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[Assistant] We've seen breadcrumbs being dropped by a couple of reporters that hey, Donovan Mitchell's open to, uh, re-signing here with the Cavs. In fact, the report, uh, late last week was that Dan Gilbert said he expects him.


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[Assistant] to re-sign and now Donovan Mitchell comes out Friday and said basically stiff-armed that whole time.


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[Assistant] But I also understand the complexities of his situation. And we have something on the program that we have we call a BS translation.


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[Assistant] And so I'm gonna ask you to run those comments through your BS translator.


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[Assistant] And like, I'll use Shane Bieber. The Shane Bieber contract extension, it seems that door is shut. Oh yeah. And there's no information going from Bieber's agent to the guardian.


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[Assistant] That door is shut. Yes. And then in other situations, I believe the door is open. And sometimes I believe the door is wide open.


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[Assistant] And on those instances, I think the player's gonna walk through it and stay with the team.


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[Assistant] And then there's other times where I think the door is open halfway and there's 50-50 and then there's times I think it's open a sliver. I think what's happening is Dan


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[Assistant] I think Dan grabbed the door and opened it wide open and said, yeah, we expect him to sign. Now.


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[Assistant] He thinks he's maybe applying pressure to Donovan, like, ball's in your court, bro, what are you gonna do? If you leave, you're the bad guy because we expect you to stay. And Donovan grabbed the handle and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] And he pulled it not all the way shut, but I think it's open a sliver. I've...


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[Assistant] Like you, I've been reading tea leaves. Donovan Mitchell did not come to Cleveland to have the same thing happen here as what happened in Utah. To this point,


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[Assistant] It's been worse. They've had less playoff success than he was able to have in Utah.


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[Assistant] Which is hard to do, but he's done it. It's only one year. It's one year, but I always look at these things also as a wind vane. Which way is it currently swinging? And I would use


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[Assistant] New York and Cleveland. Is it blowing west to Cleveland or is it blowing east to New York? And I think right now it's pointed towards Canada, but I think it's


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[Assistant] I know there are, I get that, but I also think that


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[Assistant] I think that there is a real desire for him to play at home.


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[Assistant] I think he wants to play in New York. How that happens, with the money and the contracts and everything else, I don't know. And by the way, players wants don't always come to fruition. Sometimes players have been very vocal about what they want and it doesn't work out.


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[Assistant] In the majority of cases, the superstar gets his wish.


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[Assistant] In the majority of cases, there are exceptions. I just have a bad feeling about all of this guys. I think that we, you know, we're trying to hold on to something that's getting further and further away, not closer to our grasp.


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[Assistant] And my fear is this team is gonna go one and done in the playoffs. I don't have confidence that they're gonna have a home, home series now.


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[Assistant] I think it's possible they slip into a, into the five.


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[Assistant] And I don't know who's in that four right now. I don't know what's going to happen, but it just doesn't mean, are they going to win five of seven games to move up? This is a tough trip.


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[Assistant] This is a tough trip, and I think it's the telling trip of the season. This next stretch is going to decide where they are for the playoffs. And guys, if they're on the road for the playoffs, despite the fact that at one time they had the best road record in the NBA, if they're going on the road in the first round, I've got almost no hope they can win.


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[Assistant] But it ain't the Knicks and Brooklyn ain't New York. I know, but to your previous point that you're not sure the Knicks want him, why wouldn't you? Because they've done okay without him. But they have, I mean, certainly haven't cleared a hump.


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[Assistant] I just can't. Another comparison to the Eagles, if you look at Sirianni's, like, rollercoaster arc in Philly, he's a guy who went from coach of the year, strong coach of the year contender, to being fired in the same season. And that's very rare where you hear


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[Assistant] A coach mentioned in both conversations in the same year.


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[Assistant] But that's exactly what's happened here with JB. He started on the hot seat.


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[Assistant] And that's why I think they're going in opposite directions because while it speeds everything up in terms of expectations, you slow everything down in terms of development of these young players. It's particularly mobly. I just thought we would have seen a bigger jump year to year to year.


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[Assistant] But can you say he's taken the step we wanted him and needed him to take?


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[Assistant] When you look historically at teams that have had success and teams that haven't. The Steelers went for Ben Roethlisberger.


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[Assistant] Because he grew up in Fostoria, Ohio.


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[Assistant] He played his college football in Miami of Ohio. He looks like a freaking lumberjack. He belongs in the AFC North.


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[Assistant] Then there are other players who are born in the South, played their entire careers in the South,


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[Assistant] And you've got the Steelers drafting accordingly, and you've got the Browns making the biggest decision in the history of the franchise, pulling a guy here that just doesn't fit.


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[Assistant] And now the narrative is, we can build a dome now.


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[Assistant] If you ask players, where would you like to play?


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[Assistant] Most people would say give me the perfect surface, but football is played outdoors. It's played in the elements. That's why I don't love the fact that the Super Bowl is always, with the exception of New York a handful of years ago, played in perfect elements. Football is played in the fall and winter.


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[Assistant] The, the Browns have played, famously have played games in frigid temperatures. That's part of it. And to me,


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[Assistant] It's kinda like building a baseball team. You can build a team to the confines of your park.


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[Assistant] You know, you can have a left-handed friendly lineup and play at Yankee Stadium with a short porch out there.


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[Assistant] But the beauty of it is you're gonna have to play 81 games somewhere else. So you have to take in everything into account when you're building your team. We've gotta build a team that can travel.


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[Assistant] I want 53 guys that say this. I don't care where we play.


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[Assistant] I'd rather play you in December on our turf with our fans, because we're built for that and you're not.


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[Assistant] Because I do think, he's the most important position in all of sports. The Browns had an opportunity


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[Assistant] I mean for the most part Oklahoma can get cold in the winter, but for the most part this was foreign to them.


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[Assistant] It made more sense for the Browns to take a Josh Allen than it did to take a Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] It made more sense for the Browns to take Ben Roethlisberger than whoever the hell they took before him in that draft.


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[Assistant] I don't even remember who I don't want to remember. It was not, it was not pretty. Might have been, was it the guy from Penn State?


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[Assistant] Yeah, 04. Who did the Browns take in 04?


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[Assistant] Have you been to a Super Bowl? These are teams in the North that could play outdoors.


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[Assistant] Chicago has won a Super Bowl, though it was 40 years ago. Green Bay. Green Bay has won multiple Super Bowls. Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Buffalo has not, but they've been to many, which is interesting because a lot of their path to the Super Bowl went through cold Buffalo. Then they went to warm weather and flamed out.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know that there is or isn't an advantage. All I know is the player that I want to draft when I ask the question what your preference is, here's his answer. I don't care. I'll play in a parking lot in January. I don't care. I want to play football. And I'll figure out whatever the elements are. If it's Miami in August,


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[Assistant] Or if it's Cleveland in January, I'll figure that out. I just want to play football. So I think that's the right answer to that question. I don't blame Deshaun. Cause Deshaun didn't, you know, the question wasn't, are you, are you whispering in Jimmy's ear we need a dog? That's not going on.


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[Assistant] He answered honestly. And Jimmy already knew his opinion. Jimmy knew that Deshawn didn't like playing in cold weather and said no because he didn't want to play here. In the elements.


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[Assistant] So, but if you're building a dome, and he's not, but if you're gonna build a dome just for Deshaun Watson, that's the biggest mistake you'll ever make, ever.


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[Assistant] If you were at a poker table right now and you had $100 worth of chips, how much are you pushing towards the middle of the table that they do in fact end up in Brook Park with a dome?


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[Assistant] If it's up to them, it's a hundred. No, I'm not saying if it's up to who, I'm saying what will, this is not, I think the Haslams are all in. No they are. No question. They are. But I think if the city comes at them with concessions, and I think that's about to start at one o'clock today. No, I don't think that's it. You don't? No.


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[Assistant] If it happens, and it has to happen, they can't just say, we got nothing for you. The city. If they come at them with enough concessions, I think Jimmy can say, okay, now you're talking my language. If you can help me build this stadium with that kind of money.


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[Assistant] However, however, the only way that that can change is if they somehow some way, and it's not gonna happen, but if they can miraculously throw a dollar figure at them that makes them eyes wide open, but I don't see how they come up with that money.


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[Assistant] No, but they do have some land that they can, in a negotiation, they can divvy off


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[Assistant] You mentioned on Friday that on Thursday for our show upstairs, I had talked to a reporter from Minneapolis.


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[Assistant] And they at one point were in a identical situation.


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[Assistant] Those that were covering it and those that were following it were convinced.


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[Assistant] It was leaving Minneapolis. It just was gonna happen. Especially because that's the trend.


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[Assistant] You know, Jerry World, that's not in Dallas. Uh, the Rams and Chargers facility, that's not in Los Angeles. The hell, the Giants and Jets don't even play in the state of New York!


