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I'm going to say it right now.

I'm the first to say it.

The Mets are winning the World Series.

How about that?

No one has said that yet.

I mean, how do I suck still in Chicago?

They move that team.

I have no idea.

But the Mets are up nine, four on Paul's schemes, and that conversation is going to start

happening.

Schien's pitching World Baseball Classic.

Why?

Don't do it.

His arm is tired.

I've got 161 more of these.

Yes, they're fine.

You and Taylor, before we get to a Phil Martelli Jr., who's going to join us here on the

Zoom and on the show.

And I'm excited for it.

We have a ton of calls for him.

You guys were talking, I don't know what you were talking about.

I was trying to prepare myself for Will Wade and also eat something.

But Will Wade is what you guys were discussing, and Taylor played some sound.

I have to be honest.

He played sound, and it went in one ear and out the other.

There's two struggling today.

For those who haven't learned here for the first segment, Stu is directly off of a bird

from North Carolina, where he was.

Boots on the ground, trying to figure out what happened with Hubert Davis, and found out very

little.

He didn't find out that Taylor's jersey is hung up famously in a sub shop by the bathroom.

This is all you need to say.

I went to Starbucks earlier, okay?

Just to point out how exhausted I am from seven flights in seven days in four cities

and every time zone, okay?

I went to Starbucks today.

I came through the drive-through, had my double espresso's ordered.

I tried to pay for it with a hotel key from the AC Hilton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

I didn't work.

I didn't know the guy goes, we don't take this.

I'm struggling.

We only take Marriott Bonvoise.

Yes.

Phil Martelli Jr. is with us.

We had him on after he upset North Carolina, unfortunately for him, for them, but not

for us, because he's joining us right now.

They lost in the second round to Illinois in the NCAA Tournament.

But when we spoke to him, I asked him at what point did he realize he was going to be a

head coach, a college basketball head coach, and he said he came down to being a college

basketball head coach or being a sports radio host.

Is he his mesmerized?

I don't know Phil.

I don't know why I didn't think of being a coach too.

I was like, that's such a better option.

No, he chose wisely.

Absolutely did.

I don't know.

There's a lot of things.

I think this would be a better option.

Right.

No.

No, I appreciate you guys.

It was great to hear that that wasn't just an empty thing that you actually wanted me

back on.

So I appreciate that.

Yes.

Every week, if you want to do it, I mean, you know, it's up to you though.

I can't be better.

This can't be better.

I love this.

All right.

So we have phone calls for you.

There are a ton of calls because I wanted you Phil to have the entire sports radio experience.

The thing that you crave because when you want to be a sports radio host, you want people

calling in.

You want them to say, you know, first time, long time, you want them to say, well, hang

up.

He knows all of it.

Well, hang up and listen.

All that good stuff.

So we have that for you.

OK.

I just want you to know we have a ton of calls for you.

Can we ease them in?

Like, just give his opinion on today, for example.

You got a sweet 16th Thursday.

You got opening day.

You're a big Phillies guy.

Like, where does this day rank on your sports calendar?

Classic sports radio question.

It ranks a lot.

It would be ranked a lot higher if we were playing tonight.

That would suit me.

Yeah.

Much of that love being here with you guys.

I would love it.

If, you know, I was sitting in a hotel room in the dark right now with like all kinds

of angst, I would trade that.

Right.

No, I mean, this is like what a great time, right?

We're right here at the middle of the NCAA tournament.

You got the final four coming out.

You got opening day, which is awesome.

The masters around the corner, right?

Like all those things.

The NBA's winding down like, you know, just a, just a great time of year.

Certainly for all of us sports fans.

Have you been to an opening day?

I haven't.

Really?

I have not.

Why dad was too busy.

You were too busy.

Both of you were too busy coaching.

Yeah, it's just never, it's never really lined up.

I've never been to an opening day.

I do have a, you'll love this.

You will absolutely eat this up.

But when I was a high school senior, a bunch of my classmates skipped school to go down to

Philly's opening day.

Wow.

And there's a famous cover of the Philadelphia Daily News.

There was a fight between my classmates and my senior bonner, their seniors, who, that's

who I grew up with.

That was my neighborhood school.

And the next day in school looking through that and seeing the picture and going like, oh,

there's so and so.

There's so and so.

There's so and so again.

One of the steps.

He's getting thrown down the steps by that guy.

It was a huge, huge deal in the old 700 level and center field at the vet.

That's my.

