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Speaker 1: tonight in Major League Baseball to try and win that cash. Also,
Speaker 1: we have a Tim Tebow siding. There is Tim Tebow news. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know we're gonna bring it to you here
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Freestyle. Got a little hint for you.
Speaker 1: He was promoted, So we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: that as well as I give you my spotlight on
Speaker 1: a different NFL team each day. Today we keep it
Speaker 1: moving and finish up the a f C North. We
Speaker 1: talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. They have the second highest
Speaker 1: wind total in the a f C according to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Are they a threat to the Patriots? Should they be
Speaker 1: the high the second highest over under tootal in the
Speaker 1: a f C. We will get into that, and as
Speaker 1: you know, we will continue with our greatest of all
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Speaker 1: in the football region. It's a five twelve matchup, so
Speaker 1: just like March Madness. Maybe that is where the upset
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Speaker 1: We also have another one seed in action in the
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Speaker 1: to do. Let's start it off looking at news around
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Last night, stud third baseman for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs, Chris Bryant in US, and he rolled his
Speaker 1: ankle on third base, not while playing third base, physically
Speaker 1: on third base catching a pop up. They say he
Speaker 1: thinks he can avoid the disabled lists, but he might
Speaker 1: miss sometime. Rangers starting pitcher earlier today, Andrew Cashner was
Speaker 1: hit by a broken bat Okay, a broken back kind
Speaker 1: of sawed off, helicoptered and hit him in the forearm
Speaker 1: in that game against the Indians earlier today. They are
Speaker 1: saying they think he avoided catastrophe and he should be
Speaker 1: okay to make his next start. Uh. The Atlanta Braves
Speaker 1: have decided that enough is enough with bar Tolo Cologne
Speaker 1: and they have designated him for assignment. Bartolo Cologne in
Speaker 1: thirteen starts had a ballooned up eight point one four
Speaker 1: e r A, but now again, word after he was
Speaker 1: d f ade that former team that New York Mets
Speaker 1: might be interested in continuing to smell a little bit
Speaker 1: of that bar Tolo cologne. The Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher
Speaker 1: Chase Anderson. He's been sent to the d L with
Speaker 1: an oblique strain, and right now it's important to know
Speaker 1: if you are sent to the d L at this point,
Speaker 1: you are in essence out through the All Star break.
Speaker 1: There are only ten days left in the official first
Speaker 1: half of the season. Zach Britton, the stud closer for
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. He threw a scoreless rehabening. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have him back on the mound on Friday, and it
Speaker 1: looks like he is on track to return right after
Speaker 1: Independence Day on July five. The last thing I'll let
Speaker 1: you know here is that the Yankees are making some moves.
Speaker 1: It looks like Tyler Austin is likely headed to the
Speaker 1: d L. They have repurchased the contract of first baseman
Speaker 1: Chris Carter. We'll see how many times he strikes out
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. All right, let's keep
Speaker 1: him moving here. On Fantasy Freestop last night last night,
Speaker 1: the high end starters were Steven Stroudsburg and you Darvish Stroudsburg. Boy,
Speaker 1: did he deliver thirteen strikeouts in seven innings, only given
Speaker 1: up two runs. However, I told you that if you
Speaker 1: wanted a nice little sp two or if you wanted
Speaker 1: to go off the beaten path. The guy I told
Speaker 1: you last night was Toronto blue Jay's stud Marcus Stroman.
Speaker 1: He was only four hundred last night against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: I told you that he had a quality start every
Speaker 1: time he went out at home since the middle of April,
Speaker 1: and last night was no different. He gave you seven
Speaker 1: and two thirds of scoreless baseball. He struck out eight
Speaker 1: as the blue Jay's beat the Orioles four to nothing.
Speaker 1: I also told you about Zack Godley against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He went seven innings, he struck out seven as well
Speaker 1: a k per nine. He did, however, give up three runs.
Speaker 1: Did not get the win. But that's not a horrible
Speaker 1: out in getting you seven k's in seven innings. So
Speaker 1: let's look at tonight. Tonight there are eight games on
Speaker 1: the night slate and one of them has Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 1: on it. Okay, so Clayton Kershaw, with his twelve thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred price he was moved up a day because
Speaker 1: Brandon McCarthy is out with an injury. Listen, this is
Speaker 1: the obvious play. I am never gonna say that Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw is a bad person to go with. UM. Sure
Speaker 1: you know, but you don't be. You don't need to
Speaker 1: listen to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network to know that
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw is good at baseball. You also have a
Speaker 1: chrisch Archer today. Chris Archer's going at ten thousand, four
Speaker 1: hundred on FanDuel. This is a guy who in his
Speaker 1: last six starts has pretty much been alternating between like
Speaker 1: only giving up two runs, given up four runs, only
Speaker 1: giving up two runs, given up four runs. Okay, However,
Speaker 1: he has had at least seven strikeouts and six of
Speaker 1: his last seven starts. I like that tonight he's well
Speaker 1: worth the ten thousand, four hundred on FanDuel. However, if
Speaker 1: you want to go a little bit different, I submit
Speaker 1: to you, Hi May Garcia of the Atlanta Braves. He
Speaker 1: is all the way down at seventies seven hundred on FanDuel.
