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I think 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.919 it's like three oh weight, three oh nine rate review, subscribe, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.120 do all that good stuff. Listen, I think this is 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.360 gonna be a big show. And I gotta tell you 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.480 we have like breaking news on the baseball side of 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.840 things and on the football side of things. So I'm 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.480 very excited, Like it's it's a good time to be here, 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.040 letting the stats over beat cipher know what they need, 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.360 you know. So first of all, the big news right 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.640 here in football. Okay, earlier today we heard that mark 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.160 Ingram got popped for four games coming up for the Pets. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.280 You know, a little pe d usage, shall we say. Okay, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.840 he's gonna miss the first four games of this season. Now, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.239 you know this is just coming out today, right, So 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.119 maybe maybe there'll be an appeal of some sort. Maybe 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.639 there'll be another shoe to drop. I'm not sure, right, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.120 but this to me is very very interesting, especially for 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.280 a guy like Alvin Kamara. Okay, listen, both of these guys, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.080 I called them so fresh and so clean, Alvin Simon 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.760 and Theodore Camara. These guys were both top ten running 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.720 backs in PPR formats last year, right, and it was 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.919 like the elite kind of time share, you know, like 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.560 the year before that in Atlanta you had Freeman and 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.480 Coleman an elite time share. Right last year you had 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.360 the elite time share in New Orleans for the Saints. Right. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:53.079 What happens now? What if you know, England goes down, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.600 missing like four games, but that also means Kamara goes 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.560 up and after this ridiculous rookie season that he had, Right, 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.520 my question for you is how high does he go? 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.359 Like method Man and red Man, how high do they get? 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.800 I mean Alvin Kamara of course down there where they 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.480 stand up and get crunk. That is the pole question 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.600 I have for you guys today on the fantasy freestyle, Right, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.000 the options are, he's gonna go all the way up now, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.639 be this kind of workhorse and be a top four 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.840 back in PPR formats, or is he gonna you know, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.560 bump up a little bit not necessarily into that upper 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.360 echelon Zeke Elliott, David Johnson, Todd Gurley, lev Bell category. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.520 Some would even put se Kwan in there. We'll see 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.920 um Or is it like not that big of a 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.720 deal and they're still pretty much going exactly where you think, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.560 or could it be you know, reverse psychology somehow, like 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.280 he gets overused credits to my man Mike Floria, one 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.080 of my best friends forever, he was like, what if 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.040 the inverse happens. What if he gets overworked? What if 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.560 he hits the sophomore wall, what if he gets injured? 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.120 You know what if he winds up being a fool 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.560 gaze he forgot about it? That's what I want to know. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.160 That's the poll question up right now. So I did 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.200 want to get that out because that is interesting. I 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.720 think that has impact on fantasy football. And right now 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.680 we're in this kind of rookie o t a s 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.360 piece of the season. So I have other news, okay, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.760 but we have to go on over the baseball okay, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.280 because right now, literally within the hour, we have a trade. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.440 And we're here in New York, you know, Studio thirty 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.640 four Rock and Riley's right in shadows Madison Square Garden. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.560 But the New York Mets have made a trade. The 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.839 Mets have traded the Dark Night Matt Harvey to the 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.840 Cincinnati Reds. The Cincinnati Reds a lot of people, this 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.599 was one of the places that people were wondering about 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.760 and they get Devin Mezzarroco back. I think that is 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.480 a very interesting move one the The Mets have never 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.160 really kind of fully addressed this catcher issue. They've had 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.640 a kind of hole there. Remember last year they were 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.600 in kind of a rumors for guys like Jonathan Luke Roy. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.559 Right now they're talking about guys like JT. Realm utuoh 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:03.200 and spring training. Right, Darnel has never really fully become 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.560 the player that many thought he would in that original R. A. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.120 Dickey trade. I think he came to the Mets in 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.760 the R. A. Dickey trade. Don't get it twisted. The 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.920 Mets still just did just fine in that trade because 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.000 I think the other guy they got in that deal 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.400 someone you may have heard of before. I think his 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.680 name is Noah synder Guard. So I think they did 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.479 just fine. But they put another option there at catcher. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.560 And to be quite honest, when everyone knew that the 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.839 Mets had a you don't know, ticking time bomb there 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.760 and Matt Harvey and his ability to move him, you know, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.159 and they had no leverage, I think Messaracco is better 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.599 then uh, I would have thought, to be quite honest, Okay, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.080 I understand the injury history, but he's worth a flyer. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.120 What else did you think you were going to get 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.600 for Matt Harvey? So we had to let people know 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.640 about that. There's some other interesting news when it comes 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.359 to the baseball headlines. We have an interesting story about 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.240 Roberto Zuna, the closer up there in Toronto, and uh 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.320 you know some other some other things about base but 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.640 we gotta know wait on that until our middle segment 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.839 of the show. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, you know YouTube, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.000 we have the status over beat cipher, but let me 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.359 know down there. You know, if you're here live on 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.560 the on the stream and you want to interact with 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.080 the spitting statistician, you can do that. Let me know 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.720 what do you think about this mark ingram suspension of 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.440 what it means for Alvin Kamara, what it means for 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.440 the Saints. Let me know what does uh you know 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.960 this news of Matt Harvey? Did they get a decent haul? 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.279 Let me know what you think about that. Later on 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.480 in the show we will check in on that as well. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:30.640 But I do you have to talk a little bit 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.080 more about some news and notes here in the nfl 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.640 UM Since we last spoke here on the fantasy freestyle 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.000 and and a move that I thought was really nice. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.040 I wanted to mention that Steelers converted like over eight 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.279 million dollars of Ryan Shazier's contract into a signing bonus. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.480 I think that's a class move from a class organization. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.400 I like what they're doing there. Okay, the Seahawks have 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.039 released Cliff April. They said he couldn't um passive physical 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.120 and listen. This is now you know, longline and a 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.080 series of moves the Seahawks have made this off season. Okay, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.120 they are in essence moving on from like the legion 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.480 of Boom and really that team and constructed in the 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.480 way that it was. You know, Um, Sherman gone, you know, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.120 Bennett retired and gone. You know, there's a lot of 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.800 or in Philly now. You know, Um, there's a lot 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.440 of the other Bennett. There's a lot of things that 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.080 they did. And now add April to the list. And 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.040 this is really I think, you know, the window for 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.480 the Seahawks is really kind of uh, you know, closing, closing, closing, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.680 if not shut, unless you know, Russell Wilson can be 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.960 that twig that holds it open. I'm gonna have to 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.640 talk to my man Scott Angle about the Seahawks prospects 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.240 coming up into the season. I think, um, we may 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.760 have some disagreements going into it. And by the way, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.280 I say Scott Angle because if you don't know, I'm 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.520 not working with Scott Angle. We're doing it big Rhodo 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.200 experts in the morning. You can hear you boys, speeds. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.040 It's been statistician every morning. Check this out. I do 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.080 this here right, stats overbeats, you know, cipher. I do 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.080 that here at seven pm, right on Tuesday's We are 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.280 going Monday through Friday, seven to nine a m. Rhodo 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.600 experts in the morning. Check it out. Well, you know, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.600 wake up bright and early. As you guys know. I 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.720 don't need eggs, I don't need prayers, so we're gonna 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.920 make it happen. Also check this out, um, Panthers signed 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.640 c J. Anderson to a one year deal. This is 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.440 something I think. It was interesting to me. C J. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.520 Andersen and Marco Murray were the two running backs that 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.240 I just wanted to keep an eye on see where 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.800 they landed after the draft. Right wide receivers I want 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.320 to see. I still want to see deads and I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.240 still want to see Jeremy Macklin. Interestingly enough, I would 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.880 love to see where these guys wind up. But C J. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.240 Anderson signs with the Carolina Panthers. I was telling you 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.160 guys about this last week when I was saying to 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.600 keep an eye out on Carolina and keep an eye 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.080 out on the Indianapolis Colts, because I don't think, you know, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.960 for Caroline, I didn't think I wasn't gonna believe in 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.720 Cameron artist pain. You know what I mentioned that before. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.400 So they go ahead and address that need. I think 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.600 even pretty much fills the Jonathan Stewart place of last 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.560 year Christian McCaffrey. You know, people maybe thought he was 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.080 going to develop and get a little bit more maybe 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.559 early work between the tackles work. Now it's ce J. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.319 Anderson in there. I do not think that is necessarily 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.199 the case. All right, here's what I want to move 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.760 on to when we talk about football. I did have 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.160 a story I wanted to get in a little bit deeper. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.640 And you know, last year during football season, if you 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.679 remember one of the things I was saying all of 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.920 the time, you know it was kind of one of 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.520 my biggest shot calls was about the the the play 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.160 in the offensive line and how it has changed. And 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.920 we got into reasons for why I changed, and the 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.559 differences of the college game and the pro game, the 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.800 ability to practice on the collective bargaining agreement, and other reasons. Right, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.120 and I was telling you that offensive line play has 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.800 gone down. I wanted to continue that thread because you know, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.199 in the time of the season where I can get 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.280 real you know, I can get a real stable, genius 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.959 and vocal minority with you guys and get you a 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.800 little bit inside. I want you to think about this. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.960 I don't only give you a fish, you know, uh, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.400 I teach you how to fish. And this is something 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.760 that I want everybody to understand. I think the offensive 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.400 line is changing. You remember the movie The blind Side. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.200 Remember the movie The blind Side was like two thousand six, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.040 two thousand seven, and then Michael ore in Baltimore was 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.240 the guy portrayed that went to Old miss whatever. But 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.880 the value of the left tackle is what I'm talking 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.400 about here. The left tackle, to be quite honest, was 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.240 in response the speed edge rushers, you know, the evolution 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.440 the cycles like Lawrence Taylor breaking Joe Fisman's leg right, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:30.599 So protecting the blind side became a thing. So the 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.640 left tackle became one of the most important positions on 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.360 the football field. You know, it was like quarterback left tackle, right, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.679 but now edge rusher was That was in response to that, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.000 I submit to you guys here on the Fantasy Freestyle 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.040 that this is now changing in the NFL and we're 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.600 gonna see differences in offensive line. And here's what I'm 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.679 talking about. I don't think NFL teams are going to 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:58.600 now invest their resources in the left tackle as much anymore. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.920 I mean, think about years past and guys like Jake Long, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.720 Eric Fisher, Hello, Hello, everybody, Hello, everybody. There's people outside 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.520 Studio thirty four having fun here. You know, the rooftop 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.520 is now open here and people are enjoying themselves at 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.959 the tail end of happy hour. But all right, checked out. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.320 These people are always going number one overall, Right, there 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.640 were people signing big time contracts. Right. But here's the thing. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.480 Defense has changed. It's not only about guys just coming 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.040 off the edge. You know, we're scheming different things. Double 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.120 a gap, blitz, corner blitz is right, So the left tackle. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.800 I saw this over on UM. I think it was 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.640 five thirty eight, right, they had something only thirty six 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.480 percent of sacks come from over the left tackle. So 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.280 even if you have the best left tackle, there's still 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.439 two thirds of sacks that he can't do nothing about. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.719 So why are you investing? Right? People are coming, Like 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.240 I said, double a gat blitz. Here's the other thing 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.839 that I think is very interesting that I think is 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.439 now a misnomer, and also about the evolution of the 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.360 NFL that your boys SPEs, the spitting statustician, the stable Genius, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.080 and vocal Minority have been talking about. Hello, we got 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.440 some kids. Come on in. Come on with the kids 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.520 with the stable genius. Right, here's the thing I'm saying, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.160 the blind side is a misnomer. Okay, this is going 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.440 to be an evolution. The blind side is a misnomer. Now, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.720 so many plays are coming in. Come on in, guys, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.960 let's come on and we're all live. It doesn't matter. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 We are live. It's okay if you want to come 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.520 on and do you guys like sports? Yeah? Where are 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:40.360 you guys from from France? Have a seat. Have a seat, guys, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.640 have a seat, sir, have a seat. We got people 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.160 in from France. I'm gonna tell you about the offensive line, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.200 but we got people in from France. Let's get this popping, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:13:06.800 uh Danny down there like, yeah, yeah, what is your name? Stefan? 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.400 And you were from friends, right, you are from France 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.760 and you're here in New York to see the site exactly. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.440 We are here all days for four days. That's beautiful 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.240 New York last day. How did you did you like 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.240 New York? It's great? What was your favorite part about 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.560 New York? I like the people. You like the people 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.120 they were waiting, headful, they were helpful. Pari paries if 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.520 I when I was in midchool, when I was looking 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.959 for something, everybody was Are you telling me that the 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.240 new you said, the New York people are nicer than Paris? 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.440 Because I've heard listen, I've heard that New Yorkers are 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.520 supposed to be like real, you know, real grimy, real 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.800 mean real head down, not caring. But you experienced helpful 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.640 New Yorkers and really really that's amazing. That's amazing. So 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.880 you guys hear from France. Let me ask you something, Um, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.439 do you like Paris Saint Germond? Oh? Yeah yeah you 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.160 like yeah? Yeah, he like it? Yeah? Okay, okay, well 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.480 and and and they don't have they don't have his 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.200 lot on anymore though, No, no, he left, he left 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.200 a while ago. He's here, he's here in the MLS. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.440 Now absolutely, you know here we talk about football obviously 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.520 here on the Fantasy Sports Network, but now we got 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.280 people in from France. We're talking football. Okay, it's a 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.560 little bit different, but thank you for spending a couple 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:30.160 of minutes. Wap. Really you're like a brick wall, a 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:37.160 brick wall. They can't get passed. Thanks so much. Yeah's 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.720 have a good day, have a good nuy. Okay, thank 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.280 you so much. All Right, you never know what is 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.880 going to happen here on the Fantasy Sports Network on 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:49.040 the Fantasy Freestyle Studio thirty four outside of Rock and Riley's, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.000 we have a visiting from France. The Fantasy Freestyle truly 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.000 a global show. Thank you so much. We gotta see 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.800 what the stats of Beat Cipher has to say. We 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.760 are now, you know, international. But we were talking about 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.240 the offensive line. We were just we're talking about the 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.040 offensive line. The other thing I wanted to say about this, Okay, yeah, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.880 we got the blitz is coming from everywhere. The left 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.240 tackle isn't enough. You're only as strong as your weakest 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.080 link in the offensive line. Right, They're gonna scheme blitzes 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.120 wherever you are weak. Here's the other part. The blind 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.480 side doesn't matter anymore. And the reason is because now 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.160 the NFL is a game where more snaps are taken 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.320 in the shotgun then under center. And I'm gonna tell 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.800 you why that is so important. When we come back 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.680 at your boy Day, Martinez Speeds, the spit and statistician, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.840 the stable genius and vocal minority on the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:46.120 We had international visitors. I'm saying, I'm trying to grow 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.680 my brand. You know we you know what it is. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.320 We're gonna come on back in a hot second, Danny, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:52.720 what do we got? We got like a minute left? 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.000 Or what are we what are we doing? We're going 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.280 to break? Okay, so we can go to break. Doing 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.200 me a favor, Let's play a little bit of that 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.120 chronicle and when we come on back, because we're gonna 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.040 be drinking on a Tuesday. The only problem is it's 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.480 water for me because you're gonna hear me again seven 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.640 am on Rhodo Experts in the Morning again right here 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.920 on the Fantasy Sports Network. But the chronicle will play, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.000 will get juxtaposed against another rapping athlete. You know we 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.400 put the fun in Functional sports Radio. Come on right back, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:53.680 it's Fantasy Freestyle. 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I just 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.960 wanted to make sure you gotta right lefties. Cush hasn't 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.440 been good in general this year, though he said that 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.200 one awesome game though, so he's sitting under two against righties. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.000 I think he's not good overall. Let's just say for 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.000 what it is, he's against three days, two pm Easter, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.640 not ept s Y Radio and on your popular podcast providers. Hey, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.920 I'm Jeff. Look I'm just a skeleton. I don't have 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.359 an a c L anymore, but I still like to 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.879 know what it means. But one of my fantasy players 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.200 sprains his That's why I used the Inside Injuries app. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.639 It was created by real doctors, so you're getting information 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.280 directly from people who have seen, touch and operated on 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.040 actual a c l s. Take it from me, a skeleton. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.320 If you want using it, you might as well just 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.320 be guessing. Download the free app today unlock the secrets 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:24.560 of injury analysis. It's Carton and Matt Harvey. He had 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.760 half decent. It wasn't great first performance out of the bullpen. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.000 Apparently the night before he was at a big party 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.480 in l A, just before they played for Senegor Padres. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.040 I don't gotta beef with this, to be honest with you, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.400 If you wanted to go out there have a good time, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.240 I'm cool with that. Everyone is such a right these days. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:46.320 I saw Matt Harvey tweet days nine am to one 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.560 pm Easter on Evan t s Y Radio and on 0:18:48.640 --> 0:19:00.720 your popular podcast providers. I'm giving you the goods. That is, no, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.040 we don't care. We had the beef boy scouts check it. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.360 We're prepared. You bring it on stage and you can't 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.920 compare because I get my gross Man then Chicago Bears. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.040 I don't mean so rag. We just got the skills 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.960 because Charlie's on the left and Rocks is on the 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.080 pills and beyond that, I got a lot to gain. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.320 I got a whip up. I don't need the train 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.639 double ghe down Bronx is the Rep Bock claim. I'm 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.160 shooting from the hip. No need to aim your ladies 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.440 in the crowd like he's insane, getting closer to the 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.960 edge with each Refranchie had bob into the beat through 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.639 sleet and rain, so in her eye, I got a 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.040 bus like the Hall of Fame. There you go, little 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.359 fantasy freestyle here for you on the Fantasy Sports Network. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.119 We were having fun. It is fun on a Tuesday. Okay. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.320 We had um. I don't even know his name, Danny, 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.199 I forgot it. I think his name was m Jacques. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.560 Was a Jacque. We canna find out someone let me, Yes, 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.520 yes I did. I was. I was so thinking about 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.840 like what could I actually ask this guy about? And 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.560 I wanted to um. I wanted he had a nice 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.800 little family and it was the kids at first that 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.440 were waving to me. And you know, Speed's loves the kids, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.399 you know what I mean. So I was like, all right, 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:02.960 come on in, guys. I can see that they were 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.719 definitely tourists, but it was fun. But the last thing 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.879 I wanted to say about this offensive line, I think 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.719 this is a big point when I get my man, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.840 my best friend forever. Hey, if Florial is here, I 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.320 would love him to say what he thinks about this afterwards. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.560 I think the other thing that's important and why teams 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.120 are gonna have to spread resources around the offensive line 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.879 is not only our defenses now not only doing the 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.359 speed edge rusher, but they're scheming. Blitz is double a 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.840 gap over your weak link of your offensive line. The 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.960 other thing that is very very important is now only 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.160 you know six snaps are taken in the shotgun. Why 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.480 do they do that for the quarterback to stand there 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.880 and do the whole Oh maha, you know there he's 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.400 reading the mail. That's what he's doing. He's finding the mismatches. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.720 That's what good quarterbacks are doing. And what does that do? 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.200 It lets them know if there is something coming from 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:54.639 the blind side. Thus it is no longer blind so 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.720 in fact, you don't need to invest there. If you 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.880 got a piss poor right hard, They're just gonna find 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.680 that and expose it. That's the way the NFL is. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.399 So I think it's very interesting and this is evidence listening. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.840 It was Quentin Nelson guard who went sixth overall. You know, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:13.680 this is what I'm saying. This is not like the 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.320 left tackle automatically being a top five pick. This is 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.679 not left tackle signing for huge contracts in the off season. Okay, 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.600 you had Nate Soldier, but that was about it. And 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:26.360 I think that's interesting. Do I have my best friend 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.560 forever with me? Is Florial there at all? He's coming here, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:32.479 He's coming. Did you hear what I was talking about here? 