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Hey, it's the Rich Eisen Show, hour number three, on this Friday of Sweet 16 Action. We've got a double dip tonight in Washington, D.C. that is just all kinds of awesome. It's Duke in St. John's, and then it's Michigan State and Yukon and Washington, D.C., while in Chicago, Illinois, in the home of the Chicago Bulls.
Where apparently North Carolina might be trolling around trying to poach the Bull's head coach for their opening gig. Michigan and Alabama, Tennessee and Iowa State for the right to join Arizona, Purdue, Iowa and Illinois. In the elite eight, eight four four two oh four rich is the number to dial. There's some new anti-tanking concepts that the NBA is putting in front of their membership and the governors and everybody else, and we'll talk about that. And again, we'll talk about all of this stuff with you.
844-204-Rich is the number to dial. Haven't seen this man since Lake Tahoe when I was hanging with him at the awesome American Century Championship. Ladies and gentlemen, from MLB Network, an intentional talk. Weekdays at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Kevin Millar back on the program.
Good to see you. How are you? Rich, what's going on, brother? How are you doing? Is that a golf crystal championship trophy behind your right shoulder?
What is that thing back there? No, one thing I will never have right now is a golf crystal championship trophy until I learn how to putt.
So let's just be, you and I need to figure out like the putting stroke, the bottom line, and then the crystal can come.
Well, I need to figure out more than putting, Kevin, but you knew that already. Yeah. You saw what I finished last year. I need to get a little bit better. I actually swung a club for the first time this calendar year yesterday.
So I got to get going. Yeah, I work for a living kind of. No, we got to work. You have 15, 20 minutes to go to the driving range. You have to find out when you can go practice in your living room something to swing the club.
Okay, got to do that. Good to see you, man. How are you? Good seeing you, brother. Really, really good.
I'm so excited. The boys of summer have started. There's always this little lull, right? You got you have like Super Bowl, and then it's kind of like you get into some golf a little bit, and then you're waiting for the March madness. And then, ah, the baseball season's here.
The baseball season, no doubt, is here. Do you like the ABS? You like it? I do. I do.
It's funny. I was talking to the boys yesterday. Listen, the umpires are really good. I do want to get that. The umpires are really good.
When you and I sit at home and we're talking about this much and this much, and oh my goodness, like, Come on, I know it's 17 inches, but like I'm a hitter, and I still was like, all right, you can handle that. What we had a problem with back in the day, and Glavin Maddox, Smoltz, and I always bring it up, messing around with the boys, but. Like they they got sometimes that white line in their bearish box. And I couldn't stand when they would take the bat out of your hand like that three, two count, bases loaded, and it's a ball, and then you're struck out. And so that's why I love this.
I, I, you know, listen, first inning. first pitch of the game, you feel it's a ball, I think that's okay. You're going to be able to but there's going to be times when when to use it, how to use it, and I think it's going to be awesome. Yeah, how would you have been? Would you have been would you would you have been able to held hold up first, second inning?
You know, because I saw that too. As a fan, I'm going nuts on opening night watching Judge take. Strike one, which was really ball two, and he just shrugged it off. He didn't tap his hand. I thought he would just go like this: okay, I've been waiting for this moment my entire career where my strike zone is basically ungovernable compared to most other ones because I'm nine feet tall.
You know, the way I've equated it, Kevin, is it's it's kind of like because, again, football analogies for me come a little bit easier or. where Cam Newton How many times did he get hit? Right. And there would be no flag because he's so big, and refs think that he could take it, or it would be a different officiating. How would you have been?
If you had ABS. You know, I felt I knew the strike zone pretty decent, you know, and I know that. Listen, their pitchers make good pitches, and a lot of us would be like, That's a good pitch isn't a strike.
So you'd look back, and there's a way to talk to an umpire. But I tell you, if you know the strike zone, and it's pretty interesting because you get a lot of players to kind of, you know, argue it and say it was a ball down, well, then tap your hat. Tap your hat. If you feel that's a ball. Nobody wants to hear about it in the dugout.
Tap your hat. So, really, there's no. Try it anymore in baseball. And I think we stopped that once the movie came out. Tom Hanks said it.
