Hour 4: Aaron Judge's legacy

0:00Shot clocks, big shots, upsets, aces, TGL playoffs are here. First, Atlanta Drive starts their repeat run against Los Angeles Golf Club, then Rory's Boston Common Golf and Tigers Jupiter links face-off in their playoff debuts. Who will advance? Keep up, it's playoffs. Tune in Tuesday, March 17th at 6.30pm and 9pm only on ESPN and the ESPN app. This is the TPH Rowan in Rothenburg podcast. Let the wild rump is begin! Listen live weekday mornings from 6.10am on 880 ESPN in New York, the ESPN New York app and on YouTube by subscribing to the ESPN New York YouTube channel. This is TPH Rowan in Rothenburg. Mel Piper! Mel, you know what I do when I miss you? I actually keep a fat free whipped cream in the refrigerator as like, you know who I miss? Mel, I walk over that refrigerator, I squirt that whipped cream right my mom. I got crumb cake, pumpkin pie, brownies, it goes with anything. Just use them alone, it's up to stand alone if you want it that way as well. You've eaten balls of whipped cream in the past though?

1:00Oh god yeah. Yeah. This is TPH Rowan in Rothenburg. I love that. On ESPN New York. Extreme live on YouTube. Nice Raymond, well done, could you imagine this guy? What an animal. He's eaten balls of whipped cream. He loves it. Tell, come on, that is, that is strange. I mean you go to a big or a lose, you have the slog, don't you? Do I, no? I mean I'll put the slog on, something I'm not able to do. You need the slog? I have a little bowl of slog. How about this now? How about this? What? My mother-in-law's birthday. March 15th. Yep. I'll be in Florida. They're all going out without me. How about that? What are you bringing to the table anyway? Are you kidding me? Stop. I'm fun, I'm entertaining, I bring levity, I bring great stories, I bring a lot. Are you that upset? Yes, I love looogers. Oh, they're going to looogers, you didn't say they're going to looogers. Yeah, they're going to looogers without me.

2:00Oh, that's tough. Yeah. Oof. Are you going, you know, Sherry gonna be with you or no? So Alex has school, can't live him for a week, so I'm going for four days and when I come back, she's going for the remaining four days. Okay, so they're gonna sneak the looogers in when Sherry's looogers is gonna be snuck in when I'm away, not when Sherry's away, yeah. Is this a long island looogers? Yep. Or maybe I swing by. You should. They'd have to see you. I've done some, I'm a journalist, we all know that, and I just, we know it's my job. So I've done some investigative investigative work for us, turns out, okay, Nanagini in this gentleman, also 96 years old, are not, you know, they're not, no. The relationship has not been consummated. Well, here's the thing, and this was mentioned on the phone call, because of hips, not because of hips or any prosthesis, apparently he has his own, got a side piece for that.

3:04Wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, really, oh, yeah. So this guy, this really man that's, that's figured out the meaning of life here, is having a side piece for that, and then a, like, a relationship that doesn't incorporate that over on the side. Yep. It's got the sexual relationship and the emotional relationship, yeah. Wow, that's all the fun stuff you find out, you know, wow, oh, yeah, this guy's, I guess in some ways he's living the dream, right, and Nanagini's okay with it, she's fine. Well, listen, I, that's not what I would choose, I don't think is what you would choose, but if, if all adults involved in this, certainly our adults are signing off on this, then everyone wins. Yeah, I guess so. Email from Clay, he says, you tell that little nugget RJ that these emails better stay, not that you'll ever read mine, you diaper, he likes the emails, he calls you a diaper guy coming

4:09back. I don't know if this is the diaper guy or this is one of the diaper guys, but he's angry at both RJ and me, RJ, people that I like that you tried to kill the emails, I didn't try to kill them. I just, yeah, you did. I took inventory of where we're at, because here's the thing. I, I think the emails are entertaining, but they cause real damage sometimes. You know what? If somebody's feelings being hurt is part of the process, then that's what has to happen, but it's, there's feelings being hurt and then there's outrageous attacks. It's not seen some of those emails, yeah, it's not typically somebody, it's like some buddies or it's like somebody ever, you know, a few weeks, well, too bad. That's what happens. And what you've done here is you've encouraged it. You want people to know that. No, that's not true. I want people to be themselves. If being yourself means that you take nasty shots at someone on the show, then that's what you do. If being yourself, as you say, really complimentary, nice, loving things, then so be that. Whatever it is, I'm here for it and Rick is here for it. And you tried to kill it, RJ. I did not try to kill it.