It's hilarious.

I was not there.

Fortunately.

Right.

You could say unfortunately, too.

Yes.

Fortunately, not there and avoided any, any real issues.

Philly fans.

Philly fans have issues, Phil.

I mean, they really feel Philly fans have issues.

They really do.

They're crazy.

They're the craziest fan base in America, I think.

Yeah.

I mean, there's, there's a certain knowledge and passion that comes with being a Philadelphia

fan.

And sometimes those things cross over.

And when it's like, oh, the old ghost busters like don't cross the streams.

When you cross the knowledge and the passion and all that together,

it can blow up and be a be combustible.

So now this particular fight, I think, had more to do with like neighborhood pride and school pride.

And there's probably some females involved, you know, would be my guess.

They're usually.

Along with some along with some, you know, 17, 18 year old stubborn pride,

partaking and things they shouldn't have prior to the game.

So the egging of patullos house, though.

Yeah.

I mean, that's just not like what are we doing?

Like, honestly, like that's one of those like, like a lot of the stuff gets overblown, right?

Yes.

Like the throwing snowballs at Santa Claus, like the whole story there.

If you know the whole story, the all these different things like get overblown.

That is over when you're actually hurting your franchise's chances of hiring somebody.

You've gone too far as a fan, right?

Yeah, like what are we doing?

Like what are we doing?

All right.

The guy called a run when you should have called a pass.

Like I get it.

Like you're mad.

But egg is house.

Like his wife and kids are there.

Like come on.

Leave them alone.

Yeah.

It's not for them.

Yeah.

Listen, you're too well thought out for sports radio.

I got to tell you right now.

I mean, you just got to let it fly.

You got to let it fly.

I have the perfect call for you to start off here.

It's Gina into coma, Washington, Gina.

The perfect name for you to to talk to first here.

Yeah, let's go to Gina.

You want to announce the calls here.

Phil, how do you want to do it?

Said you wanted to be a sports radio host.

You want to throw it to?

Yeah, let's do it.

So 877-99 on Fox.

So the first call you're going to and I want you to bring them on.

Gina went to coma.

Go ahead.

You try it.

Gina went to coma.

You're on here.

Hey, Phil Martelli, Jr.

I have no idea who you are.

But I wrote you a soku to welcome you to sports talk radio.

Huh?

Go ahead.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Phil sports talk radio has changed since you were young.

You're over there.

I don't know.

Listen, I don't know what the call it was doing, Phil.

But but is he is right?

The sports talk radio you and I grew up listening to.

It's not the same.

And so I'm telling you, but coaching is the same.

And you chose wisely by going into the coach in front of that.

going into the coach. Did he say I'm going to give you a Sudoku? Yeah. Which I believe

is a numbers game. He made high coup. That's what I thought too. And then he just gave two

syllables. He did start off strong by saying he doesn't know who the hell I hit. Most

people don't. And that's okay. I'm good with that. Yes. Yes. Let's go to Zach. I don't

know what that is. You want to, you want to introduce Zach and Cleveland here? Another

caller for you. All right. Go ahead. Hopefully it's better. Go ahead. Zach and Cleveland.

What do you got? Go straight to great to talk with you. First time long time. I'm calling

on a mobile here in Cleveland. Matt is the and Taylor. First off, I just want to say sorry

about the softball game. It sounds like your boy Ian is a lot like O'Neill Cruz can't catch

her pop up in the centerfield. I know it's sweet 16. I know it's opening day, but it's something

we got to talk about. And it's this Nikola Yokish freak. The dude puts up a triple double

every night. No one cares. It's 23 21 19 last night. No one cares. The game winner the night before

that. No one cares. He's a great passer. Great passer for a big man. You know who else could

learn to pass for a big man? That bam fraught a bio guy down in Miami. My goodness. 43

free throws up. My God. I'll hang up and listen. Love you guys. All right. Thank you. Coach. Go

ahead. Well, I think, you know, Zach brings up a great point like we take greatness for granted

sometimes. And I think it happens, you know, across the board. Like you said, you know, Michael

Jordan and, you know, LeBron, like there's, there's years where those guys we get into that like, well,

they win the MVP every year because they're the most valuable player every year. And then we get

into like, all right, well, we're going to vote for that guy because it's like the sexy choice for

the year or just something different. It's like, no, like the guy is the most valuable player.

