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00:00Do you want to talk about the Knicks-Cavs game first or the Nats-Mets game?
00:03I would say the Knicks-Cavs game.
00:05All right, the Nats come back and beat the Mets 9-6 last night.
00:10They were down 5-0 because Bo Bichette was just going yard, yard, yard, yard.
00:14Not Bo Bichette.
00:16Bo Bichette.
00:16Not Bo Bichette.
00:17By the way, and I just looked at the board and I'm like, well, he's having a terrible year.
00:20And he just started heating up.
00:22Yeah, yeah, he hadn't been hitting the ball well.
00:24But he was last night off Foster Griffin.
00:27And, of course, Mr. Bickle was there with the Mets fans.
00:30Mr. Bickle.
00:31And he had good seats.
00:33Yep.
00:34You said there were a lot of Mets fans there.
00:36Were the other Nats fans around you upset that you were bringing in another Mets fan to the mix?
00:42No.
00:42As I told Jason, I think off air.
00:46So in about the third inning, I actually get a kick out of Mets fans.
00:52They're cheering.
00:52They're loud.
00:53One guy stands up, he's in his jersey, and he goes, let's go Mets.
00:58Let's go Mets.
00:59And the Mets fans start cheering.
01:00And Vinny took one look at him.
01:02Vinny took one look at him, and he was disgusted.
01:04And he said, if that happened in New York, if a Nats fan did that, there'd be 19 guys jumping
01:09over the seat, tackling him.
01:11Right.
01:11Sounds like a fun place to go see a game.
01:13Well, he says, there's no chance that would ever happen with an opposing team.
01:17So he was just mocking D.C. residents.
01:20And I said, not a great sports town.
01:22I can't front.
01:23I've always said, not a great sports town.
01:25Yeah.
01:26People love the Nats, but they'll be cordial to you.
01:29Yes.
01:29And there was a slight weather delay.
01:33Mr. Bickle was at the bullpen hanging out.
01:35Correct.
01:36So there was a, I think it was about a 45-minute weather delay.
01:39They have a hot dog stand there.
01:40So they have all the drink.
01:42Did you guys know that?
01:42I'm so dumb.
01:43I just thought, because I only care about booze, usually, if I'm boozing.
01:47They actually have a hot dog stand there.
01:48You need to build a food base for the booze to live off of.
01:51So they had a brat.
01:53Yeah, it was great.
01:53Oh, brats are so good.
01:54Yeah, so they had a hot dog stand there.
01:55Brats with some steamed onions and some spicy mustard.
01:59The sauerkraut.
02:00Oh, yeah, sauerkraut.
02:01Yeah, that works, too.
02:02So good.
02:03Oh, yeah, we had a great time there.
02:04I didn't hear, I don't know who called the inside the parker for the Nats broadcast.
02:11I don't know if that was Dave.
02:12It was Dave Jagler.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Matt, can you get that?
02:15On the radio, yeah.
02:16I want to see if we can play that.
02:18But anyway, James Wood hit number 13.
02:20They were down 5-0.
02:21Bottom two.
02:22They loaded the bases.
02:24And then Wood hit a ball.
02:26Opposite field, of course, because he's a pro at that.
02:28He's like a Hall of Famer hitting opposite field bombs.
02:31Hit one.
02:31And then the left fielder, who's a young player, Morabito.
02:35I think he was making his debut.
02:36Pretty sure he was.
02:37They've called up two young guys, Morabito and A.J. Ewing.
02:41Yeah.
02:42I think Ewing played late last night as a defensive replacement.
02:46But ball went off Morabito, ricocheted into center field.
02:49And then James Wood was just rounding it.
02:52And he's got five-yard strides.
02:54And here we go.
02:56James Wood with the bases loaded.
02:57Singled his first time up.
03:00The set for McLean.
03:01Here's the pitch.
03:03Swing a fly ball.
03:04Deep left center field.
03:05Chasing back Taylor to the warning track.
03:07He will leap.
03:08Morabito leaps and it's off his glove.
03:09They don't know where it is.
03:11This might be an inside the park home run.