Yeah, I know. And look at that, that's Roman Anthony tapping his helmet in the ninth inning last night would have been an inning ending Strikeout where the Red Sox would take a one-nothing lead into the ninth inning. Instead, you could see the umpire hasn't even finished with his punchout move. Or what do you think? Is that a punch out or a pulling of the string?
Which one is that? It's a punchout type/slash pulling of string, but I love it because it's got to be immediate.
So immediately, boom, you don't have time to look in the dugout and let the player see something. No, it's got to be immediate, boom. That ball's down. And think about it. From a one-run game to then they were able to score two more runs after that and make it a three-nothing game.
Those are the situations. But to be honest with you, if you're up there, Rich, and you're in a 1-1 count and you feel that ball's off the plate and they make it 1-2. 2-1 and 1-2 is a big difference, too. I don't care if it's nobody on base or not. And you get to keep your little.
your little flag in your back pocket your your little thing you get two of them Kevin Millar here on the Rich Eisen Show. Listen, I'm a Yankee fan. Chris is a Red Sox fan. TJ is a Met fan. All of us had a great opening day, but Jason Feller is a Dodger fan.
And I'm sitting there thinking, all right. Andy Pa has hitting three-run jacks to give Yamamoto a lead after he's given one up to Perdomo'd on opening night. How the hell are you going to beat the Dodgers if Paez is hitting three-run jacks, Kevin? You know? It's time for Dodger baseball.
Vince Scully, I'll tell you, I hadn't been in my ear since I was two. That's right.
So I'm a Dodger fan. Dad's a Dodger fan.
Now, listen. It's crazy what Andrew Freeman has done. And when I say crazy, Awesome.
Now you got Paeus, like you said, a little breaking ball, boom. And he struggled the postseason last year, right? You felt that.
So such a big deal for him to get off to a good start. Felt like a good start, bingo. Bernomo gets a two-run homer, and you're sitting there going, okay, because the Diamondbacks with Torrey Lovello, he finds a way to get the most out of his player. And all of a sudden, it's just like these gates open. Because the one thing DeRosa said it best today.
On the uh central show, he said you signed a dude for 60 million dollars a year for four years at 240,000 to hide in this lineup. Think about that. You got the best player we've ever seen with Show Hayde Leanoff. You kind of hide Tucker, and all of a sudden, here comes all these MVPs. It is fascinating, and Will Smith.
What's met? Unbelievable player that just kind of hides in that lineup. Almost won a batting title last year.
So they are going to be tough. I think they're like the old Yankees, to be honest with you, Rich. You remember what Steinbrenner? He didn't care. I'm going to go spend money because I want to win World Series and I want to win championships.
And that's the way it is. And there's a way here. And I think that's what the Dodgers created. There's an area where their stars are awesome, right? They work hard.
You see Freddie Freeman the last day of the World Series taking his ground balls and Lukey Bets. Boom, boom. There's no more games tomorrow. You got four or five months off, and they're still working at their craft.
So I think they're just pros. They remind me of the Yankees back in the day. When I say that, I mean, that's the way it was. They were the highest paid dudes. They were the team to beat.
And now the Dodgers, I think, are flipping that script, going for three peat. You know, again, not to treat this like, again, like it's the NFL where one result. is the roadmap to whether a team's going to win or lose, right? Um and but it's tough not to think that about the Dodgers. Even though, again, I know we were an IKF toenail away from the Blue Jays upsetting them last year.
Right. But um and anything can happen. That's why it's baseball. That's why we love it, Kevin. But man.
They're just that good. They really are that good and that professional, as you pointed out. And then, you know, to use the analogy that you mentioned about the Yankees of the 90s and the aughts. I mean, Roberts looks like the Tory of this situation, where he sits back And he pushes the buttons and he's got the guys to push the buttons with that few other teams have, Kevin. It really feels there's a humbleness, right?
There's a humbleness to D.R. Listen, I showered with him for a couple of years. We won a little series together, and that's the only thing I could bring up because you guys know what a great guy he is. He's kind of a sneaky wine guy now, he's got his own little thing stitched. But there's a humbleness.
And he is just a good human being. And Andrew Freeman, I use that, you know, he started off with the Rays and ended up taking over the Dodgers and kind of, but there's such a like a humbleness. Theo Epstein had that when we were there in Boston, this 29-year-old GM for the first time. He went in and got all these dudes that no one really knew, right? Bill Millers and Mark Bellhorns and just the whole basically infield Orlando Cabrera that no more scene.
