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Speaker 1: that I think are primed to be moved this summer
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. We'll talk about, um, what some
Speaker 1: teams are doing, who's buying, who's selling, and what the
Speaker 1: implications maybe for real teams and for your fantasy team.
Speaker 1: So the poll question is up right now, who do
Speaker 1: you think we'll have the biggest impact on playoff contenders
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball and of course on your fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball teams. Is it bats? You know, is it. Is
Speaker 1: it people like Machado who are on the block, Maybe
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson, who's on the block. I actually think other
Speaker 1: Orioles may go as well. We'll get into that. Is
Speaker 1: it generally a starting pitcher that's going to move the needles?
Speaker 1: Some of these teams, I believe the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: among them, maybe need some starters to go on after
Speaker 1: the Cleveland's, the Houstons of the world in the American League.
Speaker 1: Or is it bullpen guys like Kelvin Morrera are out there.
Speaker 1: Guys like Zach Britton I believe will be out there
Speaker 1: if healthy. Could a team like the Angels want to
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Speaker 1: you know, some of the news and notes going on
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun this summer. We'll show
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Speaker 1: with some NFL stuff. And to be honest, guys, it's
Speaker 1: tough because you hear me now every morning seven to
Speaker 1: nine am on rohto Experts in the morning right here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and so it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to remember what I've spoken to you guys
Speaker 1: about already and what is news. So I have to
Speaker 1: go back and see last Tuesday, and I'm remind dud
Speaker 1: oh snap. Last Tuesday, right after I came on air,
Speaker 1: the news of Hunter Henry and the Los Angeles Chargers dropped.
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry would torn a c L is going to
Speaker 1: miss the two thousand and eighteen season. Many people had
Speaker 1: him as a top five tight end this year, overtaking
Speaker 1: Antonio Gates role. Now that Gates has moved on, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen, right So in the tight end scheme,
Speaker 1: I think there's plenty of other guys in that, you know,
Speaker 1: like seven through twelve kind of tier that you can
Speaker 1: go on and get. We'll give you my tight end
Speaker 1: rankings another show, but there's ways to deal with that.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you what I believe is gonna
Speaker 1: happen for the Chargers. As you know you may have
Speaker 1: kind of read the tea leaves. I'm I on the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers this season. I think they can do
Speaker 1: some work and I think they will continue to be
Speaker 1: able to do work even with Hunter Henry out. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I believe the beneficiary of this lock
Speaker 1: it in right now, the ascending player because of this
Speaker 1: is going to be Mike Williams. Okay, Keenan Allen is
Speaker 1: locked in as a wide receiver one both of the
Speaker 1: Chargers and for your fantasy team. Okay, you got Tyrell
Speaker 1: Williams out there, But I think Mike Williams is the
Speaker 1: guy who stands to benefit in the red zone. Remember
Speaker 1: he was a rookie that was you know, first round
Speaker 1: pick last year coming out of Clemson. He and Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson won the national championship for Clemson. In my opinion
Speaker 1: over Alabama. This is a big body guy. He is
Speaker 1: the one who can be a threat in the red zone.
Speaker 1: He is the one that I think is going to
Speaker 1: soak up some of the targets that would have gone
Speaker 1: to Hunter Henry. I think you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: bump Mike Williams up in your wide receiver rankings and
Speaker 1: maybe you want to take him a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: On another thing I saw around the NFL, Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: marketing himself trying to get out there. Was doing an
Speaker 1: interview with Josina Anderson late last week kind of basically
Speaker 1: just wildly speculating about teams that he thinks he could
Speaker 1: be a good fit for. He mentions Green Bay. He
Speaker 1: mentioned Houston. He mentions Carolina, but we then later find
Speaker 1: out that there's one team that may actually have some
Speaker 1: interest in him, The Tampa Bay Bucks say there maybe
Speaker 1: some mutual interest. I don't know that that's a good fit.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now. I believe Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: at this point of his career is crazy. He's someone
Speaker 1: you and fantasy owners need to forget about. I hope
Speaker 1: he doesn't wind up in Tampa Bay because I would
Speaker 1: like to see them, you know, play it out with
Speaker 1: the kid Ronald Jones, let him develop, play it out
Speaker 1: with Peyton Barber, let him develop. Unfortunately, my man Pop
Speaker 1: Quiz joc Quiz Rogers is not a viable part. I
Speaker 1: think it's the two of them and Chris Charles Sims
Speaker 1: who needs to be there in Tampa Bay. I hope
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, you know, just takes his ball and goes home. Also,
Speaker 1: lets you know this just happening today, Brandon Marshall decided
Speaker 1: to sign with the Seattle Seahawks. Okay, we told you
Speaker 1: about him taking a visit out there. I was talking
Speaker 1: with my man Mike Florio before. I feel like this is,
Speaker 1: you know, him filling that red zone need him filling
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Graham role that was there last year. You
Speaker 1: think about their other wide receivers, right Doug Baldwin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin a great slot possession kind of guy. He
Speaker 1: is not that ex big kind of mismatched target in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Brandon Marshall, the Machine formerly known as
Speaker 1: the Machine, could do that Jimmy Graham. They're looking for
Speaker 1: that role. Remember Tyler Lockett is more of an in
Speaker 1: space over the top speed guy. Anyway, Amari Darbo. They
Speaker 1: needed this kind of role to be played, and they'll
Speaker 1: get it from Brandon Marshall. I personally like the fit.
Speaker 1: You have to then ask what about other wide receivers?
Speaker 1: Remember I told you about Jemmy Macklin out there as well.
Speaker 1: Eric Decker kind of out there. The question is what's
Speaker 1: up with Dez Bryant. You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: are saying they are now surprised and shocked that he
Speaker 1: is still available. While on social media last week, someone
Speaker 1: asked Dez on Instagram where do you want to play?
Speaker 1: And he responded with San Francisco party Niners. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard. As soon as that happened,
Speaker 1: like a month or two ago, I was right away
Speaker 1: saying I think he'd be good in San Francisco with
Speaker 1: Jimmy g Check the tape, check my Twitter timeline. But
Speaker 1: now he's saying that as well. I think that's an
Speaker 1: interesting fit. You know, that's a team on the upswing.
Speaker 1: You have a solid QB, got Pierre Garson. There is
Speaker 1: the wide out one. But is he really a dominant
Speaker 1: target share kind of guy. No, I think des could
Speaker 1: fit there. Keep an eye on on Dez now that
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall's off the bord, I expect Deaz to sign
Speaker 1: somewhat quickly. You know, it's either he's gonna sign real
Speaker 1: quick in the next week or so, or he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait for an injury or something like that.
Speaker 1: In O T A S And once we get into
Speaker 1: training camps, um under reported story that I just want
Speaker 1: to talk about real quick here on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: um Eli Manning. Y'all remember how Eli Manning had some
Speaker 1: like paraphernalia fraud thing going on last year. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the trial starts, Okay, Eli Manning his fraud trial. Guess
Speaker 1: what we talk about? All domestic violence? We talked about
Speaker 1: performance enhancing drugs. Guess what, fraud also violate the Personal
Speaker 1: Conduct policy, So let's keep an eye out on this.
