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Can’t be your walk-in music welcome to PTI Tony bolted a day early apparently so we get to enjoy the gift of having our great friend Mr Frank Isola not a bad holiday cheer could you no some people out for the holidays though clearly let’s start with the Dodgers Landing another coveted player
Just two weeks after adding shatani Japanese pitcher yoshinobu Yamamoto is reportedly agreed to a 12 12E deal worth 325 million bucks Yamamoto was just 25 years old has won three straight MVPs already and Japanese size with a career ER of 165 Frank what does this do for
The Dodges and where does it leave the rest of baseball yeah happy holidays to the Dodgers not so much to the San Francisco Giants or the New York Mets it’s amaz the money is incredible Mike you know just the posting fee that they have to pay his Japanese Club is 50
Million that’s just a little less than the Oakland A’s uh payroll for last season and when you combine it with SH Otani so the Dodgers go out they get the best player in the sport then they get the best free agent pitcher the combined salary is over a billion that’s how
Someone had a great stat today that’s the combined salaries of the Oakland A’s over the last 14 years so it’s the halves and the half kns in baseball teams like the Pirates you know they can’t compete with this the Tampa Bay Rays can’t compete the do Mike here are
The salaries show the contractor Shi 700 million Yamamoto 320 million Tyler glass now 136 million and don’t forget mooki bets 325 million Freddy Freeman 165 million so they have the best pitcher and you the numbers are off the charts 860 Innings he strikes out five times more batters than he walks he’s great
He’s never thrown a pitch in the major leagues I get that the one thing I like about baseball just because you have the best doesn’t guarantee you anything because sh’s yet to have a postseason at bat and Y Yamoto game the maor what it’s going to
Do Mike is going to get them into the I’m tired of all the hype of sports all of sports all of it every time somebody loses someone or it’s the death of the whole franchise every timebody somebody sign somebody now they go straight to heaven no they actually don’t which is
Why you play the games which is why the Giants by the way have won three full season World Series since the Dodgers now kudos to Mark Walter for and his team cuz they go for it they’re not sitting on their riches they are out there trying to win and and seemingly
Make the smartest moves available who wouldn’t make the moves that the Dodgers have made of course you’d make those moves y it doesn’t guarantee anything no the Angels had at one point three of the out of what the 10 best players in baseball and couldn’t even make the
Postseason the Dodgers are already in a much much much much much much much better situation it guarantees nothing the hype is just crazy on these things you know let’s see the Dodgers still have to get out there and compete people have to stay healthy they address their
Pitching needs my God not not not with shoh right now but with you know W with with two other starting pitchers they have now in the rotation let’s see you know it what it does it’s going to always put them in contention to make the playoffs we know
The way the playoffs work now with so many different layers you know at any moment you can go up against a couple of hot pitchers and and then then you don’t get in couple of things though you know everyone’s looking at the Yankees as losers yes they wanted Yamamoto but they
Did address the need that they had with Juan stto he hits for power doesn’t strike out the two big losers for me are the New York Mets who obviously were in big on this but also look at the San Francisco Giants they wanted Sho Otani they wanted Yamamoto their attendance
Dipped a little bit they’re competing with with the Dodgers as much as the angels are competing with the the Dodgers the Giants obviously are it’s a rival same division they turn out to be the big let actually play some games let’s play some games people want to
Pronounce you can Crown them to quote the late great Dennis Green you can Crown them or we can play the games yeah you’re you’re right about that uh meanwhile shohi was in attendance last night to see the Rams roll to their fifth win in their last six games
Matthew Stafford threw for 328 yards 164 of them to rookie puka nakua as the Rams built a 23-point lead over the Rams I’m sorry over the Saints before winning by eight Mike at 8-7 has Shawn mcvey’s team earned its way into the contender category not yet not for me you know I
Got to see more and I like what Stafford’s doing and he and a CO I mean it’s a this is a nice developing team that’s what it is it’s developing and I got to see another step Frank before I put them with the 49ers the Cowboys and
The Eagles and now the Eagles seem to be tumbling and you got issues with who’s going to call their defensive signals and then what’s wrong with that defense or why isn’t it like it was last year I hear all that I’m not putting the Rams with them yet but there are a couple
