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Sports Radio Network. And of course want to give a big shout out to all our sports Byline affiliates across the country and with the American Forces Radio Network around the world. I got my boy Donnie Burns with me on the ones into so hot that we sweat steam. But I gotta tell you real quick before we dive into anything. I'm telling you right now, the Cincinnati Pittsburgh game, Reds and Pira, it looks like it's gonna be delayed

to start. You may want to get some of your starters if you play in DFS today, if you can out of your lineup, including who many people think is the best starter value including Speeds and Spitting statistician Jamison Tyone was at eight thousand on fan Duel today. You may want to get him out. I don't know if that game is going to be starting on time. Uh. Donnie Burns is with me. We got a couple of polls up as usual. If you wanna, you know, chime in on the poll, you can follow us at f

n T s Y Radio on Twitter. You could also catch me your boy at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. I got some polls up there, Donnie. I want to tell the people about first. One is you may have seen, but Jerry west was talking about how he never wanted to be the logo of the NBA and it might be time for a new logo. So I asked you who should be the new NBA logo? Here are your options. One option is Michael Jordan's. You know we got he has a great logo with the Nike Air Jordan's maybe

that should be the logo of the NBA. Should it be shock Shaquille O'Neal, you know, powerful dunking kind of image. What about Russell Westbrook who is doing it all right now? But then again, if you listen to the show regularly, you know another option could be any player resting on the bench, because that's what they are doing these days. They got another pull up there for you. Who would be the worst option for ceremonial first pitch? We're talking

about that a little as it is opening week. We talked about will Donald Trump throughout the first pitch, but there have been some bad first pitches before. But who would be the worst? Would it be an athlete from another sport? Do you have to see basketball players try and throw a baseball? Or would it be a singer or a rapper? Do you ever see fifty cent throw it at city field? Would it be a politician or maybe a beauty pageant? There are two examples of mixed time,

Miss Texas. We're gonna get into right after the break, So come on back. After the break. I'll tell you about speech and starting lineup, everything you need to win your league and win that cash. We'll be right back after this. Oh weird, weird? Do you know what it is? This? Your boyd Dame Martinez piece and spitting statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network and of course, on all our Sports Byline affiliates.

Across the country and American Forces Radio network around the world. I told you that that Red's Pirates game was delayed at the start. Uh. Similarly in Miami, Braves and Marlins will have a delayed start as well. But you know what it is. In this segment here we do speeds and starting lineup. If you want to call me at any point this hour and want to have a little conversation,

we could do that. Holler at me at eight four four, eight four, three, six, eight seven nine, And of course you can interact with the show on Twitter at f and t s Y radio at spitting speeds to get your boy, Dame Martinez, let me give you a little bit of news and notes since yesterday when we last had a show. Will Myers hit for the cycle? Last night, big things out of him Padres won five to three. Um.

Interesting things going on with the New York Mets. First of all, last night Ed bray Ramos drilled as Drubal Cabrera in the bottom of the eighth of a tie game. You would wonder, like, why would he do that unless there was an issue? And you know what, if you look at a little bit deeper, there was as Rubal Cabrera hit a go ahead or winning game winning home run last August against this guy Ramos and Philly in

the eleventh inning. And you know, retribution can happen at any time, So this was clearly going back to yesterday. But then you know teammate j Bruce backed him up. He hit his second homer of the night right after that, and the Mets did in fact at the victory last night four to three. Also with the Mets, though, they are dropping Jose Reyes to the seventh spot in the batting order. UH. Today tonight against the Phillies, Curtis Grandison

will lead off. So in your lineups, whether it be season long or dfs where they hit in the order, that's a big change for Jose Reyus, who only has one hit so far on the season. Remember yesterday I was telling you that UM a lot of guys with hamstring injuries. I mentioned Tray Turner, UH and others. Well, the Braves are putting Matt Kemp on the ten day disabled list because of a hamstring. Also, the Mariners are putting shortstop Jean Sagura on the disabled list because of

a hamstring. So let's get to some good news though, the Blue Jays have activated their closer, Roberto will sooner. He's back from the d L, coming back from that cervical spasm that he was dealing with. And Martine Prado is beginning his rehab stint with high a Jupiter. He's returning from guess what a strained hamstring. Let's let's keep it moving though. Give you speeds to starting lineups. Remember this is where I give you what you need to win your leagues and win that cash. Let's talk about

