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[Assistant] He looks good, but he's a fraud. The advanced analytics on him show he's due to blow up. The Phillies are going to beat him up today. Giants stink on the road. Marlins are playing pretty well. They've won six of seven, I think, and have given up four or less runs in five of their last six games. So Marlins and Phillies will both win today. Alright guys, so last night,


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[Assistant] He said, he played like a man who felt embarrassed by game one and said, I'm gonna kick your ass.


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[Assistant] Which question? To me, I don't even know if it matters if he's in the starting lineup. It matters if he's in the closing lineup. Yea. Right, especially in a close game. Like, I don't want a Koro or Jetty.


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[Assistant] With the, with the starting four. I want Carrots Levert. And Carrots Levert is the only player on the Cavs bench.


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[Assistant] I think JB's still gonna give him opportunities, but he's got, if he doesn't take advantage of him soon, eventually you run out of chances. You know, you want to see, cause he does, when he's right, he does play good defense, and there was a stretch of time in the season, as you said,


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[Assistant] Danny Green, even at his age and he's a limited player, especially on the defensive end, there's not going to be a confidence problem. Like, he's going to go out there and he's going to give you his best effort. And same thing with Laverte, but Acoro, like, he just, he's scared to shoot.


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[Assistant] In the end, I think the reason the Cavs were great in the second quarter, yeaah, their offense was good and we've been talking offense, but the reason they dominated this game and pulled away and made it


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[Assistant] And they continue to play like that. Like I say, this thing will be over. Well, in game one, we, we complained about they're soft. The Knicks kicked their ass in the game. They out hustled out physical them and it totally flipped in game two, right? The Cavs are the more physical team. We, I think Cavs won the rebounding edge by eight or nine last night, something like that. They were more physical. They were more aggressive.


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[Assistant] And now the Cavs, the Cavs, the goal to me is you gotta go split in New York, right? You gotta split the two. You can't ask them to win both. You gotta come back to Cleveland 2-2.


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[Assistant] That's another scene. We're going to talk more about Draymond later, but he is suspended for game three.


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[Assistant] But I don't know, like right now it is fun, you know, we'll get rid of the riff-raff like Minnesota and Atlanta, some of these scrubby teams.


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[Assistant] They're playing the uh, the Nuggets game tonight. Yea, they suck. They're horrible. But, go ahead Earl, what do you got?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean the, yeaah. I mean, idiot, listen, I was never a Knicks fan as a kid, but, but going to the garden,


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[Assistant] Is a special experience. It's really, it's, it's just, it's cool. It's like going to Wrigley Field or Fenway Park. I mean, it's, it's got, it's kind of a dump, but there's something, it's a cool dump.


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[Assistant] I can't remember if it takes you actually right downstairs, but it certainly takes you within, you know, right on the corner or whatever. I don't remember if you get in like under the building. I can't remember. That's crazy. Cause I haven't taken a subway in so long, but uh, I tell you what. But yeah, I mean you, in Manhattan, you can get to almost any block on one subway or another.


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[Assistant] By the way, I got, somebody gave me a new nickname yesterday that I'd never had before and I like this nickname. I'm adding it to my repertoire. So I was, and then we're gonna go to Earl for a read here.


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[Assistant] So I'm at, so last night, yesterday I'm having lunch at Yours Truly.


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[Assistant] Which is in the Halley building where I used to work for many years. I happen to run, by the way, I happen to run into Dustin. I was telling the guys off the air. Dustin, I was waiting in my car. Dustin walks across the street to me. We ended up chatting for a while. Not that we don't chat, but I haven't seen him in person in a while. So we were talking for a while and then I go to lunch at yours truly.


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[Assistant] And I see there's a guy sitting next to me. He and I were chatting. He's from Queens. He came for the game. And then there's these three people. It was a guy and two, you know, like younger women.


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[Assistant] And the guy was wearing a New York Ranger shirt. And I scream across the restaurant, Get these New Yorkers out of here!


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[Assistant] But I was just joking around. So they start laughing. The waitress knows me because I used to go there all the time when I worked in the building.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and I walk up to them and I actually bought a drink around for the New Yorkers that were there. And I said- Big spender. Yeah, I don't know, I felt like such a big shot yesterday. So I buy around.


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[Assistant] Show it off! And I said, I said, but next time you guys come to New York, you gotta let me know. I said, New Yorkers gotta get my permission to come to Cleveland. Like this dude, this dude just really out-couponed me. I did! And he goes, he goes, are you the New York mayor of Cleveland? I said, damn right I am.


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[Assistant] The guy gave me, in fact the guy, I gave him my number, he owns a Colombian restaurant in New York, and I said next time I go on the set, I'm gonna come to your Colombian restaurant, because I love Colombian food, it's hard to get Colombian food here. Yeaah. That's so crazy. And so anyway, but uh, they went, I told them they were gonna go on home unhappy, and they were. So they were here for the game? Yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were. So, but I guess they were happy the Rangers won in the Stanley Cup. I went home.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean I thought he played pretty well, he was more aggressive.


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[Assistant] It is hard to score 25 points in a game.


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[Assistant] When you're mostly getting baskets at the rim, and you have two great guards that are scoring and shooting. And last night,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I think Jay said on Monday, they weren't, you know, only two guys took a lot of shots. Well, yesterday you had four guys take double digit shots, including Mobley, because LaVert did, Daris did, and uh, Donovan Mitchell did.


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[Assistant] We're gonna bring in our guy, Evan, who does the Locked On Cavs podcast here in just a second. But real quick, I gotta admit this, and Cav fans may get mad, but I have a feeling both of you guys are gonna agree with me. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. I gotta admit, I kinda, I kinda like Steph Curry. Even though he killed the Cavs.


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[Assistant] big time coaches here. For less than five bucks a month, you get all the exclusive overtime content, things that those other suckers are not getting.


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[Assistant] Become a member, uh, in overtime today we will talk more about Draymond Green. Did they ever put a...


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[Assistant] We've been talking about the Cavs for the last half hour, you know, and that's the NBA, right? Like one game you look like crap, the next game you look great.


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[Assistant] The, uh, I think a lot of the Cavs homers and every fan base is a bunch of homers, a good percentage of them.


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[Assistant] They were letting them be physical, which I got no problem with. I think it's good, better for the game, my opinion. And the Cavs, as you said, they played more physical and the same thing. I don't know. Have you had any issue with the officiating?


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[Assistant] Evan, Ricky Rubio obviously last year before the injury was great. He was way better than we could have expected. He's not been the same player this year since coming back from injury. Do you think he's done or is he a guy that maybe next year will, a year past the injury will be better again?


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[Assistant] Let's hope you're right. No partying. This is the playoffs. You're not LeBron. No partying in New York. Evan, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you. Alright man. Good to have you in. Go ahead there. Earl, what do you got for us?


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[Assistant] What a shocker that 82% of Cleveland Cavs fans think the Cavs can do it again in game 3. Of course they can. Will they? I don't know. But let's, let's wrap up our Cavs conversation with this, guys. The G.U. asked a good question about the rotation, right? We know the big four is going to play. We know Karas LaVert is going to play. Okay, that's five guys.


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[Assistant] If you're gonna have a seven man rotation, that leaves you with two spots for the other guys. The options are, I guess Ricky Rubio, Isaac Okoro, Danny Green, and Jetty Osmond. If you're gonna play two of those four guys, and it may change from series to series if they move on or whatever, but right now based on what you know and the situation that they're in,


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[Assistant] He ain't wrong at all. That's exactly 100% correct. Here's the question.


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[Assistant] If you're in, like part of me says, well, obviously I think we're all in agreement that Danny Green should get some minutes in all these games, right? And, but my thought is, if you're in a big, let's say it's,


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[Assistant] You're up 110-109 at the end of the game.


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[Assistant] Part of me says, well, at that spot, I might want to bring in Isaac Okoro to play some defense. However, if he's not playing the whole game and he's not completely healthy, is he capable of playing that lockdown defense in that big spot if he's rusty, lacking confidence?


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[Assistant] And not totally healthy. So I don't know. So I would lean towards Jenny, although he was like the only cat that didn't shoot particularly well yesterday. I do think you make a good point though.


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[Assistant] By the way, I didn't realize this, I heard this yesterday, it must have been on the broadcast, I don't know if you guys knew this, I didn't know this before last night, that Evan Mobley was the youngest player ever to be a finalist for the Defensive Player of the Year. Yeah. Yep. Ever. I didn't know that either.


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[Assistant] A really good offensive player, he's gotta get stronger. And especially like, because we've seen like when they've matched up with these teams that got good big guys, he struggles.


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[Assistant] We don't know how long Donovan Mitchell is gonna be here. So they gotta go all in.


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[Assistant] I think it's kind of what we're talking about here, but here's what I'd say about a coral, and I've been down on a coral as much as anybody.