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[Assistant] So, I think that that's the trend, but the reporter told me that


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[Assistant] They, there was every indication was this was a done deal. Then they came up with the pull tabs.


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[Assistant] So they had a monopoly on it, and they paid off their stadium in record time. And, and way ahead of schedule. That can't happen here. Gambling's already available here. Something similar could happen, but to think that they're gonna pay it off as quickly as Minneapolis did is probably a pipe dream. I think, and I said this Friday, I think


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[Assistant] It, it is, I'm leaning way towards them moving. Like, not 100%, because 100% would be, I think, naive. Something could happen. Sure. But barring a miracle Hail Mary at the end of the game, this is how confident I am. My team is up 7.


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[Assistant] The other team has the ball 60 yards away from a touchdown, and they need the Hail Mary, then they gotta get it to overtime, and then even there, they're gonna have to pull out the win. That's what I think this is.


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[Assistant] I think the longer they got down there when they said, oh, now we have the land, we've purchased the land, now I think Jimmy's going, oh my god.


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[Assistant] Dollar signs are going crazy in his head. I'm gonna have hotels. I'm gonna have maybe a casino. I'm gonna have restaurants, bars, parking, and it's all mine. I don't have to give any of it to anybody. Bye Cleveland. And I don't think there's anything Mayor Bibb can do.


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[Assistant] Now, Mayor Biv is being a lot more proactive. Like, there's a plan. It's, it, this is gonna be 20 years in the making though. Like, I don't know how much political cache he's gonna win from passing a plan.


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[Assistant] We can go down there in summer evenings and enjoy ourselves on the lakefront and at restaurants with water views and residential and commercial all mixed into one. I will say this.


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[Assistant] If the centerpiece is not gonna be there, they can pivot before they start dropping concrete.


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[Assistant] On what the Browns playing in Cleveland means to the Cleveland budget annually.


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[Assistant] What do they get financially from the Browns? What does the city get?


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[Assistant] And the residual restaurants, hotels, bars, 10 days a year.


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[Assistant] But do you think though, in Minnesota, the pull tabs were so popular because that was the only avenue anybody in the state had to scratch their gambling.


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[Assistant] Here, gambling is legal. You can do it on your phone.


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[Assistant] I don't know that it would have the same rate of success here. Here's the thing, how often, how often do you go to the Jack Casino?


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing, their foot traffic is negligible. I never go. Well, look where it is, and the area, but their foot traffic is negligible, and when you look at the percentage of dollars wagered last year, very small of it is from the physical plants of the casinos.


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[Assistant] A lot of people's lives for 10 days a year, but what about all of the other social issues that we have? And we keep talking about sin taxes and using money from cigarette sales and alcohol sales and gambling sales and weed sales and what's next? Prostitution sales. And it's like, who knows where it ends, but are we making society


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[Assistant] Owner, you've got billions, so much so you just invested in one of our other teams rivals.


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[Assistant] You write your checks so you can reach the rewards. I think these stadiums should be built with private funds from the owners of the team and then they own all the revenue and everything around it and that's fine. It's a, you know, capitalist society, go nuts. But the role of the government


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[Assistant] Should be, if you're raising billions of dollars, shouldn't be to enhance one billionaire's lifestyle. No. It should be to enhance all of the residents of the population they serve. And we've got a myriad of problems in Cleveland that need to be addressed. Let the owner pay for the stadium.


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[Assistant] Well the murder rates and the crime rates are typically mirrored by the poverty rates. Yes. So it's not like a chicken, it's not a chicken or the egg. Poverty precludes crime. You have a population base that is desperate.


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[Assistant] They're destitute. They don't have the jobs they want. They don't have the disposable income they want. So they go take it. So poverty precedes crime.


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[Assistant] You tackle the poverty rates and your crime rates are going to adjust themselves accordingly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's fair. I just think the amount of money that's put in from public funds should be minimal and then there should be some gain to the city.


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[Assistant] To the area that you reap the rewards of all the prophets to.


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[Assistant] What his answer would be. Cause I thought, when you said you put this in specifically for G. Bush, I thought you already had some inkling that G. Bush was going to say yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would like to talk to someone that said, I don't know who they are.


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[Assistant] Or where you saw it. If you saw it on Twitter, like here's a mistake we make, you know, Twitter is saying, well Twitter has never said anything.


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[Assistant] No, I get that. But, but, so here's the other mistake that we make often times is to say, what's all over Twitter? Is it?


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[Assistant] What we see on Twitter is a very small section of what's on Twitter. It's called algorithm.


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[Assistant] And the danger of society, not just with sports fans, but the danger of society. And politicians have flamed out massively because they've looked at Twitter. And they try to base the pulse of the country off the pulse of a few. It can't be done. So,


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[Assistant] The circumstances, I took into account the circumstances around Kareem Hunt. These were women that were thrown out of his hotel room, uh, for-


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[Assistant] Parts of his group felt they had nefarious intentions.


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[Assistant] They came back, there was the altercation, we saw that on videotape. What I saw on videotape from Ray...


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[Assistant] It froze me in my tracks. I'd never seen anything like that.


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[Assistant] I was literally, like, I needed a standing eight counter. I was taking a back. Because I'm with you. I'm a girl dad. Laying hands on a female, I just, I


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[Assistant] We can call Ray at any time. Ray was polite. He was courteous. He was all these things. The reason I personally was so thunderstruck, I knew Ray. I thought I knew his character.


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[Assistant] Ray was a Rutgers guy. My son was at Rutgers at the time.


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[Assistant] Cory had run-ins with, not run-ins, but interactions with Ray. His impressions were the same as mine. I had never heard anyone utter a negative word about Ray Rice. And I see this video and I'm like, everything I thought I knew is wrong.


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[Assistant] And I understand that things happen and spur the moments and some of it's spontaneous and out of your control. I just, for me, that was the unforgivable sin.


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[Assistant] With Deshawn, I think there were people, I know them.


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[Assistant] In my work circle upstairs that were lifelong Browns fans and say they've now picked other teams. They actively root for other teams. They don't root against the Browns or they don't root against Deshaun, but they said I cannot root for this team.


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[Assistant] I cannot cosign what this team has done. Okay, that's your choice. For me, I do mental gymnastics. My fandom


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[Assistant] Is so strong, I cannot not root for the team. That doesn't mean I have to root


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[Assistant] For the player, but like you said, if you root against that player, then you're in competing factions. So for me, anybody that would ask that question, I would answer that with another question. Does it make you a bad Browns fan if you didn't like Baker Mayfield?


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[Assistant] Cool! I can't argue with your taste buds! So if you don't like Baker Mayfield...


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[Assistant] But you love and root for the Browns, you're a good fan. Here's what makes you a bad fan. If because you don't like said players,


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[Assistant] You are then rooting actively, not that it affects the outcome because we know it doesn't, but if you're, I can't watch a game with someone who's going to root against Baker Mayfield when he's a Browns player, or root against Deshaun Watson. For better or worse, he's ours.


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[Assistant] And it's like family. We don't selectively kick members of our family out we don't like.


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[Assistant] They're still family. Deshaun Watson is still family. We don't have to co-sign everything he does. There are a lot of guys in this league that a lot of the fan base can't co-sign what they do. That's not what this is about. I loved your point about political. Like, we can separate the artists from the art.


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[Assistant] I don't have to not root for someone because they're this way politically. I don't care! Entertain me!


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[Assistant] And whatever comments you make politically, I don't have to consume. I don't have to follow you on social media. I don't have to see any of your opinions that I disagree with. But here's what I need from you.


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[Assistant] I'm a brown, and I'll be a brown until my death.


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[Assistant] And I understand that and that's fair. And I think it's, it's, that's not just a trait of a black person. Right. I think that there was some ownership and racial divide with Baker where a lot of white guys were just like, Hey, he's white. I'm going to support him for whatever reason.


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[Assistant] I don't think the punishment fit the crime. I just don't. Now, what is the crime?


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[Assistant] Well, crime is determined by the judicial system. And by that standard, no crime was committed.


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[Assistant] So why was there such a punitive punishment? Why was it 11 games? Why? Because it's also, the other part about this is the scarlet letter that he has to wear now forever.


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[Assistant] I think that what happened between Deshaun Watson and a number of his masseuse was sexual activity. However, I don't believe any of it was forced on Deshaun's part. He may have been


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[Assistant] Like, I've met Deshaun Watson, but I've never interacted with him on anything other than a professional basis. I don't know him. Also, that leads me to lean on people that do. And all of the people that I've leaned on, that I know, that know him, have said the same thing. This is not his character.


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[Assistant] He is a good human being. Kind, decent, respectful. So that's what I'm left with.


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[Assistant] You know what, as a parent, you have every right to make that decision.


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[Assistant] It's so funny how your view on everything changes. Everything. And you can have the outlook that these people just entertain me.


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[Assistant] At what point though do you cross over and let them be role models for your children?


