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Hey here we are welcome everybody

It's the latest edition of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show

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I'm Adam the Bull

I'm back

I'm doing great

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We've got Earl Anthony

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What's up guys

I was something I'm glad to have you back bro

I'm glad to be back

Yeah you got to

I'm glad to be back

I feel good

You know I've already talked about it a little bit

But you know everything's going well

I'm feeling pretty good

My stomach is mostly pain free

There's a little

You know there's a lot of healing

I have

I have incisions here

Here

Here and then a little space here where there was

What do you call it

I don't know they're like a tube in me or

Anyway

It's a mess if you saw my belly

You'd probably be throwing up

A lot of black and blue

And stuff

But I'm healing up nicely

I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow

How many down?

Coming you down

I'm down 37 pounds

In 33 days

Yes go

Congratulations

Thank you

Listen I got a long way to go

I haven't been

You know I'm still

I was 360 pounds

When this began I'm 323 pounds

As of this morning

The last time I was on the show

I think I was 340

So I'm down 17 pounds in 13 days

Cooking

Since the show

And I'm still

Part of the reason I haven't even lost more

Is because I still have swelling in my stomach

Some water weight from

All the fluids they were giving me in the hospital

So anyway I feel good

I had

Yesterday was the first day

I could sort of eat regular food

Although it has to be pure rad

And I had like four ounces of pureed shrimp

And

Marinara sauce

And after four ounces I could dig another bite

Man

It's the best feeling in the world

But it's not kind of disturbing

It was great

I will see

Obviously time may change

How I feel

But they told me after the surgery

Your desires would change

Wouldn't be as hungry

So far that's the case

We'll see if

The idea right now

Eating fattening food

Is nauseating

Don't get to your stomach a little bit

You like

I don't know

I don't want anything grumbled to your stomach

You'd be like

Not even pizza

Not

Yeah

Someday I'll eat pizza again

But not for a long time

I can't have any

What I call

I just use this term

Hard carbs for a long time

Like I can have

Potatoes

Beans

Those kind of even corn eventually

But um

In terms of like bread

And pasta

I can't

I think it's at least three months before I can have that

Those things are very hard

But really I guess

Yeah and it's just

My stomach

The usable part of my stomach

So they don't take your stomach out in this surgery

I think some people have that misconception

I thought they did

I thought they let it cut your stomach in half

And removed

And then some of that

And then some of that

What they do is they take just a portion of your stomach

And the rest of it is kind of rendered useless

Essential

So they kind of close it off

Basically yes

And so they reroute your

Your

Anyway

So my stomach is

Went most

Your stomach is usually the size of a football

And my stomach is now the size of an egg

So that's

So I can't

Obviously I can't digest this

That's why you got a

That's why I have to eat

I have to add the liquids

And now it's the arrays

Because they're worried

And then as I try new foods

You know I could get sick or whatever

So I'm not even eating in the morning at all

I just have a pro

I have a these protein waters

That I have in the morning

Is me 20 grams of protein

And I got to sip my water

I can't

Last night

I forgot for a second

That I have to sip

And I can't like just chug water

And I took like a really big swig of water

And like

I felt kind of

Like I couldn't

Have anything for like

10 minutes

I was really full

Yeah you mess around and then figure it out

You got to get to thimble

Full of water

You can't be

Yeah

Cat by cat

Not so much

Usually

Usually I go through two of these during the show

But now

Because I can only have up to eight ounces

In an hour

And not that you were a drinker

But you know

My brother used to drink prior to this

Yeah

Occasionally

Can't drink any alcohol

And they're just

I'm like

You guys are good people now

Yeah

So anyway

I'm feeling great

I'm thrilled to be back here with you guys

I was thrilled to be back on the podcast

I was bored

Like it wasn't even like I could do anything

Like

I couldn't even

For a couple of days

Over the weekend

I was so losing my mind

Just being on liquids

That I couldn't even like focus on

Just watching TV

I had to watch like

Mineless action movies

Watching like

Jason Statham movies

Just to have something

You know, it's a baseball

Or whatever

The tournament

But I was losing my mind

So I'm thrilled to be back at work

Thrilled to be back with you fans

And it's weird being here at 10 o'clock

Although I like it

Yeah

Although I miss Tivis

And I hope at some point we

He's coming on Thursday

All right good good good

We did on the Tivis front

Yeah

We did our final test

With the system down in Columbus

He will be virtually in on Thursday

For a portion of the show

And we have a really good idea

To make it feel like Tivis

Was sitting right next to us

Yeah

Even though he's in Columbus

That's great

Very excited about that

Because I miss Tivis

And so we'll be happy to have him

On the show and I'll be back

I'm off tomorrow

And then I'll be back Thursday

But so many sports to get to

Hmm

But we got to take a break first

No we don't

We're going to stay

I'm learning

I'm learning

We'll take a break

After our first segment

And our first segment

Is about the Cleveland Guardians

Yeah

Or up to a nice start, fellas

Yeah

And yesterday by the way

If you're watching the podcast

Yesterday

I said

Bet on the Guardians

And I was right

You right

Guardians got it

And actually didn't go the way I thought

I thought it'd be a higher scoring game

But uh

Nice job by the Guardians

And nice job by Parker

Messick

Who really had the best start

Of the five Guardians starters

And it's not close

And historically speaking

I saw a stat from Sarah Lang

Who's the baseball statistician group

Messick now has two

Starts since his debut last year

Where he's gone six score

The settings with two or a few

Or hits allowed

Yeah

Do you know the other two

Pictures in baseball

