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team big time. In sports, it's starting to feel like I'm saying we got some we got some important game threes in the NBA playoffs, we got some important game five in the first round of the n h L playoffs. It feels like the baseball season is starting to get into the swing. We got some aces going tonight, you know, with Synder Guard my man James Paxton going. It feels good. We're talking about big time fights that maybe coming up

a little bit later on. I'm gonna talk to you about why even more uh kind of smoking fire around this Connor McGregor, uh Floyd Mayweather fight. I'm even you know, I'm getting excited about so many different things. But here's the funny part. The NFL is still kind of king. I heard earlier today, uh that the NFL was releasing its schedule tonight, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's what I'm excited for. If you got this playoff action.

I want to see if my Jets on Week five, you know when they have Sunday Night football, that sort of things. It's really incredible, how you know, NFL is still king. But I got a couple of polls up that I wanted to you guys about. Also here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Uh, you know, big shout out of course to our sports Byline affiliates around the country and the American Forces Radio Network,

making this truly a global show. Big shout out to the service men and women getting a little taste from home. But I got a couple of polls up there and right now. This first poll is fifty fifty, which I think is interesting. In the NBA playoffs right now, if I gave you a choice, would you take the Golden State Warriors or the field like everybody else or the Golden State Warriors. I think it's interesting. We'll checking on the polls. We're gonna do speed starting lineup that have

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freestyle Tonight News and Notes. Steve ce Check. Okay, he moved up to Triple A Tacoma for the Seattle Mariners. Okay, remember he's rehabbing from a hip I think, um, this is interesting. He will be right in line for the set up role. And remember Diaz, they're the closer in Seattle. He's kind of new to the game, so keep an eye on this. Steve ce Check progressing nicely in his rehab stint. Cargo left the game yesterday with a bruce right hand. Listen, he got hit by Clayton Kershaw fastball.

He is day to day. I would be too that again, aren't we all? Jason Worth he also left his game against the Braves last night with a groin injury. They're gonna sit him out a couple of days. He's also day to day. Travis Darno, he left the game with a right wrist injury. He was actually hit on the on with a backswing. You know he's catching when he was making a throwback, a backswing hit him in the wrist.

He's day to day. Interesting note um. Major League Baseball has cleared free agent Cuban outfielder Luis Robert to sign with the club. This is a nineteen year old stud kid. So we think think about all the Cuban players recently, from Jose to Bray to not my ns, not our n As. He's Yo n s Sesspenis, you know. But we also talked about that Cuban smuggling issue a few weeks back, so it's interesting that MLB has cleared this

kid to sign with a club. My boy Joe Galina, who you can catch on Fantasy First Look here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. He tweeted something now today that David Price, red Sox pitcher was slowed in his rehab process by a little nagging arm injury. They're gonna, you know, step back and re evaluate that as well. You're as familiar closure of the New York Mets. He is officially back after his fifteen game suspension served for this kind of domestic violence case that he had in

the off season. Let's keep it moving here, were on a fantasy freestyle. You know what it is. If you want to hollow you candidate four four eight four three six eight seven nine. I got some poll questions up. The first one it's literally fifty fifty about the NBA championship. Let us know about that. And also I asked, what trades do you think might go down? A week from today? We'll be, you know, doing big things with the NFL Draft, and there's some you know, this is when trades happened.

I was reminded that, uh on four twenty, which today is, which is a whole another story, right, Donnie Burns today being four twenty, the last couple of years, this was the day last year when the Eagles and the Browns made that trade for Carson Wentz. This was the day in when Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. This is the day, I believe, in two thousand and one when the Atlanta Falcons acquired the number one overall pick from the San Diego Superchargers and used that to

draft Michael Vick. So I've been saying for a couple of days that it's like, you know, you know, smoke, smoke, fire times. We gotta pull up there right now. What what trade is most likely to happen? Will it be a top ten pick? Will it be one of these cornerbacks we keep hearing about, Malcolm Butler or Richard Sherman.