Like, Yokech is the most valuable player. Like none of the GM's or anybody would say it out,

outright, but if they got called for their superstar, every one of those other teams and said,

would you trade Yokech for your superstar? They would all say yes. Yeah. They would all say yes.

Who says no? I mean, a sports radio classic. Yes. Like they would all say yes to that, right?

Like, so I do think he's right about that. Like we just, we lose that. We take that greatness for

granted and, you know, it is. You just get, you get tired of it, I think, sometimes.

If this were 2005 and Kobe Bryant was doing was having the string of games that Luca Doncic was

having right now, we would have like people stop into programming to announce what Kobe was doing

because it would be such a huge deal. Now with Luca, it feels like people are yawning about it.

Like, I don't know if it was because maybe BAM scored 83 a little bit ago, but when he scored 60 in

Miami, it was like, oh, just another game. And I'm like, that's crazy. This dude is doing stuff

that we've never seen before as well, right there with Joker. Yeah. I do think you guys would

probably have a good pulse on this. Like, do you think because we can see all this all the time?

Like, there, like, there used to be a lore to you didn't see that guy get 60, right? Now it's like,

all right, I can see the highlights. I see the highlights and then I'm just move on. Or like,

I'm scrolling to the next highlights, right? He got 60, but so and so got 35 and now I'm watching

that. Like, there used to be that lore of like, did you hear about the time this guy got whatever?

You know, when I felt that the most after the BAM thing was looking at the graphics and being like,

oh, yeah, Luca had 73. Like, it was just a, I know he'd been somewhere close, but I was like, wow,

at just the fact that those don't resonate as much, whether it be Damian Lillard or Devon Booker,

that part was mind boggling to me. A stable in my childhood growing up was waking up at 7 a.m.

Turning on sports center and finding out what happened, right? A stable of my childhood growing up

was opening up the newspaper and looking at the box scores to see what certain guys did. So I

think there is something to what you're saying there, Phil. I do. And now people just wake up and

decide to meow at a radio show because I'm not. All right, Phil, we have Bob who's in Boise today.

If you want to, if you want to bring him on here, go ahead. Bob from Boise, you're on the air.

Because Mark Kelly, how in the heck are you, sir? Bob, I'm doing tremendous. How about you?

I'm hanging in there. And, you know, I love here. It's still, I have a lot of respect for him,

but he's throwing you all the softball questions. I've got the hardest eating question of your day,

and it's the ill you have to die on. Okay. Cheese sticks. Cheese with or no cheese with?

Wow. Good question. All right. So you're going to, you're going to, you won't be happy with me.

I don't, I don't like cheese. What? My steaks are always plain. What?

Yeah, I'm not a cheese fan. All right. What happened when you were a child?

Nothing. I just don't, I don't, I don't like cheese. What? I even don't pizza. That's about it.

I don't need it, you know, my burger or you just, so yeah, that's a, I'm a salt pepper and ketchup,

you know, all my, all my, my steak, my steaks. Nothing wrong with that. The rare cheese steak,

hold the cheese. You know what? Sometimes cheese is too much. It's like, it's a lot, it's gooey,

it's like overpowers flavor, depending on which one you take. Like, I'm good with fill. They're

like, it's okay to not eat cheese. Obviously, pizza. Once you said pizza, it was like, okay,

now you're good. Yes. Yeah, I have it on pizza. Yes. Let's take one more call here. You can

introduce it. It's Mikey, New York. He wants to talk about something in your wheelhouse,

Gino Smith. Go ahead. Introduce him. Mike from New York. We got it. I just want to know,

if you think that Gino Smith by the end of this season will be the New York Jets all-time

single season passing leader in the art. I think you should have smashed their record because

the record is so low. If you look at it, you can have multiple seasons where you already beaten it.

Do you think by the end of this season, he will be the New York Jets all-time single season

passing art leader? So coach, right now, the current leader is Joe Nameth at 4,000 and seven

overrated. It really doesn't matter. Like, my question would be, is he going to be Bugs Bunny

passing to himself? Like, who's he throwing into? You got to be able to, like, the passing record,

someone has to catch the ball. Yes. So your answer is you have both the passing and the receiving

records for the Jets. And he's going to have to block for himself because who's going to block for

like, I don't know much about the Jets, but I know they ain't good. I don't know who he's throwing

to, who's black and forming. That sounds like an MVP. Listen, what you know is all you need to know.

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Phil Martelli, Jr. Head Coach of VCU is with us. He'll be here for another 15 to 20 minutes.