5:11I just took inventory of where we're at. I had Rick said we should get rid of the emails altogether. You don't think that would have been a groundswell to get rid of them? I'm not sure. That was the point of the question. Let's see where we're at. I'm not sure I believe that. Rick doesn't see it as a problem, so we move forward. There was not your finest moment. I mean, it wasn't man-making love to a dead animal moment, but it was not your finest moment. I don't think love was mentioned, by the way. Well, whatever it was, it was disgusting and probably shouldn't have been written. I think what RJ's done now is going to end up backfiring on him, though. I think people are going to start attacking RJ. Exactly right. Yeah. As you've seen already. Aaron Judge was on Mac if the yesterday. He was asked about the importance of this Team USA baseball. Is there a difference between being captain of Team USA? And I'm just telling you one thing before we've even played this. I haven't heard the sound. If he somehow says it's right there, equally important or Team USA is more important. Captain of the Yankees, Yankees fans will lose their minds.

6:11You can roll your eyes. I mean, why though? Because they will. But why are we pretending like that if you weren't Aaron Judge and you were named Captain of the US team, it wouldn't mean just as much as being captain of the Yankees. RJ, and I know you've heard it, so it's really not fair, but if he says being Team USA captain matters more than being captain of the Yankees, would that not annoy you? Maybe a little. It's Captain of the nation's team. I'm just telling you, I know the Yankees fan. They would be very upset. Anyhow, let's take a listen. Is there a difference between being captain of Team USA and the Yankees? For me, it's going to stay the same. I've got a chance to play for the best franchise in all sports with the Yankees. The guys that come in and out of those doors are some of the best of the best. MVP, PSY Young winners, everything. Same with this room. PSY Young winners, World Series champs, MVP's. My job's the same. I've got to get the best out of everybody in that room. How I can help you elevate your game, anything I can do if the talk, if it's us sitting in the cage, us talking on the field, whatever I got to do to elevate your game to help us win, that's what I'm going to do. So it doesn't matter if you're from Cincinnati, the Dodgers, Miami, whatever I got to do to help

7:15you be your best for the next two or three weeks, like I'm going to do it. So a couple things. A, I think Yankees fans will not love that, that he looks at that and says, no, no, it's the same. And B, he sounds like a great, a great leader. Hey, didn't say it was the same, but he said he's going to approach it the same. Yeah, that's, that's, that's completely different. There's a different answers. He didn't, he didn't say which means more to me, just said his approach is going to be the same. And by the way, if Yankees fans does get mad at that, that, that one of those Yankees fans that just wants to be mad, why don't you get to answer that question any better? That's a great answer. I was going to say, if you let me finish my thought, well, no, but you put words in his mouth before you finished your thought. I put words in his mouth. I miss her what he said then. Put words in his mouth. What's he going to say is he sounds like the absolute perfect captain of any team, whatever I can do to help you be the best version of you. I mean, it's exactly what you want to hear from a captain. What? He's a unicorn, man. Seriously? Unicorn. And they almost lost him. Right. But like, I mean, he's saying, you're paying him $40 million, which is an unbelievable bargain

8:15right now. Mm-hmm. Do you understand how hard it is to be the player that Aaron Judge is and also have the ability to give other people your time mentally and physically? No. Like that's every coach is that that's every coach is perfect storm. Right. So you worry about him none as far as off the off the field concern. Nope. You worry about him none as far as a locker room leader. You worry about him none as far as producing on the field day in and day out. You're right. I mean, he really is like the unicorn. He's the perfect embodiment of a leader and a player that you could possibly want in any sport. I he is every coaches dream that the best that the best player on the team, the best player in the sport is also willing to take on that leadership role where he's not just like a lead by example guy. He leads by example. If you need to hit in the cage with him, he's like, he is concerned about you being your

9:16best. The quote that he uses is so uplifting, and I'm not even a Yankees fan, but you hear it. You want to root for this guy. I need to bring out the best in everyone like I need to figure out how if you're Miami or Cincinnati, wherever you're from to make you the best version of yourself. So he's got to worry about facing the best pictures in the world, and he'll succeed at a very high level because he's just that great. And oh, by the way, I have to figure out a way to make everybody the best version of themselves also. Yeah. I mean, God bless him. It's, it's, it's why, it's why he is who he is. And he does, he makes it hard. As much as I hate the Yankees, I, I root for Aaron judge. I do. I don't know how you couldn't, ah, he's an easy guy to root for. He does all the right things. I mean, he plays, he plays hard every time he's on the field. He's awesome. He's a great leader. I mean, he's a great face to your franchise. He's a great face to the, I mean, he's a great face to the sport. He's a freak show athlete. Right. I mean, it's, he's got everything and, and he's like abnormally enormous that you're drawn to him. Like he, you're right. He has absolutely everything.

