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Speaker 1: you gotta stay out there, gotta stay relevant, and as always,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a poll question up. Here's the poll
Speaker 1: question today is what issue do you really think is
Speaker 1: the priority for the NFL this offseason. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about all the player movements as always, but there's
Speaker 1: some other issues that are definitely out there. One, if
Speaker 1: you know, because you've been listening to speeds and the
Speaker 1: stats over beat Cipher, because I'm talking about players safety,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about the concussion protocol. We talked about
Speaker 1: it all playoffs long as it related to Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: as it related to Rob Gronkowski, as it related to
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. And you know they're going to sort of
Speaker 1: quote unquote make some improvements. We're gonna see what the
Speaker 1: enhancements are with additional unaffiliated neurologists. They're seeing if they
Speaker 1: can handle it centrally. Is that the biggest issue we
Speaker 1: need to talk about over the off season or is
Speaker 1: it how they define a catch? We almost talk about
Speaker 1: it free single week. Remember the big Steelers Patriots game
Speaker 1: late in the season. It even came to pass into
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with the touchdown that Zach Hurts had that
Speaker 1: people thought might have gotten overturned. Chris collins Worth certainly did.
Speaker 1: Will we be able to redefine a catch or is
Speaker 1: it other pieces of say officiating technology we saw this
Speaker 1: year they break out index cards to try to measure
Speaker 1: was it a first down or not to see if
Speaker 1: it was you know, they could fit the index card.
Speaker 1: And do they have to get better with the technology.
Speaker 1: We've seen things like the overhead cams and pylon cams,
Speaker 1: all these next gen stats. Can they really take that
Speaker 1: to the next place. If you want to get your
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Speaker 1: the fantasy freestyle, just let me know, hit me up
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Always be hollering at the poll. Some people
Speaker 1: always getting down Clayton Trey hand Liberty Finder and the like.
Speaker 1: But let's get into some of these news and notes
Speaker 1: around the NFL right now, because later on in the show,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start doing my division by division previews from
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. We're gonna kick that off with the
Speaker 1: A L. West. But we do have some news and
Speaker 1: notes around the NFL. The first thing, and this is
Speaker 1: this is kind of hot off the presses in this
Speaker 1: could have impact in the free agent market. Uh. Former
Speaker 1: Bengals quarterback A. J. McCarron actually won his grievance with
Speaker 1: the NFL. This was about a two game stint that
Speaker 1: the Bengals put him on like kind of the non
Speaker 1: football injury list, thus affecting his service time. Okay, but
Speaker 1: he won his grievance. He does, in fact having enough
Speaker 1: service time to be a free agent. He is going
Speaker 1: to be in the mix. Now. Remember, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna wind up with the Cleveland Browns. And here's why.
Speaker 1: Because people are talking about or they're gonna throw all
Speaker 1: this money at Kirk Cousins. If I'm Kirk Cousins, I
Speaker 1: want to go to a team that's close, not Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I want to go up to Minnesota where on the
Speaker 1: final piece. I want to go to Denver where I
Speaker 1: could be the final piece. I want to go to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville where I could be the final piece, not in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: All right, So if you remember back in the seasons,
Speaker 1: the Browns tried to trade for AJ mccarroen Hell, they
Speaker 1: did trade for a J. McCarron, but in true Cleveland
Speaker 1: Brown's fashion, they couldn't get the April work to the
Speaker 1: league in time and so it didn't go down. I
Speaker 1: think this time around his former coach, Hugh Jackson, remember
Speaker 1: he was in Cincinnati, he is going to make the move.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make the offer and get a j mccaren
Speaker 1: I think to be in the quarterback mix. Notwithstanding, they
Speaker 1: still can go ahead and draft a quarterback coming up
Speaker 1: in April and the other news. Check this out. Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 1: Johnny Football is trying to make a comeback. He's first
Speaker 1: of all, you know, I want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to him because I guess he's been diagnosis bipolar.
Speaker 1: He's kind of working through it. I think he's shown
Speaker 1: some maturity in this last time around, and he's saying, listen,
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna come back trail. I know I
Speaker 1: gotta work for everything. I get. He's gonna be in
Speaker 1: this spring league that the uh that football is doing. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be four teams. It's kind of a two
Speaker 1: week showcase. Johnny Manzel is gonna be in that. We
Speaker 1: heard rumors about him being in the XFL. The Hamilton
Speaker 1: Tiger Cats and the CFL have been recruiting him. But
Speaker 1: so we'll keep an eye off for the next uh
Speaker 1: you know move for Johnny Football. Also in Denver. It
Speaker 1: looks like listen, if you listen to the show. I
Speaker 1: know my man Pete stan Island was loving us when
Speaker 1: we talked about Davontae Booker as that running back for Denver.
Speaker 1: I was on him. I thought he was the heir apparent.
Speaker 1: I said it was going to happen. There are now
Speaker 1: multiple reports out there that they really want Booker to
Speaker 1: be that lead running back in Denver. It looks like
Speaker 1: c Jamison may be done with the Broncos. He was
Speaker 1: actually critical of them firing their runnings back coach previously,
Speaker 1: Eric Studsville, so he could be on his way out.
Speaker 1: Davontae Booker rising in value, especially in keeper leagues. The
Speaker 1: Lions may in fact be interested in Dion Lewis. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is something I mentioned. I mentioned Deanon Lewis on
Speaker 1: my last episode where you saw me Live at a
Speaker 1: Studio thirty four. I was talking about Dion Lewis may
Speaker 1: try to go somewhere else. I think the Lions could
Speaker 1: be a good suitor for them. Remember the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Mac Patricia just went over there to become their new
Speaker 1: head coach. That do have a hole at running back.
Speaker 1: I fantasized about the idea of Levian Bell going back
Speaker 1: to Michigan, but Dean Lewis could be an interesting fit there.
Speaker 1: From my mom, Jim Bob Cooder. You know, I gotta
Speaker 1: get Jim Bob uterin anytime I possibly can to add
Speaker 1: him to the Merry Go round out there in Detroit. Also,
Speaker 1: last episode, I talked about how I didn't think Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald did want to come back. I thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: he probably could recognize that with a new coach, the
Speaker 1: new quarterback, that he would kind of be part of
Speaker 1: a rebuild. Why do that, you know, to to cap
Speaker 1: off your career. But reports are now coming that he
Speaker 1: has told his new head coach world Stick he will
Speaker 1: in fact come back to the Arizona Cardinals. So listen.