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[Assistant] That's where it's, the conversations get very, very interesting. I don't, I don't need an athlete to be a role model to my kids. I don't either. I don't need them to be a role model. Their role model should be their parents, their teachers, their clergy, if they're religious, you know, the people that are in the inter-server, coaches, not somebody that they don't know on TV that they root for for three hours a week.


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[Assistant] It was 41 years ago that the North Carolina State Wolfpack pulled off the greatest upset in the history of the tournament when they, as an 11 seed I believe, and isn't this team currently 11? 11, they're an 11 seed.


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[Assistant] For the women, I'm disappointed that Iowa and LSU are in the same bracket. Seven o'clock tonight. Should have done better, bad job.


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[Assistant] I'ma go with the- Really? Yeaah. Go for it. Cleveland Browns. It don't fit that well on my head, but it'll work.


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[Assistant] Steve and the coaching staff have been able to do over there in Cleveland, having a number one defense last year, kind of fell off the rails a little bit with some injuries and, uh, uh, guys not really, you know, uh, able to finish the season for them. But you get Deshaun Watson back.


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[Assistant] You have weapons outside now that's able to help Amari Cooper. You have tight ends that can get open. So I'm really, really


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[Assistant] Giddy to see how this team is gonna finish the season this season versus how they finished last year.


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[Assistant] That's the, you know, that's the big question that we haven't seen enough football from him as of late, but Deshaun is a guy who's very elusive in the pocket, who can extend plays, who's also crafty enough


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[Assistant] To, uh, to, to, to, to win those ball games late.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so as soon as I left, that was a bit of a process, man. So I actually decided to go to grad school. I had a couple of agencies reach out to me and it was kind of like, hey, uhm, it would probably be more beneficial if you take the grad school route first, right? And then that way you can go ahead and get your, your agent's license. So I took that route. I'm graduating in a month.


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[Assistant] Uhm, finishing that process, man. Thank you, thank you, I appreciate that. Uhm, and then, you know, just navigating this NIL space, I kind of foreseen that it would be a lot of disruption, right? I think that a lot of people didn't foresee it, and I just knew, obviously, working and recruiting personnel, getting to know the families, the players, and I knew that, uhm, basically the NCAA kind of just pulling off


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[Assistant] All of the safeguards, right? And all of the band-aids that it was going to kind of turn into the Wild Wild West. And it has definitely done so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm about to give a cliche answer then I'm gonna clean it up at the end and I just simply go best player available one because I really feel like at the evaluating this Cleveland Browns roster, they have one of the best rosters in the NFL from top to bottom. Secondly, we know that this, that the NFL.


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[Assistant] Messes things up, right? And I'mma count on the other 31 teams in the first round to mess it up. And then thirdly, I'mma look at it and say, Hey, this offensive tackle class.


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[Assistant] Is pretty deep and I think they can find a really good offensive tackle sitting there at pick 54. So I look offensive tackle first and then you might want to go wide receiver, but I also believe that this wide receiver honestly is top three, top four in the NFL. So they may not have to address that that early. They can wait.


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[Assistant] Jared verse and Leighton Latu for whatever reason now and I think it's solely based on their 40 time they're starting to fall. So even maybe an edge rusher like Chop Robinson out of Penn State would be a good complimentary piece.


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[Assistant] This is a groan, man. Look, 6'3", 200 plus pounds. And when you cut on the film, you just see that this guy is physically dominant, right? He reminds me somewhere in between a Brandon Marshall and a Dez Brian, right? Just the physicality after running a physical presence. You know, defensive backs, right?


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[Assistant] The first quarter, they okay. Second quarter, they okay. But once they get to the third and fourth quarters, like man, I'm tired of tackling this big body wide receiver. So I like him. I see the graphics. Xavier LeGette is also another one of those guys that say AJ Brown.


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[Assistant] Jalen McMillan, uhm, obviously I spent my time at LSU. I watched Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase every single day at practice and just running in a slot and I don't know if you guys remember, but when Justin Jefferson came out, right, cause he played primarily slot, a lot of people questioned


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[Assistant] How fast he was. And then he got to the NFL combine, ran a 4-4 and everybody said, okay, this guy has top in speed. And I see some of the same things, not comparing him to Justin Jefferson one to one, but comparing him from the fact that he's a slot wide receiver with a big body and has speed. So I like Jalen McMillan as a route runner, definitely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a couple of them. And honestly, I think this, I don't think if you look at my board, probably,


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[Assistant] Given one year of sitting on the sideline, sitting behind some veterans, this is a guy that I believe you can buy into the upside for sure. And just rounding it out another


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[Assistant] Arkansas center, Bo Lemmon. He played all three, all five positions, however you want to look at it. Of the offensive line, he's one of those old school offensive linemen that I think are fitting great with the Cleveland Browns and their mentality has the tape.


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[Assistant] We've seen the pro days from wearing helmets and getting chased around with brooms to, you know, to Zach Wilson's right where they're throwing off one leg and launching in 60 yards. So we've seen so many different variations of quote unquote arm talent. But if you ask me what really makes a quarterback quarterback is their ability


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[Assistant] Guides and dictates, you know, how this quarterback may fare in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely, definitely. You know, it's respect across the board. It's definitely respect. Uhm, would you ask who is why receiver one for me? That was the question? Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] I'm going Marvin Harrison Jr., and you know this, right? Having played the sport and everything. Sometimes when it comes to drafting, it's just about the floor, right? Everybody looks at upside and upside in big plays and things like that, but Marvin Harrison Jr. is a complete wire receiver. 6'3", 6'4".


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[Assistant] He can run routes, right? He's consistently bracketed. He understands how to beat double teams already, right? And he hasn't even entered into the NFL, um, contested catch ability, um, IQ ability to adjust to the football. There's nothing that he can't do now. There's no knock on Malik neighbors. I think Malik neighbors can step right in and be an explosive option, right?


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[Assistant] Whoever has the better rookie year will be depending on the situation that they go to because I went to the pro day and I recruited Malik neighbors, but I wasn't there during his career and I was able to watch him


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[Assistant] I can envision Marvin Harrison Jr. playing NFL because I know exactly what I'm getting out of him. He just reminds me of the 6-3-6-4 version of Devontae Adams to be completely honest. And that means he's top five wide receiver potentially in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the J.J. McCartney conversation has taken off, right? And over at the Locked Winterfell Draft, uh, podcast, I talked about him probably in January, and I said, this is a guy that I believe his draft stock will elevate. And I was talking about into the first round, potentially top 20, but then now people saying that he can be the second best quarterback. I'm one of those people that when it comes down to evaluating, that's not just quarterback, but any


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[Assistant] The context around JJ McCarthy is the fact that Michigan didn't use him at all. They ran the ball, what, 30 times against Penn State in the second half, which is crazy to even think about. So I think that's part of the issue with JJ McCarthy, but I do like him. And if he goes to the right spot, I think he will be a really good NFL quarterback.


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[Assistant] You got the Friday clothes on. What's the fit? Explain it.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know what the GOP convention brought. I know it was a lot of visitors. But this is, you bring up a good point. You've got an expected 35 plus at the Guardians game on Monday. We did a stream show last night on Channel 3, previewing the entire eclipse.


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[Assistant] They have those over here at the space center. They expect, or over at the science center, they expect a ton of visitors. So I think you're right. And the women's tournament.


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[Assistant] At this moment in time, the women's game has eclipsed the men's game in popularity.


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[Assistant] And I think they got bounced first or second round. Cause of course his daughter, uh, plays for the Maryland Lady Tarps.


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[Assistant] So if you wake up on eclipse day and it looks like this, don't be worried.


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[Assistant] Path of Totality at the 2017 Eclipse in Jefferson City, Missouri. She said a similar weather day there and it was the most amazing experience she's ever had. Yeaah, I can't wait. So we're all very excited.


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[Assistant] I'm glad you said that. Friend of show Matt Colling and I gave out. This was awesome. Over 600 pair yesterday to the Urban Community School. We went there. Everybody kids in grades K through 6.


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[Assistant] Got a pair of Eclipse glasses and a little goodie bag that Channel 3 and Colleague Giving passed out to the kids and it was amazing. We went to all these classrooms, K through 6.


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[Assistant] And I was quizzing the kids on what they know about the eclipse. Hoping that someone, I go to the kindergarten class first.


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[Assistant] A five year old says, raises his hand and says, yes, I know what that is. That's when the moon


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[Assistant] And by the time we were in the fifth grade class, they were telling me things about the eclipse that I had never heard. I've been studying it like a madman for the last three months. And they were educating me on it. That's impressive. Good for them. Really impressive.


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[Assistant] And you know what? That's exactly what I thought. I was looking at reports that they had done for their class experiment. They've been studying this for weeks.


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[Assistant] If I had to do something like this, I would have had to spend five hours in the library pulling all kinds of encyclopedias and they're sitting at home, Google, Eclipse, Fax.