That have matched

These kind of numbers

It was five hits

You're less

But five strikeouts

No walk six in his pitch

Yeah

Since his debut last

July

Do you know many other pictures

I've done that

Twice

There's only uh

Only two other pictures have done it twice

Cade Horton

Nope

Yo Han Santana

Paul Schienz and Gary Crochet

Wow that's the last

Those three

Yeah

That's it since his debut

They said on the broadcast last night

That he is

Fearless

Yeah

Fearless of any opponent

Any hitter he's going to attack you with his pitches

He's not going to shy away

He's not going to try and pitch around the Otani

The bets to feed the Kyle Tucker

And he attacked L.A.'s lineup

In a way that I don't think a lot of young pictures

Have the cajonays to do

And the results speak for themselves

He gave that first blue pit to Otani

Yeah

Then essentially

Was on cruise control through six innings

And his change up

Well you know I'm not the baseball expert

Like you and Jay and Jason are I understand that

For a young kid to have that command of the change up

In any count

With two strikes

When it's a three old county can slide it in there

His ability to command the change up

Makes him one of the more unpredictable lefties to hit

One of the things about

One of the biggest things about baseball

G

And you play it in high school so you know

It's all about your confidence level

That's a big part of it

All these guys in the majors have talent

You don't get to the major leagues unless you have talent

But it's the guys who believe in themselves

Who trust themselves

Who have that confidence

That makes

You know obviously some guys are more talented than others

It's not just confidence

But confidence in that sport

Because your failure rate in baseball

Is higher than in football

If you're successful 33% of the time in football

You stick

If you're successful 33% of the time in basketball

You stick in baseball

You're great

Yeah

You're successful 33% of the time

So it's just a different animal

And so confidence from players is so huge

I thought they did

When they announced that he was going to be in the rotation

Over Logan Island

I think that bumped him up a little bit

I just like his approach

When he was on the mound

Like the fact that he was

He was working the ball in and out

And the fact that he came

To me the thing that stands out is when he went after

Otani

Right away

And challenged him

And it was just like

Wow this dude is not playing around

Like he has some sneaky stuff

Like he has some

Getty up on the tail end of his fast ball

He doesn't seem like he's throwing that hard

But I was surprised how many late swings

That you looked at the Dodgers

And to be honest with that Dodgers lineup

You thought that would get back in it at some point

But he just kept mowing them down

He was not playing

Now listen K Smith

And listen K

Get it out of your system now

Yeah with little shaky, shaky, shaky

But just messic in general

I think he really did a good job

But you know the first few games

You know it was in sticks got it going

And they were able to get some runs

This game was a nip and tuck

And it was one of those old school

Guardians affair

How many sack bunch did we see

Yeah, yeah, right

How many moving a runner

At least two bunch

Yeah, they were going both three out of a bunch

Right

Back to the messic

Late speed on his fast ball

Whatever I think part of the reason

The Dodgers were so uncomfortable

Is because he can throw the change about any point in the count

So you don't know if you're hitting

You know the 84-mile hour change up

Or the 93-94-mile hour fast ball

He keeps you on your toes like that

And I go back to basketball

Where I'm my bread of butter

Luke and Doncher ain't blown by anybody

But because he's so good at changing pace

He gets past people

Even though his top speed

Ain't 103-mile hour fast ball

He doesn't have the tirey smacks

He had the dynamical downhill speed

But because you're such a

In a defensive reactionary position

Trying to guard him

He is the advantage

I feel like Parker Messick

Even though he doesn't have that elite fast ball

Topping out in triple digits

He keeps guys on their toes enough bowl

That they don't know what's coming

And that's almost even more dangerous

Than a guy that throws 102

But you know 102 is coming every time

Yeah, I love the fact that they put him in the rotation

I had a Logan Allen

He's more talented

And he showed it

And what's interesting is

The Guardians have started against

Obviously a very good team in the Mariners

Or at least the team I expect to be very good

They were last year

And certainly a team we expect to be very good in the Dodgers

In fact, I think yesterday was their first loss

And not there's been that many games

But um

The three and two

And their three and two

And that's with the pitching

Not being that great

Like none of the starters

Besides Messick

They were all okay

But nobody was sensational

The first time through

Outside of Messick

Who pitched great

And as you guys alluded to

Kate Smith

There's been a little shaky

And it hasn't cost them a game

They won both the games

That he was shaky in

They've hit the ball pretty well so far

Not amazing

But pretty well

Your boy Hoskins has come through

And the clutch a couple times

Did you do a big walk last night

I mean

Yes

After not starting his third game in the row

A walk's not a hit

But

No, no, no

But it's good at that

Oh yeah

There's been a lot of good at bats

I give them uh

You know Austin Hedges

Got his monthly hit with the big double

Two hits

Two hits

Two hits

Put some respect on Hedges

The double was the big hit

Yeah, that was the double was the big one

I mean, snowman

The big double right there

That kind of put

Put them out

Because it's so funny

I randomly

Like

picked up Schneeman

And my fantasy league

I'm like

I'm gonna throw him in for one night

I got a feeling about him tonight

And he came through

And he came through

Andy Daniel Schneeman

I think

When you look at the teams

Through five games

You got to be very happy with

With

How they played

Considering the opponent

And considering that the pitching hasn't been great

They've gotten off to a good start

And hopefully

At least split the next two

With the

With the Dodgers

Uh

Before coming home to play the Cubs this weekend

I know Bobby was

In line to start today

How he not gotten hurt

Have they announced tonight's story?