Speaker 1: If he's gonna come back, he's gonna be a very
Speaker 1: productive receiver. It will be their number one receiver. I
Speaker 1: just hope it doesn't, you know, all um, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of fall off cliff for Larry Fitzgerald. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: coming back to go a little bit higher on some
Speaker 1: of those all time list. But here's what I want
Speaker 1: to do. I want I had the full question I'm
Speaker 1: there before when we're doing this segment here, you know,
Speaker 1: here on the site for on a Fantasy Freestyle. What
Speaker 1: I want to talk about are some of these things
Speaker 1: that I think are gonna be big offseason stories outside
Speaker 1: of player movement. Okay, later on in the month before
Speaker 1: the draft, before the new league year, we're gonna preview everything.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll preview, you know, we'll preview the draft, preview
Speaker 1: the biggest injuries that you need to watch in the
Speaker 1: off season people coming back on the implications of those,
Speaker 1: will preview free agent situations, maybe position by position. I
Speaker 1: gave you a little bit of insight in that on
Speaker 1: the last show earlier this week. But there's also some
Speaker 1: other topics out there. And the first one I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is, you know, the concussion protocol, players safety,
Speaker 1: the brain injuries. You know, you hear me talk about
Speaker 1: the pain medication that goes into this as relates to
Speaker 1: players safety, the tour goal and how I'm an advocate
Speaker 1: for cashtag cat athlete. But there were actually a record
Speaker 1: number of concussions in the NFL reship, all right, there
Speaker 1: were two d eighty one concussions this year, the most ever,
Speaker 1: well at least in the last like six thoughts and
Speaker 1: ten years since they've actually been tracking the damn things.
Speaker 1: They've only started tracking them since two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 1: But here's my take on it. Okay, I don't get
Speaker 1: what the NFL is doing. The NFL is actually coming
Speaker 1: out saying that this is a bad thing, like they're
Speaker 1: disappointed that the numbers are up. It's something that they
Speaker 1: challenge on. They want the numbers to go down. I
Speaker 1: think this is a better another example of why this
Speaker 1: is a poor way of looking at it. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think the fact that they had this many concussions
Speaker 1: is a good thing. You know why, because that means
Speaker 1: they're identifying them. Okay, that means they're putting a focus
Speaker 1: on them. The two eight one are more than ever,
Speaker 1: but the major increase was forty five that were found
Speaker 1: in practice. We're talking about practice, Yes, we're talking about practice.
Speaker 1: This would have never been the case, you know before
Speaker 1: they would have just kept on running them out there.
Speaker 1: That is actual sensitivity two players safety. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: it's not about trying to get the number down. I
Speaker 1: think because we're putting an increased attention on it that
Speaker 1: it's actually a good thing. But the NFL shouldn't still
Speaker 1: shouldn't have this combat if messaging around it. Later on
Speaker 1: this spring, we're gonna have back our licensed athletic certified
Speaker 1: trainer Um, Thomas Lowe, because we've been talking to him
Speaker 1: a lot about the concussions, about concussion protocol, about the
Speaker 1: tent on the sideline. So we're gonna bring him back.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's actually a good thing because
Speaker 1: they are now identifying concussions and they're teaching people how
Speaker 1: to tackle, and they're finding them in practice. They're not
Speaker 1: letting them play in the game coming up, and that's
Speaker 1: actually a good thing as it relates to players safety.
Speaker 1: The other part here that we're gonna be hearing about
Speaker 1: left and right. Okay, We're gonna be hearing about this, um,
Speaker 1: you know, all the way through offseason workouts through because
Speaker 1: what we're also gonna have this, we're gonna have players
Speaker 1: retire out of nowhere. That's been happening the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. Okay, Um, well, we're gonna also be hearing
Speaker 1: about is this idea of what is a catch? Okay,
Speaker 1: because we've been hearing about it in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: the Jesse James play in terms of it was a
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd play earlier this year and like Week two
Speaker 1: where he made the catch, took like four steps then
Speaker 1: rolled out of aunds kind of like almost by the
Speaker 1: tunnel and then let loose is the ball. Then it's
Speaker 1: called the incomplete pass instead of a touchdown like it
Speaker 1: should have been in that game for the New York
Speaker 1: Football Giants. Okay, but here's the thing. It sounds like
Speaker 1: Goodell is open to actually I acknowledging that this is
Speaker 1: an issue that needs to be worked on, and I
Speaker 1: think this is the the first domino that really needs
Speaker 1: to fall for this to happen. Okay, check out what
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell said recently. He says, quote, I am not
Speaker 1: just somewhat concerned. I am concerned. He said, when you know,
Speaker 1: when this was on Colin Coward Show, he said, it's
Speaker 1: particularly in going to the ground that I think it
Speaker 1: is creating a lot of the confusion. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's this idea, the line of when do you become
Speaker 1: a receiver and when do you become a runner? All Right,
Speaker 1: And so for example, in the Jesse James catch in
Speaker 1: the Steelers Patriots game, they said he was still a receiver.
Speaker 1: He had not turned into a runner. So despite the
Speaker 1: fact that he had crossed the plateau of the goal line,
Speaker 1: he is still a receiver. So because of that, you
Speaker 1: have to maintain it through the catch and through the ground. However,
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, made the catch and then because
Speaker 1: he you know, I guess the term was made tattoo
Speaker 1: step and made a football move, then he is then
Speaker 1: a runner. So as soon as crosses playing the goal line,
Speaker 1: you know, it is in fact a touchdown, and anything
Speaker 1: that happens after that is no invoid. But they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to think about this. You show the Corey commends catch,
Speaker 1: They're gonna really have to look. They're gonna really have
Speaker 1: to look at this. But here's this is what I
Speaker 1: think is a funny part. Rogerodella said that he's established
Speaker 1: a panel. He has established the panel of five Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame wide receivers and coaches, and they're going to
Speaker 1: present um their recommendations to the owners at the owner's meetings.