We have Keep 3, Cut 5 coming up. I want to say I don't know what the topic is, but I do.

We also will continue to take your phone calls at 877-99 on Fox. That is 877-99 on Fox.

But coach, since you are a lover of sports radio, before we get to our game here,

I'm going to play three takes, three sports radio classic takes, okay, from three sports

radio giants. Legends of the game, okay? And I want you to to metal stand them for me.

Bronze, silver, and gold of these ridiculous takes. First is Mike Francesca.

Now, Philadelphia, but New York, a guy I'm certain you've listened to before.

Here is Mike Francesca taking a phone call.

Nick and New Jersey, what's up, Nick?

Hey, Mike. I was just wondering what the

year is and just baseball in general. Do you ever see a team going undefeated in the regular season,

that being as dominant as the past and the dolphins where they were at the table?

162 and all? Yeah, like a team being that dominant. Do you think that could be the fact

that it happened in baseball? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's serious, right?

No, like we've seen it. Have you seen anybody come close to 162 and all?

Well, then it's the game. She's a one year and 120.

Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, hey, he's didn't win 120.

They won 111 in the regular season, but still only 50 games away.

50, not all game, 50 games away.

Yeah, but they had 110 wins. They were, they were good, but they weren't as dominant as the

Patriots or other teams that have, wait, wait, wait. So you think a team that you're comparing

winning 16 games to winning 162? Well, obviously football has less games.

They couldn't have one more game. They, they, football has more less games, really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think they have less games? No, well, I know football.

That's a 16. Right. And the others have a hundred and six. So you think a team could go

162 and oh, if they were that's, um, yeah, you do. Right. So you think that to,

you know, the best team of all time, I don't know what team you consider the best team of

all time. What, what team do you consider the best baseball team of all time?

Um, maybe that murder is real Yankee team.

Okay. Now, what do you think now that team played a hundred and 54 game schedule?

How many games do you think they won? Oh, I don't know. Maybe, uh,

how many games did they lost though? How many do they think they lost?

Maybe, probably 40. Right. So how would you get from 40 to zero?

Well, they would need to be a lot better, obviously.

Let me know when it happens. Okay. Because I want to like watch.

I think about. Don't tell any folks. John and breezy point. What's up, John?

Hi, Mike. What's happened? What mental asylum? I have no idea. I have no idea.

That is for its radio. Next up, coach, Christopher Maddog Russo is former partner.

Now, uh, whether the MOB put out a statement, they got the word of course to their guys today

to get this out that it was due to an inappropriate relationship with a sister-in-law who,

you know, is in her 50s. I, what's so inappropriate about that? I understand.

I mean, you know, this happens all the time this stuff. I mean, uh, why would that be considered

inappropriate? It's a sister-in-law. All right. So it's his brother's wife. I mean, I, you know,

I guess he, it's inappropriate, but maybe the isn't that a family matter more so there is a union

matter. Ten approach.

All right. It's your time to play music. It's a weird time. That's how we aborts

uncomfortable conference agent. Uh, here's the third one. Again, uh, three ridiculous takes

from three sports radio giants. The third one courtesy of me. Lamarcus Aldridge.

Awful. I mean, now he's an embarrassment, man. I'm telling you, Greg Popovich is going to get

rid of that guy in the off season. He was an embarrassment last night. He is so out of shape.

There are so many times where the rockets were playing five on four on offense because Lamarcus

Aldridge was sit was walking back on defense. He's bad. He's not a good, I don't know what happened

to him because when he was in Portland, he was fantastic. He is not good, Dan. He cost him

the game last night, although they won the game. But had they lost, I'm telling you, it would have

been on Lamarcus Aldridge. And the only reason it's not is because they won the game. Otherwise,

San Antonio will be crushing it today. I'm still going to crush him even though they won.

What are we ranking these in order of stupidity?

This sports radio. Uh, all right. Good. So, uh, metal stand those for us bronze. Your bronze

metal winner is. All right. So the, so just don't clear. The goal is the most ridiculous. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, I'm going to give you the bronze. All right. Yes. All right. Like, I didn't see

the game. I don't know the game, but yeah, if he was out there just dragging around and yeah,

I'm not mad at you for that. Uh, well, just so we're clear, I said a guy cost him the game, a game

that they won. Yeah, but that's a minor detail. I've probably done the same in here going like,

you know, screaming about a guy and like, we lost the game because I'm like, well, we won the game,

but it feels like we lost. I like it. It's a new segment. Who would we have blamed

if that team lost? We should do that. Yes. That's a pretty good one. And silver.