Will it be a one of these quarterbacks. We keep on hearing about guys like Jimmy Garoppolo, or could it be brock Oswiler or will it be uh, you know my guy from the Jets defensive lineman, Sheldon Richards, and so let us know you can do that and at an f n T s Y radio Twitter handle, you could always follow and hollow at your boy spitting speeds. Ask me some questions, I'll answer him on the air. Um, you know yesterday I told you yesterday, I told you

the starter I was going with was Dallas Kaikel. I said I was paying the nineties for him. Check it out. Here's what he did. Seven innings, pitch one earned runs, seven strikeouts. He now goes to three and oh with a sub one e r A on the season. This is FISA s fitting statistician. This is what I do for you. I also told you I think a mere Garrett might keep it going for Cincinnati. What he do seven innings, pitch tour and runs, twelve strikeouts, got a

quality start. Although the Reds did lose two to one to the Baltimore Orioles. I'm telling you about this pitching. That's what you need to do. That is the way to win this cash Baseball DFS and tonight tonight, let me tell you something. There's some options tonight between four nowhere, Syndergard, Danny Duffy, Steven Strasbourg. That's all chalk. That's fine to me. I will say this, I'm fading four. I'm fading Thor

today because of this blister, this fingernails. My man Tony Sencott on the DFS Lineup Block Show told you that Thor tonight is wearing like fake fingernails. Let's takes some getting used to. He has these blister issues. Only four strikeouts last time. I like that, but I don't like having to pay eleven thousand, two hundred on fan duel for it. So here's where I'm going tonight. And I've been I've been hot lately. Hopefully you've been listening to me.

James Paxton. James Paxton Tonight, nine thousand at Oakland. Let me tell you something. This again, combined stuff I'm talking about. I've liked James Paxton all year long. I've told you about that. I told you I would take James Paxton over King Felix Hernandez earlier in the sea, earlier in the season. In the preseason, I was telling you in drafts James Paxton twenty two strikeouts in twenty one innings.

Pitch still has yet to give up a run so far this season, and we've talked about the ballpark factor at Oakland. I like that. I like that. Okay, Like I'm Kirk Cousins going up against Valdez making his first career start in place with Kendall Graveman today also, so I like Paxton. That's the way I'm going. If you want to put Danny Duffy, if you want to take Steven Strausburg, Okay, I'm cool with that, of course. But Yo, this is what I'm doing. I'm giving you what you need.

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Donnie Burns over. You know, we're dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle. This is the show that gives you what you need, but also you know, makes you sound real cool. You know your head is bobbing because your neck knows what's up and you win in that cast. I want to tell you something about that I've been seeing. You know, we know it's real still early in the season for baseball, but I want to give you a little something of what stats actually still matter at this point. Okay,

here's some of the things you can see. I think velocity and pitch movement are things that are important to see for pictures. We've talked about these the Major League Baseball the radar guns in a different place and how some people and you know, everybody's having a little bit of a tick up, but there are some people that have even a bigger jump. And there are some people that dropping. I told you about Sam Dyson here. You know, Shelby Miller up this season, Dan Strali up this season,

but Jake Garrietta down this season. This is velo. I'm talking about velocity. That is something that normalizes pretty quickly. You know, your things like your bad BIP, your things like your FIP, those take times to normalize throughout the season. But the things, the inputs that the pictures can actually control. And I'm talking about velocity. I'm talking about pitch movement data. I think that's real interesting and uh, you can actually start to look at and get efficiencies early on things

like contact rate or a little bit different. For example, Clayton Kershaw, who everybody thinks is the best picture in baseball, his hard contact rate has gone up from sev so far already this year. But that's too much of a small sample size that's gonna regulate. However, Sam Dyson has gone from nine two miles an hour to ninety three point nine. That drop and you add the miles per hour difference with the radar guns this year. I think

that's a big difference. Here's the other thing I'm gonna say, and you know, I might have to talk about this a little bit more coming out of break, but we are moving to such a three outcome game with the home run, to strike out, and the walk, and that's really what baseball is looking thinking about about this. Everybody with their swings, the launch angle, trying to hit home runs. It's all about k rate, you know, and people looking to get on base percentage, walks, those three outcomes, trying

to take the defense out of it. That's what's happening. And I have some stats to back it up. Okay, So when we come back in the cipher, that's one of the things we're gonna talk about. We're gonna check it on the polls. I'm also gonna give you news and notes from around the league, you know how we do here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network of course around the world with the American Forces Radio Network. One of the other things we're gonna

talk about. I mentioned to you Dana White talking again about this Conno McGregor, Floyd Mayweather your big money. We're talking about your big money. We're talking a rap money. Okay, let's get into it. You know when we come right back. Dave Martinez Fantasy Freestyle. Ah, you know what it is. It shouldvoid Dane Martinez, a k a. To Spit and Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the

Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Big shout out to the sports byline affiliates in the American Forces Radio Network as well. Before the break, one of the things I was mentioning was that baseball, I think is really trending towards the

three pure outcomes. And for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about when we talk about these pure outcomes, is the where something where the defense, the players on the field are completely independent of the outcome, where there is no potential for for innescence, for them to mess it up or for a shift to change something. We're talking about the pure outcomes. There are three of them in Major League Baseball, the strikeout, the walk, and

the home run. Okay, and this has really, in my opinion, become the focus. You're gonna hear me talking about this a lot during the Major League Baseball season. We talked about, you know, the evolution of the leadoff hitter. How home runs are even there we're talking about. We've talked to you about the launch angle that people are going for, trying to hit more fly balls, trying to hit more

home runs. You obviously probably have already heard about moneyball, and you know, taking pictures pitches and what was the on base percentage revolution Greek, you know, the Greek god of walks and all of that. But also now what we're looking for on the flip side of our our strikeout pitchers, big horses that can strike, have strikeout stuff once again, trying to take this out and the game is trending. Check this out. Home runs are up again

this year. I know it's still a small sample size, but close to ten pc up over the pace at this point last season. Okay, one point one two home runs per game from each team so far. Okay, in many days you'll have something like thirty home runs in eight games. All right, Never have there been one point to home runs per game per team. Okay, even in the steroid error, even in the height of the steroid erra Barry Bonds, Remember I told you about guys like

Richard Hidalgo Louis. When Luis Gonzalez was hitting fifty seven home raw, we didn't have this number. Okay, players players last year combined to hit five thousand, six and ninety three home runs last year. That was just short of the record established in two thousand and it stands. The fall this year after the steroid. Ever, because people are

trying to the strikeout is also jumping. The strikeout rate is jumping at eight point two two per nine innings, okay, above last season, you know, almost like two above ten fifteen years ago. Okay, this is where people are going. Is this more entertaining? I'm not sure. I've always heard chicks dig the long ball. I I think people like striking for the two strike clap, you know, the slow clap.

People do like strikeouts. But this is interesting. I think they're trying to take defensive error and the shift out of the game, and people are building teams that way. I find it very interesting, and I've you know, I've talked to you guys about this a lot, in terms of strikeout rate, in terms of launch angle, you know, in terms of you know, walk great. So this is something you're gonna be hearing about I'm not sure if it's good. We're gonna I'm gonna talk if I ever

get a guy like Tony Sencado, Benny Ricard. We're gonna talk about this on the show. But let's keep it moving here. Let's get into the cipher news of notes around the NFL, which, like I said, the NFL schedule gets released tonight. The draft is a week from tonight, and there is a lot of smoke screening going on in my opinion. Again, e VP of the brown Sashi Brown says he is open to trading up from the

twelve pick, maybe to get a quarterback. He says, ni quote, we don't want to force things that just have to happen, but we'll stay aggressive at all positions. Remember, like just yesterday, I told you the Browns were not planning to make a move for a quarterback. Remember like two days ago and I told you to Browns were considering letting Brock Osweiler and Cody Kessler have a competition at quarterback. You hear everything this time year, Like I said, this is

a day for twenty. Happy for twenty and also happy high five Day, Happy High five days. Slap hands slap hands like my man the water boy Adam Sandler out there. Um, we're gonna hear a lot of stuff in the next week. It's gonna be very interesting to try and sift in mind for the truth. That's why I have that poll. Quite sho up. We'll check in on that pole right now. Of you think a top ten pick will be traded.

Of you think Malcolm Butler or Richard Sherman will be traded, fourteen percent of you think that Garoppolo Oswilder will be traded. And and you know my man'son Shy Braden has said everything under the sun around that fourteen percent of you think that Sheldon Richardson, the Jets stud linebacker will get traded as the Jets go into full rebuild. And remember they already have Mohammed Wilkerson. They have um a growing Leonard Williams. All right. Speaking of which, maybe this is real,

maybe this is another smoke screen. Eagles, uh Philadelphiagles say they may be targeting Joe Mix and he's off troubled running back out of Oklahoma. But I don't understand this. I think the Eagles have have running backs, whether it be Sprowls. They like that kid when those small wood you know, Ryan Matthew injury prone. I get it, So we'll we'll see about that. But uh, I got my boy Donnie Burns with me here on Thursday. I don't have him on Friday, so I gotta be able to