Speaker 1: I think ultimately it'll be fine. Eli maintains his innocence,
Speaker 1: but you know, the proceedings are ongoing, so I wanted
Speaker 1: to flag that. We'll talk about this a little bit
Speaker 1: later on when we put the fund and functional sports
Speaker 1: radio as it comes to Levy on Bell and the millennials.
Speaker 1: But Antonio Brown also put out this Instagram post of
Speaker 1: him kneeling trying to maybe send the message on where
Speaker 1: he is on the anthem and the anthem kind of debate,
Speaker 1: which I do want to update right now here. On
Speaker 1: a fantasy freestyle last week, I talked about this, I
Speaker 1: compared and you know what, it's not the anthem protest,
Speaker 1: and I want to make that very clear. Okay, We're
Speaker 1: not no one's protesting the anthem. The national Anthem is
Speaker 1: the time and space being used by some NFL players
Speaker 1: to protest police brutality in their communities against people of color,
Speaker 1: police intimidation. This is not an anthem protest. This is
Speaker 1: a protest about police intimidation in neighborhoods with people of color.
Speaker 1: It is not an anthem. Protest. Okay, that's just the venue,
Speaker 1: the time in space, and last I checked when the
Speaker 1: First Amendment when you had the right to uh speech
Speaker 1: and the right to uh peacefully assemble. No one said
Speaker 1: you had the right to peacefully assemble where and when
Speaker 1: the powers that be want you to peacefully assemble. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of where the you know what I
Speaker 1: want to get out. It's actually a protest about police
Speaker 1: brutality and intimidation, not about the anthem. No one's protesting
Speaker 1: against the military or against the United States of America.
Speaker 1: But I digress. You know, we have the anthem. Listen.
Speaker 1: In the last week, there has been some backlash. I
Speaker 1: told you about the Jet CEO, you know, Charles Johnson
Speaker 1: saying yep, he'll take on the fines or any team,
Speaker 1: any any people on the Jets that want to kneel. Also,
Speaker 1: Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellington is now endorsing a boycott of
Speaker 1: the NFL. This is a congressman up in Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: think that's interesting. We're starting to hear rumors that the
Speaker 1: players may try to organize and in mass sit out
Speaker 1: or something like that I don't think that will ever happen.
Speaker 1: I don't think that will ever work, to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: because you actually need players or something like that, and
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get that, Okay, So I don't think unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. I do also want
Speaker 1: to juxtaposed this against something else. I saw this weekend,
Speaker 1: and I said this last week too. You know, I
Speaker 1: was talking about what the NFL is doing in terms
Speaker 1: of stifling this right to free speech around police intimidation
Speaker 1: and brutality and and you know, and and murder on
Speaker 1: some level. But um, and we saw how in the NBA,
Speaker 1: you know, so the case of Sterling Brown, how the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Box, how the NBA come out and support of
Speaker 1: this against the police department. Right. But I want to
Speaker 1: juxtapose it against something else I saw because my man
Speaker 1: Jake Celia Rooto Experts in the morning made this point.
Speaker 1: Other people have made this point that you know, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's they're protesting against the flag. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the case. I think that what happens, though,
Speaker 1: is that the NFL has been in bed was patriotism
Speaker 1: for way too long. You know, these glorious national anthems,
Speaker 1: the B fifty two bombers flying overhead, you know, the
Speaker 1: hundred yard flags that you know, and the veterans that
Speaker 1: are out there that are you know, the NFL pays
Speaker 1: to run these veterans out there. But I digress. Here's
Speaker 1: what I want to compare it to. Over the Memorial
Speaker 1: Day weekend, I was watching a little piece of the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis five hundred. Shout out to my man, will Power, uh,
Speaker 1: which needs to be marketed even more. But I was
Speaker 1: watching it because you know, it was kind of a
Speaker 1: lazy day. It was a Sunday. The weather wasn't that
Speaker 1: great out here where I was, you know, doing my
Speaker 1: little Memorial Day holiday and you know, a little beach
Speaker 1: house action was very nice. Um, but you know, Sunday
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a overcast, kind of rainy day.
Speaker 1: So me and a crew we were inside watching a
Speaker 1: little bit of the Indianapolis five hundred. We're watching the
Speaker 1: first forty five minutes and it was nothing but pageantry. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're introducing the racers and then you know, there's national anthems,
Speaker 1: then there's God Bless America, and there was also a
Speaker 1: straight up prayer. There was a priest out there like
Speaker 1: blessing the Indianapolis five hundred. So not only do certain
Speaker 1: leagues like the NFL wrapped themselves in patriotism, but this
Speaker 1: was just straight up religion inserted into the ind five hundred. Now,
Speaker 1: I know that Indy car is a much more red
Speaker 1: state kind of thing, you know than say the NBA.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about the First Amendment here and like
Speaker 1: the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 1: The second Amendment I do believe is you know, the
Speaker 1: right to bear arms, like in these Bill of rights,
Speaker 1: isn't there also freedom of religion? But no, in the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis five hundred, it was a Catholic affair because there
Speaker 1: was the priest blessing the event and God bless America
Speaker 1: going on. So I just add that to the puzzle, right,
Speaker 1: how these leagues present themselves. Do they wrap themselves in
Speaker 1: nationalism or in religion? And what they do as that perception.
Speaker 1: And I want to just make very very clear what
Speaker 1: is actually being protested against. The one's protest protesting against
Speaker 1: the military. People are protesting against police violence in communities
Speaker 1: of color. But I digress. I wanted to make that
Speaker 1: comparison with the ind five and I also then wanted
Speaker 1: to move to this. You know, we talked about how
Speaker 1: the NFL deals with this issue on the anthem. We
Speaker 1: talked about how the NFL deals with Oh, now, gambling
Speaker 1: is going to be potentially a state by state legalization issue.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again, a state by state legalization issue.
Speaker 1: That's what sports gambling is becoming, right, And the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to have to deal with this, and they're
Speaker 1: kind of cool with that. Wherever the law goes, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be with it. I got another state by state
Speaker 1: legalization issue, and it's marijuana. Right. How is the NFL
Speaker 1: gonna deal with marijuana? Is it the same as they
Speaker 1: will deal with sports gambling? I highly doubt it. Check
Speaker 1: this out. Mike James, who was on the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Bucks among other teams, had a petition into the NFL
Speaker 1: trying to use marijuana formally as a pain killer. He
Speaker 1: said he wants to use it over opioids. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about this, how the opioids are addictive, how there
Speaker 1: is a problem in our country, the benefits potentially of
Speaker 1: marijuana as a pain reliever. Hashtag can athlete out there right,
Speaker 1: he says, and I quote, I'm hopeful that I'll be
Speaker 1: able to keep playing football. It's a game I love dearly.
