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Oh, we have a lot to get to today.

Think about it Thursday.

How about that?

A new feature here, produced by Taylor, very excited for it, Israel Gutierrez, back at

South Florida, along with Taylor, Mikey Aink, Connecticut on the Zoom.

I am in Chicago, of course, for the Big Ten basketball tournament.

Naturally.

Taylor, put it on the pole.

Did Italy select a better American baseball team that America did?

Very quickly.

They're becoming America's team.

They really are.

They are America's team.

I don't want to hear about it.

They American.

All of them.

Is that one guy from Venezuela?

Yeah.

Well, we'll get to sound from a team Italy or team America in just a second.

I want that sound.

Miami of Ohio lost today and a lot of people are going to start debating whether or not

they deserve to be in the NCAA tournament.

This is a homer call, Israel, if I've ever heard one.

Let's get that call, Iowa Sam, and play for Israel Gutierrez.

This is Miami of Ohio right after they lost to UMass.

At the red hot scum to Cleveland, 31 to 0, and they get beat today, 87 to 83 by a very

good UMass team.

That very good UMass team is 17 to 14.

They're very good.

Yeah.

Everybody wants to know.

Yes.

What do you guys do with Miami of Ohio?

Bruce Pearl said that they don't belong to the tournament and then he reversed track.

He went the other way on it and said they do belong to the tournament and now they've

lost here.

They have to go undefeated in the regular season.

They have lost to UMass and now people are going to start to question whether or not they

are tournament worthy.

So Bruce Pearl stood atst it and we're going to say Bruce Pearl was right regardless of

what happened.

We're at that point.

Hey, Bruce Pearl was right.

I don't know much about this Miami of Ohio team stew.

I know that you know something about every team that's on the bubble.

So did you want to potentially break this team down for us or just like and for me on

what really makes this Miami of Ohio team tick?

Not really.

I would just say in the overall that a team that went undefeated during the regular season

deserves to have a you know, have a slip up and they did against UMass.

I will tell you about UMass, the minute men.

That's I'm telling you right now, senior guard play a great coach, not a good coach.

He is a great coach and they don't play.

I know they're called the minute men, but this team plays 40 minutes.

They really do 40 minutes of swarming defense.

One of the best defensive teams in the country and don't be surprised if they win this

conference tournament, get the automatic bid and hopefully we will have a rematch between

UMass and Miami of Ohio, possibly in the first or second round of the tournaments.

And coaching UMass, it's Frank Martin, who's been there done that.

Oh, he said, I think he's been to a final four.

Has he not?

Frank Martin.

South Carolina.

Yeah.

Easy.

Frank Martin was.

Mm hmm.

He's a South Florida.

Look it up.

Yeah.

I know he was a bouncer at one point, right?

No, but it tracks.

Yeah.

Is he or we still fired up here about Bam out of bio.

I was concerned about you yesterday.

I was, after we left the show, I was a little worried about you.

But it seems like everyone is still debating the validity of a man who scored 83 points

at an NBA game.

I do.

I kind of love it now.

I don't really care what the opinions are.

And though, you know, Gordon Hayward might have had the dumbest thing I've ever heard

a basketball player ever say, say, but I don't really care that much because he's got

to be in the conversation regardless until I'm loving this idea that people are looking

at it and are just like, all right, I'm going to settle this.

And I'm going to score 84 and make the proper person show up on the record books.

So like Victor Wimbanyama, go ahead.

I challenge you.

See what that looks like when you're getting quadruple teamed after you have maybe 50 because

everybody knows that's the only way we're going to keep Vic from doing it.

There's just a lot that has made me sort of laugh.

But overall, I'm enjoying the fact that Bam out of bio is forcing himself into basketball.

Let's say avid basketball fans minds as one of not just the current great players, but

somebody who just did something semi historic.

And also drives me kind of crazy to gats and everybody's calling it Kobe's record.

What do you mean?

It was second.

Right.

Well, it's second all time.

Right.

But if you record Bam, if Bam didn't break any records the other day, yes.

But as you stated yesterday, who saw will do it?

Nobody.

And that's your that's your overall.

It's like, Hey, if you didn't watch the game.

If you don't watch the heat game the other night, I don't want to hear your comments on

Pam and a bio and how he went about getting his 83.

And I will tell you this is you just an update.