utilize him. Now. I'm gonna have my man, Chris Bovona back with me on the ones and two is on Friday. I do believe here on the Fantasy Freestyle. But Donnie Burns is my resident NBA. You know, he's the love doctor for me if you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle. He's also my NBA correspondent. And I put up a question here on on the poll today, don as we keep it moving here in the cipher, would you pick

the Warriors or would you pick the field? You know, and like right now on the on the poll question, it's very interesting. Right now, fifty one percent say the field percent say they would take the Golden State Warriors to win the championship over everyone. Listen, they won yesterday a tight one. This is without Kevin Durant. Remember last year when Steph Curry like rested his ankle for a few games in the first round. It really reminds me

of this. And also it does not surprise me that Kevin Durant now has you know, what I would say is like a compensation injury right the calf, after the knee, the opposite leg. Listen. I think everybody besides maybe San Antonio, so far, everybody else has struggled. We talked about Lebron struggling and the Calves with their defense. We've talked about the way the Celtics look. We talked we saw how the Raptors all even went down a game. You know, we see the way the you know, the thunder will

probably pose a challenge here, we saw the Jazz. I mean, everybody else. The Warriors look like their cruising with or without Kevin Durant. Um. So I think it could be don't look, you know, and I know, Donnie Burns you've said this also. I would love to see a run out of the Washington Wizards. I would love to see. Yeah, thank you. I would love to see my boy, John wall I would love to see. I would love to

see that. Oh as right now, it looks like the Montreal Canadiens get first blood in that game against the New York Rangers in a pivotal Game five in the first round of the Eastern Conference Partople. It looks like the Canadians will go up one one nothing. But yeah, I like the way John wall I think Washington is

playing hot, but I don't know. I don't know, and and and Donnie and we were talking before about the greatest B movie of all time when a gang in New York has the battle, they worry back to Coney And every time I think of this Golden State Warriors team, Bro, this is what I think. I think we're gonna have to start using this. Many people are saying right now, saying everybody else. I think I'm with saying the Golden State Warriors because I think they're ready to come out

and play. What do you think, Donnie Wous come out to play, Worriers, come out to play, come out and play. I think they're gonna come out and play. I would take them against the field. Donnie Burns, the who is the Fantasy Freestyle NBA Correspondent special contributor. What do you how would you take this poll? Yes, so I'm probably gonna have to go with the Warriors as of right now. I had the field a few days ago, but after watching the Rockets go up against the Thunder and having

Russell Westbrook shoot eight team that was crazy. It was still it was still a close game. So and then and James Harden went for thirty seven, eight and ten or something like that. So there. Really, I think the only team that can challenge them at this point is this Spurs. Kauai is playing great. Not Cleveland, not Cleveland, No, I mean in the West westwise. Um. I mean if you watch that Spurs game, I think Kauai went to

the line nineteen times, so he's playing great. He's aggressive that I would have the Spurs, but right now I have the Warriors. The only team that could challenge him, I think is the Spurs right now though, unfortunately because I had the Rockets, I feel you're one of the games that, uh, one of the series that we're talking about, you talking about these Spurs. They're playing Game three tonight in Memphis, Memphis coming back down oh two. I do want to mention this. You see that Mike Conley gave

away five tickets to Game three. He bought and gave away to uh, you know, to just fans saying, you know, like that have been supporting the team that sort of thing. You know. Connley has been known as like a good guy and man. Yeah, he's one of the NBA Sportsmanship Awards twice, and interestingly enough, in his entire career, which I think at this point is about ten years, he

has never had a technical called on him. And he's also covering his coaches um fine that he got for publicly discriminating against the officials in that game where cow I went to the line nineteen times. All right, so it is, you know, Fantasy Freestyle. We want to tip our cat poor a little bit out for our boy Mike Conley buying tickets for the fans, doing doing doing big things. Let's keep it moving here in the cipher on the Fantasy Freestyle. Your listeners to the Fantasy Freestyle

here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You can get at us on those polls Fantasy Radio. You can holler at me, follow me at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. You could also holler at your boy live on the Fantasy Freestyle. Eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. Keeping it moving in the cipher. We were talking about this before, Donnie Dana White talking again about this, Floyd