But you look at what Dave Roberts has brought. There's a quietness, there's a calmness, and there's awesomeness.
Now, there's players are awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's still the game of baseball. And I mean that honestly. We're talking about you have to be playing well at the right time. You have to be injury free. Their depth is amazing.
Their third. In the minor leagues. That's the thing. They draft well. They're not drafting one and two every year.
They draft well. So their scouts are awesome.
So this whole thing that goes into it, but by the way, scouts are underrated. We never talk about the scouts and the grounds crew, and we just talk about how much money all the players are making. The scouts and scouting department. Is attention to detail.
So think about that. They're just so deep in the big leagues, but yet they just kind of keep rolling and rolling. They can kind of do whatever they want. Kevin Millar here on The Rich Eisen Show.
So who's equipped? To stand in the way, make your call your shot now, man. It's not even April. Call it.
Well, if you got it right, we'll remember it. If not, we'll forget it. What do you think? You kind of feel the Yankees are going to be there, period, Rich. I mean, it's hard to say, but I'm going to tell you right now, it wouldn't shock you right if it's the Dodgers and Yankees World Series and the Dodgers and Yankees.
I mean, Doctor trying to go three people, which is hard. You guys did it. 98, 99, 2000, I believe. And then 01, I think the Diamonds. 02 was the Angels.
03 was the. Man, we don't want to talk about that one. That was the Aaron Boone one. It knocked us out, man. It was the Yankees.
By the way, real quick, sorry I'm getting off track, Willa Grace games pitched by A Florida Marlon, Josh Beckett, I believe. Was that game seven? Game six? No, Beckett was untouchable. He was on table.
In 03, and then 04 was us, I'll tell you. It wouldn't surprise me because the Yankees Show up there, and they would be the team to maybe beat the Dodgers. Can the Phillies? You know, knock them off somewhere in the thing. Can the Mets?
They've got like 10 new dudes. Does that just come together? And their new dudes are awesome, right?
So, the Mets might be a team, but I got to be able to see them a little bit. I mean, it's hard. Chemistry is a big deal to me. It really is. Let's see how the Mets go.
Because at this point last year, you wouldn't have said the Blue Jays, right? They kind of caught fire around Memorial Day last year, and everyone's like, well, they'll flame out. And all they did was get stronger and younger. You know, um, better than we thought, right? Real, better than we thought, and even with Bichette banged up, um, they made it and then got him back just in time for the World Series for him to rake and limp around, you know.
Um, so you never know, I guess. I mean, but. G call your shot on on and under the radar. Who do you think? Oh man, I mean, you kind of know the guys right now.
I mean, Detroit looks unbelievable. This new rookie they got, Kevin McGlonagal. Let me tell you right now, I got four hits yesterday. He's just an absolute ball player. Reminds me straight up of Dustin Bedroya, or you can go.
Chase Utley.
So they're going to be a factor. They pitch. Framber Valdez makes his first start tonight.
So don't sleep on him with Scoobel Framber, period. You don't have to talk about Justin Berlin right now. Just that one, two punch is just nasty, right?
So you got Jack Flairy. They can be the team. They lost the division at the end of the year. You remember they wore it the whole time. And here comes these little guardians.
I would say Detroit. You could say Seattle. You could say the Yankees, the Red Sox. How are they going to be? That's the beast of the East, the Orioles.
Are they sneaky? Are they sneaky? Do they have enough pitching to kind of do their thing with Pete Alonso now? You can sit there. It's going to be one of those fascinating years, but the Mets probably.
Is the most intriguing in my opinion. The Cubs defense is remarkable. And they do they have enough pitching to kind of shock people? And we never talk about Pat Murphy and the Brewers. They're probably the sleeper team, even though they're not sleepers anymore.
Yeah, I know. They scored 14 yesterday. What about the Royals? What about our guy, Vinny? And Witt, and then, you know, and Garcia, they had a great Royals, along with the Red Sox, you could put up there, had a great World Baseball classic.
Players and performances. Best work, Kevin. You don't know. Marcel Meyer, like he could hit, he could win a bagtile. We don't know that because we haven't seen him play yet.