I still haven't watched the first three quarters, three to half quarters.

And I still haven't watched the last six and a half minutes, but I will tell you, yeah,

I will tell you that I do understand why people are criticizing this.

I know you're vehemently against it, but I do understand what?

This is why I haven't really asked you your opinion on the matter because I haven't

watched it.

Yes.

Yes.

Somebody who did, and I'm guessing he went back and watched it, Lou Williams had an opinion

that made me smile because it's just like not only is he a basketball player, obviously

a former six man of the year, but somebody who actually studied the game or the performance

by BAM and gave what most basketball people would say is a fair analysis and Taylor, if

you could play that.

Super impressive.

I got, I got no complaints.

I got no criticisms.

Listen, when you subscribe to doing silly things, you play silly games, you win silly prizes,

you know, Washington, they, they subscribe to trying to stop him from getting, they look

like the 81 points or just trying to stop him from continuing to score the way that he

was scoring.

You know, we can make a case about the 36 free throws.

Those were legitimate files.

They couldn't stop them.

They were filing them.

Then he shot the free throws for it.

I didn't see a lot of flopping.

If anything, a lot of those are supposed to be M ones.

If you asked my opinions, a lot of those files that he were getting, they were

supposed to be finished because he was fouled in the act of shooting a lot of those files.

If you look at it, there was a little more at the start at the, the front end of that

where he just talked about the, the type of game BAM was having, especially in the first

quarter, called it bully ball, which essentially, I mean, BAM is just, it's such a perfect sort

of player to do it in this day where he gives it the old school toughness, right, where

he's just going to take everything to the hole, but also is going to pull up and hit a

three pointer as a six foot nine muscle guy.

But that, when you hear Lou Williams talk about it, even with the files called there and

sort of giving legitimacy to those foul calls, I think, was refreshing to hear.

I'm glad you chose a piece of sound from somebody who agrees with everything that you said

yesterday who was on your side.

Let's play sound of someone who doesn't agree with you who agrees with Gordon Hayward.

Here is the great legendary Stephen A Smith.

Well, I was, I was told to hold on a second.

Jesus.

I said it up perfectly.

I mean, my God, I tell you what Gordon Hayward actually said if you want to hear it.

Uh, yeah.

Well, I'd rather hear Stephen A. He has it now.

Hold on.

Let's, uh, why don't you read the Gordon Hayward quote and then we'll play the Stephen

A Smith sound.

That is a good idea.

He's real goodie areas, although I did have it set up perfectly.

Go ahead.

He started off by saying, I love bam as a player.

And so you know, the disrespect is about to follow.

I think he's one of the best two way center.

Don't go out too far on that limb, Gordon.

One of the best one of the best two way centers we have in the league.

But for him to take over Kobe spot as the second all time ever, it just doesn't feel

great for the game.

Okay.

Now Iowa Sam here is the great legendary Stephen A Smith disagreeing with Israel and

agreeing with Gordon.

That doesn't mean we're allowed to put on blinders and ignore the fact that you had every

supposed to challenge and cause just to give him more bites at the apple.

You had the Miami heat, fouling people intentionally just to give them more bites at the apple,

disrupting the flow of the game.

Hell, the Washington Wizards were complicit.

And let him out of bio do what he was doing.

Now that's not supposed to happen.

And not only that, you shoot as many free throws as your dead field goes, two things can

be true.

We can celebrate bam out of bio for what he accomplished, even though we know it's an

extreme aberration because he's not a scorer.

But we can also acknowledge that Gordon Haywood had a point when he's talking about what's

not good for the game because of the man in which it was allowed to happen.

First of all, yeah, that is not the way I read the Gordon Hayward quote.

Right.

The Gordon Hayward quote said, it's not good to have him in second place.

By the way, second place, Ald, what other sport are we celebrating a second place record

so much?

Are you saying Stephen A can't read?

I mean, what are you saying there?

Be clear.

I mean, I'm saying how I read it.

You might have more information than I do, I don't even know.

But I don't think that, yeah, so I said Gordon Hayward saying that bam out of bio shouldn't

be on that list is not great for the game.

I think is ridiculous.

And so I don't think that that's what Gordon Hayward was saying.

But whatever Stephen A said there sounds like somebody again who still hasn't watched

the game and still pointing at the free throws without recognizing they were legitimate

free throws.