Speaker 1: I know right now I'm doing something that makes people uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and then I'm going against the establishment to push for
Speaker 1: a change in the way they look at this medicine, medicine.
Speaker 1: I know that there's a greater purpose here for a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in the league who I consider family members.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's on I R with concussion
Speaker 1: symptoms for all two thousand and seven. And you know,
Speaker 1: Goodell is not moving on this. The NFL is not
Speaker 1: moving on this. Meanwhile, you know many states are making
Speaker 1: this legal the same way many states will have the
Speaker 1: decision to make sports gambling legal. But the NFL still
Speaker 1: responds very differently, the same way they're responding to the anthem,
Speaker 1: the same way they're responding to pain medication or marijuana
Speaker 1: or opioids, in a very draconian, archaic way, where instead
Speaker 1: of like the NBA getting ahead of gambling with the
Speaker 1: in play app, getting ahead of things like by supporting
Speaker 1: their players, they continue to view it in this way.
Speaker 1: And that to me is a big time problem. And
Speaker 1: now we have even another example. Baltimore Ravens former running
Speaker 1: back Jamal Lewis has a big piece out on bleacher
Speaker 1: Report right now talking about how he considered suicide many times,
Speaker 1: how he saw his offensive line teammates dying from complications
Speaker 1: of things like CTE and headaches and things he's dealing with,
Speaker 1: the headaches, the memory loss polyps in his lungs. For
Speaker 1: God's sakes, we need to treat this state's rights issue
Speaker 1: the same way as the NFL treats the gambling states
Speaker 1: rights issue. And unfortunately, the NFL is still dragging their
Speaker 1: heels and behind the times on this issue. I'll leave
Speaker 1: it at that, but you know, the vocal minority had
Speaker 1: to say his piece. When we come back on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle, what we're gonna do is, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: my fantasy best friend forever, Mikey Florio. We're gonna check
Speaker 1: in on that old question, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: which MLB players I expect to get traded and the
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Speaker 1: doing a little bit of a Face of Baseball bracket
Speaker 1: right now. Uh. We got the sixteen players in there.
Speaker 1: You can check for that throughout the summer as well.
Speaker 1: I want to give you some news and notes though,
Speaker 1: real quick. Since the first since the last time I
Speaker 1: spoke to you, the Tampa Bay Rays are really trying
Speaker 1: it all out right. They're going with this concept the
Speaker 1: opener instead of the closer. They have Sergio Romo and others,
Speaker 1: but mostly Sergio Romo throwing the first inning and then
Speaker 1: going to like Ryan Yarborough for six, and that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, in certain matchups it could work.
Speaker 1: It's gonna completely mess up DFS lineups right in terms
Speaker 1: of the value there, but keep an eye out on that.
Speaker 1: And then Tampa Bay wasn't done. They go ahead and
Speaker 1: trade their closure uh column a over to Seattle, right,
Speaker 1: So there's a possible opportunity there. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: the guy I like to get saves in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is Alvarado. I don't think it's chas Row. I don't
Speaker 1: care if Johnny Venor's got his first save in a
Speaker 1: couple of years. It was a thirteen inning game, so
Speaker 1: you could throw that one out. I think it's Alvarado
Speaker 1: that gets saves in Tampa Bay. But I do think
Speaker 1: this opener concept is pretty interesting. Let me know what
Speaker 1: you guys think about that and the stats over beat
Speaker 1: Cipher in the chat room. Also, I want to tell
Speaker 1: you that Anthony Rizzo, you know, kind of had an issue.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think that he had a dirty slide,
Speaker 1: you know, in Pittsburgh this weekend. I don't think. Check
Speaker 1: the video, I don't think I think it was a
Speaker 1: good hard play. I don't think there was any malicious intent.
Speaker 1: We had to pull question up this morning sent of
Speaker 1: you did think it was thirty dirty. I thought it
Speaker 1: was just a good hard play. I know my man,
Speaker 1: Mike Florio kind of agrees. The last thing I want
Speaker 1: to mention is a couple of aces returning this week
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Baseball Rosters. Clayton Kershaw will go for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: I believe on Thursday. Madison bum Gardner maybe all the
Speaker 1: way back for the San Francisco Baseball Giants as well.
Speaker 1: Either on Friday or sometime over the weekend, both of
Speaker 1: those guys will start to help fantasy baseball teams. All right,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk with my guy, Mike Florio. He's
Speaker 1: my fantasy best friend forever. You can hear Fantasy best
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Speaker 1: through Friday here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. They're
Speaker 1: also doing a big thing on the stream. You can
Speaker 1: catch him on YouTube. You know their views. You know
Speaker 1: they can almost catch up to a Fantasy freestyle if
Speaker 1: they're if they're lucky, if they got good stuff on
Speaker 1: the show. But I bring in Mike Florio right now, Hey, Mike,
Speaker 1: are you with me down there in the fantasy pit
Speaker 1: of misery? Oh? Waits? First of all, did you see
Speaker 1: that new Dilly Dilly commercial, the bud Light commercial. Um,
Speaker 1: they're doing a new Dilly Dilly commercial. They're talking about
Speaker 1: like bud Light orange and bud Light Lime, and they're
Speaker 1: like presenting gifts not to the king but to the queen.
Speaker 1: And then like the guy that's like the Dilly Dilly
Speaker 1: guy who's like stuck in the pit of misery, he's
Speaker 1: like out chilling on the beach. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, island kind of guard being like Dilly Dilly
Speaker 1: drinking a bud Light orange. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: like that because I think, you know, when you think
Speaker 1: about the old school dungeons and the middieval times, they
Speaker 1: weren't drinking bud Light orange. They weren't drinking flavored beer.
Speaker 1: I think it's a missed opportunity. What do you think, Florio?
Speaker 1: I have not yet seen it, but I mean going
Speaker 1: to be on the lookout, and when I do, I
Speaker 1: will definitely reach out. Definitely let me know. You can
Speaker 1: hit me up on Twitter at spit and speeds. All Right,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the trade targets and listen, this
Speaker 1: is now. You know, we've crossed the unofficial art of
Speaker 1: summer with the Memorial Day holiday, and there are definitely
Speaker 1: some teams that are gonna start to become buyers or sellers. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I have that poll questioned up on Twitter as well,
Speaker 1: Florio in terms of like will it be a bat
Speaker 1: that moves the needle, starting pitcher or a bullpen guy.
Speaker 1: I'll get your thought on the poll question a little
Speaker 1: bit later on. But one team that has decided that
Speaker 1: they are going to be uh sellers is the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals. It sounds like it sounds like they're open
Speaker 1: for business. And so we start in the bullpen. Okay,
Speaker 1: because Kelvin Herrera, I think is a great option to
Speaker 1: be moved. Okay, this is a guy with lights out stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get moved to a team where he may
Speaker 1: not get saves. I'm sorry Herrera owners, including Mike Florio,
Speaker 1: but this could be we talked about this before, Mikey.
