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MLB ⚾ Baseball Pennant Race Preview" ft. MLB Insiders Amul 'The Agilist' (IG @AM23Photography) & Jersey Boy MJ (I.O.W. Sports)
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BALL & BUDS presents "MLB ⚾ Baseball Pennant Race Preview" ft. MLB Insiders Amul 'The Agilist' (IG @AM23Photography), Jersey Boy MJ (I.O.W. Sports) & Sports Professor
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:03
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Peace with the millions! It's that world heavyweight flow Championship belt wrapped around my waist, yo I got that Ric Flair, fake it Fight toe to toe, release the flow Created by this micro Lights, cameras, get low Action packed back to back in fact this monster will grow y'all better let him know Man with the master plan and you have no need to know You can't prepare now get ready for the show
00:00:49
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ah Yo, yo, yo, what up, friends? You know
MLB Pennant Race Focus
00:00:54
Speaker
what it is. Ball and Bud's back at it again with you for another episode.
00:00:59
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Banter, brawls, bravado, MLB Baseball Edition, pennant race.
Co-host Absence and Salute
00:01:07
Speaker
Yes, we are getting into the month of September, and you see I have some friends along with me.
00:01:14
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Unfortunately, I am missing one of my main brothers, M. Weeby, as you know him. He is not with us tonight, have handling some other business of his own, so salute to him. But I have brought along two other friends of mine.
AM23 Photography Projects
00:01:29
Speaker
First of all, from Ball and Buds, you can find him at AM23 Photography, which where you will find some of the best photo shoots on Earth. Used to be...
00:01:42
Speaker
Oh, diehard Red Sox fan. Now a half and half Red Sox fan. We're not going to talk about that right now. The Agilist. That is not me. That's not me. I'm good.
00:01:55
Speaker
I'm good. How are you? I'm great. Any new projects on deck for AM23 you want to tell people? Actually, yeah. We will have a couple full moon ah ah shoots to close out the year, October, November, and then a couple of Milky Way shoots to close out the year, as well as once i'm that's my spraed right once my right sprained foot gets, you know, once the grade two is downgraded to a grade zero, but And we're looking at more portraits by Halloween.
00:02:24
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So you're on the 15-day IL and scheduled to come back possibly.
Yankees and Red Sox Stats
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Speaker
for Four to six weeks, actually. Four to six weeks. Four six. oh you're out for the playoffs. Ah, you're out for the playoffs.
00:02:37
Speaker
No, no, I'm back for that. going to be put on the World Series roster is what's going to happen. I'm to be put on the World Series roster for whoever needs to go, aside from the Yankees, you know. There you go. go There you go. Cool. We'll also look forward to his 25th Cognito Ergo Sun column coming out soon. New podcast as well. It's already dropped.
00:02:58
Speaker
It's already the columns already dropped, dropped to 24th of August. You can go check it out. Links in the bio. ah It will it won't make you cry as as much as I promised, but ah you'll be pretty dang close.
00:03:11
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So. All right, let's move on. It was his phone to call him. Give
Social Media and Listener Engagement
00:03:16
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a lot. Jersey boy, MJ, my brother, representing IOW Sports. You know them well, and he is always representing. And you can catch his baseball show every Monday night at 8 p.m. Eastern as well.
00:03:33
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How are you doing today, my friend? I'm alive. I'm alive trying. So here we go, man. Live blessed. Here we go. and look at what you got You got Mets, Yankees, Red Sox. It's kind of all some bitter hatred going on right here, but we love each other when we're streaming and we're going about to get it on. Salute to everybody watching on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. If you are, please make sure you subscribe at Ball and Buds.
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B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S, handy QR code up there at the top. You scan that. That'll take you to all our social media profiles as well. Make sure you tap in with IOW Sports and AM23 Photography. These people do a great job as well.
NFL Super Spectacular Preview
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Programming note tomorrow.
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Speaker
Make sure you tune in. 8 p.m. Eastern, the NFL Super Spectacular Preview. We are going to have so many people coming through, including Jersey boy MJ's brother, Wildcar Mar. Welcome on with us.
00:04:37
Speaker
Oh, boy. We'll also have yeah was out Bobby G from the Audible podcast. We'll have some people from Let's Talk Sports. We'll have some people from Ball and Buds. We're going to have at least 10 people on tomorrow. It's going to be a mega stream NFL special, so make sure you tune in 8 p.m. Eastern. All right. Record the late shows that you normally watch and tune in to this one tomorrow.
00:05:01
Speaker
Hey, there you go. And while we're doing it, let's go ahead and start it off hot and heavy, gentlemen. We're not going to give our World Series picks yet, our updated World Series picks. we yeah a It ain't going to be either of those.
00:05:13
Speaker
Yeah, well, let's look at the postseason picture right now. As of five hours ago, we can see here on our yeah American League side, we have the most heated rivalry of all time, Yankees-Red
American League Analysis
00:05:28
Speaker
Sox. And I tell you right now, i would love Love to see this. Now, I don't really love to see it in the wild card round, but you know what? Shout out to the the Tigers, who have been who were the best team all of the first half and are still playing pretty well. Clip here in the second half, the Blue Jays on a run, got their pitching back.
00:05:50
Speaker
um How do we feel about this American League side? Let's start with your Jersey boy, MJ. Well, we're going to look at Detroit right now You can look at anybody on that AL side. You can look at Seattle, Houston if you want to. No, what know I'm looking at right now, like Detroit, yeah, they're ahead of ahead of Kansas City by nine.
00:06:12
Speaker
yeah But there's four and six in their last ten. So playing, you know, a little. But they have a commanding lead. A little sketchy. Over Mars Royals, by the way, shall we say. Oh, I know and he knows.
00:06:29
Speaker
I mean, even if you look out west, I don't see, unless Houston really takes a shit, I don't know if Seattle's going to catch them. You know, Yankees got to take care. Seattle was hot out of the break, but then they slowed down. But if you look at the Rangers, MJ, they're nine and one Yeah, rangers Rangers are on fire right now. Won six in a row.
