, he has three other
Speaker 1: All Stars on his team. Like, what else do you
Speaker 1: really need, Lebron. I know Lebron is having an amazing season,
Speaker 1: and I know Lebron is like the Pope when it
Speaker 1: comes to the NBA, and you could never say anything
Speaker 1: negative about him. But at some point you gotta whip
Speaker 1: your team into shape. You who got to commit to
Speaker 1: defense on that side of the ball, and you gotta
Speaker 1: make it better. You can't just flip the lights on
Speaker 1: come late March or early April and think it's going
Speaker 1: to work. This is now what you're like sevent season
Speaker 1: in the NBA or something like that. It's crazy, all right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be the youngest player to ever get to
Speaker 1: thirty thousand points. You know you're on the mount rushmore.
Speaker 1: At some point you have to stop being like you
Speaker 1: will give me more talent, give me more talent, and
Speaker 1: you have to make it happen. And I don't know
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be able to make it happen in
Speaker 1: Cleveland this year. In fact, I think the window may
Speaker 1: be closing for Lebron. And I think that when the
Speaker 1: window closes on Lebron in Cleveland, he's gonna up and go.
Speaker 1: And I think this time he will go to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and the Lakers. We're about six months away from that.
Speaker 1: But keep it locked. This could be the end of
Speaker 1: Lebron back home in Cleveland. But like I said, we
Speaker 1: gotta pull question up there right now. On Twitter at
Speaker 1: spit and Speeds, I ask you which NBA team drama
Speaker 1: would be more detrimental for their team's champions hopes this season?
Speaker 1: I said, is it the Spurs and Kauai? Is it
Speaker 1: the Calves and Kevin Love? Is it both? Is it
Speaker 1: that both of them are very concerning or do you
Speaker 1: think neither is uh really a big day And this
Speaker 1: is just a blip on the sports news cycle in
Speaker 1: a slow point in time. Right now, thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: of you say Calves and the drama would love is
Speaker 1: a big deal, and then twenty of you say both
Speaker 1: are concerning. So that means a fifty seven percent of
Speaker 1: you think that the Calves have issues. That means of
Speaker 1: you think the Spurs have issues. Of you say neither
Speaker 1: will matter. And here's the thing, maybe neither will because
Speaker 1: neither one of these teams are good enough to contend.
Speaker 1: You know, you got the chief base for Golden State, right,
Speaker 1: and they seem to still be cruising. But what about
Speaker 1: these other teams, the Boston's Celtics, the hou Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: even teams like Minnesota in the West, teams like Toronto
Speaker 1: in the East. Uh, the days could be numbered for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs. And is finally,
Speaker 1: like I said, these two teams are playing against each other.
Speaker 1: It's in San Antonio tonight. I told you about how
Speaker 1: bad the Cleveland defense has been given up over a
Speaker 1: hundred points, and you know, the Spurs are still the
Speaker 1: number one defense in the NBA. The Spurs are still
Speaker 1: thirty and eighteen even without Kawhi Leonard. How are the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers one or two point favorites on the road tonight?
Speaker 1: I do not know. It is the name value of
Speaker 1: the public. I'm telling you right now, fade the public
Speaker 1: and bet the Spurs tonight. So we come back though,
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Speaker 1: eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine,
Speaker 1: and we do, in fact have a caller. Let's bring
Speaker 1: in right now to the Fantasy Freestyle. Chris is out
Speaker 1: there in New Mexico. What's going on? Chris? You're on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle? How can we help you? What's going on? Brother?
Speaker 1: How are you? How are you doing? I'm doing alright,
Speaker 1: I'm doing alright? What's going on? Chris? Alright? Man? So
Speaker 1: I have a question about fantasy baseball. Ever since you know,
Speaker 1: the football season ended, I feel like I just have
Speaker 1: this emptiness in my life. I need to replace it somehow.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking about making a fantasy baseball league.
Speaker 1: What my new question is, what do you think is
Speaker 1: the best platform for fantasy baseball? And then you have
Speaker 1: like any advice for a first time commissioner? Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a great call and thank you for the call. Chris, Um,
Speaker 1: I want to help fill the emptiness in your life.