Speaker 1: Maybe a team like the Angels, maybe a team, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a team that's in it um in the National League,
Speaker 1: a team like Atlanta with Viscaino being up and down
Speaker 1: a team like Philly the back end of that bullpen?
Speaker 1: Do you see Herrera as someone who can move? And
Speaker 1: do you wear my he go? I think you know?
Speaker 1: Like I said, I think Los Angeles, Philly, and Atlanta
Speaker 1: are potential contenders that can use the back of a bullpen.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? I agree, I think he
Speaker 1: will be moved. I think Mustakis will be moved in
Speaker 1: the last thing you need on a team that's not
Speaker 1: winning is an aging closer. So I add percent think
Speaker 1: Carrera is traded. And I was actually going through the
Speaker 1: standings today and thinking about teams in contention that could
Speaker 1: use a closer, and those three or the teams that
Speaker 1: jumped out to me. All right, so let's think about
Speaker 1: some other bullpen guys. Here's what I'm gonna say. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw out a couple of other names that I
Speaker 1: think could be Um on the move. Florio, you you
Speaker 1: just give me literally like a percent chance that you
Speaker 1: think they're moved, Okay, because I agree with you. Angels, Braves,
Speaker 1: Phillies might be teams that you know, the Yankees don't
Speaker 1: need it, the Red Sox I don't really think need it,
Speaker 1: Astros don't Indians don't. The Brewers certainly don't the way
Speaker 1: they're doing with Hater and Connable right now. Um Dodgers
Speaker 1: have Jansen, you know, and the like. So what about
Speaker 1: you talk about Horrera? You think he's gonna get moved?
Speaker 1: What do you think about Padres closes? Brad Hand another
Speaker 1: team not in contention to to your logic, Florio, a
Speaker 1: team that's not in contention, why would they ever need
Speaker 1: a reliever? What about a guy like brad Hand? Do
Speaker 1: you think he's on the move present chance? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him a pretty low percent, only because they signed
Speaker 1: him to that extension before the year, And I think
Speaker 1: in there, I'm not saying I agree with it, but
Speaker 1: I think in their plan they probably think they're closer
Speaker 1: to competing than they actually are. Okay, what about in
Speaker 1: Baltimore a couple of guys we were talking about before,
Speaker 1: You know, Zach Britton is pitching and simulated games, maybe
Speaker 1: a rehab start outing or two. He should be back
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks for the Baltimore Orioles. The
Speaker 1: Orioles ain't going anywhere. They got the Red Sox and
Speaker 1: the Yankees in that division. I think Zach Britton and
Speaker 1: brad Brock could be on the move. What do you
Speaker 1: think present chance of those guys? I will say brad Brock,
Speaker 1: I think so. And Britain I'm gonna say a little
Speaker 1: bit lower, like ninety, A little bit lower. You think
Speaker 1: both of them are gone? I think the Orioles are
Speaker 1: cleaning house. The only reason I don't have Britain at
Speaker 1: a hundred is because if he gets injured again, like
Speaker 1: if he suffers a setback or something like that, no
Speaker 1: one's gonna trade from sure. But assuming that his rehab
Speaker 1: goes well and he is actually pitching for the Orioles
Speaker 1: in late June, yeah, I think you'll get moved. I
Speaker 1: think they're cleaning house and they're gonna get rid of everyone,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough. So Florio is on record thinking
Speaker 1: that the Orioles will in fact flip whatever they possibly can.
Speaker 1: Here's one other name I have for you, Florio, because
Speaker 1: I like the way you look at it. I look
Speaker 1: at teams that are not contending, that have you know,
Speaker 1: guys with good stuff who can play these roles on
Speaker 1: another team. If we look to the Chicago White Sox,
Speaker 1: what about Nate Jones? Florio, Yeah, I think he is
Speaker 1: a great candidate to be traded. I probably put him
Speaker 1: north of like's like this absolutely. So let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, and you were talking about this as it
Speaker 1: related to uh, you know, some Herrera being a Horrera owner, right, Like,
Speaker 1: do you start to get ahead of this if you
Speaker 1: have a guy like Britain, if you have a guy
Speaker 1: like Harrera, if you have a guy like Jones or Hand,
Speaker 1: there's a possibility that this guy gets traded from a
Speaker 1: ninth inning role where he's getting you saves to a
Speaker 1: even to a thanning role where he's getting you holds
Speaker 1: and you gotta worry about his ratios. Would you ever
Speaker 1: advise listeners and fans of BFF for the Freestyle to
Speaker 1: maybe get ahead of this and suss out the trade
Speaker 1: market and maybe try to flip him ahead of when
Speaker 1: he's getting traded, because these guys, if a contending teams
Speaker 1: dealing for him, unless it's maybe like the Angels, they're
Speaker 1: dealing them to be the seventh raith guy in behind
Speaker 1: their established closer as opposed to become their closer per se,
Speaker 1: even in Atlanta, I think it would be to become
Speaker 1: a guy behind this GUYNO. Let's say so would you
Speaker 1: ever try to get ahead of this and move one
Speaker 1: of these guys? Now? Yeah, I think it's good advice. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I own Horrera and most of my draft in hole weeks,
Speaker 1: but I do think it's well, you can still get holds,
Speaker 1: you can still get holds out of him. Maybe. I
Speaker 1: do also think it's good advice if you if you
Speaker 1: feel strongly about all right, if Kelvin Horrera gets traded,
Speaker 1: this is the guy I think that's going to replace him,
Speaker 1: to start spec ad right now? Yeah? Why not? Like
Speaker 1: it'd be hard in Baltimore because I could see them
Speaker 1: training everybody, trading everyone. It's it's hard with the White
Speaker 1: Sox to pay up a replacement because I certainly don't
Speaker 1: want Yoachim Saria. They don't seem to trust anyone. You
Speaker 1: blow a save, you're gone for Chris so But a
Speaker 1: team like the Royals, a team like the brand Han
Speaker 1: rumors start to come up, Start to see who that
Speaker 1: guy is. Speculative ad on that, because then you know it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you wait until the closer is traded,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be using plus on your of your fab
Speaker 1: on the next guys, the next guy up. All right,
Speaker 1: fair enough um, let's talk about starters real quick here, Florio.
Speaker 1: You know everyone is talking about Chris Archer. I don't
Speaker 1: know if teams have enough to get Chris Archer, right.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take the farm to get Chris Archer, so
Speaker 1: let's put him aside. I got a couple of starters
Speaker 1: that I think could be on the move. I'm a
Speaker 1: Yankees fan, as you know, Florio, what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a guy that can start game two
Speaker 1: of a playoff series. I'm looking for a guy who
Speaker 1: I can slot in right behind Severino but in front
Speaker 1: of Tanaka to match up with this Houston Astros rotation
Speaker 1: and their spin rate, to match up with the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Indians rotation, you know where they're gonna probably go. What
Speaker 1: uh Cluber, Carrasco, Bauer clever injured as the four. We
Speaker 1: need something to match up with that. I don't think
Speaker 1: Archer is gonna get moved because a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: I would love it if the Yankees did. I don'tink
Speaker 1: they're going to trade him in the division. I got
Speaker 1: a couple of names of other starters out there, and
Speaker 1: I want to get your take, which one you would
Speaker 1: uh most want if you're a guy like me and
Speaker 1: a Yankee fan, one is Cole Hamill's who's even talking
Speaker 1: about He's trying to get himself talk his way out
Speaker 1: of Texas, right, veteran guy Lefty built for maybe Yankee Stadium. Interesting,
Speaker 1: although his velocity is down, his k rates down. But
Speaker 1: I digress. There's Hamils. What about a guy like Francisco
Speaker 1: Liriano off to a good start, the Tigers not gonna contend.