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[Assistant] I don't know what a Coro is health-wise. Like, I don't know that. Only he knows and probably, you know, in the team, right? But I'll say this.


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[Assistant] If Okoro is healthy enough to play good defense.


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[Assistant] I would actually still start him, so he's in the rhythm of the game. I'd take him out after 4, 5, 6 minutes at the most.


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[Assistant] Keep him in the rhythm of the game because there may be a big spot late in the first half, late in the second half, where if he's healthy and right, I could use him defensively. And I would still play eight guys.


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[Assistant] I'd like, you know, give a couple minutes to him and a couple minutes to Jetty, but if I'm going to ask him to do something in a big spot defensively, I can't have him like, not play for 46 minutes and then call him in. So I would keep him in the mix, uh, if he's right, physically.


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[Assistant] But I think we all agree, there's no way I'm giving him any kind of significant-


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[Assistant] Like you said, 5'6", come on, we need some offense in there too. He can't play 30, no chance. To me, the most he should be playing is like 10, 12 minutes.


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[Assistant] Besides the Big Four and Laverte. So start, you know, even though...


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[Assistant] Maybe a chorus still starts. I still think Danny Green should be 16 minutes on the tee. Yes, I think he should be in heavy minutes.


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[Assistant] Are you, are you bringing Laverte in for Coral? I think at the six minute mark, I could bring in Danny Green and Laverte. I could bring them both in.


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[Assistant] You know, when either, uh, Darius or Donovan is down, then I bring in Danny Green, and then eventually Laverte goes to the bench, and then I stick with Danny Green a little longer, and then I put him on the bench, and I mostly, most of those, you know,


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[Assistant] Three minutes, we'll go to Laverte, followed by Danny Green, and then Danny Green and Laverte will get some, you know, I guess technically some of those guard minutes too. And a corral, maybe a few minutes at the beginning of the game, couple minutes maybe at the start of the third quarter and then if I need them in a big spot.


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[Assistant] There you go, and we're talking baseball now, guys. Oh.


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[Assistant] I don't know what, I don't know what the plan is yet. After the show I'll kinda look into it more. But I just saw that they called, he's their number two prospect overall. And they've just sent Hunter Gaddis down and called him up. But they haven't called up any of their pitching prospects. Which is, listen, yesterday was a freaking disaster. Okay, now I, it's funny cause you say,


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[Assistant] Uh, you were talking about, like, Guardians fans being hypocritical, and you talked about something that is fair, you know, like, we don't wanna trade all these prospects, but we're not gonna bring them up.


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[Assistant] But I thought you were going to say this one, which is, which is that guardians, people want you to be excited about the guardians, but then they'll tell you it's too early to guess exactly what they're saying.


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[Assistant] I love baseball. I love the Guardians. I want them to win a World Series. I think they're a very talented team and a good team with tons of prospects that they need to call up and trade some of them to get more proven players.


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[Assistant] And I understand that baseball is a marathon. It's a drama.


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[Assistant] Football is a sprint and an action movie. And so yeaah, you can't say the team sucks based on 18 games. You can say that right now they are playing crappy baseball. And the fact that they're only 500 right now is a big disappointment early in the season. They've played a pretty favorable schedule.


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[Assistant] Right, like yeaah, the Mariners on paper are a good team, but they're not playing well either. So you've played the Yankees, they're pretty good, okay, but you haven't played any other good teams. The Tigers stink, they're one of like the three or four worst teams in the league.


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[Assistant] And I expect them to play better and I think I'm not panicking about the team, but they are playing poorly right now and yesterday is just awful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, listen, the team's off to a really bad start. Even Jose Ramirez is not hitting for any power right now. Nope. Uh, the bullpen, which was fantastic last year, has been pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Closet has been okay, but last year was the best, you know, along with Edwin Diaz was the best closer in baseball. Karen Cech was lights out the second half of last year. This year it's like every other appearance he's good, every other appearance he sucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he hasn't been great. And that's it. They have nobody to eat innings, and that's affecting the bullpen. And even if they do call up these guys, like,


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[Assistant] You got these studs and the minors, the guardians don't panic and that's smart. You know, they believe in what they do and that's okay, but it's gonna hurt. The longer you go where these starting pitchers are going three innings and four innings and four and a third,


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[Assistant] That taxes the bullpen. No matter how good your bullpen is, if it gets overworked, it's not going to be effective. How does John D. Diaz have five home runs? Yea, he wasn't much of a power guy. I'm confused by this. Yea. He traded him a lot over the years. It's been a while.


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[Assistant] Well, a guy like Jose, I'm not getting alarmed unless it's two months and he's not here.


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[Assistant] I mean he's, you know, if it's a guy who's only done it for one year...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean like, Osby Gonzalez did hit a home run yesterday, which was good, but he's been off to a terrible start. He's no sure thing. A guy like Jose who's been good every year for whatever, six, seven, eight years, whatever it's been. I can't remember now at this point. I'm not going to worry about him. Like he's going to be good unless he's hurt. So he was hurt the second half last year, didn't play as well.


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[Assistant] I haven't heard anything about an injury. I saw somebody tweeting yesterday, not a person that covers the team, but somebody I know was like, is Jose hurt? Like what's going on? I don't think he's hurt. I haven't heard anything about an injury with him. He hasn't hit for any power yet.


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[Assistant] I think there's some level of patience you gotta have, but it's frustrating. The team's been frustrating to watch because they haven't been scoring runs, they haven't been, they're not doing anything particular.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's also a bad start. But now remember, he got into a bad start last year, and then in the middle of May, he was great from the middle of May on. So I don't know, you know, listen, they may give Rockio a chance to play shortstop every day. Rockio and Arias are both top prospects.


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[Assistant] I don't know why we'd have them both up here if they're both gonna sit on the bench every day. So I gotta look into this some more and see what's gonna happen because if I'm going to call up my best players,


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[Assistant] They gotta play. You can't sit on the bench. I mean, they'll play every day, but you'd want them to play a lot. But yeah, you know, I don't know what's going on with Rosario. Maybe they're thinking he's going to miss a few more days and he's been banged up. I don't know. So maybe they're going to give Rockio a chance to see what he's got. But you know, if he comes up here and plays a few games, he gets hot and you stick with him.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's, it's very unusual, especially for a guy that doesn't hit for power. Like, Ricky Henderson, when he let off, he might lead the team in RBIs because he hit home runs in the leadoff spot. But Stephen Kwan, I don't think has any home runs, does he? He is zero. He doesn't hit home runs.


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[Assistant] The reason he's got so many RBI's is because some of the guys in the bottom of the lineup, who have been in the bottom lineup, like Zanino and Straw, have both got, and even Jimenez was hitting 7th.


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[Assistant] And so, but, but in general, he and Zanino have gotten on base a lot. And especially when Straw's on base, you know, he's a great base runner. So Ikhwan with his singles and doubles is going to score those guys all the time. It's unusual.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you this, if Quan leads this team in RBIs at the end of the year, they're in big trouble. They are in big trouble because he ain't hitting any home runs, which means he's not going to finish with that many RBIs and that means Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor, Jimenez and Bell have all had disappointing seasons.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Guardians have lost five of their last seven. I will say this though.


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[Assistant] With Francona, it's been many years where the Guardians, the Indians slash Guardians have gotten off to a bad start and then played great in the second half. We've seen it many, many times. So certainly it's way too early to make any sweeping judgments about the season, but yes, as the weather gets better, uh, and it's just, it's, it's particularly disappointing when you wait, when you lose games to the team.


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[Assistant] I still think the White Sox will be okay, but they're off to an even worse start. And the funny, the bottom line is the Twins have lost three in a row too. So.


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[Assistant] There's still only a game and a half back of the Twins of the Division. So we got a long way to go. It's way, way early to make any sweeping judgments. They're not playing well. Hopefully they can turn it around against the Tigers today. And then they go and they play the Marlins coming up, right? Or the Marlins are coming to town.


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[Assistant] But the Marlins are actually playing decent baseball right now. Go ahead, Earl.


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[Assistant] Oh, Spencer Turnbull. Turnbull, sorry. Yeaah, he's not any good. They don't have any good pitching. They stink. The Tigers stink, the Guardians need to win. Let's go. Take care of business here.


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[Assistant] He was. He wasn't sitting with Myles Garrett though. Is that controversial? Oh my god.


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[Assistant] You don't, do you think he, you think he stayed here overnight? Or do you think he flew back through as the game was over? He's probably got a private jet, right? No. Spike Lee doesn't private jet.


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[Assistant] That's a lot of money for a private jet. Is Do the Right Thing the best Spike Lee movie ever?


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[Assistant] Uhm, well even though, did I see Crooklyn? You definitely seen Crooklyn. This is probably not appropriate for right now.