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.359 This offensive line is blindside? Did It was a convoluted 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.840 point because I think my man Jacques was in here 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.640 at some point. But it's okay, what do you think? 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.280 I think it's really interesting. And I think, uh, sports 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.600 in general are changing because as the the analytics and 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.440 everything like and you were going over like how the 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.040 quarterback is lining up is changing. And if that is 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.639 the case, then yeah, left tackle probably would just be 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.119 viewed as another offensive line position. But it is a 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.679 very interesting take. Yeah, thank you very much, sir. That's 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:01.200 what we do here, you know, we keep it so 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.399 hot that we sweat steam here on the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.640 I want to switch gears real quick and start talking 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.879 about baseball. And and I asked my man Florio to 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:11.680 to to hit me up in a second because he's 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.760 the one who also told me about this next story. Okay, 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.119 up there in Toronto, robertoo Zuna. Okay, he is being suspended, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.720 um right now. He's on like that kind of stowaway 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.640 list for the MLB because um of domestic violence issues. Okay, 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:30.919 and this could be long suspensions. Remember Roldis Chapman, remember 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:36.240 Jose Reyez among others. Okay, so in Toronto, Okay, I'm 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.960 telling you I think the smart money is Tyler Clippit 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.359 or the final Boss sing Wong. Oh. Okay, you can 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.400 go on and get those guys in Toronto because I think, 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:48.040 to be quite honest, O, Zuna is gonna be gone 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.080 for a while. Also, you got a big series um 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:55.800 getting started Red Sox and Yankees. David Price is not 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.440 going to make his Wednesday start um noztre damis also 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.360 known as Mike Florio predicted that his hand would get numb, 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:04.080 and in fact it did. I hope he doesn't have 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.880 a voodoo doll of speeds down there in the fantasy 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.560 Pit of misery. But watch that, Dave Price not going 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:11.880 to make his start over the weekend. I also wanted 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:13.960 to let people know about this. I also said this 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:17.040 this morning on Roto Experts in the morning. Yaday A Molina, 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.760 he's going to the disabled list. YadA A Melina needed 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:27.640 to have um emergency surgery over the weekend. YadA Ya 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:31.560 Melina needed to have emergency surgery over the weekend because 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.200 he caught a foul ball in his Uh, well, let's 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:38.520 just say he's having groin surgery. And let's just say 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:40.600 this was like a hundred and one mile an hour 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:45.159 fastball that gets like deflected and nails you. And it 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.399 was so much that he has to have emergency surgery 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.000 and is out for a month. Here at the Fantasy Freestyle, 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:55.280 we um, you know, we raise a glass metaphorically to uh, 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:59.119 YadA ya Malina. We hope he is okay. Um. The 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:01.040 last thing I don't want to get into in tons 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:03.600 of news and notes, really, Jacob Degram also going to 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:04.919 the d L. And this is interesting because the Mets 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:06.840 kind of flip flopped on this, Right, he was gonna 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.800 make his start Monday. Then seriously, he was going to 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:13.240 maybe start Monday but not be able to swing a bat, 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:17.439 and Callahan like announced this in fact, like I think, 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:20.280 on Saturday, which is absolutely ridiculous. Right, and then they 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.879 go ahead and finally do the prudent thing, Mets training 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.240 staff and go ahead and actually put him on the 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.760 d L. Um. They say they're being overly cautious. If 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:31.960 it's one organization that needs to be overly cautious, I do, 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:34.800 in fact think it is the Mets based on their 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:37.600 you know, track record of health. But the big thing 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:39.600 that I wanted to talk about here in baseball this 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:43.880 week listen, um, day by day. To be quite honest, 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:45.240 if you want to give baseball, you just need to 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.400 tune in and keep it locked seven and nine am 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.560 or subscribe to us right hit us up on road 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.119 to experts. In the morning we break it down, me 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:54.159 and the King Scott angle bright and early in the 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:57.480 morning we cock a doodle, do it Okay, early in 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.359 the morning. Um, But I talked about Trevor Bauer and 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:03.960 and I want to talk about Trevor Bauer again. Daniel 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.280 knows down there in the fantasy pit of misery, we've 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:08.360 been talking about Trevor Bauer for the last couple of weeks. 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.840 He had a sixty nine days of Giving where he's 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:13.680 given away four dollars and sixty nine cents to a 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.520 different organization for sixty nine days in a row. We 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:19.359 played a Trevor Bauer rap. I do believe at some 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:22.639 point as well, Trevor Bauer really honorary member of the 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:24.680 stats over beat Cipher. But what I wanted to say 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:26.800 is I don't know how I feel about him and 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:31.120 his most recent takes. He's basically like a quasi accusing 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:34.639 the Huston Astros of cheating, and uh, he's doing it 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.200 in a very intellectual way. Trevor Bauer continues to be um, 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:41.320 you know, like I said, an interesting follow to say 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:44.840 the least. You know. Um, he's basically saying that the 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:48.440 Astros maybe doing something ak a doctoring the ball to 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:51.320 increase spin rate, which is one of these deep stats 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.680 that some guy's uh fantasy analysts and coaches look at 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:58.520 fat for for pictures and with the better spin rate, 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.320 and you know, they said they are incre u seeing 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.840 spin rate down there in an artificial way. That's basically 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:05.720 what Bauer was insinuating. And he said he didn't you know, 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.480 he said a little bit of a shade towards the Astros, 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:10.240 but it was also towards Major League Baseball. He was 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:14.400 talking about applying the rule consistently because he was denied 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:16.639 being able to use like pine tar or some glue, 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:19.400 remember after his drone accident in the playoffs a couple 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:21.560 of years back, right, and he wants MLB to be 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:24.840 consistent with the rule application. You know, Bower is probably 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.440 a damn demand kind of guy, right, But the Astros 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.960 had no, We're not taking it lightly or happily at all, 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:35.840 and they roasted him. Okay, um, First of all, Alex 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.679 Bregman goes out and says, Yo, those World Series balls 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:40.720 spin a little bit different, but like you wouldn't know 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:43.880 anything about that. I think that's a nice little right. 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:48.040 Then Lance mccolors says to him, you know, basically, jealousy 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:49.960 is not a good look. So this is not legitimate, 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.560 you know, twitter beef because we're talking about er down 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:54.520 in eighteen. A little twitter beef, you know. And then 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.040 Colin mqugh is going like, yo, imagine players can make progress. 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:01.639 Imagine players you know, get better what we call it. 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:05.200 And he was like coaching, you know, um, and Bauert 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.960 did in fact acknowledge that Astro's pitching coach, Brent Strom 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:10.600 is like one of the best in the business and um, 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:12.800 you know, as great as the man that sort of stuff. 