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Speaker 1: week Tuesday. I know everybody is getting excited, getting ready
Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft, which is going to pop off
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Speaker 1: But that's another topic for another day. We got a
Speaker 1: good show. Like I said, what we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: we're gonna start off by breaking down the running back position.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my you know, my diamonds and
Speaker 1: food gay zees at the running back spot. We all
Speaker 1: know about se Kwon Barkley. But when we get into
Speaker 1: the later part of the first round, the second round,
Speaker 1: you know, day two and three, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what I am looking for out of these running backs.
Speaker 1: And you know it's kind of different flavors, right, different
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Speaker 1: like it's the Super Bowl. We don't know what color
Speaker 1: gatorade will be poured on the number three overall pick,
Speaker 1: but we will have some prop bets, and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you there is some easy money out there, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna go through that. I'm gonna tell you what to
Speaker 1: look for on Thursday night later on in the show.
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Speaker 1: Draft and how excited everybody is. But the thing is, honestly,
Speaker 1: you probably just talk going about the first round because
Speaker 1: then on Friday they do rounds two and three, and
Speaker 1: then are you a die hard that will watch on
Speaker 1: Saturday rounds four through seven? You know, seven hours of
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Speaker 1: want to know. Okay, So we got the poll question
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Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft will you watch this week? Is
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Speaker 1: rounds two and three? Will you watch it all weekend long,
Speaker 1: even though spring has sprung here on the East Coast?
Speaker 1: Or are you not you know, truly invested in It's like, listen,
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Speaker 1: guys that I have on my team. Let me know,
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Speaker 1: let's check this out. Let's start with football today. Let's
Speaker 1: get into some news and note since the last time
Speaker 1: I talked to you guys here on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: First of all, Willie Snead has signed with the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: I think this is a very interesting signing. Okay, two
Speaker 1: years for seven million. And there's a couple of tentacles
Speaker 1: on this one. The first is this is clearly in
Speaker 1: response to Cam Meredith signing with the Saints. Okay, Cam
Speaker 1: Meredith is going to be the number two receiver from
Speaker 1: New Orleans this year, behind Michael Thomas. They still love
Speaker 1: Ted ginn Jr. Right, but he's down the field over
Speaker 1: the top threat, right, So that left Willie Sneed without
Speaker 1: a chair. When the music stops, he goes to Baltimore. Okay,
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I think is interesting on
Speaker 1: this is there were some people out there saying that
Speaker 1: the Ravens could have been a potential landing spot for
Speaker 1: Mr Dez Bryant. You could probably now check him and
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens off that list when it comes to Dez. Remember,
Speaker 1: they in Baltimore still trying to replace Mike Wallace, They're
Speaker 1: trying to replace Jeremy Macklin. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: change over for Joe Flacco in that Baltimore offense, and
Speaker 1: Willie Snead will be a part of it. Okay. We're
Speaker 1: at the time of the year also where teams are
Speaker 1: deciding whether or not to pick up their fifth year
Speaker 1: option on some of the players. And there's some obvious ones.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper in Oakland, yes, right, Shane Ray in Denver, yes,
Speaker 1: what's not so clear if you remember four years ago
Speaker 1: when the Giants had a top ten pick and the
Speaker 1: Giants decided to go ahead and draft an offensive lineman. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't Ronnie Stanley out of Notre Dame, who would
Speaker 1: have been a great pick. No, it wasn't Jack Conklin,
Speaker 1: who would have been a great pick. They decided to
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the tackle out of Miami. Eric Flowers.
Speaker 1: Now it is coming up. Do they want to pick
Speaker 1: up his fifth year option. There's a lot of talk
Speaker 1: that they may not. There's also reports out right now
Speaker 1: that Eric Flowers maybe on the trading block during the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. We are going to see some trades happen
Speaker 1: on Thursday. We're going to see people moving and shake
Speaker 1: and moving up, moving down. Eric Flowers could be on
Speaker 1: the move as well for the New York Football Giants. Also, listen,
Speaker 1: I call this misinformation week. All right, there is nobody
Speaker 1: out there that is giving you what they really think
Speaker 1: at this point. This is misinformation. This is smoke screen status.
Speaker 1: And it continued this morning. Okay, there were reports this
Speaker 1: morning that the Cleveland Browns at number one, are in
Speaker 1: fact considering Baker Mayfield out of Oklahoma. Now listen, over
Speaker 1: the last week or two, I've heard them considering Josh
Speaker 1: Allen out of Wyoming. I've heard them considering Sam Donald
Speaker 1: out of USC. I've heard them considering now Baker Mayfield. Right,
Speaker 1: you hear Rosen in the mix as well. Here's what
Speaker 1: I gotta say. If the Cleveland Browns do truly like Alan,
Speaker 1: like Mayfield, and like Donald, what they need to do
Speaker 1: is number one draft, say Kwon Barkley, and then at
Speaker 1: four they'll get whichever quarterback falls to them. Right, if
Speaker 1: they truly are cool with all three of these guys,
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Jets when they trade it
Speaker 1: up to three and people are like, Oh, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna trade up, you gotta know who you're gonna get,
Speaker 1: And the Jets are like, now, we're comfortable with Baker,
Speaker 1: We're comfortable if it's if it's Donald, we're comfortable if
Speaker 1: it's Rosen. But if you're the Browns, why not do
Speaker 1: the same exact philosophy. Take what everybody believes that the
Speaker 1: generational talent in Sae Kwon Barkley at one, and then
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the Giants go Rosen, maybe the Jets
Speaker 1: go Donald or Mayfield. Regardless, you still have your guy,
Speaker 1: because no one else is as high on Josh Allen
Speaker 1: as it looks like the Cleveland Browns are doors talking
Speaker 1: about he likes the big hands. Okay, so maybe if
Speaker 1: he's into the measurables. His guy will be there at four.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. When we're sitting at this
Speaker 1: table on Thursday night with Corey and Emery and blue
Speaker 1: Wood and maybe first team all lit at about eight
Speaker 1: oh three, you're gonna hear me say the same exact thing.
Speaker 1: Why not grab se Kwan at one? And then whoever
Speaker 1: false you is gonna be under Team Mobile Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: for a year. Anyway, Get the generational talent when you can.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that looks better than Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that looks better than Leonard Fournette.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that looks better than Todd early
Speaker 1: in college. And it all worked out, okay for fantasy
Speaker 1: and real football purposes for those guys. What then, instead,
Speaker 1: what you're gonna wind up with Bradley Chubb when you
Speaker 1: just drafted Myles Garrett? What are you gonna do? Spend
Speaker 1: the top five pick on a guard and quit Nelson?