00:06:49
Speaker
You know, they climbed themselves right back in it. You know, four and a half out of Houston, and then even if you go to wild cards, Okay, wild card. You Yankees, Boston, Seattle. Yeah, Texas is right there.
00:07:00
Speaker
Game and a half out of wild card. They're ready to pounce right there. Absolutely ready to pounce. And how do you feel about your Yankees Red Sox? Two and a half, both of them are back from the Blue Jays. How do feel about that?
00:07:16
Speaker
I mean, they're kind of playing identical ball. You know, they're they're they're you know but they're both seven and three in the last ten. You know, they're... They're very comparable.
00:07:27
Speaker
You know, when when you look at like the away record, Yankees are 35, 33 on the road. Boston's 34 and 35. Then you look at the home record. Yankees are 41, 28 and Boston's 43 and 27. You know, they're kind of mirroring mirroring each other when it comes to that.
00:07:45
Speaker
That's a great point. You know, they the only thing with Yankees, they got one less loss and Boston's got one more win. yeah Now, shout out to Aaron Judge, who, by the way, and I should never say this, I felt bad at on my program yesterday. i almost threw up in my mouth when I gave the Yankees congratulations. But Aaron Judge hit his 358th home run, which taught which took over second place. And now he's three shy of Joe DiMaggio for Yankees' all-time home run record. How do you feel about that, Jersey?
00:08:18
Speaker
Back that up a little bit. Babe Ruth is number one. Well, he time he didn't hit all of them with the Yankees, though. Well, I'm saying he –
Importance of Pitching and Strategy
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right now he just tied Yogi Berra for number five.
00:08:33
Speaker
I thought it was number two. Number five. Five. Oh, okay. I was wrong then. I apologize. if You're right. that Yeah, definitely number five. Okay. the got The guy – I've been saying this, and I don't care what anybody says.
00:08:48
Speaker
He is the best baseball player on the planet. on the planet.
00:08:55
Speaker
Well, we know how much you you hate on Shohei, so you're we don' we don't even have to talk about that right now. i don't even have to go that far. he's just He is that good. yes He is. He is.
00:09:06
Speaker
Amul, how do you feel about this American League side of the bracket? And i'll we'll get to my picks later. I feel like some un unhinged stuff could happen.
00:09:20
Speaker
We could easily have like Seattle advancing. We could easily have, you know, Detroit, you know, basically going, okay, well, asserting their dominance. and And I mean, they've been asserting their dominance all year long, but um just running through the tape into the World Series.
00:09:40
Speaker
ah Anything could happen. As far as the Sox-Yanks, I'm with you. I'd prefer if it was more of a divisional or if it was a divisional matchup.
00:09:51
Speaker
But beggars can't be choosers. Happy to have, you know, eight-hour, nine-hour games for the, ah you know, for the first three wild cards. And hopefully the Sox pull it out. I think we will.
00:10:04
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um ah Call me biased. That's okay. But especially with Peyton. Yeah, it's okay. ah With Peyton Toll, actually, ah you know, they promoted him in the last week or so.
00:10:17
Speaker
And I watched his first ah his first start, and he was just dominant. Like, 8Ks through five and a third I wanted him to pitch the whole sixth inning. Like, you don't take a guy out and then give up, you know, give the ball to Greg Leister and Leister, you know, spoils it. Now they do.
00:10:37
Speaker
Now they do because they feel like the Rangers can't go freaking five innings anymore. Well, it's an Alex Cora thing. I also, like, wish that they just – It's a major league baseball. It's a major league baseball thing?
00:10:52
Speaker
Okay. He's a cheater.
MLB Controversies Discussion
00:10:54
Speaker
You can't tell me that he's with Boston now. Here we go. going to throw it out there. yeah I was actually going to advocate for him to like you know leave after this year, but okay, yeah. you know I'm not a huge fan of the way he manages at the moment.
00:11:11
Speaker
row The way I look it with him, he cheated in Houston, right? Got away with the shit. He got a slap on the wrist. Okay, one year he couldn't coach. Big fucking deal.
00:11:21
Speaker
The GM, he got suspended. Big fucking deal. They didn't do anything to the players at all. Immunity. comes ah He comes over to Boston. Who's to say that there isn't somebody in the IT department that can hack these pitch comms?
00:11:38
Speaker
No, I agree with that. I'm not going to have them. It can happen. I'm not going to say anything. i I'm saying it could happen. I'm not saying just Boston. Yeah. Tell me, there is there's somebody out there on each squad. You can... actually you can Things are easily hackable now than they were 20 years ago. Easily, yes. Absolutely.
00:11:58
Speaker
But more to the point, and what Omar was saying was nowadays, like, pitchers going five innings seems to be the norm. And whereas you used to have six, seven, some would go eight, you know, that doesn't happen as much anymore.
00:12:12
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So you need a ah ah ah good, you know, middle relief. bull you get it You need a good middle relief core in your bullpen. Otherwise, you're not going to go far. Exactly. right Pitching wins pitchgeon wins championships. Well, and it used to be, as I mentioned last baseball show we did, it used to be three starters, and that's all you needed to to be really good and in in the playoffs and win a World Series. But now it's not even about your starters anymore. Now it's about how good of a bullpen do you have. So looking at these tiebreakers, though, um the Blue Jays actually hold the lead over the Yankees and Red Sox in wins against each other. So if there was a tie, the Blue Jays would come out on top there. And then looking at the West,
00:12:53
Speaker
um They actually have a crucial series that's September 19th. The Mariners visit the Astros in Houston. um Yes. Going to decide the tiebreaker in that division.
00:13:06
Speaker
Mariners have to win out there. The Mariners have to win out there. um i I cannot stress that enough. Well, at 5-5, they need to start picking up the pace because they did really well out of the break and then they've stumbled a little bit in the past. Yeah, they need to pick up the they pick up the pace like yesterday, two days ago.
00:13:26
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um If their intent is to make the playoffs, you can't be three back this late. ah You have to be closer. Two and a half, I mean, the Blue Jays have a singing in O Canada, you know, if they end up winning the division.