what happened last night. I gave you a couple of starters last night. I gave you Jacob deGrom. I said, pay up for Jacob deGrom, pay the ten thousand on fan duel if you needed to. And that was a little bit worried. While I was still on air, I told you that he gave up two runs early in the game to Philadelphia. Well he shut him down after to that when he went six innings, gave up two runs, struck out three, gotch a quality start. Not so bad, not so bad. I hope you did not, however, use

the other guy I mentioned, Brandon Finnegan. There was a weird strike zone going on in Pittsburgh last night. Brandon Finnegan walked five batters and only two innings, had something like seventy pitches and was pulled after only two innings. But Tyler Glasnow had the same issue. He walked five and only one and two thirds and innings. So there was definitely something going on with the strike zone in

Pittsburgh last night. I also told you that uh I was fading Jared coz Art, and though San Diego padres um at home against the Rockies, um at Corps against the Rockies, and I thought, you know, stack against coz Art, what does cozar due? Of course he throws four scoreless innings. The best starter you could have used yesterday would have been Michael Pineda. Sometimes I like to call him Michael Pittoniata. That was not the case yesterday. In the home opener

at Yankee Stadium. Pinedo went seven and two thirds the game up only one run, struck out eleven batters. Got you a quality start and a win. And if you listen to the last night's show, you know my homegirl Lindsay was celebrating that entire time. So here's what I want to do. I want to look I want to look at it some starters for you to target for tonight's slate. Okay, and remember I told you rain could be an issue. Here's the guys I like. I like

Cole Hamils tonight. If you want to pay up for starters at FanDuel, they're playing against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Listen, you obviously have Mike Trout in that lineup, but if you can work around Mike Trout, Hamilts of course has two d K season upside, so day to day start to start. You like that? As though your name was Kirk Cousins. I like Jamison Tyone. I told you that there was rain in the forecast. But here's the deal. I like that now in your big time tournaments.

I don't like that as a cash game play. You know where half the guys are making money, half the participants who are third of the participants are making money. But if you're in a tournament, you gotta figure. A lot of people went off Tyone and all the pirates with that news of rain. Now what I'm banking on, I'm actually liking the fact that this game is delayed

to start. I would have felt a real bad if this game started and then there was a delay, because after any kind of lengthy delay, you know you're not bringing that picture out, and the last thing you can afford is to have your starter go one or two innings. But I love this. They are delaying the start. It looks like the chance of rain in Pittsburgh decreases as the night goes on, so that means that once they

start this game, I think it's gonna run. And I like having Jamison Tyone for only eight thousand dollars against this Cincinnati lineup. He put up forty three Fantasy points last time, and that was at Fenway Park against the Red Sox. Clearly, being at home going up against this Cincinnati lineup is a much better issue. If you don't like that, you don't want to gamble, and you want to look a little bit lower. Might I suggest to you Robbie Ray for seventy hundred. I like his strikeout upside.

Remember this is a guy who out of nowhere struck out something like two hundred and eighteen batters last year. You have the strike out upside. And there is no Buster Posey in that lineup for the San Francisco Giants because he is going to the concussion dal I Remember yesterday I told you he got hit in the head with a ninety four mile on our fastball from Taiwan Walker. So uh, if there's no Posey, that lineup seems a little bit less dangerous. I think Robbie Ray could get

you some strikeouts. He was one out short of quality start last outing and he got to six ks. I like Robbie Ray at seventy hundred. Remember when I told you last night to fade Jared Cozart and the Padres, Well, I'm telling you to do it again at Corps tonight. The San Diego Padres are running out Jared Weaver. Jared Weavers fastball and his last start topped out at eighty

six miles an hour. I don't know if you heard, but Bettery Cardi on the DFS lineup block last hour said that the gun on TV they were calling them changeups when he was throwing his fastball. Uh. I like a lot of Rockies tonight, I personally have Para in my lineup. I also have Mr Nolan Ronado. Here's what I want to do for you, guys, though there have been so many injuries already. Remember I just told you Buster Posey on the d l. You know, my man, uh, Gary Sanchez on the New York Yankees is on the

d L with that biceps strain. He's gonna miss the next four weeks. So what I want to do right now is I want to tell you a couple of guys that you can target at catcher that if you need to, uh, you know, fill in for Gary Sanchez for the next four weeks or maybe just for the rest of this week if you have Buster Posey in your lineup. Here are three catchers that are fifty owned or less, so they are already available in your leagues that I think they hot in the streets right now.