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[Assistant] Oh, that was his movie? I didn't realize that. Crooklyn. 1994. Actually, it's not that old.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, alright, so let's switch it up and, and, okay, go ahead, Earl. So you got, we have some, uh, quotes or clips from some of these guys.


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[Assistant] I know Greg Newsom spoke yesterday and talked about he was upset about people saying he wanted to get traded. Honestly, there was an article in Pro Football talking about that too. I don't care if he wanted to get traded or not. He doesn't, he's not making a thing of it publicly, so who cares? If he privately said he wanted to be traded, do you care?


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[Assistant] But like, they wrote an article about it. People still debating about Brad. Leave Brad Stainbrook alone. He doesn't need to apologize anymore. Brad, you don't need to, I don't know if you watch the show, but you don't need to apologize. Who cares? Nobody cares. There's probably 20 players on every football team in America that would like to be on another team. Who cares?


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[Assistant] Uh, if you watch his corners before, everybody plays everything. I'm just super excited to go with my teammates, get ready for this. So okay, so what basically he's saying is,


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[Assistant] Guys, my guess is that yeah, Greg Newsom didn't want to be pigeonholed as a slot corner. Yea, cause for the money. And Jim Schwartz probably went to him and said, hey listen, in my system, everybody does everything. Yea. I need three great corners, I need you, you're gonna be great in this system. And Greg Newsom was probably like, hell yea, I'm in.


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[Assistant] I think you could just tell by everybody coming back, we have all our guys here, super excited, ready to go. He's been part of Super Bowl defenses, so I think we're super excited.


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[Assistant] By the way, he's not the biggest first round bust in recent Buckeye history. That would be Billy Price. He sucks.


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[Assistant] One of the few picks the Bengals have gotten wrong in recent years. I thought he, people was acting like he was the next Mangold.


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[Assistant] Couldn't stay healthy, was terrible. The Bengals traded him to the Giants for BJ Hill, who's turned into a decent defensive tackle. But now he's been bouncing around like practice squads.


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[Assistant] But here's, here's one other thing before we move on. Who else you got quotes from?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, guys. And gee, you and I have been talking about this for a long time.


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[Assistant] And like, my hope is that Jim Schwartz is gonna help bring the dog out of some of these guys. Cause like, even Miles Garrett to some degree, like, JJ Watts, I think Miles Garrett talent wise, I believe he's as good as anybody, but he's not as nasty as some of these other guys.


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[Assistant] Or really in fairness to Joe Woods.


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[Assistant] Guys are hungry, ready to work, already talking about getting some extra work done, just trying to get 1% better.


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[Assistant] I didn't say anything. I don't say anything. Oh, I don't say. Thank you. That's their own opinions. I know who I am. The organization knows who I am. At the end of the day, I have the opportunity to prove myself. Is that all we got from him or we got something else?


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[Assistant] Tomorrow's gonna be interesting, by the way. Uh, I'm gonna be on a panel discussion tomorrow, uhm, at the Jewish Community Center in Beechwood. There is a panel, I'll tie it into Miles Garrett, it sounds like I don't know where I'm going with this, but I will.


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[Assistant] So, or not my house character, Sean Watson. Uhm, and on this panel, uhm, is a few sports people from the area and we're, we're talking, it's, it's brought to you by the Jewish News, it's live sports talk, it's me and Jonathan Peterlin and Goldhammer.


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[Assistant] Andy Baskin coming? Baskin's... Les Levine used to be the emcee. And Andy's the new emcee. Andy Baskin. So, it'll be me, Jonathan Goldhammer, and, uh, Mark, uh, what's his name? Bishop? Mark Bunch?


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[Assistant] I didn't know Michael was Jewish. He ain't Jewish. Okay. Neither is Jonathan, but they're on the panel anyway. Okay, alright. Uh, Jonathan's Jewish, Jewish adjacent because his wife is Jewish, and now his daughter's Jewish.


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[Assistant] You count, so he's Jewish or Jason. But, I believe Munch is one of those guys like Greg Brenda who, if you say anything about rooting for the Browns with Deshaun Watson, we'll tell you you're a scumbag.


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[Assistant] And if he tries that with me tomorrow, there will be some fireworks, trust me.


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[Assistant] And so I don't know what he's gonna do, but here's the thing, like, when it comes to Watson,


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[Assistant] We can't complain about the haters. Okay? That's the deal. You get into trouble off the field.


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[Assistant] I get you wanna argue it's an accusation, whatever. There's a lot of accusations and he, and he settled. So you can choose to believe whatever you want. I've said it a million times. None of us know for sure. You can choose to believe.


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[Assistant] He's a total scumbag. You can believe, choose to believe. He's a minor scumbag. It got overblown. You could choose to believe.


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[Assistant] He made some bad choices. You could choose to believe he's been railroaded.


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[Assistant] But two things. Number one, he's gotta know and the defender's gotta know that a lot of people hate him. And we can't whine and cry about it. That's part of the deal that he's gotta deal with. Number two, I decided personally, you don't have to decide this. This is what I've decided for me a few years ago because I used to feel differently about this.


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[Assistant] There's a bad guy on every football team, every baseball team, every hockey team.


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[Assistant] Every political party, every office, there's always going to be a couple of bad guys, okay? If I decide I can't root for a football team because I don't like a player on it, well I can't root for any team because I can find a jerk on every single team in every single sport in the planet.


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[Assistant] So I can say, well, I don't like what Deshaun Watson's been accused of. Who doesn't? Nobody likes what he's been accused of. My personal belief at this point of what he did, what he didn't do is irrelevant, so I'm not even going to bring it up.


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[Assistant] But I cannot like in theory or you or anybody else can say, you know, I don't think the Sean Watson's a great person. You can say that, but he's on my football team. I'm going to root for him. I can separate player and person.


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[Assistant] And that's, if that's what you want to do to watch football, that's fine. I think that's what I'm gonna do. I think that's what most people do. He doesn't have to be my best friend. He's on my football team.


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[Assistant] But to say I should, for other people to tell me that I can't root for him because you think he's a bad guy, or he may actually be a bad guy, well, F you. I don't care what you think. Don't get in my business. If you don't want to root for him or the team because of it, then good for you. You do whatever you want. I'm not going to tell you what to do either, but don't tell me what I'm going to do. And so F that.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Deshaun Watson, I think the answer's fine because he can't worry about what other people are saying, because there's always going to be people saying crappy things about him. He's got to be able to deal with that physically, mentally, and kick ass on the football field. And the more he kicks ass on the football field, the more that stuff's going to go away. But until he does it, he's going to keep hearing it and there's nothing he can do. So don't fight.


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[Assistant] Fine. Don't force me to like a guy I don't like. Don't force me to dislike a guy I like. Don't force me to not root for someone. You do your thing. To me, it's just like religion. Believe whatever the hell you want, just don't tell me about it.


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[Assistant] By the way, the guys you've spoken to in prison, are they able to, I don't know if you know this, but are they able to listen to your show on the radio? Are they able to watch this show?


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, guys. Nick Chubb is a better, and maybe we should, you know what, my opinion will do is, I think we should blow off Draymond, because we already talked about it a little bit, and we should do the Damar Hamlin on overtime. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Right. He's still a good player, but, and I think people are like, you saw what's his name, uh, the kid who's gonna be the rookie running back. Oh, Bijan Robbins. Bijan Robbins. That's why he was salty. Right, right.


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[Assistant] Nobody, nobody actually thinks Bijon Robinson is a better NFL running back right now than Nick Chubb, but Bijon Robinson could potentially be a better fantasy back this year. I think part of it's cause a big part is Nick Chubb doesn't


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[Assistant] catch the ball much. But a lot of people think the Brown more pass heavy this yea know, we'll see. But I st


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[Assistant] I wonder what excuses they'll come. Everybody loves Nick Chubb, but I like that he's a little angry and feisty.


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[Assistant] But even in college, he wasn't a guy, he wasn't catching a ton of passes.


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[Assistant] I said, I said what do you want? If the Sean Watson girls are 4500 and Nick Chubb has 1800, then we're talking. But the bottom line is with the Sean Watson guys is that you just said it, Tyvis, and I just wanted to follow up on that real quick because


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[Assistant] This season is all about the Sean Watson. We can talk about the defensive line and linebackers. The Browns got talent, okay? The roster minus quarterback.


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[Assistant] The Browns should win a lot of games and at the very least be in the playoff mix if not a playoff team. And if he plays like the guy we saw last year, they're not going to be good and everybody's going to get fired. I think we'd all bet he's going to be closer to the Houston guy than he was the Cleveland guy. But as you've said, G, he can't just be a little better than he was last year. He's got to be at least the Houston guy.


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[Assistant] But if he's the Houston guy with more talent around him here, because obviously Nick Chubb's better than anybody he's had, he's got a good group of wide receivers. He may not, he doesn't have a DeAndre Hopkins obviously, but he's got a good solid group of pass catchers.