00:13:40
Speaker
I mean, i don't know if that's actually going to happen, but don i don't if it does, yeah, you never know. think they're going to falter. You think they're going to falter? Okay. Well, I don't think
Blue Jays' Competitive Edge
00:13:52
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i i just don't think they're going win the division.
00:13:55
Speaker
They might make wild card, but I don't think they're going win the division. That's just my – I think, you know, if you look at the you know the big picture of it, either Boston or the Yankees could take them down.
00:14:06
Speaker
They could, yes. Of course, I'm to say I think my Yankees are, but I wouldn't be surprised if Boston awesome took them. I mean, I would be happy if we took them. I'd be happy if we took them, but the Jays just seem like they've been on a roll recently.
00:14:22
Speaker
So um unless they start faltering too, I mean, five and five. Yeah. But let's see how they do the next couple of days. I mean, in the the next couple of, let's see how they do this week. If they um actually go from five and five to, you know, six and four or seven and three, then we're looking at a whole new, you know, we're looking at them reinforcing the, I think they want to,
00:14:48
Speaker
they want a rematch with the Phillies, ah like a 93 World Series. um But I don't know if that's necessarily going to happen. Joe Carter with the with the home run in game six.
00:15:00
Speaker
yo know I will never forget that moment. i was I just remember that was like that and like the – what was the guy from the Dodgers? ah Gibson, Kurt Gibson. Kurt Gibson. Those two moments like late in the 80s were like just iconic. I remember watching like Joe Carter hit that home run in the Toronto Dome and I was like, oh. Oh, that's super dope.
00:15:24
Speaker
Yeah, no, I hear you on that. That's awesome. Well, that's cool. No, we'll we'll see what happens. And and we're going to come back on in three weeks and and update you. and And before we go into the actual playoffs, so no one worried, we'll be back again.
00:15:35
Speaker
Let's move it over to the NL side while we're at it. We got the Mets and Dodgers in a rematch of the NLCS last year. I would be very excited to see that match up again. Again, too early for my taste, just like with the Yankees, Red Sox, but whatever.
00:15:49
Speaker
We'll take it when we can, as Amul said. San Diego versus Chicago here. Obviously, San Diego, the veteran-laden team. Chicago, the up-and-coming youngsters here.
00:16:00
Speaker
And then you got Philadelphia and Brewers got to buy. The Brewers are the hottest team in the major league by far, leading by five games in the win column above any other team.
00:16:11
Speaker
Just freaking crazy hot. We're going to start with Amul, on this side. Let's start with you on the NL. What do you think about this side of the field? Give me the Brewers. Seriously. I was talking about this with a friend of mine last night. Give me the Brewers.
00:16:24
Speaker
Like, they haven't made it to the World Series since 82. Yeah. um Let's have him win out. Little rob Robin Yount? Yeah. go to robin yoli head Let's actually see. like this is for i mean Again, we're teasing my picks a little too soon.
00:16:40
Speaker
But, you know, I would love to see that. As far as who would play spoiler, um how about your Mets? They're, what, ranked sixth? Yeah, so, you know, have them play spoiler. Right above Kansas City. Two and a half games above Kansas City in the wild card, I believe.
00:16:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, have have your Mets, you know, I'm not going to necessarily say win out yet because you guys are ah six back of the Philz and I want to see the Philz falter.
00:17:12
Speaker
um ah So I want to see you guys get everybody. Yeah, yeah, I want it, but I, You know, could care less about the San Diego Padres.
00:17:23
Speaker
Apologies to anyone in San Diego watching this. um Hate mail can be directed to. oh We can talk about that later. You'll direct your hate mail towards me. You're going to direct that to AM23 photography. That's what you better direct that to.
00:17:40
Speaker
I was just broken under spam. um Actually, I was going to make a a good solid political joke, but not right now. um And I'd like to see the Cubs, actually. That would be a Midwestern bout.
00:17:55
Speaker
about i've been I've been going to work in in the Midwest off and on the last six months. So it would just be fun to see like a Cubs brewers. sort of ah matchup.
00:18:08
Speaker
and No, that would be cool. A little Midwestern matchup. Brewers haven't been in a while. Cubs. Everybody loves the underdog Cubbies. You know what I mean? Everyone hates the Phillies sort of thing. I got you.
00:18:19
Speaker
Jersey boy, when we're looking at this NL, right?
National League Rivals
00:18:23
Speaker
First of all, I want you to hit me with some of these updates on these standings. But what I'm looking like in the tiebreakers is we've got a pretty close matchup going on between both the East and the West. Now, obviously, the Central, the Brewers have a nice five-game lead above the Cubs. What do you think about those other two?
00:18:43
Speaker
Absolutely. and you Can you run that back for me again? I didn't quite hear you. no no. So what I was saying was that the Mets and the Phillies, when we're looking at the standings, the Phillies are six games above the Mets. Brewers are five and a half above the Cubs. So pretty good leads there. But when we look at the West, we got the Dodgers that are only two and a half above the Padres. So start with me here with the West and then move into the rest of the NFC.
00:19:10
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the West, as much as I hate the Dodgers, I know you do. Yeah. Something is telling me that they're they're going to be there. I would love to see San Diego take them.
00:19:23
Speaker
But, I mean, unless San Diego really gets on their shit and and you need l L.A. to tumble a little bit. you know we I mean, it's only two and a half. you know Things could change in a week or two.
00:19:35
Speaker
long as San Diego plays steady ball, you know they they could easily take that division. Does MLB want that? No, not at all. MLB wants they want. what they want
00:19:50
Speaker
they they They want their golden boy. The golden goose. The golden goose. you know The lying, the betting, the fraudulent.
00:20:01
Speaker
Otani. Yeah. Wow. He was not involved, MJ. All those allegations. Wow. Interpreter. Do not be getting us canceled, sir.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah. just because Just because they beat you guys last year in the World Series? That's that's why? I seen good i seen Yankees win enough. i don't you know Did I want the Yankees to win? Yeah. But, you know, and then that fuck the Dodgers.
00:20:27
Speaker
You know, iin't ain't nothing to me. All right. Amul, what do you think about this NFL? Oh, go ahead. I thought you were wrong. He was implicated by, like I said, millions of dollars being transferred from his account to some off-site better. Like, come on. I don't believe it.