Roman Anthony could win MVP, right? Their outfield's amazing. They'll give days off. Jaron Duran last night had a day off. You got Wilmer, I breou.
That's could hit 30 and drive at 100, I've been talking about this young man, right? And then Raffaello.
So they got four dudes that are going to be rotating. It's interesting, but if you were to kind of just say, What's a sleeper? You got 10 teams, really. There's no one sleeping. It's just who's going to step up in the royal.
Bobby Wick could be the best player in the league, period. He was the best player in WBC. He just moves different. You know, Terang and him were just awesome to watch.
So Yeah. Before I let you go, did you hear the story Barry Bonds told during the opening night about hanging up on Steinbrenner? Did you hear that one? Yes. Do you believe that one?
Do you think he hung up on George Steinbrenner? I think, I believe Barry Bonds did that. Yes, I do. That if there's anybody on planet Earth, it would be Barry. Maybe he thought George didn't treat his dad right and he's just like, To hell with you, I'm hanging up to a who do you who who the hell do you think you are?
I'm Barry Bonds, I don't get a deadline. Click. That sounds like it. That's believable. Yeah.
I couldn't imagine hanging up on the big Georgie right there, though. Say, I need to sign by noon. Click. Okay, I'm saying I'm like, that's right. That's when you're a gangster.
That's when you're the best player on earth when you can do that. I love it. All right, man. It's been great chatting with you. Let's do this often throughout the season.
Let's do it. Let's talk some more. It's good to see you too, Kevin. All right, I got to hit the ball. All right, let's go with that thing.
I'll see you soon. We'll chat soon. All right, pal. That's kicking along, everybody. There you go.
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Love baseball being back. You do, do you? Yeah, of course. Oh, you do, do you?
Okay. Yankees have a first pitch. 4:35 p.m. Eastern, 1:35 at uh at Oracle Park, just up the road in uh San Francisco. This afternoon or tonight?
It's this afternoon. It's not tonight, it's this afternoon. It's today, it's in the sunshine, it's in the daylight. No light. Not in the New York Clove.
Robbie Ray. Taking on Cam Schlittler. New York Yankees. That's later on today. All right, we shall take a break.
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The Ridge Eisen Show Podcast. Here on the Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-RICH. Number to dollar. Let's go to Quinton in Stillwater, Oklahoma. What's up, Quentin?
Still walking. Hey, how you doing, sir? What's going on, bud? Not much. I was just going to ask you what your thought was on maybe why nobody's talking about the Jets possibly trading.
Brees Hall to maybe the Tennessee Titans go ahead and acquire a third round pick that they don't have this year, and then let's just go ahead and nail our pick at two and grab Jeremiah Love. Um Jeremiah loves second overall. Quentin, here's the reason why, okay? At some point, you got to win with the guys that you have.
Okay? At some point, You got to do that. And I know Jeremiah Love is the. That plus the biscuit. But they need a hell of a lot more than a dynamic running back, which they already have.
So why would they trade Brees Hall for a third round pick. when they can actually utilize him. in a dynamic way. And Choose second overall, somebody for their defense that they also need. And then 13th or 16th overall.
choose somebody for their offense that they also need. I mean, you can get the best pass rusher in the draft. According to your stouts and your beliefs. And then 16th overall, you get desperate need. The best wide receiver on the board in a deep wide receiver draft that could turn out to be.
Heaven forbid. The you know, Pickens to Garrett Wilson's C De Lamb. You know what I mean? Or, you know, they don't need a tight end. They got Mason Taylor already.
And And Here's the thing is that the Jets aren't Jeremiah Love is not the answer to the Jets turning things around. They already have somebody who can. dominate from that position.
So why would you make the moves that you're you're going for. Quentin? Yeah, no, uh, I just thought it was more of a locker room thing with Brees, how open he was, wanting to get out of there, kind of just with guys getting out of there, honestly, with honestly Dalla and Coach Dable just acquiring all old the old players that they used to play with. I guess I just figured no, I appreciate it. I no, I how are you a Jet fan in the middle of Oklahoma?
Quite Oh, I actually, I'm from Iowa. I'm just out in Stillwater. I'm going to college here. I'm a Jets fan because. My daddy's a Bucs fan, so when I was growing up, I just didn't really want to be that big Hawkeye football fan.