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:15.239 But I think it's very very interesting because he may 0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:17.960 be onto something. I mean, Verlander and Morton are first 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:20.760 and second in the American League in spin rate. Um, 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.920 Garrett Cole is now pitching differently and going up from 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:26.639 striking out like eight guys per nine innings too, like 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.480 thirteen guys per nine innings. They got Charlie Morton almost 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:31.560 off the scrap heap. Think about what they were doing 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.359 with all of these guys, these these um you know 0:27:34.520 --> 0:27:37.399 landsome colors, the Colin mcughs of the world. You know, 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:39.840 they are really doing what, to be quite honest, what 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:42.040 like the Pittsburgh Pirates were doing a few years ago, 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.440 turning guys into much better starters. So you know, maybe 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:48.840 Bauer does in fact have a point. Imagine what you 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:50.840 could do, Imagine this deals you can get on the 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.280 open market if in fact, you could, you know, do 0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:58.239 something to improve and I think it is in fact interesting. Uh. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.159 And I wanted to keep our guy, uh Trevor Bauer 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:05.520 and you know down with stats overbeat Cipher and uh, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:08.800 you know, on our tongues because his sixty nine days 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.440 of giving continue. I think we're on like Dave Low forties, 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:14.320 like day forty one or day forty two of that. 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:17.600 So you know, it's pretty it's pretty interesting. I want 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:21.760 to definitely let everyone know about that one for sure. 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:23.280 Check it out, all right. Um. The other thing I 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:26.520 wanted to talk about when it comes to Major League Baseball. 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:28.280 And then you know, after the next break here in 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:29.920 the Fantasy Freestyle, what we're gonna do is we're gonna 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.520 put the fun and Functional Sports Radio. We are going 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:37.359 to talk to my man, Mikey Florio about uh, you know, 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:40.800 maybe some some some rapping athletes. You never know. I 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:44.040 have an interesting topic for him. I know he likes wrestling, 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.000 so I have I have a wrestling story that I 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:49.560 want to get his opinion on. Maybe my boy uh 0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.160 strong style might be in the chat. I want to 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:55.720 get his opinion on that. Um. And also to be 0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:57.800 quite honest, one of the things we're gonna talk about 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.760 is um, you know we're gonna do to wrapping athlete. 0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:03.160 I got some things for Florio. But also listen, I 0:29:03.240 --> 0:29:06.200 went to Syracuse, Okay, go Orange, and something up there 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:10.040 happened that I think. It's absolutely crazy, but it inspires 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:11.880 an interesting question from me. So we're gonna get into 0:29:11.880 --> 0:29:14.080 all that. But the last baseball thing I wanted to mention. 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.240 Let's listen, we've been talking about it, not only in baseball, 0:29:17.480 --> 0:29:19.360 in the NBA. It started right, you know, trust the 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.360 process and big shout out to my guys that Road 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:24.040 A Road Aware of course, you know we're walking the 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:26.080 way a while warrior shirt, but they came out with 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:30.200 a Road a Classic shirt. Trust the confetti that is 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:32.600 absolutely hysterical. I don't know if you guys saw that 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.680 over the weekend when the Sixers uh forced that game 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:39.080 into overtime and the confetti rained down in Philly and 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.000 there to like delay the game for overtime and then 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:44.840 ultimately they did not win the game. So thus more 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:47.360 of a process, you know, but trust the confetti like that. 0:29:47.880 --> 0:29:52.240 But um, that's where like the process started, I guess. 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.360 And but now teams are doing this much more dramatically, right, 0:29:55.760 --> 0:29:59.200 breaking it down, investing in young talent, you know, and 0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:01.320 and it's paying off. You know, people are seeing the 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:03.320 fruits of it. Maybe in Philly with the Sixers right now, 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:06.480 but it's paying off in Major League Baseball. Kansas City 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.480 Royals they got you know, they got to two World Series, 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:14.000 one a World Series, Chicago Cubs won a World Series, 0:30:14.080 --> 0:30:17.640 breaking the Billy Goat of course, the Houston Astros and 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.960 it worked for them, right. That is now the model, 0:30:20.040 --> 0:30:23.200 and we are seeing that teams are doing that, especially 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:28.160 especially if you are you know, kind of a mid 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:30.480 mid level team. Let's say you're a team is gonna 0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:34.200 get like wins. You're not the worst team, but you're 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:37.000 not really contending for the playoffs. What do you do then? 0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:39.320 You know? And I think to be a lot honestly, 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:42.800 Chicago White Sox are an example of this. Okay, remember 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:45.000 they use big money at one point to sign big 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:48.040 game Jane Shields, to sign jose A bry You, to 0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:52.120 sign even like Milky Cabrera and others. Right, but really, 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:54.480 where are they going? You know? And one of the 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:59.760 things people say about um the process and being able 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:02.320 to uh really break it down and do that people say, oh, 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:03.960 the Knicks could never do that, would never work in 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:05.960 New York. The Yankees could never do that. They have 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:08.880 to reload, they can't rebuild, right. And one of the 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:11.040 reasons people say this because like the fans won't come out, 0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:14.840 you know, and and and that is a problem, right 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:17.960 if the fans don't come out. But that's part of 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:19.240 why you can't do it in New York. But here's 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:20.680 the thing. Check this out. It sounds like you can 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:24.920 do it in Chicago. But the fans are responding in kind. 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:28.200 And I think this is very very interesting. Last week, 0:31:29.080 --> 0:31:34.640 um Tampa Bay and the White Sox they had a 0:31:34.680 --> 0:31:40.640 game and the official attendance was ten thousand, three hundred, right, 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:45.040 but the Tampa Bay Times reported that they were actually 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:48.640 are you ready for this, They were actually only nine 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:53.600 hundred and seventy four people in attendance. That's right, nine 0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:58.000 hundred and seventy four people in attendance. Last year the 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.880 White Sox were twenty in attendance, averaging like but then 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:03.960 like they start the year, you start the year oh 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:06.400 and five at home, you start the year going like 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:08.840 two or eight or three and seven whatever they do, right, 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:11.560 So if you're a team that is like, we are 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:14.000 going to invest in the process, right, We're not gonna 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:17.800 go for it. And you get off to oh and 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:21.240 five start at home? Why go? You know, I understand 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:23.920 the better ways to spend your money, right, There's better 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:27.760 ways to straight up spend your money. So what happens 0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:30.240 And this is still early in the season, when hope 0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:34.480 springs eternal and spring promises in the air. What happens 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:38.280 in in August and September for these teams to raise 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.760 the White Sox? Are we gonna have Are we gonna 0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:45.960 have stadiums full of like five people? Baseball is becoming 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:51.280 a regional sport anyway, right, So what happens in these situations? 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:54.440 I think this is very interesting And um, someone brought 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:56.840 this up to me on Twitter. You know that's the 0:32:56.920 --> 0:33:02.040 fans response. Do do do advertisers have response? Also? Do 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:06.400 regional cable networks have a response? Also? You know, like 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:11.840 think about whoever the sponsor is for, you know whatever, 0:33:11.920 --> 0:33:15.000 like the Yes Analog down there in Tampa Bay, you know, 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:17.400 like the regional sports network there in Chicago with the 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:20.440 White Sox, like the Tribune company doing its thing whatever 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:25.840 it is, right, Like the advertising for this you know 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:30.040 show that the televised games used to be worth something 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:33.680 based on the amount of viewers the audience. But if 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.760 if they're not even putting a representative product on the field, 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:40.560 why should advertisers pay the same amount of money for 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:44.960 that ad space? You know? Can business do something in response? 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:50.480 You know? Can you know regional cable do something in response? 