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Speaker 1: so we got a poll question up at this point,
Speaker 1: who do you think is gonna win that series? That
Speaker 1: two three series? Will it be Houston or San Antonio?
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Speaker 1: gotta give you my starting lineup, and that gets into
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball news and notes. First thing I
Speaker 1: want to let you guys know the Tigers have activated
Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera for him the d L. You can and
Speaker 1: put him right back in your lineups as you would.
Speaker 1: He's coming back from that groin injury. On the other side, though,
Speaker 1: the outfield of the Colorado Rockies I think is getting
Speaker 1: a little bit cloudy. Um they say that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: second year player David dal is still quote unquote a
Speaker 1: ways away. And you know, and also with Reynolds so
Speaker 1: hot at first base they have now that Ian Desmond
Speaker 1: has returned, they're putting Ian Desmond in the outfield. So
Speaker 1: if you're holding onto a guy like David, I don't
Speaker 1: know even if he when he gets back, that outfield
Speaker 1: is going to be very cloudy and very crowded, especially
Speaker 1: with Desmond playing outfield. Right now, the Nationals have sent
Speaker 1: Joe Ross to Triple A. This is a guy, uh
Speaker 1: with a seven point four seven e r A and
Speaker 1: five starts so far this season. And here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: it's kind of real now, you know, a month of
Speaker 1: the season has gone by, the calendar has turned to May.
Speaker 1: We talk about it in fantasy all the time, that
Speaker 1: you don't really look even at the standings in the
Speaker 1: first month of the season. I'll tell you that God's
Speaker 1: on his truth. I gotta league that I'm in where
Speaker 1: I'm in, like I'm towards the bottom. I'm almost in
Speaker 1: the basement. I'm not concerned yet. Okay, you can't really
Speaker 1: think about it, but now it starts to be important.
Speaker 1: And so Joe Ross, they have cut the chord with
Speaker 1: him the national sending him down to Triple A. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox have play Stephen Wright on the disabled list.
Speaker 1: He aggravated a knee injury. The Yankees have put Greg
Speaker 1: Bird on the d L with an ankle bruise. This
Speaker 1: is something that has been bothering him for a little while.
Speaker 1: Maybe he just needs the rest. Remember you got that
Speaker 1: ten day d L now, and so managers are kind
Speaker 1: of using that to game the system a little bit.
Speaker 1: But they will have people returning will the Yankees. It
Speaker 1: looks like Gary Sanchez will be coming back for this
Speaker 1: weekend series as well Brandon Crawford for the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to say. We've had another big
Speaker 1: injury in Washington, Adam Eaton, but it's gonna be out
Speaker 1: for the season. Looks like he tore his a c
Speaker 1: l over the weekend. And these Washington Nationals had one
Speaker 1: of the best offenses in baseball, had one of the
Speaker 1: biggest run differentials in baseball. If you know they were
Speaker 1: in fact my pick. If you remember when we did
Speaker 1: our spotlight of thirty teams in thirty days. My World
Speaker 1: Series prediction right now is not looking that bad. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you I had the Washington Nationals over the Houston
Speaker 1: Astros as my World Series prediction. Washington looks great, but
Speaker 1: without Adam Eat and I still think they're gonna storm
Speaker 1: and win that division. But for fantasy purposes, I think
Speaker 1: what we have here is a very interesting spot in
Speaker 1: a lineup that becomes available, and that is the number
Speaker 1: two whole in the Washington Nationals lineup. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be someone whoever inherits that spot, because you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta figure Trade Turner is gonna move to the leadoff spot.
Speaker 1: Whoever has that number two spot in the lineup is
Speaker 1: gonna be right after Trade Turner, right before Bryce Harper,
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy and the incredibly hot to start the season,
Speaker 1: Ryan Zimmerman. There's a couple of candidates for this role.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I'm telling you guys here on the
Speaker 1: fantasy freestyle, whoever inherits that role will get a tremendous
Speaker 1: spike in their value in my opinion, and you should
Speaker 1: keep an eye on this situation. In my opinion, there
Speaker 1: are three candidates. They've been putting Jason Worth there, and
Speaker 1: that would be sick for his value. He was hitting
Speaker 1: six or seven in that lineup if he could be
Speaker 1: if he could be in that two hole. I like
Speaker 1: what Jason Worth could do with a steady diet of fastballs. Also,
Speaker 1: Anthony red Don, this is a guy. This is a
Speaker 1: guy who had a bad start to the season. I
Speaker 1: would have told you he was a fool gazy, but
Speaker 1: then over the weekend he had a three homer ten
Speaker 1: RBI game. Maybe putting him in the two spots would
Speaker 1: be a great place to get him better pitches continue
Speaker 1: the hot streak. But I'll tell you who I think
Speaker 1: it could be that, you know, it's kind of under
Speaker 1: the radar, and I think would have the biggest value.
