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Speaker 1: gonna be a big show. And I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: we have like breaking news on the baseball side of
Speaker 1: things and on the football side of things. So I'm
Speaker 1: very excited, Like it's it's a good time to be here,
Speaker 1: letting the stats over beat cipher know what they need,
Speaker 1: you know. So first of all, the big news right
Speaker 1: here in football. Okay, earlier today we heard that mark
Speaker 1: Ingram got popped for four games coming up for the Pets.
Speaker 1: You know, a little pe d usage, shall we say. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss the first four games of this season. Now,
Speaker 1: you know this is just coming out today, right, So
Speaker 1: maybe maybe there'll be an appeal of some sort. Maybe
Speaker 1: there'll be another shoe to drop. I'm not sure, right,
Speaker 1: but this to me is very very interesting, especially for
Speaker 1: a guy like Alvin Kamara. Okay, listen, both of these guys,
Speaker 1: I called them so fresh and so clean, Alvin Simon
Speaker 1: and Theodore Camara. These guys were both top ten running
Speaker 1: backs in PPR formats last year, right, and it was
Speaker 1: like the elite kind of time share, you know, like
Speaker 1: the year before that in Atlanta you had Freeman and
Speaker 1: Coleman an elite time share. Right last year you had
Speaker 1: the elite time share in New Orleans for the Saints. Right.
Speaker 1: What happens now? What if you know, England goes down,
Speaker 1: missing like four games, but that also means Kamara goes
Speaker 1: up and after this ridiculous rookie season that he had, Right,
Speaker 1: my question for you is how high does he go?
Speaker 1: Like method Man and red Man, how high do they get?
Speaker 1: I mean Alvin Kamara of course down there where they
Speaker 1: stand up and get crunk. That is the pole question
Speaker 1: I have for you guys today on the fantasy freestyle, Right,
Speaker 1: the options are, he's gonna go all the way up now,
Speaker 1: be this kind of workhorse and be a top four
Speaker 1: back in PPR formats, or is he gonna you know,
Speaker 1: bump up a little bit not necessarily into that upper
Speaker 1: echelon Zeke Elliott, David Johnson, Todd Gurley, lev Bell category.
Speaker 1: Some would even put se Kwan in there. We'll see
Speaker 1: um Or is it like not that big of a
Speaker 1: deal and they're still pretty much going exactly where you think,
Speaker 1: or could it be you know, reverse psychology somehow, like
Speaker 1: he gets overused credits to my man Mike Floria, one
Speaker 1: of my best friends forever, he was like, what if
Speaker 1: the inverse happens. What if he gets overworked? What if
Speaker 1: he hits the sophomore wall, what if he gets injured?
Speaker 1: You know what if he winds up being a fool
Speaker 1: gaze he forgot about it? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: That's the poll question up right now. So I did
Speaker 1: want to get that out because that is interesting. I
Speaker 1: think that has impact on fantasy football. And right now
Speaker 1: we're in this kind of rookie o t a s
Speaker 1: piece of the season. So I have other news, okay,
Speaker 1: but we have to go on over the baseball okay,
Speaker 1: because right now, literally within the hour, we have a trade.
Speaker 1: And we're here in New York, you know, Studio thirty
Speaker 1: four Rock and Riley's right in shadows Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: But the New York Mets have made a trade. The
Speaker 1: Mets have traded the Dark Night Matt Harvey to the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds. The Cincinnati Reds a lot of people, this
Speaker 1: was one of the places that people were wondering about
Speaker 1: and they get Devin Mezzarroco back. I think that is
Speaker 1: a very interesting move one the The Mets have never
Speaker 1: really kind of fully addressed this catcher issue. They've had
Speaker 1: a kind of hole there. Remember last year they were
Speaker 1: in kind of a rumors for guys like Jonathan Luke Roy.
Speaker 1: Right now they're talking about guys like JT. Realm utuoh
Speaker 1: and spring training. Right, Darnel has never really fully become
Speaker 1: the player that many thought he would in that original R. A.
Speaker 1: Dickey trade. I think he came to the Mets in
Speaker 1: the R. A. Dickey trade. Don't get it twisted. The
Speaker 1: Mets still just did just fine in that trade because
Speaker 1: I think the other guy they got in that deal
Speaker 1: someone you may have heard of before. I think his
Speaker 1: name is Noah synder Guard. So I think they did
Speaker 1: just fine. But they put another option there at catcher.
Speaker 1: And to be quite honest, when everyone knew that the
Speaker 1: Mets had a you don't know, ticking time bomb there
Speaker 1: and Matt Harvey and his ability to move him, you know,
Speaker 1: and they had no leverage, I think Messaracco is better
Speaker 1: then uh, I would have thought, to be quite honest, Okay,
Speaker 1: I understand the injury history, but he's worth a flyer.
Speaker 1: What else did you think you were going to get
Speaker 1: for Matt Harvey? So we had to let people know
Speaker 1: about that. There's some other interesting news when it comes
Speaker 1: to the baseball headlines. We have an interesting story about
Speaker 1: Roberto Zuna, the closer up there in Toronto, and uh
Speaker 1: you know some other some other things about base but
Speaker 1: we gotta know wait on that until our middle segment
Speaker 1: of the show. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, you know YouTube,
Speaker 1: we have the status over beat cipher, but let me
Speaker 1: know down there. You know, if you're here live on
Speaker 1: the on the stream and you want to interact with
Speaker 1: the spitting statistician, you can do that. Let me know
Speaker 1: what do you think about this mark ingram suspension of
Speaker 1: what it means for Alvin Kamara, what it means for
Speaker 1: the Saints. Let me know what does uh you know
Speaker 1: this news of Matt Harvey? Did they get a decent haul?
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think about that. Later on
Speaker 1: in the show we will check in on that as well.
Speaker 1: But I do you have to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about some news and notes here in the nfl
Speaker 1: UM Since we last spoke here on the fantasy freestyle
Speaker 1: and and a move that I thought was really nice.
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention that Steelers converted like over eight
Speaker 1: million dollars of Ryan Shazier's contract into a signing bonus.
Speaker 1: I think that's a class move from a class organization.