Speaker 1: I thought that was that was interesting that uh, Chris
Speaker 1: is now like in the dull drums here um. And
Speaker 1: first of all, all, let me tell you something, Chris, Um,
Speaker 1: I hear you when it comes to the kind of
Speaker 1: the emptiness in your life. I'm reminded back in the day, Um,
Speaker 1: I had an ex girlfriend who was really into like
Speaker 1: going to museums and stuff like that, and I wound
Speaker 1: up telling her that listen in mid February to like
Speaker 1: mid March, that's when I'll go with you to a museum.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna go during baseball season or
Speaker 1: football season. So one of the things you could always do, Chris,
Speaker 1: is you can get a little culture out there in
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Go check out some museums or something like
Speaker 1: that to help fill the emptiness in your life. But
Speaker 1: getting to your question, Um, the platform, I mean, all
Speaker 1: the platforms that are out there, I think are okay.
Speaker 1: I don't think, um, you know, whether it's I a
Speaker 1: lot of times I use Yahoo personally. I know CBS
Speaker 1: does a lot, I know ESPN does a lot I'm
Speaker 1: I personally am partial to Yahoo. Right. However, the one
Speaker 1: thing I will say, you said advice for kind of
Speaker 1: like a first time commissioner, and I have some I like.
Speaker 1: I like head to head out to the head a
Speaker 1: little bit better than Rhodo because in Rhodo sometimes you
Speaker 1: know by June you're so dead in these categories, and
Speaker 1: there's so many teams that are just um out of contention,
Speaker 1: and it's so hard to make your way back up
Speaker 1: in Rhodo. So I personally I like head to head.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of other people on this network
Speaker 1: talk about Rhodo. I know the King Scott Angle. Does
Speaker 1: I know um uh, Greg Sussman, does I know? Mike
Speaker 1: Florio and Frankie Stamp do as well. I personally like
Speaker 1: the head to head because I like also every week
Speaker 1: being able to compete against someone you know, being able
Speaker 1: to text us and be like, yo, I got just
Speaker 1: seven three right now. So I like that aspect of
Speaker 1: head to head. And if you do that, I also
Speaker 1: want to tell you a couple of things I think
Speaker 1: in terms of the categories that are important. What I hope,
Speaker 1: dude Chris is I would not use average as a category.
Speaker 1: I would not use batting average. Much better than batting
Speaker 1: average is on base percentage, and to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even use on base percentage. I would use OPS,
Speaker 1: which is on base slugging. I think that is a
Speaker 1: better stat than batting average. Similarly, on the pitching side,
Speaker 1: I hate using the category of winds. Winds is so
Speaker 1: fre like you know, up in the air. These days,
Speaker 1: you can get a guy that has a great outing
Speaker 1: and then the bullpen blows it. You also wind up
Speaker 1: getting winds sometimes from relievers. I don't like that. Instead,
Speaker 1: I like using quality starts as a category over winds.
Speaker 1: And then also, you know, traditionally it's five by five.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go head to head and you got
Speaker 1: you know, runs, home runs, uh, Ribby's, stolen bases, and
Speaker 1: then I would not use average. I would use a
Speaker 1: category like OPS instead. Then on the pitching side, you
Speaker 1: got you know, um E r A and whip and
Speaker 1: strikeouts and saves, and I would use quality starts instead
Speaker 1: of winds as a measure to keep it as a
Speaker 1: nice clean five by five. If you want to add
Speaker 1: other stats like KPE or nine on the pitching side,
Speaker 1: total bases on the hitting side, use on base percentage
Speaker 1: and ops stuff like that. I think you can do it.
Speaker 1: But if you're a first time commissioner, I recommend the
Speaker 1: nice little five by five head to head, but I
Speaker 1: would use ops instead of average, and I would use
Speaker 1: quality starts instead of wins. But thanks for the call
Speaker 1: out there, Chris in New Mexico. I hope we can
Speaker 1: help fill the emptiness in your life, at least for
Speaker 1: one hour here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. All right, um,
Speaker 1: here's where we're gonna go. We are, you know, on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. We talk a lot about you know,
Speaker 1: stats overbeats, and sometimes athletes like to get in there
Speaker 1: and show their lyricism. Last week we played a little
Speaker 1: Cold Beasley. We played some Levy on Bell in the past.