Speaker 1: We're talking about five thousand dollars less than Clayton Kershaw. Tonight.
Speaker 1: I make Garcia is pitching at San Diego against the Padres.
Speaker 1: The Padres right now, big shout out to the Unicorns
Speaker 1: out there in San Diego. They have the worst run
Speaker 1: total in Major League Baseball. The Padres have only scored
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty one runs all season long. I
Speaker 1: like Harmmade Garcia tonight at Petco Park against the Padres.
Speaker 1: Now listen, this is also a great park shift. Remember
Speaker 1: sun Trust has been playing with a crazy power alley
Speaker 1: to right center field, and he goes away from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: goes to San Diego with a huge, cavernous park. I
Speaker 1: think it sets up nicely for Hi Garcia tonight in
Speaker 1: San Diego. Remember five thousand dollars cheaper than Clayton Kershaw. Okay.
Speaker 1: The next thing I want to tell you though, I
Speaker 1: have Tim Tebow news, okay, and I mean when Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow does anything, we gotta talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow. Um. Check this out. Timmy Tebow has played
Speaker 1: in sixty four games so far in Low A Ball
Speaker 1: and he had a sixty o p s. If you
Speaker 1: don't know, that's not that good. You know you're looking
Speaker 1: for op s is you know, with your fantasy guys
Speaker 1: and in your season long as you're seeing guys you
Speaker 1: know with eight hundred nine h ops that's what you're
Speaker 1: really looking for on on base percentage, plus you're slugging percentage. Okay,
Speaker 1: guys like Aaron Judge or above a thousand at eleven hundred,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna see that sustainable. But six is certainly
Speaker 1: not something to write home about. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: He got promoted. He got promoted. He's now in High
Speaker 1: A Ball. He's at Port St. Lucy and uh, he
Speaker 1: had his first game the other night at this new
Speaker 1: level at High A Ball. You know what he did
Speaker 1: in his first game. He went yard. He hit a
Speaker 1: home run that is now his fourth home run of
Speaker 1: the season combined with Low A and High A. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna wind up getting promoted all the
Speaker 1: way up to the Mets this season. But I will
Speaker 1: say this, if they decide to sell off all their parts,
Speaker 1: you know, there's definitely the potential they sell as Drubal Cabrera,
Speaker 1: they wind up trading a guy like Ja Bluce. I
Speaker 1: think a guy like Addison Read could also be moved
Speaker 1: for the Mets. Maybe another reason why they might be
Speaker 1: interested in Bartolo Colognas because they know they're gonna ship
Speaker 1: off as much as they can. Also, maybe Curtis Granderson
Speaker 1: could be on the move. If that happens and the
Speaker 1: Mets wave the white flag and they need to put
Speaker 1: butts in the seats in city field after the summer
Speaker 1: is over, don't get it twisted. You might see Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow in Queens. The other note, that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, Tim Tebow has now hit four home runs
Speaker 1: in professional baseball this season. If you remember, all the
Speaker 1: way back to nine, there was another kind of like
Speaker 1: epic uh you know, athlete, and that was Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: who had his sware into baseball in all season long,
Speaker 1: he only hit three home runs. Now, granted he was
Speaker 1: in Double A, not High A or low A ball,
Speaker 1: but Tim Tebow has now officially passed Michael Jordan's on
Speaker 1: the all time home run list. So I think that
Speaker 1: is pretty interesting. That's what we do here on Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: We mix giving you the fun and functional sports radio
Speaker 1: along with what you need to win your leagues and
Speaker 1: win that cash. One of the things, though you may
Speaker 1: have heard recently, is that you know this, this is
Speaker 1: this possible merger right between Draft Kings and Fan Duel,
Speaker 1: But we don't know if that's actually gonna happen. There
Speaker 1: is another there is another kind of obstacle to it.
Speaker 1: Right now, Um, the FTC is saying that if they did,
Speaker 1: in fact merge, they would be a monopoly in the
Speaker 1: daily Fantasy injury industry. And you're right, uh FanDuel and
Speaker 1: Draft Kings together they make up about nine of it.
Speaker 1: But is the industry DFS or is the industry all
Speaker 1: of fantasy because a lot of people believe that the
Speaker 1: DFS is actually not a meaningful substitute for you know,
Speaker 1: like paid uh season long leagues. You know, like these
Speaker 1: are not the same thing. They're kind of like oil
Speaker 1: and water. It's a different it's a different way of
Speaker 1: going about it. And also listen, DFS right now is
Speaker 1: legal in twelve states. Remember we talked about this how
Speaker 1: Vermont was the last state to legalize Daily Fantasy Stay tuned, Okay,
Speaker 1: because fan duel and DraftKings, between their ad budgets going
Speaker 1: after each other, between the legal fees that they are
Speaker 1: both paying, I think ultimately this is gonna happen. You
Speaker 1: remember Speeds, the spitting statistician has said sports gambling is
Speaker 1: going to be legalized. There's just too much money in it.