03:13Three runs and scored.
03:14Wood is suckling the bases.
03:15The throw home is not in time.
03:19Wood with a headfirst slide.
03:21That's an inside the park grand slam home run.
03:26Awesome.
03:28Yeah, I mean, because it was right there.
03:29From my perspective, I didn't see a replay.
03:31Obviously, because I was there.
03:32I mean, it looked like it was only a foot or two from maybe being out.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Right.
03:36Yeah, top of the wall.
03:37Yeah.
03:38So they scored the four in the bottom of the second.
03:41Then they scored three more in the bottom of the third.
03:43That's the last inside the park home run you'll probably ever see in your life.
03:46First and last.
03:47What's left of my short life?
03:48I mean, what are the chances you're going to see another one in the next 25 to 30 years?
03:53I figure I go to three games a year and, you know, not that many years left.
03:57They're not great.
03:58And you don't stay the whole game, so it's not that many innings.
04:00I would have bet on that in the parlay.
04:02Yeah.
04:02Can I do that?
04:03Yeah.
04:03Probably can't because that's a 25 or 30-year bet.
04:06Yeah.
04:07That'll be the last inside the parker I've ever seen.
04:09Yeah, probably.
04:10I might see another inside the parker.
04:11That's the last inside the park grand slam.
04:13I'll ever see since it's only happened 200 times in history.
04:15So it was the second inside the park grand slam for the Nats since the franchise moved
04:20to Washington, you know, 21 years ago.
04:23Michael A. Taylor hit the first one on September 8th, 2017 against Philly.
04:29God, he was a disappointment.
04:30So it was the ninth inside the park grand slam since 1994 and the first since a guy for Toronto
04:36did it in 2022.
04:38So first time in four years.
04:41So that's pretty cool, though, that you were able to see that.
04:43Yeah.
04:44And your boy Vinny was salty dog after that happened.
04:47Even though they still had a 5-4 lead.
04:49His mood changed.
04:51Oh, I bet.
04:51I'm going to guess the guy who started the Let's Go Mets chant wasn't really chanting at
04:55that point.
04:56There were actually Mets fans leaving in the fifth and sixth inning.
05:00Which, you know, probably they normally wouldn't do.
05:03Well, I was going to say, don't do that because the Nats bullpen could give it away.
05:08Right.
05:08Easy.
05:09They can give up three.
05:09They can swing the other way with the quickness.
05:11So Dylan Cruz played last night.
05:14He got called up.
05:14So Brady House goes down.
05:16Dylan Cruz comes up.
05:17I didn't realize that.
05:18You didn't realize Dylan Cruz was in the lineup?
05:20You were just hanging out.
05:22He was at the bullpen.
05:24I know, but he played the whole game.
05:26He was at four at bats.
05:27They announce his name cakes every time he steps to the plate.
05:31I didn't even realize it.
05:32I didn't realize it.
05:33You think he pays attention at a baseball game?
05:35I mean, I'm at a baseball game, man.
05:36I don't know.
05:37At least he caught the inside the park home run.
05:39That is true.
05:40I didn't realize it.
05:41What did he do?
05:42He went one for four.
05:43Yeah, that's why.
05:44But, you know, he's out there.
05:45I have a hard enough time.
05:46They put every stat up there.
05:48I just want to find the batting average.
05:50You know how hard it is to find a batting average on that big-ass board?
05:52It's butthard to find it.
05:53I know what's not hard to find.
05:54The name.
05:55You need your readers, apparently.
05:56You should have brought your readers.
05:57You could have seen the batting average.
05:59It's not hard to hear when they go, Dylan Cruz!
06:02Right.
06:03Rickles is not listening to that.
06:05Yeah, not listening.
06:07But 9-6 win.
06:10They are 20.
06:10They can't get to 500.
06:12Maybe they can today.
06:13In fact, we talked about him.
06:14We said, what happened to Cruz?
06:16I go, oh, he's hitting like 250 in AAA.
06:17I talked to Vinny about him.
06:18Right.
06:20He's got four bats.