10:19So I, again, I mean, I think as far as I'm concerned, it, I'll actually be aggravated. If we got a call from a Yankee fan that's upset about that answer, I don't, like, I wasn't expecting, here's the thing. I wasn't expecting anything less from him. I wasn't expecting an answer that would be so just like moving though. Well, but that's, I mean, again, you can't fake it. Right? I mean, there are, like, you can't fake being that kind of leader guy. See right through that. Like, that's, like, that's genuinely how he feels. Yeah. I mean, and that's why he's so likable. That's, that's why even someone that to test the Yankee's like me, I can hear that and be like, man, I wish I had this guy in my team. Right. Like, I mean, I'm a player. That I'm like, if you hurt Bryce Harper the other day, talk about it. They asked him. I think it was on, it was on McAfee, too. It's like, I couldn't wait to have like, there's only one, there's only one choice for Captain. It's Aaron judge and I can't wait to share a club also with him. Like that's, that's how he's viewed around the, yeah, around, like, and all that being said, if he doesn't wind up winning a world series, Yankee fans will, we'll crush him. I Yankee fans will not put him into the character to be the mantle, the Maris, the Ruth,

11:23the Demagio, the Ford, the Berra, because he's not able to win. Mind you, I would say probably the least impact you have in any of the major sports is probably baseball. Yeah. I would agree with that. I mean, not, not football quarterback maybe is up there, too, right? Quarterback is, is vitally important. Well, but that's why the quarterback wins, that, that's why the quarterback wears the wins and the losses. Right. And, and gets paid. No one talks about it. Right. That's not, you're not, like, you're not going to take Barry Sanders off the list of great. No, no one says, well, Joe Thomas was one of the great left tackles in football history, but the guy never did anything, right? Right. So it's, I mean, it's the quarterback in the NFL is the quarterback in the coach, basketball you play both sides of the ball. So it's the best player. I mean, the best player is going to wear that and then basketball, it's, it's minute, right? The amount of players you have is, it's nothing. It's right. Right. You're one of five. Right. Baseball, you're one of nine. So you get up, like a little more than 10% of the time, 11% of the time. Well, you know, how many plays you're going to make in a game?

12:23If you're highly impactful, defensive, you're going to make what, five plays and offensive of you're going to be involved, five, five, that bet. Maybe. So I mean, I think that, and again, I keep going back to this because it actually frustrated me when I heard people try to explain what Aaron Judge was saying, like the whole idea of the way he was asked the question about Cody Belinger and he's like, well, no, no, he's, no, he's happy because they got Cody Belinger back and he believes in this team. That's not, that's not what he said. Yes, he's happy that Cody Belinger is back, but he thought it was going to be Cody Belinger and he want to train Christian back and he wanted the team to come back, but he wanted to add to it because I don't think there's a lot of people that thought watching that Yankee's team at the end of last season, even with all the additions of the trade deadline, when they played Toronto and got killed, thought they were good enough to win a championship. It would be a real shame if they never helped him get a title. Like I don't care if you have to trade, you know, Spencer Jones or the Minges or who's going to help me over the next, who's going to help me over the next three years?

13:24Yeah, you have a small window now. He's going to be 34 years old in a couple of months, a couple of months. Not to mention the fact that baseball may miss time next year. I think it's more than they might feel like you could burn through, I mean, you can have burned through half of another year of his, of his best baseball. Right. And what would you say realistically three, maybe four if you're lucky? Maybe, yeah, I mean, maybe I don't know. And then they didn't do every single thing in their power to try to win a World Series with this guy and for this guy. Well, you know what they'll say to though, they'll go back to how he played when they got to the World Series. Well, it's his own fault. They had one soda. They got there, please. They weren't, they weren't as good as the Dodgers. They lost in five games. I got to think at a quiet moment like when he's had, we don't blame, we don't blame the manager of the decisions though, right? In game one, we're just going to blame judge for not getting it done. Well, right. But that's again, I mean, that's, that's who's going to, that's who's going to bear the brunt of this. Not winning is going to be him. Farer unfair.

14:24That's, which is totally, but it goes back to the quarterback, right? It goes back to the dominant NBA player. They're always going to get the blame. Well, even like you heard the question, the other day to make David, right? It's just to get the question was, was preferences? Yeah, Gretsky did it. Messy, I did it. All these guys did it. How can you can't do it? Right. Champions is fine. Great players. How can we haven't found one yet? Oh, I don't know because I'm up against, I mean, look at my team, look at my goalie and I'm going against the, the Panthers every year. By the way, it's not like he, he got bouncing in four games. He went to a game seven of the Stanley Cup Final. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I won the cons smith on a losing team. Jack wagons. Yeah, that's, that's rough. Let's go to, um, you know what? Let's, is it Nas RJ? Is that he said the name? That's correct. Nas in Pinebrook. It's her birthday. Happy birthday, Nas. Thank you, James. Hold on, I gotta take you off speaker fold. Okay. Since it's your birthday, we won't yell at you for that. But I'm sure RJ told you no speaker. He did, but I'm in the car. Just kind of a CT scan, so I'm just in the car. Um, anyway, I'm, well, yeah, well, I don't know yet.