Speaker 1: What about catcher Matt Weaters. What if they put Matt
Speaker 1: Weaters in the two spot, wouldn't that get him some
Speaker 1: great pitches to hit? Um He was toiling down there
Speaker 1: in the eight spot in the lineup. Listen, this lineup
Speaker 1: is sick. So I think if you could put a
Speaker 1: guy like Matt Weeters in that two hole, it could
Speaker 1: even you know, lengthen it some more. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: on this situation now that Adam Eaton has gone down
Speaker 1: with the a c L injury. Here's what I wanna do.
Speaker 1: We haven't been doing this the last couple of days
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Freestyle and truth be told us
Speaker 1: because we had so much of the NFL draft coverage
Speaker 1: and recapping and synthesis to do. But I want to
Speaker 1: help you win that cash. So let me tell you
Speaker 1: who's some starters to target tonight. There are three two
Speaker 1: starters that I really like and on fan duel right now,
Speaker 1: you can play that mix up where instead of doing
Speaker 1: a regular full lineup, you're just doing two pictures and
Speaker 1: three position players. And I got some pictures tonight that
Speaker 1: I like. I like two of them. I have been
Speaker 1: on James Paxton all season long, and I like him
Speaker 1: at nineties hundred on Fan Duel against the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Angels of Anaheim at home. This seven is the is
Speaker 1: the lowest total on the board. Okay, um, as long
Speaker 1: as he can avoid Mike Trout, I think this is good.
Speaker 1: He bounced back already from his only bad start of
Speaker 1: the season. Remember he was so hot early on in April,
Speaker 1: had one bad start, but since that has come back
Speaker 1: and had seven scoreless innings with nine strikeouts against Detroit.
Speaker 1: I love Paxson's k upside. Okay, he is fourth in
Speaker 1: the American League with thirty nine strikeouts, and out of
Speaker 1: the people ahead of him only Salad Danny Salazar in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: As mornings pitch, I like Packson to strike out some
Speaker 1: Angels tonight, and I like Seattle to get a win
Speaker 1: in Seattle. I also like Massa Heiro Tanaka tonight for
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. He's at member. The Yankees are
Speaker 1: ten and three at home, and the Blue Jays are
Speaker 1: starting Matt Latos. Need I say more and listen, Tanaka
Speaker 1: has looked really good in my opinion, Tanaka has looked good,
Speaker 1: um since his last you know, since that opening day horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible start, He's had three straight starts with quality starts,
Speaker 1: three straight starts where he has gotten the win. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, you could ride out Tanaka at eight eight
Speaker 1: hundred and Paxton at nineties six hundred. I like them both.
Speaker 1: But more of the story that I've been talking about
Speaker 1: here is, you know, now we're a month into the season,
Speaker 1: right so now are starting to get some of these
Speaker 1: changes starting to actually matter, and if you listen to
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Speaker 1: What and what we've been telling you are all sorts
Speaker 1: of interesting data points, right, and I think that for
Speaker 1: these data points I've been talking about are really what
Speaker 1: you need to look for. I've been telling you about
Speaker 1: um launch angle in home runs. I've been telling you
Speaker 1: about exit velocity. What I want to talk about also
Speaker 1: here is swing percentage and contact percentage. A lot of
Speaker 1: these guys that I've been profiling have seen a dramatic
Speaker 1: dip in their swing percentage. They are not chasing, okay,
Speaker 1: their walk rate is going up, their strikeout rate is
Speaker 1: going down. And that's part of why I love Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge and think that his change is sustainable. He's gone
Speaker 1: up eleven in contact percentage. Yeah, he's dropped a little
Speaker 1: bit in launch angle, but it doesn't matter. He has
Speaker 1: true light tower power, and that is what has helped
Speaker 1: him become only one one of only three people to
Speaker 1: hit three hundred and have ten home runs. Only forty
Speaker 1: four players have ever done that in any month since
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. So the part that I love
Speaker 1: is that six percentage point dropped in the swing percentage.
Speaker 1: He is a more discerning eye. Remember I told you
Speaker 1: guys that about um Eric Thames as well, remember when
Speaker 1: he came back from the Korean Baseball organization. So I
Speaker 1: think that is something very interesting. On the flip side,
Speaker 1: Mike Mustakas he might be trying to do a little
Speaker 1: bit too much. His swing percentage is ten percent up.
Speaker 1: He is swinging at a ton more pictures. His contact
Speaker 1: great though, is down, and his launch angle is up.
Speaker 1: I think he's trying to just straight pull it. I
Speaker 1: think that, uh, he's feeling a little bit of a
Speaker 1: grind on that Kansas City offense. Okay, you need to
Speaker 1: look at some of these numbers because that helps you,
Speaker 1: you know, take the isolated power and that these are
Speaker 1: the things that really matter as we're moving on. So
Speaker 1: when you're on fan graphs and things like that, look
Speaker 1: for that swing rate, look for that launch angle. Look
Speaker 1: at that isolated power pictures are the same things. We'll
Speaker 1: continue to talk about it all season long here in
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. But when we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: answer the site from a man Donnie Burns and I.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down the NBA playoffs a little bit,
Speaker 1: answer the poll questions, a lot of things to do.