And like you want to nitpick about the last four points, which is where all the, and

bam was basically saying don't foul, please don't foul.

And he left the game with a minute and a half or whatever it was.

So they would have had the extra possessions anyway.

It's just all bleep and nonsense.

Yeah, I feel like when someone saying don't foul, don't foul, they're actually saying

foul.

It's look at me, Lewy type stuff.

I don't like it at all.

Yeah, it is.

And you know what Taylor just sent me a text and he's right.

I am not going to allow you and bam, even though I took you there to, I was just asking

if you were okay to hijack today's show.

I can't do two more hours of this.

I simply, Mark Hockman had the best take.

It's on Stugotson Company.

The show we do before this live show where Hock said everyone in the NBA, all the fans

get mad when players don't play, when players don't play enough minutes.

And now we have a guy who wanted to play an entire four quarters wanted to go after

a record and fans are still upset.

And so the NBA just can't wait.

No, I don't want you to comment on it.

No, no, I just want to say.

I'm glad that you brought me here.

Only to pull me away from it and yell at me and then tell me that Mark Hockman and a

podcast I am not on had the back.

Oh, great.

Appreciate it.

Oh, yes, best take of the week.

No, not about it.

877-99 on Fox.

That is 877-99 on Fox.

I am going to ask the listeners to save us from Bam out of bio.

You brought me here.

You brought me here.

From Israel, Goody Erez, from Stephen A Smith, from Mark Hockman, from Gordon Hayward.

I don't want to discuss this anymore.

The man scored 83 points, period, end of discussion.

That is it.

We are done.

Israel thinks he's right and everyone else thinks they are right.

Why?

Because sports radio.

So listeners, I need your help.

Get me away from this topic.

877-99 on Fox.

Israel is going to kill me.

He is absolutely going to kill me.

777-99 on Fox.

That is 877-99 on Fox.

I want to spend the rest of the afternoon talking about the Italian-American baseball

tape.

Great.

I also gave you several other things we can talk about.

You brought me back here.

Oh, I just want to make sure you're OK.

It was really just more concern over a friend.

That's it.

I'm a little worried about the Houston Rockets, but outside of that I don't care about

them.

Said you want another topic and gave you another topic.

I want to talk baseball.

Do you have a reader?

I do have a reader.

Do you want another topic?

I also would like to talk about, would you not like the name Smiley?

Smiley Kaufman is one of the announcers in golf.

And I don't know.

I think it's a lot of pressure to have that name.

You always have to be smiling.

Well, I do always have to be smiling.

Not only do you always have to smile, you always have to have like a pleasant personality

at all times.

And if you're not, if you're mopeys, everybody's just going to come up to you and be like,

well, that's not Smiley.

Yes.

Taylor, put it on the pole, please.

If you're Smiley, if your first name is Smiley, can you frown?

A lot of pressure.

His first name is not even Smiley.

His actually Carter Smiley Kaufman.

But he goes faster.

Would you rather have the first name Carter or Smiley?

I'm out of that.

When he's sad, he goes by Carter.

But all of the time, he's Smiley.

But he's frowning.

It's Carter.

Would you like to have the name Smiley?

I don't know.

It's a very good question.

He's coming from someone whose last name is Wiener.

And it is tormented me my entire life.

But Smiley seems like a benign, fun name to have.

No.

I mean, man, I'm so glad you didn't have a boy and call him Smiley Wiener.

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It is a think about it Thursday here on Fox Sports Radio.

We'll get to it in just a second.

Israel, I want to play some sound for you and get your reaction to it.

Okay.

We are not taking a stroll down audio avenue.

We are just stopping at one house.

Okay.

Stop at the corner.

Eric to cost this house.

Yes.

So I want to play this sound from the Ravens GM.

This was after this was after the whole debacle that went on with the Raiders and then

I'm signing a Trey Hendrix and here's him explaining it away.

Nobody is more upset about this than me gutted by it, actually, a big regret for me.

But we will move on as a football team and I think there's many, many opportunities

for us to grow as a team, to become a better team, to build a roster and to be the team

that we want to be.

That was unnecessary and untruthful clarification there.

You're saying he's lying?

You could just say nobody's more upset about it than me.

It's already a lie.