00:20:46
Speaker
I don't believe it. Oh, it was your hot tape joke checking in MJ's brother, Yankees fan. Says Yankees all the damn way. Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:20:57
Speaker
Not really. Jake, I'll see you tomorrow for the NFL show. You better be there, 8 p.m. Eastern. Shamus plug. Amul, give us your NL thoughts while MJ fixes his Facebook.
00:21:08
Speaker
Okay. I love the fuck I'm doing with No, it's right up at the top. So hold on. Hold on moment. Yeah. So, MJ, when you're looking at the top of the stream yard, go to the right, and there's like an edit button up
Technical Difficulties
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Speaker
top.
00:21:19
Speaker
If you hit that edit button, it'll ask you to link to your profiles, and then you can hit the Facebook from there, and then it'll ask you. like Yeah, it says I got to sign up Yeah, you have to sign in. Yeah, you got to sign in to your to the Facebook or whatever. Yeah. um So anyways, Amul, go ahead. Hit us with the ML, brother.
00:21:37
Speaker
So the NL is an interesting beast. We've we've had the... and i'm goingnna we've had the the the Dodgers kind of reign supreme the last, what, five years, something like that.
00:21:49
Speaker
um it's It's time for a change. It is. ah Would I love it if the Mets won the World Series? We'll just put it out there. Sure, why not? um You know, would I love it if – but not against not against my Red Sox. So here's what I'm thinking. Like, if it's going to be the Mets, it would be against somebody like, I don't know,
00:22:10
Speaker
the Astros, you know, ah or the Blue Jays, something like that. Cheating Astros. Well, like, as far as San Diego, sure, I'd love for them to play spoiler and have, you know, the Dodgers be ranked fifth and the Padres be ranked third.
00:22:25
Speaker
But i ah sort of want Milwaukee to sort of you know, play spoiler that they've been trying to do for 43 years now. And um make it back i was looking at the standings real quick the giants are eight and two their last mr up page you two right now under the time let's go how about that so what i was what i was thinking was what's the outside shot i wanted to ask you guys what do you think is an outside shot that like a team like the giant sneaks into the ah the wild card or is that not feasible at this point
00:23:03
Speaker
Very good question. It is feasible. They are only seven games back. Shout out to Clutch B. As a Giants fan, they could do it now. Let's be completely honest.
00:23:14
Speaker
That profit and Severs trade did not work out as well for them as they may You're welcome. you Everybody here said that.
00:23:26
Speaker
I probably was the only one that didn't say that just because if you put him at his natural position at DH and stop trying to fucking pigeonhole him into all these positions he doesn't belong at, and San Francisco did it again, like trying to put him at first base, just leave the man alone.
00:23:44
Speaker
Let him hit. That is he learned. His natural position was third. His natural position was at DH. I don't know what his actual position is. All he does is if this was the 1910s and you had Babe Ruth, all you would do was put his ass at DH because you ain't going let his ass fast run in the field. love it when you have me on. This is great. Shout out, Matthew Johnson. We appreciate you tuning in, bro. That's my brother.
00:24:12
Speaker
That's right. Jazz Chisholm. Two-run shot. Yankees up 2-0. How about that? Congrats. I mean, my socks are well they're tied right now, 7-7. They were up so we might be we might be ah i'm guessing the both handss and i the whole end up which means any language for All right, cool. so So now that we've looked at these standings and we've evaluated the teams are in it, we've pretty much got a good ah view about the
Playoff Picture Overview
00:24:48
Speaker
the teams. Because honestly, when you look at both leagues, there's only seven teams, eight teams, one, two, three, four, five teams.
00:24:57
Speaker
You could count the Royals and Guardians as wildcard teams, but you really can't. So pretty much this is going to be the solidified playoff picture. Obviously, steeds changing.
00:25:12
Speaker
More or less. Yeah, so that being said, let's go around the horn. Let's give some updated World Series picks ah here.
World Series Predictions
00:25:23
Speaker
And let me give you the tiebreakers in the NL real quick.
00:25:26
Speaker
If we have anything in the West, which is the only one we got to think about, um the Dodgers have one-game lead in the tiebreaker over – or no, sorry, I i apologize – Hold on.
00:25:41
Speaker
Nope, I apologize. That's completely false. They have won 9 of 13. So they have no chance, the Padres, to win the tiebreaker. So the Dodgers would own the tiebreaker.
00:25:53
Speaker
So that being said, let's start off with you, Amul, since you have i want your I want your set of picks. Sure. MJ for his, and then going come back to you for your unhinged.
00:26:06
Speaker
okay Okay, all right. well um Now you teased it, so I guess we can – I'm not going to give you the unhinged picks. I'm going put those aside. ah But I would say – would say ah they love to see – yeah, put the put the but the thing back up.
00:26:28
Speaker
My bad. That's okay. Okay. I would say, I would say let's have, i don't want Dodgers Yankees again. I'm sorry. ah Let's do. my Dodgers aren't making it.
00:26:40
Speaker
I would say let's do Brewers and Tigers as as a possibility.
00:26:51
Speaker
ah Obviously the Red Sox, if they can get their act together. ah And then not Phillies. Let's not do Red because that's just going to be awful.
00:27:06
Speaker
Sure, I asked you for one pick. What is all of this nonsense that you give me? I don't need 15 teams. better i yeah i don't mean i don't need fifteen I need you to ask of now. You can change your pick next month when we come on again. can I just get two damn teams? I don't need you to confuse the audience, sir.
00:27:32
Speaker
I was trying to confuse the audience. you let's go Let's go Brewers-Astros. Brewers Astros. Brewers Astros. Okay, I like that pick, though. I like that pick. that's a If you come back to me with uninched picks, it's going to be three or four.
00:27:51
Speaker
So just be fair and warm. Don't give it away. You're supposed to save that. Brewers Houston is a most sensible pick. MJ, what is your pick right now, your updated World Series pick?
00:28:03
Speaker
I know you're to say the yankees so it doesn't really matter. Okay, there it is. Yankees, Cubs. I mean, not Cubs. Yankees, Brewers.