Speaker 1: I like what they're doing there. Okay, the Seahawks have
Speaker 1: released Cliff April. They said he couldn't um passive physical
Speaker 1: and listen. This is now you know, longline and a
Speaker 1: series of moves the Seahawks have made this off season. Okay,
Speaker 1: they are in essence moving on from like the legion
Speaker 1: of Boom and really that team and constructed in the
Speaker 1: way that it was. You know, Um, Sherman gone, you know,
Speaker 1: Bennett retired and gone. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: or in Philly now. You know, Um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of the other Bennett. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: they did. And now add April to the list. And
Speaker 1: this is really I think, you know, the window for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks is really kind of uh, you know, closing, closing, closing,
Speaker 1: if not shut, unless you know, Russell Wilson can be
Speaker 1: that twig that holds it open. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: talk to my man Scott Angle about the Seahawks prospects
Speaker 1: coming up into the season. I think, um, we may
Speaker 1: have some disagreements going into it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I say Scott Angle because if you don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: not working with Scott Angle. We're doing it big Rhodo
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Speaker 1: wake up bright and early. As you guys know. I
Speaker 1: don't need eggs, I don't need prayers, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: make it happen. Also check this out, um, Panthers signed
Speaker 1: c J. Anderson to a one year deal. This is
Speaker 1: something I think. It was interesting to me. C J.
Speaker 1: Andersen and Marco Murray were the two running backs that
Speaker 1: I just wanted to keep an eye on see where
Speaker 1: they landed after the draft. Right wide receivers I want
Speaker 1: to see. I still want to see deads and I
Speaker 1: still want to see Jeremy Macklin. Interestingly enough, I would
Speaker 1: love to see where these guys wind up. But C J.
Speaker 1: Anderson signs with the Carolina Panthers. I was telling you
Speaker 1: guys about this last week when I was saying to
Speaker 1: keep an eye out on Carolina and keep an eye
Speaker 1: out on the Indianapolis Colts, because I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: for Caroline, I didn't think I wasn't gonna believe in
Speaker 1: Cameron artist pain. You know what I mentioned that before.
Speaker 1: So they go ahead and address that need. I think
Speaker 1: even pretty much fills the Jonathan Stewart place of last
Speaker 1: year Christian McCaffrey. You know, people maybe thought he was
Speaker 1: going to develop and get a little bit more maybe
Speaker 1: early work between the tackles work. Now it's ce J.
Speaker 1: Anderson in there. I do not think that is necessarily
Speaker 1: the case. All right, here's what I want to move
Speaker 1: on to when we talk about football. I did have
Speaker 1: a story I wanted to get in a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: And you know, last year during football season, if you
Speaker 1: remember one of the things I was saying all of
Speaker 1: the time, you know it was kind of one of
Speaker 1: my biggest shot calls was about the the the play
Speaker 1: in the offensive line and how it has changed. And
Speaker 1: we got into reasons for why I changed, and the
Speaker 1: differences of the college game and the pro game, the
Speaker 1: ability to practice on the collective bargaining agreement, and other reasons. Right,
Speaker 1: and I was telling you that offensive line play has
Speaker 1: gone down. I wanted to continue that thread because you know,
Speaker 1: in the time of the season where I can get
Speaker 1: real you know, I can get a real stable, genius
Speaker 1: and vocal minority with you guys and get you a
Speaker 1: little bit inside. I want you to think about this.
Speaker 1: I don't only give you a fish, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I teach you how to fish. And this is something
Speaker 1: that I want everybody to understand. I think the offensive
Speaker 1: line is changing. You remember the movie The blind Side.
Speaker 1: Remember the movie The blind Side was like two thousand six,
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, and then Michael ore in Baltimore was
Speaker 1: the guy portrayed that went to Old miss whatever. But
Speaker 1: the value of the left tackle is what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about here. The left tackle, to be quite honest, was
Speaker 1: in response the speed edge rushers, you know, the evolution
Speaker 1: the cycles like Lawrence Taylor breaking Joe Fisman's leg right,
Speaker 1: So protecting the blind side became a thing. So the
Speaker 1: left tackle became one of the most important positions on
Speaker 1: the football field. You know, it was like quarterback left tackle, right,
Speaker 1: but now edge rusher was That was in response to that,
Speaker 1: I submit to you guys here on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: that this is now changing in the NFL and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see differences in offensive line. And here's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't think NFL teams are going to
Speaker 1: now invest their resources in the left tackle as much anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about years past and guys like Jake Long,
Speaker 1: Eric Fisher, Hello, Hello, everybody, Hello, everybody. There's people outside
Speaker 1: Studio thirty four having fun here. You know, the rooftop
Speaker 1: is now open here and people are enjoying themselves at
Speaker 1: the tail end of happy hour. But all right, checked out.
Speaker 1: These people are always going number one overall, Right, there
Speaker 1: were people signing big time contracts. Right. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Defense has changed. It's not only about guys just coming
Speaker 1: off the edge. You know, we're scheming different things. Double
Speaker 1: a gap, blitz, corner blitz is right, So the left tackle.
Speaker 1: I saw this over on UM. I think it was
Speaker 1: five thirty eight, right, they had something only thirty six
Speaker 1: percent of sacks come from over the left tackle. So
Speaker 1: even if you have the best left tackle, there's still
Speaker 1: two thirds of sacks that he can't do nothing about.
Speaker 1: So why are you investing? Right? People are coming, Like
Speaker 1: I said, double a gat blitz. Here's the other thing
Speaker 1: that I think is very interesting that I think is
Speaker 1: now a misnomer, and also about the evolution of the
Speaker 1: NFL that your boys SPEs, the spitting statustician, the stable Genius,
Speaker 1: and vocal Minority have been talking about. Hello, we got
Speaker 1: some kids. Come on in. Come on with the kids
Speaker 1: with the stable genius. Right, here's the thing I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the blind side is a misnomer. Okay, this is going
Speaker 1: to be an evolution. The blind side is a misnomer. Now,
Speaker 1: so many plays are coming in. Come on in, guys,
Speaker 1: let's come on and we're all live. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We are live. It's okay if you want to come
Speaker 1: on and do you guys like sports? Yeah? Where are
Speaker 1: you guys from from France? Have a seat. Have a seat, guys,
Speaker 1: have a seat, sir, have a seat. We got people
Speaker 1: in from France. I'm gonna tell you about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but we got people in from France. Let's get this popping,
Speaker 1: uh Danny down there like, yeah, yeah, what is your name? Stefan?
Speaker 1: And you were from friends, right, you are from France
Speaker 1: and you're here in New York to see the site exactly.
Speaker 1: We are here all days for four days. That's beautiful
Speaker 1: New York last day. How did you did you like
Speaker 1: New York? It's great? What was your favorite part about
Speaker 1: New York? I like the people. You like the people
Speaker 1: they were waiting, headful, they were helpful. Pari paries if
Speaker 1: I when I was in midchool, when I was looking
Speaker 1: for something, everybody was Are you telling me that the
Speaker 1: new you said, the New York people are nicer than Paris?