Speaker 1: And these sports leagues right now, especially the NFL, are
Speaker 1: realizing that they will maintain engagement, maintain viewership. Remember those
Speaker 1: ratings went down, so with the fact that maybe we
Speaker 1: can get more eyes to the set if we do
Speaker 1: legalize this. I don't care about these blocks that's happening
Speaker 1: by the FTC or what happens. This is going to happen.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. You heard it from speeds
Speaker 1: and spitting statistician. When we come back, though, we're gonna
Speaker 1: turn our spotlight to the Pittsburgh Steelers. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of fantasy goodness in that lineup, Donnie Burns and
Speaker 1: day Mark Tenas. We're gonna break it down here on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. As the beat drops. You don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. We're dropping stats over beats here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on me Boy, Dane Martinez holding you down
Speaker 1: with Donnie Burns, the love Doctor, keeping it so hot
Speaker 1: that we sweats teamed yo. He gave you a little
Speaker 1: bit of overnight celebrity by twist Um when we were
Speaker 1: coming out of break Twister. Maybe the only guy on
Speaker 1: the radio that can talk faster than the spitting statistician.
Speaker 1: But let's get into the cipher right now. News and
Speaker 1: notes around the NFL. Like I said, it is a
Speaker 1: downtime in the NFL. The only news that I have
Speaker 1: for you is that Broncos or new Broncos run back
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles is saying that he is able to now
Speaker 1: do everything that he feels normal. He is even cutting
Speaker 1: in practice that is usually the last hurdle for someone
Speaker 1: coming back from a knee injury. He says that he
Speaker 1: feels good. Remember, he's gonna be pushing guys like c
Speaker 1: j Anson and Davante Booker for carries and for touches
Speaker 1: in that Denver offense. I, however, I am concerned about
Speaker 1: that Denver offense. Okay, I love me some Damarius Thomas
Speaker 1: and some Emmanuel Sanders. That's not the problem. The problem
Speaker 1: is these guys do not know who they're starting quarterback
Speaker 1: is gonna be? Is it gonna be Paxton Lynch, is
Speaker 1: gonna be Trevor Simeon. But the issue, in my opinion, honestly,
Speaker 1: they have Donald Stevenson as their left tackle. Okay, and
Speaker 1: uh in the a f C West, they each week
Speaker 1: are gonna be going up against guys like Joey Boatsa
Speaker 1: on the Chargers justin Houston. In Kansas City, it would
Speaker 1: DeFord as well. And oh, a little guy named Khalio
Speaker 1: Mack when they play the Raiders. You need to have
Speaker 1: that left tackle spot a little bit more solidified. And
Speaker 1: Stevenson is no good. He is blunt, guts trash to me.
Speaker 1: And so that puts whether it's Paxton Lynch or Trevor
Speaker 1: Simeon in danger when we do our little spotlights on
Speaker 1: team by team. When I get to the a f
Speaker 1: C West, I'm telling you right now, I think the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos are the last place team in the a
Speaker 1: f C West, But from now we are still in
Speaker 1: the a f C North. Earlier this week, we talked Ravens,
Speaker 1: we talked Bengals, we talked Cleveland. Brown to Donnie Burns
Speaker 1: and myself think will no longer be a laughing stock.
Speaker 1: We think we're taking the over on their four wind projection.
Speaker 1: They will not be the worst team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They are building something and may take a little while,
Speaker 1: but you know, the laughing stock could be reserved here
Speaker 1: in New York instead of in Cleveland. But we finished
Speaker 1: the a f C North today with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers have the second highest wind total in
Speaker 1: the a f C in terms of the over unders
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Vegas thinks that they're over under is ten
Speaker 1: and a half winds. I gotta tell you about the
Speaker 1: Steelers last year. Last year, I was on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Steelers were my pick to represent the
Speaker 1: a f C in the Super Bowl. I loved the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened though. Ben Roethlisberger is going to miss time.
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger consistently gets hurt. We all talk about how
Speaker 1: tough he is, how country strong he is, how much
Speaker 1: of a leader he is. There's some other things in
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's past that we don't want to get into
Speaker 1: right now that may say that he's not a leader.
Speaker 1: But regardless, Okay, here's the thing though, even when he
Speaker 1: was in last year, he took a step back. He
Speaker 1: regressed a little bit. I'm not sure how much Big
Speaker 1: Ben has in the tank if you want, the gods
Speaker 1: on his truth and that goes for that entire class.
Speaker 1: Like with him, Eli Eli regressed a bunch last year.