Madeweather Connor McGregor and and this time he's talking about numbers. Man, We're talking about dollars and centsio and um, what he's saying is that he's gonna probably be able to work out a deal with Connor pretty easily, and he wants to get that locked in first. He says, Connor McGregor stands to make seventy five million dollars if these two would get it on. And I think that's like Connor is gonna be like sure, you know, he's never made

more than something like ten fifteen million before. Uh, Floyd and you know how Floyd. You know, Floyd was talking before, how he's the A side, blah blah blah. We're gonna make it. We gotta make the number right for him. Dana White says that Floyd's gonna make probably a little bit north of one hundred million dollars. Uh, in the one hundred to one hundred twenty five million. That's gotta be enough, right, Like, I don't think let's and there

has just been too much talk about this. I'm telling you right now this Speeds has been in statistician calling his shot on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'm telling you what is now April Happy four, twenty day, within the next two to three weeks, I think I think around single Demio, when there's that big Canelo Alvarez Julio Caesar Chavez Junior fight, around Single Demio, that's when fight fans really get into it.

That's when we're gonna hear the announcement of Econo McGregor Floyd Mayweather fight that will take place later on this year. I think we're gonna hear an announcement. Too many people are talking about this, Okay. What's interesting is that it's gonna be a boxing match, you know. Um, that's the only way to really bring the fans in. I think Floyd's gonna be the A side, and Floyd deserves it.

But listen, he's a defensive fighter fighting against the south paw, a big south wall, like an awkward guy like Conor McGregor. And I've said this before. Connor McGregor is used to fighting the UFC where he has to train for like multiple different styles coming at him. This is only gonna be one style, given it is Floyd Mayweather and boxing. He used to have to try and try to train for like the Wu Tang style, you know, so many different ways. I think Floyd will win and teach him

a boxing lesson ultimately, but I wouldn't be surprised. I think Connor is a live dog. You never know. Um. When we come back, though, we're gonna put the fun and functional sports Radio. Donnie, I got some updates on topics we've been talking about a Rod and j Low, all sorts of stuff we still got to talk about here in the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Come on right back, We're gonna make it happen. I'm

your boy, Dane Martinez, the Spitting Statistician. Come on right back. We're having fun. You know what it is. It's way Dane Martinez a k A. Speeds a k A to spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, of course, on all our Sports Byline affiliates around the country and through the American Forces Radio Network around the world, making Fantasy Freestyle

truly a global show. I got my boy Donnie Burns with me on the ones in twos and if you want to join the show, there's multiple ways you could do that. As always, phone lines are open at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. I'm happy to talk sports with you this hour. Also, you could get at us at Fantasy Radio fn T s Y on Twitter. You could also follow and hollow at me at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. The Baltimore Orioles are up on the Reds one nothing in the top of

the third. Nationals and Braves are scoreless in the first inning, and the Phillies are all over Noah Syndergard, I told you to watch out for that. I told you to watch out for that because of the blisters he's wearing the fake fingernails. I told you. Philly's up on the

Mets early, three nothing in the second inning. Late in the first period in Game five in Pittsburgh, the Penguins are up one enough, looking to eliminate the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Montreal Canadians are up on the Rangers one nothing towards the end of the first period, the Canadiens looking to win the game five at home in that series. Also, the Indiana Pacers in the second quarter have a ten

point lead on the Cleveland Cavaliers. They're up thirty seven to twenty seven as they start the second quarter, the Indiana Pacers looking to uh hang around and give up a put up a fight to Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Remember I talked about earlier, I think it was last week. How I think Paul George is really just angling for free agency because he knows it's probably his last series with the Indiana Pacers. I'm gonna have

my boys joined the cipher next next week. I think on Tuesday, we're gonna have my boys Jason Day, Seuss and Cattain Kirby. Uh, they're gonna be holding us down with all the info we need on the NBA playoffs. Big shout out to them for that. But let's keep it moving here we put the fun and functional sports Radio. One of the things I mentioned a few days ago was that, uh, Derek g Top was looking at potentially

a bid to buy the Florida Marlins. And I said, there were a number of groups that are battling for it, you know, and maybe potentially bidding. Oh and as I say that, the New York Rangers have tied the game up. We are now tied at one late in the first period. The New York Rangers, which I know maybe of importance to people that are around here around Rock and Riley's in Studio thirty four, you know, in the Fantasy Sports radio network right across the street from Madison Square, Garden

Rangers have tied a at one. So it looks like Jeter and one of his competitors are teaming up, are teaming up, and that is oh my goodness. I can't even get this story out because now the Montreal canadi Ends have just answered right back and scored. They go up to one. Now this is very quick. Now with three thirty nine left in the first period, we've had a bunch of goals in the last minute down there in Montreal. I got one eye on that one eye.