00:28:13
Speaker
All right. Yankees, Brewers. Two for the Brewers. Yeah. Okay. Two for the Brewers. They just, they're steamrolling. They are. And hopefully they don't let up.
00:28:26
Speaker
You know, because your boys ain't making it. I don't think LA's going to make it. Wow. No, but i did I did say on your show weeks ago. That the Mets were a sleeper team in the National League. if they get their shit together If they get their shit together, which they kind of are. kind of are We swept the Phillies last week. Yeah, you didn't. and then We're 2-3 with the Tigers right now.
00:28:52
Speaker
Okay, after the Phillies. What happened after the Phillies? We lost. We lost three in a row to the mar or two out of three to the Marlins. I agree. Very bad. should you do that Which you shouldn't do, no.
00:29:03
Speaker
yeah I need you, though, sir, to speak to Juan Soto because you've been shitting on him all year only because he had a slow start. And I'm sick all these amateurs out here talking crap about Juan Soto because he had a slow April and May. Look,
00:29:20
Speaker
If you are not a baseball purist and don't know your baseball and you see a 250 average after July, you may think this player sucks. But if you go back and see he just had a slow start, it is very hard in baseball to catch your batting average up if you have a slow April.
00:29:37
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There's just basically no way. If you have a 200 batting average in April, you're going have a hard-ass time getting to 300. That being said, Juan So... Didn't he just sign a new contract? Didn't he just sign a new contract with the Mets? What does that have to do with you? So some players start slow in the early part of their contract. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:29:57
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Thank you. yeah Yes. yeah That's another point. Even Lindor did it. Piazza did it Everyone does does it when they come to the Mets. So that being said, he is closing in on 40 home runs, 30 stolen bases.
00:30:12
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ah He has 1,000 OPS since June 1st, beating your Aaron Judge by almost 200 percentage points. um He lead the lead and walked.
00:30:24
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ah If you're calling this a down year, this is a down year that every player in the league wishes they could have. Answer yourself, MJ.
00:30:36
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okay it
00:30:40
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Well, if you really want me to go there, you, I mean, you get what you get. I'm going to get popcorn, ladies and gentlemen. No, yeah I mean, you get what you pay for, you know, but when you don't play that good for that long, that could set you back as a team overall.
00:31:01
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I mean, if you if you played like shit, I mean, if you played better, let's say in April, May into June, let's just say he was, I mean, half of what he is now, you know, if he just that much better, they could have won a lot of games.
00:31:17
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Well, not a lot, but one more and be in better position to go forward. mean, now he's coming around, which you hopefully, hopefully he did because you're paying him that money.
00:31:29
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You know, you would hope he at least come back to earth and and play baseball because you don't, you don't forget how to play the ball. You know you go to a different team, just everything is different around it. You know, so he's he's starting to come around, and but he needs help because Pete Alonso ain't done shit.
00:31:46
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Frankie Ladori hasn't done shit lately, you know. I'm going need you to stop the smirching names of do Peter Alonso, the polar bear, out here eating snacks.
00:31:58
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Oh, my God. Let me get his stats. Hold on. you look look at Look up this look at his stats over, like, the last 30 days or last 30 games. Him, Lindor, Soto, and Nimmo, they didn't do shit.
00:32:10
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They didn't do much for like the last 30 games. No, you're right, though. You're right about that. Lindor, Alonzo, en so and Nimmo all clumped while Soto, you are correct about that. that's all That's all I'm trying say. I'm not saying that Alonzo's bad. So here are his last 30-day stats per stat news.
00:32:26
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His last 30 days, Pete Alonzo, you are correct, hitting.243, well below his over.300 average for the season, with seven home runs and 18 RBIs. So not too bad the home runs and RBIs for a month, but that.243 is a little low on the batting average, you are correct. Yes, it is, yeah. You know, that's not what you need going forward. You need to snap out that.
00:32:49
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You need to start coming around and producing like you should. you know You want that contract? You turn down big money to begin with. I still think Soto to the Mets this was a huge mistake. I do too because it's it's too much money tied up into one guy for 15 years. When we talk about too much money, though, and I talked about this with your brother, Mar, about six months ago, we were talking about Bobby Witt at the beginning of the season.
00:33:18
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But here in a couple of years, we're going to see the first billion-dollar basketball, baseball players, probably not football, but definitely baseball and basketball. We're going to the first billion-dollar players.
00:33:34
Speaker
So why isn't Soto worth $50 million dollars a year if he keeps playing at the rate he's been playing at the past couple months? Think about it. I'm not even talking about it. I'm not even talking with him about year by year, you signed him for $765 million. then That is absolutely insane.
00:33:56
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Absolutely insane. and another i'm go ah ah If I may, if I may, I've been listening. So I'm just going to jump in because ah they signed him partly on past performance, but also on what he could do in the future.
00:34:10
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Like he may not have brought, you know, the Yankees a World Series, but he brought the Nats World Series. And then, you know, you the Mets want something similar. Now, I agree with you, like that, and possibly Omar too, that they need more than just Lindor. They need more than just Pete Alonso.
00:34:28
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Yeah, you got to surround him. you You need people that are are going to, you know, top of the order, you know, ah that are going to be able to get on base. You need people to to set him up so he can hit home runs.
00:34:43
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And he's a little more of walks. you know if You need that security. You need that security blanket around him. man Yeah, he he is he is the Mets. I'm going to put it this way.
00:34:53
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To me, he is the Mets version of David Ortiz in the Red Sox heyday. when the Sox had Ortiz, or now when, you know, they've got, I don't know, Bregman?
00:35:08
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but let When Bregman, or no, Anthony. Because Anthony's leading off at this point. But my point is that you've got to surround your best players. Like, Judge, Judge, I'm sure is surrounded.
00:35:20
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I haven't checked a ah Yankees lineup recently, but I'm sure he's surrounded. So if they don't if they don't surround the if the front office doesn't go, hey, you know we've had a lot of fun at the US Open. you know We're going go across the street and actually do business and plan stuff out for next year.