So I saw Sean Green, and then he got drafted by the Jets. Hey, he was terrific.
So I just been a Jets fan ever since they drafted Sean Green, and I've been kind of just stuck with it. Hang in there, bud. That's Quentin in Stillwater, Oklahoma. What the Jets should do. is sit down.
Grind the tapes as much as they possibly can. On The Bailey Reese Styles decision. Did you hear all the conversation coming out of Ohio State's pardon me? The pro day. Um That Marvel Reese is running around the bags.
Yeah, that Reese didn't look as good as. As they as as scouts had hoped or thought. I saw that. Man, that one was a an odd one. Plot twist.
And if that's the case, it's going to be David Bailey, second overall. Yep. And then what do the cardinals do, and then what do the titans do? But I don't think taking Jeremiah Love second overall because you freed up that spot to get more draft capital by trading away Brees Hall. is the way to go about it.
It just isn't. You got to amass as many. dudes as you possibly can. At the positions that build the line. and go get the quarterback.
Which is the same, one of the same with Bailey. Uh I mean they've by the line I mean Just the trenches. Because they've really watered the offensive line garden over the last few drafts.
So Yes. I just don't think. Using 16th overall on Ty Simpson. That would be. The ultimate head scratch.
After you put you tell the Jets fans We are mortgaging the present. To reset for the future again. Please buy into another reset. Please do that. And please know that we didn't take a Quinn-Williams.
First round draft. Choice in this year's draft. We took it in 2027, so you really got to be patient with us. And they did that for the quarterback. That's why you do that.
That's why you do it. The flexibility and the ability to trade up for the quarterback spot, if somehow, some way the first overall selection. Is held by a team that does not. Need a quarterback. It would make no sense to do it.
That's where you choose the best wide receiver on the board.
So Charles Davis posted his uh 3.0 mock draft left yesterday. Uh Bailey, second overall. Arville Reese second overall.
Okay. Ty Simpson third. To Arizona. Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Sunnystyle seventh.
John Malove goes fifth. If Ty Simpson goes third overall to Arizona, that would break the draft night. I would break it. Because then that would push Everyone else down one more slot. Yeah, David Bailey goes four.
Jeremiah Well, five to the Giants. Yeah, Carnell Taylor to the Browns. Man.
Sonny Styles, Commanders. I wonder if Charles had any good Cabernet that night. But we know every draft, someone's going to do something that's going to shake up the world. Yeah. So.
Well, that 3.0 is a heck of a mock draft. I don't see it. Bane to the Chiefs. Good one. Cowboys, Mansur Delane.
Let's see. Mansur. Mauga to the Rams. Jets Jerman McCoy with their second pick. Mawanoa, the Rams, would wind up with Mawanoa.
Boy, that would be nuts. Yeah. Okay, interesting. Mocked that mocked us like a category five hurricane right there. That's okay.
Steelers, Omar Cooper.
Okay. Fun. Hey, that's who the Jets should wind up taking, maybe. Omar Cooper. That wouldn't be a bad one.
Makai Lemon, if he's out there, too.
So the NBA has come up with anti-tanking proposals, three of them, one more radical than the next, all of them, all of them. As the commissioner this past week in a Press availability said that they are going to handle the anti-tanking business. Full stop. Quote unquote, full stop. They are going to address this.
Full stop. And I was fully stopped by their proposals. And as a matter of fact... The full stop means that there's going to be a vote in May, which is apparently an added. Board of Governors meeting.
That they are They are getting down to business, and Shams says The three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts, they all involve teams that make the play-in games. Or the play-in tournament. Yeah, the four-playing tournament. The four-playing seeds seven through 11, they're all included in a possible draft lottery with the teams, the 10 teams that don't make it.
Now they're including eight teams that have a chance to make it, including four teams that do make it. The playoffs being the it, And then flattened odds, the bottom 10 teams have an 8% chance. The remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18 in a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. Proposal two is twenty-two teams in the lottery using a two-year record. By the way, the WNBA uses a two-year record.
Yeah, I saw that. Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, gets slotted amid the floor, top four drawn as part of the lottery as is currently. Number three is 18 teams in a 5x5 lottery. Bottom five teams have equal odds for the top pick.