Speaker 1: That like the beginning of March, the middle of March,
Speaker 1: it's right around the start of the new league year,
Speaker 1: when the free agency buzz is going to be happening.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna see some player movement, but this
Speaker 1: is also gonna happen. So I want to drop people's
Speaker 1: attention to this. The you know, Hall of Fame wide
Speaker 1: receiver and coaches panel are going to present their recommendation
Speaker 1: of what it is that makes a catch. I have
Speaker 1: a platform and it's very simple, and I guarante, damn
Speaker 1: tee you that it's going to be more simple than
Speaker 1: anything they come up with, because this has been a
Speaker 1: moving target for a long time. Here's what I think
Speaker 1: we do. You know how they talk about that they
Speaker 1: you're gonna centralize replay in New York and you know
Speaker 1: having somewhere else forget about that. You know how speeds
Speaker 1: used to uh practice pick playoff games against the kids.
Speaker 1: I think we can have a panel of kids. I
Speaker 1: think we can have a panel of like seven year
Speaker 1: olds watching the games and it could be like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, was this to catch? And they just show
Speaker 1: it to and if the kids are like, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course he courted, then boom, it's a catch and that's it.
Speaker 1: And that rule was binding kind of like the U. S.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court and be binding to be the end. You
Speaker 1: can't appeal anywhere, no replay, Just ask the kids. Or
Speaker 1: if it wasn't like seven year olds, right, what if
Speaker 1: we just ask you know, we could beat the panel
Speaker 1: at at the bar at the bar of you know,
Speaker 1: a neutral third city. You know, if it's uh, if
Speaker 1: it's the Cowboys against the Giants, it can't be a
Speaker 1: bar in New York, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 1: get a bar, You get a bar in uh, you
Speaker 1: get a bar in Seattle. And just ask seven people like,
Speaker 1: yo was this catch? Because I really think that we're
Speaker 1: going way too overboard. And I was saying this throughout
Speaker 1: the football season where we had the hashtag game of
Speaker 1: inches and we had like the fumble out of bounds
Speaker 1: that becomes a touch back. I was saying that instant replay,
Speaker 1: the technology is actually a problem. It's getting too good.
Speaker 1: When you slow something down too much, you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the ball moving, like in the Corey
Speaker 1: Clement play in the Super Bowl. You are going to
Speaker 1: see like, oh my god, yeah that ball moved just
Speaker 1: a little bit. It becomes very very hard. And and
Speaker 1: when you have these chips in the ball, remember they
Speaker 1: had the chip in the ball um when they were
Speaker 1: measuring the one thing about narrowing the goal posts, and
Speaker 1: they did that experiment, and you've got chips and players
Speaker 1: shoulder pads, so they give you the next gence that
Speaker 1: being like tree Hill is running twenty three point four
Speaker 1: miles an hour, you know, or the path that he took.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have all of these enhancements, because
Speaker 1: would be able to figure out what it catches. But
Speaker 1: I think if we're if we should be able to
Speaker 1: not have sixty six five year old refs that can't
Speaker 1: keep up with play, and what we should do is
Speaker 1: be able to uh have a kind of more authentic
Speaker 1: way because these replays are not cutting it. But what
Speaker 1: these what the technology is doing. What the technology is
Speaker 1: doing is providing a whole window of new stats, right,
Speaker 1: the whole window of of new data. I mean football
Speaker 1: at first. You know, the guy over at Stats School Sports,
Speaker 1: this guy's named Emery Carry, He's a scientist. He said
Speaker 1: that three years ago he would have said that the
Speaker 1: sports science um in the NFL was behind compared to
Speaker 1: other sports. Okay, now it is catching up. Okay, we
Speaker 1: had chips into shoulder pads and it's kind of like
Speaker 1: an arms race. You know. This is the next wave
Speaker 1: of getting the getting the leg up on the competition, right,
Speaker 1: getting more big data, getting more getting more information to
Speaker 1: work with to get that that little edge on other teams,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what they said um Matt Barrios.
Speaker 1: He's the CEO of Catapult Sports. They they're talking about
Speaker 1: wearable technologies, video analytics. This is really the next wave.
Speaker 1: He says that once coaches realize they can get a
Speaker 1: competitive advantage, any skepticism fades away very quickly. The same
Speaker 1: coach who only want to look at tape ten years
Speaker 1: ago now needs all their video loaded on an iPad
Speaker 1: so they can watch it on the flight, on the
Speaker 1: team flight. Okay, wearables, that's that's that's where it's at
Speaker 1: right now. But here's my question. My question is, like
Speaker 1: what happens to all the big data is that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be used against players in their contract negotiations. You know,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be very interesting for the new collective
Speaker 1: bargaining agreement for the season. Okay, here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: The other thing I really like, boll is this virtual reality.
Speaker 1: You're seeing some teams use this. You're seeing some teams
Speaker 1: using this. This is like a completely different frontier like this,
Speaker 1: circling it back to the beginning here here in the
Speaker 1: fantasy freestyle. This would be good for player safety, okay,
Speaker 1: because you're not getting banged around in practice forty five
Speaker 1: concussions that happen in practice, that won't happen if you
Speaker 1: were doing reps on virtual reality players that are rehabbing
Speaker 1: from injury, they can see still actually run more than
Speaker 1: just quote unquote mental reps. Right, everybody could get first
Speaker 1: team reps. You know, the Giants might have been able
Speaker 1: to develop Davis Webb this year in a real way,
Speaker 1: you know, So keep an eye out on for that,
Speaker 1: and and you know, maybe maybe virtual reality I'll help
Speaker 1: us decide what what it catches? What a catch isn't
Speaker 1: you know? Check this out though. That's my football take
Speaker 1: real quick here on the Fantasy Freestyle. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I got the poll question up. I want to see
Speaker 1: what do you guys think is the uh, you know,
Speaker 1: biggest issue for the NFL this offseason doesn't around player
Speaker 1: safety and the concussions, is the what is it? Catch?
Speaker 1: Is that? How do we really harness some of this
Speaker 1: technology in the right way or something else? Let me know,
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Speaker 1: we come back, I'm gonna shift gears and go into baseball.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is we're gonna start to dive
Speaker 1: into my division by division previews. I did it last year.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna kick it off with the A L West.