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Speaker 1: Speeds on Twitter. You know, check this out. The Rangers
Speaker 1: have gotten out to a one nothing lead early on.
Speaker 1: You may have heard, you may have heard the cheer.
Speaker 1: We are here at Rock and Riley's in Studio thirty
Speaker 1: four here in Manhattan, across the street from Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: A couple of pregame parties going on here at Rock
Speaker 1: and Riley's. It was Matt Zukorello who got the goal.
Speaker 1: Rangers are up one nothing, Indians get on the board
Speaker 1: in the first standing against the Tigers. Diamondbacks up one
Speaker 1: nothing against the Nationals, and the Yankees are all over
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. Matt Latos I told you about Matt
Speaker 1: Lato's Yankees are already of one nothing, still threatening with
Speaker 1: men on second and third. Nobody out here in the
Speaker 1: Bronx keeping it moving as we enter the cipher which
Speaker 1: boys speeds the spitting statistician. News and notes from the NFL.
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles has signed a one year deal with the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos and a f C West rival. That deal
Speaker 1: is up to at least up to three point seven
Speaker 1: five million dollars if Jamal Charles reaches certain incentives in
Speaker 1: that contract. This is also the time of year where
Speaker 1: you need to find out if teams are gonna pick
Speaker 1: up the fifth year option on some of the players
Speaker 1: that they drafted three four years ago. And so there
Speaker 1: was news here. Eric Ebron's option has been picked up
Speaker 1: by the Detroit Lions. Calvin Benjamin's option picked up by
Speaker 1: the Panthers. However, Calvin Pryor's option was not picked up
Speaker 1: by the Jets. Remember the Jets drafted to safeties with
Speaker 1: their first and second round picks last weekend. Teddy Bridgewater's
Speaker 1: option not picked up by the Minnesota Vikings. That that
Speaker 1: injury that he sustained last year, serious knee injured. Doesn't
Speaker 1: look good for Teddy After this declaration by the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: and maybe what must be what might be the most
Speaker 1: surprising one of them all, the Buffalo Bills have decided
Speaker 1: to decline the fifth year option on Sammy Watkins. Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins is pretty much the best receiver they have and
Speaker 1: the only option they have. What is going on in Buffalo?
Speaker 1: Remember they fired GM Doug Whalley right after the draft,
Speaker 1: so they are, you know, turning the page. It looks
Speaker 1: like in Buffalo at least priming the pump for that
Speaker 1: to happen. Let's talk Buccaneers running backs. Real quick news
Speaker 1: out of the Buccaneers running back room um the j
Speaker 1: g M Jason Licht is saying that Doug Martin looks
Speaker 1: very good in practice, that they believe in him that
Speaker 1: they are willing to, you know, kind of still ride
Speaker 1: with him despite the three games suspension that he will
Speaker 1: have to serve. At the start of the football season,
Speaker 1: head coach of Tampa Bay Though, Dirk Cutter, I was
Speaker 1: talking a little bit about fifth round pick Jeremy McNichols,
Speaker 1: saying that he has the potential to be a three
Speaker 1: down back in the NFL, which sounds like good praise, right,
Speaker 1: But then on the flip side, he's saying that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to work to even make the team because
Speaker 1: remember they do also in that room, besides Doug Martin
Speaker 1: have Jock Quiz Rogers why affectionately called Pop Quiz Jock
Speaker 1: Quiz all season long, and they also have Charles Sims
Speaker 1: in that backfield. So a lot of options now for
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks. Many people I saw coming out
Speaker 1: of the draft thinking that Jamie's Winston's fantasy value increase
Speaker 1: the most. Remember they went and drafted I believe it
Speaker 1: was O. J. Howard to help him out. They signed
Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson, excuse me, to Shawn Jackson in the
Speaker 1: off season to help with that receiving corps that already
Speaker 1: had guys like Cameron Brad and Mike Evans. The Bucks
Speaker 1: could be a team where the offense is on the rise,
Speaker 1: and so J P. Ryan they're saying is a quote
Speaker 1: unquote instant challenger to Rob Kelly in the Washington backfield.
Speaker 1: That could also spell trouble for Matt Jones. Who Matt
Speaker 1: Jones in the Washington backfield? Keep it moving though here
Speaker 1: And I want to bring you my boy Donnie Burns.