00:35:40
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um then it's going to be a little bit tougher moving forward because you can't just put it on, on those two folks. I think you need to be able to, uh, at least get another two pieces and, and that's on the front office of the Mets.
00:35:56
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ye I agree. Yeah. I honestly think that, um, you know, we are probably not going to win the
Mets' Championship Prospects
00:36:06
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championship this year. But if we do, because if we get the right momentum, we could, um then you got to make some drastic changes. But if not, I think you got to keep this core the same sign Pete Alonzo for another few years to a big contract and see what happens.
00:36:20
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Because this is about as best of a core as you're going to get in the major leagues, aside from, you know, the Dodgers and the and maybe even the Yankees. So and and it's still a really good core.
00:36:31
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So I'm good with this core. Now, if for some reason, and I was thinking about this radical idea earlier today, but if some very championship this year,
00:36:44
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I suggest they let Alonzo walk and trade Soto for a bounty of picks and just say, hey, we won our first championship. The Mets only won one every 30 years.
00:36:56
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let do Now, that's never going happen. Okay. why Why do you want to do that? The Nets did that in 2019, after 2019, and they were still in fire. and there' were still we would They're still mired.
00:37:07
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No, you're right. That's a really good point. Do you really want to be the Nats right now? There are more people going to no no there're there are more people going to going to ball games at Nats Park when Ashanti and Ja Rule are performing after the game than they are during. Yes, yes. Shout out to Ja Rule who had absolutely no one at his recent concert.
00:37:35
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is more oh No, no. There were a lot of people at his Nats Park concert, that's for sure. um But, you know, people are going for other things.
00:37:47
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The season's winding down. Do you want your Mets to do that? No, but we also have Steve Cohen, not the Lerner's punk asses. Right, but here's what I'm hearing. and I'm hearing the people who are the money.
00:38:01
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could go to Boston. And what's happening with your ownership, by the way? What's happening with that? Are they switching ownership soon, or what's happening? I would hope so. They better if they're going to change. thought the learners were selling.
00:38:14
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What's the up-tooth? Oh, you're talking about the Nats ownership. Of course I'm talking about the um I thought you were talking about the Red Sox ownership. No, Red Sox shouldn't be selling shit. That motherfucker owned every damn company here and in America.
00:38:27
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By the way, he needs to stop focusing on his soccer teams in Europe. Thank you. This is my point. This is my point. Get him. Get him. That's my point.
00:38:42
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oh No, ah the winners decided they were going to back out of selling. That's all I know. What? Yeah, they they're back in the house. They said that they like what they have and they're going to continue forward.
00:38:55
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so Like what? Bums. There's some bums. Bums. don't know what to tell you. You got two good pitchers. I already went to opening game there this year, OK? Leave me alone. You got two good pitchers.
00:39:10
Speaker
got two You got Garrett Crochet. Yes. And Bale. No, and Aroles Chapman. Bale? That's who gets. Pedro Martinez Jr.? You're really going to do the Ray and Bale like that? Really? yeah ye um Okay. Well, you know. going to prove himself first. Pedro Martinez Jr. Get the fuck out of here, yo.
00:39:32
Speaker
Don't you ever besmirch the name of the great Pedro Martinez, yo. You know that's what they call him, right? He beat up old-ass Don Zimmer and threw his ass to the ground. You know that's what they call him, though, right? They call Bale Jr.
00:39:47
Speaker
Fandler Jr. is what they call him. Yo, MJ, when you were doing your shows last week, I caught up late. And I was like, no, I know who it is. Don Zimmer. And I was like, oh, I'm too late. They already went over it.
00:40:00
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I was dying when y'all were talking about it. That's great. That's fabulous. yankes Yankees got a stud rookie, Cam Schlittler.
00:40:11
Speaker
yeah next roger clay He's the next Roger Clemens, they're saying. Don't say that. See, y'all would be a mad blaster against your team right now. I'm saying, like i' never I never heard that. He's saying. A.G. Toll has a better chance of being the next Roger Clemens than, you know.
00:40:28
Speaker
Hey, Tom Seaver, I know you're out there watching this esteemed baseball program. I would never besmirch your name like these gentlemen have their legends. Tom Seaver, I start.
00:40:40
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Just saying, you know. All right, let's get an update on some scores around the horn. do have to get out of here in about 10 minutes because we're going to go cover country box tonight at the Chubador.
00:40:52
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But let's take a look at some games here before we get out of here. First of all, we've got the – let's see. Let me get to the top here. Dodgers, pa Pirates. Pirates are leading 7-5 over the Dodgers at home, top of 7.
00:41:05
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My Mets, as you can see in the background, up 12-2 big. Bottom of 6, though. Here's a good one. Blue Jays. 10, Reds 8. Now the Reds are 2.5 behind the Mets, so they really need this victory to stay ah stay there in the hunt.
00:41:22
Speaker
Guardians 7, Red Sox 7. Go ahead. It's funny that you you mentioned the Reds. go right ahead where Where I go for my neuro rehab every day, he's a diehard Yankee fan like myself, but we talk baseball just like this.
00:41:35
Speaker
And we were talking today about spoiler teams that could really be a spoiler, and c Cincinnati is one of them.
Reds as Potential Spoilers
00:41:43
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They got a young, scrappy team.
00:41:46
Speaker
They play baseball. they're good They're good to watch. they just They're fundamentally sound. you know If they could just build off of what they have, because I don't know much of what they have, but I know you keep building, you'll get there.
00:41:59
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they've got They've got a good shortstop. They've got a couple good pitchers. They're not half bad. But the only reason I didn't bring them up when I was talking is because they're 14 and a half bad.
00:42:10
Speaker
How much can you make up in the last month? well was only I think the only three back are the Mets, right? Yeah, you go you go to the wild card. Okay. and And let don't you ever disrespect the name of Eli De La Cruz, yeah one of the best shortstops in the league. Get that name right next time. You better remember it. kid hit ah He hit some goddamn missiles.
00:42:33
Speaker
He did. And yeah and and he has a cannon for an arm from shortstop. But they did trade to Brian Hayes. One of the best defensive third basemen to the Pirates at the trade deadline. So that does hurt them a little bit. But clearly, they have not slowed down. I don't think they're going to catch the best.