There's a lot of Ravens fans that are more upset about it than you.

But then to throw in the gutted, actually, like the actually on top of it is like, oh,

the man has no guts anymore.

He's been gutted by this.

No, it's the same thing.

You feel bad.

It is what it is.

There was no need for the work gutted.

I would prefer if he was almost passive aggressors where passive aggressive where he was like,

you know what, we're going to move on with this football team and both our first round

picks that we kept and the star outside linebacker that we signed.

We're just going to do it that way.

But we're gutted.

Yep.

Yep.

He should win an Oscar this Sunday.

I mean, seriously.

Got it.

Is that a phrase?

Did we steal that from the British gutted?

Are we just using that now?

Have we been using that for a long time?

I don't think we've been using that that long.

I don't know.

It's a good question.

I don't have an answer for it.

It's a think about it Thursday here and Taylor is going to take us through this.

Now, we had Mark Hockman on Stagots and Company.

We also did an episode of Wids Stagots and Hock today.

Mark Hockman does a local radio show in Miami and he does a talk about it Tuesday segment

and Taylor loves the segment but came up with a spin off.

Taylor, take it away and explain to Israel, to Mike E.A., to Iowa Sam, to everyone back

in Sherman Oaks, just exactly what this game is.

You know about the segment?

Talk about it Tuesday on Hockman, Crowder, and Samuero.

This is like that.

But bigger and better and 48 hours later.

This is think about it Thursday.

Yes.

Who's the voices?

I don't know.

The Fox Sports Radio.

No, that's Bob, our big voice guy.

He doesn't fly out.

Bob, the big voice.

That is not a big voice, Bob.

Why are you laughing at the notion of it being Vito, like what is happening there?

Because Vito is who I was putting contact with to create.

Vito made him.

Bob voiced it.

Bob does everything for us.

So Taylor, you just assume that since you spoke to Vito about this, that he was the one

putting his voice behind it.

Correct.

I mean, Vito's got a nice voice.

It's just not his voice.

Oh, there you go.

Okay.

All right.

So let me be the first to welcome all of you to the first.

Think about it Thursday.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Wow.

There is a part of it.

You didn't need to do it.

No.

How would you guys power rank the following three things?

Wow.

Waffles, pancakes, and French toast.

Wow.

Wow.

Just thinking about it.

That's all we're supposed to do, right?

Nope, we're talking about it.

We're talking about it.

The segment's called Think About it Thursday.

It would be great if we just all stopped and we thought about it.

It was that error.

Can I tell you that I had one of these for breakfast this morning.

And it will also be my answer for the top of these three.

Okay.

All right.

We have to power rank these three.

So give me the three again here, Taylor.

Waffles, pancakes, and French toast.

Wow.

This is tough.

See, I think French toast has a little bit of an advantage here,

because you can do some more things with it.

Obviously pancakes, you can put ingredients inside of it.

But the French toast has egg.

It's just heavy.

You could throw a little bit of like cinnamon in there on top of it.

But I feel like it's, it's an unfair advantage.

Would you guys agree that waffle seems to have the highest variance of the three?

Yes.

I think you can have a terrible waffle.

Terrible waffle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I'm a bad note.

Right.

Because of that, I go waffles one.

French toast to pancakes.

Okay.

Man, I am torn here.

I really am.

You know, this is right up my wheelhouse.

Yeah.

No, we're going to go to you last.

We're going to send it.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes, that's what the, yes.

I was going to go to you last, because I was, I was trying to buy you some time to,

no one knows your wheelhouse like I do.

Okay.

Let's go to Iowa Sam.

I was Sam.

Right.

Yes.

I want you to power rank these three.

Okay.

All right.

Waffles, pancakes, and French toast.

Go ahead.

I am going to put waffles at number one, because if you have all these different toppings,

waffles also can be nice and crunchy and kind of hold all those toppings.

It's a nice texture.

I'm going to put pancakes at two.

You can put toppings on pancakes as well.

Sometimes those pancakes can be kind of soggy.

But you can put it, you can probably eat a whole stack of pancakes and still go for more.

And then I do like French toast, but I'm putting it at three, because it usually is just powdered sugar, butter, and syrup, whatever it is.

You could probably throw some peanut butter on there or something.

But French toast is probably the last thing I'd rank there.

So waffles, pancakes, French toast.

