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Speaker 1: And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right
Speaker 1: here on the Sports Grid Network, episode number four hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight, the four hundred and thirty eight Convening
Speaker 1: of the Status of a Beat Cipher, where we help
Speaker 1: you win your leagues and win that cash. I do
Speaker 1: represent the South South Bronx. I represent all sorts of things. Now,
Speaker 1: as you know, I wasn't in here last week. I
Speaker 1: am back now, maybe looking a little bit different. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later on, listen, we
Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about. In my stead, my
Speaker 1: man Alex Fasano was down there in the pit of misery,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, in this episode, we are gonna get
Speaker 1: all caught up together. We're gonna talk about the big
Speaker 1: time takeaways, the winners and losers from the NFL combine
Speaker 1: last week. Okay, we will update you on what you
Speaker 1: need to know for the XFL moving into week five.
Speaker 1: Some trends have held true. We'll talk about that. I
Speaker 1: also have a couple of interesting stories that you know
Speaker 1: are similar to me in the vein of you know,
Speaker 1: sports investors. Sports bettors need to really chill the f out. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll win some, you lose some, and when you lose,
Speaker 1: the right thing to do is not necessarily go ahead
Speaker 1: and troll the athletes or threaten the athletes that were
Speaker 1: in that game. This is starting to become a thing.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: My guys down in the pit, we will also be
Speaker 1: updating what's going on with the cheating scandal in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, the Houston Astros, the Buzzers. As you know,
Speaker 1: I'm all about hashtag buzz al Tov and the like.
Speaker 1: And then yes, we will share a little bit of
Speaker 1: where I was the last for the last week, week
Speaker 1: and a half, I was down in Jamaica. You may
Speaker 1: notice a little bit different. We got something non a
Speaker 1: finger right there, so we'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot to get to and of
Speaker 1: course we've got a pole question up for sure, all right,
Speaker 1: and that pole question is what are you What are
Speaker 1: you learning from the NFL combine? You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about it all the time, the Wonderlick test, the bench press,
Speaker 1: the forty, this shuttle run. Does it really matter? Do
Speaker 1: the interviews matter to teams? Doesn't matter what they look
Speaker 1: like in jim shorts and tank tops. Will find out.
Speaker 1: But right now we go back down to the pit
Speaker 1: when mom man Alex Vassano gets you caught up on
Speaker 1: everything here from Scorts broad Come on back, sports grade
Speaker 1: news Update. Welcome back the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez. I
Speaker 1: am Alex Vassano, here with your sports grade news update
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy free Style in the Association. Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors guard Stephen Curry will return Thursday against the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 1: He missed more than four months while recovering from a
Speaker 1: broken left hand. The two time m v P tweeted
Speaker 1: his excitement about rejoining Golden State after missing the previous
Speaker 1: fifty eight games. Curry, who is thirty one years old,
Speaker 1: suffered the injury on October thirty when Phoenix Sun center
Speaker 1: Aaron Baines fell on Curry's hand after a collision under
Speaker 1: the basket. Curry underwent two surgeries to repair the fracture.
Speaker 1: Here is a quote from head coach Steve Kerr. This
Speaker 1: has been a long, long haul for Steph. He loves
Speaker 1: playing so much. I'm happy for us, I'm happy for
Speaker 1: our fans, but I'm happiest for Steph. In Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox starter Chris Sale he is not
Speaker 1: expected to undergo Tommy John surgery. Sales elbow injury is
Speaker 1: still a concern, and it's unknown for how long the
Speaker 1: left hander will be sidelined. However, the surgery would have
Speaker 1: ended his season before it even began. As the Red
Speaker 1: Sox pondered sales future, they gathered several medical opinions. Interim
Speaker 1: manager Ron Renicky told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the
Speaker 1: team was still waiting to hear from renowned surgeon Dr
Speaker 1: Neil a'l eltross and sticking with the association. Last night
Speaker 1: we saw some great games. The Mavericks took on the
Speaker 1: Pelicans three in oh For time it was Luca versus Zion,
Speaker 1: but it was KP Kristaps Porzingis leading the way thirty
Speaker 1: four points, twelve rebounds. Nice double double for him. Alonzo
Speaker 1: Ball on the other side for the Pelicans, nice double
Speaker 1: double twenty five points, eleven rebounds. We also saw the
Speaker 1: Trailblazers take down the Wizards one oh four. Hassan Whiteside
Speaker 1: led the way for the Blazers twenty four point sixteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: Bradley Field for the Wizards led the way with twenty
Speaker 1: nine points and six rebounds. You got a full slate
Speaker 1: of NHL, NBA and college hoops tonight. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the Hockey League because well, my Aisles will be going
Speaker 1: to Ottawa to take on the Senators. Aisles are going
Speaker 1: to half favorite. The total is five and a half.
Speaker 1: We also got the Capitals visiting the New York Rangers
Speaker 1: in Madison Square Guarden. The Capitals, you're going to have favorite.
Speaker 1: The total is six and a half. And why not
Speaker 1: the Dallas Stars taking on the Nashville Predators Stars your
Speaker 1: goal and a half favorite. The total is five and
Speaker 1: a half. I'm Alex Passano and this has been your
Speaker 1: Sports Grid News update. Now back to Dame Martinez on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Fury Style. Thanks a lot, Alex. We're back
Speaker 1: here in Studio thirty four making it happen. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, we got a pull question up right now
Speaker 1: on Twitter at spitting Speeds. How much do you learn
Speaker 1: from the NFL combine? Right? Does it really matter? Do
Speaker 1: you now know who you team, your team wants to draft,
Speaker 1: who you want them to draft, who you think you
Speaker 1: want to draft in fantasy doesn't help a little bit?
Speaker 1: Or is it absolutely nothing? I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: over two thirds of you think that is what it is.
Speaker 1: Alex mentioned a couple of updates. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: gone for a little while, but two things that I've
Speaker 1: heard over the last twenty four hours that I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention real quick. One yesterday Tom Brady and Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick had a phone call, had a meeting whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and reports are that it did not go well. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I think, listen, people, the writing is on the wall.
Speaker 1: They're just being coy about it, kind of similar to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Jameis Winston. All right, I think they
Speaker 1: are just you know, waiting until the new league years starts, right,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna go ahead and announced that yeah
Speaker 1: he's out there, or the buck set will announced yeah
Speaker 1: they're not gonna go and look to retain Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: It is very very interesting. There have been rumblings for
Speaker 1: years now that these guys didn't necessarily getting wrong get
Speaker 1: along in New England. I'm talking about right, there was
Speaker 1: that big piece that the trainer, Alex Guerrero TB twelve
Speaker 1: and the gym's were all involved. But winning, it's a
Speaker 1: great deodorant. Winning changes a lot of things. Just go
Speaker 1: ask Charlie Sheen for goodness six right, But then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're not winning anymore. That's when you're
Speaker 1: starting to hear the cracks. And to be quite frank,
Speaker 1: you know, there were odds up before around where were
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks play? And the Tom Brady odds, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to change a little bit, they really really do.