I believe as of yesterday

They said he was gonna start

Bobby

Yes

Oh

Yeah, yeah

I believe he's gonna

Pretty sure

If I remember correctly

They confirmed

The yesterday that he is

Spectating the story

And it'll be Otoni for the Dodgers obviously

Trying to remember if the

The last time the Guardians faced Otoni

I guess I would remember that

That's off my head

But uh

Jose started

Jose got a couple of hits

I own my team

I own two

Juan couple of

A couple of

A couple of

Start the season

And I was

I liked

Even

You know

Delauder didn't

You know

Didn't get any

Get any hits

But I still liked

You know

His abat

It wasn't like

He was up there swimming

Like I like the fact that he

Had a line drive

Right to the shortstop

He just hit the ball

Hard

Twice so

He's had great at bat so far this season

He's very impressive

Obviously we know he's got to stay healthy

I mentioned I think when you guys

Had me on last Friday that

His swing reminds me of Chase Utley

And

It's really impressive

And he's a big key

Obviously to their success

Hopefully they'll get Valera

At some point

Back I don't know what his status is

But I think he's

I want to say I think he's starting a rehab assignment

Which means he can't be

Too far behind

So yeah I mean at this point

You got to be thrilled by how they're playing

And get another win last night

It'll be obviously a challenge

To face

Otani on the hill

But it's

It's a big sigh of relief

That Bobby's able to pitch to

I'm

Because he

You leave a game with elbow with shoulder

Shoulder soreness

Anything with the elbow or the shoulder

The assumption is always what it's a disaster

Yeah

He's going to be out for a while

Now I don't know that they're out of the woods yet

We got to see how he makes it through the start

He's got to make it through another star

A couple of stars

But the fact that they're letting it

This early of the season

They're not really being that cautious

He pitched what Thursday

Friday Saturday

He's pitching on regular four days rest

Not even like he has an extra day

Day right he's going the night Tuesday

Yeah

It's a regular rest because they haven't had a day off

Nope

Because they started on the west coast

Yeah I mean I'm excited

He's pitching tonight

It was a weird game on the opener

And I wasn't here for it

Because he gave him three home runs

But he dominated

But he pitched pretty well

He made three mistakes

They haven't had one of the things

Where he just like

Three balls got just

bombed

And again you know

You held the Dodgers

The two runs yesterday

Which was impressive

In the second run

Enough scored on a while

It was a wild pitch

Or a pass ball

Yeah it was a pass ball

But you know

Anyway

I'm excited

You get to go get a chance to go get some timing

Yeah

They can somehow come up with a win

And like Jay said

We were talking about it yesterday

Yeah

You least want to come back

You can't even try to get swept

But if you can go here and get a win

And night

That's going to have a lot of momentum

Then you come back home

And I'm going to be honest with you man

Like

There's a lot to be said

For having some of your younger guys playing well

Because for the first time

You know there's a lot of people

That hit me up like

Yo

I'm interested in

In these guardians right now

Yeah

And it's crazy

This people that I haven't heard from

In a long time

Like yo

You are going to talk guardians

We want to hear about the latter

And I'm like

That's the one or the four

To me it's been the first time

That we've been doing that since

You had Francisco Lindor

Where people were that

Plugged in

Watching

Yeah

And if they win

Just one of the next two right

Yeah

And they come back home

With the winning record after playing

Maybe one of the favorites in the American League

The favorite to win the World Series

They come back four three

Five two potentially

The excitement for the home opener is always through the roof

Yeah

It'll be that time's the 15th degree

Considering the weather's supposed to be halfway nice

They're playing the Chicago Cubs

The hot start

The louder hype train

Which is

Taking off to

Crazy proportions already

Friday's a chance to be a special special thing

Yeah it's going to be great

They got to get there first

But it's supposed to be in the 60s

It's supposed to be beautiful

It sucks

I want to go to Saturday's game

It sucks they're playing a night game Saturday

I don't know why

I guess not I don't know

It's early I know it's early in the season

But it's supposed to be gorgeous during the day Saturday

And it's supposed to rain at night

So

These night games that's weird

I would put

Because it would tell me that it was about to get colder at night

Especially at this time right here

And think they had a day game

At least a four o'clock game

Whatever

But some day the weather's supposed to get a little shaky

But Friday and Saturday

The weather's supposed to be nice

Hopefully that Saturday rain will hold off

Until after the game

I'm thinking about going Saturday

Because it's

You know going to be nice

Your team too

Yeah

Well both my teams

So I don't know it's

It's

It's uh

It's an exciting time

And people

Shouldn't be excited

I know

Yeah obviously you don't want to get

Oh

You know you don't want to get carried away

With your expectations

For the water based on a couple of games

You have to understand there's a long season

He's going to go through slurs

We all understand that

But get excited

Like this guy

Is

Uh

What

He's their best prospect

They've had in a while

And so far he's done great

And again he's

He's

You could just tell watching

If you really know baseball

That he has a great eye for the strike zone

That's very unique

You talked about before

Like messic being confident

Being aggressive as a young pitcher is unique

So is a young hitter

Who is confident in knowing the strike zone

That's a key

That's big

By the way the ABS system has been a home run so far

He was your two sets in that way

It's the funnest part

It's the funnest part

Again right now

It creates another drama point

Right

The whole crowd's into it when it happens

It's that

The fact that when you

When you get either strike out or walk

On a bad call

It drives you crazy

Yeah

But now you know you have this in your pocket

Just

If there's a bad call

I was talking to someone on twitter

Yes, you're just a fan of the show

Yeah

He asked me

Who on the Guardian should be allowed to use the ABS challenge

No offense to hedges

But if he just gets called out on a bad striker

He shouldn't be the one

Who would you allow to have ABS

This is very easy

Well they're going to let

Quon

Yep

I gave him a chance

I had three names

Quon Ramirez

They're not going to do it that way

Though anybody's going to have

I'm just saying

If I could only give permission to three

Guys that would be

Quon Ramirez into Lauda right now

That's it

Because they have the best eyes

So

Sorry Arius

No

No

He was out

He was out

No

Right

He was out

We've got to get the zone up here in May

And then we get excited again

But another man

I'd listen

When Valera gets off the D.O

I'm going to have him

And then I'm going to get

Besana up here

And then we really

Go have some fun

Yeah

Then it could get really special

I'm excited about it

But the ABS so far

Home run

It's a advantage for the pitch

For the defensive team

Because the catcher really has the

The catcher's always going to have a better sense

Than the hitter

Of a bad call

So

All right keep watching those guardians again

Tonight

Let's just see that one more time

Or all before we take a break

The

Who see the graphic

On the pitching matchup

Tonight here

Bobby vs. Otani

Yeah Bobby Otani

Uh

Is it

It's a nine

What time is it to start

Game stars at 1010

1010

There it is

Um

I've been enjoying watching the different broad

I like the peacock broadcast

Where they have the

The national broadcaster

With an analyst from both teams

I like that

I like that

I thought that was really cool

I've been enjoying

I know my starties game

I've been enjoying

A lot of the broadcasting

What I like

It's been good so far

Are folks

We're going to take a break

This is new for me

Not for you

You've been with him

This is a six days already

When we come back

We switch

From

Baseball

To basketball

How are the

Browns doing

The Cleveland Browns

The regular season's almost over folks

I can't wait for the playoffs

But how they do last night

How are they doing

We'll get to it next

On the ultimate Cleveland Sports Show

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Of course I'm selling a Browns on the brain