Speaker 1: These are guys that are entering their mid to late thirties,
Speaker 1: and that is you know, that is when sometimes it
Speaker 1: falls off a cliff. Here's the other thing, though, when
Speaker 1: we talk about the Killer Bees, Ben Roethlisberger, Levian bell An,
Speaker 1: Tonio Brown, these are guys that honestly have only been
Speaker 1: together for fifty percent of the weeks since Levian came
Speaker 1: onto this team. Now at this point, what like four
Speaker 1: years ago, they have only actually played together half of
Speaker 1: the time in those games, and when those games are
Speaker 1: happening to be in Hines Field. This is an offense
Speaker 1: that could be the most explosive offense in all of football.
Speaker 1: I give you that. However, I don't think Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: is going to stay healthy. And because of that reason,
Speaker 1: I agree with my man Corey Parts in the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Executive he has Ben Roethlisberger as his fifteenth ranked quarterback
Speaker 1: this year. If you tell me he plays sixteen games,
Speaker 1: I'll show you a top ten quarterback. If you tell
Speaker 1: me he plays sixteen games, I'll show you a team
Speaker 1: that likely would get a first round by in the
Speaker 1: A f C playoffs. Here's the thing I don't think
Speaker 1: at is going to happen, and I'm down on Big
Speaker 1: Ben this year. I'm fading him. I think he's a
Speaker 1: fool gazzy. I think he's someone you need to forget about. However,
Speaker 1: when we talk about the running back position, you got
Speaker 1: my man, Levan Bell. Call me on my Bell phone.
Speaker 1: Levan Bell is, in my opinion, the number one not
Speaker 1: running back, the number one player in fantasy football for
Speaker 1: the year two thousand seventeen. This is a guy. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now. He will get two thousand scrimmage yards.
Speaker 1: Here's another guy I'm telling you right now. He could
Speaker 1: be a wide receiver in the NFL. Right now, he's
Speaker 1: gonna catch seventy balls in my opinion, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: I don't know, twelve touchdowns. In my opinion, he is
Speaker 1: a joy to watch. We talk about his patient style
Speaker 1: finding holes. You know he's also doing that rap thing, okay,
Speaker 1: and we know about that. We know Juice has got bars.
Speaker 1: We Juice is trying to go to prom with young ladies.
Speaker 1: I love me some lady on Bell. I think if
Speaker 1: you have him as the number one overall pick, if
Speaker 1: you have the number one pick in your draft, I say,
Speaker 1: do not get David Johnson. Do not go Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: The right answer, in my opinion is lady on Bell.
Speaker 1: And if you want to know who I think the
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in the game is, Antonio Brown?
Speaker 1: Is that man? Okay? I think what you have here
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh is white out one RB one that is incredible.
Speaker 1: The rest of it, I'm a little skeptical, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know if Big Ben stays healthy. The second wide
Speaker 1: receiver on this roster mark Tavis Bryant. This is a
Speaker 1: guy who has the skill to pay the bills. Okay,
Speaker 1: my man can do big things. The only problem is
Speaker 1: I don't trust him. I don't trust him to not
Speaker 1: only play sixteen games, I don't trust him to act
Speaker 1: right for sixteen games. If you remember the NFL Draft
Speaker 1: when the Steelers drafted Juju Smith Schuster, who I know,
Speaker 1: my and Donnie Burns wants to talk about. Not hot second,
Speaker 1: it was Martevis Brian, who had just come back from
Speaker 1: a year's suspension, Who's talking about how Juju is really
Speaker 1: gonna be replacing Eli Rodgers in essence starting beef with
Speaker 1: another teammate, to the point where Mike Tomlin had to
Speaker 1: actually interject and tell everybody to play nice. I think
Speaker 1: that is a problem. I don't think Martavis Briant has
Speaker 1: shown much maturity. If he plays in all these games,
Speaker 1: he will be the wide receiver too for that team,
Speaker 1: and he will be a viable fantasy option. The problem
Speaker 1: is I can't trust him. I can't trust Briant, and
Speaker 1: ultimately I can't trust Big Ben Roethlisberger. I do think
Speaker 1: Landry Jones will start some games. However, However, the schedule
Speaker 1: sets up really nicely for the Pittsburgh Steelers this year. Okay,
Speaker 1: remember they have the NFC North in the crossover. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other d NFC division they played, They get the
Speaker 1: two best teams in that division in my opinion, at home,
Speaker 1: they get Green Bay at home, they get Men Soda.
Speaker 1: At home. They have to go on the road to Chicago,
Speaker 1: No big deal. They have to go to Detroit, no
Speaker 1: big deal. If they have to go to lambeau Field
Speaker 1: late in the season, that might have been a problem,
Speaker 1: but no, they get to host the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Same thing happens with some of their a f C
Speaker 1: rivals that they have to play. They play the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots this year. They get him at home, the
Speaker 1: team they have to go see and I remember the
Speaker 1: way they make the schedule is the Steelers will have
Speaker 1: to play all the other first place teams in all
Speaker 1: the other divisions. Okay, so that's Houston, that's New England,
Speaker 1: that's Kansas City. They get to host the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: So this all falls in line where I think the
Speaker 1: schedule is pretty good for them. Put me put a
Speaker 1: gun to my head with an over under of ten
Speaker 1: and a half, I'd say this is not one to bet.