Speaker 1: He he is not only the love doctor on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle, he is also the basketball correspondent. And Donnie,
Speaker 1: we were getting into the Spurs Rockets series and the
Speaker 1: Rockets made a statement in Game one in San Antonio,
Speaker 1: blowing the doors off of the Spurs. They wanted to
Speaker 1: ninety nine. And here's the key for me. We have
Speaker 1: been saying for weeks now that the Rockets are this
Speaker 1: kind of team that like, if they get hot, they
Speaker 1: can compete with anybody. If they shoot the ball, well,
Speaker 1: if they are able to push that pace in space, well,
Speaker 1: they hit twenty two of their fifty three pointers last night,
Speaker 1: a forty percent clip. That will be enough to compete
Speaker 1: with anybody. A reason. Look good, Ryan Anderson looked good.
Speaker 1: It didn't even all come from James Harden, as we
Speaker 1: were talking about before we gone in on air. But
Speaker 1: my question, honestly, don is more about the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs than it is about the Houston Rockets. We have seen,
Speaker 1: and we have all said that the Rockets are capable
Speaker 1: of this kind of explosion, scoring in the one twenties,
Speaker 1: hitting twenty plus three pointers, but LaMarcus Aldridge with four points,
Speaker 1: Tony Parker not looking that spry. I would almost ask
Speaker 1: what do the Spurs have to rely on besides Kauai Leonard?
Speaker 1: And while I am not gonna bury a Greg Popovich
Speaker 1: team after Game one, this does not look good, Donny. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, and this is what I'm worried
Speaker 1: about most. The Spurs are the best, if not one
Speaker 1: of the best, at running teams off the three point line.
Speaker 1: And if you have the Rockets, out of all teams,
Speaker 1: shooting almost from the three point line, and one of
Speaker 1: your best players in LaMarcus Aldri just can't get double
Speaker 1: digit points, that's gonna be a long series. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very long series. And so we ask people
Speaker 1: on that f n T s Y Radio Twitter handle,
Speaker 1: and thanks to everybody who's already voting. Big shout out
Speaker 1: to the people who follow us on the fn T
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Speaker 1: people who follow me at spitting speeds um right now
Speaker 1: sixt so two thirds of the votes right now are
Speaker 1: for the Houston Rockets. Think that the Houston Rockets will
Speaker 1: advance to the Western Conference Finals. Uh, we have you
Speaker 1: on record though already, right Donnie. Yeah, Well, here's the
Speaker 1: thing I was really high on. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: I don't really want people to sleep on the Spurs
Speaker 1: because I was super high on two teams before the
Speaker 1: playoffs even started. If you remember, I was high on
Speaker 1: the Wizards and I was high on the Rockets. But
Speaker 1: I've seen both struggle at times. So it's one game.
Speaker 1: You can't gauge that after I mean, they were up
Speaker 1: thirty at one point, it was like seventy three to
Speaker 1: thirty nine at one point. You can't gauge a team
Speaker 1: with pedigree like Spurs out after one game. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's a little you know, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: it will definitely end and and you know, if you
Speaker 1: listen to the Fantasy Freestyle here in the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network, you list and to win that cash. And
Speaker 1: in the NBA and playoff basketball, there has been for
Speaker 1: years the zigzag theory where series kind of pendulum swing
Speaker 1: back and forth these kind of series. I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if the San Antonio Spurs come out Game
Speaker 1: two at home and respond, well, I'd be laying heavy
Speaker 1: coin bitcoin, maybe even on the San Antonio Spurs in
Speaker 1: Game two. How do you like that, Donnie? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: a lot of people forget the Spurs can shoot the
Speaker 1: three two at a high clip and unctually they're they're
Speaker 1: pretty high percentage. They don't do it a lot, but
Speaker 1: when they do that and they recognized her making beyond
Speaker 1: the arc, they will continue to shoot that clip until
Speaker 1: the percentage drops and they'll shoot it at a high percentage.
Speaker 1: All right. So we'll see. We'll see if the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors tonight in their Game one, if they put
Speaker 1: on a show the same way the Rockets did. I
Speaker 1: want to keep it moving in the cipher here, Donnie Burns.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are talking about what happened at
Speaker 1: Fenway Park last night. Adam Jones was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: things that he got the N word, you know, used
Speaker 1: that him kind of in heckels he was thrown peanuts
Speaker 1: at him, and and you know, the Red Sox have
Speaker 1: come out and apologize. But I think, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about how this speaks to
Speaker 1: a bigger issue. And interestingly enough, I got some quotes
Speaker 1: from CC sabathia Um who was said that hit has
Speaker 1: happened to him before, that it's not surprising at all
Speaker 1: in Fenway Park, that it happens in Fenway, but happens
Speaker 1: nowhere else in major League Baseball. And he also says
Speaker 1: that all the black players in Major League Baseball know
Speaker 1: about it. When you go to Boston, it is expected. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: I feel a lot of ways about this, But the
Speaker 1: angle that I want to get into real quick. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people say like, hey, well, if you
Speaker 1: buy a ticket, you should be able to do what
Speaker 1: or say whatever you want. I completely disagree with that.