Can we just, all agree that you could throw toppings on all three of them?

You can.

You absolutely can.

You should probably just rate it by the actual thing itself.

It's waffles.

Yes.

I enjoyed the breakdown.

I was saying, let's go to Bordeaux Riccardo.

Bordeaux Riccardo.

Power rank to three for us.

I'm also going waffles number one.

Clearly.

Chicken and waffles.

No one's mentioned that, which is a phenomenal dish.

Yeah.

Then we have, I'm going to go pancakes and then French toast.

French toast is just too much.

I feel like it's too sweet and too much in the morning.

I agree.

Let's go to executive producer Jason, who's in Sherman Oaks.

Power rank to three for us, if you don't mind.

At the top of my list is pancakes.

Nothing is better than pancakes.

Really.

Then waffles than French toast.

Wow.

I'm a man.

So I don't order French toast.

Wow.

Wow.

I don't follow you.

If you think of powdered sugar on it.

Too fancy for Jason.

Yeah.

Powdered sugar.

Let's go to what you could.

Yeah.

Let's go to update anchor Dan.

Update anchor Dan.

Would you mind ranking?

Power ranking to three for us.

Absolutely.

If anybody asks me what my favorite dish that my wife makes.

It's her French toast, numero uno.

Wow.

Pancakes, two.

Yes.

Waffles, three.

Wow.

Can you just clarify for me, Rook?

You are a man.

I am a man.

OK.

All right.

Contrary to what Jason thinks, I am a man.

I'm a man.

Man.

Dan, the contrarian, man.

Wow.

So Dan, what were you pros?

You were going through the whole thing there.

And you had to say French toast first.

And the event that your wife was listening to this.

It's good.

It's really.

It's top notch.

If it's anybody else's, it may be pancakes number one.

And if I want to get on the wrong side of Ricardo,

I think chicken and waffles are overrated.

Wow.

Yeah.

Damn fine.

My man.

Can I add one thing here?

No, you're done.

One thing, just one thing about French toast.

Is it Andy Reed, Andy Reed's favorite sandwich

is the Monte Cristo, which is basically French toast

with ham and Swiss added in there.

And it's like the salty and the sweet.

If you've got some cranberry dipping sauce, very good.

Monte Cristo, number four.

Back to you.

I've never, I've never seen it.

I would say I'm this efficient.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is.

We allow it's not my guillaume.

My guillaume should array.

We'll house off.

Yeah, these do these to do the Monte Cristo delicious.

Yeah, I love a good Monte Cristo idea.

Taylor, power right to three for us.

Because of the variance, I am going waffles at number one.

I'm considering all these teams for all these items at their best

and waffles for me, clear number one spot.

Then I'm going French toast to pancakes three.

Great.

All right.

Sounds like a catalyst.

Yeah.

I think I chose for this game.

Starting to be called Power Rank Thursday, maybe.

Think about it Thursday.

No.

Because think about it Thursday.

I could have asked anything there.

Yes.

I could have asked anything there.

Next week, my LL.

Power Rank.

Yes.

Yes.

No waffling for me here.

Waffles number one.

How about that?

Waffles are great.

If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have said no.

Don't like waffles.

But things change as you get older.

You know, taste buds, palettes, all that stuff.

And now waffles is my favorite thing.

I don't like to be full.

I hate being full.

And you know what makes me full?

French toast.

Get French toast out of here.

Okay.

Give me waffles.

Give me a nice light pancake.

Second.

French toast.

Third.

How about that?

Yeah.

You're not getting them out of here.

You're just ranking them.

One through three.

Listen.

Listen.

I thought about it.

Because where it's a think about a Thursday.

And what I thought about is I cannot say.

I cannot stand French toast.

Never liked it.

Never will like it.

And it doesn't deserve to be on any top three list of minds.

Wait.

But then you'll eat a Monte Cristo then?

Yeah.

Well, you know what?

I got chicken myself all the time.

I know.

Yeah.

Okay.

Different, different, different, you know.

Yeah.

Meals.

Yes.

Yeah.

Can we agree that we might all have different power rankings.

But whatever Mikey says will be the show's power.

Well, it's true.

Yes.

Because what, what, what student let him get out earlier was the reason

it's right up his wheelhouse is because his father has owned a

diner for years and years.