Speaker 1: Because I've heard listen, I've heard that New Yorkers are
Speaker 1: supposed to be like real, you know, real grimy, real
Speaker 1: mean real head down, not caring. But you experienced helpful
Speaker 1: New Yorkers and really really that's amazing. That's amazing. So
Speaker 1: you guys hear from France. Let me ask you something, Um,
Speaker 1: do you like Paris Saint Germond? Oh? Yeah yeah you
Speaker 1: like yeah? Yeah, he like it? Yeah? Okay, okay, well
Speaker 1: and and and they don't have they don't have his
Speaker 1: lot on anymore though, No, no, he left, he left
Speaker 1: a while ago. He's here, he's here in the MLS.
Speaker 1: Now absolutely, you know here we talk about football obviously
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Sports Network, but now we got
Speaker 1: people in from France. We're talking football. Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different, but thank you for spending a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Wap. Really you're like a brick wall, a
Speaker 1: brick wall. They can't get passed. Thanks so much. Yeah's
Speaker 1: have a good day, have a good nuy. Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. All Right, you never know what is
Speaker 1: going to happen here on the Fantasy Sports Network on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle Studio thirty four outside of Rock and Riley's,
Speaker 1: we have a visiting from France. The Fantasy Freestyle truly
Speaker 1: a global show. Thank you so much. We gotta see
Speaker 1: what the stats of Beat Cipher has to say. We
Speaker 1: are now, you know, international. But we were talking about
Speaker 1: the offensive line. We were just we're talking about the
Speaker 1: offensive line. The other thing I wanted to say about this, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got the blitz is coming from everywhere. The left
Speaker 1: tackle isn't enough. You're only as strong as your weakest
Speaker 1: link in the offensive line. Right, They're gonna scheme blitzes
Speaker 1: wherever you are weak. Here's the other part. The blind
Speaker 1: side doesn't matter anymore. And the reason is because now
Speaker 1: the NFL is a game where more snaps are taken
Speaker 1: in the shotgun then under center. And I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you why that is so important. When we come back
Speaker 1: at your boy Day, Martinez Speeds, the spit and statistician,
Speaker 1: the stable genius and vocal minority on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: We had international visitors. I'm saying, I'm trying to grow
Speaker 1: my brand. You know we you know what it is.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come on back in a hot second, Danny,
Speaker 1: what do we got? We got like a minute left?
Speaker 1: Or what are we what are we doing? We're going
Speaker 1: to break? Okay, so we can go to break. Doing
Speaker 1: me a favor, Let's play a little bit of that
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Speaker 1: be drinking on a Tuesday. The only problem is it's
Speaker 1: water for me because you're gonna hear me again seven
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Speaker 1: We were having fun. It is fun on a Tuesday. Okay.
Speaker 1: We had um. I don't even know his name, Danny,
Speaker 1: I forgot it. I think his name was m Jacques.
Speaker 1: Was a Jacque. We canna find out someone let me, Yes,
Speaker 1: yes I did. I was. I was so thinking about
Speaker 1: like what could I actually ask this guy about? And
Speaker 1: I wanted to um. I wanted he had a nice
Speaker 1: little family and it was the kids at first that
Speaker 1: were waving to me. And you know, Speed's loves the kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: come on in, guys. I can see that they were
Speaker 1: definitely tourists, but it was fun. But the last thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to say about this offensive line, I think
Speaker 1: this is a big point when I get my man,
Speaker 1: my best friend forever. Hey, if Florial is here, I
Speaker 1: would love him to say what he thinks about this afterwards.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that's important and why teams
Speaker 1: are gonna have to spread resources around the offensive line
Speaker 1: is not only our defenses now not only doing the
Speaker 1: speed edge rusher, but they're scheming. Blitz is double a
Speaker 1: gap over your weak link of your offensive line. The
Speaker 1: other thing that is very very important is now only
Speaker 1: you know six snaps are taken in the shotgun. Why
Speaker 1: do they do that for the quarterback to stand there
Speaker 1: and do the whole Oh maha, you know there he's
Speaker 1: reading the mail. That's what he's doing. He's finding the mismatches.
Speaker 1: That's what good quarterbacks are doing. And what does that do?
Speaker 1: It lets them know if there is something coming from
Speaker 1: the blind side. Thus it is no longer blind so
Speaker 1: in fact, you don't need to invest there. If you
Speaker 1: got a piss poor right hard, They're just gonna find
Speaker 1: that and expose it. That's the way the NFL is.
Speaker 1: So I think it's very interesting and this is evidence listening.
Speaker 1: It was Quentin Nelson guard who went sixth overall. You know,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm saying. This is not like the
Speaker 1: left tackle automatically being a top five pick. This is
Speaker 1: not left tackle signing for huge contracts in the off season. Okay,
Speaker 1: you had Nate Soldier, but that was about it. And
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. Do I have my best friend
Speaker 1: forever with me? Is Florial there at all? He's coming here,
Speaker 1: He's coming. Did you hear what I was talking about here?