Speaker 1: We played some Lonzo Ball in the past. Out there
Speaker 1: in the universe, people considered Damian Lillard to be the
Speaker 1: best rapping athlete right now, okay, Iman Schumpert's got bars.
Speaker 1: We even played our guy, Chris the Analyst Ventra back
Speaker 1: in the day. But one of the things we're gonna
Speaker 1: do during the dull drums to help the emptiness in
Speaker 1: your life, whether it's Chris in New Mexico or otherwise
Speaker 1: is I've found some more wrap rapping athletes, and we're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna we're gonna give some critiques, some criticism,
Speaker 1: some love, maybe some ranks of them as well. So
Speaker 1: today what we have is Marvin Bagley the Third. He
Speaker 1: is a freshman on Duke Okay, and he went out there,
Speaker 1: he rapped over that song Breathe and uh, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's that bad, all right, So here's what we do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check it out, and then I want to
Speaker 1: hear what my man Chris Bovona has to say. I
Speaker 1: want to hear what Danny Otto has to say, because
Speaker 1: you know, actually we're comparing it up against Chris venture
Speaker 1: so it'd better be good, right, So without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's play a little Marvin Bagley the Third, he is
Speaker 1: a Duke freshman. He's got bars over that brief track.
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: go on and I ain't. Like he said to me,
Speaker 1: I can't go at that morning. It should boy and
Speaker 1: be up on the track. I'm coming back on than ever,
Speaker 1: I'm so poco graphic was what I think. They're no
Speaker 1: better come at the sideway going down our way. Shut up?
Speaker 1: What there you kind of the driveway? I've been bothering
Speaker 1: to him me man, never since I wasn't time. Don't
Speaker 1: over thinking. Hope's keeping ship for work. In my mind,
Speaker 1: my whole man is scholar, think you know, for his dolarge.
Speaker 1: They trying to stop me from bothering and really hate it.
Speaker 1: I'm honing and I try to keep you siling. Now
Speaker 1: I'm breaking my side and they try to hold me now,
Speaker 1: but I'm flying. I ain't fighting. They told me stay posit.
Speaker 1: I stay by it. And when they ain't no more positivity.
Speaker 1: Thein't know what time it isn't they don't want to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, I done the Donald. I was
Speaker 1: gonna do what I mats. I not the scoffor. Don't
Speaker 1: they don't bother me. I just wanted y'all to see
Speaker 1: there's something morning, and this something of better me. This
Speaker 1: what's for the jealousy? And they got the Tennessee that
Speaker 1: all right? That was a little taste right there with
Speaker 1: Martin Bagley the third. I gotta tell you something not bad.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that bad. Listen, I listen
Speaker 1: I'm a New Yorker, all right when it comes down
Speaker 1: to it, to be honest, when people ask me what
Speaker 1: I am nationality wise, I answer back, new Yorker, all right,
Speaker 1: until I get the twenty three and me back in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. That's my answer, right. So New
Speaker 1: York hip hop, New York rap is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a faster flow, a little bit more lyricism over
Speaker 1: the beats. A lot of these rappers these days of
Speaker 1: doing that Southern rap, that trap house rap. You heard
Speaker 1: it with Cole Beasley, you heard it with Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: I like what I'm hearing out of this kid. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think down there in the fantasy pit
Speaker 1: of misery? I would put Marvin Bagley ahead of Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell, ahead of Chris Ventra, maybe even ahead of
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. What do you guys to think down there
Speaker 1: in the fantasy pit of misery? I absolutely agree with
Speaker 1: this wholeheartedly. I mean, we also, Dane, I'm like you,
Speaker 1: I like the New York type of hip hop and
Speaker 1: like that fast paced beat. And this was obviously over
Speaker 1: fabulous with that song Breathe, so you know it was.
Speaker 1: It was set up to be more like a more
Speaker 1: like that flow over New York Beat exactly. You know what,
Speaker 1: I gotta listen to Imon Schumpert again because I'm not
Speaker 1: sure does he does he he's a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a slower rapper. He's Southern hospitality type. Yes, he
Speaker 1: absolutely is. You are correct on that. That trap stuff
Speaker 1: so like it's it's just like a personal thing that
Speaker 1: I don't like it, so like I don't like that
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, that rabb It's okay, Like I think I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one thing. Cold Beasley hell of a better
Speaker 1: rapper than Levan bell be to me, as you call him, blunts, blunt,
Speaker 1: guts trap. Wow, that is Chris the manimal throwing shade
Speaker 1: at juice. I'm saying I'm a good rapper. No, I
Speaker 1: can't get into that. Let's not get into that. We
Speaker 1: already heard Chris Venture's attempt at it. You may hear
Speaker 1: speeds to it and statistician when all is said and done.