15:25I'm hoping that everything works out good. It's my birthday, so I hope it's going to be fine. Good, it's going to be great. So I'm calling because, um, it's my birthday and for my birthday, I wanted to maybe show appreciation for everything that brings me joy. And you guys, I, I wake up in the morning with you every day. And, um, I have a birthday. I have to have two, actually. Um, one is for you guys to pay the pew-pews for me because I want to record them and make them my text message. Okay. When people, um, call me, uh, it was, for a long time, it was the RJ, you know, when you would yell for RJ, you stopped doing that. I don't know. You left it away with him, right? Well, you know what it is. He's too quick now. Like, when I, when I, my first RJ, I don't have, I don't have time. He's, he responds so quickly. I don't have time to get a second RJ out. Anything in my way. I do. Right to the side. Boom, boom, boom. Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I've been texted, like in a public space and people just look over because it's like, RJ, RJ. But I had a new phone and I lost that audio. And now I'm obsessed with the pew-pews,

16:26so I'm going to make that nice. All right. Well, you know, you know what we'll do when, when we say goodbye to you, start to record like 30 seconds after and we'll have RJ go on a full tour of the pew-pews, so you have something for your phone. Is that fair? Is it birthday present to you? That sounds fair. And then I have another ask. So I have a list of favorite, like palms to the temple sports moments. You're my spirit animal, Dave. My husband calls me the Vita sometimes because I'm obsessed with sports and I'm the only person in my house that is obsessed with sports. I watch every single thing and the only difference between your and I is that, you know, I'm Dory from Nemo and you're like a Russell Crowell from a beautiful mind and you remember everything. And one of my favorite sports moments involves Peyton Manning. And I remember seeing it. I don't remember who they were playing against, but it was forced down in the end zone and they called out the kicking team and he literally send the kicking team back to the sideline.

17:30I had never seen anything like that before in my life where a quarterback, he literally said to our coach, no, I'm not kicking it, I'm going for it. And then he threw a touchdown pass. Do you remember that place? I don't. I wish I did. I'm sure somebody listening to those and can shoot over some information, but I don't remember that play. So they wanted to bring me feel a little unit on and he said, no, you stay off the field. I'm going to work that way. And Peyton Manning was like, no, he literally shoot them away. Yeah, I don't remember that. I was going to fight his coach and then threw to my bluer's Harrison. And I was like, I literally put my perfect, I'd never seen a quarter back to five coach like that. I mean, like, you know what? And then make the play. Yeah, it was one of the most beautiful things I ever seen. So it's on my list. Well, it's not as happy birthday. I hope you have a healthy, certainly happy, happy birthday. Give 30 seconds. Start the recording. And Ard is going to go through the full gamut of Pupues. Okay. Yay. Thank you so much. I love you guys so much. Thank you. I think you couldn't say happy birthday nods at the end there. Well, you kept talking.

18:31I was going to say happy birthday. I mean, it's a birthday. She loves to show it again. I know she loves to show happy birthday nods. And I'm hopeful fingers crossed not going with it's a birthday that the whole CT scan turns out great. And then you know, you can be Dave spirit animal. You get nervous in the in the CT tube? CT no. No. No MRI. Well, full body MRI. Sometimes I get a little bit sketchy. Yeah, because I don't fit. I don't fit well in it. It's amazing that they haven't figured out a better way to do the MRI tube. Well, they have the open air one, but sometimes I get stuck in the closed one. Those are scary. Yeah, but then I get when I got to go head first in it. I don't like it. Head first in it is scary. And then you're, yeah, it's very, very, and then the noise. Oh, that, you know, by something in the noise, it's like when you look up and it's right there in your face. It's right there in front of you. RJ, for, for nods, can we go on a tour of the Pupues and she can report them away? Like, Pupu right to the side. Pupu, Pupu, Pupu. Pupu, Pupu, Pupu.