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers will finish ten and six, eleven
Speaker 1: and five. I think this is definitely a playoff team.
Speaker 1: But I just can't count on Big Ben. Donnie Burns.
Speaker 1: I know we were talking about this a little bit.
Speaker 1: You love Juju Smith Shoestar. I'd love to hear your
Speaker 1: take on him. And what do you think about a
Speaker 1: guy like Big Ben? Are you gonna invest draft capital
Speaker 1: in a guy who really has not played sixteen games
Speaker 1: in a long time. Yeah. So here's my take on
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Super fun team to watch, especially when the
Speaker 1: Triple Bees are all playing. You kind of figure going
Speaker 1: into each season that one of them is not going
Speaker 1: to be healthy. Well, Lean hasn't got suspended for the
Speaker 1: weed just yet. So maybe here's my take on you
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of talk on and Juju as well.
Speaker 1: Um So in NFFC best ball, I actually took big
Speaker 1: Ben uh in terms of you know, I already had
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. I was looking for another, you know, gunslinger
Speaker 1: who doesn't take crazy chances of vet so I like
Speaker 1: him if there will be a two or three week
Speaker 1: streak when he has where he's gonna touchdowns exactly, So
Speaker 1: I hear I like that. But season long, you know
Speaker 1: that you can't really rely on him, like if you
Speaker 1: can't rely on any of them. Um, you know, you
Speaker 1: will look to see a lot of running backs taking
Speaker 1: you know, slowly happened, but you mentioned Levian's kind of
Speaker 1: he waits for those holes to open. You're just see
Speaker 1: a lot of running backs start to do that because
Speaker 1: that is a very effective Like I'm not even a
Speaker 1: football player, and I can tell that is one of
Speaker 1: the more effective ways to run the ball, waiting for
Speaker 1: your blocks to develop and then just to kind of
Speaker 1: touch on Juju from the tu shore um his hands
Speaker 1: man other than Za Jones amongst the rookies, one of
Speaker 1: the better hands in the draft. You know he could
Speaker 1: play the slot. He's he's a big guy, so um
Speaker 1: kind of we kind of mentioned like a sterling Shepherd,
Speaker 1: a bigger version of him. I really like him. He's
Speaker 1: taking someone's job. And if you know, mart Tevis s
Speaker 1: wonts to, I'm telling you Martavis needs to act right,
Speaker 1: be professional, or else it could be him. I agree
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Speaker 1: Upset brewing in the sports movie Brackets and Eli Manning
Speaker 1: got lucky with the judge he drew. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit more Fantasy Freestyle. Let's go Welcome
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Speaker 1: On this show, we gotta pull question up about the
Speaker 1: Steelers season. Like I said, they're over under is ten
Speaker 1: and a half for the season right now. Thirty one
Speaker 1: percent of you say the Steelers are a Super Bowl contender,
Speaker 1: a Playoff contender. Seventeen say that they might take a
Speaker 1: step back and become more like a five hundred team.
Speaker 1: Seven percent of you actually think they are a threat
Speaker 1: to pick in the top five of next year's draft.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but I do think that
Speaker 1: wherever they pick it next year's draft, they do need
Speaker 1: to start consider to draft the replacement for Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: Remember we said that with the Giants looking to potentially
Speaker 1: eventually replace Eli Manning. We've said that with Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: as well. Out there in Los Angeles, not San Diego,
Speaker 1: but Los Angeles. Remember my quarterbacks category, sun Setting is
Speaker 1: one that's really hard to manage. You got those three guys.