I said Browns instead of Gab's

I've got to pull it together

It's my first show in a while

All right we will get to the Browns of course

Jimmy Haslam is an interesting comment

About the Shaw Watson

Which kind of eye opening

We'll get to that next segment

But now we've got to talk about the Cavaliers

And I'm excited about the Cavaliers

I really am

Because the playoffs won't

I've done with the regular season

Basketball we make it through

You got what seven more games

I believe in the regular season

Eight I believe

Seven rate doesn't matter

Uh

Yeah

Seven or eight

Yeah

I thought it was nine going into yesterday

Eight

No I think it was eight

I beat Mike on a basketball subject

We're about the final

I know you told guys seven more games

But you know that's just because we're watching it

But yeah

Anyways

The regular season ends a week from Sunday

That I call

And then the playoffs will begin

So could be two weeks from today

The Cavs playing their first playoff game

I'm excited about that

They got the fourth

So they'll put it

Most likely look like they play in Toronto

Yeah, although

Although the Knicks

Well, no, I wouldn't even say that

Because

If I remember correctly

Atlantis have five through ten

Yeah

Is like within two games of each other

Yeah, five through ten

And also they're only a game back at the Knicks now

By the way, we already know the 20 teams in the playoffs

Yes, it is locked in

Because the 10

The gap between the 10 and 11

In both the divisions

Or both conferences

Is huge

I don't know if it's official

But we know it

So we don't know

And yeah, obviously the Cavs can

The Knicks have lost

I think two in a row

Or three in a row, something like that

Uh, so the Cavs are

On their heels

Now we can say all we want

Let's face it

And the pistons have played well

Without cutting the ham

But

I don't care

I want to play the pistons in the second round

I don't want Boston or the Knicks

And I think it's going to be Boston

But you know

I'd rather play Boston in the

In the conference finals

That are the conference semi-file

I don't think anyone's going to disagree

I don't think anyone inside the Cavs organization

Is going to disagree

Yeah

The reality of the situation though

Yeah

No matter

They're not going to lose on purpose

No no no

But no matter who their opponent is

In the second round or the third round

The Cavs don't have a chance

To reach the goal that they want to reach to

Unless they get this level of continued play

From both Evan Mobley and Jared Allen

And last night was another perfect example

Allen didn't play

They played tonight against the Lakers

So they sat out some guys

On the first end of a back-to-back

Mobley had 34 points

Did not shoot a single three

Had a career high

Nine dunks in the game

If you watch the highlights

Any time he gets around the rim

He's trying to throw it down

He leads the NBA in dunks now guys

By the way is 188 dunks on the season

Rudy Gobert is second with 181

And the most impressive part of all of this

Is how James Harden has made it his priority

Since coming to Cleveland

To get the big guys involved

To get the most out of Jared Allen

To get the most out of Evan Mobley

His score is going down

He was averaging close to 25 points per game

With the Los Angeles Clippers

And Cleveland that numbers down

To just over 20

At 13 points last night

It felt like he was only shooting the ball

Yeah

To get Utah to remember

He has the ability to shoot the ball

So he can create passing lanes

Manipulate the defense

Draw them out of their position

So he can feed the ball down to Evan Mobley

And when Evan Mobley plays like he did last night

And when we've seen Jared Allen play alongside James Harden

If they can get those versions of the two bigs

Boston, Detroit

Whoever they play in the playoffs

Hopefully in the NBA finals

Their biggest advantage can be the fact

That they can have two seven footers

With incredible efficiency from inside the arc

That other team simply cannot match with

Last point on this

In March

Evan Mobley is shooting 70%

From inside the arc

70

This is how he should be playing

Yes

Right

And they experimented with him

Being a perimeter guy

Didn't work

It didn't work

That wasn't his game

He's not going to be

This unicorn type player

But he's showing

And by the way

The injury to Jared Allen

Kind of helped

Right

I mean like

And it's good that we won't we need him

And it's good that he's getting healthy

But it gave the opportunity

For James Harden

To like work with Evan Mobley

If you and me know

Right exactly

And so

I love that he wasn't taking it

I don't need him taking three

They got plenty of guys that could take three

So that guy has to do that

Use your size

Be a big man

And kick some butt in the paint

And that's exactly what he did

And I like this Evan Mobley

Way better than

You know shoot that awkward three

Let's go get him the ball in the paint

Don't even make him dry

This is this is get him the ball

In the paint

This is where it is

This is exactly where it is

Bull

Right when you look at

The way they was feeding him

The thing that I always know

Where Evan Mobley

Is

Is being aggressive

Is

They were trying to switch off on him

And he ended up when

When I watched this game

They ended up with guards on him

He ended up with small forwards on him

He ended up with little guys on him

And every time that he got the ball

It wasn't no hesitation

That's a nice move right there

See how he's able to push the ball

Even if he's going to follow

That was funny

Like that's terrible

I had to call the time out on that one

But the fact of matter

Every single time

The big Sam Merrill

Down of the Mitchell

Led by James Harden

Every time that there was a small dude on him

He said listen

That's supposed to be

That's supposed to be a piece of party

That's

Giving money off every single time

And what he was doing