06:21He said, yeah, he's in AAA.
06:22He's hitting like 250.
06:22I said, he's a 4A player.
06:24You know, he'll never.
06:25Now we're not going to work.
06:26He was in the game.
06:27He was in the game.
06:28He was talking on yesterday's show that you were a part of, that Dylan Cruz was getting
06:31called up.
06:32No, no.
06:32I thought we said.
06:33We speculated.
06:35Speculated.
06:35It wasn't official.
06:36Nobody made it official.
06:37I remember the conversation.
06:39Well, it was announced the night before.
06:41I mean, it's never.
06:42We speculated.
06:43No, it's never.
06:44They're like Brady House.
06:45And then the speculation is they're going to call up Cruz.
06:48It's never official until like an hour before the game.
06:50Okay.
06:50Well, as far as our conversation that I was involved in was it was speculation.
06:55Do you get the emails from Nats PR when they make their.
06:58I do.
06:59I don't check email.
07:00Okay.
07:02Anyway.
07:02So house down to Rochester, Cruz up to Nats Park, went one for four.
07:08Hey, maybe.
07:09You know what was a conversation though that I did pay attention to?
07:12All the errors that we make in the field.
07:15That was the Mets last night.
07:16Well, us too.
07:17Because CJ Abrams botched it.
07:19They botched the double play like three times.
07:22They did.
07:22But Washington was terrible.
07:24Yeah, but Washington didn't have an error last night.
07:26Well, they should have.
07:27They gave him a hit.
07:29Okay.
07:29They gave him a hit.
07:30But CJ Abrams and Brady House, the left side of the infield.
07:33No, look.
07:34CJ Abrams is not good defensively.
07:35It was CJ Abrams.
07:36I can't believe they didn't.
07:37I know.
07:37Abrams is not good defensively.
07:39He's a butcher.
07:39Yeah.
07:40He's a butcher.
07:41But the Nats or the Mets had two.
07:44And that's one reason why they load the bases.
07:46They botched that double play.
07:47They botched that double play.
07:48Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:48Which I watched.
07:50So right now the Nats have 271 runs scored.
07:55That's 13 more than the Atlanta Braves.
07:58And the Atlanta Braves have, I believe they're 33-15, something like that.
08:04I mean, they're having a great year.
08:05Running away from the East.
08:06But the Nats have 271 runs scored, tops in the league.
08:12Amazing.
08:13Nobody expected that.
08:14No.
08:15No.
08:15I mean, they have 271 runs scored.
08:17The Mets, the terrible lowly Mets, have scored 198.
08:21Yes, the Mets have been bad.
08:23Now, the Mets are playing better than they were in the first month.
08:27Well, because they had Juan Soto out of the lineup.
08:29Soto was out for a while.
08:31Soto hit a bomb last night, too.
08:33All right.
08:34So today you've got Mets-Nats, third game of the series.
08:42Let's see.
08:43For the Mets, it's going to be Zach Thornton.
08:45Is he making his debut?
08:47I think he's making his major league debut, Zach Thornton.
08:50We have to hop on the Nats again today.
08:53And then who's pitching for the Nats?
08:56Zach Littell?
08:56Littell's pitching for the good guys.
08:58So you've got a pitch.
08:59You have to hold your nose if you've been on the Nats.
09:01Yeah, yeah.
09:02Well, I bet on yesterday.
09:03I was holding it, but it was early, but they came through.
09:06Yeah.
09:06All right.
09:06So good win.
09:07We love having Paul Toboni on after wins.
09:10Yes.
09:11It's always better.
09:13By the way, and I want to ask Paul about this,
09:15but two nights ago when the Mets scored the 10 runs
09:18in the 12th inning, remember the extra innings?
09:22Yeah, yeah, sure.
09:23The umpires botched that because Blake Butera put in Vivas,
09:29a position player, to pitch, right?
09:33Well, the rule is in regulation, you have to be down eight runs
09:37to do that, right?
09:38So you can't put in a shortstop or a right fielder
09:40unless you're down eight runs in regulation.
09:42Right, unless it's a real farce.