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[Assistant] I just got a curiosity, and you know what, sometimes I would just randomly grab a letter, because they were alphabetized, I would grab a letter, and I would randomly flip the pages and stop and just, what can I learn about Malaysia today?


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[Assistant] Stop. Oh, the good old days. Uhm, but that's a great point by both to start the show because if you're in and around Cleveland, it's going to be a madhouse. We had on our stream show last night.


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[Assistant] Everybody is gonna, when it's over, and the actual event, the totality eclipse is only gonna last 3 minutes and 17 seconds. When it's over,


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[Assistant] Plan, set, make a different plan. We're gonna go down and watch the eclipse, then we're gonna go somewhere for dinner, or we're gonna spend time at the science center or whatever.


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[Assistant] But if everybody that's downtown for this event leaves at once, you're not going anywhere.


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[Assistant] All right, busy show. Uh, Deshaun Watson makes a proclamation. We're going to talk about that. That's going to be our leadoff topic, but we're also going to talk about the Guardians because bull.


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[Assistant] Been impressive. We sat in these chairs a week ago and said what's your ideal record coming home?


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[Assistant] And we had kind of decided that six and four would stir optimism. You get to seven and three and eight and two, there's gonna be even more buzz. They're already six and two, last two games, house money.


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[Assistant] And the key is, we kind of pooh-poohed the 3-1 start against the A's. That's a 4A minor league team. But here recently they're 3-1 against not only good teams, but teams with good pitching.


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[Assistant] Alright, much more to get to on the program, uh, including...


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[Assistant] We're gonna build the ultimate Browns quarterback from the modern day Browns, 99 post.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna take all these different attributes, and we're gonna say, you know, so-and-so had the best arm. So-and-so is the best clutch player. I gotta tell ya.


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[Assistant] Of all the assignments you've given us, this one was the most difficult. This is hard. Not because there were so many close, like, calls to break. There were some areas where I'm like, clutch?


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[Assistant] I guess, I don't know. I remember when it first happened, we kind of researched it.


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[Assistant] So maybe it is. I'm not familiar that it is more of a baseball injury. You can understand how it could be. But I was glad to hear him mention his name because he's widely regarded as the guy.


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[Assistant] But I was glad to hear that name too. It's funny you brought that up because that was one of the things that went off that I liked. We'll talk about the declaration that you're going to be ready for week one.


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[Assistant] In the first week of April. Do you guys like that? Would you rather he be a little more secretive about what's going on with


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[Assistant] And I love that. I think that that's great because there's something that I learned a lot about from rehabbing so many injuries. I'm rehabbing one right now. The psychology of rehab. And I had always blown that off, especially when I was younger. I thought, psychology of rehab? What the hell is that? But then I realized, particularly with three ACLs, it is a real thing. As you know,


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[Assistant] Even though the doctor says green light, you are now 110% in your bad leg compared to your strong leg. And I said, oh, okay, so you're thinking this one's stronger than my previously stronger leg. So you must be great. But it never


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[Assistant] There's always a little voice in your head saying,


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[Assistant] What if it happens again? First of all, the pain of it is excruciating. Now, his injury wasn't as excruciating as an ACL tear, but


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[Assistant] It hurts so bad. When I, now I did ACL, MCL, PCL first time, I actually went into shock. Uh oh. I was in shock. When I got to the emergency room, they said, yeah, you're in shock right now. Because I was like, yeah, I'm fine. It doesn't hurt.


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[Assistant] You do let go of it, I will tell you from experience, but not until you've gone through the repetitions of game.


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[Assistant] Because nothing can simulate game speed like games. That's it.


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[Assistant] So he might feel fine throwing the ball right now, and I'm glad that he does. And he might feel confident that this thing is healed and is not going to rec, you're not going to have a relapse in any way.


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[Assistant] But until he's taking consistent hits on that shoulder and bouncing up and saying, yeah, I made it through it, there's no validation that could drop that psychology from your mind. Uhm, I am


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[Assistant] Five weeks post-surgery, I was throwing objects softly on Monday, or Tuesday, and I was like a kid in a candy store.


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[Assistant] And in three weeks, I'll get to throw a ball forcefully for the first time. And my doctor's saying once you, we'll, we're gonna creep up to that. And when you do it, we're gonna ramp up your velocity. We're gonna ramp it up, ramp it up. And then we're gonna have you throw 20 fastballs in a row. And, and it will be at that point where you start believing


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[Assistant] It's healed and there won't be a relapse, but no, not for me. It won't be until four starts into my regular season.


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[Assistant] At all. Before I start to say I can now put this thought out of my mind. So I love that he's ready for week one in his mind. Right. I love that. I really do. My preference though, and I'm glad you phrased the question the way you did, Mike.


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[Assistant] My preference would be that he just hold that right here. Here's the answer. Everything's going great.


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[Assistant] I'm very excited about the start of the season. Let's see what happens. Cause we'll all assume a setback if he's not ready or it doesn't seem. That's exactly right. It's like when your parents tell you we're going to the zoo on Friday and then Friday comes around and says, no, psych, no zoo for you today. Now you're upset.


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[Assistant] To your point that you made earlier, it's not just like you're standing still, but everyone keeps moving. When you stop using a skill set, it regresses. Yeah, that's right. So you're not, and that's why I love the point that you guys made about he's got work to do just to get back to baseline.


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[Assistant] Then we can start thinking about improving upon his game and the work that that takes. So when you're injured...


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[Assistant] What's the most frustrating thing about it is yes, everybody moves forward. Everybody's continuing to hone their skill set. I can already feel...


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[Assistant] My right arm muscles atrophy because for four weeks I wasn't allowed to do the normal exercises that I normally do.


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[Assistant] And now, this week, I'm allowed clear to start doing them again. And I've noticed I'm not as strong. All of the numbers that I was doing, sets, reps, and weight, I can't reach right now because I didn't stand still, I went this way. And that's the psychology of injury and rehab.


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[Assistant] But if you think about it, the trajectory of his entire career is likely different.


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[Assistant] Yes, he's not in Cleveland. Uhm, who knows what happens if he plays very, very well and there becomes a bidding war, he likely goes somewhere else. Right. Maybe. Yeah. So I mean, who knows? But I would love to give him truth serum and have him give the honest answer to that question because that is a really interesting question.


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[Assistant] He was a fireballer in the 70s with the California Angels at the time. Nolan Ryan was his teammate. He threw like Ryan in the high 90s. He was a powerful, overpowering pitcher.


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[Assistant] He lost velocity due to injury and he had to completely reinvent himself and did so with a curve ball that allowed him to extend his career for years and be a winner.


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[Assistant] A lot of guys can't do that. No, a lot of guys can't. Right. So that's a, that's an interesting point about Deshaun because if he loses some velocity. Yea, we don't know. I'm just saying. We don't know that. Right. But if he does, can he reinvent himself and can he, there's a, there's a disconnect sometimes between this muscle and this muscle. Oh sure, yeaah. When you're used to for your entire life,


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[Assistant] Fitting a ball in a window and you know the depth of perception and the angle and everything else.


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[Assistant] Your mind tells you, oh yeah, I got that throw. I've made that throw my whole life. But if the muscle doesn't cooperate, that ball is picked or it's incomplete or whatever. So it'd be interesting to see what adjustments he has to make. Can he make them? But I'm confident he can.


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[Assistant] Pip one quarterback once. Yeaah. So for me, for body and arm strength, I struggled between Tim Couch for both of those.


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[Assistant] But I, you're saying just for your time for the Brown, because Baker Mayfield won the accuracy competition this past, at the Pro Bowl. Right, but as a Brown, his accuracy wasn't very good. Accuracy was way below, I thought below where it should have been. Yeaah. It's in the 50s, I think. Sheesh. Who's? This one's tough, I'm not gonna lie. Brian Hoyer?


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[Assistant] I don't remember him being inaccurate. No, I don't. Boy, we had some guys that struggled to complete 50% of their passes. Holy cow.


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[Assistant] Where was Colt in his completion percentage? He was here for just a minute.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he probably could. Deshaun Watson's speed is like a 79.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's go with, I think RG3 is probably technically the fastest that they've had. Seneca Wallace? You know who I put on here? And I don't know if, I put Josh Cribbs on here because although he was never listed exclusively as a quarterback, he played a lot of snaps at quarterback. He did technically. And he would be the fastest.


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[Assistant] I can't remember a guy that I watched in a browns uniform say, wow, now that guy's pocket aware.


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[Assistant] Now I will say this guys, uh, it, it, because we're looking at a list, it's so crazy.


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[Assistant] That none of these guys, with the exception of Flacco, had any sustained success.


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[Assistant] I do think that I feel like there's gotta be a slot, maybe leadership for Baker. Because now remember, even though it got sideways and squirrely at the end, when he came out in that Jets game.