And so, I mean, obviously, these are the 40 samples of a

diner.

Yep.

40 years he's owned it.

And one of you nailed it.

Absolutely.

It was me.

And that person is definitely not in Sherman Oaks.

I don't know what they're doing out there.

But you guys are wrong.

Waffles are the clear number one.

I said number one.

Talk to me Mikey.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

What they feed you in Sherman Oaks go have an avocado smoothie.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But it's actually a little alpha.

It's number one.

Number two for versatility alone is French toast.

And number three is pancakes.

Blend.

They need help.

Sorry.

Definitive rankings.

Wow.

You know what?

A little tiny advantage that waffles and pancakes also have is they

have small versions that are perfectly acceptable.

Silver dollar pancakes.

Little and little mini waffles, which I had one this morning.

We are going to look back in 20 years and be like, think about it

and if there's a safe sports radio?

Yep, we are.

Put it on the poll.

The hockey n cried are going to get no credit.

It's going to jump directly to us.

20 years we're thinking about.

220 years from now.

Are we going to think back to think about it Thursday?

And it's saving sports radio.

I agree with you.

You saved the show today.

To think about it thirty day?

Twenty years from now?

going to be thinking about this. This segment was saved, a save sports radio 20 years ago by Taylor

Mipolis. Well done Taylor. Yeah. Is this the thing you're proudest of on your resume?

Yeah, probably would be the first line. Is this the end of the game because we still have about five

minutes to film? Oh, we do. I could fill it with. No, is he? Listen, if we're going to take the

listeners inside the show, this is the time we're supposed to break. We just never do.

Because we're busy thinking about it on a Thursday. That's why. I mean, if we wanted to,

you know, clock management and do this thing correctly, we should be breaking it like 12,

13 after the hour every single time. Well, we break it 18 after the hour, which is why we're

always catching up the entire rest of the show. Be sure to catch live additions of Stu Godson

company live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern 12 p.m. Pacific. Dan, I like what you're thinking,

man. I do. Miami of Ohio should absolutely not promote their own resume, but should promote

you masses resume 30 minutes. Just nonstop. They beat Boston College of Florida State. I mean,

I've got that. Maybe they aren't good. Maybe the announcer was right. Taylor has been reminiscing

about Italian baseball with his father. So Taylor, what do you tell us about the conversations

the back and forth that you've been having with your dad about team Italy because they are, listen,

they're good. They're American, but they're good. Yeah. So when Italy won yesterday, the broadcaster

said two of the biggest wins in Italian baseball history. My dad was born and raised in Italy for

30 years. Yeah. So I texted him just to get a pulse of how Italians are actually feeling about

this baseball team. So this morning, I texted him, did you see Italy baseball? He said, did not,

but I heard they beat the USA. So two games ago, he heard about right. He said, is it true that most

of the players are from New Jersey? Would this be a good thing or a bad thing as far as your dad was

concerned? This would probably make him less interested in the team. If he knew that they were all

Americans that were playing on the Italian team. Yeah. And I said, yeah, they beat the USA. They

also beat Mexico yesterday. They went undefeated in group play. He texted back, who was Italy playing

next? I said Puerto Rico. He gave a thumbs up emoji. I asked, do you want me to set up your TV?

So you could watch Italy versus Puerto Rico on Saturday. He said, no thanks.

Two of the biggest wins. Name a third biggest win.

That's his dad is like, I feel like even though he's Italian, the proper sort of

interested in this tournament because I saw a note from Taylor on our show. She said, we might

look back at the end of this tournament and realize Italy was the quality loss. We're not looking

back at this tournament ever. A lot of people joked about losing to Italy because of what the odds

were in this game. But really, if you break it down, this Italy team is just USA B team that is

still pretty good. Yeah. Very good. Yes. Yeah. Obviously, say this is way better than BAM talk.

Maybe when you're even tired of BAM talk, you talk yourself into boredom. Yet he brought it back

to it. Listen, you guys can blame me for bringing it back to BAM. I was just asking if Israel was

okay because it seemed like he had a difficult day yesterday, fending off everyone who was trying

to question BAM in the record. That's all. So you just wanted me to be like, yeah, I'm good.