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. Okay, get the best
Speaker 1: talent available, But then again, what do I know? Right?
Speaker 1: You should obviously just listen to the Cleveland Browns. They've
Speaker 1: been doing it very well, especially there the way they
Speaker 1: decide to pick quarterbacks over the last fifteen or twenty years.
Speaker 1: So here's what I want to do though. Okay, if
Speaker 1: we all know se Kwon Barkley is you know, the
Speaker 1: top running back? Blah blah blah. We've talked about the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I've given you my profile on Donald who I like
Speaker 1: on Rosen who listen. They all talk about him from
Speaker 1: the neck up and his mechanics and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But dude is slow. Dude is not mobile in this
Speaker 1: day and age in the NFL, dude will get concust Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. Alan like people think he's big,
Speaker 1: big Ben, people think he's Carson Wentz. I think he's
Speaker 1: a b U s t all over him. That's okay, Okay, Wyoming,
Speaker 1: who are you playing against? I understand the Wentz idea,
Speaker 1: but I would stay away from him. I like Donald,
Speaker 1: I like Mayfield. I also think that if Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: winds up with the right team, he can be an
Speaker 1: absolutely dynamic weapon. But we talked about the quarterbacks already.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the running backs. I want to give
Speaker 1: you my thumbnail sketch here on the running backs. We
Speaker 1: all know about Tae Kwon Barkley. Right, So that's not
Speaker 1: you know, if if Sa Kwan is this year, Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott or Leonard four Nett, let's all assume that. Let
Speaker 1: me talk to you guys about the you know, the
Speaker 1: five running backs that are under him in my opinion
Speaker 1: that I also believe will get drafted either on Thursday
Speaker 1: or Friday and have a new NFL team before the
Speaker 1: sun rises on on Saturday. And round four of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. Outside of Kwan, there's five guys, okay, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the guy that I actually like
Speaker 1: the best and most people don't. And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: my man, W Shard Penny out of San Diego State.
Speaker 1: This guy is an all around back. He ran four
Speaker 1: four at the combine. This is a guy. Um, The
Speaker 1: question is can he pass protect? Right? But here's the
Speaker 1: thing that's the question about all running backs coming into
Speaker 1: the league. Pass protection is the last thing that backs
Speaker 1: making the transition from college to the NFL usually get.
Speaker 1: So if pass protection is his weakness, let's say, um
Speaker 1: with it. This is a guy. He is a threat
Speaker 1: out of the passing game. He is a threat between
Speaker 1: the tackles. He is a threat on the edge. He
Speaker 1: has the speed to break away. Before Penny, there was
Speaker 1: a guy named Danielle Pumphrey at San Diego State with
Speaker 1: the Aztecs. He's now I believe he got drafted. I
Speaker 1: believe he's on the Eagles. But this is a guy
Speaker 1: who had something like the NC double a record for
Speaker 1: all time scrimmage yards. And now Penny comes in and
Speaker 1: does the exact same thing. Remember the name because he
Speaker 1: is going to go late in fantasy drafts. Remember last
Speaker 1: year we all knew about Leonard four Net, but someone
Speaker 1: found Kareem Hunt in their draft. Someone and found Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara in their draft. I believe that Rashad Penny out
Speaker 1: of San Diego State, the Aztecs, he is going to
Speaker 1: be the guy who makes a team very very happy
Speaker 1: and gets drafted late second or in the third round.
Speaker 1: That is my guy. Okay, there is still four other
Speaker 1: guys I want to talk to you about, and two
Speaker 1: of them are in the same school. Two of them
Speaker 1: are out of the University of Joja, the Joji Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about both of them, Sony Michelle and Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: I want to start with Chubb. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: four year player. His freshman year, Nick Chubb was actually
Speaker 1: the guy behind Todd Gurley. Okay, and in flashes he
Speaker 1: looked awesome. Okay, he looked good as a freshman. Okay.
Speaker 1: He had a big time injury in his sophomore year
Speaker 1: is junior year. He came back many many people think
Speaker 1: he rushed himself back, didn't perform well, but then look
Speaker 1: great again this year as a senior. The comp that
Speaker 1: a lot of people draw is m j D Maurice
Speaker 1: Jones Drew. Why because he's small and he's like five
Speaker 1: ten two five pounds, right. People say he's got good feet,
Speaker 1: he gets in and out of the hole really well,
Speaker 1: he's got disciplined in the scheme, right. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is they talk about how stocky his legs are,
Speaker 1: that he's got a low center of gravity and big,
Speaker 1: you know, big legs that defenders kind of bounce off him.
Speaker 1: That's why I get the Maurice Jones Drew comp. I
Speaker 1: think this guy if in the right system where he
Speaker 1: can square up against the hole and be able to
Speaker 1: run inside the tackles. The only problem with him is
Speaker 1: that many people might perceive him as this kind of
Speaker 1: early down work. Right, he might be perceived as like
Speaker 1: a Jordan Howard kind of guy, a guy that can
Speaker 1: play on first and second down, running between the tackles,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily be that dynamic playmaker that a lot
Speaker 1: of teams are looking for right now. I gotta tell you, though,
Speaker 1: I think this kid is a beast, and I like
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb out of Georgia. Some team is going to
Speaker 1: be very happy with him, I believe early second round.
Speaker 1: The other Bulldog back is Sony Michelle. First of all,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Sony Michelle a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the show. Sony Michelle a k A fly
Speaker 1: guy too Stacks. We'll talk about that a little bit
Speaker 1: later on with stats overbeat Cipher. But Sony Michelle, it's
Speaker 1: kind of more your your zone scheme run like what
Speaker 1: they do in Denver, right They they stretch it out
Speaker 1: the one cut and go hit the hole. Okay, and
Speaker 1: that's what Sony Michelle is. This guy ran a four five,
Speaker 1: which is kind of slower than, like I said, Penny,
Speaker 1: and slower than some other backs. But you know who
Speaker 1: else ran a four five last year. Alvin Kamara ran
Speaker 1: a four five last year, so I wouldn't have any
Speaker 1: kind of problem with Sony Michelle. Sony Michelle had a
Speaker 1: huge game in prime time when the stakes were high
Speaker 1: against Oklahoma in the National semifinal, had over two hundred
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards, and a lot of people believe that of
Speaker 1: these two backs, he is the one who is more
Speaker 1: fit for the two thousand eighteen version of the NFL,
Speaker 1: can more get outside and do more in the passing game.
