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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - All right, it's the rundown.
00:04 Wednesday, May 1st.
00:06 Got myself, Rico Bosco, Frank the Tank.
00:09 - It's the first of the month.
00:11 - It is the first of the month.
00:12 It's gonna be May. - It's May Day.
00:13 - Justin Timberlake. - May Day.
00:15 - Um, started the NBA playoffs last night.
00:18 We got three Knicks fans here, right?
00:19 Frank, you're officially--
00:20 - Yeah. - Yeah, I'm officially
00:21 a Knicks fan.
00:22 - I hate to see bandwagon Knicks fans,
00:25 like a guy who's lived and died with them my whole life.
00:27 But we're welcome to have you.
00:30 Tough loss last night, game five at the Garden.
00:33 Losing OT, 112-106.
00:35 Tyrese Maxey goes berserk in the last 17 seconds,
00:39 scores seven points, three from the logo
00:42 to send it to overtime.
00:43 - Takes guts to hit that shot.
00:45 - Yeah, I mean Rico.
00:46 So there's a clip of Rico from the stream last night
00:48 being like, "This guy's gutless.
00:50 "He doesn't want the ball."
00:51 He's the one guy on that team I respect.
00:54 - Oh yes! - Yes!
00:55 - That's good. - Gutless.
00:57 - Oh my God, come on.
00:58 - Gutless. - Good offense.
00:59 - I feel like they missed a lot of free throws.
01:01 - You don't want the big moment, gutless.
01:03 Both teams I've been shooting like 60, 70% of the ball.
01:05 - Do you know basketball at all?
01:07 - Yeah, he's gutless. - He's gutless?
01:08 - He didn't want the big moment.
01:10 Some guys, winners always want the ball.
01:12 - Oh, Bronson.
01:15 - Like that guy!
01:16 Like that guy!
01:17 Look at that guy!
01:19 Look at Ben Stiller!
01:21 - That's the guy who's the winner.
01:23 - He missed the free throw.
01:24 - He did miss three straight free throws.
01:25 - When I stream, I speak like I'm on my couch.
01:28 So you get what you get.
01:29 You know what I mean, Frank?
01:32 - Yeah, I understand that.
01:32 - You said you speak to the extremes.
01:34 I like the new glasses, by the way.
01:36 - Yeah, got them today.
01:38 Oh, yesterday, I should say.
01:39 - Nice.
01:41 - Let's see how long they last.
01:42 - Yeah, I'd say shell flies for about two and a half weeks.
01:45 I like 'em. - Over under.
01:46 Have you had over under?
01:48 - This was as bad of a loss as you get.
01:51 - Bad. - Just the contact.
01:54 Playoff game, the way he did it.
01:55 Four point play first.
01:57 Just absolutely--
01:58 - The four point play gave him a lifeline.
02:01 Inexcusable by Mitchell Robbins.
02:03 - Me mushing it.
02:04 We missed free throws.
02:05 There was bad passes up six.
02:07 The foul.
02:09 Like there was a lot of things to go into it.
02:11 So it's not just one person's thing.
02:13 I know I'm taking a lot of heat, but.
02:15 - I mean, I don't think, yeah.
02:16 - I mean, Josh Hart's got to hit some free throws.
02:18 It is for now.
02:18 Right now, it is.
02:19 Josh Hart's got to hit some free throws.
02:21 - Yeah, he missed one.
02:23 - And after that game, he was saying,
02:25 "There's no way this is not going seven."
02:26 - Oh, without a doubt.
02:28 Yeah, I don't feel good about six.
02:28 - It is very now.
02:29 They got all the momentum.
02:30 - All the momentum.
02:31 - Back in Philly, and then obviously game seven's
02:33 an absolute crap shoot.
02:34 It felt like the Knicks were almost like,
02:37 "All right, the series is over."
02:38 Like up six with 28 seconds. - It was over.
02:39 No, it was done.
02:41 - And they, but they started playing like it was over.
02:43 - Over.
02:44 It was done. - Yeah, they were.
02:45 They were playing like it was over.
02:47 They were doing the,
02:50 quick pass to like do a slam dunk,
02:53 and like, just like the exclamation points.
02:57 - I'm surprised there wasn't a foul on that.
02:58 - I mean, Brunson was great.
03:00 He started off overtime hot, then he missed some shots.
03:03 I mean, it's, honestly, Joel Embiid,
03:06 what a loser.
03:07 Like, it was awful.
03:08 - He's an unbelievable--
03:09 - Nine turnovers, 10 turns.
03:10 - He is a dirty player.
03:12 - Dirty player.
03:13 - He's still an unbelievable basketball player, though.
03:14 - Eh, choke artist.
03:16 Last night, Tyrese Maxey, like,
03:18 they should trade Embiid and build around Maxey.
03:20 Tyrese Maxey's fucking awesome.
03:21 I was thinking that even before he went berserk
03:23 in the last 17 seconds.
03:25 He's like the guy.
03:26 I think that it's crazy--
03:27 - Maxey's more of a problem than Embiid.
03:30 - For the Knicks.
03:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
03:33 He's, I mean, they all, you know.