Speaker 1: And now listen, I hear Tennessee, I hear the Chargers,
Speaker 1: I hear the Vegas Raiders. And that's why Alex and
Speaker 1: I were doing that kind of quarterback merry go round
Speaker 1: with you guys over the last couple of weeks to
Speaker 1: see where they may fall. Because if he goes to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: what does that mean for Mariota and Tannehill. If he
Speaker 1: winds up with the Vegas Raiders, what does that mean
Speaker 1: for Derek Carr. But what is interesting is that I
Speaker 1: believe these dominoes will start to fall in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks as the new league year approach approaches.
Speaker 1: But the riding is on the wall. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: it looks like Tom Brady may in fact go elsewhere
Speaker 1: that it's uh, finally time to move on. What will
Speaker 1: the Patriots do? What they look at a guy like oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jacobe Brissette, who may not have a
Speaker 1: starting job if Philip Rivers winds up on the merry ground.
Speaker 1: These are things we have to know. The other thing
Speaker 1: that may, in fact you'll get news on at the
Speaker 1: start of this next league year is the fact that
Speaker 1: the NFL is looks like they're gonna ratify a new
Speaker 1: CB A possibly okay, the collective Bargaining Agreement. You've heard
Speaker 1: everything from you know, the idea of the second by
Speaker 1: to the playoff format being seven teams, to the games
Speaker 1: out there in London that we appreciate. But here's a
Speaker 1: little bit that we haven't talked about too much with
Speaker 1: this new cb A. Alex and I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've heard this, but they're saying in the new CBA,
Speaker 1: the substance abuse policy is going to change in the NFL,
Speaker 1: making it clear no player will ever be suspended again
Speaker 1: for a positive drug test drug, in this case being marijuana. Now,
Speaker 1: I ask you, Fasano, what do you think Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: is doing right about now? Dude? Am I allowed to
Speaker 1: say it? I mean, yeah, you can say it. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Honestly, that man has had thousands, if
Speaker 1: not millions of dollars, you know, in fines and suspensions
Speaker 1: a whole year. Right. We were just talking about the
Speaker 1: Browns Lineman a couple of weeks ago, right, Seantrelle Henderson
Speaker 1: alignment for the bills. You know, you were getting suspended
Speaker 1: as long for weed as you were for punching your
Speaker 1: wife or wearing cleats that were not you know, deem
Speaker 1: designer and fashionably appropriate. I think it's ridiculous, but it's sound.
Speaker 1: It is like they are going to change this now
Speaker 1: and kind of remove some of the penalties for the
Speaker 1: drug testing. I think it's a good step in the
Speaker 1: right direction, especially when you know twenty some odd states
Speaker 1: have it legal. What do you think Josh Gordon's thinking
Speaker 1: right about now, Alex, I'm thinking he definitely has another
Speaker 1: opportunity does come into the league. I mean, he's saying himself,
Speaker 1: I've only been suspended for marijuana abuse, and if it's
Speaker 1: going to be pushed aside, then what's stopping you guys
Speaker 1: from letting me play? But if you think from like
Speaker 1: the player's perspective, is this enough to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw our bodies out there for another game
Speaker 1: and other, you know, extra week in the playoffs? Is
Speaker 1: that enough to be like, hey, give us the marijuana
Speaker 1: policy and we'll we'll throw our bodies out there on
Speaker 1: the line it helps their injury? I guess sure, profession
Speaker 1: you gotta give something to get something, though, Alice, you
Speaker 1: gotta give something to get it in negotiations, players, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Is that enough to them saying huh,
Speaker 1: I guess the league's giving us a little something something,
Speaker 1: But I don't know it's gonna come down to their
Speaker 1: health versus is this going to help it. Absolutely, we'll
Speaker 1: keep your eye out on that. As they talk about
Speaker 1: the new c b A. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: factors in there, everything from revenue air in the TV
Speaker 1: to the seventeenth game, to the buys to the London
Speaker 1: to the policy on marijuana. So we want to keep
Speaker 1: an eye out on that. I also was telling you guys, listen,
Speaker 1: it was a bailor basketball game at this point about
Speaker 1: a month ago, alright, where um a guy named mac otiges. Alright,
Speaker 1: he's like an eight seven percent free throw shooter. They're Baylor,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the top teams in the country.
Speaker 1: They won this game by They won this game by five,
Speaker 1: but they were favored by six. Okay. And Macotige starts
Speaker 1: getting death threats, starts getting social media hate okay, and
Speaker 1: you know, the head coach starts coming out talking about
Speaker 1: this and this idea of what they are going to
Speaker 1: have to face. You know, I mean he's getting and
Speaker 1: and and the the quote here and some of these
Speaker 1: articles are saying that he was getting you know, people
Speaker 1: ven mowing him asking for money back because he missed
Speaker 1: those two free throws right, and he's saying he didn't
Speaker 1: even know what a spread was. He was like, he
Speaker 1: won the game, he thought this would be good. But
Speaker 1: that's not the worst of it. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about another guy who has literally be
Speaker 1: going after something like three hundred different players in college,
Speaker 1: in the pros, over in Europe on soccer, and the
Speaker 1: man got arrested. We're gonna talk about this, and I
Speaker 1: want to find out, Alex, where is the line for
Speaker 1: you between heckling trolling, what's appropriate, what's legal, and what's not.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that, and then the big time takeaways
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Speaker 1: Man you know what I mean, and back with a
Speaker 1: little piece of jewelry as well. But I was talking
Speaker 1: about it before, you know, and you heard it. You
Speaker 1: heard it in the commercial break, Okay, my man, Gabe
Speaker 1: Morncy talking about it as well. I was talking about
Speaker 1: this Baylor game of a couple of weeks back where
Speaker 1: Macot you know, and he says, and I quote, it
Speaker 1: can really affect the mental health of some players. I'm
Speaker 1: an older guy, so it doesn't really affect me. But
Speaker 1: we've got younger guys like Jared and Jordan, they're an
Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen years old that might get under their skin.
Speaker 1: If they see that on their Instagram, it may affect them,
Speaker 1: and who knows, it could force even some guys to
Speaker 1: give up basketball. I'm glad they did it to me,
Speaker 1: a stronger, older person. It could have really affected someone else.