The lottery formed. For picks one through five, bottom five teams have a floor at ten. Those that fall out get a top five, get sorted into separate drawings. You get the you get the meaning here of what I'm about to say. Who the hell can follow that?
Who the hell can follow it. It is already problematic enough. It's problematic enough. For Fans to figure out: do I have a draft choice or not? Got to look it up.
Has my team traded it away already? Number two. If my team has traded it away, Is it lottery protected? Meaning, if we fall in the lottery, do we get to keep it? Wait a minute.
If it's lottery protected. Number three. Do I Get to keep it if it's in the top five of the lottery. Because sometimes it's lottery protected, but for a certain number of picks in the lottery. That's tough enough to figure out if you're a sports fan and a diehard NBA fan.
Now you got to figure out what my two-year record is.
Now you got to figure out: oh, wait, who else is in it? My odds are. What if I fall in the top 10? And then, if it's not in the top five or top bottom five, bottom this, but How about this for a radical concept? The team with the worst record.
Gets the first overall. Yeah. The team with the second worst record. Yeah. gets the second overall pick.
How's that help? Tank. Hold on a minute. The third overall pick goes to the team with the third worst record. Right, exactly.
Doesn't discourage tanking. Yeah, that doesn't do anything. How about we become adults and figure out some financial way? to make it stick. How about that?
To discourage tanking? Yeah. It's gonna come out of your pocket. And on top of it, we come up with a... Uh a salary Structure and a revenue sharing structure within the league.
That makes it different ways to build a roster. other than tanking. The problem is the max allowed fine, I think, is two or three mill a $5 million fine doesn't hurt the owners. Keep going. I don't know.
But this this ain't it. This is not it. Yeah. I can't follow that. I could read that again.
And again. I could spend the next five minutes till we take a commercial break reading that over and over again, and we still wouldn't understand it. I don't actually think it's for fans to understand, though. But at some point, it has to be for you to tune in and know. You know what I'm saying?
And plus, tanking, how How guaranteed is it you're going to get somebody that's any good? The NBA is a super crap shoot when it comes to that. Yeah. Right. Yeah, I mean, the history of the league, second-round picks who have made an impact are what, TJ?
Not very a handful? Yeah, a couple. Not a whole lot. Joker, obviously. Draymond Green, I think Gilbert Arenas was a second-round pick.
It's Not a long list. And it's an even shorter list for the end of the first round. It's pretty much lottery guys who matter, which is why you need to kind of just, you know. flatten this out so it's You don't want, I don't know. I don't know what the fix is for tanking.
It's got to be financial. I don't know what it is, but there's enough smart people in the room to figure out what some sort of percentage of a cat and an apron and this, that, the other thing that fans don't even care about. Your personal TV goes down.
Something, let's figure it out. Let's figure it out. Because fans are not going to pay attention to or spend a single second about. The finances and the way a team gets built, and a cap, this, that, the other thing. They just won't.
But a fan will have to figure out it's a simple thing. You want fans to be invested in the draft, you want them to be watching. The NCAA tournament. In the same way. that we watch the N CAA met you know, football scene.
Mm-hmm. I see that kid. I see him at the combine. I see him here. I see him there.
I want him. I want him for my team. I kind of dig that guy. I think it's great.
Now, I understand the NBA has an issue as well that you're a die-hard fan. You can't wait. You're watching the NCAA tournament. You're seeing this kid on Arizona, this kid on Michigan, this kid on fill-in-the-blank. And then all of a sudden, it's somebody who plays in some Serbian league you've never seen for a split second.
And it's just like, I'm supposed to be excited about that guy. I've never heard of him. I don't even know how to pronounce his name. I'll go to YouTube to see his stats. I mean, to see his his His highlights.
You know, like, so that, but the one thing you definitely need as a buy-in is this fan to know: do I have a draft choice or do I not? Yeah. And this is just as beyond confusing as you possibly can get, but they also do understand the sport better the hell than I do. And if this one of these things works. Then they're going to have to really explain it to a fan or really care.
You know, and you want to have a lottery in the NFL. Give me a break. This is. At least the NFL is just like, you are slotted here. That's it.