I'm trying to get out this Derek Jeta story. So what had happened was he's now merging forces with former Florida governor Jeb Bush. They are merging their bids because somebody brought down big money UH New York City financier, a guy named Wayne rothenbom put him in a huge bid. So it looks like the Jeter group and the Jeb Bush group are now merging UH to try and buy the Florida Marlins. And I like this. I like Jeter's

path here. I talked about it last time. He doesn't need to become a manager like Don Mattingly, he doesn't need to become a broadcaster like my boy Tony Romo. He doesn't need to even become a GM like John Lynch. He's going straight to become a boss. He's always said he always wanted to be a mouse like George Steinbrener. That's the route Michael Jordan went. If you remember, I think even Wayne Gretzky owned part of an NHL team, So when you're a true icon, you go the ownership route.

And it's funny. I saw something, I think it was on dead Spin. They made a nice joke say, if Jeter and Jeb get together, Jetter would finally have someone to sit next to who makes him look youthful or makes him look high energy, and Jeb would finally have a place to go where you can pretend to all the people that are are clapping or clapping for him. So I thought that was funny. I would like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know if I would want to be a manager, an owner or a GM.

I like to be a GM It's kind of like fantasy sports, right, but being an owner does make you a bouse. I like that kind of two bouse b a U s. You know what I'm saying. You know, check it out. I mentioned before as we keep you moving here on the site for Fantasy Freestyle, that the schedule is coming out, that the NFL schedule is coming out, and I'm excited about this. I always like to look ahead for my team, and I would love to know, if you want to holler me on Twitter, what do

you look forward to? Maybe that's what should be our poll question tomorrow, Donnie Burns Now, because the NFL schedule is coming out. So I missed this NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs. Yeah, we're talking about Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather all this stuff. I'm excited. I'm excited to know who my Jets are gonna be playing in opening you know, opening week in September. I have heard a couple of

things already though. I've heard that, uh, the Pats and the Raiders are gonna be playing in Mexico City in week eleven, and I think this is interesting. Remember I've been talking about the Raiders here and they moved to Vegas. I think the Raiders are gonna be in Mexico City at least one or two games every year because remember if Oakland kicks them out, And I've been talking about, you know, the parking tickets, and I've been talking about

how the supported the protests might be there. Listen, if they have to be a nomad team in like two thousand nineteen, they may play four of their games in Mexico City and four of their home games in San Antonio. I think that's very viable. And I think they're teasing and going that way, and they get the defending champions to go down to Mexico City. I hope he's I hope Tom Brady gets his jersey coming back after that Week eleven game. Also, Giants and Cowboys look like they're

gonna be the opener for Sunday Night Football. I think this has happened now like four years in a row where it's been Giants Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. But with my teams, I like to look at, you know, my rivalry games. When do I play my biggest rivalries, I like to look at, you know, the end of the season, I look at like my December schedule. I try and see, you know, well, I have a good end of the schedule to maybe like make a playoff push. This is, of course, if I was cheering for a

team that I think is gonna make the playoffs. I'm a Jets fan, and I actually want them. Listen all this stuff I hear about the Jets going Mitchell Trabinski, I am horrified by that. I want them to hashtag suck for Sam, and by that I mean Sam Donald quarterback out of USC for next year, even Josh Rosen the chosen run the Rosen one out of U c l A. I want the Jets to play Josh McCown for the first like six to eight games of the season.

I want them to then try it out whoever it is, Christian Hackenburg, Bryce Petty, and I want them to suck for Sam. I want them to go three and thirteen and have a top three pick next year when there's really court franchise quarterbacks in the mix. I don't think Mitchell Trabinsky is that guy. DeShawn Watson is really a mouse. I like DeShawn Watson, but we'll see so. But going back to the schedule, I also look to see primetime games are they're on Thursday night football, and they're on

Sunday Night football, Monday night football. You know, do they play Thanksgiving? I'm interested in that. You know. I'm also interested to see when's there bye week? You know, when's the London game? Stuff like that, you know, so, uh, I'm interested in that as well. Those are things that I like when I'm coming out of the schedule. But YO, let me give you an update on some things we've been talking about earlier on this week in Fantasy Freestyle.