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. I was talking to you that I was
Speaker 1: going to get into the division by division freeviews for
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball because check it out, all right, now that
Speaker 1: football is done, all right, We're gonna do is we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you insight on player movement and of course
Speaker 1: football is always gonna be covered here with stats over
Speaker 1: the cipher. I have the poll question up already, Like
Speaker 1: I said, what do you think would be one of
Speaker 1: the biggest offseason stories. We're gonna get into previews and
Speaker 1: free agency and impact as well. But you know we're
Speaker 1: getting into fantasy baseball season, all right. So for the
Speaker 1: next couple of episodes, what we're gonna do is, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go into you know, division by division, but I'm
Speaker 1: gona do is I'm gonna give you kind of my
Speaker 1: offensive like scare ranks, which offenses you know, kind of
Speaker 1: ranked them scare me the most. And I'll tell you about,
Speaker 1: you know, the power in each lineup and you know
Speaker 1: may maybe some places you may want to go in
Speaker 1: your fantasy draft. And we'll talk about the arms, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about closers for for overall, for the division. I'll
Speaker 1: give you my diamonds, I'll give you my full gazes.
Speaker 1: And then what I'll also do is I'll give you
Speaker 1: my projected standings kind of if you you know, you
Speaker 1: should put any shekels on any of these teams in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And just to just to tell you, last
Speaker 1: year when I was doing this, the team that I
Speaker 1: was highest on was the Houston Astros. I said that,
Speaker 1: and they weren't even the favorites to win the AL West. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I said, I thought they would go into the
Speaker 1: al C yes, if not beyond. Last year, similar in
Speaker 1: football season, I was giving you my previews. I talked
Speaker 1: about the Philadelphia Eagles. I said I was taking the
Speaker 1: overall the Eagles. I said they we go win the
Speaker 1: nfcas which they did. I said they'd be in the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship Game or beyond which thing or anybody who
Speaker 1: consider stats open each side for those that cheesy. All right, um,
Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of finish it off, you know,
Speaker 1: in the next episode. So this will be part one
Speaker 1: of the Al West. Let's start with offenses. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: start with the offenses. And I want to start off
Speaker 1: with Oakland, you know, because they are looked at as
Speaker 1: being the doormat of this division and I actually do
Speaker 1: have them finishing in the basement of this division. I'll
Speaker 1: give you my full you know, projections, probably the next
Speaker 1: episode of Fantasy Freestyle. But listen, Chris Davis. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is an elite outfielder. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think you know he is under respected, especially in that ballpark. Okay,
Speaker 1: forty three homers a hundred and ten ribbies last year.
Speaker 1: That after forty two homers a hundred and ten Ribbies
Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen. This kid is one of
Speaker 1: the few consistent sources of our in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: I know everybody's trying to change their launch angles, but
Speaker 1: you know, give me him, give me Nelson clues, give
Speaker 1: me Giancarlo Stanton, you know, as people who have done
Speaker 1: it year in year out. He's the guy like Chris
Speaker 1: Davis will hit thirty five home runs again this year.
Speaker 1: He's a He's a solid second outfield or for your roster.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like on offense. I like to
Speaker 1: load up on power bats. So Chris Davis is certainly
Speaker 1: someone I like in the Oakland line up. I also,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I like Marcus Simeon. I like Marcus Simeon.
Speaker 1: I really hope that he could be at the top
Speaker 1: of the lineup. I know the A's grabbed Fowler, but
Speaker 1: I really hope Simeon could be at the top of
Speaker 1: the lineup. Listen, I think Simeon has potential. You can
Speaker 1: get him as your middle infielder. I like him as
Speaker 1: your short stop. I think, listen, if you don't wind
Speaker 1: up getting you know, the seekers, the careers, the Lindors,
Speaker 1: right Like, if you wait and wind up with Marcus Simeon,
Speaker 1: I am completely fine with that. I like Simeon. You know,
Speaker 1: much later in draft. And you know one guy that
Speaker 1: might be interesting in Oakland is uh, you know, Piscotti
Speaker 1: moving over from St. Louis, he'll get a chance to
Speaker 1: play every day. He could be someone to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on as well, But I still think Oakland is
Speaker 1: the worst offense in this division. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: A L West. There's the fantasy Freestyle A L West
Speaker 1: season preview um up from there, I'll go to Texas
Speaker 1: as the fourth offense in this division US in I
Speaker 1: don't like. I don't like a lot of the hitters
Speaker 1: on this on this scene because their k rate is
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. That ops is not where it should be.
Speaker 1: I mean, Elvis Andrews, this seems a third. You know,
Speaker 1: he's probably in the three whole for him, Yes, sure,
Speaker 1: okay maybe versus eighty rippies last year, those were career highs.
Speaker 1: But I don't like my three hit or having a
Speaker 1: k rate. Andrews had a three five babbit last year.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, if you're do the fantasy
Speaker 1: freestyle new to the fantasy community, we'll talk about babbit.
Speaker 1: That is adding average on balls in play. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it takes, like you know, it takes the strikeouts out
Speaker 1: of it. It takes you know, it takes it takes
Speaker 1: those things out of it to be it kind of
Speaker 1: a true measure, more of a uh more of a
Speaker 1: less than the three true outcomes. Shall we say, an
Speaker 1: average for that is like three. So if you're hitting
Speaker 1: higher so high like that, like Andrews is at three,
Speaker 1: that shows that you were getting lucky overall, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna regress a little bit. Listen, Adrian Beltre, he's still stable.
Speaker 1: You know, he's now third, but third base is real
Speaker 1: deep this year, so you can wind him getting Madrian Beltre,
Speaker 1: I think even a little bit later, he just doesn't
Speaker 1: excite you. He's got to slow down eventually, even though
Speaker 1: he keeps on climbing up all time ranks. You know,
Speaker 1: I do like on texts, I like no more Massara.
Speaker 1: I think Missara has potential in the five fold. But
Speaker 1: I talked about this idea that um, their k rates
Speaker 1: are just ridiculously too high, and Mizarre's kind of like that.
Speaker 1: He has like a twenty percent strikeout rate, which is
Speaker 1: he's something he's gotta fix as he matores. But if
Speaker 1: he does, I can see him, you know, being viable
Speaker 1: at almost like two seventy seven eight five ribbies. And
Speaker 1: I think Missouri could be an interesting outfielder three for
Speaker 1: you if you can get hit, and you can probably
Speaker 1: get him late, but you know, I don't like necessarily Gallo.
Speaker 1: I don't like Oh Door, he's the guy who's ops
Speaker 1: and strikeout rate is also ridiculous. I don't like a
Speaker 1: lot of the type cast of of this of this offense,
Speaker 1: and that's why they are number four for me. Um
Speaker 1: Number three is Seattle. I think d Gordon at the
Speaker 1: top of this line up is very very interesting. I
Speaker 1: liked Gordon. I'm I'm gonna have de Gordon on some
Speaker 1: of my teams because he can get. He could be
Speaker 1: my stolen base category, right. I think de Gordon in
Speaker 1: this line I can get fifties, can you know, steal
Speaker 1: fifty bases? I like that he's got eligibility at second base.