Speaker 1: You also got guys like Carson palmer Um as well,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to manage. They need to start thinking
Speaker 1: about that. Donnie Burns, do you think they're a playoff contender? Though,
Speaker 1: I would imagine one guy, and I do want to
Speaker 1: say big shout out real quick to Sal on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Salvatore or Castro for he says he doesn't think the
Speaker 1: Steelers are a Super Bowl contender? Does Big Ben even
Speaker 1: have anything left? I agree with you, Sal, I think
Speaker 1: the end is near for Big Ben Roethlisberger, whether that's
Speaker 1: in his performance or in his health. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: about the sun setting quarterbacks. And before we went to break,
Speaker 1: I said another, Uh, I teased something about another one
Speaker 1: of these sun setting quarterbacks, Eli Manning, now Donnie Burns,
Speaker 1: as we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio. Remember
Speaker 1: a few weeks back when Eli Manning was into that
Speaker 1: like memorabilia scam, when people were saying that he was
Speaker 1: using like he was trying to pawn off fake like
Speaker 1: cleats and helmets as game used, and we were like,
Speaker 1: that doesn't really sound like Eli, And he came out
Speaker 1: strong about it that he you know, but he was
Speaker 1: involved in this kind of memorabilia scandal. Were you familiar
Speaker 1: with this, Donnie? Remember them? Okay? So, um, the cases
Speaker 1: in court right now, and uh, the judge for this case.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Donnie? The judge for this
Speaker 1: is a guy named James J. De Luca. This guy
Speaker 1: owns two PSLs at MetLife Stadium and has been a
Speaker 1: Giants fan since the nineties sixties. What do you think
Speaker 1: about this? I don't know. I don't know. They get that,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Check this out. And then he
Speaker 1: was asked to recuse him self from this case and
Speaker 1: he said no. He said no, He said he can
Speaker 1: easily apply the law here. He says, yes, the PSLs
Speaker 1: are in his name, but right now, his son is
Speaker 1: the one who actually pays for the tickets that this guy,
Speaker 1: that judge de Luca, he only goes to one or
Speaker 1: two games a year. He'll only go to the one
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoffs. But if this guy has been a Giants
Speaker 1: fan since the sixties, you think he's really gonna come
Speaker 1: down on Eli Manning, not one of the quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: won him two Super Bowls. Yeah, exactly. Listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you the God's on his truth. I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a Jets fan. I haven't seen you know, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen a Super Bowl in my lifetime, but I do
Speaker 1: know a lot of Giants fans, okay, and they literally
Speaker 1: consider the two Giants Super Bowl wins or got the
Speaker 1: three Giant Super Bowl wins that have happened in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: They consider them sort of like the great one of
Speaker 1: the greatest moments of their lives, you know. And there's
Speaker 1: no way he's gonna come down against Eli Manning, the
Speaker 1: man who has created some of the greatest memories of
Speaker 1: his life. Are foul, Donnie Burns, I smell foul on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's fair to say that They probably think
Speaker 1: he's probably not He's gonna gets There's no way Flukey
Speaker 1: with some crazy catches. There's no way that Eli doesn't
Speaker 1: get off on this. The judge has PSLs that met
Speaker 1: life come on. But hey, that's the way these things
Speaker 1: go sometimes, you know, the deck gets the deck gets
Speaker 1: stacked sometimes. But yeah, let's keep it moving. Here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle, where we put the fun in functional
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Donnie Burns, we got movie brackets to discuss. Remember,
Speaker 1: we are trying to crown the greatest sports movie of
Speaker 1: all time this summer. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Um,
Speaker 1: we have some good matchups. Last night he got game
Speaker 1: beat coach Carter in kind of a runaway. Remember that
Speaker 1: one seed was up as well. Rudy was up as
Speaker 1: a one seed. Little Giants hung in there but ultimately
Speaker 1: went down. Rudy will advance to the second round. Today,
Speaker 1: we have some interesting matchups. We've got another one seed
Speaker 1: in action, this time in the baseball region. And that
Speaker 1: movie is Field of Dreams. Donnie Burns, the millennial that
Speaker 1: you are. This is a one seed. Are you familiar
Speaker 1: with Field of Dreams? I'm actually not. Are you serious? Wow?
Speaker 1: You caught me off guard there. I thought I thought
Speaker 1: you would definitely know about Field of Dreams. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard the phrase if you build it, they will come? Okay?
Speaker 1: Well that is from Field of Dreams. Okay, and uh
Speaker 1: it's a deserving one seed. All right. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit surprised that you you know this. This This sports
Speaker 1: guy has never heard of that, and it is up
Speaker 1: right now. The sixteen seed in the baseball bracket is
Speaker 1: a movie called Sugar. Uh. Don I doubt you have
Speaker 1: seen this one. This is a great story. Though it
Speaker 1: is a great movie. I had to include it in
Speaker 1: the brackets, even though it is the sacrificial lamb in
Speaker 1: the first round. It is about a guy named nicknamed Sugar.
Speaker 1: He's a Dominican baseball player, okay, and he finally kind
Speaker 1: of like that he thinks he's gonna make it big,
Speaker 1: you know, like pitch for the Yankees in New York.
Speaker 1: Wind Up, he gets shipped to uh single a in Iowa, Okay,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't really know much English. And it's really
Speaker 1: about how he has to try to adjust to life
Speaker 1: in the Midwest, in the Heartland. Um and you know,
Speaker 1: he only like knows one other guy there that's also Dominican,
Speaker 1: but that guy then gets hurt or gets called up
Speaker 1: or whatever. And it's really a touching story about how
Speaker 1: this guy adjust and has really no life except trying
Speaker 1: to play baseball, trying or work for his family here
Speaker 1: in the US. And great, you know, it's a great movie.