That is a throwback to the old Fantasy freestyle with my boy rocks um hot in the streets catchers. I got three for you. The first, Sandy Leone the Boston Red Sox. He's played five in the seven games so far, he's the number six catcher overall. He's only fift owned. He's already he's got a one thousand on base Player slugging and already five r b I s on the young season. Here's another guy for you, Giovanni Soto, the catcher on the Chicago White Sox. He has played. Here's

the thing, he's only played four the seven games. He's kind of a part time guy out there in Chicago, but he's only ten percent owned and he is three holders already and five ribbies. Now, some of these guys, if they're hot, if you're trying to replace a guy like Buster Posey, I call it, you know, squeezing all the juice out of the orange right good until the last drop. By the time he starts fading, your boy, Buster Posey will be back in your lineup and it's

not an issue. But here is my number one hot in the streets catcher right now. He is the number four overall catcher. This is a guy who is getting regular work. He is hitting fifth or six. He's hitting six tonight in the Minnesota Twins lineup. I'm talking about Jason Castro. This guy is only owned, but he's got a one point one six five on basse plus slugging. He's already scored five runs, already hit five rb I s. These are some guys who can get if you need

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I want to start with some news and notes around the NFL. Marshawn Lynch has said that he's also open to coming out of retirement and returning to the New England Patriots. That would be a case of the rich getting richer now, wouldn't But I thought Marshawn Lynch was all about like coming back to his hometown, But apparently it's coming back to his hometown or the raiding defending Super Bowl champions. Remember, Garrett Blunt was in that role for the Pats and he has an offer on the table.

Maybe that's the reason that that hasn't been completely signed. Is because Marshawn Lynch is dangling out there. Carlos Hide, the running back for the San Francisco forty Niners, is not yet one. He had a torn MCL in week sixteen. He's saying he could run, but he can't cut the same way that he used to. And also NFL Network is reporting more trade talk for Richard Sherman. They're now saying that it would take a a starter for your team and a first round pick in order to get

Richard Sherman from the Seattle Seahawks. So there you have some losing notes around the NFL. What I want to do is go into these pole questions now and uh get my boy Donnie Burns his take here. So the first question we had is who should be the new logo in the NBA. And I don't know if you saw this story, but Jerry west really said that he never really wanted to be the logo in the first place, and that he thinks it's time maybe that the NBA evolved and has a new one. So I put up

some options there. I put you know, M J. Jordan's Shack Russell Westbrook, but I also said, if you have other nominees. I want to hear it in the mentions. Um So I wonder, like what really characterizes the modern NBA, right, would it be? Would it be Michael Jordan's? Would it be Michael Jordan? And you know that air Jordan that we see on the Nike shoes. But the thing is now, for all the young kids out there, all the millennials out there, Jordan's is more of like a meme right

now than a logo. Right He's like the crying Jordan's meme, I think is where most people like understand what that would look like. And I don't think you want the crying Jordan's meme as the logo of the NBA. So then I think about Shack, Right, I think about Shack and you can see him like throwing it down, maybe breaking the backboard as the logo. But I think maybe not, because you know, the game is not big men anymore. It's not dumping it inside, it's not a physical game

as much anymore. It's all about spreading it out and shooting. So it makes me think, who would embody? You know, the aggressiveness and the style of play that happens right now in the NBA. My answer for you, is Mr Triple Double the probable m v P of the NBA this season? Russell Westbrook could be Russell Westwood. But then I think he doesn't have like a traditional pose, you know, he doesn't have like a he doesn't have an image

that you're like, Oh, that's Russell Westbrook. And then I thought, and if you listen to Fantasy Freestyle, you know, we've been talking about this all season long. Could you just have a player wrestling on the bench, because that's what they're doing right now. They are resting players left and right. So we're gonna check in on this pole. But first let me bring in my boy, Donnie Burns, because Donnie Burns,

you are the resident Fantasy Freestyle basketball officionado. What are your thoughts, man, who do you think should be the new logo of the NBI? So you're probably I'm gonna take some shares in Michael Jordan on this one for a few reasons. Um, you're kind of gonna have to stay in that generation as opposed to picking like a Russell Westbrook Harden, you know what I mean? But what I like Kobe, Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But in the same sense, what's like the big Kobe pose exactly.