Was just little guy

I'm bully balling

Now I'm going to get out of here

I'm going to dunk the ball

And we about to make you pay

For having small guys on us

And this is the every mobility we want to see

This is the every mobility

That if you want to beat the Celtics

If Jason Tatum is on you

Or Jalen Brown on a switch

Or Derek White

That's the big one

It's the Derek White

You got to eat

On him

You got to eat every time on Derek White

Was he got eight inches on Derek White

Derek White six five

Okay

So he's got

six seven inches

Tatum and Brown are good post defending

But if they're going to switch

And Boston Switch is all the people

Still he's a lot bigger than those guys

But he's

He's

Tatum's like

six nine six

Tatum's huge

Now Brown's

Stockier not as tall

Tatum's huge

But here's the thing like

You know, listen

Utah stinks we all know that

And he's got to do it consistently

We've talked about this before against the good teams

But

It feels like

For the first time

And again, they could go out with a Wimper

As they have every other

It feels like for the first time

During this run

And obviously it's different

Which James Arden

But during these years

With disc group besides Arden

That

It's coming together

At the end of the year

In terms of health

Right

Like

In past years

It was like guys were

Fall on a part at the end of the year

Now you got like

Mobile he's just gotten healthy recently

It's true

Allen

And he's fresh as a daisy right now

And it looks it

Right like he looks

Good and fresh

So they

They feel more formidable right now

I understand everybody's nervousness

The calves have a ton to prove

But

I feel pretty good about them going on the playoffs

You know knock on wood

And nothing bad happens in the next two weeks

Injuries

You could

Control

And you can't control those

But I think another reason that

You ball are probably feeling a little more confident

This team now heading to the playoffs

Than we have in the last

Is the

Improved

Play of the bigs

Yeah

Once again i'll keep going back to this

Big guys

Don't dribble the basketball

They don't create their own stuff

Allen and mobile are both best

As the beneficiaries

Right

Of other teams offence

This is not a slight against Darious

Garley who's playing awesome in LA

But Darious was still trying to prove himself in the league

I don't think Darious was ever capable

Of making it such a priority

To get these bigs involved

Right

And when they're involved

Early and often

You get the best versions of both Evan

And Jared

James Harden's proven everything he needs to prove in the league

The one thing he's missing on his resume

The only thing missing

On his Hall of Fame resume

Is an NBA championship

And they were done

And done in the same way

To get that championship

For both of them

They need the best version of Evan

Mobile and the best version of Jared Allen

And I said it before i'll say it again

James Harden does not need

To take 20 shots to be effective in a game

He can be equally as effective as a past verse

Facilitating point guard at this stage of his career

If he's manipulating the defense

To get those bigs the mismatches

And the easy looks that they have in the last couple of weeks

I would argue that he's actually

This is the most valuable James Harden

Is not him scoring

Not like he's scoring six points

But you know what I mean

But like him being

Really a true point guard

Is what he's playing like

I think is the best version

For this team of what they need from him

Obviously there will come times

Especially once you play good teams

Where they will need him to have a night where he scores 30

And we know he's capable of that

But they don't need that from him every night

Because if he's feeding the post

The way he i mean 14 assists

If he's doing anything close to that

They're gonna score plenty of points

And if he scores 16-18

That's fine

They can win a lot of games

With him with that's that line

What do you have 16 points six boards 14 is this

13-14

Oh 13

You know

They win a lot of games like that

Because that means the big guy is feasted

In this case

The big guy feast

And you know

I've always had you know

We talked about some all ball in the philosophy of the basketball

And I know everybody want to shoot

Threese McNuggets

And I get that like

That's a big part of it

If you if you're making 14-15-16-3s

You know you're gonna be a very hard team to beat

But there is something to be said

For teams that want to go small

And they're shooting those threes

Yes that's an advantage

But

It's a trade-off

If you want to do that

The teams that's methodical

That can work the ball down low and say

All right well we're gonna get to the rim

And either you're gonna foul us

Or we're gonna play

We're gonna we're gonna be at this rim

The whole single every single day

And the thing that I want to do

Is I like to get I want to be physical

I want to get guys in foul trouble

And I want to be in the penalty

And it's great

Because now you got great free throw shooters like James Harden

You got guys that can get to the basket

It's hard to stay in the front of

Like Don of the Mitchell

And being in the penalty early

Is a great equalizer

Because it gives you an opportunity

To score when when defenses are set

In the playoffs

And slows the pace

Even more importantly

If you get the bigs involved early right

You start attacking those mismatches on switches

Let's use Derek White for an example

Right let's say they switch with Alan and Mobile

We use Mobile for the sake of this example

And they switch and Mobile starts eating the paint

And he realizes

You're 65 and you're a good defender

But I'm this new version of Evan Mobile

Who's 70% from inside the arc in March

I'm gonna continue to dominate with my back to the basket

Well you know what Boston's gonna have to do

They're gonna have to send a double team at some point

Right?