And then we'll keep it moving. Yes. Yes, too. Feeling a lot better today. I don't care what you're

going to say. Yeah. I'm good. I wanted to talk about this since we're on the topic of the Italy

baseball team. And I'm going to keep the ball here for a second. Mikey, you're a Yankee fan. I'm a

Yankee fan. We always have a problem with Aaron Boone. And as a Yankee fan, my job is to always keep

a keep an eye on the landscape of baseball. I have a manager lined up for keeping your

ear to the ground. I love it. Go. What do you got? When Aaron Boone inevitably gets fired. Right.

Team Italy's manager, Francisco Survelli, former Yankee, I've seen more in four games with

Francisco Survelli than I have in 1200 with Aaron Boone. What are some of those things?

What are those decisions that make you think team Italy's manager is your guy? He knows how to

drop a lineup card. He goes to the bullpen at the right time. He just lets the basics. Yes,

yes. Listen, sometimes when someone's not doing the basic little things to help your team,

you realize just how big those little things are, you know. And if you bring in Francisco Survelli,

you're assuming he would just bring in his Italian baseball staff. So then I'm diving on who's

on his staff. It's Jorge Posada and it's Dave Regetti's too. Wow, Rags. What a staff. That is

absolutely amazing. Where is Francisco Survelli from? Can you get somebody new jersey, right?

I guess it's Jersey. Jersey or Anna? I also love how Taylor gives voice to what the job of the

fan is. It's his job to keep an eye out. So that as soon as Aaron Boone's gone, I got you. We

can fill in the follow up stories right here. Here's your successor. No, we elected Taylor to do

this. As the fan base, we said Taylor, do us a favor, keep you here to the ground, find us the

next manager. And you know what? I like what you came back with. So Francisco Survelli was born in

Venezuela. Oh, wow. Crossing, crossing boundaries. I love it. I mean, he's got to be the hottest

managing prospect in all of major league baseball. So if Aaron Boone, if Taylor, if you want this

to come to fruition, the Yankees better lose, lose often, lose early because someone's going to

grab this guy to be their manager if the Yankees don't do it first. We're going to lose our window

exactly. Right. Yeah. You have to give it a match manager. Okay. He is Italian Venezuelan. So

he's not just an Italian who was fraudulently born in Venezuela. There seems to be a lot of

crossover between Venezuela and Italy. Really? Hmm. Put it on the ball. I don't know how to pronounce

it. Israel. Can you pronounce the Italian star who's from America? Can you pronounce his name?

I can say the Passquatch. That's such a. All right. Passquatch. Do we have the home run that Vinnie

P passquatch hit in the World Baseball Classic? Let's play that first. Go ahead. That balls hit pretty

well. Right field and deep. Jaram back to the wall is there. Leaps and it's gone. Pass

Quattino doesn't come. It's one nothing Italy. Let's play the second home run from the Passquatch.

Wow. We skipped the second. Go right to the third. Let's go to the third home run from Passquatch.

That one. I'm not sure if he got it all. Let's see. It's deep. It is gone. He's hit free.

And he's going to have so much espresso. And he may not go to sleep tonight.

This is the best shot of a espresso. Vinnie, take it easy. Big fella.

So is he as the broadcaster mentioned? As part of the Italian baseball team,

Francisco Survelli and the boys just have fun in the dugout. Every time somebody on

team Italy hits a home run, you get an espresso shot. You get a double kiss on the cheek.

So this was Vinnie P passquattino when he was asked after the game about how he feels about

taking so many espresso shots in such a short amount of time. Three espresso shots in.

How you feeling? I'm caffeinated. I'm beamed up right now. So yeah, we're in a good spot.

We're really leaning into it, man. I think you kind of be careful with that as a choice.

Like, I wonder if people in the clubhouse are like offering other ideas in espresso.

Like maybe shots of limoncello, right? No, that stuff is dangerous. It's it's liquid crack.

It's cocaine. If you've never had it before, I will tell you a story that when the super ball

was down in Miami, Trey Wingo had never tried espresso. And me and Dan gave him a couple of shots

of espresso on radio row. And he didn't fly back to Hawaii. Trey Wingo walked back to Hawaii.

He took those shots. Oh, we never saw Trey again. I mean, he was so jacked up.

And he swore to me that he would never try or drink that coffee again.