I could see a Jordan post. I could see a few Jordan postes, so I would kind of take a few shares of that. But I was thinking Kobe as well. Not too fond. I can't see a little Yam session with Shack, but I take more shares in Michael Jordan at this point. Fair enough, fair enough, And right now, I gotta tell you, sixty of the voters they agree with you, Donnie Burns. They believe that Michael Jordan's could be the new logo of the NBA. I think that would be like the chalk, you know, and that would

be like the easy way out. So you know, there you have it. The other question I have up for you is, uh, who would you trust the least to throw a ceremonial first pitch in Major League Baseball? You know, have you ever seen what happens when like football players or basketball players try to throw out the really bad day? It's really really bad. I've seen, you know, you talk about Michael Jordan's. I've seen Jordan's throw out a first pitch of the Cubs game, and it did not look good.

You think about John Wall once for the Washington Nationals throughout the first pitch in two thousand and eleven. Yo, check this out like I have it right now up on my Twitter at spitting Speed's the worst top ten ceremonial first pitches of all time. There are definitely some you know, athletes from other sports there or would it be like a singer or a rapper? I remember here in New York and remember here we're at Rock and Riley's studio thirty four, live here at Rock and Riley's

on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. But uh, fifty cent do you remember what fifty cent did? Oh my goodness, it was like real high and outside. It was really crazy, and it was bad because like his warm up pitch looked good. And you may remember do you remember that hit single a few years ago? Uh called me Maybee by the singer Carl Ray Jepson. Well, she threw out a first pitch for the Tampa Bay Rays in two thousand thirteen, and let me tell you it rolled all

the way there. So maybe like rappers or singers, what about politicians? What about politicians? You know? Because like there was in Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, he threw out the first pitch one time, and it did not look good. Remember we talked about this before. Maybe that's why Donald Trump didn't want to throw out the first pitch for fear of what, you know, what the fake news how I would portray it. But then I also think, what

about beauty pageants. Sometimes they have like Miss Texas, you know, or Miss Atlanta out there to throw out the first pitch, and it does not go well, It has not gone well historically. What do you think, don what do you think if you to, where would you go. The one that bothers me the most is like the John Walls. And I think I've seen athletes in sports. I've seen

Nick Young throw it there. They are such crazy three And how do you know someone with such great athleticism or you know, quite exactly crazy awkward control baseball fairly well, you know what I mean. Like, So that's the one that kind of I'd have to pick them just for the fact that they're so good at at something else and they could be so bad at doing that. Fair enough, fair enough, I'll tell you what though. Right now, uh of the voters out there are saying that beauty pageant

winners they would trust the least. I don't know if that's sexist, I think it might be. But I know a few girls I could throw a softball that. Yeah. I know some girls can strike you out playing softball. But right now, the voting public say the beauty pageant winners. Politicians. Politicians would be the worst say that rappers or singers. I've also seen Snoop Doggs throughout the first pitch, and boy did that not go well either. I saw Snoop Dogg he throughout the first pitch at the Padres game

in two thousand and six. Did not look good, only saying athletes and other sports. So maybe they just assumed that athleticism there. But I'm telling you it's a different beast, that's a different skill set. We'll check in on those polls throughout the show, but I want to keep it going here in the cipher. You listen to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let me tell

you something. We have passed the combine. We're gonna go into the NFL a little bit because we are moving into uh, you know, we're starting to think about the draft and how that might affect your fantasy team moving into the football season. We've passed the combine. We've heard, we've passed, you know, most of free agency has settled. And what happens after the combine is uh pro days. Schools have their own pro day, so you might hear about the l s U Pro Day or the Oklahoma