Speaker 1: This is a guy playing college for basket for Baylor,
Speaker 1: did not even know what a point spread was his
Speaker 1: team won the game, they just didn't cover okay, and
Speaker 1: he was getting the vile, the vitriol that we are
Speaker 1: now seeing as commonplace. Alex, I want to ask you
Speaker 1: because you know you're a millennial, right, and so I
Speaker 1: kind of try to compare it to if I'm at
Speaker 1: a stadium, I can scream out almost whatever I want. Right, So,
Speaker 1: what is the difference in your opinion between maybe a
Speaker 1: guy getting heckled at the arena and this kind of
Speaker 1: social media trolling that is going on right now, fueled
Speaker 1: I guess by the stakes and the investment raised by
Speaker 1: sports betting. I think my personal take on this whole thing,
Speaker 1: if you're at a sporting event, basketball, soccer, baseball, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to be at, you can go as far
Speaker 1: as taking it to the player based on their skill. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can go, oh, you're the worst first basim I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. You have hands, You've got no handles, your
Speaker 1: footwork is terrible. The second you bit personal about family,
Speaker 1: so like for example, so for example, your throat will
Speaker 1: be severed open with a dull knife. Um, your entire
Speaker 1: family will be beheaded and burned alive. Just a little behind, Okay,
Speaker 1: I will enter your home as you sleep and kill
Speaker 1: you just a little past of line. Interesting, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know where the line is, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know where the line is. But I mentioned
Speaker 1: these because you know you've probably heard the story by now.
Speaker 1: Gabe is talking to about it on the commercial. I
Speaker 1: I threw out the bailer thing as an example, but
Speaker 1: these things are continuing, right, And so twenty three year
Speaker 1: old New York Or a guy named Ben Pat's a
Speaker 1: k a. Parlay Pats, right, He's got something like hundreds
Speaker 1: of social media accounts and it is hitting up all
Speaker 1: sorts of players with this stuff, like I said, severing
Speaker 1: your throat with a dull knife, right, And he is
Speaker 1: the funny part. Here's a funny part, Alex. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's funny, but here's the interesting part. To me.
Speaker 1: This guy hit a ten team parlay back in December
Speaker 1: for one point one million dollars. So what does he
Speaker 1: have to complain about if he's missing a bet here
Speaker 1: were there? He just had a hit. He hit a
Speaker 1: ten team or three months ago for one point one
Speaker 1: million f in dollars. Alex, you don't think that would
Speaker 1: subside some of the hate. How do they not find
Speaker 1: the guy? And actually, like after the minute you you
Speaker 1: fought you win a million dollars, don't they swarm you
Speaker 1: and trying to find out more about you? Word up?
Speaker 1: And he did have his little fifteen moments of fame.
Speaker 1: But then they started tracking this and you know, he
Speaker 1: he went hard on Julian Edelman over the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing, ron Kowski, and you're talking about it.
Speaker 1: You know, he was going after their wives and girlfriends
Speaker 1: and their kids as well, you know. And and in
Speaker 1: my younger, non married days, I I said some nonsense
Speaker 1: in the stands. I said some stuff that I'm not
Speaker 1: pleased with now, you know. But I wonder do you
Speaker 1: think it is a different standard, because I believe, you know, people,
Speaker 1: these trolls, they hide behind the computer also, you know,
Speaker 1: And I believe like when I was doing this back
Speaker 1: in the day, I was at least right there, you know,
Speaker 1: and they saw me, everyone in the section saw me.
Speaker 1: These guys that are not hiding behind the Internet or
Speaker 1: hiding behind their handles. I think it's even more weak, Alex,
Speaker 1: you know, the generational thing. I mean, look at That's
Speaker 1: why I'm asking you about it. Absolutely, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: never wanted to go behind a screen and do it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm right there with you. You're gonna say something,
Speaker 1: you stand up in you, you say it. I I
Speaker 1: face to face like like a man, but or a
Speaker 1: woman or woman absolutely or whatever whatever. Um, But you're right.
Speaker 1: It's just it's easier nowadays a phone, you know, even uh,
Speaker 1: a buzzer in the jersey and things like that to
Speaker 1: cheat the system, whether it be against the game or
Speaker 1: against players. It's it's it's kind of disrespectful and a
Speaker 1: little it is. But here's the other thing, because I
Speaker 1: read some of this article, not the not the one
Speaker 1: about this guy, the twenty three year old New Yorker,
Speaker 1: but back the Bailor kid. You know. Um. Their head
Speaker 1: coach is um Scott Drew. You remember his son, Bryce Drew,
Speaker 1: you know, from Valpo with a big shot back in
Speaker 1: the day, about ten twenty years ago at this point.
Speaker 1: But right, he also said this, though players are dealing
Speaker 1: with mental illness and anxiety these days, and now they
Speaker 1: have more issues to deal with than ever before. Trust me,
Speaker 1: college players weren't dealing with anything like this ten or
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Now. Slow down, though, Okay, because I
Speaker 1: think this is part and parcel of being an athlete.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the college level, maybe okay, you should get
Speaker 1: a pass, but at the pro level, like, I don't
Speaker 1: care if players are dealing with mental illness and anxiety.
Speaker 1: Oh boo hoo. Isn't this part of it? Though? I
Speaker 1: understand when I'm going over the line talking about children, family,
Speaker 1: blunt knives and whatnot, But isn't it part of the
Speaker 1: game to get heckled? You know what you're getting into
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, so like, oh, we have to be
Speaker 1: gentle with these kids. I don't know if I'm all
Speaker 1: the way there yet either, though, Alex, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean to me, that's part millennial softness and part
Speaker 1: these trolls are just shook and hiding behind the computer.
Speaker 1: I think it's really should be something in the middle.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, like, like there's one thing being a troll
Speaker 1: and there's another thing of being disgusting and disrespectful. I
Speaker 1: like being witty, that's the best, you know, and so
Speaker 1: how how can you do that? You know in a
Speaker 1: way that seven year olds around you or the internet
Speaker 1: doesn't understand what you're saying or just kind of laughs
Speaker 1: at it. Being you know, disruptive without disrespectful. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm going for, you know, So we will see. I
Speaker 1: just think it's very interesting. But listen, I deal with
Speaker 1: trolls all the time. As you guys know, if you've
Speaker 1: been on this network, you have seen and heard the vitriol.