Yes

And when they start sending double teams

You got the floor spaced with

Yeah

James Harden

Donovan Mitchell

Sam Merrill

Max Drew's

Keon Alice

combination Jalen Tyson

Yeah

Of legitimate

High-volume

Cable three-point shooters

And you start doing that

Yeah

You're gonna make the opponent

In this case Boston

Pick and choose

What are we going to live with

And right now with how they're playing

You're not letting Mobile who shoot in 70% for two

Get those isolation points

You're gonna have to start coming out

Which is gonna give them

The advantage on both

Inside the paint

Or inside the perimeter

And outside the three-point arc

What's up, Earl

One final point before we wrap this thing up

In the last two games

James Harden has shot the ball 20 times

While this is now 28 assists

So to your point, Bull

Yeah

Just being that facilitating guard

He's able to do that

With the way this team

This team is currently constructed

Absolutely

And again

There's gonna be times they need him

They're gonna need him to score

The score

But right now

He's all about the team

And that's really fun to see

And remember

And maybe

Maybe the worm is just slightly starting

To turn in the NBA

And I hope this is the case

Because I like this

That maybe the defense

Especially when we comes to the playoffs

Will get so good on the three-pointers

That the percentage

Will start to favor the two-point shot again

I don't know

But the cabs have gone into the last few post seasons

Shooting a lot of threes

And it hasn't worked

Yeah

I'm not saying you can't shoot any threes

Obviously that's gotta be a part of your game

But if the cabs can have advantage

Of some level of twin towers

On the defense event

I mean I mean on both ends

That could be an advantage

And other teams don't have

And maybe that's the formula

To getting the cabs

Where they need to get

Which is at least to the eastern conference finals

Last cab set

Yeah

Last night was the 32nd game

The season where the shot is a team

Below 34% from three

They're 13 and 19 in those games

Having the bigs

The ability to play through

The bigs down low

And then get out

Could be the counter-action to their

Off-nights from being under

You want to see some high-flying action though

You can see the cabs on their back at home

Or tomorrow night

The Cleveland charge have a home playoff game

They clinched the 3C there hosting

The Washington Gogo

Which is the single worst name in the G league

And they're going to beat the brakes off

How many teams are in the playoffs

16, eight in each league

Oh I didn't realize there was so many teams

30 teams in the G

So they're the three seed in their con

In the east

They're the three seed in the east

Even though they have the fourth best record overall

They're at home

Okay

Thursday night

730

I will be there

Oh

And we'll be there

And you should be there too

You can get your tickets

at clevelandcharge.com

It's a playoff game

Let's pack

Public awe

And we'll see you on Wednesday night

We've talked about the guardians

We've talked about the cabs

We've left out the brown

We can't leave out the browns

We never leave out the browns

When we come back

Jimmy Hasel was at the owner's meetings yesterday of course

And he had some interesting comments about the Sean Watson

That were very different than the comments he made a year ago

That's coming up next on the ultimate cleveland sport show

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Let's do it

Yes indeed

Let's talk some baseball

No for ball

You're off your game today

Two weeks off and you are

A little rusty

We're going to do some show critiques coming up

Yeah

Little rusty

I have made some marks on here

Little rusty for me

In the first show back

Let's talk some football

Let's talk about the browns

Right

So last year

Jimmy Hasel in the owner of the browns made a comment

And this year his comment

About the same person

The Sean Watson was very different

Let's go to a tweet from Mary Kay Cab at first

And see what he said

So this is Mary Kay

Browns owner Jimmy Hasel believes

It's possible

For the Sean Watson to go from a swing and a miss

To a home run

If he starts us here remember

Last year

He said the first part

At the owner's meeting

At the owner's meeting

He said the Sean Watson was a swing and a miss

And this year he said

Maybe go a home run

Did he reference Sam Darnold or did he did

Other people bring that up

No he reference Sam Darnold

We got the full quote

Okay let's see the full quote here

I'll read this

So the quote is

There's a lot of

There's a lot of quarterbacks

Who it seems to be

Kind of the theme in the NFL

I don't know if it's the theme or whatever

It happened

Who either started

Did not start well and take the Super Bowl champ

Right

And what a great story that is for Sam Darnold

The Sean started great

And the year before we signed him

He was the second best quarterback in the NFL

And then the suspension

And the injuries

And all that piled up

Can he come back from that

He certainly had the ability at one point

And we're cautiously optimistic

Are you buying or selling G-Bush

What Jimmy Haslam is putting out there

It all depends on the degrees

Of the likelihood of that happening

We talked about it all offseason

You know Deshant Watson has had a lot of things piled up

With him

Not to mention that he did get suspended

But due to the injuries

He spent almost a year and a half of inactive football

And to think about

And I was done it again

And he's done it twice

This is the second time he's done it

So the difficult part about

You know