You have this record. If it's the same as someone else's record, it's now down a head-to-head, and we know exactly where we're slotting you in the draft. The second the season's over, and fans can look at the draft order and go, that's it. Period. The only thing that's confusing is this Jimmy Johnson chart.
That he created about the value of draft choices and what this value is a point system here, and that value is a point system there, and that's why it's a first and a third, and that's why if it's a pick swap in the fourth round, it actually benefits this team or not. Fans don't care about that, but it comes out in the wash of: I am now a fan of a team that is. X number on the clock. And I don't have a draft choice in this round, or we have a higher draft choice. It's so simple, it's so cut.
And dried And if you think a team is tanking at the end of the day, To try and get a better draft choice in the NFL. That's just not happening because there's always a 50th, a 45th man, a 40th man on the roster that is dying to make the most of an opportunity. He just does not get. And week 16, week 17, week 18 in the NFL. The general manager of the Raiders might be telling Max Crosby, you're benched because we need to not only keep you healthy, but we need to get a shot at that number one overall pick.
And at the end of the day, the Raiders won a game anyway. But that's still tanking, though, right? It might still be, it's tanking, but you cannot tank, you cannot tank in the NFL. You can take players off the field. That I give you the best chance to win and call that tanking, but there's always gonna be 10 guys on a team.
At the bottom of the roster, That are dying for this opportunity and know that if it's not for this team, they're gonna put something on tape for another one. Yeah, the poster boy is Joe Milton. Perfect. I know we have our fun with you about that. That is.
The Patriots were trying to lose by having him out there, and he won the game. He won the game for us. Because the Bills were also trying to lose. And also, if you're putting on your 50th through your 53rd man on the roster, there's a reason that they're that low, too. Right, but they're always going to ball out, and they might make a play in a game that costs you.
I mean. Really? and at the end of the day it might work out for you. You know? It might work out for you.
I understand we go back and forth about Bryce Young and we go back and forth about. you know, uh C.J. Stroud or whatever. But remember Lovey Smith's last breath spat at the Houston Texans was to win a game at the end of the day, and they wound up drafting second overall. And they got Stroud over Young, who's actually come on strong now.
But the fact of the matter is. That at the end of the day, Lovey Smith maybe didn't hurt the Texans. and the team he helped the most is the Bears. Because the Bears are the ones who got the Carolina Panthers to fight on that pick. And take it.
And now here's Caleb Williams. Who's the Iceman getting sued by George Gervin? Oh, really? George is apparently not after. George is not after not being sued.
He's ice man. But you see what I'm saying? Like, the NFL should never go to a draft lottery. My point about the lottery is that the NFL likes to eventize things. And the night, multiple nights that could be eventized around a lottery, I think could be huge.
It's on par with how the draft is now a huge event and the schedule release and the kickoff. Guess what? You know what? The NFL doesn't need a draft lottery to eventize is because the playoffs are eventized enough, and this is a simple way to handle it, and they don't have. They don't have a membership.
That needs to be Brought to bear. By a construct like a lottery, because there's not a tanking problem in the NFL. No, it's not a load management problem. There's not at all. The NBA has some memberships that need to be.
Pinned in because they're not to be trusted. Competitively. That's true. And so you got to create a lottery.
Okay. You got it. And now that lottery is becoming more confusing. You're in a lottery because you know you got a ticket to win it. Mm-hmm.
Could you imagine if you buy a Powerball ticket? And it's like, well. Those numbers. For you. The odds are different because you're X, Y, and Z, and you traded away your right to do that.
It's a simple thing, a powerball. Do I have the numbers or not? And at the end of the day, you have the numbers in the NBA, but it's on a list of like 15 pages of number possibilities because of odds and this and that. And now the NBA's answer to tanking is to make it far more difficult for fans to understand it. Think of the conspiracy theories.
The NFL had a lottery, TJ. How would they rig it for the Giants?
So, Brock, how would they rig it for the Chiefs? Remember last year, you and I brought up the fact that we thought that maybe the NFL should do a lottery just on the bottom four or five. Four. And we got smashed. We got crushed online.
But I still agree. If you had four teams, right, with the four worst records, and you put them in a little tumbler, you pull them out, you know how many millions of people would watch? I agree with you on that sense about having the NFL has it right.