Pro Day. And this is where it's like such a home field advantage. These guys are working out on their own home field with their own teammates, you know as their receivers or their quarterback or their linemen, and they kind of get some home cooking when they were on the forty time as well. You know a lot of times it gets uh yeah, they juked the stats a

little bit to make them look good. And I want to tell you about three guys that I think have really gained because of the pro gay Pro Days, and three guys that have kind of fallen back in their draft stock because of the Pro Day. So first, what I would call the winners the Diamonds. First, Mike Williams, this Clemson wide receiver who is so definitely gonna be, in my opinion, the top fifteen pick. This guy skipped running the forty at the combine because they thought he

wasn't really that fast. Um, he ran in at pro day and he ran in the four fives, and that is not amazing. But this is a big bodied wide receiver who's not supposed to be burning off taking the top off the defense, So that is fast enough. I think this guy is gonna go real high in the draft. Mike Williams out of Clemson. Watch out if the Tennessee Titans might have an eye on this guy to help out Marcus Mariota. Another guy who I think is stock is rising because of his pro day is Pat Mahomes.

He's the quarterback of Texas Tech. Now, there were concerns coming out of him because in college he plays for a real big spread offense, only out of the shotgun. That's sort of things. Scouts love his arm. I think he might get into the first round, late in the

first round. But at his pro day he demonstrated he did a lot of stuff dropping back, you know, taking the snap under center, using footwork and the drop back three five seven step drops, and reports are that he looked good doing in that, and you know, that may alleviate some of the concerns and he could move up to the draft board. I can see him going in the late first round. Uh you know, teams are going to maybe get their get their groom, their next piece,

maybe the Arizona Cardinals. Even a guy team like the New Orleans Saints. You never know what they're gonna do. Another guy I want to talk to you about running back out of Texas, Deontay Foreman. This guy broke his foot right before the combine. Okay, so you know he obviously could not run at the combine. He obviously, you know, was not able to show up, show out. But this guy is two thirty seven pounds, so he's a big back. And at the Texas Pro Day he ran his forty

at four point four five. That is a good time. You see no issues with the foot. I think Foreman is gonna move up draft stock as well. I think he could be a mid to late second round pick. If he's around in the third round, someone is going to snatch him up. Now. A couple of losers, I would say, the first Old Miss quarterback Chad Kelly. This guy has had character concerns, was not invited to the Combine at all. But check this out. During his pro day,

he aggravated a wrist injury and is having surgery. He had surgery yesterday on his wrist that he aggravated at Pro Day. So we still don't know about Chad Kelly with those character concerns. He's also coming off in a c L tear. I think his stock is going to go down. I've seen him play, I've seen him beat Alabama. So this guy has the talent, but will they take a chance on him coming off injury and with those character concerns, what about davey On Smith running back out

of Michigan. He didn't run at the combine because he was worried people were gonna straight up think he was too slow. At his Pro day though he did not necessarily deliver, he ran between four seven and four eight. That is less than design arabs will speed. I think he's gonna fall to maybe a mid round pick. But running backs in the NFL, you know, it's such a war of attrition. He will still find his way onto a roster in the NFL. The last guy I want

to tell you about shock Lynnwood at Baylor. This guy average eleven hundred yards, average, eleven touchdowns in his first three years, kind of regressed a little bit of senior year, only seven hundred fifty one yards and two touchdowns. He too was coming off a fractured foot. He even got benched one game, was not invited to the combine ran a four seven five. He's only two d one pounds. He needed to go quicker than that. His stock might

be falling as well. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna put the fund in Functional Sports Radio. I got a lot of good stuff to talk about with my man Donnie Burns. So hot that we sweat steam. Come on right back Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Yes, yes, this is Dame Martinez Speedies spitting statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy

Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. And of course, big shoutouts to all our sports Byline affiliates across the country and the American Forces Radio Network, making Fantasy Freestyle truly a global show. Hey, Donnie Burns, what I want to do is go real quick around the major leagues. They have entered the bottom of the tenth in Cleveland, that game is still one one White Sox and Indians. Francisco Windoor made up the one run with a home

run for the Cleveland Indians. Uh night, games. I want to check in on. Cardinals lead the Nationals one nothing at the bottom of the second, the Mets all over the Phillies early on, and that one top of the second, three nothing. We got Brewers to nothing up on the brew Jays in the first inning, scoreless in the bottom of the second. Orioles and Red Sox. The Marlin's Braves game, and I said it was delay to start, has gotten going.