Thinking about whether or not he can do it

Obviously

He did have a level of talent before

And I agree

He was at least in top three quarterback

Prior to when he got here

But those things take his toll on you

The injuries

He's had the ACL

He's had the shoulder injury

He's had the Achilles heel

He's been off for multiple years in a row

And the speeder the game does like this

So you're asking him to get back up acclimated

Very quickly coming back

No setbacks in any injuries

And the thing about this

And I was thinking about this coming in

The problem is

When you come back from all these injuries

How often is he going to be

Able to practice every single day

When you're in a competition

Guys

You need to be

We take a look at what happened last year

You look at

Kenny Pickett

He pulls his hamstring

And that basically takes him out

So if you're Deshant Watson

And you are throwing the ball well

And you're going to get Dylan Gabriel

And Shedor Sanders

And Eric Healthy

And Young

And you got to miss a couple of days

That sets you back

In terms of the long-term viability

I mean it could be a chance

That he could come back and do it

But the betting favorite

Is not saying that

That's going to be a high probability

For Deshant Watson to do that

Before you jump in Mike

I know you've been someone who believes

Shedor Sanders is the quarterback to be

He's

You know I think you thought 80% or whatever

Do you still believe that

Or do you think this is a 50-50 between him and Watson

I think

No, I don't think it's no 50-50

But I will say this

Or at least do you think

They're being given a 50-50 opportunity

No, I think Todd Monkin

Was going to give him every opportunity

I think that's what he should do

You just think Shedor is going to be

I think he will be them out

But I do think that he

They'll give him every opportunity

In a real quarterback battle

And I think that's why Jimmy has them

Is saying this now

Because he got to fresh eyes

He got fresh eyes on it

Todd Monkin

McNuggets

Is a guy that he's going to

He don't care about what you did before

He got a new office

Is his office

So let's see what you do

In this particular office

Todd Monkin is a 60-year-old first-time NFL head coach

His run rate could be as long as one year

Or as short as one year as long as 10 years

Who knows

But he knows this is his one and only chance

Of being an NFL head coach

And I have

Zero reason to believe

That he won't put the quarterback out there

And week one that he believes

Gives him the best chance to win

Whether that's Shedor

Whether that's the Sean

Whether it's Dylan Gamer

Whether it's someone else they bring in

He knows this is his chance to prove

That he can do something at this level

In this position as an NFL head coach

Do I personally think

The Sean Watson has some reclamation art

Like Sam Darnold

Under his belt and still

Waiting to come out

I have a hard time believing it

Considering we haven't seen the Sean play

At any kind of level that high

Since the 2020 season

It's 2026

It's 2026

This is a long time ago

COVID happened

Yeah

COVID died down

He said all the off-field stuff

The injuries

So he's got mental trauma from all that

The physical trauma

Two with Achilles tears

A shoulder tear

Does that is that quarterbacks still exist

Maybe

I mean we haven't seen it

I want to say it

I doubt it

But I'm not completely rolling out the possibility

But I don't think there's any reason

Whether your Jimmy Haslam

Or Todd Monkin

Or this entire new offensive staff

That you should go into this quarterback competition bowl

With one guy ahead of the other

When you know

It all matters what they do on the field

Anything that's happened in the past

Was a different regime

That's not on them

Everyone's starting

Even ground

Ground zero

Made the best men win

So there's definitely smoke in this situation

And I believe there's fire in this situation

There's enough rumblings behind the scenes

That the Shaw Watson is a legitimate candidate

To be the starting quarterback for the round you for a second

Whether fans like it or not

It's irrelevant

You said it

This is a new coach

I've heard he has the lead

He is picking this quarterback

This is not an Andrew Berry decision

This is not a Jimmy Haslam

Jason told us yesterday when he came on

I didn't know who he's supposed to say

In the little bit of

Thing we could hear that

Todd Monkin is making the phone

Todd Monkin said it

Which is absolutely who should make the call

Because he's the freaking coach

Todd Monkin

Understands what the Shaw Watson was

The Shaw

We've left about the trade

We've joked about it's been a total disaster

There's no denying the fact

That the Shaw Watson

When he was when he was with the Houston Texans

Was more talented

Than any quarterback

In the history of the Cleveland Brown

It's a fact

I don't want to hear

Don't tell me about

Lou Groza

I was 1912

That was 1912

I don't care

You're right

Okay

You're right

Does he have even 75% of that talent left

I find that hard to believe

There's been too much water under the bridge

It's been too much time

There's been too much time missed

It's not just the time

It's the time missed

You know, San Arnold was still playing

And he

During all those years

He wasn't out for

Never had ever

And he never had these type of injuries

No

He's had two recently

Three

Two

Three total

Three

But recently two very serious injuries

With the Achilles

Well actually

To our twice

It's right

So three

Serious injuries

Recently

Not to mention the mental hurdles

We don't know that he hasn't overcome those

But

That's a lot to overcome