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[Assistant] The names that they would have up there, you know, and you know, we would just look at it and say, wow, yeah, we really stink. Uhm, so we've got.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I love Tim. Love him. You know, member of the show. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no. When you think of the clutch quarterbacks that are even now, even though some really clutch quarterbacks have left the game recently, but even now there are some guys in the league that are clutch. Even the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] We're in trouble. Oh, all time? If you were to compare, if every franchise was to go through this exercise, we'd be 30 seconds.


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[Assistant] You know, I know he was slower, but he said, I think as recently as a year or two ago, that he can run a 4-3.


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[Assistant] Yeah, his body now is like a linebacker. He would not be a prototypical quarterback body. I thought Brady Quinn, same thing. He got messed up in supplements and decided he wanted to look like a cover model for, you know,


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[Assistant] Whenever you see, I'll throw Aaron Rodgers out there. Aaron Rodgers shirtless. You're like, bro.


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[Assistant] No, and that is, to me, that is fascinating because it is, I think, and I think you guys would agree with this.


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[Assistant] The most important and the most difficult to play position in all of sports. Oh sure. And we talk about fitness and health and all of this. And if you put, if you put a lineup of Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Joe Burrow, and Patrick Mahomes, you're talking about four greats. And you take their shirts off and you're like.


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[Assistant] And then you take guys that have had that chiseled body that you would think, now that's a prototypical football player's body, they can't throw accurately, they're too muscle-bound in


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[Assistant] I don't either, uhm. He's short. Yeaah, he's undersized for me.


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[Assistant] We talked last week on Friday, what would you, we talked about what do you want them to come home at for added buzz and we said, I said, you know, seven and three would be, would definitely add buzz.


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[Assistant] These last three wins between two against Seattle and the twins, uh, yesterday.


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[Assistant] And I heard from some people that said you're overly optimistic, you're hyping them up too much, and maybe I, maybe I was. Yeah. Uhm, but I just felt like, and it's super strange, I felt like, and you're gonna laugh at this,


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[Assistant] The mood, I always want to take that into account. And that only lasts for the first week of the season. And then what you do, you either build on that or detract from that. But it was so weird. The mood.


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[Assistant] Was completely different than it was the year before when I was out there and they were coming off a huge season the year before.


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[Assistant] And I credit that to Austin Hedges. It was just, the temperature in the entire room was different.


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[Assistant] Facing a hundred miles an hour on the machine and missing on purpose. So he could realize it's okay.


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[Assistant] It's okay. And I think what he's done is he's let go of that stigma of the walk of shame back to the dugout after a strikeout. Yes. It's okay.


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[Assistant] You're gonna get another chance in 30 or 40 minutes. And...


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[Assistant] I like that. He's not afraid to strike out anymore and the rest of the team isn't either and our numbers offensively. I think we lead the


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[Assistant] And he got pounded pretty good. You know what's an interesting stat? There are two losses in both of them. They walked in the winning run. In both of those losses.


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[Assistant] It's, uhm, I had the exact same thing. I opted because Tristan opted. Hey, I can do this. I thought, well, let's give it a shot. So there's a procedure that they do. It's just not Tommy Jung. It's not the total replacement of the UCL. Uhm, it's not the same.


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[Assistant] He's not the same. And it can't be a time issue because he's had plenty of time. And I'll tell you, if he doesn't regain it and he ends up tearing it, it's going to be a very, very costly miscalculation.


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[Assistant] Now if you remember, there were whispers the day before he got hurt. There were whispers that


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[Assistant] The two sides had come to an agreement on a signature. Or I mean on a deal. That was the rumor. Whether or not that's true or not, neither side ever reported that. But there were folks that covered the team telling me


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[Assistant] He's, he's next. His extension is ready to go. Then he gets hurt. Then he decides, no, I'm not gonna have the surgery. I hope for him.


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[Assistant] That this wasn't a grave miscalculation and he doesn't end up needing it anyhow. Cause like you said,


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[Assistant] Now you got two seasons lost. Will he ever be able to prove that he's worth that big money?


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[Assistant] Everybody's right. Josh got caught stealing in an inexplicable attempt, uh, right after he got hit on the wrist, why he would, you know, risk stealing a bag and sliding in head first.


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[Assistant] I couldn't be more excited about their start. Yeaah, it's fun, it's fun. And I am, you know, like we asked last week after Freeman's hot start, is this sustainable? And we were like, well no, not at this level.


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[Assistant] I'll ask you, they're not going to win six of eight games the rest of the year.


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[Assistant] Is this sustainable? And when I say that, I mean, you know,


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[Assistant] The great pitching, scoring enough runs, winning games first place. Detroit's off to a hot start too. Do you think this is fool's gold or do you think this is?


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[Assistant] In my view, someone else may tell you differently. I played center field for a long time. The sprint to the fence.


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[Assistant] I'm not on board with that. No, Matt, the only reason I ask is because here in Cleveland, obviously the Haslums want a new stadium, they're talking Dome, they're talking moving it out of Cleveland to Brook Park, 15 minutes away, whatever.


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[Assistant] But there's a lot of talk that whatever happens, public money is going to be used. And I'm exactly, I believe with you, most of the residents that live in Cleveland, the third most impoverished city in the country, can't afford one ticket to a home game. And you're going to ask them.


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[Assistant] Matt, one of the big debates, uhm, is who goes first at wide receiver.


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[Assistant] For most, it was a foregone conclusion all year that it was going to be Marvin Harrison Jr. But there's been a lot of talk, uhm, and I don't know how, how realistic it is that, you know, he ends up going to


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[Assistant] to, uh, the kid from LSU. Who's going to be the biggest impact receiver here? Uh, and I'm not saying who's going to go first. You can tell us that, but who do you think is going to have the better NFL career?


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[Assistant] Matt, I know you said you think five quarterbacks go off the board in round one, not six. And Caleb Williams gets all the press and he's, he's the guy that everybody say is going to be the first off the board. What is your degree of confidence? Zero to 100.


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[Assistant] That he is going to be the best quarterback long term that comes out of this draft.


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[Assistant] Draft propaganda. Matt, I know you got to go. Thanks a lot. We appreciate it.


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[Assistant] But I think if he does what he did last year, next year, he's top five quarterback in the AFC.


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[Assistant] So I, I want to give a shout out to the Houston Texans as right now.


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[Assistant] I think being the best run organization in the NFL. And they for years have been the worst. Without question. One of the worst. To me, when you look at some of the things they've done in the five years preceding, you're scratching your head saying,


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[Assistant] Where are they going? What are they trying to accomplish? I don't know if this is a situation where the owner finally said, I suck. I don't know what I thought I did. I'm gonna bring in a guy who does.


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[Assistant] They have, look at last year they had the, ehm, the offensive rookie of the year and the defensive rookie of the year.


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[Assistant] So here's what's curious to me about this move, and I agree with you. I think it's a great move for the Texans.


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[Assistant] Because they have their rookie, their quarterback on a rookie contract, they give them more flexibility, they recognize that, and they went for it.


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[Assistant] The only question that I have about this is if, and it's a win-win for him because he's getting his money.


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[Assistant] But Steph is also planning on putting a big year up and getting the bag.


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[Assistant] He's got some competition for balls in Houston now. 100%. Where in Buffalo, when you looked at their offense, you're like, it's going to Steph. He's going to have a big season. Right. And he always did. Now I'm wondering,


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[Assistant] I know you are, but I'd still rather have Pacheco. Pacheco? They're both have value.


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[Assistant] I think for the Texans, my overarching thought about what they've done in the last two years is eye-poppingly impressive.


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[Assistant] Would you rather be in Houston right now or Cleveland and forget all of the history with Houston?


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[Assistant] He would probably look at that Houston roster and say, yeah, I'd like to be there. We know he doesn't like playing in cold weather.


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[Assistant] And he's got, you know, the confines of a dome and comfy conditions in Houston.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think their wide receiving corps is definitely better than Cleveland's now.


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[Assistant] So, if he was being fully honest, I think he would say, yeaah, give me that situation again.


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[Assistant] Well, if you look at the fact that he won a playoff game in his first year, and it's all about the playoffs, then by that metric, he's certainly in that


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[Assistant] Hey, how you doing everybody? And welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Once again, it's me, Tyveson Jason, as it was on Tuesday. Tyveson is the only person on the show, on the panel that has worked back to back days this week.


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[Assistant] Uh, by the way, real quick, I wanted to say shout out to, uh, Tyler Gordon, who is a teacher at Columbia Middle School in Columbia Station. They asked me, he asked me to speak to his class and I went there yesterday.


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[Assistant] Uh, to meet with his, I can't remember if it was seventh or eighth grade class. Now, I think it was seventh grade.