Speaker 1: And what I'm also saying now, especially in the times
Speaker 1: that we are in right now, in this country where
Speaker 1: there has been a rat raised the voice of a
Speaker 1: lot of different things that we're not going to get
Speaker 1: into too much right here. I think it is a
Speaker 1: very big problem to to desensitize this and to almost
Speaker 1: accept this kind of activity at sporting events. Remember, uh, Donnie,
Speaker 1: when I was talking about like the soccer hooliganism with
Speaker 1: the Dortmund bust and like the flare guns and stuff.
Speaker 1: I think we are in a very sad place if
Speaker 1: we um if we become immune to this as a society,
Speaker 1: if we think that this is like okay, or if
Speaker 1: we diminished this as a few fans. And I did
Speaker 1: hear that sixty fans were rejected from Fenway Park, and
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this game tonight, you know, a
Speaker 1: little standing ovation for Adam Jones, but that's not enough.
Speaker 1: It's a more pervasive culture here. And if we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be in this post racial discourse that we're in,
Speaker 1: I want everybody to consider this, you know, the same
Speaker 1: kind of populous movement that has this other springing up
Speaker 1: right now. Adam Jones, just a month and a half ago,
Speaker 1: I was calling him, in essence, Captain America for the
Speaker 1: WBC team here for the United States of America. He
Speaker 1: was representing America in a very strong and prideful way
Speaker 1: just a month or two ago. So what is American?
Speaker 1: What are our rights? What should be respective? I think
Speaker 1: that's interesting and I've also heard a lot of people
Speaker 1: talk about what is actually effective punishment just ejecting fans.
Speaker 1: I have an interesting idea, Donnie Burns. I think, much
Speaker 1: like sex offenders, if people get ejected or lose their
Speaker 1: season tickets for bad behavior at stadiums or this kind
Speaker 1: of behavior, this kind of racist behavior, their names should
Speaker 1: be put in the paper as well, with an explanation
Speaker 1: of why their tickets were revoked. What do you think
Speaker 1: about that, Donnie? Yeah, and I completely agree with that.
Speaker 1: And it can't just be one side. It can't always
Speaker 1: be you know, the players saying, so like things have
Speaker 1: to happen. Like you said, you can't just eject. We
Speaker 1: can't be desensitized to this. You can't just eject someone.
Speaker 1: They'll be back for them, of course. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm saying, like, just like you know,
Speaker 1: just like sex offenders, put their names in the paper
Speaker 1: in that community, it explain maybe that we'll let everybody
Speaker 1: have some kind of deform exactly, you need a real deterrent.
Speaker 1: Finding them or rejecting them is not enough. But it's
Speaker 1: interesting that not only Adam Jones, but cc other African
Speaker 1: American players have come out, and even Red Sox players
Speaker 1: David Price, Ellis Burk's back in the day, all the
Speaker 1: way back to Jim Rice have said that this is
Speaker 1: something to be expected when you go to Fenway Park
Speaker 1: in Boston. So I think we have a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do. We cannot make this a new normal.
Speaker 1: It is not okay. But as we move on, we'll
Speaker 1: get into the fun and functional sports radio because that's
Speaker 1: what we do here as well. Here on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. It should boyd
Speaker 1: Dane Martinez Speeds, the spitting Statistician. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about LaVar Ball, will be more lighthearted.
Speaker 1: All right, come on right back after this Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's boy Dane Martinez Speeds and spitting statistician. You're listening
Speaker 1: live here to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Big shout out to all the service men
Speaker 1: and women who are listening around the world on the
Speaker 1: American Forces Radio Network, and of course all of our
Speaker 1: sports Byline affiliates. We just got into it a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Adam Jones Red sox orioles issue and
Speaker 1: kind of you know how prevalent apparently this is so.
Speaker 1: I do also want to give a big shout out
Speaker 1: to our affiliates out in Boston w w z N
Speaker 1: ten am, if you're listening out there, holler at your
Speaker 1: boys speed and spitting statistician at eight four four eight
Speaker 1: four three six eight seven nine. Remember I do have
Speaker 1: a poll question up about this. Does buying a ticket
Speaker 1: give you the right to say or do anything as
Speaker 1: a fan? We have that up there right now, almost
Speaker 1: already a hundred votes in this hour, and thank you
Speaker 1: to everybody voting on the f N T s Y
Speaker 1: radio Twitter handle at spitting speeds as well. Right now,
Speaker 1: two of you say no, it is does not give
Speaker 1: you the right to do or say whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Eight percent, though, say that it does. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that includes some of the vial that was thrown Adam
Speaker 1: Jones's way last night and apparently what has been happening
Speaker 1: um for a long time at Fenway Park. Also want
Speaker 1: to tell you that the Rangers have scored again. They
Speaker 1: are now up to nothing. It was Prabner with the
Speaker 1: second Rangers goal here at Radio City Music, not at
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Speaker 1: I wanted to stack Yankees and Red's in my DFS lineup,
Speaker 1: and the Reds are already up three nothing on Tyler
Speaker 1: Glass now, and the Yankees are threatening big time in
Speaker 1: the uh you know, in the first and second inning
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. As I've been saying, though, it's
Speaker 1: been way too long since we've talked LaVar Ball here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and the things may
Speaker 1: not be going his way recently. Remember when I told
Speaker 1: you that Lebron was not the person he should mess
Speaker 1: with that he was gonna get shut out of his
Speaker 1: big billion dollar deal that he wanted for his Triple
Speaker 1: B brand because now a Lonzo by all accounts, is
Speaker 1: gonna be the one or two pick in the upcoming
Speaker 1: NBA Draft, which happens in you know, inside of a
Speaker 1: few weeks. But um, lamar Ball and Triple B they
Speaker 1: have gotten completely rejected. They have they will not have
Speaker 1: a deal with Nike, not with Adidas, not with under Armour.