All right. So silver, I got to give to my man 162 and now.

Because I have a little bit of like, we're eight minutes from Philly's first pitch. Like,

I kind of feel like they're going to go 162 another year. So I'm, you know, I do. It's not that

crazy. I think they do lose today. I think that they're going 161 and one. Yes. Yes.

Yeah. Pretty ridiculous. But, but in the grand scheme of things, I mean,

when you cross sports into like social norms and you're going like, way out like, we're anybody,

again, if my 13 year old daughter listened then and heard somebody say 162 and

knows she wouldn't blame. She heard that. Like, wait, your mother's white like that.

The tasks from reality. So those are the three staples of sports where you got from those three

calls. It was collars that you have to talk down and just for your own sanity, just put them in

their place. Yes. And then you have what was the second one again? Oh, then you have older,

usually white gentlemen out of touch with reality. Yeah. But also getting older and just confused by

the entire story. Yeah. And then you have just forgetting to team one or less. Not a big deal. You're

right. But Alders was not getting back on defense that night. I mean, all right. Since,

since the Phillies start their season here coming up in about seven minutes, we have a keep three

cut five for your coach. So Taylor's going to take us through this. I am certain it's going to be

Philadelphia related. I say that because I sent them the topic. Go ahead, Taylor. So coach,

we're going to have eight names. It's keep three cut five. You get one name at a time. You,

Izzy and Stugots will have to come to some sort of consensus to determine if we're keeping

or cutting said Philly. It's all time Phillies. And just to be clear, it's not a top eight.

It's just a random eight Phillies. The dangerous game. So we're only keeping three of these five. Yeah.

We can have Dickie. Yeah. But if that's the first name and you take them, I mean, you know,

Mike Schmidt might come and you don't have any room left, you know. I got it. I got it. All right.

So go ahead, Taylor. The first name up. Chase Altley. Oh, remember what we said. You got to be

careful about keeping the first one no matter how attractive, no matter how many episodes. That's

always sunny. He's been on since Phil loves the Phillies the most here. Okay. Why don't you and I vote

and if there's a decision to be made, there you go. Coach Martelli Jr. will make it. So chase

up. Lee's an all-time great. He's an all-time great Philadelphia Phillies and all-time great period.

Fantastic player. A player that as a met fan, I hated. I would keep chase up Lee. I mean,

I would cut him. And this is more game philosophy than anything else. I know there are a lot of good

Phillies. And so Chase is a good one. But I would cut him, which means we got to go to the tiebreaker.

Yes, coach. Well, he's the first name that came to mind. Obviously Schmidt is legendary.

Here's what I'll say about Chase Altley. Anybody in Philadelphia is keeping chase up Lee. So I'm

keeping chase up Lee. And I'll give you a big reason why my oldest is 16 years old. He was born

during that run. I was in the hospital watching the NLCS against the Dodgers in October 2009.

When we were still living in Philadelphia, the number of chases his age, he had three in his class

alone. So that man has a name called multiple boys and probably some girls in Philadelphia named

there for him. Yeah, that's the Jalen row is a major league based on. There were quite a few

Carson's for Carson. What's his name in that? Carson wins. Yeah, that's a work out well. Yeah,

they should have made them Nick, right? What did you go with Cliff Lee Martelli? Yeah, Chase

Altley is a clear key to me. We're going to have a hard decision here coming up. I'm sure

that one's an easy one. All right. Next one. Cliff Lee Martelli. Go ahead, Taylor.

The next name up. Placido Polanco. Oh, boy. That's an easy guy. Listen, great utility guy,

great infielder. Give you a big base hit every now and then singles hit or more than a power

hitter. But I like there has to be six better names than Polanco. In terms of all time, great

feelings. A great name, though. Placido Polanco. If it sounds amazing, if we were just doing all

time, great Philly names, Polanco would be a no brainer. Yes, I think I would have to cut,

but I feel like we always got to go to Phil because if he overrides our two cuts as a Philly guy,

yes, this is the one time where the one vote can override the time. Yes. Yeah, you guys are right.

If this was a utility player, absolutely, utility utility player draft was a big,

big fan of his, but there's definitely two better names on this. Also, if it was a hotel,

I'd go there. The Polanco. It sounds like a hotel down on South. Sounds like five stars. Yeah,

for sure. Put it on the pole, Taylor. Does the hotel Polanco sound like it's a possible

one. The hotel Placido Polanco. Does it sound like a five star hotel? Next name here, Taylor.