If I were jacked up on coffee, see those to that level. And I was at the World Baseball Classic

when Pasquattino hit those home runs. Can we play that sound of one of the either of the home runs

again? I would definitely need a heads up of what the sound effects were after home runs.

That one. I'm not sure if he got it all. Let's see. It's deep. It is gone. He's hit free.

What the hell was that?

That is too loud of a sound to not know that that's coming. That could be anything these days.

That could be anything. Yeah, let's care. Uh, Taylor, I just can't believe

your dad's not more into this. He only cares that they beat the United States. He doesn't care

about anything else. I mean, and I'm not even too sure he cares that they beat the United States

because his text only gave off that he knew that they beat the United States.

He got no work completely indifferent. It's like Victor Wimbenjama looking at Bama

Jose, your three points, huh? Look at that. You did it again. But Taylor, I feel like you're upset

that that that the United States has advanced here because they have no business advancing.

Their manager, Mark DeRosa, we discussed this yesterday. I didn't know the rules. They

thought they clinched. They were celebrating. They didn't clinch. It took whatever happened

last night for them to advance here. And it seems like you're upset that the two teams did not

conspire together to keep the United States from advancing in the World Baseball Classic.

Because quite honestly, they don't deserve it. And quite honestly, I'd rather root for Italy.

I mean, so Mark DeRosa has done some backpedaling today saying, no, guys, I understood what the rules were.

We just had some kind of miscommunication there where it's like, no, you very clearly said like,

we already clinched this one. But Stu, I think there is some truth to Mexico and Italy should have

conspired because if both these teams advance to the quarterfinals and the USA gets eliminated

last night, both of those teams, obviously Mexico, because Mexico's sitting at home right now.

But both of those teams' chances to win a title go up exponentially if the USA is also eliminated.

Yeah. Can I offer a couple of pieces of context to our previous conversations?

Sure. Thank you for whoever looked this up. When you said there seems to be a lot of crossover

between Italy and Venezuela, apparently they shared deep historical, cultural and economic ties,

primarily driven by massive Italian migration in the mid-20th century, resulting in over 140,000

Italian citizens and millions of descendants living in Venezuela.

Hmm. How about that?

Who? How about that?

I was a little confused with the term I'm beaned up. I thought it was coffee beans, right?

So I've never heard that before.

Somebody, a consumer of gaffesitos, but apparently it's a drug context. Beans or beanies

refer to capsules or tablets containing drugs, specifically on fedamines and baseball.

These are often called greenies or white crosses. I remember greenies and were used for an energy

boost. So being beaned up is very much a classic baseball term. All right.

Eighth. Thank you, Israel. Eight, seven, seven, ninety nine on Fox.

What was that? That is eight, seven, seven, seven, eight, seven, ninety nine on Fox.

Let's go to what Dean, who was in Maryland today. Dean, go ahead. You're on Fox Sports Radio.

Yeah, turn that radio down, Dean. Oh, man. It's only been a month plus and we haven't asked

anybody to turn their radio down yet. Wow. I've been waiting for this for the first

years. I've eaten. Are you kidding me? Nothing like live radio going to your first caller.

He's got the radio jacked up. That was a way for Dean to catch up to us.

Why do I keep getting? Do you know?

What is happening? Man's life. I wanted to hear myself say, Dean, you got to turn your radio down.

I don't even know if he's listening to us. I'm not sure that's our show.

No, he changed the channel. I think this man is consuming all kinds of sports talk.

The more you know, he changed the channel. Well, that's what's he listening to?

This is a new segment called sitting in the car with Dean. That sounds like.

Think he put it back on us. Oh god. I don't know. I turned it down. All right, we lost him.

Yeah. Let's go to Al. Who's always in Albuquerque? Go ahead. Al.

What is happening? We're over here. I've had some trouble lately. Al dropped off last time.

Nine days reliable. Twelve time. Long time. We maybe we won't take your comics.

I was saying we're doing okay back there. Sherman Oaks. I don't know what's going on.

Yeah. I know. Well, neither do we. We're all situated in different places across the country.

And it'd be nice. We're close to coast right now. Yeah. We really are. I was there.

Constantly sound like a guy who wants a new job. Sound defeated. I'm just happy that Taylor got

my, the more you know, drop there. That's all I care about. Yeah. I just want to like to know

when it was coming. No, that's okay. What are you apologizing for? I don't know. I don't know.

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