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[Assistant] Uh, and talk to them about my job. And it was, man, you know, I've spoken to like college groups. I've never really spoken to a middle school before that I can think of. You know, I've done elementary school because of my son's class. But, uh, some of these questions, these kids, first of all, the kids were, did a great job. They all asked questions.


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[Assistant] Seventh graders. They were very, and usually I feel like when you go to class with young kids, like, you gotta force the kids to raise their hand. I think almost every kid, if not every kid in that class, raised their hand to ask a question.


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[Assistant] I mean, so I was talking about like, yeaah, I admitted to these, I was like, I go to therapy, and blah, blah, all these things. One kid asked, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hey, when I moved to Cleveland, right before I moved to Cleveland, I was offered a job in New York.


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[Assistant] Not doing sports talk, I was doing like sports reporting for a news station.


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[Assistant] The teacher was like, can you take a picture with this one kid? His dad is the basketball coach, he couldn't be here, but he's a huge fan, blah, blah. I'm like, sure. The kid comes over. He must have been six inches taller than me.


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[Assistant] Well, the teacher, you know, had them, uh, he's done a good job. He, he has those kids, uh, learning and asking smart questions. That was pretty impressive.


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[Assistant] The Braves Phillies got rained out and the Mets Brewers, I think.


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[Assistant] So 3 o'clock, I think the Orioles are playing at 3 o'clock. I can't remember who they're playing off the top of my head, but, uhm.


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[Assistant] By the way, I'll have a winning baseball parlay at 2 o'clock on my live show of the bullpen later today. So stick around for that. I'll put that out there. But go ahead, Mike.


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[Assistant] I would go over, uh, I've got the Guardians finishing right around 500, which would be 81 wins. I think...


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[Assistant] I think they probably win somewhere between 75 and 85 is the likely range for the Guardians. But since I got more numbers above 80 than below, I think if I had to predict them right now, I'd say they go 82 and 80.


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[Assistant] And so I'll say just over, uh, part of that's because the division's, you know,


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[Assistant] But the other four teams are all decent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I obviously buy into your, uh, tiger's craziness a little bit.


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[Assistant] Last night in my draft I took both Spencer Torkelson and then Casey Mize late in the draft. There you go. So, uh, uh, but, but, I think I could see the twins


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[Assistant] They have a great chance to get off to a good start with a four game series against what will be, what was the worst team in baseball last year and should be once again this year. Along with the White Sox, uh, Colorado, maybe Washington. Those are probably the worst teams in baseball on paper.


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[Assistant] At the moment, but uhm, so I think they have an opportunity to get off to a good start. I'll be curious to see what Carlos Carrasco looks like. What he's got left. Yeah, you know, when he gets out there. You mentioned Stephen Volk, by the way, check, I tweeted about this.


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[Assistant] Obviously Jason knows about this, but Zach Meisel wrote a really good article in the Athletic today about Steven Voate. It was really good. I enjoyed that.


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[Assistant] Well Aaron Boone went from the field to the booth and then he didn't manage the miners at all.


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[Assistant] One of the biggest pieces of being a manager or coach is how you connect with your players. Yes.


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[Assistant] You know, players are more, just as human beings, younger people are a little more sensitive now. I'm not even saying that in a bad way. I know a lot of older people say that in a bad way. I don't mean it in a bad way. I do. I do too. I think it's mixed. I think there's good things about it and I think there's bad things about it.


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[Assistant] It's good that young people tend to be more caring, but sometimes, you know, listen, there's good and bad in all of it. But the bottom line is, that's the way it is. Yes. And so, it's important, you can't, like Tony LaRusso doesn't work.


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[Assistant] He don't work anymore. You can't just start yelling at these guys. Why not? It got results out of me. Well, and it's a different sport also.


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[Assistant] But, the point is, there's something about, hey, these, you feel like they can relate to this guy more, even beyond being sensitive and younger. There's a connection that you can make, cause you know this guy has recently gone through what you went through. And in Steven Vogt's case in particular,


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[Assistant] He didn't have any easy path to the big leagues. He had to grind and claw and scrape and do whatever he had to get an opportunity. And when he got the opportunity, he took advantage of it and actually made an all-star team for a guy who took a while to get to the majors.


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[Assistant] The Giants, so the Giants have Logan Webb, but they got home. They signed Blake Snow.


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[Assistant] They got Darvish and they've got, like two years ago, they was all about hitting with no pitch. They got Cease. Yeah, I like the Padres.


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[Assistant] The only one I have beef with is really the Giants. The Blue Jays got Barrios, they got Gossman. Gossman's healthy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, none of those, uh, those are non-factual.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I think it's about right. I-I actually-


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[Assistant] Trying to think, the Giants have Kyle Harrison, who's a top prospect, who's gonna be starting for them.


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[Assistant] I would, I would actually take the Guardians over the Giants, and I'm with you, I'd probably take them over the Blue Jays, so I think I'd have them 7th. Yeah, I'd pump them up probably to 6 or 7. But not, not any higher than that, I mean, the Mariner's rotation is really good.


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[Assistant] Beiber and Williams have only done it for one year. If, if they, I'm sorry, Beiber and Williams have only done it for one year. If Beiber and Williams are as good or better


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[Assistant] This year than they were last year, then the Guardians will be like four or five next year. Well they'll lose Bieber, but they'll be higher on the list.


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[Assistant] So I think when they look at Toronto and maybe San Francisco, they look at two pitchers on the top who have done it longer. Probably. And which is why they've got them higher.


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[Assistant] I wonder if they're out of luck this year because their rotation right now is not impressive, at least on paper. But that seems to be the case quite a bit. The way they throw the sliders.


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[Assistant] Teach the slider. I think. I'm hoping now, I'm hoping since I drafted him in the third round of my fantasy draft, that Tyler Glass now will stay healthy with the Dodgers. Although, you know, we'll see. But by the way, one other thing, uh, I wonder what the crowd's gonna be like in Oakland.


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[Assistant] Nonexistent. I mean it's even on, you know, on opening day, even other teams that don't draw like Cleveland do well. Is this the last year at Oakland?


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[Assistant] You know, between the team being terrible and the team moving out of town, so.


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[Assistant] But that's why it's a bold prediction. So, good job out of you. Thank you. Jason.


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[Assistant] Alright, go ahead, Mike. So mine, mine is insane. It probably won't happen, but I wanted to go way outside the box here. Brian Rokeo will be an all-star this season. Hey now, you're an all-star. Did a little white man's overbite there.


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[Assistant] It's time for one of them to hit, and I like what I've seen from Rokio. I know he didn't have a great spring, but I like what I've seen from him in the minors, and I think he's gonna have a good year. I think if the Guardians are gonna be surprise good, there's gonna have to be a couple of guys like Rokio. I always wanna say Rokio. In my mind, I wanna say Rokio, but it's Rokio.


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[Assistant] I, and so I, I think he has a really, now it'd be tough for even if he has a good season, it would still be tough for him. He's got to get crazy once in a while.


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[Assistant] And so they, there you go, so Brian Rokeo, an all-star for the Guardians.


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[Assistant] That is more valuable to you than in the trademark. Yeah, I agree with that. You're not getting much for Josh Naylor in the trademark. Correct. So could he be traded? It's possible, but unlikely. Uh, the way he gets traded.


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[Assistant] I don't know. And a guy who's going to emerge is probably a young guy, so he's more likely to be able to still play the field rather than be in the H. I think it's unlikely. We need that. I can't see any scenario that makes sense for a bow nailer trade. The only way you trade bow nailer is if you were


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[Assistant] You got Wyatt Langford, who's starting the season in the big leagues with the Rangers. Evan Carter. You have Evan Carter, who's starting the season, both top prospects, also with the Rangers. Jackson Holliday. Jackson Holliday, who's starting in the minors.


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[Assistant] How do you think Junior Caminero would look in this lineup? Uh, well yeah, I mean, you could, yes, you could have Caminero, Benson, Nolan Jones, and Yainar Diaz. Yeah, all in this lineup. And Yandy Diaz, well that's a little longer down the road, but yes.


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[Assistant] Now listen, I don't think it's crazy to not want to sign Bieber because I don't like spending big money on 30 year old pitchers. It doesn't work out well, but still it's sad that we know that that's impossible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Cousin Eddie. Speaking of which, he's gonna be in Cleveland in a couple of weeks. Oh, is he? Yeah, he's at Comic-Con. He's appearing at Comic-Con. I did not know that. Yes, Cousin Eddie will be here from vacations. Sure, these young people don't know what the hell we're talking about.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, uh, so he gets half price fireworks. You know, he drives them in his car. He's got a 76 Cutlass.


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[Assistant] And he drives him in his car and, uh, so he spends a little more on payroll. Little bit. Tiny bit.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. No. And the Guardians have shown you before that even when they're trying, they're trying to win.


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[Assistant] Uh, that they still trade pitchers that are on contract. And they extend him.


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[Assistant] That's bold. By the top three, Thiong. That is very bold. Moriano at 25 plus home runs is bold.