Speaker 1: This offensive line is blindside? Did It was a convoluted
Speaker 1: point because I think my man Jacques was in here
Speaker 1: at some point. But it's okay, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting. And I think, uh, sports
Speaker 1: in general are changing because as the the analytics and
Speaker 1: everything like and you were going over like how the
Speaker 1: quarterback is lining up is changing. And if that is
Speaker 1: the case, then yeah, left tackle probably would just be
Speaker 1: viewed as another offensive line position. But it is a
Speaker 1: very interesting take. Yeah, thank you very much, sir. That's
Speaker 1: what we do here, you know, we keep it so
Speaker 1: hot that we sweat steam here on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: I want to switch gears real quick and start talking
Speaker 1: about baseball. And and I asked my man Florio to
Speaker 1: to to hit me up in a second because he's
Speaker 1: the one who also told me about this next story. Okay,
Speaker 1: up there in Toronto, robertoo Zuna. Okay, he is being suspended,
Speaker 1: um right now. He's on like that kind of stowaway
Speaker 1: list for the MLB because um of domestic violence issues. Okay,
Speaker 1: and this could be long suspensions. Remember Roldis Chapman, remember
Speaker 1: Jose Reyez among others. Okay, so in Toronto, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you I think the smart money is Tyler Clippit
Speaker 1: or the final Boss sing Wong. Oh. Okay, you can
Speaker 1: go on and get those guys in Toronto because I think,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest, O, Zuna is gonna be gone
Speaker 1: for a while. Also, you got a big series um
Speaker 1: getting started Red Sox and Yankees. David Price is not
Speaker 1: going to make his Wednesday start um noztre damis also
Speaker 1: known as Mike Florio predicted that his hand would get numb,
Speaker 1: and in fact it did. I hope he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a voodoo doll of speeds down there in the fantasy
Speaker 1: Pit of misery. But watch that, Dave Price not going
Speaker 1: to make his start over the weekend. I also wanted
Speaker 1: to let people know about this. I also said this
Speaker 1: this morning on Roto Experts in the morning. Yaday A Molina,
Speaker 1: he's going to the disabled list. YadA A Melina needed
Speaker 1: to have um emergency surgery over the weekend. YadA Ya
Speaker 1: Melina needed to have emergency surgery over the weekend because
Speaker 1: he caught a foul ball in his Uh, well, let's
Speaker 1: just say he's having groin surgery. And let's just say
Speaker 1: this was like a hundred and one mile an hour
Speaker 1: fastball that gets like deflected and nails you. And it
Speaker 1: was so much that he has to have emergency surgery
Speaker 1: and is out for a month. Here at the Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: we um, you know, we raise a glass metaphorically to uh,
Speaker 1: YadA ya Malina. We hope he is okay. Um. The
Speaker 1: last thing I don't want to get into in tons
Speaker 1: of news and notes, really, Jacob Degram also going to
Speaker 1: the d L. And this is interesting because the Mets
Speaker 1: kind of flip flopped on this, Right, he was gonna
Speaker 1: make his start Monday. Then seriously, he was going to
Speaker 1: maybe start Monday but not be able to swing a bat,
Speaker 1: and Callahan like announced this in fact, like I think,
Speaker 1: on Saturday, which is absolutely ridiculous. Right, and then they
Speaker 1: go ahead and finally do the prudent thing, Mets training
Speaker 1: staff and go ahead and actually put him on the
Speaker 1: d L. Um. They say they're being overly cautious. If
Speaker 1: it's one organization that needs to be overly cautious, I do,
Speaker 1: in fact think it is the Mets based on their
Speaker 1: you know, track record of health. But the big thing
Speaker 1: that I wanted to talk about here in baseball this
Speaker 1: week listen, um, day by day. To be quite honest,
Speaker 1: if you want to give baseball, you just need to
Speaker 1: tune in and keep it locked seven and nine am
Speaker 1: or subscribe to us right hit us up on road
Speaker 1: to experts. In the morning we break it down, me
Speaker 1: and the King Scott angle bright and early in the
Speaker 1: morning we cock a doodle, do it Okay, early in
Speaker 1: the morning. Um, But I talked about Trevor Bauer and
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about Trevor Bauer again. Daniel
Speaker 1: knows down there in the fantasy pit of misery, we've
Speaker 1: been talking about Trevor Bauer for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: He had a sixty nine days of Giving where he's
Speaker 1: given away four dollars and sixty nine cents to a
Speaker 1: different organization for sixty nine days in a row. We
Speaker 1: played a Trevor Bauer rap. I do believe at some
Speaker 1: point as well, Trevor Bauer really honorary member of the
Speaker 1: stats over beat Cipher. But what I wanted to say
Speaker 1: is I don't know how I feel about him and
Speaker 1: his most recent takes. He's basically like a quasi accusing
Speaker 1: the Huston Astros of cheating, and uh, he's doing it
Speaker 1: in a very intellectual way. Trevor Bauer continues to be um,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, an interesting follow to say
Speaker 1: the least. You know. Um, he's basically saying that the
Speaker 1: Astros maybe doing something ak a doctoring the ball to
Speaker 1: increase spin rate, which is one of these deep stats
Speaker 1: that some guy's uh fantasy analysts and coaches look at
Speaker 1: fat for for pictures and with the better spin rate,
Speaker 1: and you know, they said they are incre u seeing
Speaker 1: spin rate down there in an artificial way. That's basically
Speaker 1: what Bauer was insinuating. And he said he didn't you know,
Speaker 1: he said a little bit of a shade towards the Astros,
Speaker 1: but it was also towards Major League Baseball. He was
Speaker 1: talking about applying the rule consistently because he was denied
Speaker 1: being able to use like pine tar or some glue,
Speaker 1: remember after his drone accident in the playoffs a couple
Speaker 1: of years back, right, and he wants MLB to be
Speaker 1: consistent with the rule application. You know, Bower is probably
Speaker 1: a damn demand kind of guy, right, But the Astros
Speaker 1: had no, We're not taking it lightly or happily at all,
Speaker 1: and they roasted him. Okay, um, First of all, Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman goes out and says, Yo, those World Series balls
Speaker 1: spin a little bit different, but like you wouldn't know
Speaker 1: anything about that. I think that's a nice little right.
Speaker 1: Then Lance mccolors says to him, you know, basically, jealousy
Speaker 1: is not a good look. So this is not legitimate,
Speaker 1: you know, twitter beef because we're talking about er down
Speaker 1: in eighteen. A little twitter beef, you know. And then
Speaker 1: Colin mqugh is going like, yo, imagine players can make progress.
Speaker 1: Imagine players you know, get better what we call it.
Speaker 1: And he was like coaching, you know, um, and Bauert
Speaker 1: did in fact acknowledge that Astro's pitching coach, Brent Strom
Speaker 1: is like one of the best in the business and um,
Speaker 1: you know, as great as the man that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think it's very very interesting because he may
Speaker 1: be onto something. I mean, Verlander and Morton are first
Speaker 1: and second in the American League in spin rate. Um,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole is now pitching differently and going up from
Speaker 1: striking out like eight guys per nine innings too, like
Speaker 1: thirteen guys per nine innings. They got Charlie Morton almost
Speaker 1: off the scrap heap. Think about what they were doing
Speaker 1: with all of these guys, these these um you know
Speaker 1: landsome colors, the Colin mcughs of the world. You know,
Speaker 1: they are really doing what, to be quite honest, what
Speaker 1: like the Pittsburgh Pirates were doing a few years ago,
Speaker 1: turning guys into much better starters. So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: Bauer does in fact have a point. Imagine what you
Speaker 1: could do, Imagine this deals you can get on the
Speaker 1: open market if in fact, you could, you know, do
Speaker 1: something to improve and I think it is in fact interesting. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to keep our guy, uh Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: and you know down with stats overbeat Cipher and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, on our tongues because his sixty nine days
Speaker 1: of giving continue. I think we're on like Dave Low forties,
Speaker 1: like day forty one or day forty two of that.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's pretty it's pretty interesting. I want
Speaker 1: to definitely let everyone know about that one for sure.
Speaker 1: Check it out, all right. Um. The other thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about when it comes to Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: And then you know, after the next break here in
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle, what we're gonna do is we're gonna
Speaker 1: put the fun and Functional Sports Radio. We are going
Speaker 1: to talk to my man, Mikey Florio about uh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe some some some rapping athletes. You never know. I
Speaker 1: have an interesting topic for him. I know he likes wrestling,
Speaker 1: so I have I have a wrestling story that I
Speaker 1: want to get his opinion on. Maybe my boy uh
Speaker 1: strong style might be in the chat. I want to
Speaker 1: get his opinion on that. Um. And also to be
Speaker 1: quite honest, one of the things we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: is um, you know we're gonna do to wrapping athlete.