The next name of Pat the Batboro. Oh, wow. You am legend. Such a, like, that's the only,

I would say rival that I know of to you, F baseball as a Gator baseball guy. Yes, Pat Burrell.

Yeah, we hit that dude. You have to think who else is is still out there, whether it be,

you know, Steve Carlton, Michael Jack Schmitz, John Cruck, where any of them nicknamed Pat the Bat.

Listen, I say no on Pat the Bat. Is he saying yes? I'm going to say yes. I'm going to make this

decision up to fill, leave it up to fill. All right. Well, I hate to go against his, but I got to say no.

He was a legend on the field. He was probably more of a legend off the field from some of the

stories that you hear. Yeah. No, I've heard that too. I don't, he wouldn't be, if we were just doing

a draft, he wouldn't be my left fielder, you know, of all the left fielders. So I, there's got to be

two better. Right. There has to be, but there might not be. We'll see. We'll find out. That's the

danger of the game. Go ahead, Taylor. Name number four. Jimmy Rollins.

Man, it's going to be tough. Keep it him off. I just think of that one video, Pat Burrell,

where he had somebody in like a leather mask behind him, just show up out of nowhere. I'm sorry.

I'm getting off the subject here. I think it's with the giant. But yes, a lot of kids roaming

around Philadelphia with the name Jimmy. I mean, my brother, but he was born way before,

there's a lot of Jimmy's, but not because of Jimmy Rollins, but man, he's a hard one to keep off.

I mean, he was an MVP. Yeah. Right. Yes. Listen, I'm not keeping him off. So I would keep,

man, the danger of this is he's going to give us Steve Carlton. He's going to give us my

catchments. Oh, God. I'm going to keep I'm going to keep Jimmy. Man, MVP. Yeah. I want to cut him.

Only because you think they were better than me. I think Taylor is a son of a gun.

All right. What do you think, coach? I mean, we're halfway through. This is like the,

you did a hell of a job. This is the perfect halfway. This is the perfect halfway through names.

He's really thinking about this. This one's going to haunt me. One way or another,

it's going to haunt me. Yes, it is. Yes. Yeah, because someone else is going to be left off, right?

Keep him. Oh, it's a key. Wow. So I mean, Jay Roll, like he called the shot. He said,

we're going to win the whole thing. You're right. They won the whole thing. Yes. Question. If you

would have known and you could only keep one chase or Jimmy, who do you keep? Oh, good question.

I would keep chase. Okay. Wow. He's got, he's got the hearts of Philly fans. I get a story.

He told us. So you guys have kept chase ugly, kept Jimmy Rollins. Four names left.

Have to keep just one now. Wow. The fifth name up. John Kruck. Krucky. Krucky. That's an easy cut.

I'm sorry. Such a good hitter too, though, and a Philly legend. Philadelphia loves Kruck, right?

Phil. They love John Krucky. He does the TV now with Tom McCarthy, and it is that alone.

It doesn't matter what's going on on the field, just listening to him. Yes.

I was just about to say he might be a better broadcaster. If this was a list of broadcasters

that do Philly games, I would say absolute keep. He's so good. But there's better out there.

Oh, this has to be three more after this. This has to be a cut. All right. I'm, I'm cutting him.

Yeah. John Kruck would cut John Krucky. You're right. There you go. Right. He would be offended.

That's the way we should know. He would look at you like you were crazy. That's why he's a legend.

I'll put it on the pole, Taylor, with John Kruck. Not take himself and keep three cut five.

The next name up. So three names left. Got to keep one. Ryan Howard. I knew he was going to be

on this list. Yeah, I forgot about him. He was just on the show with us. Yeah. But that's why I

knew he was going to be on this list because he's been on with us twice. I mean, MVP, all the famer.

Schmidt and Carlton are still out there. Or maybe not. I have no idea. Right. They technically

are still out there. Well, they are, but I so is baked McBride. Yeah. And Marlon Burr.

Darren Dalton. I'm sorry to Ryan Howard, but that's a cut for me.

I think one of these last two names is going to be somebody better. All right. I'm going to cut

them. I'm cutting them, coach. Yeah. It's a hard one to cut. Yeah. I don't think we can keep those

three guys. They were the cornerstone of obviously that run. Yes. I don't think he'd keep those

three guys together. Oh, yeah. He deserves to be on there. And obviously, a friend of the show

is hard to, hard to turn down. Yes. God. I forgot about. I got, I got to say cut unfortunately.