It is scoreless in the top of the first, and then we've got all the night games still left to go. The reds Pirates game is still delayed to start due to rain. Um, how you feeling, Donnie Burns, You're doing good? Oh? I get no response out of Donnie Burns. That means he's doing so good he's not there. What I want to do, though, is, as you know, here in the Fantasy Freestyle, we not only give you what you need to win your leagues and win that cash, we also

put the fun in functional sports radio. All right, So what I want to do is have a little bit of fun. Now. I want to tell you a couple of stories that I've seen around the world of sports that I think, quite frankly, pretty very interesting. First of all. As you know, Tony Romo has left the Dallas Cowboys.

And I don't know, if you listen and if you listen to the you know, Fantasy Sports Radio Network app or you listen live on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, you heard me at the top of the show saying that Tony Romo is signed a one day contract and is dressing for the Dallas Mavericks tonight. He'll be on the bench. That's just now a second Dallas team team that will have Tony Romo riding the bench. He apparently

likes that. But you know, Tony Romo is moving to CBS and he's gonna join Jim Nance on like the number one broadcast team doing the main games on CBS this season. Now that spot was originally occupant, not originally but last season and for years past that spot was Phil Simms. Tony Romo has displaced Phil Simms as the lead broadcaster for CBS. Right, So check this out. And you know you gotta always give it to minor league baseball.

Minor league baseball always drums up something fun, something weird to try and get their fans engage and active. I remember going to minor league baseball games and you know they even have like the Potato Sack races for the kids, you know, or slipping Slide for the kids, or you know, Harry Potter Day or something like that. I remember Brooklyn Cyclones that a Harry Potter Day. It was transformative for me earlier on last summer. But check this out. There's

a minor league baseball team, the Frisco rough Riders. There the Texas Rangers, double A affiliate. They have offered Phil Simms a job to be their announcer. Okay, and uh, we don't know if he's gonna take the job, but they are saying the offer is on the table. Check out these quotes from Rough Riders general manager Jason dom Bach. He says, and I quote on behalf of the entire Rough Riders organization. We very much look forward to honoring one of TV's all time best NFL analysts with a

very special broadcast experience. We don't have specific details at this time of when Simms will join our broadcast, but we encourage fans to watch Rough Riders baseball online and to visit Dr. Pepper Ballpark. So they aren't even saying that Phil Simson is going to do this they're just saying that they want him and that they're gonna honor him, and that if you want to listen, you should tune into the Rough Riders games, you should come to the

Rough Riders Park. Using it as a straight up publicity ploy. I think it's interesting in the press released that the Rough Riders released about this, they also took a subtle dig at the new lead announcer, Tony Romo, which I

think is interesting. Check this out and I quote, though the former Super Bowl winning quarterback and longtime CBS NFL analysts has no apparent minor league broadcasting experience, the Rough Riders have often Simms the number one game analyst role alongside the team's award winning broadcast is Ryan Juilliard and Keith Rod. The one day contract can be accepted and executed by Simms at any time during the Rough Riders two thousand and seventeen season, because we know he has

more experience than his replacement, Tony Romo. Wow, so there's a little dig at Tony Romo, like, you know, kind of supplanting Phil Sims. And I gotta tell you, I don't know that CBS did this in the most professional way because it was out there. It was out there and known that CBS was looking higher Tony Romo, and that Tony Romo was interested when Tony Romo tweeted a picture of him, you know, wearing like a c B S jacket. And let me tell you something, that's Phil

Simms losing his job. Who told Phil Simms this? I don't know. I don't know how CBS is handling this. Less moon Vez, the head of the sports department over there. I think people might want to write him a sternly worded letter, especially the Simms fans and family. I don't

know about that. If you want to talk to me about any of these stories, whether it be you know, whether it be you know the who to start and who to sit tonight in DFS, whether it be the value of pro days and who you think stock went up or down, whether you have an idea like my boy Donnie Burns, that Kobe Bryant should be the new logo, or anything. You can holler at me at eight four

four eight four three six eight seven nine. That's the phone number, and also at F and T S Y Radio at spitting speeds to hollow at your boy, Dame Martinez, the spitting statistician. If you ask questions, we'll answer them during the show. Here's the other thing I want to do is we put the fun in functional sports radio. Second year hockey player Jack Eichel. Jack Eichel, you know, you know how these guys all have incentives and bonuses