Speaker 1: I got some things for Florio. But also listen, I
Speaker 1: went to Syracuse, Okay, go Orange, and something up there
Speaker 1: happened that I think. It's absolutely crazy, but it inspires
Speaker 1: an interesting question from me. So we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: all that. But the last baseball thing I wanted to mention.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, we've been talking about it, not only in baseball,
Speaker 1: in the NBA. It started right, you know, trust the
Speaker 1: process and big shout out to my guys that Road
Speaker 1: A Road Aware of course, you know we're walking the
Speaker 1: way a while warrior shirt, but they came out with
Speaker 1: a Road a Classic shirt. Trust the confetti that is
Speaker 1: absolutely hysterical. I don't know if you guys saw that
Speaker 1: over the weekend when the Sixers uh forced that game
Speaker 1: into overtime and the confetti rained down in Philly and
Speaker 1: there to like delay the game for overtime and then
Speaker 1: ultimately they did not win the game. So thus more
Speaker 1: of a process, you know, but trust the confetti like that.
Speaker 1: But um, that's where like the process started, I guess.
Speaker 1: And but now teams are doing this much more dramatically, right,
Speaker 1: breaking it down, investing in young talent, you know, and
Speaker 1: and it's paying off. You know, people are seeing the
Speaker 1: fruits of it. Maybe in Philly with the Sixers right now,
Speaker 1: but it's paying off in Major League Baseball. Kansas City
Speaker 1: Royals they got you know, they got to two World Series,
Speaker 1: one a World Series, Chicago Cubs won a World Series,
Speaker 1: breaking the Billy Goat of course, the Houston Astros and
Speaker 1: it worked for them, right. That is now the model,
Speaker 1: and we are seeing that teams are doing that, especially
Speaker 1: especially if you are you know, kind of a mid
Speaker 1: mid level team. Let's say you're a team is gonna
Speaker 1: get like wins. You're not the worst team, but you're
Speaker 1: not really contending for the playoffs. What do you do then?
Speaker 1: You know? And I think to be a lot honestly,
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox are an example of this. Okay, remember
Speaker 1: they use big money at one point to sign big
Speaker 1: game Jane Shields, to sign jose A bry You, to
Speaker 1: sign even like Milky Cabrera and others. Right, but really,
Speaker 1: where are they going? You know? And one of the
Speaker 1: things people say about um the process and being able
Speaker 1: to uh really break it down and do that people say, oh,
Speaker 1: the Knicks could never do that, would never work in
Speaker 1: New York. The Yankees could never do that. They have
Speaker 1: to reload, they can't rebuild, right. And one of the
Speaker 1: reasons people say this because like the fans won't come out,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and that is a problem, right
Speaker 1: if the fans don't come out. But that's part of
Speaker 1: why you can't do it in New York. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Check this out. It sounds like you can
Speaker 1: do it in Chicago. But the fans are responding in kind.
Speaker 1: And I think this is very very interesting. Last week,
Speaker 1: um Tampa Bay and the White Sox they had a
Speaker 1: game and the official attendance was ten thousand, three hundred, right,
Speaker 1: but the Tampa Bay Times reported that they were actually
Speaker 1: are you ready for this, They were actually only nine
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four people in attendance. That's right, nine
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four people in attendance. Last year the
Speaker 1: White Sox were twenty in attendance, averaging like but then
Speaker 1: like they start the year, you start the year oh
Speaker 1: and five at home, you start the year going like
Speaker 1: two or eight or three and seven whatever they do, right,
Speaker 1: So if you're a team that is like, we are
Speaker 1: going to invest in the process, right, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: go for it. And you get off to oh and
Speaker 1: five start at home? Why go? You know, I understand
Speaker 1: the better ways to spend your money, right, There's better
Speaker 1: ways to straight up spend your money. So what happens
Speaker 1: And this is still early in the season, when hope
Speaker 1: springs eternal and spring promises in the air. What happens
Speaker 1: in in August and September for these teams to raise
Speaker 1: the White Sox? Are we gonna have Are we gonna
Speaker 1: have stadiums full of like five people? Baseball is becoming
Speaker 1: a regional sport anyway, right, So what happens in these situations?
Speaker 1: I think this is very interesting And um, someone brought
Speaker 1: this up to me on Twitter. You know that's the
Speaker 1: fans response. Do do do advertisers have response? Also? Do
Speaker 1: regional cable networks have a response? Also? You know, like
Speaker 1: think about whoever the sponsor is for, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: like the Yes Analog down there in Tampa Bay, you know,
Speaker 1: like the regional sports network there in Chicago with the
Speaker 1: White Sox, like the Tribune company doing its thing whatever
Speaker 1: it is, right, Like the advertising for this you know
Speaker 1: show that the televised games used to be worth something
Speaker 1: based on the amount of viewers the audience. But if
Speaker 1: if they're not even putting a representative product on the field,
Speaker 1: why should advertisers pay the same amount of money for
Speaker 1: that ad space? You know? Can business do something in response?
Speaker 1: You know? Can you know regional cable do something in response?
Speaker 1: You know, like the product is not the same and
Speaker 1: it is different tiers, can you know? I remember at
Speaker 1: City Field, or maybe back when it was Shay you
Speaker 1: have different packages right for I think it was for
Speaker 1: the Mets, like when the Yankees were in town, when
Speaker 1: the Phillies were in town, when the Braves were in town,
Speaker 1: your ticket with like the gold package it costs X.
Speaker 1: When the Brewers were in town it costs why you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And when like the the Interleague
Speaker 1: ridiculous non you know, rival comes to town, it costs
Speaker 1: z right. Can't can't there be more? Can't there be
Speaker 1: other ways that we can um go against tanking? I
Speaker 1: know the NBA tried to do this as well with
Speaker 1: changes to like the draft lottery. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But I think business is the way to officially put
Speaker 1: pressure on teams from the idea of tanking because teams
Speaker 1: and owners, and we've talked about this before, it will
Speaker 1: come to if it can, if effect or impact the
Speaker 1: bottom line the business of the sport. We saw that
Speaker 1: with the anthem protest, and I did want to get
Speaker 1: to something we'll talk about next episode of the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about how like Colin Kaepernick was
Speaker 1: getting black balled because of his kneeling and his stands
Speaker 1: there like, okay, but what about safety, Eric Reid? What
Speaker 1: about safety? Eric Reid also won the forty Niners. Right,
Speaker 1: this is the guy who's a starting, a starting caliber
Speaker 1: safety in the NFL, right and after his rookie deal.