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[Assistant] He's got the talent. He's got a good offensive life. They're healthy. The offensive lunch should be really good again. If he plays to the level he's capable of, the Browns will be really good and they'll win a lot of games. And listen, when Ben Roethlisberger retired, nobody was talking about the off the field stuff because he had won a ton of games and won a Superbowl and he had stayed out of further trouble as far as we know.


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[Assistant] And he had a bad reputation amongst people that cover the team of being a jerk, which Deshaun Watson does not have that reputation.


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[Assistant] Now in the end, Gene, none of that talking matters. He's gotta do it on the field. No. But, it's fair to say it's the first time in three years that he's had a normal offseason. Yeaah. Right?


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[Assistant] 100%. I'm just saying what he says in terms, I'm feeling better.


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[Assistant] In the end, that doesn't matter. It'll be proven by how he plays on the field. But I do agree with that point.


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[Assistant] That the fact that like he's speaking, I don't know if he got any questions still about the off the field stuff. I'm not sure. I didn't hear the whole press conference, but I think at this point, like our media has already asked all that stuff. What's there left to say? So at this point, it's all about football. We're not


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[Assistant] And she, think about it from this perspective, I think something that I certainly didn't take into account last year, I don't know about you guys, was the mental hurdles you gotta get over.


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[Assistant] Right? Think about it. If you're spending your entire offseason, first you're getting traded.


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[Assistant] And the things didn't get settled for a long, you know, for a while. And plus you're going to a new place. I gotta move to Cleveland. I gotta do this. I gotta do that. And now that's all behind him. Yea, he's still got two cases out there, but there's no criminal. That's totally off the board. These things will be dealt with and like he can now just fully focus on the, on


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[Assistant] Being foot, uh, football and getting that, that, that cockiness, that, that edge, that attitude, that whatever you want to call it.


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[Assistant] He's gotta get that back. That moxie. He needs that back. Swag. He needs his swag.


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[Assistant] Earl, I got one more thing I wanted to hit on, but give us, tell me about Collin Racing first.


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[Assistant] And when Chris was here in Cleveland, he came on our show a couple times. I thought he was a really nice guy. I don't know if you ever met him. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Folks may or may not remember, he had a very tragic story even before he died. His girlfriend, remember she had just given birth, I think very soon, and then his girlfriend died in a car accident.


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[Assistant] And now Chris has died. I don't know if the details are out about what happened to him. But he's a young man, I mean he's in his thirties.


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[Assistant] You got a young daughter, very sad. Again, I don't know, I didn't know Chris very well. I met him in person a couple of times and I always thought he was a nice guy in my experiences with him. I was really sad to hear this news yesterday.


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[Assistant] This is a big week because obviously the Cleveland Cavaliers opened their first playoff series. It's been five years.


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[Assistant] That's so hard for me to get my mind around.


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[Assistant] Cause it was like an every year thing there when LeBron was here.


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[Assistant] We're gonna pick all eight series, which I'm glad we're gonna do. Now, obviously the eights in both conferences will be decided tonight. They've got the final play in game of the NBA 2022-2023 season.


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[Assistant] Those will determine the eights. I'm not picking an eight over one, so it doesn't matter who wins, uh, Miami, Chicago, whomever. I don't care. We're gonna pick all eight series. I'm curious to see what Brad thinks about those. I do have, I think, two upsets.


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[Assistant] I hate to pick chalk all the way through, so we'll talk about those. Also, man, these NFL franchises bro, they just keep going for more and more money every time.


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[Assistant] I haven't either. It is the business to me. Now mind you, we've been in a pretty deep


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[Assistant] Not only both set records, but the number, what's up Brad, come on in brother. The number that the commanders got for their franchise was 50% higher than the Broncos that just sold within a year.


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[Assistant] At some point, at what point that is, I don't know, but we haven't seen it yet. Nobody has sold for anything but a huge profit. There were franchises that were purchased in the hundreds of millions within a decade ago that are now selling in the billions.


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[Assistant] Now, you say go out quietly, uh, when you're receiving a check for six


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[Assistant] And it sells, I mean these things have been doubling. Yes. In this case it's gone up 600, over 600% in a matter of 25 years.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the guardians now are speaking of DC.


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[Assistant] Are in our nation's capital. They're going to play a weekend series with the Nationals. This is this on the schedule. This is a trip to the doctor. What does that mean? It's time to get healthy. You get healthy against bad teams. They should beat the Nationals two out of three. I would hope.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but we've got a lot to talk about with this club because there's a lot wrong with this club. And we're also going to touch on pitching. Is the new pitch clock perhaps leading?


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[Assistant] He said he's gonna get, uh, he's gonna get over 500 with his baseball picks.


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[Assistant] Bet the A's to lose. So if you missed it, McNuggets is gonna make a run at the A's losing every game. He's betting them to lose every single game. On the run line. On the run line. They're, I think they're predicted by most experts to lose anywhere from 100 to 110 games.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is gonna be fun. Now, do you have to do this every day?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like you wake up every day and place the bet, or can you just say, I want to bet for the season?


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[Assistant] He bet $100 on every underdog to win. Yeah. And he finished. I didn't follow it up. I think at one point he was $6,000 up or something. Yeah, he ended up winning like five and a half.


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[Assistant] I think this guy that did the NCAA tournament, now granted, there were some big, big, long-shot underdogs that won, and those paid big money, but it's, I'm gonna be curious to see what happens next year if you bet a hundred on all the dogs in every game.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Alright, uh, let's start the show with the Cavs in the Knicks series before you walked in the door, Brad.


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[Assistant] G and I are really nervous about this series. You should be. I don't know where you are on the panic meter. I'm not panicking. But I'm very concerned. I think this is a bad matchup of the 5'6", 7'8".


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[Assistant] I would have much rather, obviously the five is considered the better team, but this is going to be interesting for the Cavaliers. Biggest X factor for you will be what or whom.


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[Assistant] Wait, are you saying that that era's over? That's gone.


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[Assistant] Really? They've rewritten the rules. Wait a minute. I mean, I know that it's gone in the regular season, but even in the past few years, defense wakes up in April.


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[Assistant] In the regular season, guys have just figured out that defense is optional. It doesn't remind you of an all-star game. I mean, not quite to that level.


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[Assistant] Guys start banging bodies again, not to the level of the 80s. I wouldn't even approach that. Who was banging bodies last year? I saw teams playing defense in the playoffs last year.


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[Assistant] There is a, there's another notch or two that these defenses can ratchet up. And actually, Brad, I think that plays to our benefit. I think we're a better defensive unit that we've shown.


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[Assistant] Do you think we're gonna see things out of these guys in this series that we didn't see regularly? I hope so.


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[Assistant] You think Caris Levert could be that guy? We'll go see.


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[Assistant] Mikey, uhm, you, you just told me in my ear and I, I, I wasn't... I'm texting, no you're good, you're good, keep going. Uh, no, I, I'm curious, you, the scoring last year in the playoffs was down?


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[Assistant] Mikey, I attribute that to defense. I do too. I'm saying it is different.


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[Assistant] So a couple things, I've got my, my series X Factor. I didn't look, just look at the calves. I looked at the series. I think the guy's Julius Randall. Obviously coming off the ankle. What is he going to be if he's Julius Randall?


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[Assistant] If he's not Julius Randall and we still see some remnants of the ankle, then I think that the Cavaliers can win this series in six or seven. But here's my, you stole my thunder with the biggest game of the series.


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[Assistant] There's a saying in the NBA, the series doesn't start until a road team wins.


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[Assistant] Here's, here's my fear. Now granted, I've got 57 years of Cleveland fans skepticism at work here. Okay, so forgive me if I sound either negative or skeptical. Home court advantage is


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[Assistant] Game to game in an NBA series. Right now, the Cavaliers have home court advantage.


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[Assistant] You've got to hold serve. Not just one, but two, and here's why. You've got to win the first two. Because if you go back to New York, the crowd that you spoke of, which will already be


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[Assistant] On steroids, because they haven't seen a playoff team in so long.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be so fueled for game three, even if they come home down 0-2. Now imagine they come home 1-1.


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[Assistant] And back then, the investment for the networks was measured in tens of millions. Now it's in billions. And I can tell you from having lived through this nightmare of the NBA playoffs from a TV side.


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[Assistant] There were mathematical formulas at the network at ESPN.


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[Assistant] Where they knew if certain series didn't work out certain ways, and they didn't have the finals go seven games, there would be a lot of layoffs.


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[Assistant] And the reason it happened is because when you lose, what a seven game series becomes a five game series. You lose a lot of revenue.


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[Assistant] Four and a half hours of commercial revenue of inventory. And that's not measured in thousands or tens of thousands. That's measured in millions because that's where the NBA contracts make their money. The playoffs.


