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00:00The exercise is basically to come up with my list of top 10 players in the Bay age 25 or younger
00:07based on what you're most excited about and how many of them crack the current top 15 athletes
00:13in the Bay based on the importance to their own team. And it made me arrive at this opinion. I
00:20think that a lot of the urgency that fans have, Super Bowl or bust, sure a lot of it is that if
00:27you haven't turned 40, you don't feel like the Niners have ever won. But let's talk about the
00:32Warriors. What the hell is everybody so urgent about? Steph's retiring at some point in the next
00:39few years. It's not like there's a rational thought right now about the Warriors winning a title. It's
00:44not like they've done something that makes you feel like they're really uber close. And so I think it
00:50is some of this. I think there is a serious lack of young talent in the Bay right now in at least
00:57three of the four sports. Right. And the Warriors tried. And you know, when they tried to do it,
01:01they haven't been able to do it. And you could say Steve Kerr can't develop young people. Fine.
01:06You could say you shouldn't have drafted James Wiseman. You did. And he's not being developed
01:11by anyone else. Anyway, Moses Moody is he's fine. And then pods has been good. And I hope he's on your
01:18list. And I wonder if he's on your list because pods is still a very young human being. It feels
01:24like he's been around for a long time. But he's 20. He's one of the youngest, actually.
01:27Year three. And he's doing pretty well. So it's not that there isn't young talent. There are no
01:32young stars. And I think that is the big thing. And you look at, you know, Trey Lance, he was a top
01:38three pick bust. James Wiseman, number two bust. And so these teams have had chances to debt guys and
01:45have them be good. And Bryce Eldridge is one first round pick. And we'll find out if he's going to be
01:51good enough or if he'll be on that list. Well, and I think, you know, let's keep going with what
01:56you were just saying, though. Keep keep going. OK, James Wiseman, bust, Trey Lance, bust. Keep
02:02going. Keep going. Know that in the Bay for hell, since I came back home seven years ago,
02:10we spent at least five and a half of these seven years here on the airwaves. Seven years telling
02:15Giants fans that the big future's name was Marco Luciano got DFA'd by the Yankees today.
02:23The fourth team to DFA him since the first week of December.
02:27Have you ever seen such a thing in your life? Never. It's December and January. We're dormant.
02:32I mean, that happens in April and May. Like, OK, yeah. Four times in seven weeks. But in the
02:38winter is that that to me is the part that I don't understand. Like, did it does he show
02:44up and they hit him three ground balls and they go, oh, my God, go on. It really is that
02:49bad. Right. I mean, how do you get DFA'd in January as a baseball player? That part I don't
02:54get by more than 10 percent of the league. Seriously. Right. And he was the big gun, dude.
03:02That was the future. So I think that's something that we don't talk about very much that for us,
03:10Bay Area sports fans is really lacking right now. And again, you probably you mentioned
03:17pods. You're going to be surprised where he lands on the list because the list is based
03:21on excitement. All right. So pods might be one of the most accomplished non 26 year olds
03:29in the Bay. But let me ask you, you feeling excited about the pods? I mean, not excited.
03:37Like if you think about when Steph and Draymond and Jimmy are all gone and pods is still here
03:42and he will be if he is your, I don't know, best or second best player, your lottery team,
03:49if he is your fifth or sixth best player, you could be good. So to that extent, am I excited
03:54about pods here in three years? Signed earlier, 2029. If pods is still here and he's making
04:01whatever, 24 million a year, who even cares what he's making? But if he's your best player,
04:06you're in trouble. Absolutely. Absolutely. Don't ask him that because he thinks that's
04:12going to be exactly what it is. But I don't I don't think there's a lot of excitement for pods.
04:16In fact, I worry about Brandon Pajemski because he has ended up he's basically shrapnel. He has
04:24ended up in a in a Bay Area wide fierce debate that he doesn't even belong in. But he has come to
04:33represent something. Jonathan Kaminga has come to represent something. They currently are both
04:39Bay Area athletes at 25 or younger. But both of them are locked up in basically a social media war
04:47rather than being locked up in in being the future or being a part of important basketball. It's part of
04:54my point. It's part of my point. Like, give me the athletes 25 or younger. And you're like, yeah,
05:03we got something here. We're building right. Well, I mean, there's Macklin Celebrini. There's
05:08Macklin Celebrini end of list. And he's, you know, in year two. And what he's doing in year two is
05:15like beyond special. Otherworldly. He's averaging more than a point a game. He's not even 20 yet.
05:21Right. And he's like, he's the real deal. He's 19 years old. And the Sharks have gone from
05:27the worst to OK, you they might be a playoff team this year. They're kind of right on that cusp.
05:32They're in right now. They're in right now. They're in right now. And it's not only because of him,
05:36but he is definitely like taking jumper cables to a franchise that for about five or six years had
05:42been left for dead. So, yeah, he's obviously number one on the list. He's that good. He's that
05:47exciting. He's that young. He's a teenager. And he's the guy. And I don't know who's going to be
05:53two through 10. I know. I'm gonna let you know. Yeah. Right. Coming up in 10 minutes. OK, we'll do
05:59the list. And you're going to hate the list because that's the nature of lists. Like, I know I love
06:04lists. I know you love lists, but you're going to hate the list because there's no way to do a list
06:09where everybody agrees, because like the like your little perspective on how you're building the
06:15list kind of comes in. And so we can fight about that if you want. I don't mean just mean you like
06:21y'all can call and tell me I'm a moron. And so that's fine. Like that's whatever. That's the nature
06:28of lists. That's why they do lists. Right. The NFL top 100. Why do they do the NFL top 100? Because
06:35it's going to piss you off. And then you get emotional about it and you talk about it and you
06:40go to social media and NFL dot com gets about it. It all buzzes up. Yeah. This list isn't actually
06:47meant to do that, but we can do that part of it. I will unveil all of it in less than 10 minutes.
06:52But the larger point that I'm getting at is we are lacking. We are lacking. And there's another.
06:59You want the sidebar of all of this. Now, this is an unfair sort of comparison. But how many times
07:07have we heard from people in the last few years that the Niners really suck at drafting,
07:14especially in the early rounds? Yeah. Do you feel that way? Facts. Absolutely. Not facts,
07:21because but I like I have a yellow legal pad sheet from my father in law that I can pull out.
07:25I knew you'd bring up Pop Pop. Good old Pop Pop. A lot of misses on that list. It's a perfect
07:31nickname for him because that's what he does when he's talking about Niner draft pick. I don't know.
07:35I don't know like how other teams do. So to really assess if they are bad at it, you'd have to look
07:41at other teams in their first three rounds. I do know this. Seattle came in and put your face in
07:47the pipe hand. And they did that with a bunch of guys they just drafted. So but I don't know,
07:52like this is one of those moving target kind of things. I get it. Your top draft picks are supposed
07:57to be your best ones. It looks like the Niners top draft picks come in the fifth, sixth and seventh
08:01round. That's weird. But they still get credit for that, too. That's also scouting and work. And so
08:08anyway, here's why I bring that up. I bring that up because if you would like and it's unfair because
08:14there's way it's a bigger roster and there's way more picks in the NFL than there is in the other
08:20sports. But if you'd like to compare the 49ers to the Warriors and the Giants, want to know who's
08:26good at drafting and who's really bad at drafting? The 49ers are easily the best of the three in terms
08:35of actually making picks and turning them in to homegrown talent, homegrown stars.
08:41Who's the Giants homegrown star right now? Probably Logan Webb.
08:47OK, that's a that's a good answer. Right. It's a good answer. Thank you.
08:50And who is the Warriors homegrown star? It's Steph Curry. Yeah. But but don't know.
08:56I mean, you let me right into it. No, Steph and Draymond and Clay.
09:00Those are right. That's all homegrown stars. Yes.
09:02But like I'm talking about the latest regime, the last 10 years. Right. You'd be hard pressed
09:08to find one. It's coming up, but they can't wait to deal them. And it's, you know, Moody
09:14or pods or Will Richard or TJD. I mean, these are not stars. These are just guys. And none
09:20of them are early picks. And I understand that. So, again, it's not fair. The Niners get way
09:26more shots at this. But the Niners can sit here and go, Fred Warner and Nick Bosa and George
09:32Kittle and Brock Purdy and D'Amador Lenore and and and and and they can they can do
09:37that. They've gotten actual Hall of Famers that they've drafted in the last decade or
09:44so. But you're going back like you go back as far as you want. Like you could look at
09:48the Warriors and go Steph, Draymond and Clay. They're all Hall of Famers. Yeah. So, I
09:52mean, that counts. And also, I think that you have to look at the percentage of picks
09:57because last year the Niners had 11 picks. Sure. And the year before they had eight
10:03picks. And so, yeah, they have more opportunity. And baseball's hard because I don't even know
10:07how many rounds they have now. They used to have like 50 rounds or 60 rounds. It's way
10:12less now. Right. And so, in baseball, you're almost like you almost draft because you have
10:17to. It's really hard outside of the first round to find true like blue blood guys who are
10:23going to be good. MLB draft is down to 20 rounds. Oh, that's it. Yeah. 20 rounds. You're right.
10:27They used to have 50 and now it's 20. And quite frankly, after you get to about the fifth
10:33round, you're just filling out minor league rosters. Right. They don't even I'm not saying
10:39they don't care, but it's just not it's not the same as as the other sports.
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