Speaker 1: This is the guy who I believe PFF rated as
Speaker 1: like the number thirty safety and all of football, certainly
Speaker 1: a valuable starter in the NFL, maybe sort of like
Speaker 1: Colin Kaefernick. But he's getting like no deal either. Eric
Speaker 1: Reid's brother was drafted this week, last weekend or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, you know, a couple of weeks ago. He
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a late first round pick, while
Speaker 1: him getting drafted in the third round by the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: He fell also Okay, so I think, you know, the
Speaker 1: collusion case is strong there as well. Eric Reid said,
Speaker 1: though in a quote, I stand by what I've done.
Speaker 1: My faith in God is the reason I can go
Speaker 1: to sleep and night confident I did what I was
Speaker 1: called to do. You know, He's gonna ride it out
Speaker 1: the same way Cap is. But listen, the claims that
Speaker 1: they're is not some kind of like collusion or that
Speaker 1: this doesn't affect the bottom line. So I'm saying apply
Speaker 1: it to this tanking issue as well, and it could
Speaker 1: be very, very interesting when we come back here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. What we are going to do is,
Speaker 1: like I said, we're gonna bring in my best friend forever,
Speaker 1: little Mike Florio. We're gonna talk about a couple of things.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play a new little rapping athlete. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, checking onto that poll question as well,
Speaker 1: I asked you how far up do you think Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara goes based on the mark ingram you know pe
Speaker 1: D News. We're gonna update that pole as well. People
Speaker 1: really are high on Alvin Kamara. I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: they're doing on the poll. Will bring in Florio for
Speaker 1: a little you know, fun and functional sports radio. And
Speaker 1: we'll have another rapping athlete as well. All that and more,
Speaker 1: which boy Dame Martinez speeds and spitting statistician, the Stable
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Speaker 1: as well. But this is fantasy freestyle. You know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's boy, Dane Martinez. I told you we
Speaker 1: were checking out on the pole. Right now, fifty percent
Speaker 1: of you are saying that Alvin Kamara is a top
Speaker 1: four back in PPR. I gotta tell you something. I disagree.
Speaker 1: I would still have left Bell ahead of him. I
Speaker 1: would still have Ezekiel Elliot ahead of him. I would
Speaker 1: still have Todd Gurley ahead of him, and I can
Speaker 1: make the case for either David Johnson or maybe even
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley ahead of him. I know people maybe
Speaker 1: even like a guy like Kareem Hunt in that level
Speaker 1: as well. You say not that far, but up a bit, um,
Speaker 1: And then three percent say tell us still a time share.
Speaker 1: Two percent say he'll be overused and injured fu gazy
Speaker 1: forget about it. And to be honest, when I put
Speaker 1: that pole question in there, put that option in because
Speaker 1: my man Mike Florio, one of my best friends forever, decided, like, yo,
Speaker 1: someone will make that case. And I think it's very
Speaker 1: interesting that so far people are making that case. Mikey Florio,
Speaker 1: we got two percent still thinking that Alvin Kamara may
Speaker 1: in fact be a fu Ghazy this year. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you, though, Florio, and uh, you know he's
Speaker 1: down there in the fantasy pit of misery, pull and
Speaker 1: double duty doing yeoman's work down there, um, because I
Speaker 1: know Florio likes wrestling in the w w E, and
Speaker 1: I had a question for him, did you see this? Florio.
Speaker 1: Glenn Jacobs, also known as Kane the Big Red Machine Um,
Speaker 1: won the Republican nomination for Knox County mayor in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Are you aware of this? Yeah, it's gonna be super
Speaker 1: weird if he becomes a mayor of the town. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the sitting mayor. Like this is different. You know,
Speaker 1: this is different than like, you know, Jesse the Body
Speaker 1: Ventura or something like this. You know, like, there is
Speaker 1: an election. He is facing Linda head There, it is, there,
Speaker 1: it is. He is facing Linda Hainey in the election
Speaker 1: for this mayor in on August two. Um, Like, Kane
Speaker 1: is still kind of like around, right, He's not like
Speaker 1: hot in the championship scene or anything, but he's still
Speaker 1: like a round. What if he's sitting mayor? Is like,
Speaker 1: will he still be employed by the day? He would
Speaker 1: have to give it up, right, he'd have to like
Speaker 1: walk away. Would they like bury him in a casket
Speaker 1: or something? Yeah, I'd imagine he'd have to give it up.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I've seen Kane in
Speaker 1: a wrestling like show. I think it it's been a
Speaker 1: few months now, So I guess he's taking this pretty seriously.
Speaker 1: But hey, I guess if he loses, he can always
Speaker 1: go back put the mask on and become the demon again. Yes,
Speaker 1: so check this out. Though he's not the only one.
Speaker 1: Did you know there is another? I guess not really active,
Speaker 1: but definitely in the w w CN who's gonna be
Speaker 1: running for mayor? This is a much bigger place, not
Speaker 1: like a Tennessee county. And I think it's funny that
Speaker 1: Knox County gets a mayor. Don't cities get mayors instead
Speaker 1: of counties? I don't know, but I digress. But do
Speaker 1: you know who's running for the mayor of Houston in
Speaker 1: UH in the next election? Sideticle Florial? I do not
Speaker 1: do not. I would guess Mark Henry because I know
Speaker 1: he's from Texas close, but no um book or t
Speaker 1: really yeah, yeah, but he's already announced this. He's apparently
Speaker 1: already announced that he's gonna launch a campaign for Houston
Speaker 1: mayor in two thousand nineteen. In the fantasy pit of misery.
Speaker 1: You can do it, you know, google it for sure.
Speaker 1: But the real question I want to ask you guys
Speaker 1: both and we put the fun and functional sports Radio
Speaker 1: and find out what the status over beat Cipher maybe
Speaker 1: in the chat thinks is you know who am on
Speaker 1: us in the fantasy sports network? Do you think could
Speaker 1: hold office? You know Okay, that's a good that that's
Speaker 1: good because I remember when like the britishaw Ferguson retired
Speaker 1: there like, oh he could be in politics, you know,
Speaker 1: and they always talk about that, you know. So that
Speaker 1: got me thinking about this. You say non though, because
Speaker 1: we have like the adult totem Pole and we and
Speaker 1: we think about this, But you think Nondo could. I
Speaker 1: I think I think Greg Susman would most want a
Speaker 1: career in politics now, but I don't think, but I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think Nando is just so personable they
Speaker 1: could pull it off a little bit better. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that if you're down there in the you know,
Speaker 1: in the chat and hey, reality I mean not that
Speaker 1: we're a reality show, but I heard one time that
Speaker 1: this reality star kind of ran for office and one really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard any thing about that.