Speaker 1: And I just think, you know, especially in this climate
Speaker 1: that we're in, we all need to take a damn
Speaker 1: chill pill, Okay, and especially this dude. I mean, my
Speaker 1: man just is coming off a one point one million
Speaker 1: dollar win and now he's facing five years in prison
Speaker 1: for some of this nonsense that he's putting online. And
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I am completely cool with it. All right,
Speaker 1: we do want to move Vaughan to what is actually
Speaker 1: happening on the field, and Alex you know, you know
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, you know, we have a little XFL,
Speaker 1: but the NFL is starting to come back into focus
Speaker 1: with the new league year happening. We'll get to see
Speaker 1: where this free agent quarterback carousel that we have been
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, where that pops off. But the
Speaker 1: other thing that really happened since I was gone, since
Speaker 1: the last convening of the Status over Beat Cipher is
Speaker 1: the NFL Combine, Alex. You know, and this is always
Speaker 1: interesting to me because you know, you run them out
Speaker 1: there in shorts and and under armour, right and they're
Speaker 1: doing their bench press and they're doing their forty times.
Speaker 1: Nobody had a chance to win an island this year
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But the first thing I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, and we have the poll question up
Speaker 1: because right now, Alex, you know, like seventies some odd percent,
Speaker 1: like two thirds of the people believe that you learn
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing from the combine. Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1: Or are there certain things you can learn? Like maybe
Speaker 1: the teams are more interested in the interviews they have,
Speaker 1: not the one their lick tests, but the interviews they
Speaker 1: have to see if they'll mesh as a culture fit,
Speaker 1: you know, Or are there any of the drills out
Speaker 1: there where you're like, this can actually tell me something
Speaker 1: about their skills. I think what you just said right there,
Speaker 1: based on like the the interviews and whatnot, I think nowadays,
Speaker 1: because we've seen it every single year, will this forty
Speaker 1: dash be broken? No? But it's it's essentially the same time,
Speaker 1: and everybody's fast, everybody's skilled, you know, everybody going to
Speaker 1: the combine has the talent. You said it focusing on
Speaker 1: the interviews maybe coaches. Nowadays, you're gonna start looking at
Speaker 1: character and how they portray themselves. You know, we've seen
Speaker 1: diva's left and right in any sport take over the
Speaker 1: media outlets in the news, and that's what floods timelines.
Speaker 1: How about the guy who stays humble and stays quiet
Speaker 1: and just wants to play football for the love of
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, I agree with you, Alex. I think
Speaker 1: this is less about if you put up a four
Speaker 1: three three or a four three six. I think this
Speaker 1: is less about if you put it up twenty five
Speaker 1: or twenty seven times. I think it is less about, um,
Speaker 1: you know your shuttle run. Although obviously, because here's the thing,
Speaker 1: these scouts they have mom if not years of tape, right,
Speaker 1: and that tape is more than the snapshot of what
Speaker 1: you look like against no defenders in a controlled environment. Right.
Speaker 1: But what you can start to learn about people is
Speaker 1: are these young men? And I mentioned this because the bailor,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the bailor kids, he just said,
Speaker 1: you know, these are eighteen and nineteen year old. What
Speaker 1: I think these teams get a better read on is
Speaker 1: is this young man ready to be a professional, right,
Speaker 1: because you have to prepare for it, right, So you
Speaker 1: should be dominating all the drills at the combine because
Speaker 1: you're practicing for it. But when I get you up
Speaker 1: on the white board, can you process the information when
Speaker 1: I ask you a weird question in an interview? Do
Speaker 1: you exhibit leadership? Can you handle it? Or do you
Speaker 1: crack the Do you fail the drug test, which in
Speaker 1: essence is an idiot test because you know it's coming.
Speaker 1: You know it's coming four months, So if you fail that,
Speaker 1: then you know, I know they may be changing into
Speaker 1: the C B A. But I think it's a you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's more of a test on can you
Speaker 1: are you ready to be a pro fessional? And I
Speaker 1: thought there were some interesting things. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: a little bit now, we'll continue on the other side
Speaker 1: of the break. But I have to um stats that
Speaker 1: I thought were interesting when it comes to the numbers
Speaker 1: that were out there. Right. The first is an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman named Tristan Worth's. Okay, this tackle out of Iowa,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about this guy a while back. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought this guy had some agility for a tackle,
Speaker 1: mobility for a tackle. I saw it on tape when
Speaker 1: he pulled around was blocking dudes twenty yards down field.
Speaker 1: But check this out, Alex tristan Worth did his vertical jump.
Speaker 1: Okay for context A J. Green thirty four and a
Speaker 1: half inches, Ceedee Lamb wide receiver thirty four and a
Speaker 1: half inches, DeAndre Hopkins thirty six inches, Amari Cooper thirty
Speaker 1: three inches. These are wide outs that you need to
Speaker 1: catch radius and extend right. Tristan Worth's thirty six and
Speaker 1: a half inches. Talk about athleticism right there. He is
Speaker 1: a guy that I think is gonna be in the
Speaker 1: mix at the when the Jets pick at like ten
Speaker 1: or eleven. This is a guy I want right now.
Speaker 1: And then you were talking about this also right for context.
Speaker 1: Reps on the bench pressed Rob Gronkowski twenty three, Jadeveon
Speaker 1: Clowney one, Chandler Jones twenty two. Yeah, Alex. Then this
Speaker 1: punter out of Arizona State, Michael Turk, Yeah, he put
Speaker 1: it up twenty five yo. But here's my question, does
Speaker 1: it matter if you're punter is the most YO guy
Speaker 1: in the weight room. I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: it does. I don't know, but I found those things interesting, Alex.
Speaker 1: When we come back on the other side of the break,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. What did you think
Speaker 1: were the biggest takeaways? Who are some people that were
Speaker 1: winners or losers at the combine? Will cover all this
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Speaker 1: After my wedding, I didn't have my voice for like
Speaker 1: three days. Bro, I expect you to come back here
Speaker 1: with like no voices. I didn't have a voice. I
Speaker 1: told Mr Sussman or feeling this leader a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. I was like, yo, man, I got about
Speaker 1: like have voice, and I'm on air for like three
Speaker 1: or four hours on Thursday day, but you know I'm
Speaker 1: coming to post. We always make it happen. We've been
Speaker 1: doing it here on Sports Grade for a while. So listen, Alex.
Speaker 1: We got this pole question up right now. Sixty of
Speaker 1: people right now say the combine does absolutely nothing for them,
Speaker 1: thirty one percent say it helps some, and six percent
Speaker 1: say I now know who I want. And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's absolutely nothing. As I mentioned, I think you
Speaker 1: get to read on the maturity and the professionalism on
Speaker 1: some players you like, you know, it's almost an idiot test.
Speaker 1: You cannot do well, but you can certainly mess it
Speaker 1: up right. And then in some of the skills we
Speaker 1: talked about it, it's funny that the punter, you know,
Speaker 1: you yoked up, you know, pounded out twenty four bench
Speaker 1: bench presses and and Tristan Worth is a guy that
Speaker 1: I was looking at, and I believe now what I saw.