09:43And extra innings, it doesn't matter.
09:45You can put them in any time.
09:47The umpires didn't know the rule, and there was a pause,
09:52and they had to call New York to make sure it was legal
09:54to put Vivas in in extra innings.
09:57The umps didn't know the rule.
09:58At least they chucked.
10:00How did they not know the rule?
10:01But they should know it.
10:02They should know that rule.
10:03Of course, they should know a lot of new rules, Cakes.
10:05Yeah, well, you know what?
10:06If you're getting paid to call the games,
10:07you have to know all the new rules.
10:09Yeah.
10:10You're going to give an NFL official the same excuse,
10:14the same leeway?
10:16It's not going to make mistakes.
10:18You need to call the league office.
10:19We'll have to ask Paul about that.
10:20We'll have to ask Paul about that.
10:22Guaranteed Paul knew the rule.
10:24I'm sure he knows it.
10:24All right, so you want to talk Knicks-Cavs last night.
10:27Well, it's just an incredible comeback by the Knicks.
10:30Yeah.
10:30I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
10:31The Cavs are up 22 points with 7 minutes and 40 seconds left.
10:36Game 1 Eastern Conference Finals in the Garden.
10:38It's a certainty that they're going to win the game, right?
10:39For the last 30 years, teams were 594-1
10:45when they had a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter.
10:49Right.
10:49I have the probability tracker.
10:50James Harden hit a free throw to put the Cavs up 93-71.
10:55Start by 22.
10:57Yep.
10:57With 7 minutes and 52 seconds left.
10:59The Knicks had a 0.1% chance to win the game.
11:03They go on a 44-11 run.
11:07That's an abject embarrassment for the Cavs.
11:09They don't just win the game.
11:10They cover the seven points.
11:12And your boy, Kenny Atkinson, is getting a lot of criticism.
11:18He called one timeout during the entire run.
11:20He kept James Harden on Jalen Brunson.
11:24I remember years ago, Patrick Beverly called somebody a traffic cone.
11:28I think it was Chris Paul.
11:30That's what James Harden was.
11:32Jalen Brunson was just dribbling right around him every time.
11:34Every time.
11:35I mean, James Harden's old.
11:37I don't know.
11:37I mean, Kenny talked about it after the game.
11:39He said, I'd like to hold my timeouts until late in games.
11:43But this is different.
11:44This is game one of Eastern Conference Finals.
11:46You're blowing a 22-point lead.
11:48Kenny, you've got to call more than one.
11:50You're about to steal a game at Madison Square Garden.
11:53And basically shock everybody because the Knicks have been rolling.
11:57And then you choke.
11:59Did you see?
11:59And Donovan Mitchell and James Harden offensively in the last 12 minutes and 49 seconds of the game.
12:07So that includes overtime.
12:09Yep.
12:09We're one for 10 from the field.
12:12Did you see Darren Revell's tweet?
12:14He pulled a classic, just boneheaded move that we've all learned the hard way.
12:21He called it early?
12:22He called it early.
12:24He tweeted, MGM building a new hotel wing in Las Vegas off tonight.
12:2895% of the money at BetMGM was on the Knicks laying 7.5.
12:33They're down 20 with 7.29 to go.
12:36Right.
12:36Think about all that money.
12:37It came back and covered.
12:38It came back and covered it.
12:39All that money that Vegas lost.
12:40You know what?
12:41Darren Revell, for at least that moment, bigger mush than Mike Barr.
12:45Which is hard, hard to fathom.
12:47The NBA's incredible.
12:48The ratings apparently have been awesome.
12:51I saw a graphic that said it's their best numbers in 29 years.
12:55Yeah.
12:56The NBA playoffs.
12:57And you think about it.
12:58You have this game where there's a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter.
13:01And then you have the game which burned Jason on his parlay pick.
13:04The Orlando Magic.
13:06Where they missed their last 23 shots.
13:09Just can't make it up.
13:10And they just blew a game.
13:11What was the other game we were talking about just a few days ago?
13:14A team was up nine with two and a half minutes left?