19:40So, nods is a big time listener. I believe Pupu two. What's her favorite. Huh? What's Pupu two? But just in case we got them all in there. That's my favorite and then my other favorite is I like when I just rattle off That's why I said that's my second favorite No the other one the last like like the real fast That's not aggressive. Oh, there's the automatic one to that That's my second favorite It's a it's a 50 year old man This man has two children. Yeah. Yeah. That's right Give enough finger pistols I mean if you think about what just really happened it's a woman I mean we don't really know she's a husband at least you figure 30s at least right probably a woman that just called the show

20:47That said as a birthday gift to me could you play the 50 year old man's finger pistols? Mm-hmm, please Every time you play that one RJ Rick bobs and weeds like he's a boxer like he make sure to get out of the way I can see I can see you down at the Because you move when you do it I think think about what just happened of an adult woman just called it As a request for my my birthday Could you play the the 52 almost 53 year old man's finger pistols? If you've shopped online chances are you've bought from a business powered by Shopify You know that purple shop pay button you see it check out the one that makes buying so incredibly easy That's Shopify and there's a reason so many businesses sell with it Because Shopify makes it incredibly easy to start and run your business

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24:55I got your birthday and then on the same day, I got a big I got a big casino night and I'm What do you mean? I got I got a big portlegic extravaganza. Oh really? Yeah, a little money raising event. Yeah, and I got to do them I'm at the end. I'm a I'm the guy that comes in at the end and has to raise money auctioned off. No, I'm not getting auctioned off I got to raise money. Oh, yeah, you have to you have to please for like listen. Yes, please if you think about what we do here for The kids at portleg and you think about how worthy everyone and like that whole spiel some kind of yeah, I got something. Yeah, you'll do great. I may Actually do it as people start giving me money. I may use the finger pistols to say thank you as a thank you. Yeah, why do you bring some Audio of the finger pistols to the event I'll give 500 500 Over here 350 RJ someone gets like someone gets a thousand is like yeah, you then you then you rattle off some shots RJ

25:55RJ There it is. Oh, you did that on purpose. Yeah, happy birthday. RJ's you ever RJ when you go home at night and you like after you get through the whole like I went to school for this. Do you ever wonder what's wrong with him? Like if you if we started I think we can do a whole show like if someone can't do something today like could you please you know give us the like what Who is Dave and we played the clips that we have a Dave they'd be like this guy it needs to be in an institution. Yeah, but do you ever Get home RJ and be like God and Dave he just he's so talented. You are one of one. I said that before I'll say it again and When you lay out the evidence of your life if I if I just cherry-picked some of the stories that we love to tell here and I told that to Someone and I asked them at the end. So what do you think happened to that person? They were probably big institution maybe jail disappeared and then I would say no because at the top of his profession No, no

26:56Here's what you do RJ you would tell them you would tell them the stories and then you would accompany those stories with some we also have some Some some audio to play to help you with your decision and then you'd play like I love carrots and then some of the animal Sounds and then the finger pistols now now tell us what where do you think this man is and they'd be like locked up in the Cell somewhere I like carrots All right Give me your money He's He's trying Bring it Yeah, that was I did And if this were a situation where that person was like well can I talk to him what can I learn from him nothing you can't be him so don't Try don't try anything he does hey but soon you get going

27:58But is that what you want RJ I want song you want like cookie cutter at like radio 101 You You Dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark Objects in dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark So what happened there? The giant's want a football game that's right here's one with a giant's lost a football game Parker Romo He can make every kick Joel Pinyaro He can make or whatever his name is Freddie Pinyaro whatever Pinyaro's name is I don't know his name Intense contract negotiation going on with Joel Pinyaro now and Freddie so is that you know what I can change my ways and just be Cookie cutter morning show No, I can sing this if you'd like Let's hear something I don't know what that Bring all your Johnson's Show that you will go with too how's the football eat throws is it nice is it spy really

29:04Top of his profession That was the cocaine bear Well puffer fish that was not the cocaine bear How do we get puffer fish? This was the cocaine bear have you seen this cocaine bear Yeah, but what happens to the cocaine bear no Well RJ Yes Yeah, we can try Sure, no Oh, that'll be one one John asked what happened to the clock. I'll just have to play it for you like you'll understand yeah

30:04Alrighty, I'm not taking the blame for that by the way. No, you should Rick you mentioned kind of a David getting help well they got another counter kind of Murphy So that should do it in a trade with the black box and maybe that puts you on top did they get a goalie? No I did that so Columbus Blue Jack it's that a four goal lead and then they gave it away and then they beat the Rangers 5 for at the garden Take away from this is the Vinny Tro check discussion is heating up as a 12 team no trade list including all the teams out west So he ain't going out there did you hear what his sunset always this is I was gonna bring this up This is one of the great quotes ever. God. No, you tell them So I guess they had he had the discussion with his family like does a chance that I'm gonna get moved gonna get traded And I guess his son said all right. Well, you know good luck Then what we're gonna move as a family. Well, I'm not going. I got hockey. I got hockey. I didn't get traded So his son does not and that is such a good quote. Yeah, I didn't get traded you got traded I got should I have to go I have my team here. I didn't get traded. Yeah, good luck in Minnesota. Right. I'm gonna hang out here. Let me know how it is