More weeks they could be there but the problem part of that is they’re not going to win their division what are they going to be what are they looking at a six seed what are they looking at then maybe playing in Detroit that would have some interesting matchups wouldn’t
It yeah um so they’re fun the the Rams are they’re sort of back in it and Shawn McVey has done a tremendous job with that team but I don’t have them with the ners Cowboys and Eagles do you no I I don’t and last night’s game too the
Saints handed them the game at the end of the first half when they didn’t go when they go for it on fourth down they don’t convert and then they give the Rams half the field to March down the field and score another touchdown one thing about the Rams and give them a lot
Of credit you know they went all in on winning a Super Bowl which not every NFL team is able to do and and they won they rebuild and here we are just a couple of years later later and like you mentioned right now they would be a six seed they
Would play Detroit that’s Jared gof Matthew Stafford the offense has been off the charts the last five weeks they’re averaging 430 yards per game they’re scoring 32 points per game the issue for me would be defensively because Von Miller is not there anymore Jaylen Ramsay’s not there Aaron Donald’s
Still there but he dominated the league A couple of years ago and their kicking game not good they’re you know they’ve missed 11 field goals this year you get down to the playoffs how many of these games are decided on field goals I love what they’ve done they have a great
Organization sea mu is a brilliant coach but a contender you mention the teams I’m taking all those teams first yeah I’m taking all them above and listen somebody can and often does pop up and you’re like whoa where’ that come from and maybe we should have seen this and
Maybe some people do see the Rams in that position defensively I would wonder as well but you know what unless it’s a the only potentially great team I see in the NFC is San Francisco I’m not putting Dallas and Philly there so maybe they can be had and I’m not putting Detroit
There so maybe all those teams can be had by a team like La another La team in the playoffs let’s move to the NBA and ESPN’s MVP straw poll of a 100 media members though not these two not Phil and franks wasn’t consultant neither was I through the first two months of the
Season Joel embiid earned the most points with Nicole yic second is third Shay gilis Alexander 4th now embiid is the incumbent MVP of course Frank looking forward from here would you take embiid or the field to win the MVP well I heard that I would be if they
Wanted 250 media members from ESPN I would have made the cut then and I would have been involved in this poll and I would have said you know the only reason I wouldn’t vote for embiid is because he’s only played 65 or more games games twice in his career remember that’s the
Cutoff Mark he’s been right up to this moment a you know a third of the way through the season he’s the MVP of the league he’s actually better this year than he was last year in a couple things you know he’s averaging 5.9 assists per game so that’s right now a career best
And he’s taking 22 shots a game and that’s a career best for him too so he’s so involved in the offense I don’t want to kill James Harden because he won an MVP with Harden but the combination of Tyrese Maxi and joeel embiid I always
Had a g this year where embiid was one assist shy of a triple double after three quarters and didn’t play the fourth the most underrated part of his game is his passing and the numbers he’s putting up Mike 30 and 10 every night the last time he didn’t have at least 30
And 10 was November 17th against the Atlanta Hawk he has been absolutely dominant he’s been great and Frank I voted for him last year I did too I voted for him two years in a row I certainly voted for him last year and I might vote for him this year but if
You’re asking me as the original question was was embiid or the field I’m going to take the field here’s why I also Oklahoma City is must must watch basketball for me almost every game Shay gilis Alexander is that good he’s that guy right now and he’s got that team
Near the top they’ve been floating around one two no lower than three in the Western Conference but right there shoulder toosh shoulder with Shay Gil just Alexander for me is Anthony Edwards Frank nobody mentions the got him sixth and seventh it’s like what Anthony Edwards is the best player and it’s not
Close on the team with the best record in the NBA so what we why is his name not appearing I don’t want to hear because he’s in Minnesota Shay gild’s Alexander is in Oklahoma City yes sometimes you have to have a season to introduce a player Shay gilis Alexander
Had that last year before even his own peers take him seriously enough those two guys to me are even with joic and embiid and Giannis that that’s ahead of Luca sorry and as great as LeBron has been great as Steph Curry has been their teams aren’t going to be