Speaker 1: What about a guy like j A Hack the opening
Speaker 1: day starter for the Toronto Blue Jays, but as the
Speaker 1: blue Jays fall out of it, I think he could
Speaker 1: be an option the other guy I want to say,
Speaker 1: because I know you like pitching out there in Arizona.
Speaker 1: What about Patrick Corbin as well? There's also if San
Speaker 1: Diego wants to move a guy like Tyson Ross to
Speaker 1: any of these guys move the needle for you, Floria. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If I'm a Yankee fan, I want nothing to with Lorihanna.
Speaker 1: We just know how it ran. I want no part
Speaker 1: of Cole Hamil's either. I know he's pitching well right now,
Speaker 1: but like you said, there's a lot of red flags
Speaker 1: to show that. I don't want a thirty four year
Speaker 1: old or whatever it is, and I get what he
Speaker 1: wants out, but I didn't even want him as a
Speaker 1: Yankee fan. Uh the other three, Corbin Ross, Hap, I
Speaker 1: would take any of those three. I would rank him Corbin, Hat, Ross,
Speaker 1: but none of them. None of them are ahead of
Speaker 1: Tanaka in a playoff rotation, and I'd still as a
Speaker 1: Yankee fan, I'll run out sec ahead of those guys.
Speaker 1: In a game three setting. I would rather Corby than
Speaker 1: probably Tanaka and CEC. But yeah, I agree, Tanaka slides
Speaker 1: like Ross, and hat would slide in behind Tanaka probably
Speaker 1: be this team's three another name. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this interests you at all, but it seems like the
Speaker 1: Yankees have always been like interested. He heard rumors what
Speaker 1: about Michael Falmer. I would love Farmer. He would be
Speaker 1: my prize over Archer, even you know, because I think
Speaker 1: it would take slightly less to get him. I would
Speaker 1: love Falmer. I just don't think it's gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: would absolutely love Falmer. He would in fact be a
Speaker 1: target for me unless, you know, unless the Mariners want
Speaker 1: to talk James Paxton, unless the Giants want to talk
Speaker 1: Madison Bumgardner, something like that. What about your boy the
Speaker 1: Dark Night, Floria, you think he's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: move Seattle. I'm sorry Cincinnati did say they wanted him,
Speaker 1: because they don't they have a better chance getting a
Speaker 1: prospect for him. Then for Mezzo Rocco, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna shop him. I don't know if they're gonna get
Speaker 1: much out of him, but hey, I mean before this
Speaker 1: last start he was pitching pretty well for the Reds.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's for real, but seeing his velocity
Speaker 1: back up hit ninety seven as a Met fan, it
Speaker 1: feels unfair. So listen, and then when we go to
Speaker 1: the bats, Florio real quick here on the fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: my best friend forever, Mikey Florio. The two bats that
Speaker 1: we all hear about Manny Machado, whether he goes to
Speaker 1: the Cubs, you know, in a package for Russell and Schwarber,
Speaker 1: whether he goes I've heard Arizona the d Backs as
Speaker 1: a place to maybe all help Goldschmidt in the middle
Speaker 1: of that lineup where j D. Martinez bouncing Pollock is gone.
Speaker 1: But you know you talked about Mustakis. I think there's
Speaker 1: some other guys that could prove to be helpful, you know,
Speaker 1: further down like other glue pieces. You know, think about
Speaker 1: a guy like Jed Lowry in Oakland or Jonathan Luke
Speaker 1: Roy also in Oakland. What about a guy like Scooter Jeannette.
Speaker 1: Scooter Janette is hitting like three twenty for the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Reds right now, you know. Or what about a guy
Speaker 1: like um, if you need some power, Avasail Garcia could
Speaker 1: be interesting. This is a guy who rakes against lefties.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a you know, if you gotta
Speaker 1: face Dallas, Kiko or Chris sale As Garcia, he could help.
Speaker 1: Or of course, you know, the Miami Marlins will probably
Speaker 1: look to move jt Real Muto, Justin boor Starlin Castro,
Speaker 1: any of those guys. Uh, tickle your fancy Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think they're all candidates that can be traded.
Speaker 1: Like obviously, there's different levels of it, like Mannie Machado
Speaker 1: is obviously the Mannie Machado and Scooter Janette are a
Speaker 1: little different. Yeah, exactly. But from before the season, I
Speaker 1: thought Scooter Jenette would be traded because they have Nick
Speaker 1: Senzel waiting in the winds. Uh, it just makes sense
Speaker 1: for the Marlins to shot like Boer and real Mutill.
Speaker 1: Like you said, so, I do think there will be
Speaker 1: a lot of bats that do, in fact get dealt
Speaker 1: at the line, and that can really change everything we
Speaker 1: know about this season. Like if Boston goes out saying
Speaker 1: gets one of these things, and I think they are
Speaker 1: now the favorites of the Yankees or vice versa, so
Speaker 1: a lot will be determined. To think about it. Before
Speaker 1: Houston got Justin Verylander last year, I know they were
Speaker 1: one of the favorites, but that was really the move
Speaker 1: that pushed them over the top. Absolutely Okay, so keep
Speaker 1: an eye on these guys. One thing I will say,
Speaker 1: and I know Mike Florio will echo this, if you
Speaker 1: are in an a L or NL only league, save
Speaker 1: your fab budget because if you're in an only league
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Manny Machado becomes available in
Speaker 1: the player universe, you want to make sure you have
Speaker 1: one more dollar than the other guys. Okay, and if
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson goes to the St. Louis Cardinals or something,
Speaker 1: you want to have the money in your fab budget
Speaker 1: when a new player comes into the player universe. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Josh Donaldson last because Florio, they gotta move Donaldson
Speaker 1: because they have you know, by many accounts, the greatest
Speaker 1: play her of all time coming up in Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Speaker 1: But when you have guys like Justin Smoke, young eris Solarte,
Speaker 1: whatever blocking spots, Donaldson, who's going to be a free agent,
Speaker 1: has to get moved if nothing else, to clear the
Speaker 1: way for Vladi Guerrero Jr. In the same way the
Speaker 1: Saints traded Adrian Peterson to clear the way for Alvin Kamara. Right, No,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. The best thing that's happened to
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays franchise is they fell out of contention
Speaker 1: for that wild card spot. If you look at it,
Speaker 1: remember what happened with Kansas City last year. They kind
Speaker 1: of went for it. They didn't trade their guys away,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna You could take a couple of
Speaker 1: years off your rebuild if you trade those guys and
Speaker 1: get prospects. Absolutely. Look what the Yankees did trading Chapman, drinking,
Speaker 1: trading Miller, restarking their pharmacists, and getting guys like Labor
Speaker 1: Torres and the like. So that is the way to
Speaker 1: do it. You know, teams in the next month or
Speaker 1: so are gonna start to be honest with themselves, and
Speaker 1: you need to get ahead of it as a fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball player, save your fab budgets. As Florio said, look
Speaker 1: out for the spec e thanning guys, you know, and
Speaker 1: get ahead of maybe flipping some of these guys before
Speaker 1: you think they may get traded into roles that are
Speaker 1: not still getting saves for your team. Right now, on
Speaker 1: the poll question six pent of you say it will
Speaker 1: be a bat that moves the needle, Machado, Donaldson and
Speaker 1: the like. I kind of think it could be a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Listen, if someone gets a quality starting pitcher
Speaker 1: Florio mentioned Verlander last year for the astros um that
Speaker 1: could really change the shape of the playoff race and
Speaker 1: of the playoffs itself. Onlycent of you think that. Of
Speaker 1: you say the bullpen as well. Hit me up at
Speaker 1: spitting speeds on Twitter. When we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put the fun and functional sports radio. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen a Gallagher comedy routine? Well, if you haven't, come
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Speaker 1: and we are now joined by my man Danny Otto.
Speaker 1: He is one of the hosts of popping off right
Speaker 1: here on this network Wednesday night. You gotta catch him.
Speaker 1: They do good things over there, and I got my
Speaker 1: man Danny because uh, you know, we're doing big things here.
Speaker 1: I told you I got something over here. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into in a hot second. He usually manages the
Speaker 1: chat room right there with the stats over Beat Cipher.
Speaker 1: We got strong Style out there, big shout out to
Speaker 1: strong Style as always talking about how this he'll turn
Speaker 1: Nakamura is his best self. I kind of agree with you,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, strong style probably going from listening to
Speaker 1: fantasy freestyle right into apparently like w w E SmackDown
Speaker 1: where apparently a strong style Shinsky Nakamura will make it pop.
Speaker 1: Also in the stats over Beat Cipher real quick in
Speaker 1: the chat room, m s r F Is asking me
Speaker 1: if this is a good or a bad trade. He's
Speaker 1: given up Adrian Beltray to get Ryan Braun and Miguel Cabrera,
Speaker 1: and my natural question would be like, well, what about
Speaker 1: your third base situation? He says, he already has third
Speaker 1: basement in Jake Lamb and Chris Bryant and in my
Speaker 1: guy Vlad Camaro Jr. So because of that, and even
Speaker 1: before that, yeah, do the trade, get Ryan Braun and
Speaker 1: get Meggi Cabrera. MSRF, you boys, spitting statistician says, pull
Speaker 1: the trigger on that, but I digress. Hey, Danny otto
Speaker 1: Um Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer and
Speaker 1: on Rhodo Experts. In the morning last week before we
Speaker 1: went in, I was talking about barbecues with The King's
Speaker 1: goot Angle, and I was saying, one of the things
Speaker 1: I like to do is soak watermelon in alcohol. Okay,
Speaker 1: a little tip for your barbecue. Okay, I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit late, but it works for all
Speaker 1: barbecues all year long, all summer, for all summer, and
Speaker 1: so uh, the King's goot Angle was on something like
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that. I need to come to
Speaker 1: your barbecue. You're aware of this idea of you know,
Speaker 1: soaking watermelons. Absolutely. Yeah. I had a little amendment to
Speaker 1: that because because the way that we used to do
Speaker 1: still do it. Who's this? We got it? Got it.
Speaker 1: Most of my stories are just roommates tonight. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: we get drunk um, but it's you You take a
Speaker 1: full watermelon and you kind of corkscrew into it and
Speaker 1: drill into it or something like that, and then you
Speaker 1: just stick a bottle upside down in it and it
Speaker 1: soaks it up over the course of overnight. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm with that. It could go that way,
Speaker 1: and you can also cut it in half, and poor man,
Speaker 1: you could just take the slices, you know, the chunks,
Speaker 1: and like dip them maybe into something. So many ways
Speaker 1: to get your freak on at a summer barbecue. Okay.
Speaker 1: And if you are watching right now on the YouTube stream,
Speaker 1: on the Facebook stream, on the Twitter stream, you see
Speaker 1: that we have some shot glasses here. Danny talks about
Speaker 1: when it's his friend, it's time to get drunk. We're
Speaker 1: here putting the fun and functional sports content. If you
Speaker 1: see the stream I mentioned Gallagher, Danny, what do we
Speaker 1: have here is yo? Shout out to Jim Sias, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, what do we got here? We have Captain
Speaker 1: Morgan's watermelon smash. Okay, it's there's summertime. Captain Morgan's addition
Speaker 1: to their shot family. It's an addition to their shot family.
Speaker 1: So they have that that cocoa nut. Yes, very tasty,
Speaker 1: taste tested, very tasty approved. Yeah, we went through like
Speaker 1: three bottles. Yeah, we taste test today, we tasted it,
Speaker 1: we taste, we taste final. It was like a semester.
Speaker 1: But yes, we had to make sure absolutely what are
Speaker 1: we doing with this water? I don't know anymore? Okay,
Speaker 1: So it is what the watermelon smashed by cap and Okay,
Speaker 1: so what do we gotta do here? Because all I
Speaker 1: got legit? We got a watermelon here. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: show everybody. We got a watermelon right here, and I
Speaker 1: got a mallet, as Gallagho would. So what are we
Speaker 1: supposed to do with this? Danny It says, uh, simply
Speaker 1: as the name suggests, use the included mallet to smash
Speaker 1: the watermelon. Oh boy, so the party is about to
Speaker 1: get started, right, is that what we're doing? All right?
Speaker 1: So I mean here live in Studio thirty four Rock
Speaker 1: and Riley's. We're gonna smash this darn watermelon and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see what happens. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We got shot glasses. We're ready to go. Here Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Man Danny Auto
Speaker 1: from Popping Off. We're gonna have some Captain Morgan's watermelon smash.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in the splash zone. I hope
Speaker 1: you might be in the splash zone. You might be
Speaker 1: in the splash zone, but only live once. Right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see what happens. You know, this is like exclusive
Speaker 1: content Fantasy Freestyle Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Jim Size. All right, I'm just gonna bang this all right,
Speaker 1: for it we go, don't not break it, you better
Speaker 1: hit it, all right, Let's see what happens. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and what do we have? This is like the President inside, guys,
Speaker 1: it's the President inside Captain Morgan's watermelon splash. You need
Speaker 1: to go out and get this. It's gonna make any
Speaker 1: summer barbecue good. Whether you soaked the watermelon in alcohol
Speaker 1: or you have the watermelon flavored alcohol. Either way, this
Speaker 1: is how he gets down. Danny want to do the honors.
Speaker 1: Crack it. I can smell it already. I can also
Speaker 1: thanks to Jim, because we broke the damn thing all right,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden we got these watermelon
Speaker 1: uh Captain Morgan shots we're gonna have here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle Shout out to my homegirl, Jilly Dilley. I
Speaker 1: feel like anytime I have a package, I'm opening it
Speaker 1: to you know, it's a shirt from her or something.
Speaker 1: But we're doing other things right now. Oh man, Danny
Speaker 1: Otto is making it pop right here on Fantasy Freestyle. Watermelon.
Speaker 1: If you know about speeds, the spitting statistician. You know,
Speaker 1: I will have a fruity drinker too, all right, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna check that out. As Danny's getting us ready
Speaker 1: for that, We're gonna also bring in our guy JP
Speaker 1: the night out because we've got another rapping athlete to critique.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the stage here real quick. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let that play, and we're gonna drink as well. Listen
Speaker 1: to Levan bell I like it, alright, that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. So listen Levan bell As you know, franchise
Speaker 1: tag thinks he deserves more money. Levan bell A k
Speaker 1: A juice. We've profiled him, shout out Captain Morgan. Um,
Speaker 1: we've profiled him before as well. On the rapping athletes.
Speaker 1: He just dropped the track last week, and it's called Target, Danny.
Speaker 1: And it's called target because he thinks he is being
Speaker 1: portrayed as a target in the media, and so he's
Speaker 1: now using his lyricism to an essence negoti ate his
Speaker 1: contract out there in public. That's smart, It is kind
Speaker 1: of smart. Let's see if he's actually a good rapper though. Um. So,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're gonna have JP play
Speaker 1: a little bit down there the night out. He's gonna
Speaker 1: play a little bit of this track called Target from
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell A k A Juice, Danny and I.
Speaker 1: We're gonna listen to it. We're gonna do a watermelon
Speaker 1: shot and we'll let you know what we think after
Speaker 1: this sound good. JP were ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it fantasy freestyle Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell his track called Target right now cheers, but goes
Speaker 1: on my wallet eball line on Bell Wallace. I can't
Speaker 1: do one thing about it. H. So they put me
Speaker 1: on the tag. Definitely not gonna track. But I got
Speaker 1: that bad guy. I wonder why they like the bad guy.
Speaker 1: You said I ain't the best. That's a bad guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a new one. But I won't just leave me along.
Speaker 1: If I do what you want and you want me gone,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say you're being really grass. The way you
Speaker 1: switch up, the way you switch up on he's talking
Speaker 1: about the Steelers. You can see him, you can see
Speaker 1: him doing shows. So you think I'm out of shape? Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: that's enough. That's Levan Bell. We can rock that, JP.
Speaker 1: Thank you. H Danny, we've talked a little bit before,
Speaker 1: and first of all, you re uped on the watermelon shots. Nice.
Speaker 1: I like it was great, Like, yeah, we love the shots.
Speaker 1: What was better, Danny? The watermelon smash shots or the
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell versus new offense to Levy on Bell?
Speaker 1: But the Captain Morgan watermelon smash clearly, clearly better. Clearly.
Speaker 1: Remember how we talk about that Southern wrap and how
Speaker 1: it's kind of lazy. I think that fits into this category.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a New Yorker, right, so I like kind
Speaker 1: of some lyricism out there. And you know, Levan, you
Speaker 1: got your point and all cool, but I'm going with
Speaker 1: the watermelon smash. Watermelon smash cheers. Hey, so JP, you're
Speaker 1: also out there on there in the fantasy pit of misery, Dilley, Dilley, Um,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this Levy on Bell track
Speaker 1: target where he's trying to negotiate a little bit um,
Speaker 1: you know in his verses? Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you.
Speaker 1: I'm not really feeling it. I mean it's cool because
Speaker 1: like you gotta like in depth look at like what's
Speaker 1: going on with him in the Steelers. But on that
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not really feeling like the track itself,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, no, I I understand. Listen.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing he taught. There was an
Speaker 1: interview with Antonio Brown recently where even Antonio Brown was like, listen,
Speaker 1: he needs to show up, you know, if he wants
Speaker 1: to kind of negotiate instead of doing this in the media.
Speaker 1: I talked a little bit earlier JP about Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: kneeling on Instagram kind of making his voice known, JP, Danny,
Speaker 1: is that really just a millennial athlete? You know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to come out and say it. You like
Speaker 1: something on i G. You come out with a rap verse,
Speaker 1: you know, you put something on blast on Twitter, you
Speaker 1: tag something to someone else. You know, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a gen xer, I'm not a millennial. Is this pretty
Speaker 1: much like part and parcel. This is just part for
Speaker 1: the course for the millennial athlete. Is this the way
Speaker 1: it has done these days? Because some people don't really understand,
Speaker 1: but this is the way people are communicating these days
Speaker 1: on the internet, in social social media, we see people
Speaker 1: posting workout videos and all sorts of stuff. Is this
Speaker 1: kind of just the sign of the Times, Danny, I,
Speaker 1: I yeah, I think so. I think, uh, social media
Speaker 1: becomes more and more and more important because they can
Speaker 1: reach so many people and they can do it anywhere
Speaker 1: from any time. And here's the other thing, Danny, you
Speaker 1: have like plausible deniability. You know, all the time you'd
Speaker 1: be like not not not someone hacked my account, you know,
Speaker 1: or you could like take something down real quick. To me,
Speaker 1: it fits into like how these millennials have no accountability,
Speaker 1: no responsibility, JP, Do you care? Do you care to answer?
Speaker 1: Do you care to retort? Because I think this is
Speaker 1: a very low stakes way when you're anonymous or on
Speaker 1: the internet, or you could just take it down, or
Speaker 1: you could just be like, nah, I wasn't talking about that.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that, you know. I think this is
Speaker 1: the way the MILLENNI those are doing things. JP. You're
Speaker 1: a millennial. We talked about when you just went to
Speaker 1: prom about three weeks ago. What do you think, JP?
Speaker 1: Is this the way? Is this the right way for
Speaker 1: athletes to pick their fights and negotiate and make their
Speaker 1: stances known social media these days? JP? I'm kind of
Speaker 1: on the athletes Like page just because I see if
Speaker 1: how frustrating it could be. Probably if you're not getting
Speaker 1: that deal, you're not getting what you want, and then
Speaker 1: you can go out and so easily have the public
Speaker 1: on your side by just sharing your opinion immediately and
Speaker 1: being like, hey, everyone agrees to me because you've just presented.
Speaker 1: So you like the access that social media affords, like
Speaker 1: to the athletes getting it direct from them, Like, it's
Speaker 1: not we don't need the player Tribune anymore. We can
Speaker 1: go straight to the athletes on I G or Twitter
Speaker 1: or whatever have you on snapchat, whatever it is. Yeah, absolutely, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: fair enough. Hey JP, um, I know you haven't had
Speaker 1: one yet, but what do you think will be better?
Speaker 1: The watermelon smash here by Captain Morgan shout out to
Speaker 1: Jim Sias or the Levy on beltrack. I was gonna
Speaker 1: vote for for the drink after I heard the first
Speaker 1: without even trying and trying. Well, we'll hook you up
Speaker 1: down there in the fantasy pit of misery. Dilly dilly
Speaker 1: to JP tonight out hooking it up. He's twenty one
Speaker 1: years and three days old, So we're gonna make that pop, Danny.
Speaker 1: What's going on on popping off? Speaking of popping off?
Speaker 1: And you know how We're gonna help out JP pop
Speaker 1: off a little bit over here. UM, what's going on on?
Speaker 1: Popping off? I was talking to um Scott Angele and
Speaker 1: what he did over the weekend was he saw Deadpool
Speaker 1: two and he saw Solo. He told me he thought
Speaker 1: dead Bull to dead Bull, dead Pool to shout out
Speaker 1: to Captain Morgan's watermelon smash, Um, Deadpool too. This is
Speaker 1: the spitting statistician, the stable genius and vocal minority. Um.
Speaker 1: He said Deadpool two was really good. He thought it
Speaker 1: was better than the first one. I thought it was
Speaker 1: really good. He said Solo was and he gave it
Speaker 1: three out of five stars and just didn't believe the
Speaker 1: actor that was playing Solo. UM. I know you are
Speaker 1: very well versed in these sorts of issues. Uh, what
Speaker 1: do you think about scott Angles review of these two movies?
Speaker 1: I for the most part agree with Scott. Actually, Um,
Speaker 1: Deadpool two was incredible. If if you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go see it, check it out, go see it.
Speaker 1: It's I will see this. It's not a movie that
Speaker 1: you have to see in the theaters because it's it
Speaker 1: will still translate when you go see it, Like if
Speaker 1: you see it at your house, or I can catch
Speaker 1: it in Netflix and chill later on in a few months. Right.
Speaker 1: But it's a great movie. So if you want to
Speaker 1: support them, because maybe they'll make a third one, if
Speaker 1: if they get a really good box off showing type
Speaker 1: of thing, you want to do that, it's worth it.
Speaker 1: It's worth the movie ticket. Okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Star Wars. I went in before you even start up.
Speaker 1: You're like, and then Star Wars and I see your
Speaker 1: voice kind of change. But here's the thing. It seems
Speaker 1: like you're prepping me for disclaimers, Danny. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I have a love hate relationship with
Speaker 1: Star Wars the original trilogy. I have a love hate
Speaker 1: relationship with Watermelon Smash Well. I will later on exacting
Speaker 1: on how many we take. Um. I love the original trilogy.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching it as a little kid. My
Speaker 1: my dad introduced it to and stuff like that. The
Speaker 1: prequel trilogy was the first set of new Star Wars
Speaker 1: movies made in my lifetime, Like that was made in
Speaker 1: my lifetime. I was supposed to be the target market
Speaker 1: for that. I don't like any of them. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of them I'll watch I'll watch episode three,
Speaker 1: I'll watch episode two even, but never episode one again.
Speaker 1: I'd like to forget about that. Um And But ever
Speaker 1: since the prequel ones, I've liked the newer Star Wars movie.
Speaker 1: I loved Rogue one. I thought that was great and
Speaker 1: that didn't have any of the main characters really in it.
Speaker 1: That that the the main story arc has um Episode seven,
Speaker 1: episode eight, those were good. Episode seven was better than
Speaker 1: episode eight. But that's my opinion. Um. But I went
Speaker 1: in with the with the solo movie, um optimistic but
Speaker 1: worried just because, like I had heard some stuff and
Speaker 1: unfortunately your warries were founded, not really leaving it. And
Speaker 1: I gave this to Nando because Nando was given was
Speaker 1: was having a talk with me too before this. I
Speaker 1: went in nervous and but optimistic, and I went out going,
Speaker 1: you know what, it was better than I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be. Ah. Disappointment is a function of expectation, right,
Speaker 1: So if you put the bar real low, it was
Speaker 1: not that easy to trust me. Relationship advice for everybody
Speaker 1: out there in the status of a beat cipher and
Speaker 1: for the unicorns out there, if you keep the bar
Speaker 1: of expectations low. It's that much easy to hop over
Speaker 1: it right, under promise and over deliver. Here's what I
Speaker 1: will say. One thing though, Um Infinity War and Deadpool
Speaker 1: two came out right before Han Solo. If perception, if
Speaker 1: these have been in a different kind of order, maybe
Speaker 1: people like whatever movie I see after Godfather too. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna like like Avengers Infinity War. Just I mean,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it yet, I'm not gonna spoil anything,
Speaker 1: don't do it. But if you haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: go see in the movies. It deserves a movie visit.
Speaker 1: Deadpool two was just amazing because I'll have to check
Speaker 1: that out and see those two. Those are knocking out
Speaker 1: of the park. There's there's no chance any movie was
Speaker 1: really going to climb to those kind of expectations. All right,
Speaker 1: fair enough, do me a favor. We only got a
Speaker 1: minute left. Let's do one more. Are shoutouts Captain Morgan's
Speaker 1: helping us out here in the Fantasy Freestyle. I gotta
Speaker 1: be on air tomorrow morning at seven am seven to
Speaker 1: nine am Rhodo Experts in the Morning right here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network with a man Scott Angle
Speaker 1: and of course the all in kid Jake Seely and
Speaker 1: what I want to do here is last check on
Speaker 1: the poll of you think Machado, Donaldson or a bat
Speaker 1: is what's gonna move the needlecent of you say a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher like Hamil's happen. Maybe a Tyson Ross that
Speaker 1: we've talked about. A lot of people though think it
Speaker 1: is a bullpen piece, Kelvin Herrera, Zach Britton, Brad Hand,
Speaker 1: maybe Nate Jones, as I discussed with Mike Florio. If
Speaker 1: you want to hit me up on Twitter at Spitting Speeds,
Speaker 1: how can we find you on Twitter? Danny at Danny
Speaker 1: Otto or popping Off show. Absolutely, it is the unofficial
Speaker 1: start of summer. Next week will do another rapping athlete,
Speaker 1: will break down a little NBA Finals talk, and I'm
Speaker 1: also gonna start my division by division previews. We start
Speaker 1: off in the a f C South. I give you
Speaker 1: my diamonds, I give you my fool gazies, the guys
Speaker 1: to forget about. We look at the edule and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you how to win your leagues and win that
Speaker 1: cash it your boy. Dame Martinez Speeds, the spitting Statistician,
Speaker 1: the stable genius and vocal minority and This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle with memoir and Danny Otto. Cheers to the
Speaker 1: fantasy pit of misery. Mike Florio p J JP Night Owl.
Speaker 1: It's JP. I'll catch you next week. BA