31:11Listen, we have priorities Also should tell you Hillary night of TV USA and the women's side hockey played with torn MCL in the Olympics Wow hockey player Today at four o'clock that is your tag deadline and the NFL so obviously keeping an eye on British all transition tag That's 11.3 million dollars franchise tag 14 point. What do we have so far pickings? And that's it and culpets Pits right Commanders there releasing corner Marshawn Latimer Kaleel Max says he will play in 2026. He's 35 years old and he's a free agent Yannis was back last night missed almost six weeks. He played for the box He scored 19 points and they lost to the Celtics Try young he's going to make his debut long awaited with the Wizards on Thursday But before that last night he was ejected from the sideline for going up to a ref during a dead ball and having words of them Manscott tubes number one team in the country Duke. They clinched an ACC title. They smashed NC State Number two team in the country that's Arizona. They clinched the big 12 title with a win over a nice one By the way over number six Iowa State

32:11Women's college hoops. You can't remains unanimous number one now surprise heading into the tournament I had a UCLA in South Carolina and we talked about this earlier Logan What going to get the ball four game one of the world-based ball classic for team USA they take on Brazil on Friday Web will be followed game two Terrick Scooble. That's against Britain fall schemes gets the ball game three against Mexico And Nolan McLean so long as he's not sick, which is right now. He will pitch game four for team USA There you go When was the last time you felt in control of your business finances expenses tracked invoices sent taxes ready That's where found comes in found brings your banking bookkeeping invoicing and taxes together in one simple app Manage expenses invoice clients send payments and prep for tax time right where you bank join the hundreds of thousands Who have already streamlined their finances with found open a found account for free at found.com That's f-o-u-n-d.com found as a financial technology company not a bank banking services provided by lead bank member FD I see quick time out some breakfast until you want to know about Kodiak frozen power waffles and flap jacks are built for busy mornings

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35:18He wanted to have those little boots and took a picture together very nice. Oh, I don't very nice. What are you talking about? Yes, I sit on your lap. Oh, oh, yeah, that one. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have What we're doing we're doing show pictures next week Oh, very nice very nice. You lost some weight. You look nice Yeah, boy, where the where the hats where the hats why not yeah, that would be nice if we were the hats So what do you got on your mind? The law baseball classic I'm Colombian You're right. They there's some teams that why are you in this thing? Chachia the countries you mentioned if you told a hundred Colombians Would you take getting embarrassed in this thing by but say there was a 10 run rule and after 10 runs you lose every game Or you get to the knockout run in the world cup A hundred out of a hundred. Don't give you that knockout, right? Of course, but of course Then they're never getting soccer is way more popular than baseball

36:20Yeah, they're just I don't understand how they like right. How do they get these teams at least in the world cup You know, there's woke up qualifiers is there a world baseball classic qualifier there must party Yeah, I do think they have woke up qualifying We're baseball classic qualifying Uh, and before I go um, I've been burnt at an army game like sunburn and october bucket hat gave yourself a nice Big blue meal giant. I have a hat I have a bucket hat I did not realize that in February when the weather has been so miserable that in 52 degree weather I could get sunburned That happened to me in october I understand what happened to you at the army game. I did not realize it. It will not happen again All right, all right, goodbye And that's it How do great bad boys you as well, but um apparently so the qualifying round for the this year's world baseball classic was held

37:26on um from february february 21st of march 6th 2025 Raymond did some Investigative work and he said columbia want to pull with brazil germany and china to qualify but didn't brazil make it anyway Top two make it in each pool. Oh god The other pool was nikad augwad chinese to pay and spain and south africa. Yeah That was like germany made it cannot can I bring it up an idea and I think you'll agree with me um on air Uh, yeah, I love ideas. So when we do pictures next week I don't think it should just be me and you I think right or they should be involved in the pictures. That's up. I'd love to have them the photo At least something of the two of them even I agree some some without us and then some with us Well, I want them to use the pictures of them with us. Okay Aren't you happy in photos next week? I don't think I should be in the photos. Why people love you John just said I don't think so either We have our answer. We know. Yeah, there you go

38:29I wish there's our answer. There's your answer. I wish they felt about you guys the way we feel about you guys. Yeah I don't like it. Well, we said John. We want you to be like oh, no, I don't promise. That's right He'd be like oh, I can do the picture better than you guys. All right, of course. I'm so great in pictures I don't want to update you in the pictures. That's John if he wants to take the pictures If he wants to take a picture we'll let you wear Disney ears in the picture will you take it John said he'll be he's going to be directing the photo shoot nice you if I'd be of RJ dressed up as mini-mouse He would oh my goodness. Why many? All right, I don't even know who you're taking a shot at me mini. It wasn't meant to be you Why couldn't you say something else though? I said mini. All right, if RJ dressed up as dumbball I bet he'd let him in the picture. Why not Mickey could have been Mickey. Yeah Well, you you used Mickey ears for for John so I was going to look different good point Be strange if they dressed up the same way Why being we won't be in the pictures great Frank's that John's obsessed with the Disney the way he's obsessed with it. You think this is just point cruise booked for next year now