Speaker 1: I also another thing you see, Alex is the depth
Speaker 1: at certain positions. And I think this is very important. Okay.
Speaker 1: There seems to be a good amount of offensive lineman
Speaker 1: in the first round. Okay, I've seen a few that
Speaker 1: have been talked about. Works is not the only one, okay.
Speaker 1: So that's good if you are a team that is
Speaker 1: looking to build in the trenches. And I hope my
Speaker 1: Jets are the other thing I saw, Alex, I've seen
Speaker 1: some mock drafts where my Jets, among others, are looking
Speaker 1: to go wide out in the first round. And correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, Alex, but what I've seen is
Speaker 1: that the wide position, wide receiver position is stacked coming
Speaker 1: out of this draft. I've seen reports that they may
Speaker 1: be as many as twenty wide receivers taken in the
Speaker 1: first couple of rounds of the draft coming up next
Speaker 1: month in April. And I think that makes sense. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that makes sense now because teams, it's a
Speaker 1: passing league. We are moving into your running out three
Speaker 1: wide sets a lot. You need that slight that slot receiver.
Speaker 1: And to be quite honest, because the free agency market
Speaker 1: this year at wide out is thin, you know, since
Speaker 1: I've been gone. Correct me if I'm wrong, Alex, But
Speaker 1: it looks like the Bengals franchise A J. Green. They
Speaker 1: were talking, right, it looks like they'm gonna franchise a J. Green.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a guy that might be on
Speaker 1: the move Amar that would leave Amari Cooper as the
Speaker 1: next man up in the wide receiver market. But it
Speaker 1: seems like Dallas is going to do whatever they need
Speaker 1: to buy Hook or by Crook to retain him. Then
Speaker 1: what we're talking about Alex is like Robby Anderson right
Speaker 1: as like the top of the market. He's gonna get offers,
Speaker 1: which means the Jets will probably not be competitive. But
Speaker 1: it looks like whether it's Henry Ruggs out of Alabama,
Speaker 1: whether it's Jerry Judy all of Alabama, whether it's a
Speaker 1: guy like Jefferson out of l s U or Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb from Oklahoma, it's there are options at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Do you think any of these wide receivers
Speaker 1: really showed the skills to make you want to I
Speaker 1: don't know draft him. At Fantasy. We saw rookie wide
Speaker 1: receivers this year in Fantasy make an impact. My Man
Speaker 1: john over him. Johnson would be an example. My man
Speaker 1: A J. Brown in in in uh Tennessee, dk Metcalf
Speaker 1: coming on late in the season with Seattle. I used
Speaker 1: to say that I don't like the wide receiver in
Speaker 1: year one because it takes some I used to love
Speaker 1: the running backs in year one. But maybe with the
Speaker 1: passing league and the way schemes are coming to the
Speaker 1: NFL people, you know, some of these rookie wideouts may
Speaker 1: need to be on some people's radar. I think it's
Speaker 1: totally right in that one. But I mean what you said,
Speaker 1: it like the league is changing. We're all changing from
Speaker 1: like it's a passing league. It's explosive, the offense is
Speaker 1: all there. But I'm looking at all these top forty
Speaker 1: times and it's like a lot of dbs cornerbas are
Speaker 1: up here to safeties. Are you're seeing these players really
Speaker 1: shine in like the speed test specific interesting and what's
Speaker 1: the you know, is it really that outlandish to expect
Speaker 1: maybe a corner will migrate to like a special teams
Speaker 1: position or even a slot receiver. Your gunners on puns
Speaker 1: those are you know your your special teams coverage? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: That's why I think when when it comes to these
Speaker 1: drafts and in this combine specifically, teams go in all right,
Speaker 1: we need this position. We need this position. But if
Speaker 1: we find a diamond in the roof at a totally
Speaker 1: outlandis position that we could mold and fit into our system,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you take an vantage of that? Right? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And you know we've been talking about the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: um as it relates to the merry go round in
Speaker 1: free agency. And now you know, you don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: Jamis will be on it. We're hearing buzz about Tom
Speaker 1: Brady as well. We already know people like Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: are probably moving on, you know. And there's where we've
Speaker 1: heard though that Cam may stay in Carolina. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll see as the dust settles over the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. But when we were talking then about the draft, Alex,
Speaker 1: remember we talked about toa We talked about, um Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: who I actually think is gonna wind up with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, whether that's at the seven pick or
Speaker 1: if they trade up, you know, to try and hop Miami.
Speaker 1: But um, I'm now hearing a lot of buzz Alex
Speaker 1: about Jordan's love. Okay, this kid out of Utah State.
Speaker 1: I have even heard comparisons to Patrick Mahomes of all people,
Speaker 1: which is probably a little bit too far from me.
Speaker 1: As you start laughing, I understand, right, But when we
Speaker 1: look at some of these guys Alex Dak Prescott third round,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson third round, you know, second round eyes, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the top names that we've heard
Speaker 1: about that we've profiled, whether that's the Joe Burrows of
Speaker 1: the world, the two is the Herbert's you know, everyone
Speaker 1: from like I say, a Jordan's love to a team
Speaker 1: that wants to take a chance on Jalen Hurt and
Speaker 1: actually have it be that kind of system. With the
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback, there are gonna be some fantasy viable quarterbacks
Speaker 1: out there as well. And like we've been saying this
Speaker 1: whole time, like the combine itself, I for for the record,
Speaker 1: I've voted it helps some Okay, yeah, I believe I
Speaker 1: agree with that um And to that point, I think
Speaker 1: the players take more pride in it, if anything, you know,
Speaker 1: they look at it. It's like, oh, I got a
Speaker 1: four five on on my care about their Madden rating, maddening.
Speaker 1: They want to they want to be, they want to
Speaker 1: set a goal for themselves essentially, so it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: if I get drafted. Cool. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: could beat my own forty time once I make make
Speaker 1: a team. Yeah, it sets the precedent, sets the bar,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I think the combin is becoming
Speaker 1: more of a personal player, you know, motivator if anything,
Speaker 1: then a team utilizer. Wept like like as a weapon
Speaker 1: for a team to use. Said of sort of thing.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair. And then I also, you know,
Speaker 1: because we're here on the fantasy freestyle here on sports Grade,
Speaker 1: we talked about what this means for some of the markets,
Speaker 1: right in terms of some of the quarterback in the future.