Speaker 1: But that's another topic for another day. So um, we
Speaker 1: got Danny Otto down there in the fantasy pit of misery.
Speaker 1: Danny is actually a musician himself, although I do believe
Speaker 1: it is a different genre. Danny do we have you
Speaker 1: down there. What did you think about Marvin Bagley? I
Speaker 1: liked it. Yeah, I thought it was great. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I was pretty much echo exactly what Christmas saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was definitely into it. And I gotta say this,
Speaker 1: and I hate to say it because Venture is not here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I think. I think, listen, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing different athlete rapp u versus and tracks,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the rest of the winter, right, And
Speaker 1: I think we have to establish the continuum here, right,
Speaker 1: So yes, we know he was better than Venture. Venture
Speaker 1: has to be like over here, right on one side
Speaker 1: of the continuum over here. A lot of people believe
Speaker 1: that Damian Lillard Dame Dollar is the best athlete rapper.
Speaker 1: So you know, we got Ventra, we got Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: I would put Marvin Bagley like and he is somewhere
Speaker 1: like better than the fiftie percentile, if you want to
Speaker 1: know the truth. I also would put him above Levan Bell.
Speaker 1: I also would put him above Cole Beasley. So it's
Speaker 1: very interesting. However, you know who I would not put
Speaker 1: him above shout out to the stats over beat Cipher,
Speaker 1: a young cause and the effect right there you gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta check in with those guys see what they're doing,
Speaker 1: because I would put them above what we just heard,
Speaker 1: even from uh Marvin Bagley the third. But you know,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get drafted, maybe he's got another budding career.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check back in on the poll. We're gonna
Speaker 1: check in with Danny Otto see if anybody's saying anything
Speaker 1: with the stats over beat Cipher and I've been teasing
Speaker 1: this story for a couple of days. Derek Jeter is
Speaker 1: doing more to alienate Marlins fans than just trade the
Speaker 1: players away. I'll tell you what I'm talking about out
Speaker 1: when we come back after this. It is the Fantasy
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Speaker 1: tie in makes Neat little Bow on this episode of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. Come on right back, Fantasy pre Style. The
Speaker 1: Spurs are still the three seed in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: Right now. But I wonder they're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get past Houston or get past Golden State without
Speaker 1: Kauai Leonards. Just starting to hear cracks in the spurs facades.
Speaker 1: It's similar very much to the New England Patriots. We're
Speaker 1: talking about fifteen twenty years of a run literally at
Speaker 1: the top of the sport. Might it be coming to
Speaker 1: a close? In San Antonio three days from seven to
Speaker 1: eight pm Eastern on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. My neck,
Speaker 1: my back? None? Is that de Marco Murray song right here?
Speaker 1: A little Kia action or anybody else that is uh
Speaker 1: injured all the time. Maybe Kauai Leonard fits the bill
Speaker 1: as well. Welcome back to the Fantasy Fee Freestyle right
Speaker 1: here to spit in statistician stable genius speeds, Dan Martinez
Speaker 1: in the building. Big shout out as always to my man,
Speaker 1: the Manimal, Chris Bovona. Also, we got Danny Otto down there,
Speaker 1: Danny stub Hub down there in the fantasy pit of
Speaker 1: misery holding me down. We gotta pull question up, as
Speaker 1: I said, which are these teams with the drama do
Speaker 1: you find more concerning? You think that both are an issue?
Speaker 1: Thirty six percent say the Calves when love Spurs and Kauai.