Speaker 1: Probably a hout field, you know, but the line up,
Speaker 1: the rest of the line of kind of feels the same.
Speaker 1: You know. You got to know there you got Victor
Speaker 1: Cruz there. I actually think you might get you might
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a bounce back out of Um.
Speaker 1: You know, big brother Seeger. You know Kyle Seeger, not
Speaker 1: Corey Um last year. And I believe me because I
Speaker 1: had him on some of my teams last year. Last
Speaker 1: year he only hit like two forty. He hit two
Speaker 1: forty nine. Okay, he still had the power, but he
Speaker 1: still had twenty seven home runs dipping RB. I's only
Speaker 1: only seventy two. So I'm expecting something of a bounce
Speaker 1: back from him this year. Okay, I think he You know,
Speaker 1: I talked about the babbit before with um Elvis Andrews.
Speaker 1: This is the other side of things, Okay, UM, Kyle
Speaker 1: Seger's babbit last year it was too sixty two. That
Speaker 1: means that he was getting lucky. Okay, So I could
Speaker 1: I could see him picking at average, maybe five ten points.
Speaker 1: I could see him having more Ribbies, especially with Gordon
Speaker 1: at the top of this lineup. Okay, So I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: by that. And also Ryan Healey I think could be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Healey could be interesting. He moved over
Speaker 1: from the Aids to the Mariners. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit like six or seventh in this lineup. He has
Speaker 1: the potential if he gets five at bats, I think
Speaker 1: to hit runs as well. He's gonna get a good
Speaker 1: park shift factor. Coming from Oakland to Seattle. UM, you
Speaker 1: know you know the names there, the Hannigers. Um. I
Speaker 1: think I think this is a solid offense. I think
Speaker 1: this is a slightly above average offense, but I do
Speaker 1: think there are two offenses in the AOS that are
Speaker 1: much much better, and so my number two offense in
Speaker 1: the a ost are the Angels. Um I think they're
Speaker 1: coming back, and listen, I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my predictions on the next episode of
Speaker 1: Freestyle when I'm in Studio thirty four with the hashtags
Speaker 1: that's over beat Cipher because I want to get their
Speaker 1: thoughts on it as well. But I'm high on the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Okay, I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be one of my overall diamonds in the rough,
Speaker 1: certainly in the American League, maybe in all of Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. And the offense is part of the reason
Speaker 1: I think to under under appreciated moves offensively in this
Speaker 1: you know, relatively lukewarm hot stove that we've been having.
Speaker 1: I've already detailed kind of the idea of the collusion,
Speaker 1: the Boris candidate, the Boris clients, the two eighteen free
Speaker 1: agency class. The owners just not wanted to invest the
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contracts anymore. The building from within model
Speaker 1: that has worked with the Royals with the Cubs with
Speaker 1: the Astros, but um to a few moves. The Angels
Speaker 1: have been busy. You know, when everybody else is sitting
Speaker 1: on their hands, the Angels have actually spent money. I
Speaker 1: mean Ian Kinsler at the top of this lineup, I
Speaker 1: think is a huge get for the Angels. I like
Speaker 1: him at the top of this lineup. Remember, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a full season of Justin Upton. Justin Upton over
Speaker 1: nine ps, thirty five homers, hundred ribbies. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: a full season of him. I think that. I think
Speaker 1: that takes the pressure off of alvit pool holes. I
Speaker 1: think that allows guys like c J. Crown and Angelton
Speaker 1: Simmons to settle, right. I think you put Trout now
Speaker 1: in that two hole with Upton there in the three.
Speaker 1: And then here's the other thing they did. They went
Speaker 1: and got Zach Cozart from Cincinnati. This is an All Star. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is an All Star. He's gonna play third for
Speaker 1: the Angels. He was an All Star shortstop for since
Speaker 1: he's gonna play third for this team. Because Simmonson's glove.
Speaker 1: Simmons's glove is just ridiculous, right, But you're putting together
Speaker 1: a pretty good line up here. When we talk about Kinsler, Trout, Upton,
Speaker 1: Pool holes, maybe a guy like Krawn, then a guy
Speaker 1: like coz Art in the sixth hole. You know, I
Speaker 1: think this this could be a team that can score
Speaker 1: some runs. When we get to the Arms a little
Speaker 1: bit later on, and I'm gonna talk about why I
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of like the Angels as well.
Speaker 1: But then we get to the number one offense in
Speaker 1: the Aos and quite frankly, probably one of the one
Speaker 1: at the top three offenses in all of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: and it is the reigning, defending World Series champion Houston Astros. Listen,
Speaker 1: your boy's speech was high in the Astros last year,
Speaker 1: and that's because I thought we were gonna get a
Speaker 1: step from Carlos Correa, and we did. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think there's room to grow for Carlos Correa. I
Speaker 1: think Carlos Korea can be an m v PEA candidate
Speaker 1: this year. I think he's gonna take a step forward.
Speaker 1: Remember last year with a thumb injury, he missed, you know,
Speaker 1: he missed like six weeks. Believe me, I had shares
Speaker 1: with him on my team. Okay, we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: full season out of Korea. Bregman is gonna take a
Speaker 1: step forward. Okay, Guriel could take a step forward. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean this is we're You're gonna still have aut
Speaker 1: tuve A at a at an m v P level.
Speaker 1: Tuve A being a top three pick. You know, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, you know, number one second baseman Korea, top three,
Speaker 1: top three shortstop. You know, um Bregman is in the
Speaker 1: mix as a top ten third basement. You know, think
Speaker 1: about Springer as a top ten outfielder. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got a guy like Marwin Gonzalez. Don't sleep on you
Speaker 1: get Marwin Gonzalez. Listen, this is gonna be, you know,
Speaker 1: one of my early diamonds or one of the talking
Speaker 1: points here as we go into Fantasy draft. The position
Speaker 1: eligibility of a guy like Marvin Gonzalez is absolutely ridiculous. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can literally get him and plug him ade at
Speaker 1: first base, second base, shortstop, or third base or outfield.