00:42:49
Speaker
I thought the Pirates pirates traded Cabrian Hayes to the red the Reds. I apologize. You are correct. You are correct. Thank you, sir. My bad. All right. so no I appreciate the correction. ah yeah we'll get We'll get back to that real quick. Babe Ruth has 659 as a Okay, cool. yes So, yeah, I was corrected. My bad, y'all.
00:43:12
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I thought I read second of all time, but, yeah, I don't know why. I thought – because didn't Babe Ruth get traded, like, after the first, like, couple of years he was with the Red Sox? Like, the first year or two? Yes, something like that. For a second year, yeah.
00:43:24
Speaker
What are the Pirates doing? ah believe it was the second. The Pirates? The Pirates are down. Yeah. No, and I know, but, like, you take two out of three against you take two out of three against my against my Red Sox. You're beating the Dodgers right now. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are they auditioning for – They auditioning to trade all schemes. They're auditioning to do. They're 16 games under.500. They're 13 games back of wild card. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:55
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under five hundred there're thirteen thirteen games back of wild car yeah yeah What about the Mariners up three to two over the Rays in the top of the field?
00:44:07
Speaker
I say let's call the game now. i mean, you know. Well, the Rays shouldn't be a major league team anyways. Let's get that straight. They should move them. Here to Nashville, baby. Bring the Rays to Nashville. They'll be the Music City stars, the Nashville stars. You guys are getting an expansion team. You guys are getting an expansion team from what I hear.
00:44:27
Speaker
I mean, I hope so. We better. Yeah. Yeah. Nashville can support a baseball team. Let me tell you that right now. oh I know you guys can. I know you guys can. By all means. get season tickets. Let's go. The National Stars, let's go. Yeah. um down I'm down. What about the toilet bowl right now? Nationals and Marlins.
00:44:45
Speaker
Ooh. How about that? Amul, how do you feel about your Nats? Yeah, they're up 5-2. I mean, honestly, we we're playing mini golf.
00:44:57
Speaker
Like, we've we've been playing mini golf since the 4th of July. I'm sorry. And I know – Now, you did get some good prospects at the deadline, though. I've got Nats fans that are probably watching this, and I'm sorry you guys know this.
00:45:09
Speaker
Like, we should have been playing mini golf. Going to Europe. Europe sounds like a good idea for a couple months, especially, you know, in August when all of Europe is is on holiday. So – A jet two holiday.
00:45:24
Speaker
jet two holiday. Y'all should have never came home since October last year. Once your season ended, we should have just stayed home. We all shouldn't have come since October 2019, Blake. We should have just... Right, exactly.
00:45:35
Speaker
After the World Series, they should have stayed party. better than now I mean, even I mean i know this this is mostly a baseball watch show, but like even the caps have made attempt to get back into the playoffs. right Right. He's playing again. He's playing again this year. Right. This is his retirement. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. I'm going opening night. Yeah, he is.
00:45:58
Speaker
He is. But there's Ovi. He's going sign another contract at the end of the year, though. Shout out to Obi. What do you shout out to Obi? Not to play, though. Not to play another year. maybe He's got to retire.
00:46:10
Speaker
He's got to retire. No, give him another year. Let him keep right here. It's like Mark Messier in in New York. Like, at some point, you just got to retire, my brother. Let's just – I mean, I guess. I guess. I'm just wondering what the Caps are going to become of – what they're going to be like after Obi retires because you don't want it to be like – It was after Peter Bondra left, you know, way back in the day.
00:46:33
Speaker
So it's going to be for like $10 a pop. Hockey. MJ, I know you like hockey. What you thinking about the hockey season? come No, you don't. Yeah. i Listen, i I know some hockey. I don't even know all the rules. I don't know all the rules.
00:46:46
Speaker
But, i you know, I follow the devils. That's what I do follow, the devils. Being from New Jersey, that makes sense. There you go. Yes, sir. I'm a Kings fan. don You're a Kings fan?
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Ask him how that happened because I'm still trying to decipher it.
Host's Personal Sports Background
00:47:05
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Well, it's pretty easy. Let me give everybody my sports background since everybody likes to ask me.
00:47:11
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I'm from D.C. Yes, I grew up in Washington, D.C. ah My dad, when he joined in the military from Puerto Rico, he got stationed in Texas.
00:47:23
Speaker
And he became a Dallas Cowboys fan. I was not alive yet, but we had family in Queens, New York. So he became a Mets fan.
00:47:36
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That is how I became a Mets fan. I was born into it. Now, as for the Celtics, when he came in 79, Larry Bird had joined the Celtics. And so he became a Celtics fan.
00:47:49
Speaker
I'm assuming over the Magic and the Lakers at the time, because those are your only two choices. So he chose Larry Bird and the Celtics, and that's why I'm a Celtics fan. Then... When I grew up, I really wanted to go to UCLA because I wanted to be a lawyer way back in the day when I thought I was smart enough or cared enough to do something in life.
00:48:09
Speaker
ah than I don't know that part of the story. don't remember the story. It was either a lawyer or business. I wanted to go to UCLA. You could have made it to the Pac-10 and then lost to my boys.
00:48:21
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There you go. Yes. Yeah. Arizona Wildcats. Michael Bibby, 1997. I had Arizona jersey. I got him in Stoudemire. Nice.
00:48:32
Speaker
Nice. Loved him. But yeah, so... So ah for that, i since I was a UCLA fan, I became um a Kings fan because Wayne Grisky came to L.A.
00:48:46
Speaker
And when Wayne Grisky came to L.A., I was, you know, at that time I was, what, 11 years old? So starting to get in the hot days. All right, cool. I'll pick Kings. Now, also helping to that, everybody wonders, how are you a Raiders fan when you grew up in D.C.? The first football game I ever saw in my life was a tape-recorded video of the 82 Super Bowl. Obviously, I wasn't alive because I was born in 82, or the 83 Super Bowl, so i was like nine months old.
00:49:12
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When the Raiders blew out the Redskins 38-9, Marcus Allen had an 83-yard run. and i i remember i was like I remember I was like four years old, five years old, sitting in my neighborhood. Kaisu Technon.
00:49:27
Speaker
Huh? What happened? Etu Brute, Kaisu Technon, same thing. I'm basically saying, and you. So that is how I became a Raiders fan because I hated the Redskins and I grew up in D.C. and I wanted ah want to be different, so go Raiders.
00:49:42
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you know if If I have any hockey questions, I go to my brother right there, Matthew. He's a big Devil fan. Big Devil fan. So that's who I would go to for anything hockey-related.
00:49:54
Speaker
I've got a few friends. Yeah, I've got a few friends that are Devils fans as well. so Yeah, he's he's also a Chicago Bear fan. I forgot about that. Yep. Yep. Nice. All right. Well, hey, y'all.
00:50:06
Speaker
We really appreciate y'all tuning in. I got to go cover Country Box. If you are watching, please check it out there on YouTube right now. Live at Country Box. Official Fernando Cusa in the main event lat tonight. I'll be heading up there right now. I'll be there in about 30 minutes, and I'll be getting some fighter interviews, but make sure you check them out on YouTube. It is free.
00:50:27
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um By the way, let's give a shout out to everybody here. ah go ahead, MJ, give you a shout out. Everything you' got to cover, my brother. Well, I want to give a shout out.
00:50:40
Speaker
I want to give a shout first and foremost to my neuro rehab at Bancroft. I go to neurotherapy Monday through Friday and get the help I need for my traumatic brain injury.
00:50:52
Speaker
oh But let's, let's you know, you can find me at IOWsports.com. I'm always floating around there. JerseyboyMJ on Twitter. I'm also on Instagram with the same name.
00:51:04
Speaker
you know, you can easily get in touch with me, easily watch the shows, you Ball & Buds, IOW Sports. Like, we collab. We get this shit going, you know. So, it's I'm thankful for you having me on, and I, you know, look forward to being on in you know in the future if you'll have me. Promote your show. When's your show?
00:51:23
Speaker
My shows are Monday night, 8 p.m. on IOW Sports. You know, around the diamond with Jersey's finest. So that's where you can find me every Monday night at 8 o'clock. Hey, if you need a guest, I'm sure Amul would love to join you one time.
00:51:38
Speaker
That'd be a fun conversation, for sure. Absolutely. You know, because I got i got your family I've had on my show that are Mets fans. I mean, we I could go back and forth with you. You all day long, we could go back and forth with you. I don't know why you're a Bears fan, Matthew, because I assume you're from New York.
00:51:54
Speaker
but He's not. He's My brother, hates ha he's no he's from Jersey. Wait, what are the Bears then? Oh, is that California Bears? No, Chicago Bears.
00:52:05
Speaker
Oh, he's a Bears fan. Did he live in Chicago? Did Matthew live in Chicago? No. How did he become a Bears fan? He grew up in the same town I did.
00:52:15
Speaker
How did he become a Bears fan? I couldn't tell you. Oh. That I could not tell you, but I do know he's a bear and devil fan. sure and he's a yank And he's a Yankee fan too. and he Because I liked, oh, there you go.
00:52:31
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Answer from the source, because I like the animal. Easiest way. love it. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Nothing wrong with that.
00:52:42
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he ain't bullshit. Sure. Promote what you got, my brother. I'm the FBI of service. I want to shout out the urgent care folks who diagnosed the sprained right foot that I've got, ah that I basically was walking around with for a week.
00:52:58
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Shout out to family and friends who been able to help me out the last couple of days. Very much appreciate it I'll be back to shooting in no time. uh we got a new show too don't forget we we it's gonna be the am 23 round table that's coming up probably later on this fall and it's just gonna be uh just fred's talking about stuff that's been going on either in the news or stuff that's coming from the column that i write as well which we just celebrated our 25th anniversary i know uh omar and i are gonna link up on that uh later on we're gonna
00:53:34
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give you guys ah a fun interview with a lot of other Easter eggs that aren that may not be Taylor Swift coded. But they might be. We'll see. But she did throw in a Slaughterhouse-Five reference in one of her songs, which I found interesting.
00:53:53
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Yeah. Slaughterhouse-Five.
00:53:58
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Yeah, feel free to to jump on IG and reach out to me. If you're going reach out to me and be spam, I'm just going to redirect you to Omar's personal, which I don't think he has. Look at his face.
00:54:09
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space e um man Or more I'll redirect you to Elon because you know, why wouldn't you want to buy a Tesla in the process?
00:54:21
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00:54:32
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I'm not saying that as a friend. I'm just saying that because it's true. Also, check out Jersey Boy MJ again every Monday night, 8 p.m. Eastern, around the Diamond MLB talk, IOW Sports, and as well tomorrow, do not forget the huge NFL season spectacular preview we will have.
00:54:55
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00:55:08
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We'll have all of the insiders tomorrow. Super Mega NFL Preview, 8 p.m. Eastern. Is Adam Schefter coming on? If I can get Adam Schefter, I'll happily have him on. Adam Schefter. Hey, listen, listen, Adam Schefter. And I'm going to make this down. i Listen, Adam Schefter, if you happen to stumble across this podcast, just hit up my boy Omar and, you know, try to get on, get on the podcast.
00:55:37
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It will be possibly better. no it will be more than likely better than going on the Pat McAfee show. Just going to say that. Well, you know what? Hey, I'm not going to defame my brother, Pat McAfee, because I'm not defaming. I'm not defaming. He is where I want to be.
00:55:52
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Pat McAfee is where I want to be right now. so I'm not trying to defame Pat McAfee at all. I'm just trying to make sure that, you know, you, you know, that he gets on your show. And for some reason, it's.
00:56:02
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and And Pat, I would love to come on. Bring me on, brother. Let me know. i Omar Doppel II. I love Pat on college game day. I love Pat on college game day.
00:56:13
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um So, you know. yeah and track You are caught up top, y'all. Ball and buds. We love you, and we are out. Y'all be safe. Y'all treat each other kind.
00:56:24
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