Sometimes. It's just best to be leaving it alone, even though the NFL never seems to be able to leave anything alone anymore in your part. You're right. And part of that is also Roger Goodell, the minute he took over, is just like the way we've done things, I want everyone to look at it a different way. And they keep on changing and changing and changing.
But certain things don't need to be changed and the draft is one of them, and I believe the NFL feels that way for a reason. Look at that draft night. It is now a draft of Palooza. They're going from town to town to town. And towns are now bidding on it like it's a Super Bowl because it is significant.
Don't touch it. You're saying don't move it. Don't. Do a thing with it, and the NFL isn't for a reason. And the last thing it should do is: let's make it more like the NBA.
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And that trade that was unofficial is now not happening. The trade being Max Crosby for two first Round draft choices and all that money you just spent, John Spytech. As the general manager of the Raiders on the first day of the free agency window being open to have the conversation, all that money you spent. Mm-hmm. Guess what?
Gotta tack Max Crosby's salary.
Now, on top of all that.
So, John Spy Tech, this is a podcast that the Raiders threw out there. Talking to our oh. Longtime friend, I believe Die Hard, fellow diehard Yankee fan, JT the Brick. I was asking him about all this and this is what he told the brick. My relationship with Mac since I've gotten here has been great.
You know, we had a lot of conversations throughout the season, at the end of the season, obviously. Through the offseason, and obviously, we were presented with a challenging and difficult decision to make. You know, things have a way of going a certain way and working out the way that they're supposed to and You know, we welcome them. Like he never left, because he really never did. And it's exciting to see him work hard and attack the rehab, like we know.
And I know. You know, he's going to be back ready to rock in August this year and have a bunch of many good years ahead of him still. What do you think? Put him on sodium pentothol. Is that the guy who's going to hold on to him?
That it's like he never left and there's no reason to call them up because he's theirs. Yeah, your name. No. I'd call the Raiders. I would too.
He can be had still. You gotta come correct though with two ones, don't you? What are you gonna sit here and say just because the Ravens bolted? I think the price has come down all of that. I don't know about that.
He gets closer to being healthy with with time. You get a better sense? Yesterday's price ain't today's price. Exactly. Hello.
Hmm. You wouldn't call him? Of course. Cowboys can't now. But you've got Rashawn Gary now.
Yeah, but we can't call them anyway, though. Because our doctor was one of the people that looked at his niece.
So that would look really weird. No, that would look really weird. But it was the independent doctors that looked at him. Two. Yeah, but like to have our guy, Dr.
Cooper, in there and him being one of the premier doctors in the league, apparently, and for him to say no, then you turn around and be like. I don't know. I think that that might look a little suspicious, but I'm okay with it if it got a Smack Crosby. It just, what is real and what is not, right? Yeah, we're still.
How many independent doctors were there? Yeah, was it Dr. Vinnie Boombats? Or you're using again the Rodney Dangerfield fake doctor name, Dr. Vinnie Boombats, right?
You know, right now, but last week I was a colleague. Or, you know, people think it's like those doctors didn't exist. It's cold feet. There was a podiatrist and a thermometer, and it was cold. You know?
The MD's Raven's MD is named Webb. That's interesting. Webb. You know what I mean? Do you know what doctor it was, though?
What?
Well, old Dr. Jones with my rubber gloves is going to make sure every one of them is safe. That's why I'm like, he's going to be in June, he's going to be healthier. Healthier than he was now I don't know, man. And the Cowboys doctor clearly looked at him enough for them to go, how about a one?
And a th a three, or how about a one and odigizua? And then how about just a one and a two? What about Crosby for A. J. Brown straight up?
Oh, my God Why would AJ Brown say yes to that? Yeah, that don't make sense. Mendoza, Brock Bowers, Ash Gengenti, Vegas Brady revamped offensive line. Tom Brady's there. Oh, there's reasons to want to play for the Raiders.
Be a part of something new? State sales tax is considerably low. I don't know. Pennsylvania is not that high. I don't know.
He wants to. But that's a how it moves, isn't it? Um Sure. I'm sure he's looked at the knee too. Unless Crosby is a raider for life.
And that's the end of that.
Well, he is marked for life. Let's go. That was Jay Felly. Yeah. Let's go to the weekend.
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