0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:53.040 You know, like the product is not the same and 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:56.000 it is different tiers, can you know? I remember at 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:58.440 City Field, or maybe back when it was Shay you 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:00.720 have different packages right for I think it was for 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:02.600 the Mets, like when the Yankees were in town, when 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:04.600 the Phillies were in town, when the Braves were in town, 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:07.360 your ticket with like the gold package it costs X. 0:34:09.719 --> 0:34:13.360 When the Brewers were in town it costs why you 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:16.719 know what I'm saying. And when like the the Interleague 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:21.760 ridiculous non you know, rival comes to town, it costs 0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:25.080 z right. Can't can't there be more? Can't there be 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.400 other ways that we can um go against tanking? I 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:30.840 know the NBA tried to do this as well with 0:34:31.080 --> 0:34:34.080 changes to like the draft lottery. You know what I mean? 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:37.480 But I think business is the way to officially put 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.920 pressure on teams from the idea of tanking because teams 0:34:40.960 --> 0:34:44.439 and owners, and we've talked about this before, it will 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:47.320 come to if it can, if effect or impact the 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:50.360 bottom line the business of the sport. We saw that 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:52.560 with the anthem protest, and I did want to get 0:34:52.560 --> 0:34:54.960 to something we'll talk about next episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:57.080 You know, we talked about how like Colin Kaepernick was 0:34:57.080 --> 0:34:59.680 getting black balled because of his kneeling and his stands 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:04.440 there like, okay, but what about safety, Eric Reid? What 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:06.920 about safety? Eric Reid also won the forty Niners. Right, 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:10.480 this is the guy who's a starting, a starting caliber 0:35:10.600 --> 0:35:14.120 safety in the NFL, right and after his rookie deal. 0:35:14.200 --> 0:35:16.719 This is the guy who I believe PFF rated as 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:20.240 like the number thirty safety and all of football, certainly 0:35:20.320 --> 0:35:23.800 a valuable starter in the NFL, maybe sort of like 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:28.920 Colin Kaefernick. But he's getting like no deal either. Eric 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:32.959 Reid's brother was drafted this week, last weekend or whatever 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:34.920 it was, you know, a couple of weeks ago. He 0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:37.439 was supposed to be a late first round pick, while 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:40.320 him getting drafted in the third round by the Houston Texans. 0:35:40.400 --> 0:35:44.680 He fell also Okay, so I think, you know, the 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:49.200 collusion case is strong there as well. Eric Reid said, 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:51.319 though in a quote, I stand by what I've done. 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:53.800 My faith in God is the reason I can go 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:55.600 to sleep and night confident I did what I was 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:57.440 called to do. You know, He's gonna ride it out 0:35:57.440 --> 0:35:59.759 the same way Cap is. But listen, the claims that 0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:02.480 they're is not some kind of like collusion or that 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:04.640 this doesn't affect the bottom line. So I'm saying apply 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:07.680 it to this tanking issue as well, and it could 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:10.640 be very, very interesting when we come back here on 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:15.120 the Fantasy Freestyle. What we are going to do is, 0:36:15.400 --> 0:36:17.280 like I said, we're gonna bring in my best friend forever, 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:20.440 little Mike Florio. We're gonna talk about a couple of things. 0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:22.560 We're gonna play a new little rapping athlete. But at 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:25.839 the same time, checking onto that poll question as well, 0:36:26.440 --> 0:36:28.680 I asked you how far up do you think Alvin 0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:33.360 Kamara goes based on the mark ingram you know pe 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.479 D News. We're gonna update that pole as well. People 0:36:36.600 --> 0:36:39.799 really are high on Alvin Kamara. I'll tell you how 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:42.520 they're doing on the poll. Will bring in Florio for 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:45.560 a little you know, fun and functional sports radio. And 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:49.319 we'll have another rapping athlete as well. All that and more, 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:52.520 which boy Dame Martinez speeds and spitting statistician, the Stable 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:55.799 Genius and vocal Minority. It's a fantasy freestyle right here 0:36:55.800 --> 0:37:08.120 on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Join the family at 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.160 Model Sporting Goods. Visit your nearest models and sign up 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:14.480 for our m VP Rewards program to receive insider deals 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:17.239 all year round, earned points on every purchase. 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What's going on? We're not going 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.760 to do Star Wars this week, but next week, yes, definitely. 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:18.160 But this week I'm super excited We're finally going to 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.280 kind of review and kind of get into some spoilers 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:25.760 of Adventures Infinity War. We gave everybody a little break. 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:27.800 We we let we let everybody get a chance to 0:40:27.840 --> 0:40:29.200 go see it and stuff like that, so we don't 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.200 want to ruin it for anybody. Producer Chris is supposed 0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:35.640 to be seeing it tonight. Oh yeah, Chris, yeah, right 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:38.359 up against right up against it. Okay, awesome. So I'm 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:41.120 going to ask him about it tomorrow morning. Good. I'm 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:42.920 gonna ask him about it tomorrow morning. I wrote Expert 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.000 in the Morning that is popping off. You can hear 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:47.239 Daniel Otto, you can hear Chris Bavona the Manimal. You 0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:50.200 can hear Bodega cat Ashley making it pop off on 0:40:50.480 --> 0:40:54.279 popping off. I believe the bartender maybe there as well. 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.960 You can hear me on Rohato Experts in the Morning 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:01.360 as well. But this is fantasy freestyle. You know what 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:03.360 it is. It's boy, Dane Martinez. I told you we 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:06.000 were checking out on the pole. Right now, fifty percent 0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:09.319 of you are saying that Alvin Kamara is a top 0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:13.080 four back in PPR. I gotta tell you something. I disagree. 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:15.040 I would still have left Bell ahead of him. I 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.719 would still have Ezekiel Elliot ahead of him. I would 0:41:17.760 --> 0:41:19.960 still have Todd Gurley ahead of him, and I can 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:22.080 make the case for either David Johnson or maybe even 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:25.200 se Kwon Barkley ahead of him. I know people maybe 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:27.759 even like a guy like Kareem Hunt in that level 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:32.520 as well. You say not that far, but up a bit, um, 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.520 And then three percent say tell us still a time share. 0:41:35.560 --> 0:41:39.440 Two percent say he'll be overused and injured fu gazy 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:41.759 forget about it. And to be honest, when I put 0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:43.719 that pole question in there, put that option in because 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:47.520 my man Mike Florio, one of my best friends forever, decided, like, yo, 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:50.680 someone will make that case. And I think it's very 0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:54.280 interesting that so far people are making that case. Mikey Florio, 0:41:54.360 --> 0:41:57.279 we got two percent still thinking that Alvin Kamara may 0:41:57.320 --> 0:42:01.560 in fact be a fu Ghazy this year. I wanted 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:04.719 to ask you, though, Florio, and uh, you know he's 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:06.400 down there in the fantasy pit of misery, pull and 0:42:06.480 --> 0:42:10.440 double duty doing yeoman's work down there, um, because I 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.880 know Florio likes wrestling in the w w E, and 0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:16.560 I had a question for him, did you see this? Florio. 0:42:17.440 --> 0:42:24.319 Glenn Jacobs, also known as Kane the Big Red Machine Um, 0:42:24.560 --> 0:42:28.080 won the Republican nomination for Knox County mayor in Tennessee. 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:31.640 Are you aware of this? Yeah, it's gonna be super 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:33.680 weird if he becomes a mayor of the town. He's 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:36.120 gonna be the sitting mayor. Like this is different. You know, 0:42:36.320 --> 0:42:38.280 this is different than like, you know, Jesse the Body 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:41.000 Ventura or something like this. You know, like, there is 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:44.879 an election. He is facing Linda head There, it is, there, 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:49.840 it is. He is facing Linda Hainey in the election 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:54.720 for this mayor in on August two. Um, Like, Kane 0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:57.040 is still kind of like around, right, He's not like 0:42:57.640 --> 0:42:59.719 hot in the championship scene or anything, but he's still 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:02.279 like a round. What if he's sitting mayor? Is like, 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:04.200 will he still be employed by the day? He would 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:05.600 have to give it up, right, he'd have to like 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:07.960 walk away. Would they like bury him in a casket 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:10.759 or something? Yeah, I'd imagine he'd have to give it up. 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:14.239 I can't remember the last time I've seen Kane in 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:17.360 a wrestling like show. I think it it's been a 0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:20.600 few months now, So I guess he's taking this pretty seriously. 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:22.880 But hey, I guess if he loses, he can always 0:43:22.920 --> 0:43:25.560 go back put the mask on and become the demon again. Yes, 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.640 so check this out. Though he's not the only one. 