39:29I think he because he keeps telling me that these things sell out quickly He needs to be he needs to be on that list. Do you know how how many months he had this cruise that he's going on starting tomorrow booked for I a year no If more than 18 months 18 months I don't know how he does it eight And I said it's cool with your kids missing school He goes well, it's not great. I said did you not realize 18 months ago your kids would be like in actual school 18 months. That's all come on. That's all semantics. That doesn't matter. No first grade. Come on He's in it for the experience who else who else Doesn't want to be on a Disney cruise all the time That's I mean, that's who he is. It's who he is um speaking of who you are you're you're I find you to be a really good reader Wow a really good reader of of live reads type praise. Yeah, well All right, well, I don't want to let you down here. So basketball fans

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41:32Seven o'clock devils welcome the panthers to the rock and it seven o'clock also St. John's host George town At the garden our dear wrote some nasty stuff about that St. John's will probably win Yes, and seven thirty nicks visit the raptors and the nets are in Miami taking on the heat And that's game time brought to you by tell them or do the original triple distilled triple blended triple Casement shirt Irish whiskey be sure to grab a tell them or do or try the new tell them or do honey during today's action Glasses up to enjoying tell them or do Responsibly eight hundred nine one nine three seven seven six. Um, let's go to Steven Is it gossian or go-shan? Do you have any idea? I don't I don't go-shan go-shan. I'm told it's even go-shan. Hi, Steve Yeah, I'm the guy who saw RJ at the restaurant and kind of stalked him RJ you were stalked by Steven in go-shan. Oh Yeah, this is last year. Good guy. Hey, yes, it wasn't interesting, but go ahead. What's going on? All right, so I just got back from Mexico, uh, and I'm I was talking to some Toronto fans

42:33Tommy Yankee fan and they obviously were busting my chops a bunch But they had this take that I thought was insane and I want your opinion on it. Mm-hmm They said that Anyone outside the New York market thinks that Aaron judge is a whiny beef Is that right? I never heard anything like that Right. Oh, why need be about what? like About getting walked too much like like Stuff like that now listen, we're in the New York market. This is just that this is for the proof of why I don't like Canada I'm with you know, you know, Steve they they are competing with Aaron judge So they don't like him, but instead of just respecting him and saying we we beat Aaron judge in the Yankees They have to take it to that. I don't I haven't heard that you were based in New York, but I haven't heard anything like that And you hate the Yankees and you respect him though, right? I love I don't respect him. I I love Aaron judge Joy, I mean if anyone in the Yankees you can say is whiny. It's boon. I will I mean I can yeah, you know what if if you ran into these people and they complain if they said I don't like the way jazz chism plays

43:37I could get that Aaron boon being kind of a little bit whiny. I could understand that like complainy certainly But not not judge Hey, let me go. Yeah Can why don't you guys do like the Michael K show did back in the day drop madness your drops are because they they they can steal it from them They do it on the afternoon show well Guys your drops make people laugh out loud. It's embarrassing. I'm driving in my car laughing out loud people are like what is this idiot laughing at? That's drops in sports radio. Oh, well, thank you. Well, we can't and thanks to the call. We can't just steal their their thing Yeah, that's their things right and we want that as RJ brought it to them now. RJ's with us right it should travel with RJ Well, we had host sadness, but we heard too many feelings. We can't do host sadness anymore That's really the problem who do we know who got upset with host sadness? I think it was multiple people they what but why because people don't want to be like don't want to realize or don't want to have

44:40Have the fact that people don't like them is thrown in their face People don't like them. It's a people like other people more than them Which is sometimes a tough pill to swallow. I guess. I thought it was highly enjoyable. I liked it Did you guys happen to see the Hillary night and the Hughes brothers on Fallon? No, get a chance to see that at all. No I just as I was watching the clip this morning and it gave me it gave me goose bumps So they did the whole spiel about you know Jack losing his tooth and maybe this should be his thing and all of that So then Fallon pulls out a letter The Jack wrote to himself like you know, whether do that that exercise like write a letter to your Well, how did Fallon get the letter? I don't know how he got it, but he read it So like Jack didn't even know Jack didn't remember it. So he reads the letter and it's about You know, remember the winners that's where it all started and then you know the effect your brothers had on your life And hopefully I had the similar effect. I hope they have great NHL careers And maybe one day we play on the same team together even better Maybe we play on the Olympics together and on the the Olympic team together in where the gold medal