Speaker 1: Gotta love Marwin Gonzalez, Okay. And I also I actually
Speaker 1: believe that you know, when you talk about the Astros offense,
Speaker 1: to talk about gaddis, you talk about mccan. These guys
Speaker 1: that are playing Catcher and d H. But the thing
Speaker 1: for me is, I actually believe that the Astros. You know,
Speaker 1: there's rumors out there and buzz that the Marlins aren't
Speaker 1: done selling off their pieces and that JT. Real Muto
Speaker 1: could be on the move to the Houston Astros only
Speaker 1: to further fortify this lineup. Okay, so my my scare
Speaker 1: rankings offensively in the A L. West, I go um
Speaker 1: Houston one, I go Angels to Seattle three, Texas four,
Speaker 1: and the Oakland A's five. On the next episode of
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle, what we're gonna do is we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a look more at the pictures, right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a look a little bit more at the pictures,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you, um, you know, my overall
Speaker 1: diamonds and fo gazes for the A L. West as well.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that on the next episode and that
Speaker 1: will wrap up, you know, the the A L. West preview.
Speaker 1: But I do want to talk about the teams and
Speaker 1: they're kind of their wind totals. Okay, here's how I
Speaker 1: have the wind totals for these teams, and listen, we
Speaker 1: start with the Oakland A's. We start with the Oakland A's.
Speaker 1: They were only gonna win, in my opinion, lost seventies.
Speaker 1: They wind total right now, is that seventy and a half.
Speaker 1: I think you know I would pass on this one.
Speaker 1: I think they are going to be one of the
Speaker 1: dregs of the American League. Um so I don't That's
Speaker 1: not a big play for me. I'm low on the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers. I'm low on the Texas Rangers. I just
Speaker 1: don't listen. I told you about their offense. I think
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of freest wingers. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: similar concerns with their you know, with their arms, with
Speaker 1: their rotation. Later on, I think there are maybe a
Speaker 1: five hundred team if they're lucky. But I think there's
Speaker 1: teams much better than them in this division. Seattle is
Speaker 1: gonna be a team in my opinion, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: one of these teams that hang around. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: one of these second wild card teams. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: one of these teams that at the deadline, you know,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be the conversation is gonna be are there buyers,
Speaker 1: are they sellers? They're gonna be doing just enough to
Speaker 1: hang around. They'll be able to go on some good
Speaker 1: hot streets. They'll be able to go on some runs.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll end. You know, they're gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those teams that are like two games back of
Speaker 1: the second wild card in August and we're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: do they make the nonwaiver trade deadline? You know, But
Speaker 1: I ultimately think they will fall just short of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I am high on the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels. Take the over on their win total.
Speaker 1: I believe the Angels are a playoff team. This offense
Speaker 1: is scary. Mike Trout is now only entering his I
Speaker 1: think justin Upton, a full year him is going to
Speaker 1: be huge. But ultimately, the Houston Astros are a team
Speaker 1: that everybody is chasing. Put me down for ninety five
Speaker 1: wins for the Houston Astros. Put me down for eighty
Speaker 1: eight for the Angels, Mariners at eighty six, maybe eighty five,
Speaker 1: Rangers at eighty one, and the Oakland A's at seventy
Speaker 1: two wins. In my book, I think the Houston Nastros
Speaker 1: can get back. They might be a little bit of
Speaker 1: you know, the celebrity aspect that they were on the
Speaker 1: kind of the banquet circuit because of their you know,
Speaker 1: their World Series victory. But I think they'll obviously be
Speaker 1: in the mix alright, so check it out later on.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do on the next episode of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle is I'm gonna give you more of the pitching
Speaker 1: perspective on the A. L. West and then we'll do
Speaker 1: my A L. West Diamonds and the Rough will do
Speaker 1: my A. L. West fool daisies. It's gonna be big
Speaker 1: things because you know, you gotta get get ready geared
Speaker 1: up for uh, you know, fantasy baseball drafts are really
Speaker 1: get started after the Super Bowl. You know, you start
Speaker 1: to attention to turn your attention to college basketball, and
Speaker 1: you also start to turn your attention to your fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball squads. And the other one thing I'll give you
Speaker 1: about baseball here as we close out this baseball segment
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Freestyle, which a boy Dame martinezpis
Speaker 1: spitting statistician Rob Manfred, the commissioner. You know, he talked
Speaker 1: about um, the free agents, and we talked about the
Speaker 1: Marlins and the Pirates and other teams that were kind
Speaker 1: of racing into the bottom. But um, he did come
Speaker 1: out and say at the beginning of you know, the
Speaker 1: kind of kickoff for spring training, as teams are reporting
Speaker 1: across this fair land of ours in Florida and Arizona mostly, um,
Speaker 1: he says there are changes coming to pace of play,
Speaker 1: that there will be a new pace of play rules
Speaker 1: and that they will come out, um by the start
Speaker 1: of this season. So we're gonna keep an eye out
Speaker 1: for that. What do you think is the biggest way
Speaker 1: to change the pace of play? What I think needs
Speaker 1: to happen, Because here's the thing. These teams study video
Speaker 1: and and and data and pitch charts and and all
Speaker 1: this stuff so much. Why in two thou eighteen is
Speaker 1: there any reason to have mound visits anymore? To have
Speaker 1: a coach come out and have a mound visit and
Speaker 1: like give them the scouting report on the player. Can't
Speaker 1: they like do that on a on a high watch
Speaker 1: or something you can't like, why does the coach? What
Speaker 1: is the coach coming out there to motivate him? He
Speaker 1: is a athlete who just got a six year, one
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar contract. Maybe not in this two eighteen
Speaker 1: negotiating season, but like you don't think this high price
Speaker 1: professional athlete can like you know, regulate his calm in
Speaker 1: a big moment. Isn't that why you're paying them twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars? Like you really think he needs a year
Speaker 1: old man to come in there and settle him down,
Speaker 1: offer him some sunflower seeds. Come on, eliminate mound visits.
Speaker 1: That's one thing you could do to speed up the game.
Speaker 1: I also think you know they're they they're definitely experimenting
Speaker 1: thing with those pop up ads, right you saw them
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you show them in the NFL season.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do some more of that. It's
Speaker 1: kind of shorten the commercial breaks, but then you'll also
Speaker 1: have many pop up commercial breaks, like after the four
Speaker 1: pitch walk, you know, as they're just throwing the ball
Speaker 1: around the horn. I think you'll haven't pop up that there,
Speaker 1: so we'll shorten commercial breaks. What I think they need
Speaker 1: to do is remove mount visits all together. And then
Speaker 1: also if you've given somebody an intentional walk, you don't
Speaker 1: have to throw the pictures, just be like four it's on.