Speaker 1: Is that sort of thing, but at the running back position,
Speaker 1: and honestly, Alex was when we talk about fantasy sports
Speaker 1: the running back position, that's where rookie running backs can
Speaker 1: do work. Okay, these are guys that are going to
Speaker 1: get drafted this year. Josh Jacobs help people, right, you know, so, um,
Speaker 1: the young running back can be a big piece. There
Speaker 1: are two guys that I want stats beat Cipher to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on one's cam acres out of Florida State, Alex.
Speaker 1: This guy is a mini mouse piece of nothing, but
Speaker 1: he can burn and I think he can be that
Speaker 1: kind of pass catching back in PPR formats that are
Speaker 1: very very important. All right, And the next name I
Speaker 1: want you guys to know is Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: at of Wisconsin. Okay, this guy, in my opinion, You're
Speaker 1: gonna hear other backs, alright. You're gonna hear names like J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbings and others, you know, but I believe Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: um proved himself to be the number one wanting back
Speaker 1: in this class. Atta Wisconsin, So we know a lot
Speaker 1: of running backs have come from there, ran a very
Speaker 1: good forty. This guy is a bigger back Alex Okay,
Speaker 1: and he has he showed I think four three speed
Speaker 1: or four four speed. There you go running back in
Speaker 1: the class. And they thought this guy was a bigger back,
Speaker 1: a three down back. But this is a guy who
Speaker 1: could carry the load like a Devin Singletarry, like a
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Jacobs from this rookie class of this year.
Speaker 1: Totally fine, you're right. I mean he's five to two
Speaker 1: twenty six, he's got a seventeen reps on the back.
Speaker 1: That's a big frame. It's he's very're right, very big frame.
Speaker 1: A seven second three cone drill like the guy is
Speaker 1: all around the field, and I think you're right, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor is is someone we have to have to have
Speaker 1: to keep it on, especially because we're looking at running
Speaker 1: backs nowadays. Now, how I guess you. I don't want
Speaker 1: to use this word, but how disposable are they because
Speaker 1: of the injuries? Yeah? They are? You know, teams, I
Speaker 1: mean every team is using a committee these days, right
Speaker 1: Like there are very very few teams that have the
Speaker 1: quote unquote workhorse back anymore. And I completely agree with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can. I don't know, maybe in in Carolina, in
Speaker 1: Dallas with the Giants and the Jets, maybe one or
Speaker 1: two others around the NFL. Otherwise they're going at it
Speaker 1: by committee. And so what I want to do is,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta look at the roles these guys
Speaker 1: will play. There are gonna be some pass catching backs. Okay,
Speaker 1: that starts slow, but then you know, come on, at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Look at what Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: and Buffalo did towards the end of the season. Look
Speaker 1: what Miles Sanders for Philadelphia did towards the end of
Speaker 1: the season. Okay, So you want to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on these guys as the draft buzz continues. What's up? Point, Um,
Speaker 1: we saw like you look like Derrick Henry, the big
Speaker 1: guy powerhouse dominated the league postseason. He was like the
Speaker 1: face of running backs, say towards the end of the season,
Speaker 1: is the idea that running backs need to have hands
Speaker 1: becoming a necessity? Like are we seeing like obviously I
Speaker 1: just said Eric Henry, you know, to control the playoffs?
Speaker 1: He was the power running back. That's what are we
Speaker 1: gonna see eventually the point where every running back has
Speaker 1: to be able to catch the ball? I believe so.
Speaker 1: I believe so. But and here's the thing though, to
Speaker 1: a point, right, because the other thing we said previously, Alex,
Speaker 1: is that every team is going with a committee these days. Right.
Speaker 1: And so it's fine if one member of the committee
Speaker 1: is that kind of third and one goal line in
Speaker 1: between the tackles guy, Right, But I think more and
Speaker 1: more you need to be versatile because I remember back
Speaker 1: in the day with the Jets, they used to have
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory, you remember him, Alex. He was a he
Speaker 1: was a yeah, he was a pounder kind of back, right,
Speaker 1: And they also had Ladanian Tomlinson. And it was obvious
Speaker 1: to opponents that when Ladanian was in, it was gonna
Speaker 1: be a pass or they might use him out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. When Ivory was in, they knew it was
Speaker 1: going to be more ground than pound, more punch you
Speaker 1: in the mouth. So what I believe teams need to
Speaker 1: do is everyone needs to be able to do everything. Now,
Speaker 1: it's kind of in the NBA. You need to be
Speaker 1: able to switch on all screens, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And here you need players that can do everything so
Speaker 1: that it's not a tell for the defense. Right quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are reading the matchups and stuff. Defenses are doing the same,
Speaker 1: and I think that, to your point, is very important.
Speaker 1: You need the jack of all trades. They are in
Speaker 1: the backfield, so it is not a tell for the defense.
Speaker 1: So you know, safeties don't start to walk down and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. But Alex, what you know, what
Speaker 1: were some of the big takeaways for you from the combine?
Speaker 1: Quite honest, Yeah, I was just gonna say, it really
Speaker 1: is the punter um, you know, being the leader in
Speaker 1: the bench press. But to that point, like I said
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, it's more for the player's benefits.
Speaker 1: So my biggest takeaway is that the combine is becoming
Speaker 1: a player motivator. So as a punter, you're sitting yourself.
Speaker 1: I just led the class in bench press What does
Speaker 1: that mean for the career. I'm just gonna be the
Speaker 1: guy who punts balls down. I'm gonna prove something as
Speaker 1: a punter who not only lead the entire draft class
Speaker 1: in bench presses, but I'm also going to be a
Speaker 1: motivator on the field. I'm gonna do, you know, the
Speaker 1: best punting that I can. Maybe they'll become a field
Speaker 1: goal kicker. To who I think it's more of a
Speaker 1: player personal motivator if anything. All right, Well, we learned
Speaker 1: a lot about some of the players, and then we
Speaker 1: are going to you know, the new league year will start.
Speaker 1: The merry round will continue. When we come back on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break, I get caught up
Speaker 1: on the XFL. We're talking a little bit about where
Speaker 1: I was the last week, and I have come on back.
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Speaker 1: about hashtag Jamaican me Martinez in a little bit. You
Speaker 1: got some picks. Yes, people dancing, having a good old time.
Speaker 1: I'm glad the stats over beat Stiffer is sticking with
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Speaker 1: the early Line, and right here on sports Grid. Alex,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the xfl um because, first
Speaker 1: of all, we've been talking about this for a while.
Speaker 1: The Unders, it seems like, continue to reign supreme in
Speaker 1: the betting markets, so much so that now the totals
Speaker 1: are coming down. I mean I'm seeing totals of thirty seven,
Speaker 1: thirty nine this week expected exactly. So it is interesting
Speaker 1: that Unders are still reigning supreme. And I got a
Speaker 1: question for you, Alex. You know how I've been on
Speaker 1: the Houston Roughnecks. Remember this, I said, this is what
Speaker 1: you're getting. They were my team. They were at plus
Speaker 1: five fifty to win the championship when I got them
Speaker 1: at Week one. They are now plus one and the favorites.