45:43Wow, as Quinn is the next goal. He was when he wrote that letter. I probably I'm assuming like bright Maybe like as he was getting drafted. Maybe. Okay. All right. So it's not you know, it'd be cool if he was like seven It's right, but I think it was it was probably like listening to it was probably when he got drafted like a writer letter to your You know, you're yourself now as yourself. Yeah, right But how awesome is that sitting next to your brother after you just scored the game winning goal in the in the gold medal game It's amazing. It really is nothing short of amazing. Let's get to Joe and Ocean gate Joe. Hey, how you doing buddy Morning fellas. How are you today good good good Dave? So why you know you're not alone with the whole sunburn thing I went skiing uh for the first time back and I was in high school and it was a seasonable warm day So there was no goggles needed nothing. I think that phrase would be the next seasonably warm not seasonably warm Well, it was I aren't there. You're right. That's why you're the best days unseasonably warm and uh they called me red lobster I was literally fried and everybody else's, you know, pasty white from being a middle of winter um

46:43So the giants and the draft and stuff uh, I'm the I'm a huge fan of sunny styles too. I think he he would be fantastic I mean anyone really that you know loves football. I think I mean are I'm trying not to put expectations Because it's so hard so hard to not have expectations with the with now having you know harbor but To have expectations also means that you could be disappointed too. So um, I just I just Want them to pick you know the best overall player and not really worry about you know um Position because they kind of need help everywhere. All right, so but go here's something that I'm confused with on the screen It says can't you have love at five habit if they determine love to be the best player at five Well now he's gone Like it kind of feels counterintuitive. He says you can't draft love at five and then he comes on the air and he says I just want to take the best player. Well, but if you get the best player right Yeah, I mean I think it's just it's the sake of embarking thing I think it's just you've been down that road before

47:45With the running back and and if if I need like a finishing piece like my defense was really good And my line was good and my receivers and dart and it was like okay This will get them over the top and they could be a championship contending team I could be talked into it. I don't think they're that close to where they need to get to no I know but you're also talking about a team that you think that's going to win a soup bowl in the next five years five years Yeah, right. So I mean he'll like you're getting the best out of him It's not like you're like you're drafting him now and then you don't think you'd be ready to win a soup bowl for seven years Well, my my mindset is the coach quarterback combination is the most important duo in sports And I think the giants have that right now right and it's also it's also trying to get the best out of your quarterback Sure So if you think that's a combination of Kenneth Walker and scataboo and Tyrone Tracy or if you think that Jeremiah You know Jeremiah love is just one of those like just different level kind of players that I can use to run the ball to you know to throw the ball to like Like he's you got to take a great player because you need great players But you should get a great player regardless right and I think I was just reading an article at in in the break

48:46I think Connor Hughes was saying like It's no secret that the giants love sunny styles good I'm glad because that's who I want them to take Raymond hi bring you in with all sunny styles conversation. Yeah, sure. Why not you could wind up being a giant You know most likely yeah, that's gonna pain you isn't it makes me very unhappy good Um, are you ready with the three stars? Yeah, I guess let's go Today's three stars number three. Oh, you may not want the next emails to be around But they will be uh email from clay He says you tell that little nugget RJ that these emails better stay Not that you'll ever read mine you diaper still don't understand the diaper thing number two Rikobal madness because he's full of crap. Yeah, is that what it is. I think so probably uh Rikobal madness is still things slots open. Come see Dave. Be a ball boy. I'll scoot across That's another I'll scoot. I'll be the ball boy of the matches you play in yeah because Rick is in his head I mean you burnt up a little face head on face head rather number one. Oh big update on mana jenny spoken mana jenny yesterday

49:51And she got a boyfriend. Yeah, is that really true? Yeah, she's got a boyfriend. Oh 96 year old man. They met at bingo So he won he's screaming bingo across the facility. She took notice and she's like, yeah, gotta be careful in those facilities though One day she came home. There was a 93 year old man who passed away Unfortunately, he passed away on top of his 90 year old girlfriend Unfortunately, well, we did find out that's not that not that Well physical, I guess is the word you would use mana jenny in this gentleman also 96 years old are not um You know, they're not no, it's a surprise apparently. He has his own Got a side piece for that What yeah 96 years old god bless him and god bless mana jenny. I hope it's a great love for both of them Wow, for a long. That's a nice story. That's a nice. Yeah, that was well done. Yeah uplifting. Oh, it's rule 76 no excuses like a champion. It's DPH or other burger And mana jenny. Yeah, right here on ESPN New York and on YouTube. I mean you burnt up a little face head

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