Speaker 1: All three of those big shoe companies said they will
Speaker 1: have no nothing to do with him. And that has
Speaker 1: never happened with the top five pick before the draft.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, it's because LaVar keeps on having these demands.
Speaker 1: He wants to in essence co brand the Triple Breeze
Speaker 1: and having be a deal for all three kids. That
Speaker 1: is not going to happen. He's saying he wants not
Speaker 1: an endorsement deal, but co branding. And then said that
Speaker 1: these big shoe guys, you know, whether it be I, Adidas, Nike,
Speaker 1: under Armour, they are not ready for that model. But
Speaker 1: in response, LaVar Ball says, that's okay. The taxi industry
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for Uber. That is how confident he thinks
Speaker 1: that he is such such a disruptive force that he
Speaker 1: is going to disrupt it like Uber did the taxi industry.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what's gonna happen. He does make
Speaker 1: a great point that it is incredibly valuable you own
Speaker 1: your own brand before going pro. But he says that
Speaker 1: he has been working on this shoe for a Lonzo
Speaker 1: since before he was born, that they don't want to
Speaker 1: have to wait to cash in, and then he threw
Speaker 1: shade at Paul George specifically saying he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: have to wait five or six years like Paul George
Speaker 1: did to get a deal, a shoe deal. I think
Speaker 1: you know this is not going to go well. And
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Now, once again LaVar Ball maybe
Speaker 1: going a little bit too far. He's saying that the
Speaker 1: first shoe that does in fact come out, and again
Speaker 1: he's now instead of the shoe companies, he's talking to
Speaker 1: other kinds of brands, including apparently Facebook to sponsor the
Speaker 1: Triple B brand. But he's saying that his first shoe
Speaker 1: is gonna be two hundred dollars. I think that's a
Speaker 1: little bit rich. Listen, the lebron James fourteens right now
Speaker 1: are hundred dollars. Kevin Durant let his shoe, The Katie
Speaker 1: Nines are hundred fifty dollars. James Hard are at one forty.
Speaker 1: Steph Curries are at one fifty. Paul George is now
Speaker 1: that he does have a shoe, is a hundred ten dollars.
Speaker 1: But uh, Alonzo Ball's first shoot before he even comes
Speaker 1: into the league is gonna go for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: This may be yet another case of LaVar Ball overshooting
Speaker 1: his expectations. But you know, we gotta keep our eyes
Speaker 1: out on everything that LaVar Ball does. Apparently, listen, I
Speaker 1: want to keep it moving though. Here we put the
Speaker 1: fun in Functional Sports Radio here on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Remember earlier this week
Speaker 1: I told you to keep an eye out in the
Speaker 1: fight game about Andrew Joshua, this undefeated kid coming up,
Speaker 1: and have British heavyweights are now all the rage. Remember
Speaker 1: we also have Canelo Alvarez versus Julio Caesar Chavez Junior
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas this weekend single the Mayo Weekend, Mexican
Speaker 1: greats going at it. Canelo Alvarez and Julio Caesar Ves
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. What I think is going to be
Speaker 1: a huge fight, and you can probably go see that
Speaker 1: on pay per view. But I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about something else I've seen in the fight game.
Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations are in order for Miss Ronda Rousey.
Speaker 1: Apparently Ms Ronda Rousey is engaged. She's engaged to Travis Brown,
Speaker 1: who himself as a UFC fighter. Remember obviously round the
Speaker 1: Rousey started off her career twelve and oh, then got
Speaker 1: rocked by Holly Home, then got rocked by Angelo non Jez.
Speaker 1: And remember a few months ago I came out and
Speaker 1: told you that Dana White says that he does not
Speaker 1: see her fighting again. Dana White said that in an
Speaker 1: interview in January. This guy her her fiance, Travis Brown,
Speaker 1: he's lost his last three fights also, so maybe it's
Speaker 1: running in the you know, the New Family to move
Speaker 1: away from the m M A. But I built this
Speaker 1: little segment as the m M A Circle of Life
Speaker 1: because I don't know, Donnie, if you're with me or not.