But I will say this guy's final word

If

The Sean Watson is physically capable

Of playing

At 75% of what he was

He's the best quarterback on this team

In my mind, no doubt

And he will be the starter

I think there's a very little chance

That's the case

But if it is

I think he will be

Whether you like it or not

We're going to take a break

Speaking of Brown's quarterback

Shedor Sanders has a new number

Now

Sweeps like me

Don't care about number changes

But guys like G-Boost

I do

They certainly do

What is he doing

What does it mean for the wrist up

That Shedor has changed his number

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We

I don't know why I made myself laugh

wrist up baby

wrist up

Oh a number change G-Boost

This is your thing

You are all about numbers

man

I got to set this up for you

Oh excited up for me

Captain Swag right

We looked up

Middle of the day on the Monday

I thought we racked up for work

And we see Shedor Sanders say

Thank you God

wrist up

And he back in his iconic number two jersey

There was some mixed reactions on social media

A lot of fans were excited to see him

Get back into his original number

But then you start seeing people talk about

Well should the bros be doing this counts

And jersey exchanges

And I was kind of scratching my head

Because I don't really remember

The bros doing that for jock or for Greg

News whom I don't remember

The Detroit Lions doing that for Jameer Gibbs

Where are your thoughts

Or should Dure Sanders change

In this jersey number back to number two

Man I listen

You know book was on the barber shop

He say G-Boost

What you think about

That going back to that 12

From 12 to 2

I said man that's like the rebirth man

You know what I'm saying

You went through the fire

You got an opportunity to start

So when you go through the fire

You get purified

You take the one off

Because of the fire burned it off

And now you left with the two

And you're a different person

I said this is crazy

I love the change

You know what it shows me

It shows me he getting ready in war mode

He getting ready for the battle

She discharmed watching

You know four

Four is coming

And four is a

You know four is a

As a great number right

All the four is a

All the four is out

All the four is out

He said no no I got to put the cape back on

I got to put the cape back on

Get in my mindset and be legendary

With the number two

Switch it up

Shout out to Nike man

Drop that merch

But here's the big two

All the people

It's a great marketing tool too

Because all of the 12s

I just now

Got done

Getting all my Anciduncles

The 12s

I got to buy it too

Now

Listen now I can get through

I got to wait

Who was wearing two last year

Is the Andre Carter

Andre Carter

I don't even know he was still in the squad

What's at the Andre Carter?

I don't know man

They signed him as the kick returner

Possibility guy

And then I don't think he ever actually played

But once the doors started selling 12

Jersey

I don't think you can then change your jersey

Mid

Like midseason

But yeah

I mean but you can't compare

Earl brought up some of the other guys

But like

People are not buying those jerseys

Like they're buying Tredor Sanders jersey

I'm not going to knock the guy for change his number

I think that's unfair to knock him

Good for Abby

That's his number

I get it

I get wasted

He's going to sell them

He's going to sell them

Sell out

And

I saw a lot of people complaining about

Should they do these

Jersey trade-ins

You get a discount

There have been teams in the past that have done that

There have been teams that

Not

Get your bread

Hey man

If the browns are trying to have a

Well we'll be vintage

One to two will be vintage

Well that was the other point

Now you're going to have

If Shador goes on to have this legendary career

That a lot of people think he may be able to have

Yeah

Then that 12 jersey is going to be a

That's a threadable throwback

In 10 years

I'm all about being on the side of the fans

But when you buy a jersey

You know a guy can change his number

You get traded

You go and I can get traded

Get cut

You know

Go to another team

The CU aunties

I don't

I talked to them yesterday

Listen

First of all

The Shador

All the Shador

People that

That rock with them

By the way

There are a lot of Shador people

I asked them

When they did about to convert over

They say

Would you mean convert over

We already browns fans

I didn't

They didn't already

They didn't

You skeptical

You ain't been here

Two weeks just skeptical

We'll see

We'll see

We'll see

Now listen

If the Shador watches

Starting with all that's all

All that's wrong

When you talk about

Listen listen

You try to get your temper or something

Wherever they want to go

But no

They buy in all the jerseys

They already got all the 12s

They talk about when they

Drop they buy in those two

Like they're like

Oh being on a problem

The number two jersey is going to be

One of the

Two or three high selling

If not number one

High selling jersey

In the NFL

What's the highest selling jersey last year

High selling rookie

I'm not sure if he was number one overall

Yeah

They about to they about to say

Oh he was that up

They about to send that through the planet

They about to

This about to go through the strategy

All of them two

They're going to be sold out

Listen do not at me yet

Ante's uncles

My real ones

They did two

Yeah, yeah

No

No

Are you going

Yeah, I haven't even delivered the 12s

Oh wait

Do you remember Peterlyn

I think it was Peterlyn

Yeah, he did

In the lead up to the draft last year