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:32.960 Did you know there is another? I guess not really active, 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:35.239 but definitely in the w w CN who's gonna be 0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:37.480 running for mayor? This is a much bigger place, not 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:39.719 like a Tennessee county. And I think it's funny that 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:43.480 Knox County gets a mayor. Don't cities get mayors instead 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:45.920 of counties? I don't know, but I digress. But do 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:48.719 you know who's running for the mayor of Houston in 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:51.920 UH in the next election? Sideticle Florial? I do not 0:43:52.560 --> 0:43:54.759 do not. I would guess Mark Henry because I know 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.680 he's from Texas close, but no um book or t 0:43:58.600 --> 0:44:02.360 really yeah, yeah, but he's already announced this. He's apparently 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:05.160 already announced that he's gonna launch a campaign for Houston 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:08.040 mayor in two thousand nineteen. In the fantasy pit of misery. 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:10.359 You can do it, you know, google it for sure. 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:11.680 But the real question I want to ask you guys 0:44:11.719 --> 0:44:13.959 both and we put the fun and functional sports Radio 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:16.040 and find out what the status over beat Cipher maybe 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:18.520 in the chat thinks is you know who am on 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:20.719 us in the fantasy sports network? Do you think could 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:24.400 hold office? You know Okay, that's a good that that's 0:44:24.440 --> 0:44:26.600 good because I remember when like the britishaw Ferguson retired 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:28.120 there like, oh he could be in politics, you know, 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.000 and they always talk about that, you know. So that 0:44:30.120 --> 0:44:32.359 got me thinking about this. You say non though, because 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:34.759 we have like the adult totem Pole and we and 0:44:34.840 --> 0:44:36.640 we think about this, But you think Nondo could. I 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:40.160 I think I think Greg Susman would most want a 0:44:40.239 --> 0:44:42.400 career in politics now, but I don't think, but I 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:44.920 don't think. I think Nando is just so personable they 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:47.440 could pull it off a little bit better. I like that. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:49.279 I like that if you're down there in the you know, 0:44:49.360 --> 0:44:52.120 in the chat and hey, reality I mean not that 0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:54.520 we're a reality show, but I heard one time that 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:59.200 this reality star kind of ran for office and one really, yeah, 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:00.480 I don't know if you heard any thing about that. 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:04.520 You're fired. Yeah that's crazy. I did not know about that. 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:07.120 But um, thanks for thanks for all that, Floria. I 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.000 just didn't know if you knew about the cana now. 0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:11.000 To be quite honest, when I'm talking with Jake Zeally 0:45:11.120 --> 0:45:13.560 an hour day, he's into the Uh he's into the 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.200 w W a little bit too, huh. Oh, he's a 0:45:16.239 --> 0:45:17.680 bigger fan than I am. All Right, so I'll have 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:19.400 to ask him about I'll have to ask him about this. 0:45:19.440 --> 0:45:21.920 But check this out. All right, we have another rapping 0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:24.600 athlete as we put the fun in Functional sports radio. 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:27.600 And to be quite honest, I'm celebrating here the NBA Playoffs. 0:45:27.960 --> 0:45:31.040 I'm celebrating the uh the sweep that the kill Even 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.000 Clavaliers had, even though this guy is not on the 0:45:34.080 --> 0:45:36.440 Calves anymore than he's with the Sacramento Kings, a former 0:45:36.560 --> 0:45:39.280 calve though, and we're stepping our game up. Okay, because 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:40.960 I was making some jokes about some of the other 0:45:41.040 --> 0:45:43.400 rapping athletes, this guy is known as one of the 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:46.799 better rapping athletes, right Florio. I mean we're talking about 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:50.880 Imon Schumpert, former Cleveland Cavalier, former New York Nick This 0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:53.520 guy is kind of well regarded. I'm saving the most 0:45:53.640 --> 0:45:58.000 highly regarded NBA player for maybe next week's episode. Uh 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:01.840 you know, Mr not quarter Nickel, but dollar um but 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:06.320 Iman Shumpertuh. You were saying, oh, yeah, he's dope. He 0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:08.520 put out a bunch of stuff, so you actually have 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:12.759 understood him as a rapper before, Right before I brought 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:17.480 this out, I don't know where he is. I'm here. Yeah, 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:19.360 I heard him back when he was with the Knicks. 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:21.759 He did a little he released, like a mix tape 0:46:21.800 --> 0:46:25.799 or something. I mean, yeah, an athlete, this is pretty good. 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:28.680 All right, So okay, we already now, Mike Florio says, 0:46:28.760 --> 0:46:31.080 for an athlete, this is pretty good. So what we're 0:46:31.080 --> 0:46:32.959 gonna do is we're gonna play. He went on folk 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:35.440 Master Flex. My boy, Chris Bavona, the manimal likes to 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:37.320 drop the bomb on it, and that's because of the 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:41.680 fulk Master Flex. He did a freestyle on funk Flex. Okay, um, 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:44.880 let's hear a little bit of Imon Schumpert here now 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:48.200 on the Fantasy freestyle down he'd only one, got one. 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.720 You're p cho fit. Then they used you for the spotlight. 0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:52.920 You keep your enemies close. Ain't no closure when it's 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:56.839 cop flights. Well, I'm on the ladder. You never con 0:46:56.920 --> 0:46:59.680 climb with guns. You'll never survive, words, will never suffice. 0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:02.080 Who do this better than you? Ain't ded ship with 0:47:02.160 --> 0:47:04.560 the cuffs on. This ain't the subject to touch on. 0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:07.160 This ain't the lane you should drive in. Find you 0:47:07.239 --> 0:47:09.879 a drive through, brother, This bat for base. You won't 0:47:09.920 --> 0:47:12.279 slide through brother. I never heard Jay you don't know 0:47:12.440 --> 0:47:14.520 sway in the morning with his hands in the hoodiey'all 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:17.160 got nothing to say in the morning. I dropped post ninety. 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:19.040 When I did, they ignored it, so I went back 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:21.120 to the dock. But now I'm glowed they'll support it. Right, 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:23.480 I could afford it. I finally got me some jervy. 0:47:23.640 --> 0:47:25.360 But I ain't paying a dime. Wh y'all shine a 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:27.560 cost the fortune. I've been in the sweats with white 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:29.880 guys in the office wearing three piece suits just to 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:32.880 chop about the profits, basing new decisions like I'm mopping 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:35.440 out of options, trying to tread the internet without reading 0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:38.319 all this gossip. But I do, though, and they tried 0:47:38.400 --> 0:47:42.800 it soon. Whoa there? You a little iman shumper? Is 0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:45.319 fitting that hot fire. I gotta tell you, Danny, we've 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:47.359 been breaking down the rapping athletes. Here's what I gotta say. 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:49.800 We started with a lot of what you and I 0:47:49.960 --> 0:47:52.920 and Bavona affectionately called that lazy rap. You know that 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:56.000 like southern drawl. I'm a boy from New York, Okay, 0:47:56.160 --> 0:47:58.239 don't get a twisted I love all of the art 0:47:58.280 --> 0:48:00.680 forms out there, all five l ments of hip hop, 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:03.600 you know, in all different kinds of expression. But I 0:48:03.680 --> 0:48:05.440 gotta give it to someone with a kind of New 0:48:05.520 --> 0:48:07.920 York pace, in the New York flow. I am after 0:48:08.040 --> 0:48:10.040 roll Spece. It's been in Statistician and that's something that 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:13.120 I thought was the strength of Imon Schumpert. He's he's 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:15.880 kind of flow ridding over the beat. Um, you know, 0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:19.480 more a different cadence than some of that, uh like 0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:22.719 Cole Beasley Levy on Bell rap. You know what I'm saying. 0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:25.120 What do you think? Yeah? Absolutely, I I like this. 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:31.160 We liked it a lot. Okay, Um, listen, I mean 0:48:31.320 --> 0:48:35.440 you are you don't always have strong feelings about about 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:37.400 some of the raps that we hear. Okay, So but 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:39.960 you you sound like, so where did she go? I 0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:44.360 mean where does uh? Okay? Because listen, We've got like 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:47.960 remember Marvin Bailey doing that relevant rap about the cops. 0:48:48.520 --> 0:48:51.239 Remember we had my boy Julian Turner doing the x 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:55.520 Y life about like the cellular mitosis. Remember that. Um, 0:48:55.920 --> 0:49:00.440 we had our boy Kenneth Cashman dropping um, you know, 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:04.640 fantasy lyrics, rhodo rhyme, shout out to Kenneth Cashman. We 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:07.320 had our boy young cos the trap game. My extros. 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:10.680 These are all not bad either. So where does Imon 0:49:10.760 --> 0:49:14.600 Shrumpert fit in for you? That's really it's really tough 0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:17.360 now because now we've we've heard bad ones and now 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:22.200 we're getting that we're getting better, all right, So he 0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:24.640 goes on the upper echelon. Definitely, he goes in the 0:49:24.719 --> 0:49:27.640 upper echelon, and uh, maybe I'm gonna get my man 0:49:27.760 --> 0:49:30.759 the King Scott Engles take on this, you know, the 0:49:30.840 --> 0:49:32.440 next time it comes up, because he came up with 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:34.399 the different kind of music we were playing on Rhoto 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:37.160 Experts this morning. But one other piece that I wanted 0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:40.080 to say on this with the rapping athletes, Danny one 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:42.640 of the rapping athletes that we had previously. I don't 0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:44.080 know if you remembers. It was one of the first 0:49:44.160 --> 0:49:46.120 ones we had to be quite honest the way you 0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:48.399 described it, you know, when we were still in kind 0:49:48.440 --> 0:49:50.600 of the lower parts of the ranking, shall we say, 0:49:50.920 --> 0:49:54.279 and we had a J. Francis on at one point 0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:57.600 he was alignment for the Washington football team, and we 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.680 had him on his song and we kind of said 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:02.160 it was one of those like you know, more that 0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:05.680 that that slower kind of drawl, shall we say that 0:50:05.840 --> 0:50:08.919 lazy rat, you know, and uh, but he's in the news. 