I'm excited about number seven here. It's usually a big name right here. Go ahead. Two names

left. Yeah. Have to keep one. Don't glandville.

I sense sense a little worry coming. Yeah. Well, I am worried. Right. I have no idea what's coming

next. I'm tempted to keep glandville because it could be worse. I'm going to cut them. That's an

easy cut for me. All right. Easy cut, coach. Yeah. We got 10 grad. You know, does does a good job

on TV. But yeah, we're we got better out there. I know we do. Yeah. Well, we'll tell you what's

going to come through here. We'll see. All right. So you guys have kept chase up Lee. You guys have

kept Jimmy Rollins. You've cut Placido, Polanco, Pat the Batboro, John Crook, Ryan Howard and Doug

Glandville. You put your chips to the eighth and final name. The eighth and final name.

Mike Schmidt. Yeah. Michael Jack. Big sigh of relief.

I mean, I think we end up looking like geniuses. Yeah. But Taylor could have made us look

like idiots if he wanted to. So coach, Mikey A is not in today. Mikey A normally runs this game.

Yes. He's switching his list as the list goes on. Yes. He 1000% would have gave you Jeremy

Giambi there. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been about right. That would have been about right.

And then the next time you see Pat the bat, you have to explain it to him. You know what I mean?

Some of some of the moves the Phillies made over the year. They probably would have done that too.

They would have traded Mike Schmidt for for Jeremy Giambi as well.

I can ask you a Philly sports question because he had a big game last night. How are we feeling

about Joel and B these days? So here is my take. This qualifies as a hot take, right? A couple

years ago, forget what year it was. I said to my son, my oldest Phillip. I said, this is the time

right now they should trade and be today. This was however many years ago. I said, they'll get two or

three all-star level guys for him. At that point, he had played the most games of his career in a

year. I was like, there's no way he's going to win. Great player. I think he's just one of those

like, he's just going to be one of those guys that goes down as a great, but not a champion,

doesn't win it, you know, all that kind of thing. It's just going to be, yeah, great player puts

up incredible numbers, you know, has a couple of records, things like that, but not a guy that goes

down with multiple championships or anything. I've been saying for two years, it's time to trade

joll mb and I think right now it might be a little too late, but yeah, could you imagine with

Tyres Maxi and, I don't know, a Stefan castle from a draft, you know, a couple of years ago,

that would be, you know, change at the timeline. So you said it two years ago, coach, how long ago

did you say it? Because that's what sports radio was all about. Did you say it before he's real

said it? Okay, but you said it out loud to somebody. I said to my son and I was like, I know it sounds

crazy, but that now's the time. Right now is the time. Right. Get out. You get whoever you're going

to get an all-star, you're going to get a couple picks, like, you know, but I get it. It's hard.

He's just a hard one. Like guys like that are so unique that it makes it really difficult,

because you don't have like any type of blueprint for like shack back in, you know, back in the day,

like there was a blueprint for like low post physical imposing back to the basket. Right. And at

that time, the game was kind of built that way. And B, there's just no real blueprint. And it's like,

how do you, who plays around him, who plays well around him, how do you fit him? And then obviously,

with the injury stuff, it's, is he going to be playing? When he plays, he's great. It's just,

you can't get them in a game zone. Coach, if I told you we can get you a Philadelphia guest,

who's the guy from Philadelphia sports history that you would most want to talk to?

That is a great question. Yes. Barkley, Iverson, Dr.

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Taylor, what are we thinking about today?

Oh, this thing. Come on. You know the routine. We got imaging. First we need that imaging.

Oh, tired Taylor.

You know that segment? Talk about it Tuesday on Hawkman, Cratter and Solero.

This is like that. But bigger and better and 48 hours later. This is think about it Thursday.

I should go to the imaging there. It's the best imaging we have.

We use 95% of our budget or yearly budget on that imaging.

I like how it's like their segment. Talk about it Tuesday, but it's think about it so we don't

actually have to talk at all. No, we could just sit here and think it's terrible radio.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm good with it. Just the name of the segment.

Think out loud. Yeah. And I could have went before them and done

mullet over Mondays. But I chose to think about it Thursday smart.

All right, so go ahead. The floor is yours Taylor. We could discuss it Wednesdays.