One thing is Eli Manning. Remember Eli Manning was in that uh was in that memorabilia thing. We talked about his emails. I was making fun of him having an A O L account and a BlackBerry, things of that nature. I thought it was really funny. But um, he came out and spoke on it today. And I gotta tell you something, Eli Manning does not usually get like angry or emotional. If you saw these comments he did, he

was angry, he was emotional. He said he had nothing hide, he did nothing wrong, that there's new evidence that making everybody see it their way. And I gotta tell you, I'm a Jets fan, but I gotta say, I mean, Eli, Eli has been an upstanding citizen. Eli, doesn't you know. I'm gonna trust this until I hear otherwise. I do

think this is a non story. Um. Another story though, that I want to update you guys on that we've been talking about here on the Fantasy Freestyle yesterday, I talked to you guys about a Rod going down to the Dominican Republic with his new and his new relationship, and then he went to Mark Anthony's villas. And that would be fine except for the fact that the woman he took there was Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony's x X, you know, and that's interesting. But I'm hearing more about this.

They went on Easter egg hunt together with the kids. Everything is all good, you know. But apparently, and here's what I think is interesting. Apparently this is not the first time a Rod has had like a kind of cool relationship with a girlfriend and like that woman's ex. This also happened last year, you know, And I'm talking about this. I had, like, you know, page six and whatnot. But a Rod what his dead girlfriend? Uh? This woman, Uh,

we'll just ski Caroline Williawski. Maybe something like her husband was there also, I mean that they all get along, they hang out. This has happened before, so maybe this is part of a Rod's playbook. I don't know. I don't know. Remember I thought this was like j Lo was had the more stoked ego. I got a lot of feedback on that as well. Check this out. Here's what I want to do. And I'm waiting for my man,

Donnie Burns. Donnie Burns, I told you I had the NFL schedule release, and it's coming out in ten minutes. So I wish I took us a little bit longer. I'd be able to talk to you guys about that what I'm seeing in the NFL schedule. But Donnie Burns, there is another schedule that has been released. There is another schedule that has been released, and I hope you know what I am talking about. What you're talking about.

The schedule release of the Big Three, the three on three tournaments, the three on three not a tournament, three on three league that my boy Ice Cub is starting this summer. We've been following this as we put the fun in Functional Sports Radio here in the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and of course all of our affiliates on Sports Byline and the American Forces

Radio Network for all those servicemen and women. If the servicemen and women and our new listeners have not heard about this yet, The Big Three Tournament, the Big Three League is a three on three league where you know, there's gonna be something of a barn storming tour this summer. They're going around and they, you know, I've been talking

about it. I say, they've been doing it real great, promoting this, doing things like doing charity acts in every city they go to, having all the teams play in the same arena over the weekend, so if you as a fan, can go and see all of the games. And these teams are constructed with We're talking about guys, you know, retired NBA cats that are gonna be playing three on three. And some of these guys are nice.

We're talking about Chauncey Billips, Mike Bibbie, Al Harrington, Germato O'Neil, Corey mcgetty, Allen Iverson, Jason Williams, Chartte, Louis Steven Jackson. We're talking about good guys. And then I remember with my boy Donnie Burns, I showed him the logos of all the teams. I showed him the logos of all the teams, and uh, we have some new news. We have some new news on the Big Three League, and I want to share it with my boy Donnie Burns

and eventually get his reaction as well. We have the coaches now of all the teams, and I think this is gonna be sick. Okay on the team, remember threes Company, Remember to three on three league, and remember how this league is gonna have a four point shot. This league is gonna have a four point shot, ladies and gentlemen. I think that's also very cool. Um threes Company is gonna be player coach by Alan Iverson. That's sick. The Three Headed Monsters is gonna be coached by you ready

for this The Glove Gary Payton. The ghost Ballers are gonna be coached by George George Gerving. He can finger roll. This is sick. Are you kidding me? The Trilogy are gonna be coached by Rick Mahorne. They're gonna be a bang up team. The Trilogy. They got Kenyan Martin and Al Harrington. That's a front line. The Try State is gonna be coached by Dr J. Julius Irving. Are you