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:11.879 He's in the news again. A J. Francis has left 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:15.160 the Washington football team. He signed with the New York 0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:18.600 Football Giants, right, but he's got that lyricism. You know, 0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:21.319 part of being a rapper is getting after it, right 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:22.920 and and and and talking about how good you are 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:25.040 and insulting other people and blah blah blah. And he 0:50:25.160 --> 0:50:27.960 keeps the barbs going to his former team, the Washington 0:50:28.040 --> 0:50:31.319 football team on Instagram. You're talking about like when when 0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:34.480 the team signs you actually watched the film, But then 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:36.239 he ends it and this is what I wanted to mention, 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:41.520 hashtag your logo is racist. And I think that was interesting. 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:44.560 You know, he's talking about the Washington football team shouting 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:47.279 them out hashtag your logo is racist right after it leaves, 0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:50.160 I leave that something kind of like a battle rapper 0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:52.960 would do. We did, in fact have A. J. Francis 0:50:53.120 --> 0:50:56.040 on as one of our rapping athletes before. What do 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.839 you think about that, though, Danny? I mean, my man 0:50:58.000 --> 0:51:01.279 is like, you know, now that he is free of 0:51:01.400 --> 0:51:04.160 the oppression of the naming of the Washington football team, 0:51:04.360 --> 0:51:07.440 he's going after them on I g that's I mean, 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:10.919 it's kind of funny. Um, I feel like I would 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:13.680 do the same thing if I left you know what 0:51:14.920 --> 0:51:18.160 I was scoring right, Just let me leave that. They 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:20.480 are real quick. Let me leave that there real quick. 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.279 I like that angle on it, Danny, and I like 0:51:22.360 --> 0:51:24.480 what you guys got going on. I'm popping off. You're 0:51:24.520 --> 0:51:27.000 gonna have to keep me posted. I'm gonna ask Bvona 0:51:27.080 --> 0:51:30.440 about the Avengers. Uh tomorrow morning. You can catch me 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:33.880 on Rhoto Experts in the morning with Scott Angle with 0:51:34.000 --> 0:51:36.719 Jake Seely. What'll be doing this fantasy freestyle thing. You 0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:39.640 could also catch me. Um, we're gonna be dropping a 0:51:39.680 --> 0:51:42.200 new podcast. Why you gotta subscribe, and you gotta follow 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:45.400 me on Twitter. There's so much stuff going on. Okay. Um, 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:47.320 you could also check me out. I'm doing a project 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:50.240 over there over on fan Tracks, which is popping off. Okay. 0:51:50.520 --> 0:51:55.120 They have incredible platforms, incredible games, incredible features for you. 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:57.960 It is the place to do your fantasy league. Um, 0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:00.360 we're doing status over Beats Day. I got another podcast 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:03.440 about to pop off starting this week. Subscribe rate review 0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:05.680 all that stuff if you want to support the spitting statistician. 0:52:05.719 --> 0:52:07.360 The last thing I wanted to tell you before we 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:09.480 get out of here on the Fantasy Freestyle. You know, 0:52:09.560 --> 0:52:11.560 I said earlier in the show that I went to Syracuse, 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:14.960 right new house represent you know what it is? Um 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:19.440 up there in central New York. One of what I 0:52:19.520 --> 0:52:21.719 think is kind of the worst things I've ever heard 0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:26.839 about related to sports. Um. You know, con artists, con 0:52:26.960 --> 0:52:28.760 art This is a mix of con artists and stupid, 0:52:28.800 --> 0:52:32.440 criminal and and horrible and just horrible stuff. Horrible stuff, 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:35.440 the real reason we may need to make America great again. Um. 0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:38.920 Up in Port Byron, New York, there was the la 0:52:39.000 --> 0:52:43.759 France family, right, uh, Joline la France, Martin LaFrance and 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:47.799 c J. LaFrance, the son c J. Okay Um unfortunately 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:50.280 came out that c J the kid was battling Hodgkins 0:52:50.480 --> 0:52:53.160 la Foma. Right to the family sets up a go 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:57.000 fund me page. They raised just over three thousand dollars 0:52:57.080 --> 0:53:00.400 okay for the medical cause because this kid has lamp foma. Right. 0:53:00.440 --> 0:53:02.120 They also arranged its kind of like this make a 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:03.840 wish kind of thing, you know, like, hey, what do 0:53:03.880 --> 0:53:05.680 you want to do? You see, like when the kid 0:53:05.800 --> 0:53:07.960 is at like the spring practice game or whatever, they 0:53:07.960 --> 0:53:09.919 give the kid the ball and you know, like runs 0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:12.160 for a touchdown and it really makes everyone's day. It's 0:53:12.200 --> 0:53:14.080 a it's a you know, it's a moment that makes 0:53:14.080 --> 0:53:16.759 everybody happy, you know, get all emotional and well up 0:53:17.040 --> 0:53:20.400 with feeling. Well, they did that with Syracuse football team. Okay, 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:23.000 he's nine years old. He met players, he was in 0:53:23.080 --> 0:53:26.520 practice doing all that. He even bonded because um director 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:30.239 of players development for the ques Um he was a 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:33.680 two time cancer survivor. Roy wickis right, so he's like 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:36.520 bonding and all this stuff is beautiful. But then check 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:40.319 this out, Danny. Unfortunately, though, after a four month investigation 0:53:40.480 --> 0:53:42.919 that was spurred on by a tip, the Sheriff's office 0:53:42.960 --> 0:53:46.279 in this county concluded conclusively that unfortunately c J. Never 0:53:46.400 --> 0:53:49.600 had cancer, just never had cancer. They raised over three 0:53:49.640 --> 0:53:52.000 thousand dollars, they got him to go, they arranged for 0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:54.600 him to go to Syracuse practice. Yeah, he never had cancer. 0:53:54.840 --> 0:53:58.040 So Martin and Jeline, their parents, are charged with scheming 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:01.319 to defraud and endangering the welfare a child. They're gonna 0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:03.120 be arranged in court on May six. Things. Is this 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:04.960 not the worst thing you've ever heard of in your life? 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:09.560 I think it is. I think it absolutely is. It 0:54:09.800 --> 0:54:13.359 is right. It's absolutely crazy and it makes me wonder unfortunately, 0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:15.879 like what happens with all these other go funds after 0:54:16.000 --> 0:54:20.520 disasters and stuff. You know, Um, after these shootings that happened, 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:24.520 or after these earthquakes that happened, or after these hurricanes 0:54:24.600 --> 0:54:27.600 that happened. I was out here telling everybody, Um, my boy, 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:30.279 Kenna Cashman had a go fund me page. You know, Um, 0:54:30.360 --> 0:54:32.239 I told you about my man to binch a green 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:35.360 go down there in Mexico City after the earthquake, you know, like, 0:54:35.680 --> 0:54:37.480 but to see that people are trying to, you know, 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.680 you take advantage of it in this way. I think 0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:43.200 it's real sad. I think it's really And the fact 0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:46.000 that my Alma Mata, you know, the orange was brought 0:54:46.080 --> 0:54:49.320 into this, you know, I I wanted to share it, 0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:52.240 but I think it was the absolute, you know, worst 0:54:52.320 --> 0:54:57.360 thing I have seen in sports in a long long time. 0:54:57.719 --> 0:54:59.879 So I definitely wanted to share that with you guy. 0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:02.360 But just remember big news here, both on the football 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:04.439 side and on the baseball side. On the baseball side, 0:55:04.800 --> 0:55:08.520 the Mets have traded Matt Harvey to the Cincinnati Reds. 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:11.200 They get Devin Mezzerocco back which I think Listen is 0:55:11.239 --> 0:55:14.839 a better return than you may have expected. Could maybe 0:55:14.840 --> 0:55:17.040 even push Darno if he is healthy, if the both 0:55:17.080 --> 0:55:19.120 of them are healthy. And then over on the football side, 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:22.799 the biggest pieces remember mark Ingram Saints running back has 0:55:22.880 --> 0:55:26.880 been suspended for four games of the upcoming two thousand 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:31.480 and eighteen NFL and fantasy football season. That certainly downgrades 0:55:31.560 --> 0:55:33.960 him down into the RB two, if not the low 0:55:34.120 --> 0:55:37.040 end r B two range. And the more intriguing question 0:55:37.120 --> 0:55:39.480 for me is what this means for Alvin Kamara. He 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:43.480 was already a first round potential talent. I personally have 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:46.799 him around RB six, seven eight. I know others who 0:55:46.880 --> 0:55:49.640 have them inside their top four. And right now we 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:52.719 go to the poll and forty nine percent of you, 0:55:53.080 --> 0:55:55.680 half of you believe that in PPR formats, he is 0:55:55.719 --> 0:55:58.759 now a top four back. He's not one of my 0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:01.879 top four backs, but I do understand it. I think 0:56:01.960 --> 0:56:04.880 he is a legit first rounder. Now. I was worried 0:56:04.880 --> 0:56:07.960 about the time shares the committees that we talk about, 0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:10.160 although I know my man, the King Scott Angle would 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:13.000 not allow me or like me to use that word 0:56:13.080 --> 0:56:15.839 to describe it before the percent of you do. In fact, 0:56:15.920 --> 0:56:19.640 think he is a top four back in PPR because 0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:22.239 of this news. That about does it for me. Keep 0:56:22.280 --> 0:56:24.879 it locked all week long. Roto experts in the morning, 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:27.800 seven and nine am. Catch me at spitting speed. You 0:56:27.840 --> 0:56:30.880 could ask me questions every morning. 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