Speaker 1: I think that will shave off the mountain visits is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. Okay, the Mountain visits. It is the
Speaker 1: biggest thing. I think you could definitely shave off a
Speaker 1: good you know, ten fifteen minutes off the game in
Speaker 1: that way. Let me know what you think. You could
Speaker 1: always hit me up on Twitter at spitting speeds if
Speaker 1: you're hearing this and you uh, you know, and you
Speaker 1: want to holler at me about it. I think I
Speaker 1: would love to know how you think we could you know,
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Speaker 1: on the next episode for sure, or the spies versus kids,
Speaker 1: or some of the things that we'd be talking about. Listen,
Speaker 1: I bring you some of the stories that you can't
Speaker 1: here anywhere else. And remember I was talking about the
Speaker 1: University of Central Florida u CF and how I think
Speaker 1: they are the actual legitimate national champions. Forget the tide
Speaker 1: rolling in UM and check this out their practice field.
Speaker 1: They put two banners up at their practice field, okay,
Speaker 1: and they read two thousand seventeen champion only undefeated Champions
Speaker 1: UCF Golden Knights. And I'm with Dad Lias. And they
Speaker 1: beat Auburn thirty in the Beach Poll Auburn. Auburn was
Speaker 1: number one at one point of the season. Auburn beat
Speaker 1: Alabama this year, Auburn beat Georgia this year. I've told
Speaker 1: you for a while that this conference is for real.
Speaker 1: You know, with Houston and Memphis playing well as well,
Speaker 1: you know they should have gotten the chance. They did
Speaker 1: everything they could have done. They beat everybody on their schedule.
Speaker 1: They played real teams, you know. Um, and there is
Speaker 1: no official NZ Double A champ anymore. Like this is
Speaker 1: just the playoff. This is just the BCS playoffs, right.
Speaker 1: There are still polls out there. Actually, interestingly enough, the
Speaker 1: colleague and that's right, did rank UCF number one after
Speaker 1: all the bulls. You know. So I'm still on my
Speaker 1: on my soapbox riding with UCF college football team, and
Speaker 1: it seems like other people are as well. Certainly u
Speaker 1: CF is right and they they did like the practice banners,
Speaker 1: They're not the only thing, and I think it's cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: not only do they have banners up in their stadium,
Speaker 1: but they did a parade at Disney World. They had
Speaker 1: a block party down Orlando there for the team. Um,
Speaker 1: they've been recognized as you know champions. UH UCF basketball
Speaker 1: games this year, UM, the athletic director named Dan Danny
Speaker 1: White says there will also be a banner raised in
Speaker 1: the stadium. And check this out. I'm into it because
Speaker 1: this is what forces change. Remember, they had split national
Speaker 1: championships and that was what uh you know, back like
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago, and that's what kind of necessity
Speaker 1: did the need for the original BCS right. And then
Speaker 1: it was when they realized that they had three undefeated
Speaker 1: teams that they needed the four team playoff right. And
Speaker 1: now you're seeing a situation like this where one of
Speaker 1: these kind of um, you know, nonpower conferences truly has
Speaker 1: no chance. So maybe this is the impetus to you know,
Speaker 1: why didn't it to uh to an eight team playoffs
Speaker 1: or to a sixteen team playoff. I think they need
Speaker 1: to go to sixteen And don't tell me you can't
Speaker 1: do it because Division two does it. Division two. If
Speaker 1: you heard the last episode of Fantasy Freestyle, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna start doing it with Mexican teams who are able
Speaker 1: to be in the n C Double A. Did you
Speaker 1: hear this? N C Double A? D two is going
Speaker 1: to allow Mexican universities to be part of the NZ
Speaker 1: Double A. So if they can have a playoff system,
Speaker 1: why can't you want You could name you know, the
Speaker 1: semifinals the Peach Bowl, you could name them the you know,
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl still have a rotation. You could fit
Speaker 1: it in December. You absolutely can do it. There's something
Speaker 1: like ten or eleven divisions. I think major divisions have
Speaker 1: them all in. Have Troy get in there as the
Speaker 1: sixteen seed. I don't care if they get stomped in
Speaker 1: a one sixteen game by Clemson or something like that.
Speaker 1: You get some reintriguing matchups, and you get in a
Speaker 1: wild card teams, you get the three teams from the
Speaker 1: Big Ten that were all great. You get you know,
Speaker 1: weird matchups. You get a Georgia versa USC or something
Speaker 1: like that. It would be very interesting the second round matchups.
Speaker 1: And now like when they unveil March Madness, you know,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I think they need to do that, and
Speaker 1: I hope then you CEF continues to count themselves as champion,
Speaker 1: so that maybe we could have the EMPUS though, to
Speaker 1: open up the field. Listen on the Fantasy Freestyle. We
Speaker 1: did like the Greatest Sports movie of All Time. We
Speaker 1: did a whole bracket of that. We did the Greatest
Speaker 1: TV show, and um, I want to do it talk
Speaker 1: a little movie news here, but I think it's in
Speaker 1: poor taste. And that's uh, you know, I I gotta
Speaker 1: give you the real, I gotta give you the raw, right,
Speaker 1: That's what Speeds does. Remember a few episodes ago I
Speaker 1: talked about I played actually part of Ali Raceman's testimony right, Um,
Speaker 1: and in the case against Larry Nasser and Alie Raceman
Speaker 1: have great testimony. Um. You know, people give her a
Speaker 1: standing ovation. It really brought to light, you know. And
Speaker 1: then obviously he's gone Jeff for a long long time,
Speaker 1: and we it's exposed. You know, the US gymnastics community
Speaker 1: just have have had resignations up and down their board.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Larry Nastar was also practicing at
Speaker 1: Michigan State and there have been questions you know now
Speaker 1: surrounding the Michigan State program. But to tie it back
Speaker 1: to this movie US, did you see the documentary that
Speaker 1: HPO is coming out with. They're coming out with a
Speaker 1: documentary just called Paternal. They are finally going to do
Speaker 1: the Joe paternal story. And I think this is actually
Speaker 1: I think this is very poor timing for a Joe
Speaker 1: Pop biopic, you know, I mean, especially at this time
Speaker 1: with um institutional kind of negligence. You know that is
Speaker 1: going on right now, and you know, I guess people
Speaker 1: don't know anymore because it's been like six years. It's
Speaker 1: been six years since the scandal he was dismissed in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. He died shortly after this, some two
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve, you know, after the Sandusky But like
Speaker 1: hasn't really changed, you know, Like if you look at
Speaker 1: the trailer for the Paternal movie that's gonna be on HBO,
Speaker 1: it portrays like the fan base and how they all
Speaker 1: rally behind them, and like, I wonder, is that what's
Speaker 1: happening at Michigan State right now? Are they rallying behind
Speaker 1: uh tom Izzo, Mike D'Antoni, you know, apparently they actively
Speaker 1: hid you know, something like buzzens of football players are
Speaker 1: accused of assault, Larry Nasser being there. Has it really changed?