Speaker 1: Remember what I also said, Alex that I thought this
Speaker 1: was driven by the to the dual threat, dynamic quarterback
Speaker 1: play of p J. Walker. Let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: do you think p J Walker gets signed by an
Speaker 1: NFL team? Is he on the merry go round as well?
Speaker 1: For example, the Chicago Bears, what if they needed a
Speaker 1: low risk option to try to push Mitchell Trabinsky. What
Speaker 1: about Miami if they lose out in the two sweep
Speaker 1: Steaks and they want to kick the can down the road.
Speaker 1: What about Tennessee if they don't get Tom Brady, if
Speaker 1: they don't want to spend the money to franchise Tannehill.
Speaker 1: Do you think p J. Walker is on an NFL
Speaker 1: roster next season? So so you go four and in
Speaker 1: the XFL. That's all it takes to get to the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, this dude is the m v P of
Speaker 1: the league. You're absolutely right, he has. He has a
Speaker 1: case for it. The only thing to counter that is
Speaker 1: what is it gonna look like? Two fans if the
Speaker 1: NFL has to dig into the XFL's best team roster
Speaker 1: to get a quarterback, is that I mean there were
Speaker 1: guys from the A A F that then latched onto
Speaker 1: the NFL. Does that speak more for the free agency
Speaker 1: the NFL? Does that speak more for the XFL that
Speaker 1: the talent is there? It's a valid point. We'll find out, Okay,
Speaker 1: But here's what I want to know. What has happened
Speaker 1: in the last week because I remember that Matt McLoyd
Speaker 1: popped off with all access on the microphone and he
Speaker 1: was no longer a starter, right, But it sounds like
Speaker 1: we've had some other transitions, like in Dallas we have
Speaker 1: a new starter as well. Landry Jones is gone. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it right now. Yeah, it looks like land
Speaker 1: he had a couple of injury right. I think he
Speaker 1: had an injury as well. So you tell me, because
Speaker 1: remember I've been on Houston. I've gotten him, right, So
Speaker 1: what do I need to know moving into week five
Speaker 1: of the XFL. One thing, I would definitely keep an
Speaker 1: eye on DC defenders. They were the powerhouse. I They're
Speaker 1: fading right, fading immensely. The week three right before you
Speaker 1: left up they got demolished by the Wildcats, and then
Speaker 1: when you were getting hitched, they got shut out by
Speaker 1: the Vipers. Interesting, So this is a good this is
Speaker 1: a good question, right because d C started hot, now
Speaker 1: starting to fall off the mat and started fall off
Speaker 1: the cliff, defecate the mattress. Right. This week they host
Speaker 1: the St. Louis battle Hawks, and the battle Hawks correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, lost Week one, but have won
Speaker 1: three straight since then, including I believe like the first
Speaker 1: ever kickoff return four touchdown. They got the quarterback Tiamu,
Speaker 1: who's starting to do some things there for St. Louis.
Speaker 1: But the question is, now DC is back at home.
Speaker 1: Do you think St. Louis has built to cover a
Speaker 1: four and a half point road? Uh? You know favorite, Well,
Speaker 1: actually it was a St. Louis one week one and
Speaker 1: they lost Week two. They got they got beat by
Speaker 1: everybody got exactly n um. But to that point, d
Speaker 1: C is home, as you said, and these are the
Speaker 1: two of the best crowd home field advantage team. Really,
Speaker 1: d C they get loued for Cardel Jones. D C
Speaker 1: they get a Loued for Cardel Jones and St. Louis
Speaker 1: they're packing it with thirty thou fans. They're actually gonna
Speaker 1: open the second deck and the stadium St. Louis. So
Speaker 1: it's like, it's it's amazing how quickly these teams have
Speaker 1: have found their their their homes, so to speak, in
Speaker 1: the fandom. But I would definitely keep an eye now
Speaker 1: that d C is home. Those two losses, those two
Speaker 1: blowout losses for d C, we're both on the road
Speaker 1: l A and Tampa Bay, two different types of the country.
Speaker 1: Now now they're home, actually for home for the next
Speaker 1: two weeks and their home and they're getting points okay,
Speaker 1: So that could be a little bit of an upset.
Speaker 1: Special watch out for the DC defenders. And then also Houston,
Speaker 1: the team I'm on. You know, they're laying twelve and
Speaker 1: a half now, but they are home against Seattle this week,
Speaker 1: and you know their total is the only one that's
Speaker 1: still up there at forty six. Houston can score okay,
Speaker 1: And that's why I was on them. June Jones is
Speaker 1: his scheme is doing well. I'll lay the points, okay
Speaker 1: until I see otherwise, I will lay the points in
Speaker 1: Houston is running it up against everybody about Alex After
Speaker 1: this week, we will be halfway done with the XFL season,
Speaker 1: all right, so definitely something to keep in mind. All right,
Speaker 1: A lot of people are asking me, Alex. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys are playing the music and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 1: We did have in fact, hashtag jamaking Me Martinez last
Speaker 1: weekend and it was a lot of fun. Here's what
Speaker 1: I want to do, all right. I want to first
Speaker 1: put up there, um and I know I gave you
Speaker 1: some pictures, guys. I gave you some pictures for us
Speaker 1: to talk about. The first thing is I've been traveling.
Speaker 1: I do not have coronavirus. Okay, I know the antidote
Speaker 1: for coronavirus. It's red stripe and I had plenty of
Speaker 1: those down in Jamaica. It was one of the safest
Speaker 1: places for coronavirus. But you know, Alex, they had a
Speaker 1: m They had an earthquake there a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: a big one, a seven point seven one, and created
Speaker 1: a crazy tsunami between Cuba and Jamaica. And I kid
Speaker 1: you not. There was a boat that shipwrecked up on
Speaker 1: the beach right by the place where we were doing
Speaker 1: our wedding. It just added to the festivities and it
Speaker 1: looks beautiful there. Ye, shipwrecked boat right there on the beach.