As good as Oklahoma City and Minnesota apparently yeah Mike let let me give you a couple let me give you a couple of stats though so right now he has more points than minutes played the last player to do that for a full season was
Wilton 61 62 but what what do you make of embiid talking about the MVP award he won it last year isn’t the big thing now we held joic to this standard of you wanton MVP what are you going to do in the playoffs and’s never been of the
Second round that’s how everyone going to Jud you I I accept people for the personalities they have and this is embiid’s personality and I enjoy it and so it’s fine he doesn’t need to be like yish he doesn’t need to be stoic and talking about racing horses in you Europe I
Like he needs to get I don’t care what his personality he’s got to get out of the second round I he needs to get out of second round regardless of what his personality is let’s take a break for coming up who has the edge wi the Cowboys meet the fish on
Sunday and Anthony Davis says the Lakers faced a must win against the thunder in December how that going to go SGA where you got him Frank where you got SGA on your MVP list got to be top four time to spank Franken toss up let’s get
The first one from the producer over the louds speaker toss up which team do you favor on Sunday the Cowboys or the Dolphins you know what Frank this probably shouldn’t be easy for me you look at the Dolphins record it’s not the record it’s who they’ve beaten how about
Four of their games coming against the Jets and Patriots four of them not to them mention Carolina the Giants and the Panthers that’s seven of so you know so the Dolphins haven’t beaten anybody but you know what that’s part of the reason I’m going to take them at home to be the
Cowboys who’ve had three you know couple of really impressive wins lately but I’m going to go with the with the dolphins they need to win this game and if we look at the season the one thing that’s been true is the teams that need to win particularly when they’re playing at
Home if they’re going to be any good they win that home game Dolphins beat the Cowboys it was a commanders not uh not the Panthers I I think the Dallas Cowboys are going to respond big this week two of their last Comm and the Panthers they gave up 46 yards and 35
Points to Seattle and then how about what they did against Buffalo Buffalo ran the ball for 266 yards they scored 31 points and a bigger deal than that was they got bullied all over the field I was a little surprised by the way Dallas Talent now D you ran down the
Records in the games Dallas has at least beat the Eagles they have a they have a great record Dallas but they got a quality win against Eagles I think that defense got called out a little bit this week I expect a much bigger performance from them against Miami okay sounds good
That sounds completely reasonable um and by the way the Dolphins did beat the Panthers and the got a slew try try to got a slew of nothing what’s next toss up which team is more likely to win on Saturday the Lakers or the Thunder well you know Anthony Davis coming off
This back-to-back losses that the Lakers had said there you know this is must win and here’s I’m not about to disagree with him I know it’s December I get it and the league you know God gave us that inseason tournament because they wanted people to pay attention to the NBA
Before Christmas well people are paying attention now for a different reason a real reason the Lakers and the Pacers can’t win a game since they won right here in Vegas a couple of weeks ago Oklahoma city as you know Frank is better I know the Lakers will play with
Some urgency but we don’t know the health situation I mean LeBron missed a game ad is whatever he’s questionable or probable or something the Lakers aren’t that good and Oklahoma City is that good I’m I’m looking at SGA as the MVP candidate even higher than LeBron right now LeBron’s been great this season
Oklahoma City wins uh right now Anthony Davis and LeBron are both questionable for the game LeBron obviously he didn’t play last night against Minnesota and who is Anthony Davis don’t no one on the Lakers should ever guarantee anything or say something as a must-win unless your
Name is LeBron James cuz he’s the one that’s driving the bus and he’s going to be 39 in eight more days great something interesting happen with Oklahoma City last night though and Chad Homan played way Shay Gill Alexander did they beat the Clippers and that stopped the
Clippers niname winning streak and oh by the way Kawai The Godfather of load management who had played in the first 27 games did miss one hey how about that fin missed one mid December Chad hren Chad hren Rookie of the Year say it with me come
On now she had H rookie year rookie he’s been in the leue he was in the League last year getting the treatment training us to vot for him as a rookie newcomer of the year not rookie wiim bayama is a pro and happy 75th birthday tomorrow to
Jack ham ham didn’t get as much attention as a fellow linebacker the more violent Jack Lambert but how about this list of accomplishments first He for For For forch fore speech for bye
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