13:17What series was that?
13:18I can't remember.
13:19We were talking about it.
13:20It's commonplace.
13:21It happens all the time.
13:22I was watching, though, the third quarter.
13:26And two things about that.
13:27It was somewhat painful to watch because they employed the old hack-a-shack on Mitchell Robinson of the Knicks.
13:35He is the worst free-throw shooter I've ever seen in my life.
13:40Really?
13:40And I could not believe that Mike Brown kept him in the game.
13:44They flashed his career.
13:45The real playoff percentage is 38%.
13:48So he doesn't even hit four out of ten.
13:52So the end of the third quarter, they're hacking him all the time.
13:56And then on the flip side, they were doubling Donovan Mitchell a lot.
14:00And the Cavs kept getting open looks.
14:02Yeah.
14:02And they kept knocking him down.
14:05And Mitchell was great.
14:06And then he can't do anything the rest of the game.
14:10It just doesn't make sense to me.
14:13So the video of Mike's stroke doesn't look horrible.
14:16Are you kidding me?
14:17It's the flattest shot ever.
14:18He's got no arc.
14:20It's not in the game.
14:20He's in the training facility working on it.
14:23What?
14:24Well, he bricked that one off the back.
14:26But Mike Brown did make a good move.
14:29He took Josh Hart out because Josh Hart was just getting killed defensively.
14:33And he put Landry Schammett in.
14:34And Schammett played so much better than Hart.
14:37And Schammett was hitting huge shots in the fourth quarter in that comeback.
14:40So Mike Brown, he out-coached Kenny.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Easy.
14:45The Jalen Brunson story, it's just amazing to me because he's a second-round pick.
14:52That's because he's small.
14:53People don't believe in smaller guys.
14:56I know.
14:57We'll see what happens with Acuff.
14:58Well, they're not willing to gamble a lot of money on smaller guys.
15:02That's the thing.
15:03Yeah.
15:04But Brunson.
15:04Until they prove it.
15:05Brunson was a second-round pick.
15:07He goes to Dallas.
15:08And he wasn't a great scorer.
15:09He was getting better as a Maverick.
15:12But then he goes to the Knicks in that trade.
15:14And now he's the best player in the Eastern Conference.
15:17Well, the thing about his tenure with the Mavs is he's playing alongside Luka Doncic.
15:22Yeah, yeah.
15:23He doesn't have the ball in his hands.
15:24Doesn't have the ball.
15:25True.
15:25So he was the secondary guy, and he really picked it up in the playoffs that year when
15:29they made a run to the Western Conference Finals.
15:31Yeah, his third or fourth year with them.
15:33And Cuban didn't want to give him the big bucks, and he had this connection, right?
15:36His dad is on the staff of the Knicks, and I think there's a connection, too, with the
15:41agent.
15:43I don't know.
15:44It's just a great story.
15:45And he's putting up 40 points in these huge games.
15:48But Mitchell Robinson ended up two for eight on his free throws.
15:51Yeah, the second way he shot was really flat.
15:54I didn't know it was the first.
15:56I mean, it honestly made Shaq look like a good free throw shooter.
16:01Mm-hmm.
16:02Because Shaq would hit one out of two.
16:05Yeah, well, yeah.
16:06Robinson doesn't.
16:08He hits three out of ten.
16:09Do you think Cleveland wins a game in the series?
16:13Like, that is deflating.
16:15Well, that could kill you.
16:17It's a knife to the heart.
16:17I think they're going to win a couple games in the series.
16:20You can go in and just completely flip the momentum and steal game one.
16:22I think they're going to lose the series, and that's going to be the reason they blow
16:25a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter with seven minutes left.
16:28They win max one game in the series.
16:29We got our big bet going on, making daily picks.
16:32We'll have picks later.
16:34Actually, we'll put those on social media.
16:36We've been doing that every day, but we'll have picks, which will be on the next day.
16:39on social media later today and tomorrow.
16:41But let's get an update to see where we are, and are there shenanigans with what's going
16:45on with Mike Marr?
16:46Yeah.
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