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[Assistant] Yes, they won a, the year after they went to the World Series, they won a hundred and one or something, right? Well, they winning seventeen. They won over a hundred.


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[Assistant] winning streak. Yeaah. That was so fun. Yeaah. Oh my god, that was the most fun stretch of regular season baseball.


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[Assistant] When? When are they going to spend this money on a bat?


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[Assistant] Tommy Pham is still a free agent. Wanna sign him?


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[Assistant] If he went 1 for 40, he'd be batting like, I don't know exactly what that is.


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[Assistant] He's more likely, if you said what's more likely, Austin Hedges goes 15 for 40 or 1 for 40? 1 for 40. 1 for 40.


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[Assistant] We don't have, we don't have spring really in Cleveland. Cleveland is, is like five months of winter, five months of summer, and then four weeks of fall and four weeks of spring. That's what we get.


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[Assistant] I love it. The summer here is the best though. It is the best. It's better than anywhere else I've ever been. The summers are the best. The winter sucks.


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[Assistant] Listen, the diehard baseball fans and the diehard guardian fans, they're excited. They're gonna stay up late tonight and watch the game, most of them. My guys like J.N. and Menner on Twitter and, uh,


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[Assistant] And, uh, what's his name? Uhm, oh god, I forgot his name. Buckeye Nick and, and, uh... Buckeye Nick? I have no idea who you're talking about. Nick Finkus? No, not Fink. Well, Nick Fink, yeaah, it's Nick Fink. He loves baseball too. He's a whack job. I love him, but he's a whack job.


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[Assistant] He'll stay up and watch. And I know Monty the Color Man on Twitter, who's, you know, based on a character from Major League. I've met him in real life. He's a big baseball fan. So the Die Hards are gonna stay up, they're gonna watch. But there's been no buzz because the team has given you nothing.


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[Assistant] That's it. So yeah, the buzz is a little down, but for me personally, I'm excited. I'm annoyed there's no one o'clock games. I'd like to go home from the show and immediately watch a game, but I'll be watching the Brewers at three o'clock. I'll be watching the Cubs at seven 30 and I'll be watching the Guardians at 10 10. I'm locked in. I'll be up. So there you go.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll give you a tease. I mentioned that at two o'clock on my bullpen show live, join me live. Uh, I'm going to do a, a parlay, a four baseball part of, well, not 14 because I'm only picking two games.


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[Assistant] But, uh, one of the four picks I'll tell you now is the Guardians to win tonight.


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[Assistant] Uh, not that that's a, I didn't say it was a bold prediction, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's not very bold. But the other picks are, I got a couple of player props as part of the, uh, as part of the, uh, the parlay. So, but yes, I expect the Guardians to win. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say 2-1 Guardians. What do you think of that? 2-1.


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[Assistant] Predict a baseball score, Jason. Oh, we're doing a score? Yeaah. Four to one. Four to one? Four to one.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, did you see that, uh, I don't know, was it Antonetti that said that Strahl will still be a part of this team at some point in time? Yeaah, yeaah. That was weird, but, uh,


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[Assistant] With a guy named David Bodie a few years ago where they get not as much money as Miles Strzok. He's been, last year he's been the entire season of the Miners. He has guaranteed money for one more year this year and he's probably gonna spend the whole season in the Miners again.


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[Assistant] Uh, Lyle Strode did officially accept his assignment to AAA, not a surprise.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I'll be curious because they're facing a lefty tonight. You know, if who we see.


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[Assistant] It's center field, a DH, because they're gonna have some spots where they're platooning where they got some left right platoons. Yea, I would think so.


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[Assistant] And I think we'll see Austin Hedges play occasionally against the tough lefty, but Bo Nailer's got to play it's opening day. Yes. If Austin Hedges is in the lineup, I'm going to be pretty pissed off tonight. I don't want to be pissed. Steven Bo, don't piss me off on opening day. Bo Nailer better be in the lineup.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's cut trade and that will be a mix of some baseball and some other things later in the show. Go ahead, Mike.


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[Assistant] He won 10 games but did not make the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think when you cover a team, maybe you tend to be a little biased in their favor. Probably. I don't know. I mean...


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[Assistant] Okay, I was going to say you could argue they could have, instead of just bringing back mostly the same guys on the D line, that they could have, you know, gone after somebody better. But, but go ahead, Mike, yeaah.


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[Assistant] How did the Steelers get a C? Why did the Bengals get a B minus? Let's ignore this list. I'm actually fine with the Bengals B minus, but the Steelers should have an A. Why? Because they got Geno's


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[Assistant] Oh. They got rid of they running backs.


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[Assistant] See for the Steelers, they went from the worst quarterback, or one of the worst quarterback situations in the league, to a mid-tier quarterback situation. They added Patrick Queen.


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[Assistant] The team on paper right now is better because you get a lot of guys hurt, but.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Again, every single Browns conversation comes back to what is the Sean Watson. That's it.


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[Assistant] At the end of the season when they need to be. You know what's interesting by the way? It's not the Cavs. It's the fact that Boston could end up playing Philly in the first round. That would be something.


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[Assistant] They're probably going to play one of those two teams. Now it could end up being Indiana, but it's very likely to be either Miami or Philly that Boston's going to have to play in the first round.


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[Assistant] Let's face it, they beat nobody. They beat mostly bad teams. The teams like the Celtics and the Bucs don't take the righteousness seriously.


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[Assistant] And one guy you keep giving a pass to because you were hyping him up earlier in the year is Isaac Okoro. The guy's a fraud. He's a nothing player. You overhyped him, Mike. He did the same thing last year. He played...


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[Assistant] What year was a Coro draft? Was it 2001? No, that was Mowgli.


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[Assistant] Haliburton. I said Haliburton. Devin Vassel. Who cares? They could have had him.


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[Assistant] Wait a second, before you ask a question to Jason. First of all, in that draft, the last pick of that draft, you know who Mr. Relevant was in that draft? Your real boy.


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[Assistant] Yes. And then Brooklyn drafted a guy named Jay Scrub. That's gotta be the word. If your last name was Scrub, and you're a professional athlete, how do you not change your name? How do you go with the name Scrub?


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[Assistant] You know what's one of the many things about the NBA that sucks? Is that the first quarter is essentially meaningless.


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[Assistant] In the NBA? In the NBA. Like in baseball, the first, the game could be decided in the first inning. You could score five runs and basically seal. In the NFL, you scored three touchdowns in the first quarter. You're going to win nine times out of ten.


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[Assistant] There is no reason to ever watch the first quarter of a basketball game. Ever. Dang. And that's the only sport where that's the case. Playoffs? No, no, no, regular season. Playoffs is worth watching.


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[Assistant] Now, football obviously has a small schedule. But you can say, well, baseball, there's so many games, the regular season is meaningless. Now, they're trying to screw it up, but they're adding more playoff teams. But not too many. And here's the difference between baseball and football.


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[Assistant] Uh, sorry, baseball, basketball, I'll leave football out of it because we know every game matters.


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[Assistant] In baseball, every team that makes the playoffs can win the World Series. Yes. In hockey, I don't care about hockey, I don't watch hockey, but the one thing they got going is if you make the playoffs, you can win the Stanley Cup. That's not the case in the NBA. So even if you make the playoffs, like, we know there is zero chance the Cavs are gonna win an NBA title.


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[Assistant] They're the best team in the NBA. They can't beat any of the top teams in the playoffs. We know this.


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[Assistant] But I don't- Yes, I'm exaggerating. I admit. But, the truth is they haven't-


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[Assistant] And you- fans don't wanna hear this. Don't say it, dude. But, is Steph Curry the most likable superstar ever?


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[Assistant] When the Cavs were playing in the finals every year against the Warriors, I'd be getting mad at Steph Curry. I'd be like, but man, is he likeable.


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[Assistant] Okay, Steve. Oh, that's right, he's just texting you out. He claims he wasn't saying that, he was just kind of... That's a, that is sh...


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[Assistant] You kinda would go 0 and 82, wouldn't they? In an NBA schedule?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I don't know. There did have to be something else, but Steph had to put up with Draymond for so many years. And Draymond just loses his cool on the court all the time. And obviously he's a great player, Draymond.


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[Assistant] It wears on everyone. It wears on everyone. He just loses his mind out there.


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[Assistant] For whatever reason, like can't control, like he loses his mind on the court. What is Steph Curry supposed to do?


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[Assistant] I agree with him on the contract, it was unnecessary, but I wouldn't, the contract, I don't know, we don't need to book him as a guest, please tell Steve not to book him, Steve don't book him, we don't need him as a guest.


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[Assistant] Uhm. How good is your guy? Very good. He doesn't have any power, but he like 50 steals and he's gold glove level defense. Jimenez is also gold glove level defense. Has better power than Warner. What's his contract? Not his... Warner? He signed like a moderate, he signed an extension for less than Jimenez. But I don't think it was as many years.