They're going to grab Wednesdays. I'm telling you right now. It's the only day of the week

that's left. And I'm telling you right now, Hawk is going to grab it. What's wonder about it Wednesday?

Taylor mullet over what was it mullet over Monday? That sounds like mullet over Monday.

Like I heard the mullet haircut. Sorry, my decision. Good decision.

So I was watching the I was watching. I wish you had less.

I'm going to be honest. It's useless. It's useless information for me.

That's what I do. Yes, that's it. It is what you do, Irish Sam.

That's true. He just disarms you with how useless it is.

He throws a dead fish in your lab.

Hey, I see you guys an article about a Philly's fan who threw up on another Philly's fan. How about that?

I was watching the I hate Christian Latener 30 for 30 this past week.

You cut the mic up. Who was the first athlete or person in sports? You can remember hating.

That's a great thing to think about it. I would have been asked that question before we got on the

air. But something to think about. I can stall for you. Yes. As a Yankee fan growing up,

baseball was one, two, three for me. So the Yankees were my holy grail, no margarcy appara.

I hated no margarcy appara. I hated anybody that compared no marct to derriger, no mar I hated.

And his at bat routine is just so in 40 minutes. Yeah, like your things are already clipped up or

whatever, just annoying. I do have one now that I've actually thought about it. I went back in time

and I was like, who have I, because I've hated a lot of people. And I started thinking about my

basketball fandom. And I was like, well, wait a second. I was a fan of something else before

basketball. And it was football. And it was the Miami Dolphins. When I was seven years old and

they were in the Super Bowl, my parents had their first football party. Probably their last one

actually now that I think about it. Joe Montana, I hated that dude so much because he basically was

everything that Dan Marino should have been. Yes. Because he got all the Super Bowls at all the

glory. And Dan Marino's over here sitting no running game and no defense. It has to lose all

these playoff games. And Joe Montana is out there winning everything. They didn't play each other

that much for me to be like, I want that guy, you know, his knees to go out. Like I used to say about

Michael Jordan. But Joe Montana was the first athlete I remember hating. Wow. Thanks for bringing

that memory. Yeah. Montana says if Marino played on those teams, he would have won six Super Bowls.

Yeah. Don't say that. Man, it takes me on. Not true. Bored out Riccardo. Go ahead.

Alan Houston. He was far down my list, but he was up there. Yeah. They broke your hearts

in the next back in the day. I just like to let trails free well more. I don't know why. I think

it was because Alan Houston looked like a nice guy. Wasn't it Chris Childs, the one that

heat fans hated the most? Yeah, that was just the fight they got into. And PJ Brown flipped him over,

but he didn't really wasn't good enough for us to hate him. Dan, do you have a, do you have a

first athlete that you hated? You don't hate much, Dan. I mean, no, I don't, but actually I do.

Calbert Cheney and Greg Graham of Indiana basketball. Bob Knight, they're, uh, you know,

I thought he was saying the wizards.

Who hates a wizard? Indiana basketball. It's the same thing. Yes. Uh, I'm not going to

I was. Oh, I got this. Ron men was up there on my list. I really hate him so much. Yeah.

Mine. This is, this is a tough one. Can I, can I go coaching or anybody in sports? Yeah.

Rich Coatite, the Jets had coach. Wow. You hated your own guy. He's the worst coach in the history of

the NFL. And of course, he was the Jets coach. The athlete, if I'm doing someone who's playing

in the actual games, it would be Wayne Gretzky. Okay. The great one. The great one. The

great one. The Islanders won four Stanley Cubs. Gretzky was coming for everything. They had

to drive for five of the Islanders. They made it back to the Stanley Cup against the Oilers.

I think the Oilers swept them the second time around and Gretzky took off and became the greatest

hockey player that has ever lived. Good Lord. I hate it. Sermon Thomas. So much. Good one.

Every time he touched the ball, it was seven yards for the bills. I hated JJ Redick. Oh, yeah.

That was an easy one. I mean, it doesn't. I was actually liked Kristen Layner because you brought

him up to start this segment. I actually liked him. I was a Duke fan. I love that. Yes.

Did you hate Woj more than Redick, though? Chris Wojowski. I hated that guy.

He was slapped the floor aggressively. He did not deserve that kind of hate. JJ Redick was kind of a jerk.

He was on Grayson Island levels. More. I hated Steve Wojowski. Chris too.

What a Steve. Adrian from which Wojowski did we say?

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