Speaker 1: It was a great landmark. So that was beautiful sitting
Speaker 1: that literally arrived there about a month and a half
Speaker 1: ago and it's just been so there we go. That's
Speaker 1: good stuff, right, And then here's what else happened checks
Speaker 1: weather related. I thought you could take that off the
Speaker 1: screen now. And then um, there was a big it
Speaker 1: looked cloudy. Bro it was cloudy and rainy in the morning,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, wedding day, what are you
Speaker 1: dinna do? Right? But its beautiful. It brightened up literally
Speaker 1: right before we were going to start our wedding. It
Speaker 1: turned out to be perfect. Um, the people weren't too hot,
Speaker 1: you know, because it wasn't ninety degrees all day, and
Speaker 1: it really broke out beautiful. So here's some of the
Speaker 1: setting right. Put up the arch, you know, so this
Speaker 1: is where we were when we got married. We're walking
Speaker 1: on there, so that happened. To take that down. Then
Speaker 1: you can see me and my mom walking down the aisle.
Speaker 1: You can show yeah, yeah, so I'm looking good at
Speaker 1: my suspenders making a pop, right, and then there you go,
Speaker 1: and then after it you can show, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: show whatever you want. Um, yep, there's a beautiful sunset
Speaker 1: starting to come on out. And then show me and
Speaker 1: my eighty you can show me and my lady that's
Speaker 1: us that the rehearsal dinner, making it pop off with
Speaker 1: the red stripe in hand. I'm trying to battle the coronavirus, okay.
Speaker 1: And then you know, afterwards, we take some beautiful pictures. Yep,
Speaker 1: there you go for the wedding and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you though, take those but I don't
Speaker 1: need to see myself. Take those pictures off. Take those
Speaker 1: pictures off. Yep. There we are fantastic, all right, So
Speaker 1: as you can see it actually happened. Okay, I got
Speaker 1: to ring the show for it, Alex. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something, but you got I was the scariest I've
Speaker 1: ever been in my life the day after the wedding.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, the day after leading up to it, you know,
Speaker 1: because people say you get nervous. I wasn't nervous. I
Speaker 1: felt good, I felt ready, were ready to go. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a problem. Okay. We're in Jamaica, right So the
Speaker 1: next day, um, we're all chilling on the beach. You
Speaker 1: know it. Everyone kind of reconvenes again. And uh on
Speaker 1: the beach. I go in the water with my you know,
Speaker 1: my god daughter, some of my newest nieces and nephews
Speaker 1: and some family and all this stuff. I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you some than anyone who's been married for a while.
Speaker 1: Tell me what to do, Guys, hit me up on
Speaker 1: Twitter at spit and speeds. I was petrified of losing
Speaker 1: my ring in the ocean, Alex petrified, petrified and because yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I'm going in right and you know, it's
Speaker 1: like it's not slippery or anything, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's new for me to be wearing a ring like this, right,
Speaker 1: And so I go in. Every time I go under,
Speaker 1: I check for it right away. You know, I gotta
Speaker 1: check for it right away to make sure that it's
Speaker 1: still actually on my damn hand. And it was mortifying.
Speaker 1: I was. I was freaking out, bro to the point
Speaker 1: where I literally went back in to the sand in
Speaker 1: my hotel room put the ring away because I didn't
Speaker 1: want it to slip off. And my wife was okay
Speaker 1: with this, Bro, I was freaked out. You were worried
Speaker 1: she was gonna be upset about it. No, I was
Speaker 1: worried that it would fall off and then I'd lose
Speaker 1: my damn ring literally twenty four hours after right down
Speaker 1: at all. I guess the biggest takeaway here is the
Speaker 1: fact that you're lovely now. Wife is not upset that
Speaker 1: you're taking your rings now. She tells me she takes
Speaker 1: it off sometimes, like when they play, when she plays golf,
Speaker 1: or when she's doing certain things like that. And then
Speaker 1: it conducted a poll and I meet people on Twitter
Speaker 1: on YouTube chat help me out what are you doing
Speaker 1: these situations? Like one of these guys, one of my boys,
Speaker 1: told me Alex that he what he does. He has
Speaker 1: a backup ring, like a little silicone ring or some
Speaker 1: cheapie that any day he knows he's going to do
Speaker 1: something athletic or something like that, he switches it out
Speaker 1: or on a vacation, you know. And that it's commonplace
Speaker 1: for people to even take their rings off when they're
Speaker 1: showering and things of that nature. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: what do you think is acceptable? I know you're a
Speaker 1: couple of years away from this, you know. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think I should do?
Speaker 1: From my personal experience? You know what a clotter ring is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like the iris iron hand. I never take my
Speaker 1: clotter ring off. But to that point, a clotter ring
Speaker 1: is not a wedding ring. And uh, I was giving
Speaker 1: it to my uncle. You know, it's not like you
Speaker 1: know how a fiance togain. Yeah, that makes sense. Um
Speaker 1: So I think to that point, the wedding ring obviously
Speaker 1: takes precedents over anything. And what if I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like playing uh, you know, football flag football on satur.
Speaker 1: I personally see nothing wrong with taking it off for
Speaker 1: the activity. I mean, hey, you already said it your
Speaker 1: your your wife is okay with it, and that's the key.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd be I'd be more concerned if you
Speaker 1: had to deal with how dare you take your ring off? Everything?
Speaker 1: If she was like that, she wouldn't be missing Martinez.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Hold on, we got a
Speaker 1: little advice here for you. But do we have all right?
Speaker 1: What we got Dane is someone that has been wearing
Speaker 1: my ring for almost a year now. Yes, I will
Speaker 1: tell you this. When it comes to certain things like
Speaker 1: going to the beach, going to the gym, he's like that,
Speaker 1: take it off. I can take it off, okay, thank
Speaker 1: you are better off leaving it in your room, leaving
Speaker 1: it somewhere, leaving somewhere safe. You'll get another little one,
Speaker 1: like a backup of b ring that like one of
Speaker 1: those silicon ones that could put on just so people
Speaker 1: know I'm taking. It's all of yes, you can do
Speaker 1: that too, or you know, you could just go to
Speaker 1: somebody like, oh, I'm married and I'm happily married. You
Speaker 1: can just tell people that if if the subject comes up, listen,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Thank you, Thank you for the advice.
Speaker 1: Mr Bivona, thank you, thank you. But everybody out there
Speaker 1: at spitting speeds, let me know what I need to do,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. We are in fact back. Here's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, guys. Okay, next week here on Freestyle,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do our Major League Baseball preview, all right, Alex.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go division by division. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: when uh, you know, win loss over unders. We'll talk
Speaker 1: division odds. I'll give you diamonds and fool gazes for fantasy.
Speaker 1: I'll give you my leans for the m v P
Speaker 1: Award to Cy Young Award, all that good stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then we turn into March madness the following week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing in game live. It's the first
Speaker 1: day of the damn tournament. We're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1: But the spitting Statistician is back in the saddle thanks
Speaker 1: to the status Beats cipher and all that good warm wishes.
Speaker 1: I'm out. I give you everything you need to know
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