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[Assistant] I would keep Nico Horner, I would trade Jimenez, I would cut Gleiber. Gleiber's over.


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[Assistant] Actually, I'm going to reverse that. I'm going to keep Jimenez. I wonder how to better year than Jimenez last year.


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[Assistant] I'm going to stick with it. Yeah, I'm going with your order.


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[Assistant] He, I think, um, Horner's extension was 3 years 35 million.


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[Assistant] And I think, but I think Judy's clearly the worst of those three guys.


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[Assistant] Now he has upside, but you know, those guys have already reached their upside I think.


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[Assistant] They still took the champions to seven that year. Bigger fraud, the Hawks run, Daniel Jones at quarterback, or Isaac Okoro's offensive game. What's the biggest fraud?


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[Assistant] Unless it's Isaiah Thomas or Steph Curry, two, maybe the two.


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[Assistant] I would cut Kobe. I would cut Kobe. I would cut Kobe.


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[Assistant] And he got his, he got his. Talk about a fraud ring. All those bubble rings and all sports.


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[Assistant] Oh, tough. Tough for millionaires to play basketball in front of nobody.


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[Assistant] And have to, have to sit in a dorm room all the time.


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[Assistant] It don't matter for everybody, I'm keeping the border. He's not better than those guys. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] I guess I'd take, I'd take Calipari, I'd trade Doc, I'd cut Marvin Lewis. Who's on my team?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he shouldn't even be on that graphic. He's never won anything.


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[Assistant] To me, this clear line- Oh, I don't know. I know that's easy. I can keep Elway. Elway was-


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[Assistant] It's a hard comparison only because they played in two different eras of offense. Steve Young is third on that list. Yeaah, Steve Young is definitely third.


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[Assistant] Do you have Young at 3? Uuuh. He is 3. Those Niners teams are just ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Hmm. And he was a lefty, I give him credit for that.


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[Assistant] Y'all sleeping on Steve. I'm not sleeping on him, he's a great quarterback, but he's not Peyton Manning or John Elway.


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[Assistant] Two more. At least I can watch TV while I fold laundry. This is true. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] An intriguing guy like the Juan Jones instead of a non-intriguing guy like Imani Bates, but...


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[Assistant] But you'd have to take that one before you knew how good the player was.


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[Assistant] Earl, someday you and I are gonna go to New York together and I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you great pizza and you're gonna change your mind, I betcha.


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[Assistant] I like wings, I just think, and like I said, every once in a while you go to a place that's got great wings and I'm like, oh yeaah. But a lot of places that have wings, they're just nothing. By the way, worst wings I've ever had? Probably shouldn't say this.


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[Assistant] I'm keeping the ice cream, I'm trading the cake, I'm cutting the cookies.


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[Assistant] And listen, Mitchell's ice cream is the best ice cream that I've ever had in my life.


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[Assistant] I'm sure, I don't know that the Browns are more likely to win than the Guardians, which is crazy, because I think the Browns have a better team than the Guardians.


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[Assistant] I really feel like the American League is pretty wide open. I know the Astros and the Orioles are really good. Well take the guard, keep the guard, and trade the world.


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[Assistant] I guess I'll keep the Browns, I'll trade the Guardians, I'll cut the Cavs.


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[Assistant] I'm trading the gold nugget for something, and then I'm cutting the chicken. That's the logical way to do it. Chicken nuggets are disgusting. I mean, I love them, but they're disgusting. Let's face it. Trade is like sell, right? It's just a good nugget though. We'll see you out over time on the Ultimate


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[Assistant] Hey, what's the challenge out there? Repeat your challenge. Hey, listen, let me know in the chat if you like it, put a one. If you say no, you ain't gonna do it, put a two. Could you, for $200,000 a year, go to work in a dark room


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[Assistant] You'd go crazy. 200 no taxes. Okay, what about this? Could you sleep? Yes, you could sleep. Okay, then I would just turn that into


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[Assistant] And the fact that Dan Gilbert, who never speaks,


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[Assistant] Right. Comes out and says, hey, I expect him to, like, that's almost like, you know how the wise guys would say, I expect you to sign this contract.


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[Assistant] He was pitching pissed off. It was this smoldering thing. I'm watching the game. I'm staying up late watching it. And uhm, there's something to be said for somebody who won't pay you what you feel you were.


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[Assistant] And I thought when I saw him pitch, there's two things that stuck out. First of all, shout out to you for getting you a change up. How do you just go, he just comes in and just says, you know what, let me just develop a new pitch. You can speak to how difficult that is later on in your career. Not only did he give you the change up,


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[Assistant] His off speed pitch had crazy movement on it. It was dancing everywhere for it to be April. I don't know how warm it was out there, but I know what it feels like. It was chilling. For his ball to have that level of movement in the first outing was crazy.


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[Assistant] It was going like this. He, this, this was like playoff B-Bro. Like I'm like, oh, these guys are getting mowed down one after another. So right now, he put everybody on watch.


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[Assistant] I'm out here. I'm working on my game. I feel like I'm still a top flight pitcher. And the whole season, he's setting it up. What we gonna be like is.


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[Assistant] This is kind of hard to get rid of a guy who's throwing the ball like this. If he continues to throw like that, it's difficult for any organization to say, let's put him on the block. He gonna make it difficult because this right here, that's Cy Young Bieber. He looked like he was two, three years removed right here.


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[Assistant] We talked about the unbreakable records and 60-70% of them were pitching records. Yea, they're just not going to be broken.


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[Assistant] This is where, this is where G. Bush really comes into effect. Operation Stoppile is here. This is, this is, uh, Operation Knee Jerk. Cause I'm going crazy on these right here. I said the guardians young arms stay healthy and become the top rotation in the American league. I don't think that's a stretch either. I don't think that's not a stretch.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Naylor brothers combined for 40 home runs plus.


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[Assistant] Okay, I got more seasoning. Yeah, I can see that. Jose Ramirez starting home runs.


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[Assistant] And he did, yeaah, he had one hit, we already debated that one, that was, that was an error. So I'm, and here's the thing, I get it, it seems like they're like, you know we brought him in as a free agent, we gotta at least play him 72 games.


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[Assistant] It's less fulfilling almost. I think if you win, okay, if you win, like you're gonna take it. But if you compare it to like basketball or football, like you, you pretty much know who's gonna win. Like the best teams win.


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[Assistant] Ah, you know, listen, I called the Cleveland Browns, Andrew Bader, the new Fed. So, I hit Alan Green's span up and said, uh, oh, this is imaginary. So, uh, what we gonna do is we gonna do what's best for the, uh, the cap. And if they tell me that the cap is probably going up next year, and they telling me we got the money next year,


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[Assistant] Then I don't care when they pay them. To be truthful, uh, I look at it in a number of ways. The first way is...


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[Assistant] This current regime, this current regime, they go out and get it done. We've talked about Amari Cooper potentially not having, uhm, taking money away from him or having him be a cut. Didn't happen. We still ain't seen Nick Chubb give no money back.


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[Assistant] If Dave was going to ask for some money back, it would have happened by now. Dave winning Dave, and I learned a tough lesson, or a lot of people have learned a tougher lesson than me, is these guys are finance guys, right? Like, they got, they literally are Ivy League


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[Assistant] So for you and I to be sitting here talking about, you know how you go back and you ever, you ever got a car and you want to go get a car and the salesman come back, he said, let me go back here in the back.


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[Assistant] You know your credit score is 475? They come back and they got a deal for you. They got some finance company somewhere to say yes on 27.5%.


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[Assistant] But if we want it, we're gonna take it from you. Now, if I could only get people on the national debt thing, like if you could- I wish that was- yeaah.


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[Assistant] See, the national debt isn't like regular households. We need to tighten our belt straps. No, no, no. The government just says, hey secretary, how much money is it for the defense fund? 800 million? Print. The government approves print.


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[Assistant] Or, or your NFL team and you have an owner that's the equivalent to the Donals of baseball. Because to do that, you have to keep


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[Assistant] I like the fact that Andrew Berry seems to be a guy that's, uh, he plays three or four dimensional chess. He seems to be a guy that's ahead of the learning curve. That's just a conversation.


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[Assistant] That was his worst season. I like the fact that, and I think Amari Cooper is one of the guys that understands that he got, he already received this hundred million dollar deal. He may be looking at something more in the future where, hey, I'm trying to win now. He probably, if I'm Andrew Brady, I didn't already brought him back in. I didn't already brought him in and say, hey, what do you think about Judy?


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[Assistant] When I used to do the pre-game show, I parked uptown or downtown. Would you pay? $80. Okay. Right. So here's what's at stake.


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[Assistant] At the tailgate, I was down there, I did the Cleveland Browns tailgate show live downtown from West 6th for six years. Right.


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[Assistant] In a city where the city districts are blue