Speaker 1: And and what does putting this paternal documentary kind of
Speaker 1: you know, bio pic on HBO? Like are they are
Speaker 1: they just taking advantage of this timing? I'd love to
Speaker 1: know what you think Stats over Beat Cipher. After you
Speaker 1: hear this on the podcast, after you hear this on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports radio network, be sure to get at
Speaker 1: me and let me know what you think if this
Speaker 1: isn't poor taste by HBO to do this. But you know,
Speaker 1: in more and I guess in happier movie news, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of Oscar season and stuff. Check this out,
Speaker 1: you know, Kobe Kobe Bryant was nominated for an Oscar UH.
Speaker 1: Dear Basketball was nominated for the Best Animated Short Movie. UM.
Speaker 1: It was originally from a poem that Kobe Bryant wrote.
Speaker 1: He did it for the Player's Tribute back in two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen. UM. You know kind of it was his journey,
Speaker 1: you know, in essence, through life, through his career. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, and if you don't know about Kobe, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on eight teen All Star Games m VB to
Speaker 1: out a third all time leading scoop score, you know,
Speaker 1: his career, abdul var, there's uh, I believe Karl alone
Speaker 1: the second and Kobe is that his third in NBA
Speaker 1: history in terms of scoring. But it's really about like
Speaker 1: his entire journey of life, his career, you know, in
Speaker 1: this this movie, Dear Basketball, it already won awards. It
Speaker 1: won the two thousand seventeen World Animation UH Celebration Award.
Speaker 1: It was at one awards at the two thousand and
Speaker 1: seventeen Tribe Back a film that's the so big shout
Speaker 1: out to Kobe, big shout out to Kobe. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: kind of branching out into uh, into all all forms
Speaker 1: of expression, you know. The second act for Kobe. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's gonna be just as strong as the first.
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to do here is I want
Speaker 1: to ask some questions real quick. Got a question from
Speaker 1: the stats over Beat Cipher and and and you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to everybody because I was I was off
Speaker 1: air for about a week, week and a half, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to take a little bit of break after
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and and and many yeah on the Stats
Speaker 1: over Beast Cipher help me down checking for me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Big shout out to everybody. All right, So just to
Speaker 1: just to get it straight. But we're gonna be doing
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Speaker 1: Studio thirty four. We're gonna be doing it so you
Speaker 1: can see the video live on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be on the radio side. It's gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: could always on Tuesdays, you'll still be able to high
Speaker 1: at your boy if you wanted eight four four eight
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Speaker 1: got a question from dev on Twitter as Devin Wilch,
Speaker 1: who does an eighteen. You know, he's one of the
Speaker 1: status of beat Cipher. He was asking about like formats
Speaker 1: for fantasy Baseball. He was asking for platforms for fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball as well. And I was telling him listening, you know,
Speaker 1: I like just to to win that cash because you
Speaker 1: know how we do here, right, Fantasy Freestyle. We're gonna
Speaker 1: leave we win that cash. You're trying to find out
Speaker 1: how to how to how to organize your stuff. I
Speaker 1: just played, I played the DFS. I'm we'll be giving
Speaker 1: you dfsn vite so you know you could always keep
Speaker 1: it locked the line up block live. My boy Tony
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Speaker 1: leaves and when you get cash, getting it done. But
Speaker 1: I actually, you know, like to just set leaves with
Speaker 1: my friends and then just make you know, put a
Speaker 1: little bit a couple of shekels on it there so
Speaker 1: you don't need to do it within the website. Because
Speaker 1: he was asking me, like what websites can I do
Speaker 1: it with? I just you know, I just make gentlemen's
Speaker 1: agreements and you know, hold to honor with my people.
Speaker 1: But he was also asking like different formats. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I like, I like head to head.
Speaker 1: I like five by five over rodo because I like
Speaker 1: being able to be against somebody. You know, I like
Speaker 1: being able to be against somebody. And I'll do them
Speaker 1: in categories I like, I personally like it better that way.
Speaker 1: And and what I'll tell you though, here's my little
Speaker 1: tip for you on offense. I like ops over batting average.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's a much more true representation. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't gotta go too crazy into deep stats, but
Speaker 1: I like ops over batting average, and I like quality
Speaker 1: starts over wins. If you're gonna go with a traditional
Speaker 1: five by five head to head, all right, so um,
Speaker 1: I think because listen, I don't like relievers picking up winds.
Speaker 1: I don't like my guy, you know, pitching it jam
Speaker 1: and in the bullpen giving it up and not getting
Speaker 1: a wind. So I think quality started is a better
Speaker 1: measurement to check this out. What we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: we're gonna always take a question from Twitter throughout the
Speaker 1: week and answer them here on the late weak condition
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Speaker 1: giving you all the things you need to know about,
Speaker 1: you know, the NFL offseason. We're gonna profile some injuries
Speaker 1: and you know then that's couple episodes. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: some guests that talk to you about, UM, Thomas Lowe
Speaker 1: coming in with the concussion protocol. We're gonna have some
Speaker 1: of my boys come on, you know them. Some award winners.
Speaker 1: Remember how Fantasy Freestyle was finalists for Best Radio Show.
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Speaker 1: episodes as well, but keep it locked on iTunes, on stitching,
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Speaker 1: of Easie from maybe I'll read you a question out
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Speaker 1: Boy Dave Martinez a k A Speeds a ka to
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Speaker 1: minority of the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. And this has
Speaker 1: been another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle. I'll check for
Speaker 1: y'all next week, DP Bob and I I'm out.