Speaker 1: I liked it. But it's probably gonna lose the Field
Speaker 1: of Dreams. But we will see. There is still time
Speaker 1: to get out there and vote at F and T
Speaker 1: s Y and at spitting Speeds. We also we have
Speaker 1: an upset brewing, Donnie, and I want to see if
Speaker 1: you know these movies, because I think this upset could
Speaker 1: be due to recency bias. Big shout out to my
Speaker 1: man Howie Balaban out there on Twitter who said that
Speaker 1: I maybe try to engineer a five twelve upset, because
Speaker 1: that's what happens in March madness all the time. I
Speaker 1: truly did not. We have the number five seed in
Speaker 1: the football region, the program going against the number twelve
Speaker 1: seed in the football region, The Water Boy. Donnie b
Speaker 1: are you familiar with these movies? Up? I know both
Speaker 1: and uh you gat you gave Waterboy twelve. I did
Speaker 1: give Waterboy a twelve because listen, there were some people
Speaker 1: that were telling me, Oh, I don't think Jerry McGuire
Speaker 1: is really a football movie. The water Boy is kind
Speaker 1: of a football movie, but it's really a comedy. I
Speaker 1: was trying to have movies that were really focused on
Speaker 1: the game of football a little bit more. You know,
Speaker 1: this movie was more about the mcdoula, oblongata and slap hands,
Speaker 1: slap hands, that sort of stuff. In that same light, though,
Speaker 1: you'd have to take longest shart out because that's a
Speaker 1: comedy as well. Yeah, but you're talking about the Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler version. You're not talking about the original over there,
Speaker 1: Donny Be, You know you are that Millennial, so um
Speaker 1: the program for those of you guys who don't know
Speaker 1: and are listening right now to the Fantasy Freestyle on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. This is a movie that
Speaker 1: was profiling kind of like a college football team and
Speaker 1: all of the craziness from the hazing that goes on
Speaker 1: to the performance enhancing drugs. But there were two guys
Speaker 1: on that defense in Lattimer and Mac that were bosses.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about that. If you remember that movie,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what I'm talking about. Laddimer like pregame ritual,
Speaker 1: but he got them suspended for taking steroids and came back.
Speaker 1: And also there was a very famous scene about these
Speaker 1: guys the football team. They were all amped up one night,
Speaker 1: they literally go and lie in the middle of traffic
Speaker 1: with oncoming traffic coming in like a pretty major road.
Speaker 1: That scene was pulled from the movie. Okay, they changed
Speaker 1: the movie after a week after it was released, and
Speaker 1: they pulled that scene because kids were mimicking that and
Speaker 1: then lying in the street. In the United States. I
Speaker 1: kid you not, this was happening. There were football teams
Speaker 1: doing this as a kind of like bombing experience to
Speaker 1: try to be like this movie. So they pulled that scene.
Speaker 1: Donnie Burns. I know you like to coach the kids.
Speaker 1: What would you do if you saw your kids lying
Speaker 1: in the middle of the street. That's that's not happening.
Speaker 1: It's not happen. It's not it's not happening. So that
Speaker 1: that was a scene, and that was a scene in
Speaker 1: the movie. Yeah, that was a scene in the movie.
Speaker 1: They were all like partying one night, you know, or
Speaker 1: they were like hazing the new guy, and they all
Speaker 1: went and they lied in the middle of traffic like
Speaker 1: you know, playing chicken, trying to be macho, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it was you're doing, and they all did it together.
Speaker 1: And uh then like kids across the country started doing
Speaker 1: this thinking that they were cool, you know, life imitating
Speaker 1: our decisions and a press on my quarter. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: So you can still get out there and vote right now.
Speaker 1: But right now we've got the water Boy up over
Speaker 1: the program to thirty six and Field of Dreams dominating
Speaker 1: Sugar as a one sixteen matchup should be Field of
Speaker 1: Dreams nine percent. If you build it, the votes are coming. Hey, Donny,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see you for a while, my friend,
Speaker 1: because you know, on Friday's it looks like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have JP the night out with me And
Speaker 1: just a little note here next week on the Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: my guys are gonna be filling in for me next week.
Speaker 1: Benny Richardi and Tony Sencada are gonna absolutely get it done.
Speaker 1: Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, We're gonna continue the sports
Speaker 1: movie brackets and all but done. We have to talk
Speaker 1: about this Big Three because you know, we we were
Speaker 1: we're talking about it, we were ranking guys. You know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the draft, and then they had
Speaker 1: the opener at Barclay's in Brooklyn on Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, the God's on his truth, don I
Speaker 1: think there are some things that are like awesome that
Speaker 1: happened really well, and there's something I have some constructive
Speaker 1: criticism for ice Cube and the Big Three. So there
Speaker 1: were some close games, Okay, three Headed my first of all,
Speaker 1: the Three Headed Monsters beat the ghost Ballers two to sixty,
Speaker 1: Power beat to Try State, and those were two very
Speaker 1: close games. It was tight. At the very end of
Speaker 1: the Three Headed Monster game, Richard Lewis was bawling out.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Donnie, you know who else was
Speaker 1: bawling out for the Three Headed Monsters with seventeen and thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's right, my man, Quam Brown, like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: with towering over Ivan Johnson becoming a boss in the
Speaker 1: post in that game as the Three Headed Monsters got
Speaker 1: a win, the Power gotta win with a game winner
Speaker 1: from Deshaun Stevenson. Those were the first two games, and
Speaker 1: those were awesome. Then Three's Company beat the ball Hogs
Speaker 1: and the Trilogy beat the Killer three sixty five and
Speaker 1: so there was some good games. Fifteen thousand at Barclay,
Speaker 1: so they had a nice little attendance. But here's the issue,
Speaker 1: White Chocolate. Jason Williams out for the entire season with
Speaker 1: an injury, Corey mcghetty out for the entire season with
Speaker 1: an injury. And here's the other thing I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: They've already come out and say they are changing the
Speaker 1: rules after just one week. Because these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: they're veterans, right, They've been out the game for a
Speaker 1: little bit, so they was sucking wind. They are changing it.