Speaker 1: So if you had them up, think that the Spurs
Speaker 1: have an issue on their hands, and fifty eight percent
Speaker 1: of you think that the Calves have an issue on
Speaker 1: their hands. Big shout out as usual to Clayton tray
Speaker 1: hand out there, always responding to our polls and saying,
Speaker 1: this time, anything but another Calves Warriors final, and I'll
Speaker 1: be happy, glad to see my Celtics have become a
Speaker 1: legit contender. I think you make a good point, Clayton,
Speaker 1: but I gotta respond to you because you're saying anything
Speaker 1: but another Calves Warriors final. You've got a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the NFL saying anything but another Patriots championship,
Speaker 1: and I'll be happy you, however, get to bask in
Speaker 1: the glory of yet another at least a f C
Speaker 1: Conference championship. The last thing I want to tell you
Speaker 1: before we get out of here today. I've been teasing
Speaker 1: it for a couple of days. I want to push
Speaker 1: it back to tomorrow, but I'll let you know right now.
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter, since he's bought the Marlins. Listen, they've traded
Speaker 1: Giancarlo Stanton, They've traded d Gordon. They've traded Marcel Ozuna.
Speaker 1: If you are a Marlins fan right now, you are
Speaker 1: not happy with the captain because he's he's eviscerating your team.
Speaker 1: You know what else he's doing, He's taking away your
Speaker 1: statues in the stadium in left center field. Out there
Speaker 1: in the Marlins park, they have that huge, like pastel
Speaker 1: color saying it looks like a dolphin almost that pops
Speaker 1: out when Marlins hit a home run. Well, it's named
Speaker 1: Homer and it was a two point five million dollar
Speaker 1: statue to commission um. You know, back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve when they opened up the park. This was
Speaker 1: designed by the pop artist named Red Grooms. Well, Geta's
Speaker 1: working to take it down. He thinks it's an eyesore.
Speaker 1: And guess who he has as an ally. The mayor
Speaker 1: of Miami, Carlos Timnez, likes this idea. He said, uh,
Speaker 1: I just don't think they're that crazy about it, because
Speaker 1: he met with Jeter in the front office earlier this
Speaker 1: week and they says, I'm not a fan. We're looking
Speaker 1: at it, We're looking to see if anything can be done.
Speaker 1: Some fans are split on this. Some fans think it's
Speaker 1: like prototypical Miami and really love it. Other fans think
Speaker 1: it's kind of like garish, you know, Gonna be quite honest,
Speaker 1: it's like that house in the neighborhood with the Halloween
Speaker 1: decorations or the Christmas decorations that go overboard and get
Speaker 1: a little tack key. I I think it's very tacky
Speaker 1: out there in left center field. And Jeter is coming
Speaker 1: in now and he's trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: remove this two point five million dollars statue in the ballpark.
Speaker 1: So if you're a Marlins fan and they're trading away
Speaker 1: O Zuna and Stanton and Gordon, the rumors out there
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be trading Christian Yelloch and JT real
Speaker 1: Muto as well, and they're gonna take away this the
Speaker 1: statue in the stadium, I'm pretty piste off if I
Speaker 1: am a Marlins fan. He's got this the mayor now
Speaker 1: as an ally. Carlos Himenez Carloso Menez has been a
Speaker 1: foe of the team for a long time. He opposed
Speaker 1: public funding. There was like a five fifteen million dollar
Speaker 1: funding package when the stadium is gonna get built in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, he was against that he even
Speaker 1: wrote his opposition to that to become the mayor. He
Speaker 1: got elected in two thousand and eleven on the basis
Speaker 1: of his opposition for the public funding on the stadium.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of been against the Marlins and Lauria
Speaker 1: for a y hill and now he's got kind of
Speaker 1: new ownership and he's seeing if he could saddle up
Speaker 1: to them to once again stick it to the Florida Marlins,
Speaker 1: this time in the form of maybe removing Homer there
Speaker 1: two and a half million dollars statue out there in
Speaker 1: left center field. We'll keep an eye out on and that,
Speaker 1: much like we keep an eye out on everything. Because
Speaker 1: here on the Freestyle, your boy speeds. The spitting statistician
Speaker 1: can talk about anything. Tomorrow, We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl because we got no football going on, but
Speaker 1: we got a Pro Bowl to talk about. Do you
Speaker 1: want to play it in DFS? What about that skills competition?
Speaker 1: Remember the dodgeball game last year. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: as well. I'll see you all tomorrow. Fantasy Freestyle. I'm
Speaker 1: out piece