Speaker 1: But later on when you rejoined the show, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to comment on this because check this out. It's
Speaker 1: like the circle of female mmm mm A fighters. Ron
Speaker 1: the Rousy maybe exiting the game. But check this out.
Speaker 1: There is a new Asian fighter named Momo. She is
Speaker 1: set to debut in an mm A UM event called
Speaker 1: Deep Jewels sixteen in Japan later on this month in May,
Speaker 1: on May twenty. But here's the deal. She's twelve years old.
Speaker 1: They're having a twelve year old debut at an event
Speaker 1: called Deep Jewels sixteen in Japan. There is going to
Speaker 1: be a twelve year old m m A female fighter.
Speaker 1: I think this is completely ridiculous. Ron the Rousey walking away,
Speaker 1: this young lady coming back. Donnie Burns is back with me.
Speaker 1: Twelve year old female mm A fighter. Donnie, I ask you,
Speaker 1: which is worse that they allow this girl, a twelve
Speaker 1: year old girl to fight, or the twenty four year
Speaker 1: old fighter who decided to agree to take a fight
Speaker 1: and fight a twelve year old girl. Which is worse?
Speaker 1: Don Uh. I'm gonna have to say whoever it shows
Speaker 1: to fight the twelve year old year old, right, that's
Speaker 1: taking on this and go over how their morals are
Speaker 1: set up. Becau. It's absolutely crazy, right, okay? And I
Speaker 1: want to get you in before we move on, because
Speaker 1: We've been talking about LaVar Ball forever. You're a young kid, Donnie,
Speaker 1: we talked about this. I'm in the gen X. I'm
Speaker 1: in the gen X side. Okay, you're a millennial. So
Speaker 1: these sneaker heads you know that are out there. Remember
Speaker 1: we talked also when we saw the North Carolina team
Speaker 1: getting their cleats, you know, the jump man's Is there
Speaker 1: any chance that LaVar that Alonzo shoe could go for
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars curries that I don't even think curries going.
Speaker 1: That's what I was saying, that d s at one fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely so, once again LaVar Ball putting his children in
Speaker 1: a kind of position to fail. In my opinion, what
Speaker 1: do you think about and a Lonzo says nothing? Like
Speaker 1: even what There was an interview they had where it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, does you know there's anything that your
Speaker 1: father do like father you He always says no, He's
Speaker 1: it's like a trained dog. It's like he's programmed. Bro,
Speaker 1: He's been programmed since birth. You know that his dad
Speaker 1: is handling all this. Think about it like the Williams
Speaker 1: sisters would uh with their father, Richard Williams coming up?
Speaker 1: You know, it was the question wasn't even engaged towards uh,
Speaker 1: like what's happening now in terms of basketball. It was
Speaker 1: like a life question like has he ever like like
Speaker 1: has he ever bothered you? Has he ever done anything
Speaker 1: to bother you or offend you? And he's like, na, never, never, never.
Speaker 1: They stick tight over there and there whatever like bell
Speaker 1: Air or West Hollywood, wherever it is, there it is
Speaker 1: there is, so they keep it tight over there. Yo.
Speaker 1: I got one more thing I want to get at.
Speaker 1: We put the fun in fun functional sports radio. As
Speaker 1: you know, Donnie Burns on the ones into so hot
Speaker 1: that he sweat steam, helping your boys speeds to spending
Speaker 1: statistician blow up like a Samsung seven here on the
Speaker 1: n see freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We
Speaker 1: have a new kind of endorsement deal, you know, coming
Speaker 1: out of the NFL Draft that happened last weekend. I
Speaker 1: found two of these stories, and donn I want to
Speaker 1: I want to ask you which you think is more creative. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the first one new Broncos tight end Jake Butt
Speaker 1: from Michigan. Um. First of all, his name is Jake,
Speaker 1: but he was a tight end and he got drafted.
Speaker 1: He got drafted by the Denver Broncos. But here's the deal,
Speaker 1: my friend. He got an endorsement deal with Scharman toilet
Speaker 1: paper because of his name, Jake being a tight end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got us. He got he got a Sharman endorsement deal,
Speaker 1: which I think it's great, n exactly. Yeah. And also
Speaker 1: here's another interesting way that he got money. Remember when
Speaker 1: we were talking. In the bowl season, Julius Pepper has
Speaker 1: decided to not play. Leonard Fournette decided to not play, well, Jake,
Speaker 1: but actually tore his a c L in the bowl
Speaker 1: game in the Orange Bowl. Okay, and uh, he slipped
Speaker 1: from what was a second round projection all the way
Speaker 1: down to the first pick of the fifth round. But
Speaker 1: he had insurance on that and cashed in and got
Speaker 1: a tax free five hundred and forty three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: on that insurance claim. And he still got drafted by
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, and he still got an endorsement deal
Speaker 1: with Sharmon. So I think it worked out pretty Jacob. Right,
Speaker 1: So let me contrast that with this defensive end Adam Missouri,
Speaker 1: Charles Harris. He was the number twenty two overall pick
Speaker 1: by your boys. The Miami Dolphins. Do you know where
Speaker 1: I'm going with this? Do you see his draft party?