Speaker 1: It is now games are not up to sixty games
Speaker 1: are now up to only fifty points. They are adjusting
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I feel about that. And also the TV product on
Speaker 1: FS one. They say they're doing that to shorten the
Speaker 1: game so they could fit all four games and more
Speaker 1: action in their three hour broadcast on f S one.
Speaker 1: The last thing I'll say to you, Donny before they
Speaker 1: go to Charlott it next week. I saw Paul Pierce
Speaker 1: wants to get involved. He said he's gonna try and
Speaker 1: ask Kobe and Kevin Garnett if they want a former team.
Speaker 1: Now that would be you know, the truth part in
Speaker 1: the pun. What do you think about Big Three? How
Speaker 1: it went down? Um, I'll tell you they look really old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man had gray hair. One of the one of the
Speaker 1: interviewers you know, asked Ai after He's like, oh, how
Speaker 1: do you feel? And he his response was forty two
Speaker 1: and retired. Yeah. Listen, they got a lot of buzz going.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were excited to see it. Fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand people showed up. Do you think though, that interest
Speaker 1: will Wayne because the product on the court was not
Speaker 1: as good as people were hoping. Dude, just because I
Speaker 1: heard uh, most of the people wanted to see Ai.
Speaker 1: Who Yeah, and he's not even really gonna play much
Speaker 1: like I said, I saw. I saw some clips of
Speaker 1: him like shooting around stuff. He looks old man. He
Speaker 1: doesn't look the same guy. And a lot of his
Speaker 1: stuff on the court was based on quick at moves.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have those anymore, alright, So I mean what
Speaker 1: I'll also say is they have already named that HACKEM
Speaker 1: Warwick will be replacing Jason Williams on the Three Headed Monster.
Speaker 1: So I gotta give a big shout out to HACKEM
Speaker 1: Warwick as a as a Orange Man alumni myself from Syracuse,
Speaker 1: I do wanna say big ups to HACKEM Warwick taking
Speaker 1: the place of white chocolate Jason Williams. But I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you I feel the same way, Donny Be Like
Speaker 1: I was all excited about this. The the actual game
Speaker 1: was not impressive to me. Um, it was not. It
Speaker 1: was not something that I hope it could sustain all
Speaker 1: summer because there's not a whole lot else going on.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked flag football yesterday with the Michael Victorrell
Speaker 1: Owens League. We have big three. You know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens or if we're all just waiting
Speaker 1: for NFL football. That's what I think is gonna happen
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy for Ports Radio Network. When we
Speaker 1: come back, We're gonna tie a nice neat little bow
Speaker 1: on this episode of Fantasy Freestyle. It should boy, Dame
Speaker 1: Martinez Speeds the Spitting Statistician, come all right back, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports
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Speaker 1: up and give you a little taste of home. Let
Speaker 1: me give you what's going on around Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: right now. We are scoreless in Pittsburgh in the middle
Speaker 1: of the third inning. We have the Orioles up on
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays one nothing. That game is already in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the fourth. That game moving very quickly.
Speaker 1: Um in the third inning, the Brewers are all over
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds. Remember I told you in great American
Speaker 1: small park. That's what's going on. Homer barely giving it up.
Speaker 1: Ryan Brawn already with his ninth home run of the season.
Speaker 1: The start of the Yankees and White Sox game has
Speaker 1: been delayed. In Chicago, Mets have gotten two on board
Speaker 1: already against Jose Arena and the Marlins. They're up to
Speaker 1: nothing in the top of the third. And in Boston
Speaker 1: the Twins are up on the Red Sox one nothing
Speaker 1: that game early on. Kyle Gibson trying to hold it down,
Speaker 1: hold that lead for Minnesota. Like I said, right now,
Speaker 1: we got some poll questions going on. The water Boy
Speaker 1: continues to lead the program and what could be an
Speaker 1: upset in our football bracket of the Sports Movie Contest
Speaker 1: and also Field the Dreams continues to dominate over Sugar
Speaker 1: in the baseball region as a one seed. Up next
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network is Tout Wars.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be giving it to you hard, giving it
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Speaker 1: for the baseball season, whether it be season long. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be telling you as we head to the All
Speaker 1: Star break, which you really need. Tomorrow, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: my man the animal. No, no, no, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have the night Owl with me, and so we're gonna
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