03:35 - It's been a wild series because the Knicks
03:36 stole one in game two with that crazy win in six seconds.
03:39 Then they win this one.
03:40 This has been, there's no reason to not think
03:43 it's going seven.
03:44 - Game six in Philly.
03:47 Now, I want, so like, games three and four
03:49 were almost Knick home games,
03:51 but it was a Saturday, Sunday.
03:53 I worry a little bit.
03:54 Do we think a Thursday, the New York crowd
03:56 won't travel as much Thursday?
03:57 - Probably not.
03:58 They're campaigning for people not to sell their tickets.
04:01 I don't know.
04:02 We'll see.
04:03 I think there's gonna, it's close enough
04:04 that Knick fans will want to get there.
04:06 I think you have more affluent Knick fans
04:08 than you do Philly fans.
04:09 - Oh, of course.
04:10 - So I think places like Game Time,
04:12 I think it'd be scooped up by the Knicks fans.
04:15 But is that the majority?
04:16 I don't, I don't know.
04:17 'Cause that was, it was the majority
04:19 in three and four, majority.
04:20 - But yeah, game seven, and I don't see this,
04:23 not going to game seven.
04:25 The Knicks has got to show up for game seven.
04:26 They cannot lose this series.
04:29 - I will say--
04:30 - Especially being three-one.
04:31 - It will ruin the season.
04:33 - And it's not just a, it wouldn't just be a collapse
04:36 of being up three-one.
04:37 It would be the collapse started
04:39 with blowing that six-point lead 30 seconds.
04:42 But you know what?
04:43 I'm starting to think the Knicks are gonna win game six.
04:44 'Cause everybody is like, oh, well,
04:46 the Philly will win game six,
04:48 and it'll head back to New York.
04:49 I think this Knicks team, I think they can take a punch.
04:52 - They are tough.
04:52 - They're tough, like yeah, you know,
04:54 the other teams, this might be bad momentum for them.
04:57 Tom Thibodeau, the boys, I think we're gonna come out
04:59 game six, I'm gonna go Knicks first quarter
05:02 on maybe Thursday night.
05:04 I feel like they're gonna come out firing,
05:06 and they're gonna tell everyone,
05:07 like, no, we're not laying over just yet.
05:09 - We're gonna be doing a stream Thursday night.
05:11 - Yeah, we'll be there.
05:13 - So we'll be doing a stream Thursday night,
05:14 and I just have, I have to quote Star Wars,
05:19 I have a bad feeling about game six.
05:21 - Bring the positivity, Frank.
05:22 We need positivity Thursday night.
05:24 - So, Frank, how much is your Knicks fandom?
05:26 Like, obviously they're behind the Dolphins, Mets, Devils.
05:30 - That was a gut punch loss, a gut punch loss.
05:34 - Like, where would you rank, like,
05:36 where would you rank them in terms of teams
05:38 you really care about?
05:40 - They gotta be at the bottom.
05:41 - They're at the bottom.
05:41 Basketball will always be at the bottom for me.
05:43 - Them or Notre Dame?
05:44 - Probably the Knicks over Notre Dame.
05:47 - I don't see you getting too worked up at Notre Dame.
05:49 - No, it's, college is a little different, too.
05:53 - Yeah.
05:54 - College is a little different, too.
05:55 It's not like--
05:56 - Well, it's Northeast.
05:57 We had no teams.
05:58 Everybody grew up rooting for Notre Dame
05:59 because it was the only team on TV.
06:01 - I never liked Notre Dame.
06:02 Brian Kelly killed that kid.
06:03 - Yeah, well, you grew up on the internet.
06:05 - Also, last night, Bucs beat the Pacers,
06:09 forced a game six.
06:10 Giannis in the lower out.
06:11 Pat Bev, the guy, he stepped up.
06:13 He had a great game.
06:14 Bobby Portis and Milton both had 29 points.
06:16 No Pacers scored over 16, which is kind of crazy.
06:19 I like that this year's is going more,
06:22 you know, for the Knicks' sake.
06:23 I would prefer the Pacers.
06:25 I'd prefer the Bucs to win for Pat Bev.
06:27 I'd prefer the Pacers to win for the Knicks' sake.
06:29 - Yeah, well, let's not get crazy with the Knicks just yet.
06:31 Let's think--
06:32 - Well, if the Knicks are there.
06:33 - Yeah, it was looking nice when it was 3-1, 3-1,
06:35 and you were like, all right, let's go.
06:37 Run it back, 94, Pacers.
06:40 - And then Cavs beat the,
06:41 I have not seen a second of this.
06:43 - So this is the NBA TV series,
06:45 but when it's on or it's up in the corner,
06:47 it has been a pretty compelling series.
06:49 But it is the NBA TV series, like Dwayne.
06:51 They had the one game on TNT.
06:55 Saturday, I think we were at the FD game.
06:57 But other than that, it's been pretty much all on.
07:01 I could be wrong, but it's buried in the--
07:03 - It's a four-five matchup with two teams
07:06 that nobody really cares about.
07:07 - Agreed, yeah, so that's why it's not gonna get that much.
07:09 But it has been good basketball.
07:10 - It's been good basketball.
07:11 - And that's on that.
07:12 Tonight, we got Heat Celtics game five.
07:14 Chris Stapps is out back in Boston trying to close it out.
07:17 And Mavs Clippers, series tied at two.
07:20 Kawhi is out again tonight.
07:23 Who do we like tonight?
07:24 - I like the Mavs, actually.
07:25 I don't know about the Celtics.
07:26 - I got a future on the Mavs to win the West.
07:28 - Oh, okay.
07:29 I like the Mavs tonight, laying the three and a half.
07:31 - Yeah, I love the Mavs tonight.
07:34 The Clippers, they're gonna get their new arena next year.
07:36 They've never had a home court at Staples Center.
07:39 It's the Lakers arena.
07:40 - All right, then other NBA news.
07:43 We got, I mean, this would be a travesty.
07:47 TNT inside the NBA with Barkley, Shaq, Kenny Smith,
07:51 all them is reportedly in jeopardy
07:53 because NBC Peacock's making an aggressive bid
07:55 to take the NBA from Turner Sports.
07:57 I saw Amazon is getting in on the NBA deal.
07:59 So if they, I don't really care what channel it's fucking on
08:04 but if TNT does lose the rights,
08:05 then like Peacock or Amazon, whoever it is,
08:07 just has to hire that entire crew.
08:10 - Yeah, BSBS, look at what you get when you get,
08:14 you get entertainment when you watch the games on Turner.
08:16 When it comes on ESPN,
08:17 you have dry toast and people screaming.
08:21 - And they put a lot of work into,
08:22 so I read Kenny Smith's book and they put a lot of work.
08:25 They had somebody come in for the playoffs
08:27 or something like that.
08:28 And it was like, I don't know, let's say Vince Carter
08:31 or whatever, it wasn't him, but whoever it was.
08:33 And they come in and the guy was like,
08:35 "Hey, I'll take, oh, you like this opinion?
08:37 "I'll take the other side."
08:38 And Kenny Smith and Shaq and those guys were like,
08:40 "Yo, you believe this?
08:41 "Like this guy's trying to do like everybody else does.
08:43 "That's not how we do it here."
08:45 It's organic.
08:45 If I like something and Shaq agrees with me, they go at it.
08:48 They don't, they go at each other.
08:50 So that's what makes it, it's a true entertainment show.
08:53 It's funny, it's also insightful.
08:54 They got the big board.
08:55 Like I like watching it when it's on
08:58 on off nights of college.
08:59 I don't watch it as much as I should,
09:00 but during the playoffs, it's unbelievable.
09:02 I'll be honest, like I don't watch as much as I should,
09:04 but anytime it's on. - Hey, I appreciate
09:05 your honesty. - Or those clips
09:06 that you see, it's great.
09:07 It's a fucking unbelievable show.
09:09 - That's the best studio show in any sport.
09:12 - Yeah? - Yeah.
09:14 - Yeah, I think-- - What would you put up there?
09:16 College game day was really good.
09:18 I feel like-- - Jeter, A-Rod, Ortiz, maybe.
09:20 I feel like that could sneak up there one day.
09:21 - Game day was really good.
09:22 That took a little bit of a tick down.
09:24 - Yeah. - College game day.
09:26 There's gotta be an NFL one.
09:28 - Both the NFL ones are like fine.
09:29 - But there's so many.
09:30 - You know the problem with-- - Not CBS and Fox.
09:32 - The problem with the NFL one,
09:33 the NFL is they put too many people at the desk now.
09:36 - Yeah. - Yeah.
09:36 - And it becomes muddled.
09:38 And we'd all talk during the week,
09:40 when it was the old day, when it was just Musburger,
09:44 Irv Cross, and Fuller Storge, Jimmy the Greek
09:48 would come in every now and then to give his picks.
09:50 30 minutes, you got more out of that 30 minutes
09:52 than you get in the one hour that they put today.
09:54 - Yeah, but I didn't-- - Well, game day's three hours.
09:56 Oh, you're saying NFL. - Yeah.
09:57 - Yeah, Jimmy the Greek, NFL, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:59 Musburger, I always think college, you're right.
10:01 - But it doesn't feel the same,
10:05 but in the way, just having Barclay, his humor,
10:08 Kenny Smith's insight, Jack--
10:09 - Yeah, it's what they like each other.
10:11 - Yeah, it's also like, I don't wanna--
10:12 - It sounds like you're-- - I don't wanna hear them
10:14 talk about the NBA, I wanna hear Charles Barclay
10:16 talk about how fat the woman in San Antonio was.
10:17 - Yeah, you're like eavesdropping on guys at a bar
10:20 having a conversation.
10:21 - Yeah. - That's what it feels like
10:22 with those guys.
10:23 - NHL playoffs. - Stars.
10:27 - Tough night for Frankie.
10:28 Islanders go down, Hurricanes win the series.
10:31 It happened again.
10:32 Hurricanes score two goals in eight seconds,
10:35 win the series.
10:36 Frankie, just an unbelievable clip.
10:39 (crowd chattering)
10:42 - Fuck!
10:45 Fuck!
10:47 (crowd chattering)
10:51 (crowd chattering)
10:54 - Oh my God!
11:18 Oh my God!
11:18 (crowd chattering)
11:23 - Him, Mr. Burrell, I think Frankie kicked out his wife.
11:28 - Kicked out his wife, sent his whole family,
11:30 her whole family's range of people.
11:32 There is a clip, Duggs took it,
11:34 it's somewhere on Duggs' account.
11:36 It's Frankie like this and Stu with a mouthful of pasta.
11:40 - Stu, the-- - Who goes there to eat?
11:41 - The mashup of Stu eating is very--
11:43 - It's unbelievable.
11:44 Dude, he was doing like intermission gelatos.
11:47 Like as if he didn't have enough.
11:49 I also said I'm convinced that there could be a lottery
11:53 on local news of people at Borelis
11:56 who could potentially win the lottery
11:57 and they wouldn't have it on TV.
11:58 They would have Islanders classics.
12:00 - Yeah, yeah.
12:00 - Like they'd be like, "Hey, we narrowed it down.
12:02 "Everyone who's currently eating at Borelis,
12:03 "we're gonna give you a million dollars."
12:05 And they're like, "No, we don't care."
12:06 Put on the Islanders classics or put on practice.
12:08 They have like closed circuit practice.
12:10 - Frank, do you think that Frankie takes Islanders losses
12:13 worse than you take your team's losses?
12:16 - I don't know about that.
12:17 (laughing)
12:18 But it's up there.
12:20 He does get up there.
12:22 But you know, the Islanders were a surprise playoff team
12:24 to begin with this year.
12:26 The Devils--
12:27 - Yeah, they had a run to get in.
12:28 - Yeah, and so.
12:29 - But there was--
12:31 - And I got news for you.
12:32 It's gonna be New York, New York.
12:34 They're taking down the Rangers.
12:36 - Yeah?
12:37 - The Hurricanes are taking down the Rangers.
12:38 - I don't know.
12:38 People are--
12:39 - Rangers beat 'em out in a regular season.
12:41 - The fact that the Rangers have like--
12:43 - This is the fifth best odds
12:44 they've beaten the cup when they won the fucking president.
12:46 - This is gonna be the most Hurricane has damaged
12:48 New York since Sandy.
12:49 - Oh, gee.
12:50 (laughing)
12:51 - I mean, I mean, I mean,
12:54 you start to see,
12:55 so I can hear the Scorpions song.
12:56 ♪ Here I am ♪
12:58 ♪ Rock you like a hurricane ♪
13:01 Yes, that's right.
13:02 The Rangers are going down.
13:03 - You had a little vibrato there, Frank.
13:05 I didn't know you had vibrato in your arsenal.
13:08 Wait, Rico, are you, are you,
13:10 what's your hockey team?
13:12 - I don't know whoever wins,
13:13 but I'm a fake Ranger fan.
13:15 I don't watch hockey enough.
13:16 I like it in the playoffs.
13:17 I'm rooting for the Rangers and the Stars to win the cup.
13:21 - I think the Rangers,
13:22 something about this team,
13:23 the heart, the grit.
13:24 - I root for Frankie with the Islanders.
13:25 I have no, I never grew up watching hockey.
13:28 So like those streams of Burleys,
13:29 I want the Islanders to make it all the way through,
13:31 'cause you get more streams,
13:32 'cause the content is unbelievable.
13:34 There was a thing, 15 minutes to puck drop,
13:36 and Stu had already had three entrees.
13:38 (laughing)
13:39 He's just a fucking machine.
13:41 He's a vacuum when he goes there.
13:42 And then all the people there,
13:43 they all have their tables.
13:44 Like they're all fucking lunatics.
13:47 It's nuts.
13:48 It's said that we only got the one stream,
13:51 the one series, it's said.
13:53 - They all said the Maple Leafs beat the Bruins in OT,
13:55 forced a game six,
13:57 Avalanche beat the Jets,
13:59 Predators beat the Canucks.
14:01 You guys got anything on any of that?
14:02 - No, the abs seemed like everyone was,
14:04 went before the series,
14:05 before the playoffs,
14:06 I was like, who's a sleeper?
14:07 And I think Merles and Colby and those guys
14:10 were looking at the abs as well.
14:11 They were like--
14:12 - I don't know if you could really call them a sleeper.
14:13 They won the cup two years ago.
14:15 - Yeah.
14:15 - Yeah, but they're just based on their odds.
14:18 I don't think they were all the way at the top.
14:20 You know what I mean?
14:21 - And--
14:22 - Crikey, poking holes.
14:23 - We got the Oilers, we got the Oilers playing the Kings.
14:26 We have a guarantee if the Canucks
14:30 could actually win that series,
14:32 of all Canadian series in the next round.
14:34 - Okay.
14:35 - Oh wow.
14:36 So wait, it'd be--
14:37 - Yeah.
14:38 - It'd be Vancouver, Edmonton.
14:40 - Edmonton?
14:40 - Yeah.
14:41 - Who were the Avalanche playing?
14:43 - The Avalanche buried the Jets.
14:45 - No, who are they gonna play next?
14:47 - They'll play Stars, Knights, Winner.
14:48 That's two-two.
14:49 - Who plays that?
14:50 - Avalanche.
14:51 - Avalanche.
14:52 - Avalanche?
14:53 That's gonna be a tough series too.
14:53 Yeah, I got my Stars.
14:54 - Dave's got his bets on draft Kings.
14:56 He's got the Oilers to win the cup.
14:57 And then he also has tonight Celtics,
15:00 well, to win the finals,
15:01 but maybe can get there tonight with the--
15:02 - Celtics to win the finals with Shuffler.
15:04 Yeah, that's crazy.
15:05 - Yeah.
15:06 - Mike Trout, just what a sad career this has turned into.
15:11 Torn meniscus in his left knee, surgery,
15:13 don't know when he'll be back.
15:15 Hopefully before the end of the season.
15:16 Angels suck this year, Mike Trout's good.
15:19 That's kinda just how it is.
15:21 - Mike Trout was having one of the,
15:23 was off to an awesome start.
15:24 He has 10 home runs, but here's the crazy thing.
15:26 He has 10 home runs and 13 RBIs.
15:28 That tells you how shitty this team is.
15:30 - Yeah.
15:31 - This loss of Mike Trout, they're already 11-19.
15:36 They're gonna be, they're gonna approach 100 losses now.
15:39 - Who are some of the guys that wasted,
15:41 I don't wanna say wasted their careers,
15:42 but lived in bad team purgatory that were shining stars?
15:47 And is Trout the best of those guys?
15:50 - Old days, Ernie Banks, who--
15:52 - Ernie Banks?
15:53 - Ernie Banks, who never was on a contender until 1969.
15:56 - Okay.
15:57 - The Cubs were bad year after year.
15:59 He had $500 to play his entire career.
16:00 The Cubs, they call him Mr. Cub.
16:02 - Yeah.
16:03 - 500 home runs, the Cubs were garbage
16:05 almost his entire career.
16:07 I would say Ernie Banks is probably the closest
16:11 you could really point out to.
16:13 - And Griffey Jr. never went to a World Series.
16:15 - He played, yeah, so he played--
16:16 - They had some playoffs here.
16:17 - For more teams.
16:18 But he had, how many playoff appearances
16:20 did Griffey make as a Mariner?
16:22 - Three or four, probably.
16:24 - I was gonna say less than that.
16:26 - Two.
16:27 - Two?
16:28 - Two, right, '95?
16:29 - '95, '97.
16:30 - That's it?
16:31 - Yep.
16:32 - He wasn't on them in '01?
16:33 - No, so did he, it sounds weird,
16:34 but did he have a, did you get--
16:37 - He definitely didn't make it with the Reds, right?
16:38 - He had a great career, but you didn't get to see him
16:39 in the postseason.
16:41 - No, he didn't.
16:42 - He made it in '08 with the White Sox.
16:43 - Yeah, doesn't count.
16:43 - Three games, doesn't count either.
16:45 Damn, and in '97 it was one series, right?
16:50 - Yeah, they got beat by the Orioles that year.
16:52 - Wow.
16:54 - Yeah, I mean--
16:55 - So he didn't have any post, who else jumps out?
16:57 - In baseball, it was a lot more common
17:01 back in the old days, but I mean,
17:04 Ted Williams only played in one World Series.
17:06 - Okay, how many postseasons though?
17:09 - One.
17:09 - Just the one?
17:10 - They only had the World Series.
17:11 - Oh, they only had the World Series back then,
17:12 that's a good point.
17:13 I lose track with the old guys.
17:15 - Yeah, I mean, and it's also like at this point,
17:19 you can't really be like, all right,
17:20 trade him to a contender, 'cause he's 32,
17:23 he's got a bunch of injuries, an inflated contract,
17:26 like I don't even know what team would--
17:28 - You can't really take him.
17:29 - I think at this point, like you'd have,
17:30 the Angels would have to be eating,
17:32 do you think the Angels would have to eat
17:33 so much trout salad?
17:34 - They'd have to eat some of the money.
17:34 - I don't know if they would wanna do that
17:36 based on how they spend.
17:37 - The fact, I think it's, I mean,
17:38 we're talking about Mike Trout,
17:39 we're gonna look back one day on the fact that
17:41 Mike Trout and Shohei Otani,
17:44 probably the two greatest players of this generation,
17:46 were on the same team for six years,
17:49 and they didn't even--
17:49 - Of course, they had an inept general manager.
17:53 - Yeah.
17:53 - Billy Ann Epler?
17:54 - Yes, and Anthony Rendon.
17:58 What?
17:59 - Oh, he's a loser.
18:00 That guy, that guy, that guy is a politician,
18:04 because the level of thievery this guy had,
18:07 he had a great 2019 borderline MVP season
18:11 with the Nationals, he got his big contract,
18:12 and he said, he was like,
18:16 he got his little punch card and punched out.
18:18 - Yep.
18:19 - Ha!
18:20 Because he has not given one single fuck since 2020,
18:24 and it's almost like he's tired and hates playing baseball,
18:28 but he's got that big contract.
18:29 - He's got the money.
18:30 - But he's got that big contract,
18:32 and he is just collecting money at this point.
18:35 He doesn't even try.
18:36 - That's right.
18:37 - It's like Red Rhino.
18:38 He had the one video, and he collects his check,
18:40 and that's it.
18:41 (laughing)
18:42 We don't see him anywhere.
18:43 - I mean, Anthony Rendon, he got that contract,
18:45 and he went, "Paul," he clocked out.
18:48 - Yeah.
18:49 - I mean, Red Rhino got paid, I think,
18:50 almost as much as Rendon.
18:51 - Crazy.
18:52 - For that one year.
18:53 - Crazy.
18:53 - I think he was making like 400K.
18:54 - Crazy.
18:55 - Diamondbacks, they're one of your teams, right, Rico?
18:58 Their game got delayed.
18:58 - Like Gallon, Gallon's hurt.
19:00 We don't know how long it's gonna be.
19:01 - Their game got delayed last night against the Dodgers
19:03 due to bees, gigantic beehive behind the plate.
19:05 - Bees, no, not the bees.
19:07 - Diamondbacks have a dome.
19:10 How the fuck do they get bees in a dome?
19:12 - It's not a dome, it's a--
19:13 - Oh, they opened it?
19:14 - It's retractable.
19:15 - Gotcha.
19:16 I went to a game there once.
19:17 I saw Derek Lee hit an inside the park home run
19:19 when he was on the Cubs.
19:20 Thought that was cool.
19:21 Only inside the park home run I've ever seen in person.
19:23 - I wanna go in the pool.
19:24 I know it's dirty, but I wanna go in the pool.
19:25 - That'd be fun.
19:26 - This is, I mean, this is worse than the Nats
19:28 with the Yankees and Indians back in the day.
19:30 - Yeah.
19:31 - Nats, you can--
19:32 - I don't know, bees, animals, insects,
19:34 they're all, like you said, it's retractable.
19:35 How do they get in there?
19:36 How do they set this up like this?
19:37 It's fucking, it's crazy.
19:39 It was crazy.
19:40 - I like watching a video of the guy
19:41 that was taking care of them.
19:42 He was like spraying the poison on them
19:45 and then vacuuming them up.
19:46 - He gets--
19:47 (laughing)
19:48 - And he's about to first pitch.
19:49 - It's an ovation from the crowd.
19:51 - He's about to first pitch.
19:53 - Unbelievable.
19:53 - That's incredible.
19:54 You go your whole career as a beekeeper
19:57 waiting for a moment like this.
19:58 (laughing)
20:01 That's awesome.
20:02 - Crazy.
20:03 - He threw out the first pitch, so that's a great take.
20:05 - This guy's a legend.
20:06 - Did he throw a strike?
20:07 No.
20:08 - Electric done.
20:09 - All right, whatever, you're a beekeeper,
20:10 I don't expect you to throw a fucking 90 down.
20:11 - He was, he stole the show.
20:13 - Next up, we've got Dave and Busters
20:16 will now be allowing customers to bet real money,
20:19 18 and up.
20:20 You can place real wagers on the arcade game.
20:22 It'll be available in the coming months.
20:24 Wagers will be capped to like a kind of low number,
20:26 not determined yet.
20:27 Companies working to make sure,
20:29 or that the company who has seen this at arcades before,
20:31 say the average bet size has been about 10 bucks.
20:33 You can do like hot shots on the skee ball.
20:35 This is awesome.
20:35 - Yeah, I thought this would make sense
20:38 when you're competing against each other,
20:40 you should at least do the thing
20:41 where you cover the person's game.
20:43 - Yeah.
20:44 - I like that.
20:45 - So me and you were playing against each other,
20:46 you at least cover my dollar
20:47 that I put into the machine if I beat you.
20:49 Now we're putting a little bit more on it,
20:51 five, 10, 20.
20:51 - Pop a shot.
20:52 - Oh yeah.
20:53 - Something like that.
20:54 - I would clean up.
20:55 I'd pop a shot.
20:56 I gave Gilboreus a run.
20:57 Pop a shot.
20:58 Pull up the footage.
21:00 He didn't miss, but I got up there.
21:02 - Dave and Busters.
21:03 - It's just kind of awesome.
21:05 Just like an adult playground.
21:06 - They have Dave and Busters,
21:08 they have this game that's like Connect Four.
21:11 - Oh yeah.
21:13 - Oh, with the basketball.
21:13 - With the basketball.
21:14 - That is the best game in the world.
21:16 - In the world.
21:16 - That is crazy good.
21:19 - It's you shoot and then you gotta get it in,
21:22 and then if you get it in, it goes in a certain thing.
21:24 You gotta build a Connect Four with the color of balls.
21:26 So much fun.
21:27 - I went in Arizona,
21:28 and I didn't work the whole room.
21:31 We had to shoot at a pop a shot thing.
21:33 But do they, they still have the Crocodile Game?
21:38 - Sure, that's a classic.
21:41 - Is that a Dave and Buster still?
21:42 It's old, so I don't know if it's still around.
21:44 It's so old that I think it might've been outdated,
21:46 and they have better versions of it,
21:48 but growing up that was anything like that.
21:50 The Wax and stuff,
21:51 and then me and Ev were playing
21:52 a Jurassic Park shooting game.
21:55 You're riding through on a Jeep.
21:57 - I know, we had a Tungsten meeting,
21:59 the Tungsten Federation of Greater New York.
22:02 We had a conference meeting there.
22:04 We rented out the conference room
22:06 in the Times Square Dave and Buster's for two hours.
22:10 Guess how much?
22:10 - Markably.
22:11 - Guess how much it was.
22:13 - Two hours, midtown, I don't know, 500 bucks.
22:17 - Crank?
22:18 - $29.99.
22:21 120 bucks.
22:22 - Wow.
22:23 - Best deal in Manhattan.
22:24 We put up the TV, we were going through applications
22:27 for the Tungsten Federation, an unbelievable night.
22:30 All right, after show.
22:32 - Good food, good drinks, good deals.
22:33 - Billy Football continues to just do random shit.
22:36 He ran a half marathon, no training.
22:38 Only prep he did was not drinking for a week.
22:41 - That is prep for him.
22:42 - Finnegan was an hour and 45 minutes,
22:43 which is about eight minute, four second mile.
22:45 He said after the race he couldn't walk
22:47 and may have torn a labrum in his hip.
22:49 - Did this have anything to do with his congressional run
22:52 or he was just like, "Fuck it, I'm gonna run a half marathon."
22:54 - I guess you want a guy in shape to lead the country
22:56 or lead whatever he's leading.
22:58 - Yeah, I mean, come on.
22:59 - District three.
23:00 - I mean, compare this to what we have in Congress.
23:03 I mean, those people are half dead anyway.
23:06 In fact, now, I think there's some people now
23:08 that actually moved their hand to vote now.
23:11 - Well, I don't know.
23:14 I feel like I haven't seen him post about it
23:15 in a couple of days, but it's my district
23:17 and I want Billy Football representing my district.
23:19 That would be hysterical.
23:20 - He can't be worse than Tom Swalwey.
23:21 - That picture, I didn't get that picture.
23:24 - The "Mincy Daily Progress Reports" are back.
23:26 So yesterday on the "Yak" they were talking about,
23:29 they were like, "Where is Mincy this week?
23:30 He's just in New Orleans.
23:32 He's got Jazz Fest.
23:33 He's got a political basketball game
23:36 that he's somehow in on the Senate's team.
23:39 He went to a concert last night for his friend
23:41 and was the MC, wrote a chair.
23:44 - He was doing Havana Balla.
23:45 He's also, he's hyped that the "Progress Reports" are back.
23:50 He was tweeting out, "Fuck yeah,
23:51 "the 'Progress Reports' are back."
23:52 Having to text Dave in BitCat every day what you did,
23:55 I don't think he should be as hyped about it
23:57 as he seemingly is.
23:58 - No, I don't think he gets it.
24:01 Brandon was like--
24:02 - You don't think he gets it?
24:03 - Brandon was like, "I don't think it's a good thing."
24:04 And he just--
24:05 I think he gets it too much.
24:06 I think he's starting to become aware
24:08 of what Mincy's content is.
24:10 Yeah, I do.
24:11 - It is, I do think Mincy is like,
24:13 "Yeah, I went to a concert and I put out a video.
24:15 "That's content."
24:16 Like, I think he...
24:17 I mean, and it is electric.
24:21 You can't, if Mince was just sitting
24:23 in the Chicago office every day
24:24 writing four or five blogs,
24:26 no, I kind of want Mince out in the wild doing it.
24:29 - Right.
24:29 - He's a different cat. - He's four years sober too.
24:33 - What?
24:34 - He's four years sober now too.
24:35 - Oh, four years sober, congrats.
24:36 One year, not something as good one year ago today.
24:39 (laughing)
24:41 But--
24:42 - Lot of anniversaries on May 1st.
24:43 - Yeah, a lot of anniversaries.
24:44 And Frank Walks, we got a big one coming out?
24:48 - Sopranos is out.
24:50 It's going to be, I think this is going to be an epic one.
24:52 We have an epic opening.
24:54 An epic, absolute epic opening.
24:56 - Any teaser or?
24:59 - Well, the opening-- - Play it?
25:01 - The opening is just incredible.
25:03 If we can get it played, it'll be incredible.
25:06 (sad music)
25:08 - I believe in Frank Walks.
25:09 (sad music)
25:12 - You know, before we go for our walk,
25:22 I need to discuss how do I get these two guys made?
25:25 - Frankie, ordinarily, they have to kill somebody.
25:30 - But--
25:31 - Yeah, luckily right now,
25:33 O'Mara just got Welcome to the Family coffee.
25:37 So you can bypass that, maybe get these guys
25:40 drinking the right coffee, you know what I mean?
25:42 - O'Merta, call the silence.
25:44 - Shh, coffee and cigars.
25:47 - That's right.
25:48 - Where'd you find these two?
25:50 - I don't know, I just stumbled upon them.
25:51 - I don't say nothing about you,
25:52 but these guys and the sunglasses are good too.
25:55 - Yeah, you gotta tighten them up.
25:56 I feel like you're right on.
25:58 - This guy's got aviators,
25:59 this guy's got orange sunglasses, madonna mia.
26:02 - I'm ready to run New York.
26:06 - Good for you.
26:07 - Start with New Jersey first, don't get too big.
26:10 - Start with Staten Island.
26:12 - Start with Belleville, you know what I mean?
26:14 Start with Belleville.
26:15 - So when are we gonna go for this walk?
26:16 - Well, let's get ready to go.
26:18 - All right. - Let's go.
26:19 (upbeat music)
26:23 - How are things?
26:30 - What number are you at, by the way?
26:31 - This is the ninth official episode,
26:34 not counting the FDNY.
26:35 - What are you at walk-wise?
26:37 210?
26:38 - 214.
26:39 - 214.
26:42 - 216 today.
26:43 - Okay.
26:44 - 217 today.
26:45 - Wow, so you're closing in on a year.
26:48 - Yep.
26:48 - Still got a lot to go, but you're closing in on a year.
26:50 - Oh, by the way, Ralph from Belleville notified me today.
26:53 He finally resurfaced.
26:55 - Oh, wow. - Oh, yeah?
26:56 He's a Colts fan?
26:57 - Yes.
26:58 - Legend.
26:59 How, what happened?
27:00 - He texted me, he's setting up new Twitter accounts
27:03 and stuff, so.
27:03 - Does he still own the same apartment?
27:05 - I think he does.
27:07 Yeah, he signed up for TikTok.
27:10 - Interesting.
27:12 - How are things going in the Frank the Tank business?
27:14 Janks, Mikey, bets?
27:16 - It's going well, it's going well.
27:17 We got a lot, we're very busy.
27:18 We got two ballparks down and a 30 ballpark tour.
27:22 We're trying to get more ballparks scheduled.
27:24 - Yeah, I think you're,
27:26 I don't wanna tell you how to do your business,
27:27 but it does seem like it's gonna get late quick here
27:29 with the 30 ballparks.
27:30 - Oh, no, no, no, no, we're not worried.
27:32 We're not worried.
27:33 - You gotta do all 30 this season.
27:35 - Yes.
27:35 - I told him he's gotta plan it out.
27:37 - The pace isn't great right now, Frank,
27:38 but I mean, I think you would catch,
27:39 especially when the NBA NHL playoffs end.
27:42 - Yeah, when nothing's going on in June, July, August.
27:47 - All right.
27:47 - July, August mainly, especially.
27:49 - What ballpark are you most excited to get to?
27:51 - That I've never been to?
27:52 San Francisco.
27:54 - Really? - Oh, it's beautiful.
27:56 - Have you been to Pittsburgh?
27:57 - Yes.
27:58 - That one's, okay.
27:58 - It's beautiful, that ballpark's beautiful.
28:00 - You been to the big ones?
28:00 Wrigley and Fenway, obviously.
28:03 - I've been to Wrigley, I've been to Fenway, yeah,
28:05 so those are great ones.
28:06 - San Francisco, when I went as a kid,
28:08 I waited about an hour and a half
28:10 to do a speed pitch thing there.
28:12 It was worth it.
28:13 - During the game?
28:14 - Yeah.
28:15 - Oh, come on, Tommy.
28:16 - It was a MEC game, so I didn't care.
28:17 I felt bad for him.
28:18 - All right, fair enough.
28:19 - All right, I think that's it.
28:21 You guys got anything else?
28:23 - No, we'll be streaming game six tomorrow.
28:25 Celtics tonight, a lot of playoff action.
28:29 Check it out.
28:30 - I got a new smoke show coming out tomorrow
28:32 with the Montana boys.
28:33 Try to join the Montana boys, check that out.
28:35 Rat race, Clemmers Rat Race is out.
28:38 - L.E.O. on for the derby.
28:39 - Frank, you're on the rat race.
28:40 You had a good time?
28:41 - That was not fun.
28:43 That was exhausting.
28:46 I was tired that day, and still feeling the effects
28:54 of about a three-week sinus infection I had that was bad.
28:59 And that day was probably the windiest day
29:02 in the history of New York City.
29:03 - What was it like being a teammate with Smitty?
29:05 - I mean, it was so windy that we were up on the edge.
29:08 I saw a flag waving, and it turns out
29:14 it was actually Clemmer hanging on.
29:16 - How was it being a teammate with Smitty?
29:20 - That was all right.
29:22 I'll tell you one thing that was crazy
29:23 is we were on the gondola, the tram of--
29:28 - Was it Venice?
29:29 - No, the gondola.
29:30 - Oh, yeah, yeah, the Roosevelt Island.
29:32 - It goes over the Roosevelt Island tram.
29:34 And you could feel it swaying in the wind like this.
29:36 - Yeah.
29:37 All right, so go check all that out,
29:40 and we'll see you guys tomorrow.
29:41 (whooshing)
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