Speaker 1: You're fired. Yeah that's crazy. I did not know about that.
Speaker 1: But um, thanks for thanks for all that, Floria. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know if you knew about the cana now.
Speaker 1: To be quite honest, when I'm talking with Jake Zeally
Speaker 1: an hour day, he's into the Uh he's into the
Speaker 1: w W a little bit too, huh. Oh, he's a
Speaker 1: bigger fan than I am. All Right, so I'll have
Speaker 1: to ask him about I'll have to ask him about this.
Speaker 1: But check this out. All right, we have another rapping
Speaker 1: athlete as we put the fun in Functional sports radio.
Speaker 1: And to be quite honest, I'm celebrating here the NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating the uh the sweep that the kill Even
Speaker 1: Clavaliers had, even though this guy is not on the
Speaker 1: Calves anymore than he's with the Sacramento Kings, a former
Speaker 1: calve though, and we're stepping our game up. Okay, because
Speaker 1: I was making some jokes about some of the other
Speaker 1: rapping athletes, this guy is known as one of the
Speaker 1: better rapping athletes, right Florio. I mean we're talking about
Speaker 1: Imon Schumpert, former Cleveland Cavalier, former New York Nick This
Speaker 1: guy is kind of well regarded. I'm saving the most
Speaker 1: highly regarded NBA player for maybe next week's episode. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, Mr not quarter Nickel, but dollar um but
Speaker 1: Iman Shumpertuh. You were saying, oh, yeah, he's dope. He
Speaker 1: put out a bunch of stuff, so you actually have
Speaker 1: understood him as a rapper before, Right before I brought
Speaker 1: this out, I don't know where he is. I'm here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard him back when he was with the Knicks.
Speaker 1: He did a little he released, like a mix tape
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, yeah, an athlete, this is pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right, So okay, we already now, Mike Florio says,
Speaker 1: for an athlete, this is pretty good. So what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is we're gonna play. He went on folk
Speaker 1: Master Flex. My boy, Chris Bavona, the manimal likes to
Speaker 1: drop the bomb on it, and that's because of the
Speaker 1: fulk Master Flex. He did a freestyle on funk Flex. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: let's hear a little bit of Imon Schumpert here now
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy freestyle down he'd only one, got one.
Speaker 1: You're p cho fit. Then they used you for the spotlight.
Speaker 1: You keep your enemies close. Ain't no closure when it's
Speaker 1: cop flights. Well, I'm on the ladder. You never con
Speaker 1: climb with guns. You'll never survive, words, will never suffice.
Speaker 1: Who do this better than you? Ain't ded ship with
Speaker 1: the cuffs on. This ain't the subject to touch on.
Speaker 1: This ain't the lane you should drive in. Find you
Speaker 1: a drive through, brother, This bat for base. You won't
Speaker 1: slide through brother. I never heard Jay you don't know
Speaker 1: sway in the morning with his hands in the hoodiey'all
Speaker 1: got nothing to say in the morning. I dropped post ninety.
Speaker 1: When I did, they ignored it, so I went back
Speaker 1: to the dock. But now I'm glowed they'll support it. Right,
Speaker 1: I could afford it. I finally got me some jervy.
Speaker 1: But I ain't paying a dime. Wh y'all shine a
Speaker 1: cost the fortune. I've been in the sweats with white
Speaker 1: guys in the office wearing three piece suits just to
Speaker 1: chop about the profits, basing new decisions like I'm mopping
Speaker 1: out of options, trying to tread the internet without reading
Speaker 1: all this gossip. But I do, though, and they tried
Speaker 1: it soon. Whoa there? You a little iman shumper? Is
Speaker 1: fitting that hot fire. I gotta tell you, Danny, we've
Speaker 1: been breaking down the rapping athletes. Here's what I gotta say.
Speaker 1: We started with a lot of what you and I
Speaker 1: and Bavona affectionately called that lazy rap. You know that
Speaker 1: like southern drawl. I'm a boy from New York, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't get a twisted I love all of the art
Speaker 1: forms out there, all five l ments of hip hop,
Speaker 1: you know, in all different kinds of expression. But I
Speaker 1: gotta give it to someone with a kind of New
Speaker 1: York pace, in the New York flow. I am after
Speaker 1: roll Spece. It's been in Statistician and that's something that
Speaker 1: I thought was the strength of Imon Schumpert. He's he's
Speaker 1: kind of flow ridding over the beat. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: more a different cadence than some of that, uh like
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley Levy on Bell rap. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? Absolutely, I I like this.
Speaker 1: We liked it a lot. Okay, Um, listen, I mean
Speaker 1: you are you don't always have strong feelings about about
Speaker 1: some of the raps that we hear. Okay, So but
Speaker 1: you you sound like, so where did she go? I
Speaker 1: mean where does uh? Okay? Because listen, We've got like
Speaker 1: remember Marvin Bailey doing that relevant rap about the cops.
Speaker 1: Remember we had my boy Julian Turner doing the x
Speaker 1: Y life about like the cellular mitosis. Remember that. Um,
Speaker 1: we had our boy Kenneth Cashman dropping um, you know,
Speaker 1: fantasy lyrics, rhodo rhyme, shout out to Kenneth Cashman. We
Speaker 1: had our boy young cos the trap game. My extros.
Speaker 1: These are all not bad either. So where does Imon
Speaker 1: Shrumpert fit in for you? That's really it's really tough
Speaker 1: now because now we've we've heard bad ones and now
Speaker 1: we're getting that we're getting better, all right, So he
Speaker 1: goes on the upper echelon. Definitely, he goes in the
Speaker 1: upper echelon, and uh, maybe I'm gonna get my man
Speaker 1: the King Scott Engles take on this, you know, the
Speaker 1: next time it comes up, because he came up with
Speaker 1: the different kind of music we were playing on Rhoto
Speaker 1: Experts this morning. But one other piece that I wanted
Speaker 1: to say on this with the rapping athletes, Danny one
Speaker 1: of the rapping athletes that we had previously. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remembers. It was one of the first
Speaker 1: ones we had to be quite honest the way you
Speaker 1: described it, you know, when we were still in kind
Speaker 1: of the lower parts of the ranking, shall we say,
Speaker 1: and we had a J. Francis on at one point
Speaker 1: he was alignment for the Washington football team, and we
Speaker 1: had him on his song and we kind of said
Speaker 1: it was one of those like you know, more that
Speaker 1: that that slower kind of drawl, shall we say that
Speaker 1: lazy rat, you know, and uh, but he's in the news.