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[Assistant] It's funny that you said that because the temperature in the room, the referees have to feel that sense.


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[Assistant] We know that the games are played differently. Defense is a much bigger priority. Are they officiated differently? And if so, how?


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[Assistant] Is leans more towards letting them play or


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[Assistant] It's officiated perhaps a little more strict because they don't want things to get out of hand.


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[Assistant] The problem with losing even one of the home games, the Knicks have a better road record than the Cavs do.


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[Assistant] So not only would one win for the Knicks in the first two games give the Knicks a home court advantage, it gives them a distinct home court advantage because the Cavs have not been as successful winning on the road this year as


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[Assistant] Let's, uh, let's do this. Let's pick the series winner and give us the number of games. Brad, where you going?


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[Assistant] Alright, I, uh, I have gone back and forth and I'm gonna do it again. I wrote down one thing, I'm gonna flip it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, partly because we can't all pick the calves.


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[Assistant] I hate to be the guy that picks against the Cavs, but I've got a lot of logic behind my thought.


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[Assistant] Tibbs gets the huge check when it comes to head coach. Now, in a regular season game, I don't really look at the head coaching matchup.


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[Assistant] Because they're playing checkers. But now we're playing chess. And Tibbs is a high level chess player.


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[Assistant] I don't know what JB is in this, in this realm. We're gonna find out. I know what Tibbs is. And I have to give the check right now. Please prove me wrong. I hope JB proves me wrong.


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[Assistant] But right now, my fear is that Tibbs has a sizable advantage. Not slight, I think it's


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[Assistant] You don't get the ball in or you turn it over immediately or you don't get a shot. I saw that this year.


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[Assistant] I can't ignore the body of work that we've seen in the regular season. I know the playoffs are going to be different, but I just felt like the Knicks match up extremely well against this Cavaliers team.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm trying to, I'm trying to wash out my Cleveland bias. I'm trying to wash out what I want to happen. What I want to happen is the Cavs in four.


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[Assistant] But what I'm fearful is going to happen is the Knicks are going to win this in seven. I think they're going to win one of the two.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody will mistake Donovan Mitchell for LeBron James.


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[Assistant] They do, but they also come down to matchups. Before we leave this, Mikey, you had some graphics built on how key players in this series did against one another in the regular season, which by the way, the Knicks won


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[Assistant] But look at that. Guys, those numbers are terrifying. There's one other one that you brought up. I think was Mowgli and Randall. 13 points. 13 against 30? 23. Okay. That scares me, guys.


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[Assistant] Well that goes to Brad's point about will Randall thug it up? If he does, our guys can look small and invisible real fast.


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[Assistant] Park Avenue, they, they want the Knicks. They need the Knicks to be relevant for the TV ratings more than anything else. TV ratings set revenue in this league and there's no bigger market than the Knicks and they have been completely irrelevant for three decades. They need them to come back.


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[Assistant] Okay, on the Celtics. So the Hawks will win a game. Celtics, I've got Sixers sweeping the Nets.


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[Assistant] I've got the Knicks unfortunately in seven. Let's go out West.


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[Assistant] It is the Thunder and the Timberlake. Yeah, I got Oklahoma City winning the play-in but losing to Denver in six.


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[Assistant] Seven. Well you're asking it, so the answer's probably none. One.


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[Assistant] No, they don't, but here's the way it sold. It sold on an anticipatory number based on last year. So what did the West Conference second round finals do last year? So it sold on a certain expectation. However, if, if


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[Assistant] Viewership is expected to be 7 million per game, and it ends up being 10 million per game. That sets the rate for next year. Okay, so you- So, it's money in the bank. You're putting that- Okay, you're logging that away.


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[Assistant] What may happen is if the inventory isn't completely sold out, it likely is, but if it isn't, and suddenly you've got a Steph LeBron


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[Assistant] match up in round two, the price of poker for those ads just went way up. If they haven't already been sold, if they've been sold, it's an agreement agreed upon number. They have to pay what they have what they what they agree to pay. But if there is unsold inventory,


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[Assistant] And it looks like it's gonna be the Lakers and the Warriors in round two.


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[Assistant] You're gonna pay a premium. Conference semifinal, or conference final prices for the conference semifinals. Look at it this way. If, if you tell, if you say, yea, I've got a round two matchup between Memphis and Denver, or not even Memphis and Denver, Memphis and Sacramento.


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[Assistant] That excites nobody. At all. You know, if I have to watch gasoline evaporate on my hot sidewalk, I might pick that over watching that series. But if you tell me it's the Warriors and the Lakers,


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[Assistant] But I only, see, I don't have to watch the first three quarters. No, no, no, no. I don't. But the fourth quarter is, is, I would say, I would even argue with you and go this far. Outside of overtime hockey and the playoffs,


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it's gonna have great value because again, you're gonna see the matchups.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be interested in that in Oklahoma City. Yeaah. In Brooklyn.


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[Assistant] Because it's got the personalities that you want.


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[Assistant] You had reminded me of something that I hadn't factored into my equation. And that's the fact that the NBA


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[Assistant] Desperately wants the Knicks in the second round. Desperately. And because I have this series, so razor thin to begin with.


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[Assistant] You changed my mind when you said that because, and we'll watch it and we'll talk about it here on this show on mornings, on mornings after a game, officiating is going to drive Cavs fans nuts and it's made inside this series.


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[Assistant] Comparable numbers. I mean, A scores a little bit more.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. And the teams these guys are playing for, some of them are going to have a cap on certain stat categories. You know, if you're playing for the Cavaliers, your number, and you're not named Darius Garland or Donovan Mitchell, your points per game average is going to be lower than it would be for just any other team.


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[Assistant] I'm taking B2, I like the player efficiency rating and the assists.


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[Assistant] But I know what he's doing. He's setting us up to have player B be trash and player A is going to be a named player.


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[Assistant] I should have known it was Mowgli when it went with the three point numbers. Yeah, yeah. I was afraid of, I didn't think they were that low. Yeah, it's, when you do, when


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I can't imagine that. And you know what, as we, we've talked a lot about, you know, obviously that would be a ceiling, but can he become a Kevin Durant type? Can he develop that outside shot?


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[Assistant] Kevin Durant's shot was always, in college, Kevin Durant.


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[Assistant] He's just never gonna be that outs- outside force.


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[Assistant] I don't love the field goal percentage of A, but the production in, in every category is more. Now it's probably volume related, but give me A.


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[Assistant] It really is. You know what? Brad just nailed it. The bottom line, the thesis statement to this exercise is, you can twist numbers and say anything you want with them.


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[Assistant] We talked about it at the top of the show. These numbers are just mind-numbing.


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[Assistant] The Washington commanders, uh, fetched a price of 6.05 billion dollars on the open market. Daniel Snyder will no longer be the owner once this sale is official. Uh, I think the big head, there's two big headlines here. The NFL gets rid of a wart.


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[Assistant] They've been trying to, they didn't know what to do with Daniel Snyder. The organization has been a mess since he bought it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, often times the story included his name. And I always say that when you Google teams and owners, the team that has the fewest hits when you check both of those boxes is usually a winning team.


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[Assistant] Like, for instance, Cowboys Jerry Jones. They're probably gonna come up more than any other team.


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[Assistant] I want my NFL owner to do one thing. Write checks.


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[Assistant] Pick good people and write checks. And Dan Snyder never did that. Dan Snyder, when he first came out, it's been a while, people forgot. Any and all free agents that were on the market, Snyder bought them.


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[Assistant] Albert Hainsworth, he made him the highest paid defensive tackle in the game ever. Like if, if it was a named player and he was hitting the market, Dan was in on the conversation. He proved that you can't win that way. You can't.


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[Assistant] He mucked up the organization in just about every way possible. They were investigated by the league. Uh, there are many that believe that the league covered up most of the dirt.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I think the NFL is just relieved that this is over and that's why they were pushing for this so hard. Because now it doesn't matter so much what was going on in the organization because ding dong the witch is dead.


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[Assistant] Full stop. They were a cornerstone franchise. Think about this, guys.


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[Assistant] But when you look at like the Steelers, they won four with Bradshaw. The Patriots won six with Brady.


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[Assistant] The Redskins were doing it with different cats. They were doing it with Rippon, Doug Williams, uh, the most recent.


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[Assistant] But Joe Gibbs, they were just, you know, it was Jack Kent Cooke was the owner.


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[Assistant] Your traditional NFL owner. He hired great people and got the hell out of the way.


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[Assistant] I think if I'm not mistaken, it wasn't that long ago where they only had maybe one win ever at Washington. Because they don't play there very often, but they haven't had much success. My memory is yours. We go there, that's an L. That's an L. We not winning over there. But it's funny how


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[Assistant] You change the owner and everything trickles down from him. And it's been the same thing here in Cleveland. Yup. They haven't had, you know, funny. Did anyone ever think that these, that a Brown's owner could make Art Modell look good? Or Al Lerner. I mean, I'm not even the same.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not saying that, you know, people have forgiven him and they love him, but you can say what you want about Art Modell. His team's won.


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[Assistant] His teams won. Now, he committed the ultimate sin and took the team to Baltimore.


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[Assistant] Compared to what we have now and what we've had since, they've made our modell look like a pretty damn


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[Assistant] Well, he, he, you know what he did? He did some bad deals. He gave everything away. Concessions, parking, the way you can make money in this game back then. He had bad deals with the city. And he was just, he just in, I know the history will record this a different way.


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[Assistant] But he wanted the city to treat him fairly and he thought that they were never going to because they thought he would never leave.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we'll see. The Cavs got a new arena, the Indians got the new stadium, and he's just sitting there going, hey, where's mine? Because guess what we know on this show, but based how many people are watching when we talk Browns, Guardians, or Cavs.


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[Assistant] This is a Brown's town. And he just wanted his third of the pie. And he was like, wait a minute, I see a pie in front of me. It's got one cut in it and half of it says calves and half of it says Indians. Where do I get to eat?


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[Assistant] Art Modell was not a wealthy man. No he was not. Outside of his ownership of a team.


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[Assistant] And I want a twinge of olive oil in my steamed vegetables.


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[Assistant] The reason we got to that point is because the Dolans don't have the kind of money where they can say, I got that 55 million, I got it covered.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you had, you tapped them boys. Well, uh, Mr. Blitzer, you're part of the team now as well, and you have to incur some of these expenses as well. And I imagine that whatever the split is in ownership, Paul has to pay 90% of that TV bill.


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[Assistant] I don't know that he has it, but I'm sure because his assets are the team, whatever value that has. So he probably, I wouldn't doubt it if there will be loans taken. Now I'm speaking completely out of turn. I don't know that for or not.


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[Assistant] You know where I'm going. Washington's in the same spot. FedEx was built around the same time and they won out.


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[Assistant] They don't want that stadium anymore. They want a new stadium just like Haslam does. So here's one of the things, when they set these values, it's all just, it's a guessing game. But one of the things that I can imagine that's going on


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[Assistant] Uh, where, where they value these things? Cause you always see, uhm, who is the company that sets the valuations for the pro sports franchises that we always use? Forbes. Forbes.


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[Assistant] Uh, what I do know is, in an interview on opening day with Jimmy Donovan, Jimmy asked him, are you concerned? Has there come a point here where this becomes an issue? And he was coy, as he always is. Didn't glean, you know, he didn't give us much information. But here's my fear. At the trade deadline, if they're a player away,


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[Assistant] No, it's a different stratosphere that these guys are living in.


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[Assistant] And much of the, like, that's why I was so surprised that the Haslums bought into the Milwaukee Bucks. You know, at Forbes, when they set the value, you know how an inspector comes to your house and goes,


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[Assistant] Ooh, we got a gutter hanging up there. Gonna deduct something for that. Uh, hear a little noise in the heater. That's a deduction. With the Browns, they're gonna look at the win-loss records. They're gonna go, huh.


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[Assistant] But I'm seeing a note here. Fanbase threw Parade when team went 0-16. Oh, I'm buying that.


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[Assistant] I'll sit through, and there were 40,000 fans that did the same thing, zero degree weather to watch them play the Saints on Christmas Eve.


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[Assistant] Anyhow, I would see, I would guess that the Browns would be worth 5 billion. Yeaah. Because I, I know that there's not much to speak of lately, but same with the Redskins. Yeaah. The Redskins sell tickets, so do the Browns. Loyal fan bases. And we will support this team. Loyal fan bases. Through 0 and 16, we threw a parade. That's crazy. Okay.


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[Assistant] I need to see a home run. We've got one home run in six home games, guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's, you know, I always say it's early. Don't get too crazy, but right now all the alarm bells are on. The flags are waving, waving. This is a 911 situation. Hello. Last year, what the guardians did was they won.


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[Assistant] Spitting in the face of conventional wisdom, which is you gotta hit power, you gotta have power and hit home runs to win.


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[Assistant] They proved that in a bad division, with a team that plays terrific defense,


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[Assistant] Can run the bases and had above average starting pitching that they can win that division.


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[Assistant] I would not have guessed that in a million years. I don't know what they're doing. A lot of those are the same guys that were there last year and they were not hitting home runs. When Yande Diaz was here.


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[Assistant] This guy looks like Tarzan. This guy is a mammoth human being.


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[Assistant] I don't think he ever hit a home run when he was with Cleveland. Maybe one. Sorry for cutting you off, but I just saw that. No, that's a terrific point, but the reason I bring up the Rays is because they were built in the same vein as the Guardians. Last year, I think the two of them were 26th and 29th or something like that in home runs.


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[Assistant] What that proved was you can, you can either win a wild card or win a bad division without hitting for power. But when you come up against a power hitting team like the Yankees, what did the Yankees do to us? They hit three run homers and we went home and they moved on.


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[Assistant] You know the tension that you, you know, every move has got to be very thoughtful and careful, but you know if you hit that tripwire, it's a wrap. And that's what it feels like when you're playing the Yankees, knowing that you're not going to get one swing and have three runs. But what they're doing this year,


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[Assistant] You know, little league seasons are usually 16 games.


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[Assistant] I had a conversation with Josh Bell at spring training where, you know, he'd once hit 37 home runs. His numbers have been down the last few years.


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[Assistant] I had asked him what he was doing to try to get back to that 37 homerun season. And he said the buzzword obviously in baseball is launch angle. And when you watch these guys in the on deck circle and they're taking their swings, they're all doing the same thing. They go.


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[Assistant] They want to be coming up and hit the baseball that way. It used to be hit down on the ball, create backspin and watch it rise. Now everything is about launch angle.


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[Assistant] He got consumed with launch angle and he told me this year, I'm going back to a level swing. I want to hit the ball hard.


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[Assistant] When I concentrate on hitting the ball square and hard line drives, I hit home runs. He's hitting below 100. His big moment of the season was a walk off fielder's choice that went about 75 feet. I'm really concerned right now.


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[Assistant] Good morning, good afternoon, good night, strikeouts. Swinging at balls. I mean, I don't, you know, I don't know how you get out of a slump like this, but this is the kind of thing that even if he hit, he's gonna have to get.


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[Assistant] He's gonna have to hit 500 for the next 13 games to be at 300. When you dig a hole like this, it's like your grade point average.


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[Assistant] He was, the reason he was the pivotal piece was because he was the protection for Jose Ramirez. Has Jose homered this year?


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[Assistant] Okay, so teams, it doesn't take teams long to figure out. You didn't get no pitching. I'm not pitching to Jose because the guy behind him hasn't done anything. Right now.


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[Assistant] If the Indians had Austin hedges hitting behind Jose Ramirez,


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[Assistant] He would be, he would be providing twice the average.


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[Assistant] No, you can't have... Now, in fairness to Klaus, he took the loss, uh, in the last game of the series to the Yankees. It was 3-3. He came in in the ninth.


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[Assistant] Uh, the defense was poor. I said about Josh Bell who should have scooped that ball at first and ended up being the game winning run. If you can't hit, you better be able to catch. You better bring something to the


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[Assistant] I said Herbert Perry. Well, Bell's usually a good first baseman, but that, now the throw from Rosario was bad, but you've got to dig that out. It's a ball that he just whiffed on. He pulled the glove up too quick, that guy gets on base, and then ends up scoring the game-winning run. So, I mean, Closet did his job.


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[Assistant] It is, but I'll tell you this, the kids that they have in the system, Bybee, I don't think he's giving up a run this year in the minor leagues.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's, there's two, Williams is pitching, he's pitching his tail off right now. So they've got three guys in the pipeline that if I'm in particular, I'm worried about Cal and I'm worried about Pleasac.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much leash they're gonna have, particularly when the bats aren't hitting.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's gonna be long before Tito calls these kids up to see what they've got at this level. Why not? Because Bybee and Williams have been lights out in the minor leagues and, you know, they brought up


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[Assistant] Gaddis has pitched twice, mixed results. Yea, looked good the first time, second time got destroyed. Yea, but Quantrill hasn't looked good at all, and neither has Pliszak, and when you've got these guys throwing the way they're throwing in the minor leagues, at some point we gotta see what they're all about here. And, and,


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[Assistant] Well, that's the game now. Yeah. If you're not throwing low to mid nineties, you better have three A plus pitches.


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[Assistant] But they do have issues, and the biggest one is that there's just no power to this offense. Now, we know that in baseball, power tends to come and go. Unfortunately, everyone is in a power slump right now.


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[Assistant] And this won't be the problem that it was last year and has been so far this year. But the Rays right now are running away from baseball and they're built very similarly to the Guardians. How they're hitting all these home runs, I don't know. Yande Diaz with four home runs? Absurd. Can you read me Yande Diaz's home run totals by year?


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's, they're all playing. You know how it is in pro sports, Brad. When one guy gets hot on a team and then another guy catches fire, the last thing you want to do is be the weak link. And everybody sort of elevates their game and that's what's going on in Tampa. They're not going to go 162-0, folks.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the way they're, they're just, they're, they're destroying their opponent.


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[Assistant] It's a rough climb, asked the Rays last year. You know, the Rays found that out and hopefully it won't come to that this year for the Guardians, but the pitching has got to get significant.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so here's what I'll say to that. And I'm glad Brad's here because, Brad, you can speak to this. Whenever you have a rhythm to something,


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[Assistant] In sports, I don't care if it's baseball, football, golf, golf, ask, ask the guys that played in the lead group at the Masters about rhythm. Right.


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[Assistant] We saw the leader after the third round completely melt down on Sunday and I was watching it and I was saying, oh, this is going to affect him in all kinds of bad ways because


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[Assistant] And it was absolutely killing the leaders, particularly the third, the leader after three rounds. He melted on Sunday because he doesn't like to stand around and wait. There's a rhythm to sports, whether that's shooting a free throw.


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[Assistant] If you told the NBA next year, from now on, you have one second to shoot the free throw. What do you think would happen to the free throw percentage?


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[Assistant] It's gonna go way down. Guys have a rhythm. Now I know in the NBA it's a little different. Three dribbles, backward spin, another dribble.


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[Assistant] Shoot it. Everybody has their own rhythm. If I tell you


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[Assistant] That you do something a hundred times, but it takes you in total 40 minutes to do it. But now I tell you, you have 30 minutes to do it. You're going to speed up your rhythm. There's going to be fatigue that sets in.


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[Assistant] And what happens, Brad, when athletes get fatigued but still try to perform at the same level?


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[Assistant] Well, the analogy I gave Mikey because we were in the gym. We all have our pace when we're in the gym.


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[Assistant] And if you're doing 15 reps of a weight, but you take your time, and you do it over 45 seconds, and there's a slow rhythm to it because you want to get maximum effort out of each one. But now I tell you, no, now you gotta do it in 30. What's gonna happen?


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[Assistant] Well, you're going to start working harder and about eight, you're going to be like, oh my God, I'm tired. And what happens when you get tired? Now, now all of a sudden you're a little, you know, you're off a little bit.


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[Assistant] Injuries. I don't think it's gonna be a significant problem. I don't.


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[Assistant] Whoa, injuries are up 75%. It's not like that. Injuries are up, they're going in the wrong direction. I've talked to trainers and I've talked to pitchers. And if you think this isn't an issue, you're kidding yourself.


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[Assistant] Here's what everybody says. We gotta get used to it, cause that's the new normal. Yup.


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[Assistant] And if that means that starting pitchers now only go six innings instead of seven or five innings instead of six, teams will have to construct differently. They'll have to have more bullpen options.


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[Assistant] But, but if you're, if you think that this is an absolute non-factor, you're wrong. You're kidding yourself.


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[Assistant] At the end of the year, it may well be that the injuries for pitchers exactly the same. And to get to that point, what they're gonna do is have to build up to that and get used to it. Right now it's new.


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[Assistant] Here's something that I wanted to pose to you because I knew Brad would be able to speak to rhythm as a pro athlete. When you played in college, what was the play clock?


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[Assistant] 35? 35 seconds. Okay, what if I told you now there's 25 seconds?


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[Assistant] So your performance suffers. Yes. And that's what I'm saying with pitching. I think what's going to happen is you're speeding it up enough where guys aren't comfortable, particularly in the fifth, sixth, seventh inning. Exhaustion kicks in. People don't think that it's exhausting to pitch a game physically.


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[Assistant] It is exhausting. As much gym work as I'm doing, when I make my first start in a couple of weeks, I'll guarantee you on Monday I'm going to be absolutely ravaged. And by the fifth or sixth inning, I'm going to start to feel fatigued.


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[Assistant] The strength and conditioning guys will figure out a way to better condition their pitchers to get used to this and I think the game will catch up.


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[Assistant] Just like defenses used to start running a lot more gassers, the week before you played Oregon, you better be in shade. So you do things to adjust and hopefully it's not going to be a big issue, but it has led to an increase of injuries so far.


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[Assistant] We had Skip Holtz on last year was really good. I like Jeff Fisher.


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[Assistant] And he's going for the, I mean, he's going for some awards too. It actually hurt his numbers.


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[Assistant] Now, the reason that the draft is set up the way it is, is it's to make sure that the talent cycle is constantly in flux. So, the worst, the genuinely worst team in the league,


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[Assistant] Should have the first pick. That's how terrible teams get great.


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[Assistant] Look what it did for the cast with LeBron James. So, if that team is genuinely the worst team, then they're gonna have the eighth pick every year. Cause they're gonna get housed in that tournament.


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[Assistant] New York, why people mad at you, Sha? My congressional maps are too biased, apparently. Ain't your map just one, see? There's an entire state outside the city, pal. Huh.


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[Assistant] Does that plan extend to people not just coming out of high school? Si, para todos. And what about for trade school? Todos means todos, chico. First Kansas and now New Mexico. Ahora de. What is that supposed to mean, huh? I think this is where you're supposed to stop them. Why the hell would I do that? I'm about to start yelling world stuff. This is why we're friends. Is sweet taking?


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[Assistant] Interesting. What's it say? Oh, I have no idea. I don't know how to read. Give me back. Rude. Oh.


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[Assistant] Who's with me? Let's vote to codify Roe v. Wade. There's just gotta be a better way. There's always fire. Please don't touch me. Buuuh, like this is like-


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[Assistant] Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Somebody released a bunch of cockroaches in the court- The M&M factory fell in the chocolate vat. Water.


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[Assistant] Okay, when you're done talking and you've made them happy and you say goodbye, you might want to say happy Thanksgiving.


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[Assistant] That's very easy. Uhm, if it were my own personal thing, I'd probably choose Jose Ramirez, because he's the best player in the city. But I'm not speaking for just me, I'm speaking for the entire city of Cleveland. And the face of Cleveland sports is obviously Deshaun Watson. Uhm, the Browns,


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[Assistant] Heard some people say, no, it wasn't that bad. Yea, he was. He was awful. But I anticipate he will get back to being a Pro Bowl caliber quarterback this season. If that happens.


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[Assistant] You're looking at live pictures there where there is an active shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.


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[Assistant] demanding that the NRA explain the inexplicable. Why us? Because their story needs a villain.


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[Assistant] Can never find footing within a society of law-abiding, armed, ethical people.


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[Assistant] That leads me to that one mission that is left undone. Winning in November.


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[Assistant] When I saw that after this horrific tragedy, despite everything that people say about, we have to do something to prevent this from happening again, when they couldn't do something as basic as that, I was livid.


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[Assistant] And he almost immediately goes right back to what they usually say. Which is that the answer to this is more guns.


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[Assistant] Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and their aides realized, wait a second. We now have a Democrat with an A rating from the NRA saying he wants to do something.


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[Assistant] They are the best equipped, most feared special interest group on Capitol Hill.


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[Assistant] They are sort of the gold standard in how to do, uh, lobbying work in Washington.


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[Assistant] The NRA earlier than ever before officially endorsed him and supported his campaign.


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[Assistant] In the political environment, they had to become pro-Trump and very assertively pro-Trump.


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[Assistant] Uh, huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.


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[Assistant] Huh. Huh? Huh.


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[Assistant] This is a classic case of the time being right for a Trump candidacy.


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[Assistant] Now you have a level of dissatisfaction with the voters that we've never seen before, and they want somebody with the toughness


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[Assistant] The campaign is continually dogged by a small and vocal number of white supremacists, Klansmen, neo-Nazis.


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[Assistant] This isn't a very large group of people, but they're very vocal and they attach themselves to Trump.


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[Assistant] He wants to be the Winston Churchill who stops the new evil power, Iran, the way that Churchill stopped Nazi Germany.


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[Assistant] He wants it to be clear that he made the most powerful statement possible.


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[Assistant] To warn against this deal. So when the deal turns bad, he'll go down in history.


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[Assistant] As the person who warned us all from what's about to happen.


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[Assistant] He's so American. When you have a conversation at an hour when it really gets engaged in it, he switches from Hebrew to English.


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[Assistant] People who are like childish, they don't understand history and world politics. And my role is to try to save them from their own mistakes and from these terribly demonic evil forces surrounding them.


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[Assistant] This is basically the Netanyahu Gestalt.


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[Assistant] That's what he was built for. That was what he was designed for. It was Reagan's America, 1980s.


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[Assistant] Terror is the danger. And at the heart of the Netanyahu worldview is seeing Israel as the, the fortress facing forces endangering Western civilization.


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[Assistant] Easy to forget that actually Robin's great heroic act ended up with terror in our streets and people dying and we were all driven nuts by, you know, you had peace ceremonies one day and terror the other day and drove people crazy.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu made life very, very difficult for the American administration and for those Israelis who wanted peace. He was really difficult. He was, he was slow. He was, uh, stubborn. He...


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[Assistant] Elba comes with the help of the American team and a lot of American support. And Bagh does everything. He's a courageous guy. A bit too courageous, but he tries everything. And BOOM!


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[Assistant] It explodes and there's no Netanyahu around. You cannot blame when the Camp David Peace Summit fails, you know, Netanyahu is not there.


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[Assistant] Is really, if you wish, like between two versions of Judaism.


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[Assistant] One is the universalist, liberal, progressive Judaism, and one is the under siege, fortress Judaism, which Netanyahu is all about.


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[Assistant] They are completely opposites because it's deep. It's not only a progressive and a conservative.


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[Assistant] Barack Obama has Martin Luther King in him. He has Nelson Mandela in him.


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[Assistant] The world is moving in the right direction. And his role is to accelerate that. And Netanyahu is profoundly a pessimist. Profoundly a pessimist.


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[Assistant] What ever happened in that traumatic meeting, he came back.


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[Assistant] And that shaped the entire relationship because people like Nathaniel, you don't get the second chance.


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[Assistant] If God forbid it goes bad, in 10 years time or 20 years.


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[Assistant] I think that we will all go back to these years.


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[Assistant] To rise to the challenge. To work together. To get over the bad blood. To get over the mistrust.


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[Assistant] We'll work together in an intimate way.


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[Assistant] The fact that this never happened, that it was all...


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[Assistant] Bitterness and suspicion and, and, and, and, and political boxing. It's, it's a very sad chapter of history.


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[Assistant] He loves to rouse passion and emotions. It's the thing he's best at. It's the thing he cares most about is sort of provoking emotion. And all the fire he was getting from the crowds was about immigration.


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[Assistant] Create the Twitter, social media universe. He did not create the xenophobia, the nationalism, the backlash against globalism and global crusades. He did not create entertainment politics, politics as a form of reality show television. He created none of this. He is its pure manifestation. The absolute logical endpoint of a bunch of trends in American life. And he is its beneficiary, 100%.


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[Assistant] It was a show and first of all it took some of the attention away from


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[Assistant] Trump, what he's really good at in a fight, uh, is...


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[Assistant] Muddying the, muddying the waters, muddying the truth, muddying the focus to the point where everybody just says ah, it's a wash. He's done this with the media for years.


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[Assistant] To an environment where people believe what they want to believe and that is going to have long term repercussions.


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[Assistant] That a lot of Democrats and a lot of Republicans do not. I mean, this is where Trump understands entertainment. He understands television.


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[Assistant] Yelling at each other in front of cameras and the American public is seeing you behave like children.


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[Assistant] That's just, it's humiliating and it's beneath the dignity of the office and their offices. But to him, that's winning.


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[Assistant] Israel saves its own life. The victory was so profound and so sudden that it had a destabilizing effect. It set in motion a lot of what we're dealing with today.


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[Assistant] You can understand why it's so intoxicating, and if you're an 18 year old,


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[Assistant] Who is raised in the household of Benzio Netanyahu, who has, eh,


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[Assistant] ...fatalistic understanding of the nature of the world. You assume the worst. You assume the worst thing is gonna happen, and then...


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[Assistant] This miraculous best thing happens and it has to sort of set you on a course for the rest of your life.


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[Assistant] He is in some ways, in many ways, a reality-based politician.


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[Assistant] He had to meet with Arafat. He had to work within the context that had been created.


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[Assistant] But he didn't want to work within the context that Rubin created.


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[Assistant] The fellow community organizers, his early backers in Chicago, and he has a vision of an idealized Israel. Israel's, you know, there's this chance to get it right, to build a nation state, but to do it right in a progressive way.


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[Assistant] Rahm Emanuel in particular has these vivid memories of Netanyahu trying to push around Bill Clinton and comes to Obama.


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[Assistant] Essentially and says, we're not gonna do that over again.


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[Assistant] Don't get played by this guy. This guy is gonna do X, Y, and Z, and we're not gonna allow him to play his game.


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[Assistant] Well that's the expression, the daylight, the imposing of daylight in the relationship. There's a belief that you win friends in the Arab world by distancing yourself from Israel.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister in a way.


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[Assistant] To run against an American president. To sort of go to his base and say, you gotta vote for me because I can keep this American president at bay.


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[Assistant] That this guy is a danger to us and the only thing stopping him from having his way with Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu's reaction was the tragic realist reaction, which is, this ain't gonna work out, guys. Democracy is not gonna take root. You're gonna have the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo in a year or two.


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[Assistant] The American military planners were assuming every night


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[Assistant] You know, when they went to sleep that they would wake up to an Israeli attack.


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[Assistant] That is maximum leverage in the summer and fall of 2012. This is the point of maximum Israeli power.


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[Assistant] When Netanyahu pushes Obama, it causes Obama's neck to stiffen further. And when Obama pushes Netanyahu, it sends him.


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[Assistant] Toward his corner. So it's, it's all wrapped up in the dysfunction between these two men.


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[Assistant] And that Netanyahu was one of the last people, really last people, like midnight US time on election night to sort of say, oh, I guess he really didn't have it. He was like a Fox News bitter ender in that sense.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Sky Sports F1 podcast with me, Matt Baker. Joining me to look back on a weekend


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[Assistant] Brimming with storylines out in Saudi Arabia, I'm, well, we've got a truly international feel. We've got Liam Lawson, Red Bull Reserve driver, joining us all the way from New Zealand and Ted Kravitz, our very own, joining us from slightly closer to home. Uh, but Liam, look, great effort. It's, what is it then? Nine, nine PM, something like that. Thank you very much for making the effort. No, no worries at all. Thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure. Uh, Ted, how are you? Good weekend?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, well done. Because I was going to say, there's probably not all that many flights from Dubai to Auckland. Very good, very good. We've got so much to discuss.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, it was Max Verstappen who won the race ahead of his teammate. Hugely dominant start from team Red Bull. That was Max's 9th win in a row, so he's going to go for 10.


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[Assistant] Loads to get through and we're also going to go to our mailbag section at the end of the podcast. But before all of that,


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[Assistant] It's time to do our what I've learned section, which, uh, Liam, this is a curve ball for you. I didn't tell you about this, apologies. So I'll let you have a think about something you've learned this week in Formula One. Uh, but Ted, go on, you, you, you go first. What, when you were sat at home, no doubt, enjoying the race, uh, what did you, what did you make of it and what did you learn?


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[Assistant] I mean, he was gingerly sort of limping. I mean, it, it looked painful to see him there, but I guess, yeah, he wanted to be there. Good, good effort. Um, Liam, I know I've put you on the spot there with what I've learned. Did something, has something sprung to mind? I would say, um,


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[Assistant] It's a great advert for Formula 2, isn't it? And the experience that you guys build up to allow you to get into a Formula 1 car. That brings us on nicely to the Ollie Baerman story. Incidentally, what I learned was how to pronounce Ollie Baerman.


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[Assistant] As bear man, he said this in the press conference, which was quite funny. Didn't understand why there were so many issues with the, how to pronounce his name. Was it beerman or was it bearman? It is bear man, bearman. There we go. Everyone's happy. Um, but yeah, look, Liam, full disclosure. Cause when I asked for you to come on this podcast.


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[Assistant] This was before we knew that Oli was going to step in and obviously there are brilliant similarities between what you did obviously last year stepping in in Zandvoort to replace Daniel Ricciardo. You ended up having five races, uh, in the, in the Alfa Tauri as it was then. And this is a brilliant opportunity, I think, to just get into what Oli did and just how impressive.


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[Assistant] What, what Ollie did this weekend was stepping in, stepping in for Carlos Sainz. So I want, I want you to go back to that time in Zandvoort and, and, and I believe both of you, both of you went in for FP3. I think you found out on the Friday.


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[Assistant] Friday evening at the driver's briefing, right? And, and for Ollie, it was a bit, a bit less time. He, he only had a matter of hours on the Saturday, what was the Saturday morning, the Friday morning, because we're obviously Saturday race at the moment. So take us back to that moment, Liam. What will Ollie have been feeling and what, what were you feeling at that point in time when you got told you were driving?


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[Assistant] Ted, how impressed were you with what you saw from Ollie this weekend?


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[Assistant] And what, what about Liam the, the technical preparation in terms of what, what has to happen?