in their contracts. Will check this out. Jack Eichel, who is, like you know, an up and coming young player in the n NHL. He would have gotten a two million dollar bonus if he finished in the top ten in the NHL in points per game you know, points, goals and assists, right, if he finished in the top ten in the league. He scored fifty seven points in sixty one games this season, so point nine three four points

per game. Leon Dristal in the last game of the season, the season finale, scored a goal and had an assist, which made him have seventy seven points in eighty two games, good for point nine three nine points per game. Hopping Jack Eichel and making Iichel finish eleventh in the NHL in points per game. He would have got a two million dollar bonus if he was in the top ten. So I asked you, what do you do with something

like that. I think that's you know, he missed out by point oh oh five points per game being in the top ten, but he's missing out on two million dollars. I think that's a little crazy. They asked Eichel about it, and what he said in response was very clear and very plain. He just said, hey, it wasn't enough. I like that in a young player, you know, putting the onus on himself for more. Uh, Donnie Burns, what do

you think about that? Man? Here's my thing. I think this is the way to counteract all that rest that's going on in the NBA. What if you made all these contracts just straight up incentive laden, you know, they had to reach a certain threshold, whether it be minutes played or points in the season or you know, counting stats. Maybe then maybe then they wouldn't be resting on the second night of back to backs as much. What do

you think, Donnie? It's funny enough because this is the second time Jack Ikel has lost uh my life time now because outs south of my province fires who beat his Boston Terriers in the National Frozen four? Absolutely absolutely, I mean Jack yo, Jack, he did, he knows, he knows that what he did was not enough, But I

think that could be an interesting idea. I think the NBA needs to look at this for him for being mature enough though that I like, yeah, yeah, he was just like, hey, it wasn't enough, and I mean nothing nothing. I don't know the details of my man's contract, right, but uh, two million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. But I think he's I bet he's doing just fine because he's what like, he's like two years old and he's a millionaire. I mean, getting another two million is nice.

But I think he's all right. No, yeah, I think I think he'll be We think he'll be okay. I think he'll be okay. All right, sounds good, sounds good. Check it out though here we put the fun in functional sports radio. I have another topic that I have been actually I've been trying to get you. And by the way, the Cleveland Indians have just walked off on

the Chicago White Sox. They win two to one. Uh Michael Brantley, it looks like with the game winning RBI they are celebrating in Cleveland that sending a LCS champions Cleveland Indians. They have beaten the Chicago White Sox tonight two to one walk off hit by Michael Brantley, ending that game in ten innings, the Cleveland Indians winning two

to one. UM, so check this out. You may remember if you listen to Fantasy Freestyle regularly, if you listen to speeds and spitting statistician at this point a couple of weeks ago, Donny, I don't know if you were

producing this show. We had my main man, Tomic Gross on and he was a producer of Sleepless in America, a national geographic documentary about sleep, and so we had him on talking about the impact that sleep has or lack of sleep has on players, and we talked about interesting things like, you know, traveling west to east, east to west, second night of back to backs, and he had some very interesting stats on you know, how that really impacts player performance. It sounds like Andre a Goodala,

Lebron James, all dramatically affected based on their sleep. He was talking about that. I asked him which teams are kind of ahead of the curve on this, you know that are really you know, using science or sleep science, And one of the teams he mentioned was the San Francisco Giants. And let me tell you something, Donnie. The San Francisco Giants are now taking this to a whole new level. What if I told you that the San Francisco Giants are not only measuring sleep and diet, but

they are measuring the density of their players urine. What you know about that? That last one is pushing it? I thought I know that one. The last one is a little weird. The first two. As a guy that they've been on nutrition, I like those first two I had never heard about. Check out. Check this out. They Yeah, they are measuring they are measuring the density of the urine. The Giants have a sports scientist, a specialist named Jeff Head.