Speaker 1: You saw the background. You saw Sasquatch in the background
Speaker 1: from Jack Links Jerky. Yeah, so they are now having
Speaker 1: Sasquatch at the draft party. I think that was a creative,
Speaker 1: innovative kind of endorsement. Deshaun Watson. I think also, um,
Speaker 1: excuse me, DeShawn Kaiser also had the Jack Links logo
Speaker 1: in the lining of his suit jacket when he got drafted.
Speaker 1: I think this is creative. You think Sasquatch may have
Speaker 1: some a couple of other appearances, which is better? Donnie.
Speaker 1: I like the Jake, but and not just because all
Speaker 1: how funny all that stuff really is. But I watched
Speaker 1: them throughout most of this past year, and he's very
Speaker 1: good player. Yeah, but I don't care about the new
Speaker 1: player I'm talking. Which is a better endorsement, Jake Jake?
Speaker 1: But I kind of think messing with Sasquatch has some legs. Man.
Speaker 1: I can see next year at draft parties, maybe find
Speaker 1: like the Burger Kings somewhere. You know, I think placement
Speaker 1: of these mascots are pretty interesting. I think I think
Speaker 1: they're onto something. Messing with Sasquatch. But check it out
Speaker 1: when we come back. Donnie Burns Speeds, the spitting Statisticians.
Speaker 1: We're gonna tie a nice little bow on this. Coming
Speaker 1: up next will be joe Pisa Pizza on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Black Book. Come alright back, Fantasy Freestyle, Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as the beat drop, you know what it is. It
Speaker 1: Sho boyd Dane Martinez Speeds and spitting statistician. You're listening
Speaker 1: live to the Fantasy Freestyle here in the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network and of course Sports Byline affiliates across the
Speaker 1: country and the American Forces Radio Network around the world.
Speaker 1: Um I didn't mention I mentioned this at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, but Ronaldo also had a hat trick
Speaker 1: for Real Madrid. They beat Athletical Madrid in the UEFA
Speaker 1: Champions League semifinal first like three nothing. Ronaldo with a
Speaker 1: hat trick coming up big at big times. I want
Speaker 1: to also just give you a couple of heads up here.
Speaker 1: The Reds are up three one on the Pirates and
Speaker 1: the Yankees all over the Toronto Blue Jay's five nothing
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the second. I'm sure my boy
Speaker 1: Joey Pizza Pizza coming up next on the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network could give you what you need to continue
Speaker 1: to win that baseball cash. I will say this, I
Speaker 1: very much like that. I already have Joey Vado in
Speaker 1: my DFS lineup. I had Brett Gardner in my DFS
Speaker 1: lineup as well today, so I I'm looking good. Also
Speaker 1: told you that the Rangers are up to nothing on
Speaker 1: the Ottawa Senators at the first intermission right across the
Speaker 1: street from Studio thirty four here rock and Riley's Rangers
Speaker 1: getting it on with the Ottawa Senators at Madison Square. Garden.
Speaker 1: Got a couple of games later on tonight Wizards and Celtics.
Speaker 1: That should be a good one game too, and the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors get their next series started against the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. We had a couple of poll questions up
Speaker 1: today as well. Rockets Spurs. Rockets looking very impressive last
Speaker 1: night in Game one of that series against San Antonio
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, winning big of you think that the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets will in fact win that series and move
Speaker 1: on to the Western Conference Finals. We also talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about the Orioles and the Red Sox and
Speaker 1: that series and what's going on up there with Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and Fenway. I told you they gave him a
Speaker 1: standing ovation. But then right after that, Chris Sale apparently
Speaker 1: threw a ball behind Manny Machado. Both benches have been warned.
Speaker 1: I asked you on the f N T s Y
Speaker 1: Radio Twitter handle and at Spitting's beads, if they're buying
Speaker 1: a ticket, gives you a right to do or say
Speaker 1: anything as a fan of you say no of you
Speaker 1: say that, absolutely it does. I wonder if that includes
Speaker 1: the stuff that is going on at Fenway Park. Tune
Speaker 1: in tomorrow though Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Network Donny Burns will be here. Speeds and Spitting Statistician
Speaker 1: will be here. I got a special guest as well,
Speaker 1: so tune in and find out about that. Up next
Speaker 1: on a Fantasy Sports radio network, Fantasy black Book. Come
Speaker 1: on back tomorrow, Speeds and Spitting Statistician, Fantasy Freestyle. See
Speaker 1: you tomorrow, piece