Speaker 1: He's in the news again. A J. Francis has left
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. He signed with the New York
Speaker 1: Football Giants, right, but he's got that lyricism. You know,
Speaker 1: part of being a rapper is getting after it, right
Speaker 1: and and and and talking about how good you are
Speaker 1: and insulting other people and blah blah blah. And he
Speaker 1: keeps the barbs going to his former team, the Washington
Speaker 1: football team on Instagram. You're talking about like when when
Speaker 1: the team signs you actually watched the film, But then
Speaker 1: he ends it and this is what I wanted to mention,
Speaker 1: hashtag your logo is racist. And I think that was interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, he's talking about the Washington football team shouting
Speaker 1: them out hashtag your logo is racist right after it leaves,
Speaker 1: I leave that something kind of like a battle rapper
Speaker 1: would do. We did, in fact have A. J. Francis
Speaker 1: on as one of our rapping athletes before. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that, though, Danny? I mean, my man
Speaker 1: is like, you know, now that he is free of
Speaker 1: the oppression of the naming of the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: he's going after them on I g that's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. Um, I feel like I would
Speaker 1: do the same thing if I left you know what
Speaker 1: I was scoring right, Just let me leave that. They
Speaker 1: are real quick. Let me leave that there real quick.
Speaker 1: I like that angle on it, Danny, and I like
Speaker 1: what you guys got going on. I'm popping off. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep me posted. I'm gonna ask Bvona
Speaker 1: about the Avengers. Uh tomorrow morning. You can catch me
Speaker 1: on Rhoto Experts in the morning with Scott Angle with
Speaker 1: Jake Seely. What'll be doing this fantasy freestyle thing. You
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Speaker 1: The last thing I wanted to tell you before we
Speaker 1: get out of here on the Fantasy Freestyle. You know,
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the show that I went to Syracuse,
Speaker 1: right new house represent you know what it is? Um
Speaker 1: up there in central New York. One of what I
Speaker 1: think is kind of the worst things I've ever heard
Speaker 1: about related to sports. Um. You know, con artists, con
Speaker 1: art This is a mix of con artists and stupid,
Speaker 1: criminal and and horrible and just horrible stuff. Horrible stuff,
Speaker 1: the real reason we may need to make America great again. Um.
Speaker 1: Up in Port Byron, New York, there was the la
Speaker 1: France family, right, uh, Joline la France, Martin LaFrance and
Speaker 1: c J. LaFrance, the son c J. Okay Um unfortunately
Speaker 1: came out that c J the kid was battling Hodgkins
Speaker 1: la Foma. Right to the family sets up a go
Speaker 1: fund me page. They raised just over three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: okay for the medical cause because this kid has lamp foma. Right.
Speaker 1: They also arranged its kind of like this make a
Speaker 1: wish kind of thing, you know, like, hey, what do
Speaker 1: you want to do? You see, like when the kid
Speaker 1: is at like the spring practice game or whatever, they
Speaker 1: give the kid the ball and you know, like runs
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and it really makes everyone's day. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a you know, it's a moment that makes
Speaker 1: everybody happy, you know, get all emotional and well up
Speaker 1: with feeling. Well, they did that with Syracuse football team. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's nine years old. He met players, he was in
Speaker 1: practice doing all that. He even bonded because um director
Speaker 1: of players development for the ques Um he was a
Speaker 1: two time cancer survivor. Roy wickis right, so he's like
Speaker 1: bonding and all this stuff is beautiful. But then check
Speaker 1: this out, Danny. Unfortunately, though, after a four month investigation
Speaker 1: that was spurred on by a tip, the Sheriff's office
Speaker 1: in this county concluded conclusively that unfortunately c J. Never
Speaker 1: had cancer, just never had cancer. They raised over three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, they got him to go, they arranged for
Speaker 1: him to go to Syracuse practice. Yeah, he never had cancer.
Speaker 1: So Martin and Jeline, their parents, are charged with scheming
Speaker 1: to defraud and endangering the welfare a child. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be arranged in court on May six. Things. Is this
Speaker 1: not the worst thing you've ever heard of in your life?
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think it absolutely is. It
Speaker 1: is right. It's absolutely crazy and it makes me wonder unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like what happens with all these other go funds after
Speaker 1: disasters and stuff. You know, Um, after these shootings that happened,
Speaker 1: or after these earthquakes that happened, or after these hurricanes
Speaker 1: that happened. I was out here telling everybody, Um, my boy,
Speaker 1: Kenna Cashman had a go fund me page. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: I told you about my man to binch a green
Speaker 1: go down there in Mexico City after the earthquake, you know, like,
Speaker 1: but to see that people are trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: you take advantage of it in this way. I think
Speaker 1: it's real sad. I think it's really And the fact
Speaker 1: that my Alma Mata, you know, the orange was brought
Speaker 1: into this, you know, I I wanted to share it,
Speaker 1: but I think it was the absolute, you know, worst
Speaker 1: thing I have seen in sports in a long long time.
Speaker 1: So I definitely wanted to share that with you guy.
Speaker 1: But just remember big news here, both on the football
Speaker 1: side and on the baseball side. On the baseball side,
Speaker 1: the Mets have traded Matt Harvey to the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 1: They get Devin Mezzerocco back which I think Listen is
Speaker 1: a better return than you may have expected. Could maybe
Speaker 1: even push Darno if he is healthy, if the both
Speaker 1: of them are healthy. And then over on the football side,
Speaker 1: the biggest pieces remember mark Ingram Saints running back has
Speaker 1: been suspended for four games of the upcoming two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen NFL and fantasy football season. That certainly downgrades
Speaker 1: him down into the RB two, if not the low
Speaker 1: end r B two range. And the more intriguing question
Speaker 1: for me is what this means for Alvin Kamara. He
Speaker 1: was already a first round potential talent. I personally have
Speaker 1: him around RB six, seven eight. I know others who
Speaker 1: have them inside their top four. And right now we
Speaker 1: go to the poll and forty nine percent of you,
Speaker 1: half of you believe that in PPR formats, he is
Speaker 1: now a top four back. He's not one of my
Speaker 1: top four backs, but I do understand it. I think
Speaker 1: he is a legit first rounder. Now. I was worried
Speaker 1: about the time shares the committees that we talk about,
Speaker 1: although I know my man, the King Scott Angle would
Speaker 1: not allow me or like me to use that word
Speaker 1: to describe it before the percent of you do. In fact,
Speaker 1: think he is a top four back in PPR because
Speaker 1: of this news. That about does it for me. Keep
Speaker 1: it locked all week long. Roto experts in the morning,
Speaker 1: seven and nine am. Catch me at spitting speed. You
Speaker 1: could ask me questions every morning. Catch my man Danny
Speaker 1: Otto down there on popping Off, Catch my man Mike
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