kidding me? The Power is gonna be coached by Clyde Drexler, The Ballhogs are gonna be coached by Rick Berry, and at the same to what I think is the best for last, Donnie Burns. The Killer Threes, who already have Chauncey Billups and Steven Jackson, are gonna be coached by Are you ready for this, Donnie Burns? They're gonna be

coached by Charles Oakley. Incredible. Charles Oakley coming back in a barn storming tour in New York, and the schedule release says that first games are gonna be June in Brooklyn. They're gonna play You know, this is after the NBA playoffs in the summertime. Playoffs are gonna be August twenty in Seattle. The championship will be August in Vegas. Okay, they're still gonna do a draft. This is a three on three league. Games will be up to sixty points.

They have a four point shot. I think this is incredible. The only thing I think they've missed the ball on here because I think they need to make a three on three team that is Charles Barkley Lonzo Ball and LaVar Ball. I've said this before. Then we'll find out how good LaVar Ball really is. But interesting I mentioned LaVar Ball. You know, I gotta get my LaVar Ball news in there. Remember, remember, But the thing was last week I told you guys when when LaVar Ball went

up against Lebron James and talked about his kids. I said that was really big because Lebron Lebron is basically the CEO of Nike, you know, and if he wanted that billion dollar contract, you don't want to mess with Lebron and you don't want to mess with Nike. Well, I heard a quote veteran Nike executive George Raveling said today about LaVar Ball that he is quote unquote the worst thing to happen to basketball in the last hundred years. To me, that means Alonzo Ball and that Triple Be brand.

They're not getting that billion dollar deal with Nike. You could cross Lebron and Nike off the list, but I would love to see a three on three team Charles Barkley, a Lonzo Ball and LaVar Ball. I want to get my boy Donnie Burns thoughts on Charles Oakley and as the head coach, We'll tie a bow on this one. Checking in the polls. I mean, boy Day Martinez speeds the spitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle live on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Wow, you know what

it is. It's boy Day Martinez, pistas fitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. This is the Fantasy Freestyle. Drop in stats over beat. It's the Fantasy Freestyle. Tying a nice little bow at the end of another show with my boy Donny Burns checking in on some scores. Here, the Pacier's all over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Going to the towards the end of the second quarter. The Pacers have

a fourteen point lead on the Cleveland Cavaliers. They were up fifty to thirties six right now, or you'll still up on the Reds one nothing. In the top of the fourth, Mets trying to claw back a little bit. The score now three to one here in City Field. In the bottom of the second, Nationals and Braves still scoreless. In the top of the second. In the hockey playoffs,

we have to Pittsburgh Penguins. They're up one nothing on the Columbus Blue Jackets, and like I said in the first intermission, the Montreal Canadiens up on the New York Rangers two to one. Later on in a pivotal game five and Edmonton it will be the Oilers and the San Jose Sharks, but that series tied at two. And the Nashville pressadors they're taken on the Chicago Blackhawks looking for the sweep. So let me give a big shout

out right now, are actually in Nashville. In Nashville, you can hear fantasy freestyle on your sports by Alon Affiliates one oh four point five FM w g f X in Nashville. Big shout out there. Also, let me tell you about the polls before we get out of here real quick. We had two poles up, and the first was who would you take to win the NBA playoffs at this point would you take Golden State or everybody

else the field? And right now it's still close. It's like around fifty fifty seven percent of you agree with me and would actually take the Golden State Warriors against the entire field. Right now, I think they look good with or without Kevin Durant. I think they are going to cruise. And our second poll question that we have up is which trades do you think will go down? Like Chronicle that happy four twenty day is a trade, a trade day before the trade before the NFL Draft.

A lot right now of you say that a top ten draft pick will get dealt before the draft. Percent of you think that a dB got like Malcolm Butler or Richard Sherman will go four teen percent of you say a defensive lineman like Sheldon Richardson, and only to say the quarterbacks Garoppolo Osweiler. Maybe there'll be a surprise. But I'll tell you something. If there is a surprise, your boy, Dave Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician will hold you down and give you what you need to win

your leagues and win that catch. That's what we do here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Come on back tomorrow, my boy, Donnie Burns, have a good weekend, because tomorrow Chris Bavona will be in that chair on the ones and twos. We're gonna make it happen. Fantasy Freestyle