Speaker 1: There are two other backs that I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about right here. The first is who many
Speaker 1: believe is the number two overall prospect at the running
Speaker 1: back position, and that is Ronald Jones out of USC Okay,
Speaker 1: out of Southern cal Ronald Jones. And this is a
Speaker 1: guy I'm talking This is another one of these between
Speaker 1: the tackles violent runners, Okay, an absolute violent runner. Think
Speaker 1: about Um, think about Chris Ivory, think about Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 1: This is the type cast, This is the mold that
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is out of. A true violent runner. The
Speaker 1: only problem is that this is a guy that doesn't
Speaker 1: really add much in the pass game. This is a
Speaker 1: guy who they're gonna take off the field in third down.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's gonna be part of a
Speaker 1: running back by committee. Think of a Derrick Henry type. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that if you like him for fantasy,
Speaker 1: you want touchdowns and you want rushing yards. This is
Speaker 1: Little Garant Blunt type. Okay. So in in a PPR league,
Speaker 1: I would go ahead and fade Ronald Jones. Similarly for
Speaker 1: the guy out of l S U Darius Guiss guys
Speaker 1: is kind of like Ronald Jones to me, and to
Speaker 1: be honest, when we talk about SEC running backs, what
Speaker 1: happened in Alabama For a lot of these guys the
Speaker 1: Trent Richardson's of the world, right, think about l S.
Speaker 1: You think about the Jeremy Hills of the world. That
Speaker 1: is an apt comparison for guys. He is the guy
Speaker 1: I am lowest on of these running backs. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will say this. He's a power runner. In the last
Speaker 1: two years he had twenty six touchdowns. In the last
Speaker 1: two years he had five hundred yard games and that
Speaker 1: span Leonard four Nette had four. So he has that potential.
Speaker 1: But I am looking for guys that are multiple threats.
Speaker 1: Swiss Army Knives can be on the field all three downs,
Speaker 1: and to me, that is Sony Michelle. To me, that
Speaker 1: is Rashod Penny obviously, say Kwon Barkley, and of these
Speaker 1: bigger in between the tackle guys, I like Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: better than Ronald Jones, better than Geics out of l s. You.
Speaker 1: Here's what we gotta do. We're gonna take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: you guys, um at the top of the show that
Speaker 1: we are going to be joined by Anthony Connors, and
Speaker 1: here he is. Okay, absolutely absolutely so, UM we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into it for uh, you know, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about dk MS, We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: some New York baseball um and all that. I do
Speaker 1: want to let you guys know I have a couple
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball news and notes to get through
Speaker 1: real quick to update everybody, because you know you've got
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball leagu's going on right now. If you're making
Speaker 1: you know, weekly changes or whatever the case, maybe I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. Listen, Chris Bryant was drilled in the
Speaker 1: head on Sunday, right but he passed his initial concussion tests,
Speaker 1: so hopefully it is not a huge deal with Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: I also want to say, listen, on Sunday. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw this, Anthony Brandon Belt had a
Speaker 1: twenty one pitch at bat. Okay, he had a twenty
Speaker 1: one pitch at bad verse him a Briah. He ultimately
Speaker 1: lined out to right field. But here's the thing. Then
Speaker 1: later on in that game he hit a hit a
Speaker 1: home run. Four days in a row. He's hitting a
Speaker 1: home run. Brandon Belt is hot, and he has only
Speaker 1: owned in forty five of fantasy leagues right now. That
Speaker 1: might be someone hot in the streets you want to
Speaker 1: pick up. Also, on the other side of things, when
Speaker 1: we're talking about baseball pitchers, Patrick Corbyn, it's out of
Speaker 1: control right now. He's four and oh one eight nine
Speaker 1: e r A. This guy leaves the NL and strikeouts
Speaker 1: and only thirty three innings. He's got forty eight strikeouts already.
Speaker 1: He has only owned I thought he'd be a hundred
Speaker 1: percent owned. He's only owned in eighty seven in percent
Speaker 1: of league. So right now, you and your boys are
Speaker 1: at the bar. If there are nine of you, one
Speaker 1: of you are in a league where you can go
Speaker 1: ahead and get Patrick Corbin right now. So I like that.
Speaker 1: The other one thing, I'll say, some call ups we
Speaker 1: got so I was high profile rookies. Okay, we start
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Carlos Gonzalez is down on the d L
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. They're calling up David dal who
Speaker 1: was a kind of high profile rookie. UM wasn't hitting
Speaker 1: that well in Triple A, but they're gonna give him
Speaker 1: a shot. He's gonna get at bats. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: as we know, UM over the weekend it was Glabor
Speaker 1: Day weekend for it was Glabor Day weekend for the Yankees. Um,
Speaker 1: Glabor Torre has got his first hit yesterday, high potential rookie,
Speaker 1: number five in the entire Major League Baseball. He's gonna
Speaker 1: come up and we're gonna get into this a little
Speaker 1: bit later on. I don't know, Anthony. I mean, it's well, listen,
Speaker 1: that's high praise, it's absolutely but he he might he
Speaker 1: might start off the same way. Fair enough. I want
Speaker 1: him to be like d D. First, let's baby step,
Speaker 1: let's crawl before we can walk. Let's probably before we
Speaker 1: can walk, right, But listen, without further ado, this is
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Speaker 1: This they probably use some chemo too, but blood. There
Speaker 1: is a absolutely and and oftentimes it is not a
Speaker 1: family member. Wow, often times it's not. And that's why
Speaker 1: we reach out to the fantasy sports community. Okay, because
Speaker 1: we know everybody out there, We know the demographic of
Speaker 1: everybody out there, and that's exactly what they want. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Anthony, Um, how does it feel,
Speaker 1: you know, in essence, like you match with someone? Right,
Speaker 1: you said you don't necessarily know the person, But like
Speaker 1: when you heard that you match, it's not that you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know the person. You do not know the
Speaker 1: first the whole idea of it is that it's anonymous.
Speaker 1: When when I was when I was matched in two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten, I was told and that was about
Speaker 1: a year after I had sent it in, right, you know, well, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't send in. I swapped. I I had left.
Speaker 1: I had stayed in town Friday night, was a hungover.
Speaker 1: The Daily News had written a couple of articles regarding
Speaker 1: you know, this little girl, Jazmina and Nema, six year
Speaker 1: old girl who was suffering from it. And you know
Speaker 1: it's the type of story that you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of have to run it. You know. This is when
Speaker 1: I was working to day on yous and they had
Speaker 1: you know, they ran several again, several articles on this
Speaker 1: young girl pictures, like I said, jewerful. You know, how
Speaker 1: could you not strings clearly? Um? So they were having
Speaker 1: a donor drive at her public school on that Saturday. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'd read about it, and again it
Speaker 1: was one of these things where I just happened to
Speaker 1: be in the place, the right place at the right time, dumblock.
Speaker 1: And so I went over there really just sort of
Speaker 1: an anticipation of maybe just checking it out. You know,
Speaker 1: it really didn't and I'm going in sure, but you know,
Speaker 1: some people it was like when I got to this
Speaker 1: the block, it was like a carnival like atmosphere. Chamus
Speaker 1: sort of sets this stuff up, like you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not just it's not sound, it's
Speaker 1: not it's not clinical, it's not it's not like it's
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like a sterile environment. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, hang out, let's have some fun
Speaker 1: and get some good work done, you know. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly how. And so you know, the next thing, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm swabbing and then I go home, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: you don't even think exactly, And I think that's what Dane.
Speaker 1: I think that's what a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: forget because you know you'll do it. You'll you know, you'll,
Speaker 1: you'll be at a supporting event, you'll be at some place,
Speaker 1: you'll be a donor drive and you'll you'll you'll be
Speaker 1: taken in and you and you do it. You're like absolutely,
Speaker 1: and then you don't hear about and in some cases
Speaker 1: you might not ever hear it even forget about it.
Speaker 1: That the important thing is that not everybody's going to
Speaker 1: be a match, and because it's not everybody's going to
Speaker 1: be a match, you might not ever hear from it
Speaker 1: from from from anybody you know regarding it. So you
Speaker 1: only here after you if you do, in fact match
Speaker 1: with someone, if you potentially matchic. That's the important thing
Speaker 1: as well, is that is that there's a lot of things,
Speaker 1: a lot of protocols that I go through to ensure
Speaker 1: a perfect match. It's it's the initial match, which matches
Speaker 1: up a number of factors, but not every single one.
Speaker 1: It's once once you are matched up initially, that's when
Speaker 1: you decide. You know, they asked you would you like
Speaker 1: to go through with it. You don't have to. No,
Speaker 1: there's no there's no commitment, um. But there's a commitment
Speaker 1: because it's the right thing to do. You know, you'd
Speaker 1: be it's not a good thing if you don't did absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was never any doubt that I was
Speaker 1: going to to you know, go in for a penny,
Speaker 1: in for a pound on this thing. Never any doubt
Speaker 1: that Anthony cons regardless of whether you know, because at
Speaker 1: the time I thought it was like they were going
Speaker 1: to go in more invasive through the back, through the back, yes,
Speaker 1: which you know, which I was like, but you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't care. I was like, you know, you were
Speaker 1: I mean, they said to me, and they gave me
Speaker 1: three things. They told me three pieces of information. That's
Speaker 1: all because again it's an anonymity thing. She was a
Speaker 1: thirty year old woman. Does the information you got about
Speaker 1: the manage woman leukemia? Those three things could be anywhere
Speaker 1: in the world, anywhere in the world, Uh, any kind
Speaker 1: of person, any look, any religion. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. And do you have any opportunity to um,
Speaker 1: maintain contact with this person to say thank you or
Speaker 1: anything like that you're able to send out well the
Speaker 1: postcard or something, you know, because I remember when I
Speaker 1: got my a c L surgery, they gave me a
Speaker 1: little thing of like to send to the family of
Speaker 1: the guy who's ligament I now have in my knee. Um,
Speaker 1: it's true, it's true. And I was like, hey, I
Speaker 1: want to know a little bit about you, like where
Speaker 1: you an athlete, growing up and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: so after you match, if you're if you're a pro athlete,
Speaker 1: you know, send me some tickets exactly so you match
Speaker 1: and you know it's a thirty year old woman who
Speaker 1: may have leukemia. And then after that, what's the process
Speaker 1: like from there? Well, then they do some more testing
Speaker 1: and and in order in order to shore up the
Speaker 1: benefit ees to to to just you know, to know
Speaker 1: whether reliable, whether or not you are a complete match
Speaker 1: or the most match that you can possibly be. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and they poked and prodded me
Speaker 1: a couple of times. I'm a guy. I hate needles,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I'd be an awful junkie. I'd
Speaker 1: never get high, you know what I mean, which is
Speaker 1: not a junkie because that wouldn't also help your blood
Speaker 1: that were donating over here. Whatever it is we want
Speaker 1: to be. We want to have a clean bill of
Speaker 1: health if we're going to save other people's lives, right,
Speaker 1: that's another thing as well. It's another thing as well.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, so I'm glad that I absolutely
Speaker 1: not a friend of needles. But uh but no, so
Speaker 1: so I went through it took it was a little
Speaker 1: maybe six weeks or something like that, and uh and
Speaker 1: and they were like, you know, you're matching up completely. Man,
Speaker 1: you're the guy, You're you're the dude. So do you
Speaker 1: want to go through with it? Because even then you
Speaker 1: still then have the option. Yes, you have the option
Speaker 1: up until the very end said it can't. You don't.
Speaker 1: Don't sign a piece of pay. I'm not signing my
Speaker 1: blood pay, you know, really, I mean, you know, but
Speaker 1: it's the thing to do, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 1: if you really should not bet, I think you know
Speaker 1: it does it doesn't bode well for you. Um but
Speaker 1: then you know, and and and another thing I want
Speaker 1: to point out is the d k m S is
Speaker 1: very very big on making sure that it presents it
Speaker 1: presents no hardship to the donors. Now, like you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when I was with the Daily News, if I needed
Speaker 1: a day off, I got a day off. I got
Speaker 1: paid for it. But there, you know, there could be exactly,
Speaker 1: could be a laborer or something like that. You know,
Speaker 1: you know lots of lots of great hour professionals, you know,
Speaker 1: professions that don't necessarily have that the same type of thing.
Speaker 1: D KMS has got um pools of money that they
Speaker 1: will make up for anyone because they do. It's like
Speaker 1: jury duty they'll pay you for if you don't know, no, no,
Speaker 1: they d KMS will pay you your full freight for
Speaker 1: the day. Give even better than jury duty. You save
Speaker 1: a life. You get compensated. I mean, that's much better
Speaker 1: than having to sit there at the courthouse. They'll compensate
Speaker 1: to you for transport to you need if if need be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you the day, the day of
Speaker 1: my of my donation. You know when when they hooked
Speaker 1: me up to the machine and cycled my blood through
Speaker 1: uh this machine, it did about five times actually, um yeah.
Speaker 1: I I had mentioned in one of the articles I
Speaker 1: wrote for the Daily News, which you can read at www.
Speaker 1: N y Daily News dot com. I here it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not there anymore, but you can still you look
Speaker 1: up my name. You I hear the internet is forever.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely unfortunately for something. You type in my name
Speaker 1: and you will see the the my accounts um and
Speaker 1: uh again you know it cycled is the blood through.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of Keith Richards, you know that, the
Speaker 1: rumors of Keith Richards going to Switzerland to get you know,
Speaker 1: because blood cycling. You know, it's like it's like Switzerland,
Speaker 1: but athletes go out there. Now, Kobe Bryant went to
Speaker 1: Germany for blood spinning. A bunch of Switzerland does three things.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like chalk, we make chocolate clocks. Don't
Speaker 1: forget about Ikea furniture either. So here we are. We're
Speaker 1: here on the fantasy Freestyle. Good good catch, good catch.
Speaker 1: So we're here on the fantasy Freestyle. This is Anthony
Speaker 1: Connors giving his story about how he was in fact
Speaker 1: a match with d K M. Mess. He's telling you
Speaker 1: how easy it is. And now it feels this is
Speaker 1: not the fantasy sports world. This is in real life.
Speaker 1: Anthony was able to help someone out struggling with this horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible disease. Anthony, when we got a couple more minutes left,
Speaker 1: so I've abatly talked a little baseball. Sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit baseball because we were talking
Speaker 1: about it off show, and it sounds like you are
Speaker 1: a big time New York baseball fans, specifically the Yankees.
Speaker 1: So I gotta ask you. I gotta ask you with
Speaker 1: our time. I got two things I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Yankees. The first is we talked about Labor Day, right,
Speaker 1: and but the thing that I loved is you go
Speaker 1: around the horn. Now for the Yankees, we we're talking
Speaker 1: home grown less than twenty eight year old talent right
Speaker 1: more lesson on he falls judges like twenty six. He's
Speaker 1: one of the oldest of the lot. Between Sanchez, Bird,
Speaker 1: Torres and who who will not have even Gardner home
Speaker 1: grown Savy home grown pants is grown? Is this a
Speaker 1: new is this a new cycle of kind of the
Speaker 1: what was the core for in the nineties? Could you
Speaker 1: see these guys having a long run? Absolutely as far
Speaker 1: as as far that that description, absolutely that without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean between Andrew Hard Torres, Uh Birds, Sanchez, yes,
Speaker 1: Bird and um and um D d Gregorious look at
Speaker 1: that infield and look at it infield and Sanchez, But
Speaker 1: San Sanche Sanchez. Sanchez is a bat. I like his
Speaker 1: bat is a passport. Is he's reverted to form everything
Speaker 1: he was, you know when he started off the season,
Speaker 1: so after season he was he was, he was blocked,
Speaker 1: he was the balls weren't getting by him, and then
Speaker 1: it's blocking the balls, framing pitches. He's good. The pop
Speaker 1: time is great, but it is the defensive liability. Other
Speaker 1: thing I want to ask you about Anthony Um when
Speaker 1: we come is you know, we did, however, make the splash,
Speaker 1: making the move for Giancarlo Giancarlo Stanton, and I mean
Speaker 1: going into it like yesterday, notwithstanding dude was hitting one five,
Speaker 1: dude had thirty two strikeouts in eighty one plate appearances.
Speaker 1: That's about strikeout rate that is unsustainable. So I ask you,
Speaker 1: is this something like what is the line? I know
Speaker 1: he went like four four yesterday, raised his average like
Speaker 1: thirty points, But at what point that he had that
Speaker 1: he had that bomb absolutely on the hanging curveball. But
Speaker 1: at what point do you start to get concerned? Do
Speaker 1: you care? Do you want your line up to be
Speaker 1: full of these kind of like three true outcomes guys
Speaker 1: that only strike out or hit home runs and and
Speaker 1: because I don't know how that translates in the postseason
Speaker 1: when you're facing Verlander and Kichel and Cole, when you're
Speaker 1: facing Scherzer and Straussburg. Is that the way you want
Speaker 1: to compose your offense all or nothing? Like Earl Weavers
Speaker 1: the manager here, You're right, it absolutely does not, because
Speaker 1: in the postseason there it's gonna go home. You know,
Speaker 1: right now we've got a lot, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of time exactly word. Yet right it hasn't even warmed up.
Speaker 1: The ball is not even carrying just yet stands you know, California,
Speaker 1: Florida guy. Maybe he's he's not ready for the cold.
Speaker 1: Let's say you know another thing and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: another thing about Stanton. You know this, Stanton Stanton was
Speaker 1: the National Week MVP last year home runs, but his
Speaker 1: average home he's he's he's never hit anywhere near fifty
Speaker 1: nine before. I mean, he came out and he came
Speaker 1: out in two thousand and twenty two home runs, which
Speaker 1: which is amazing. You know, ass had a couple of
Speaker 1: freak injuries, but but he has never really gone above
Speaker 1: like the low thirty and home runs. You know that
Speaker 1: that he has the biggest contract in baseball. He's kind
Speaker 1: of surprised. Do you think the bandbox that is Yankee statum?
Speaker 1: I told you right now, I think I think I
Speaker 1: think that that right field. You see them all of
Speaker 1: a sudden going opposite field right If I asked you
Speaker 1: right now, Judge and Stanton and Sanche combined, if I
Speaker 1: put the over under at home runs, which would bet?
Speaker 1: I take the over? You take the over? I take
Speaker 1: t over. I teke t you over. You don't why
Speaker 1: it because because you know this is probably what this
Speaker 1: is probably what craigy would do, and I think I'm
Speaker 1: in Craig's power. Yeah, partner and friends, Absolutely, we'll check
Speaker 1: this out. We gotta hit a break. This guy over here,
Speaker 1: Anthony Connors thinks that we have a new murderer's role
Speaker 1: on our hands. He's taken the over on a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty home runs. Thanks, thanks for spending a little
Speaker 1: bit time here on the Fantasy freeting. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Before we go, can I just well, we are, we
Speaker 1: got to the break. We got uh, we got thirty seconds?
Speaker 1: What do you got? I just want to thank the
Speaker 1: mighty Quinn at New York Daily News for putting in
Speaker 1: today's uh appearance, and I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody goes to wwwwww d cams dot org slash fantasy Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys. Send it in. You
Speaker 1: can help save a life, just like Anthony Connors did.
Speaker 1: That's very nice for you to say thanks. He's talking
Speaker 1: about over unders when we come back, NFL Draft props
Speaker 1: and over runners as well. Dan Martinez Fantasy ticking Style.
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Speaker 1: Network again, big shout out and thanks to Anthony Connors
Speaker 1: who joined us. This is a guy who submitted it.
Speaker 1: D k MS has really helped someone already with the
Speaker 1: fight against blood cancer. I've told you for months now, Guys,
Speaker 1: swap your cheeks, send it in. Go to d k
Speaker 1: ms dot org, slash fantasy A big, big shout out
Speaker 1: to Anthony Connors holding me down for the last segment.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do. Okay. You know, time flies
Speaker 1: when you're having fun. Okay, So I gotta shout out
Speaker 1: my stats over beat Cipher. I gotta help you win
Speaker 1: a little bit of cash this week. So much to do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring in Danny Otto to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about our rapping athlete. We got a lot
Speaker 1: to do, all right, So first things first, what I
Speaker 1: wanna do? Danny? Are you with me? Can we bring
Speaker 1: in my man Danny Auto for popping off fame here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Network. Danny with me? Man? What's up? Man?
Speaker 1: So first of all, the thing I gotta say is,
Speaker 1: you know, I usually like to shout out the stats
Speaker 1: over beat Cipher. Some of the questions I get on
Speaker 1: Twitter over the week and stuff like that. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, Danny, I got a question from a guy
Speaker 1: on Twitter named Tacos Crunch, and Tacos Crunches question for
Speaker 1: me was, what's up with you? And what's up with
Speaker 1: your show? Danny Otto went popping off? So why don't
Speaker 1: you let everybody know? Right here in the stats over
Speaker 1: beat cipher when can we hear popping off? We can
Speaker 1: hear all of us can here because I'll enjoy it too.
Speaker 1: I'll listen Wednesday nights nine to ten pm, nice right
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Sports Network. Exactly, amazing, amazing. I
Speaker 1: also wanted to bring you in because a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago we talked about Meek Mills visitor log in
Speaker 1: jail and now you know Robert Kraft was coming to
Speaker 1: see him, owner of the Sixers. We're coming to see him. Well,
Speaker 1: sound the alarm. Meek Mill is out everybody. Meek Mill
Speaker 1: is out of prison. He's been released and apparently he's
Speaker 1: gonna be in Philadelphia for Game five of the Sixers
Speaker 1: versus the Heat to inspire the process? Shall we say?
Speaker 1: I think this? You know ties a night neat Little
Speaker 1: Bow on this Meek Mill story. He is free and
Speaker 1: he will be in Philly tonight. All right. Here's what
Speaker 1: I really want to get in too, though. Okay, because
Speaker 1: I didn't have a chance to tell you how to
Speaker 1: make some money in the NFL draft, Okay, and I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you there are prop bets out there. The
Speaker 1: House in uh United Kingdom, William Hill, they have put
Speaker 1: out a ton of prop bets, and I think it
Speaker 1: is very interesting. Okay, you can bet there's a lot
Speaker 1: of over unders. Okay, They'll be like the over under
Speaker 1: on how many Alabama players will get drafted in the
Speaker 1: first round or in the first three rounds, how many
Speaker 1: LSU players, how many Ohio State players, how many Georgia players.
Speaker 1: So if you have an aligned on one of these
Speaker 1: schools and know that talent very well, I think you
Speaker 1: can make some money. They also have questions or propositions
Speaker 1: up about like one player versus another player, like who
Speaker 1: will get drafted first? Um Sam Donald or Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: who will get drafted first? You know, Courtland Sutton out
Speaker 1: of SMU or like Calvin Ridley out of Alabama. Right,
Speaker 1: and you could do those like heads up kind of
Speaker 1: prop bets, and I think there's some interesting ones there
Speaker 1: but I gotta tell you right now, you can bet
Speaker 1: on the number of quarterbacks that are going to get
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round. And right now, I see
Speaker 1: the overunder right now at four and a half. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, right now, take the over. Lamar Jackson will
Speaker 1: get drafted in the first round, Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, Josh Rosen, and Lamar Jackson. The over under
Speaker 1: right now, William Hill is four and a half quarterbacks
Speaker 1: go in the first round. I am telling you right now,
Speaker 1: this is a lock, your boys. He's the smitten satisticition
Speaker 1: is telling you there will be five, if not more. Okay,
Speaker 1: And here's what will happen. Also, if it gets to
Speaker 1: be the end of the night and these guys Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph, whatever is still there and a team wants him,
Speaker 1: they will make a trade to go up to like
Speaker 1: number thirty, thirty one or thirty two overall and to
Speaker 1: get them right there before the day happens. And you
Speaker 1: go to Friday and everybody then resets their board. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now over on the four and
Speaker 1: a half number of quarterbacks that will be selected. I've
Speaker 1: been telling you for weeks that I like Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: that I think he will be able to be in
Speaker 1: the NFL as a quarterback, not a wide receiver. This
Speaker 1: line is based off the fact that a lot of
Speaker 1: people pooh pooh Lamar Jackson. You can get ahead of
Speaker 1: the game and take the over on Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 1: the number of quarterbacks taken in the first round over
Speaker 1: four and a half. They also have the number of
Speaker 1: running backs that will be taken in the first round.
Speaker 1: I just gave you my profile of Barkley, of chub
Speaker 1: of Michelle, of Geiss, of Ronald Jones, of Penny and others. Right,
Speaker 1: there is quality running back talent here. And here's the
Speaker 1: other thing. The NFL is shift. Remember about five years ago,
Speaker 1: it was like, we should never waste that draft capital
Speaker 1: and take a running back. There are a diamond dozen,
Speaker 1: we don't need to invest that much in them. Then
Speaker 1: came Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott and Leonard Fournette, and
Speaker 1: they saw the change that teams who go ahead and
Speaker 1: get that stud running back what it really means for
Speaker 1: them on their team moving forward. Right, the over under
Speaker 1: on running backs is one and a half. Danny, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now. I know that you might not
Speaker 1: be with us on Thursday watching the draft. Go right now,
Speaker 1: wherever you get your action and put in the bet.
Speaker 1: There will be over one and a half running backs taken,
Speaker 1: there will be over four and a half quarterbacks taken.
Speaker 1: And then Danny, do me a favorite. Just give me
Speaker 1: like ten percent of your winnings. It'll be all good.
Speaker 1: Can we do that? I know you can. You're like
Speaker 1: debating it right now. You're thinking, like as that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. The Georgia there's how many Georgia people
Speaker 1: will get taken. And you got both running backs and
Speaker 1: you got um Roquan Smith the linebacker as well. So
Speaker 1: I like that bet as well. The Georgia Bulldogs that
Speaker 1: will go in the first two rounds, I like that.
Speaker 1: And speaking of these Georgia Bulldogs, there is a heads
Speaker 1: up battle um Nick Chubb or Sony Michelle. I think
Speaker 1: this is very interesting. I told you I like Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: but I think the NFL might like Sony Michelle. But
Speaker 1: here's the last part. There is now new medical flags
Speaker 1: on Sony Michelle. There's a lot of teams out there
Speaker 1: that say that his medical didn't come back clean. And
Speaker 1: he may be falling. That's the kind of information you
Speaker 1: need to potentially go ahead and pick Nick Chubb to
Speaker 1: be drafted ahead of Sony Michelle. Right now, Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: in this prop is minus one, Sony Michelle is plus
Speaker 1: one ten. I think that is very interesting. And the
Speaker 1: NFL is trending towards the PPR back that is Sony Michelle.
Speaker 1: But his medical issues may be an issue. But the
Speaker 1: lock solid pick right now over four and a half
Speaker 1: quarterbacks over one and a half running backs. I'll be
Speaker 1: right here on the Fantasy Sports Network on Thursday covering
Speaker 1: the draft and telling you when I just made that cash.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle. One
Speaker 1: thing I want to tell you guys before we get
Speaker 1: into our rapping athletes of the day. The one thing
Speaker 1: I want to tell you guys is I told you
Speaker 1: about UNBC Baltimore, Maryland County, right and the Retrievers. How
Speaker 1: they went ahead and they beat Virginia in the first round,
Speaker 1: the sixteen over the one for the first time time ever.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Well you know the Retrievers are at
Speaker 1: it again. I don't know men's lacrosse, the UMBC Retrievers
Speaker 1: did it again. They beat Albany. They beat Albany by
Speaker 1: the way, the Albany Great Danes. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: had to bring them up right. They beat Albany, who
Speaker 1: was number one in the country for like two months,
Speaker 1: and it was the Umbc Retrievers, who were two and
Speaker 1: seven at the time, took them out. Their goalie Tommy Linger,
Speaker 1: made seventeen saves, including seven in the fourth period um
Speaker 1: to help them with that wind. So these retrievers of
Speaker 1: Umbc are doing big things regardless of their underdogs status.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to shout them out real quick. All right, Danny,
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing. We're gonna get into our rapping athletes.
Speaker 1: We are all NFL draft today. All the time. I
Speaker 1: have been talking about these Georgia running backs for a
Speaker 1: lot of the episode previewing my running Backs, giving you
Speaker 1: some of the prop bets. Well, are rapping athlete today
Speaker 1: is Georgia running back Sony Michelle. Georgia running back Sony Michelle.
Speaker 1: He goes by a k a fly guy, two stacks.
Speaker 1: He has this song called the Georgia Anthem featuring rich
Speaker 1: Homie Kwan, and I gotta tell you something Danny last week,
Speaker 1: I was um, I was impressed, right, I was impressed
Speaker 1: by Julian Turner doing the like mitosis and the Cellular
Speaker 1: Reproduction remix. This guy now, Sony Michelle. He's talking about
Speaker 1: straight football, kind of like our guys the trap game.
Speaker 1: Maestro's weaving in some football. So what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna listen to uh the Georgia Anthem featuring
Speaker 1: rich Homie Kwan, and then we'll break it down a
Speaker 1: little bit. This is Sony Michelle, a k A fly
Speaker 1: guy to stacks, who I project to be an early
Speaker 1: second round pick on Thursday. I guess that would be Friday.
Speaker 1: If it's an early second round pick. Hey, Danny Otto
Speaker 1: down there in the fantasy pit of misery, let's run
Speaker 1: it back. This is Sony Michelle, Georgia Anthem featuring rich
Speaker 1: Homie Kwan. Let's hear a little bit of it. God,
Speaker 1: coach pass every game on the road, but sound for
Speaker 1: they can't come. Coach line back. I got it own
Speaker 1: luck running here, get your smash safety so hard made
Speaker 1: the flag on the bad gotta p s he caught
Speaker 1: it with one hand. Back we scot again. I let
Speaker 1: gonna leave that jumped up. My fan had my old land.
Speaker 1: They make it play now, holding down on the bad game,
Speaker 1: running back like to turn it up, quarterback the truth
Speaker 1: for the bad game. In terms of last name in
Speaker 1: the SEC. We and all that come in and left about.
Speaker 1: You know, we know, hold game. We so hard, We
Speaker 1: prayed hard, we played hard. We the fan. Let's win
Speaker 1: it out. Let get the ring be number one in
Speaker 1: the BCN. Yeah, we're going for we ball game game
Speaker 1: were going for. Okay, So that's a little Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: a k fly guy, two stacks shouting out this Georgia
Speaker 1: teammates talking a little bit about football and how they're
Speaker 1: all the best. What do you think, Danny, I didn't
Speaker 1: hate it, Actually I didn't hate it. Ringing endorsement from
Speaker 1: the leader of pop it off. I I liked it.
Speaker 1: I could follow it along. Yeah, it was more upbeat, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all right, It was all right right. What
Speaker 1: I will say we were going with somewhat of a
Speaker 1: theme of of kind of summary feeling like getting ready
Speaker 1: for warmer weathers that I could feel warmer weather with this.
Speaker 1: Oh really you smell the barbecue a little bit? Yeah? Nice? Okay,
Speaker 1: So Sonny Michelle fits in kind of in the upper echelon.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, better than the fifty percentile um, better
Speaker 1: than our boy Chris ntram Um and some others and
Speaker 1: some others. Better than a Lonzo Ball. Not the level
Speaker 1: of Martin Bagley, not the level of some other guys
Speaker 1: that we have seen so far. But that is the
Speaker 1: draft edition of statso beats right here, the rapping athlete.
Speaker 1: Big shout out, Sony Michelle. Um, Danny, we got a
Speaker 1: few minutes left. Um, I got a new story. I
Speaker 1: got a story for you. Do you remember Danny when
Speaker 1: it was Valentine's Day and I told you about Giannice
Speaker 1: Cumpo and his girlfriend and the gift that he got.
Speaker 1: I do remember you remember the bell that he got? Okay,
Speaker 1: well good, I'm glad you do. Uh. Jonas is in
Speaker 1: the news again. As you know, Giannas Antenna Coompo and
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks. They are up against the Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: in their first round series and that's kind of been
Speaker 1: an interesting series. Um, Giannis in the Bucks. They won
Speaker 1: Game four over the weekend. Okay, and check this out.
Speaker 1: If you're Johonnas, Attenda, Cumpo, Danny and you're in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: You would think that people know who you are, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you would think that after you lead your team
Speaker 1: to a big playoff victory and you're roaming around town
Speaker 1: with your girlfriend, um, the lovely Mariah Um, that you'd
Speaker 1: be able to uh sit down and have a fine meal,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you. Yeah, well that's not the case, Danny. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Um Jihannas and his girlfriend Maria they went to bell
Speaker 1: Air Cantina in Milwaukee after their tremendous game for victory
Speaker 1: and and check this out, they wouldn't sit him. They
Speaker 1: told him, sorry, Giannice, sorry Greek freak, we don't have
Speaker 1: room for you. Then they realized the kind of pr
Speaker 1: nightmare that it was, and they put an apology on
Speaker 1: Facebook for not serving Giannice. Check this out. This is
Speaker 1: bell Air Cantina and Milwaukee quote. We are very sorry.
Speaker 1: We weren't able to sit Gihannas in a timely manner.
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Bucks big win thanks to his tipping and
Speaker 1: the team's great play combined with today's spring weather. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many people turned out, people turned out and droves
Speaker 1: to celebrate, and we had quite a weight and could
Speaker 1: not accommodate Giannice. We are honored he came in for
Speaker 1: a celebratory meal, and we wish we could have accommodated
Speaker 1: him right away. We will welcome him back Thursday after
Speaker 1: another Bucks win and will hold an open table. That's
Speaker 1: a bad look on Danny. I think that's a bad look.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your weight is, I don't care
Speaker 1: what the line is. Giannice comes in. You got a
Speaker 1: table for the man, right. I think if if any fans,
Speaker 1: they would be like, he can cut me. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: just okay, right, I get a picture with it, and
Speaker 1: it's all good. Right. I'll wait another ten fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: for a table. Johnnie can jump me as long as
Speaker 1: I get a little shout out or something. Absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 1: Check this out though the restaurant took it a step
Speaker 1: further because they knew that it was a bad look
Speaker 1: for them. Okay, so they are also if indeed Milwaukee
Speaker 1: wins Game six, which I believe it will be Thursday
Speaker 1: this week, Um, they're going to give a free taco
Speaker 1: for all fans in the city. They're just gonna give
Speaker 1: out free tacos to try to make up for it.
Speaker 1: What do you think good pr move to try to
Speaker 1: make it back a little bit. I guess you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. You think it. You don't
Speaker 1: think it's h you don't think it was good enough. Well,
Speaker 1: nobody's just gonna come in for one taco, so so
Speaker 1: then it's a businesses and come in for one. Then
Speaker 1: we'll upsell you, you know a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: it's good. I think it's a good idea. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. What I will say the last
Speaker 1: piece I'll say about this story real quick, Danny. When
Speaker 1: I saw this story original and I saw the girlfriend,
Speaker 1: and I remembered the girlfriend from Valentine's Day, right, so
Speaker 1: I um and if you don't know what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: a it's messed up that you're not part of the
Speaker 1: stats over beat cipher and don't know and not in
Speaker 1: the chat room and talking talking about it with my
Speaker 1: man strong style of Lance Davis and Jilly Dilley. Jilly Dilley,
Speaker 1: by the way, what you know stable genius and vocal minority,
Speaker 1: thank you. Um So I checked and it's the same girl,
Speaker 1: at least the same woman. I thought that was really
Speaker 1: important because we're two months later, Danny, which two months
Speaker 1: later it could have been a different woman, but it
Speaker 1: is in fact the same girlfriend. Her name is Mariah,
Speaker 1: I do believe. So at least that's good, you know,
Speaker 1: because remember like Lou Williams who had the two girlfriends
Speaker 1: and then broke up a point. So at least it's
Speaker 1: you know, a stable relationship and we like seeing that.
Speaker 1: But I was a little bit, um, I was a
Speaker 1: little bit uh, you know, turned off by Bell and
Speaker 1: Cantina because they didn't have room for giannice. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. Um. So there we are. We're on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. When we got a couple of minutes left,
Speaker 1: checking on the pole real quick. I told you how
Speaker 1: much of the draft will you watch this week? Right now?
Speaker 1: You are saying just round one you're just gonna watch
Speaker 1: on Thursday, Say you're gonna watch all weekend long. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's gonna be nice out this weekend. Alright,
Speaker 1: guys and gals, you need to just watch a little
Speaker 1: bit and uh, don't get it too crazed. Uh and
Speaker 1: then you know, get the post get the post taste
Speaker 1: analysis afterwards, and let me tell you something here on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, it is gonna be me. The Fantasy executive
Speaker 1: Corey Parkson Mike blew It. It's gonna be my man
Speaker 1: Emory Hunt. And if you need to know about college
Speaker 1: profiles of people coming into the NFL, there is absolutely
Speaker 1: nobody better in this business then my man Emory Hunt.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be giving us the thumbnail on everybody who
Speaker 1: comes in and you can check that out on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Network. Next week I will be here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle to break it down, do my analysis.
Speaker 1: Who are the winners, the losers, the diamonds, the gases,
Speaker 1: Who's in a good situation because of the draft, who
Speaker 1: may have just lost their job because of the draft.
Speaker 1: We will break that all down as well, and then
Speaker 1: next week we will be running up to uh, the
Speaker 1: best two minutes in all of sports, And if you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, the best two minutes in
Speaker 1: all of sports is the first Saturday in May, the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby. My man Gabe Mornsy here on the network
Speaker 1: and his horse, Conflict Diamond. You know he's not in
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby, but we always want to shout out
Speaker 1: Gabe in the Conflict Diamond horse. But what's interesting one
Speaker 1: horse that looks like he will be there, although he
Speaker 1: maybe had a little bit of an injury set back.
Speaker 1: Today is Gronkowski. Gronkowski is the number one European horse qualified.
Speaker 1: He's going off right now at thirty five or forty
Speaker 1: two one for the Kentucky Derby. Gronkowski is the horse.
Speaker 1: And by the way, yeah, Rob Gronkowski just purchased a
Speaker 1: part of the ownership of Gronkowski. The horses about six
Speaker 1: ft five inches tall, Gronkowski about six ft five inches
Speaker 1: to all. The funny part is he wants to learn
Speaker 1: how to ride the horse. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: gonna work. We'll check in on Gronk all the horses
Speaker 1: for the Kentucky Derby and the NFL Draft. We'll do
Speaker 1: the autopsy next week. Thanks to my man Anthony Connors
Speaker 1: and the d k M S crew, We're talking NFL
Speaker 1: running backs for the draft. I'm telling you make some
Speaker 1: money on those props. Thats your boy. Day Martinez spees
Speaker 1: the spitting Statistician, Stable Genius and vocal Minority And this
Speaker 1: has been another episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. I'll see
Speaker 1: y'all later this week. I'm out Peach