I swear, I swear that's his name. Okay, we're talking about we're talking about them pissing, but his name is Jeff Head, I swear. Okay. And he says, and an area we're really focused on is hydration. And he says, one of the ways we check players hydration daily is through what they call a u s G, which is a urine specific gravity machine. Okay, So what they do is they literally measure the density of their players urine. And these Giants players in San Francisco, they're on board

even all star buster posey. He says, Jeff has worked his tail off in the last year or two trying to find anything to give us an edge. So they literally submit to these urine tests to measure the density of their urine to make sure that they're being hydrated properly. Would you buy that? You think? Would you be okay with that? Now that you say that, you know, they hire these guys to do everything they need to be doing,

and it looks like he really is. So you know, I was making fun of it at first, as you should. I mean, we're here to put the fun and functional sports radio, So that comment, really, you know that hits home a little bit yasum the hydration and that's the best way that they can find out if they're like adequately hydrated. Apparently there's a big impact on that. Okay, So you're down with that? Huh? You're okay with this?

I actually you don't think it's an invasion of privacy if they're like, hey, we gotta measure the dense any of your urine? All right, what about your a AU basketball team? Man, You're gonna make the kids p if this ends up working. Okay, I think you might need to get some kind of perm from the parents like that. Man, I'm not sure, but check this out. Here's the funny part though. Here's the funny part. The San Francisco Giants

have made an award. They have made an award for the player who has the best hydration okay, and they're calling it you ready for this, the m v P. That's a little corny. I mean, hey, I didn't make it. I didn't make it. Listen, listen. Okay, they're incentivizing it. They have made a golden urinal that goes in the locker room up the San Francisco Giants, and they're calling it the m v P Trophy for the most hydrated player.

After each series they're doing this, Okay, so we've gotta find out who the most hydrated player is and they get the Golden Urinal, the m v P Award. Okay. I don't know what they're doing, Okay, but I think this is I think this is the next level of sports science. Okay, So big shout out again to my boy Tom and girls for joining the show. I remember I told you we're gonna have a licensed, certified athletic trainer. Thomas Low on the show maybe later on this week,

maybe next week. We asked him a lot about the concussions. Before we're gonna bring him back on, I'm gonna ask him about this rash of hamstring injuries early in the season. If that's normal, what can teams be doing to prevent that? And also this this this uh strategy here about the blood spinning instead of the Tommy John injuries. So listen, so many ways that Speeds is holding you down. When we come back on the Fantasy Freestyle, We're gonna wrap this up. Put a nice little bull on the show

Fantasy Freestyle. I'm out the champions here. You know what it is Speed sit status that you're holding you down on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let me tell you something. You will not be the champ if you started Clay buck Holt tonight in your DFS. The Mets are all over buck Holtz up five one in the top of the third. You also probably will not be the champ if you started former met Bartolo Cologne. Get a whiff of my bar Tolo cologne down in Miami.

The Marlins have put up three against bar Tolo Cologne in the first inning. And just another check in. They have yet to start that Red's Pirates game. It is still reigning in Pittsburgh. I don't care. I went ahead and think they're gonna make that happen, and I started Jamison tyyone in tournament plays because no one else is gonna have them against that paltry Red's lineup. What I also want to tell you if you didn't hear the news at the top of the hour, um Bruscia Adortmun

and Monaco in the UEFA Champions League. Their match today was postponed because a bomb went off near the Bruscia Doortmun team hotel, and it even did in fact injure one of their players. That game has been postponed. In the other matchup, Juventus beat Barthalonna three nothing in Italy. Last thing I want to do here in the last minute that we have is checked back in on on

those polls we had up there right now. Of you think that Michael Jordan's should be the new logo for the NBA if Jerry West is no longer the logo and tent of you though think they could be a resting player on the bench, which I think would be hysterical that last one though about who should uh not be throwing out ceremonial first pitches. You guys are so you guys, you ladies, you listeners, you voters are so prejudice beauty pageant winners, pent who you would trust the least?

Let me tell you something on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Up next is my man Joe Pizzappia with the Fantasy Black Book. He's gonna give you everything you need. He's gonna probably tell you some more catchers like I just told you to replace Buster Posey replaced Gary Sanchez. Remember Jason Castro out there in Minnesota doing big things and only owned in fourteen percent of leagues. Hey, Donnie Burns, I had a lot of fun. Let's do it again tomorrow. Huh,

let's go, Let's do it. I'm your boy. Dane Martinez speeds the spitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network again. Big shout out to all our Sports Byline affiliates around the country, and shout out to the American Forces Radio Network around the world. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm out