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Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Of course, a big shout out to all our sports byline affiliates around the country and the American Forces Radio Network around the world. Shout out to the service men and women with a little taste the home from Speeds and Spitting Statistician. And of course, as we enter this Memorial Day weekend, I think about it even more, big shout out to the American Forces Radio Network. I got my man Chris

Bavona with me. It's a Friday here it is. He's dropping a bomb on it. We're here at happy hour here Rock and Riley Studio thirty four in Midtown Manhattan, making it happen. Everybody's feeling good. It's like the official start of summer. And I'm feeling good because I've been helping you win that cash. So we got a good show for you. On a Friday. I'm gonna be giving you my starting lineup like I always do, the starting pitchers you need to consider tonight to win that cash.

And also I'll let you know what to do for this entire holiday weekend, so you know you got a little bit of extra money maybe for that meat, for that those chips, for that guawk and whatever you're growing up this weekend. Okay. Also, finally, the NBA Finals are set and we will have Part three of the trilogy with the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Will start to hear already with some of the smack talk

going on what the participants are saying. Also, I've been giving you uh bits and pieces of that story from Kyle Turley and his kind of part three part series on Vice that I think it's very interesting. We have part three today. He's talking to some current NFL players about what they're dealing with with, you know, pain killers and some of those chemicals for the pain uh relief. We're also gonna catch up my man Chris Bovona on all the good fun of the week and all the

polls of the week. We gotta pull we gotta pull up right now. We have multiple polls up right now at f n T s Y Radio and at Spitting Speeds with your Boy. Listen as we enter kind of the quarter pole, the unofficial quarter pole of the Major League Baseball season. Who's the biggest Surprise Hitter? And Fantasy Baseball, the surprise Pitcher and Fantasy Baseball and the surprise team. I mean, the Twins are in first place, the Rockies are in first place. The Astros have the best record

in baseball. Is that what we're gonna be talking about. You can vote and letting us know what the biggest surprise is with the biggest surprise hitter, surprise Pitcher, all that and more. We're gonna get into it. Well man Chris Pobona. We're gonna see if he can answer the other polls and some of the other stories we've been doing.

Who's the best you know dancer Ninja on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, all that and more when we come back here Fantasy Freestyle with your Boys feeds the spitting statistician, Come on back Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Yeah, we get money. You know what it is. It should way day Martinez speed to spitting statistician here on a

Memorial Day weekend episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. I got my man Chris Bovono with me on the ones and twos, making it so hot that we sweat steam, blowing up like Chipotle. About twenty minutes later, getting money for you on the Fantasy Freestyle, I got some news and notes for your Major League Baseball before we get into what you need to when your cash over the holiday weekend. Kendall Graveman I mentioned it at the top of the show on the News Hour. I don't know if you

were listening. He got scratched from his start tonight at Yankee Stadium against the Yankees. He has a shoulder issue. Remember that issue put him on the disabled list earlier in the season. There is uh, you know, great chance that he might find himself back on the disabled list. Remember the A's demoted Darrell Cotton. He might get called up to take his place on the Toronto Blue Is.

They're getting the entire left side of their infield back today, Josh Donaldson and Troy to Lwitsky are set to return. I will say this though, and big shout out to everybody who follows me at Spitting Speeds on on Twitter. I just got a question from Red Foreman at Dissonent one oh three on Twitter. He's asking me, now that Josh Donaldson is coming back, who does he keep on his roster, Josh Harrelson or Jonathan Scope now that he's

got that third base position coming back. And I'm telling him I like the increased power walk rate out of Harrison, but the honest truth, and I've been saying this all year long on Fantasy Freestyle, I'm worried about Josh Donaldson. I think this is gonna be a lingering issue and I would try to even see if when he is playing and active and actually performing, you may want to flip him. I don't know if this is even his

last time on the d L this season. John Gray, starting pitcher for the Colorado Rocky, shed his walking boot. He's gonna throw a bullpen session this weekend. Bud Black, their manager, says that, um, he's probably gonna require about three rehab starts, but look for John Gray back in the first place. Colorado Rockies starting rotation in about three weeks. You know who will not be on the roster for

the Milwaukee Brewers is Ryan Braun. He's gonna go back to the d L. Remember he had that carthage injury, came back and aggravated it real quick. He's gonna be going back on the disabled list. Remember the key with him. I told you this could scare off potential trade partners. I think Ryan Brown is one of the big bats that could be on the move if the Milwaukee Brewers don't stay where they are so far. Albert Poolholes with

hamstring issue. He's uncertain for the weekend. The thing is there at Miami, Okay, so when the NL park, Remember they have no d H option. So we'll see if he's actually gonna play through that. We've seen him play through injuries before. I wouldn't be surprised, but it compromise Albert Poolholes is not what you need this early on

in the season. And also there are reports out of Detroit today that if the Tigers remain to continue to disappoint this season, and if they stay under five hundred for you know, another month towards the end, of June, they are gonna start to maybe have a fire sale and start to trade some of their veterans. Two teams that are contending. That could mean Justin Wilson the closer. That could mean Justin Verlander. There Cy Young Award winner,

that could mean J. D. Martinez. I'm telling you, if they if they move Justin Wilson the closer, I'm telling you, these Washington Nationals are in the market for a closure. They've had three guys try to hold that line up, that position down. I've been speculating for David Robertson, but if Justin Wilson's on the market, that could also be a viable option. Justin Verlander, I think he would look great and Dodger blue as they continue to look for

a solid rotation behind Kershaw. Remember I've been saying that they are an essence manipulating the ten D d L and the miners with guys like Eurieus to an essence have a six or seven man rotation. Having a stud to pitch game two of any playoff series like Justin Verlander would definitely be helpful. Um, let's keep you moving here, unstarting line up here in the fantasy Freestyle. Let me boy Dame Martinez last night last you know, uh, I told you, I told you how to win that cash.

I told you that I did not like the top guy, and which was Justin Verlander. I told you I did not like him because he was at Houston. I thought they were ways to beat him. That's what I told you last night on Thursday's edition of The Fantasy Freestyle, and Justin Verlander gave up six runs in five and two thirds innings. So hopefully maybe you listen. Maybe you

listen to Spezi of spitting statistician. One of the guys that I have been high on all season long because of his ridiculous strikeout upside is my man, Robbie Ray. So I told you that that was a good spot last night for Robbie Ray at nine on FanDuel, because that Milwaukee line up strikes out a ton. What do you go out and do? He pitched seven scoreless innings and he struck out nine, got you a quality start, got you to win. I'm trying to help you win

that cash. Robbie Ray is going to continue to be my guy all season long. He has sixty four excuse me, seventy four strikeouts in sixty innings pitched. He's seventh in the majors right now and strikeouts right but four the guys ahead of him have dramatically more innings pitched than a guy like Robbie Ray. So I continue to like him tonight tonight, there's only two guys I like. I think tonight you need to I think tonight you need to pay up for the number one picture on the board,

which is Max Scherzer. You need to pay up for him. He is the chalk. He's at eleven thousand, eight hundred on fan duel. Okay, but against the Padres, against the team, and the Padres, who have the second lowest run total in the National League, I would pay up for him. Okay. He has you know, six straight quality starts, six outings of forty five or more fan duel points. She is a beast, and the Padre's lineup is no good. I

like Max Scherzer tonight. If you want to try to go a little bit cheaper, the second guy would tell you about is Alex Would at eight against the Cubs. Alex Would has been sick in May one point eight eight e r A on the season, four straight wins in May. He's got thirty three strikeouts and only twenty three innings and something you don't really look at. The Cubs have been at home for three strict series. They have not been away from the friendly confines of her

Leak Field for a while. I like Alex Wood tonight as well. But don't get me wrong, sure or is the clear truck moving on though? In this holiday weekend A couple of guys I like for you, remember, I'm liking this National's Padre series all weekend long. I like Stroudsburg tomorrow against them same rationale shirts or tonight. And I like the Houston Astros against the Baltimore Orioles this weekend. You've got Dallas Kaiko coming back from the d L.

He had that pinch nerve. He's coming back from the d L looking to keep it going. He's seven and oh with a one eight f E r A. I like him against the Orioles, who who are three and seven in their last ten games. I like what Kaiko can do. And then on Sunday, I like what the Colors can do also against that lineup. I also like match Shoemaker on Sunday against the Miami Marlins. The Marlins are tied for the third lowest offense in the National League. And I also I also like Garrett Cole this week

tomorrow against the Mets. You know, he's been in Atlanta and other bad pitchers parks the last couple of starts. He's going to City Yield. And remember I gave you my insight on him. I actually think Garrick Hold is an incredible trade candidate. I outlined for you that I thought the Astros were gonna probably make a move for an arm and I thought the Yankees were gonna make

a move forward arm. So maybe Garrick Cole needs to get used to the confines here in New York City to understand how to pitch in the big bad city. We shall see. Like I mentioned, though, it's Memorial Day weekend, which people you know, step back, reevaluate their teams, reevaluate what's real, what's the fluke of that sort of thing? And so I wanted to ask you we have these polls up here on the F and T, s Y Radio, Twitter,

and at spitting speeds. I wanted to know, who do you think is the most surprising hitter in Fantasy Baseball? Is it Mark Reynolds, Aaron Judge, Joey Gallo or Michael Conforto. I mean, all these guys have been absolutely crazy. I mean Conforto even at the beginning of the season, remember, was not getting at bats and so in only a hundred thirty seven at best, kid has already thirteen homers, thirty two ribbies, thirty five runs scored. At the top

of that Mets lineup. He has been an incredibly present surprise. But don't get a twist, since always Mark Reynolds, Mark Reynolds with ps. Remember they actually brought an Ian Desmon to play first base there, but then he got banged up. Where is it Joey Gallo? Joey Gallo? You know we all known about his quote unquote light tower power, But do we think he was gonna have fourteen home runs at this point in the season on a pace to maybe get fifty. I don't think he's going to But

it hasn't even gotten hot yet in Texas. On the ball will continue to fly out. Are those the guys that are the biggest surprises on the pitching side. I have names like Irwin Santana, Mike Lee, Greg Holland, who already has like nineteen saves for the surprising first place Rockies.

Where is the guy like Dylan Bundy, who's always a you know, hyped guy in the fantasy community finally making it pop. And then when we talk about the most surprising team overall, if you told me you thought the Minnesota Twins would be in first place at this point in the season, come on by the rock and Riley Studio thirty four. I'll buy you a shot here. Okay, if you thought the College at A Rockies We're gonna be in first place, come on, buy I'll buy you

a shot as well. You know, I mean the Yankees and their baby Bombers. I think people thought they were on the upswing, but didn't they think that it was gonna, you know, like be in first place against the vaunted Red Sox who people thought had it over under like nine and a half this year. And also Houston Astros best record in baseball. I'll tell you who did say that is your boy's fees. The spitting status STIs. Remember I've been telling you all season long, I was hiding

the Astros Nationals World Series. But I digress. And when we got when we come back here on Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We're gonna talk a little bit about we canna talk a little bit about this NBA Finals matchups that's set. And also, like I said, Part three, Kyle Turley talking with current NBA NFL players about the impact of all those pain killers that they're taking.

All right, so come on back. It's gonna be Fantasy Freestyle on a Memorial Day weekend with my boy Chris Bivona on the ones and twos. We'll checking on those polls as well. All that and more here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Chris Bavona playing at Biggie on the way out. Come on back, hum, Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestaff. You sh your boy day Martinez speeds and spitting statistician here

in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I got my man Chris Bovona with me on the ones and jews, so hot that we sweat steam. Let's get into the cipher here before Memorial Day weekend. I want to give you some news and notes from around the NFL. Admittedly it is a you know, quiet time in the NFL news O t H is getting started. Remember, I've been saying that we're gonna have a series of what I call

greatest of his life stories. Everybody, you know, he looks great, he's lost weight, he's gonna be a great guy this year. But I mean, you gotta take this with a grain of salt. But those kinds of stories continue to flow in. Uh linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, Vontes Perfect quote unquote looks great, he's lost weight. We're gonna see if he can actually uh you know, on the field and not get suspended all season long. C J. Mosley, linebacker for

the Baltimore Ravens. He had shoulder surgery, but they're saying he's gonna be fine for camp. Remember, they already exercised his fifth year options, so if there was any actual concern about him, they would, uh, you know, maybe think differently about that. Also, ESPN making news. You know, they already hired Rex Ryan out of football to be kind of a you know what in essence would be a loudmouth commentator for him. Well, they have hired another one.

They have just hired former San Francisco head coach, former Philadelphia Eagles head coach, former Oregon conducts coach Chip Kelly will be on the ESPN team for the football season. Also, a couple of UH reports out of Saints O t A s. Michael Thomas actually added ten pounds because they want him to try and break more tackles. But he did break the fourth most tackles out of wide receivers last year and put up good enough numbers to be

wide receiver number nine in fantasy. Many people expecting a breakout season for him after they went ahead and traded Brandon Cooks to the New England Patriots. Also Adrian Peterson, they say he's working on his past catching skills. Remember he's only had one season where he had over thirty receptions in the last eight or nine years, and in that New Orleans Saints offense. This is a skill he's going to need to pick up. As we keep moving here on the cipher on the fantasy freestyle listen, the

NBA Finals are finally set. It will be the trilogy. It will be the rubber match Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. After Cavaliers dump trucked the Celtics one thirty five to one oh two in Game five to close out the Eastern Conference Final. But I think it's pretty interesting though, is there is real animosity between these teams, okay,

and it's coming from all angles. What I want to say first, Draymond Green, who you know is never is never one to keep his mouth shut, and it's all good. He hasn't been talking about this matchup for a long time. Listen to what Draymond Green says about how he wants the Cleveland Cavaliers in the finals. Check this out. Draymond Green talking a little bit earlier this week, let me

hear Bivona. Bovona tells me it's not ready yet. So as we get to that, we'll talk about all the other ways that these guys are kind of trading barbs and warning shots and warning shots between each other. Like for example, Tyrone Lou, head coach of the Calves, said that after Isaiah Thomas went down that these Celtics were actually harder to defend than Golden State because they had

better ball movement and stuff like that. And then Mike Brown, was handling the duties for the Warriors, said okay, well that's his opinion, and he said it's cute, my man. Chris Bavona, though we have that sound from Draymond green Let's see what he's saying right now about this. I want to destroy Cleve no ifens and bus about it. But I also know that there are steps to get to that point, and if and when we get to that point, I want to annihilate them. So I mean,

that's really he said. He wants to destroy them. He wants to annihilate them. That's tough talk coming from a man, Draymond on Greening. Like I said, the Hedge coaches going back and forth with a little barbs. Don't forget last year the Cleveland Cavaliers had that Halloween party where they

had like the corpse of Steph Curry. You know that you have to step over to get into the party, the tombstone for the Golden State Warriors because as you know, they lost that three one lead in last year's NBA Finals. So I think this has all the makings to be a great series. The question is, because it has been so hyped up for the last year, is there any way that this can make up for what many people say it was a bad regular season, what many people

say have been a bad playoff season. Is this going to be worth the weight? Is this going to be, you know, the great matchup that everybody is expecting. I certainly hope it is, but that's only if you actually think Lebron James can continue to do super human things.

Later on in the show, and we catch Chris Bovona up on all our polls I had to pull up earlier in the week, which said this finals, whose legacy would it solidify more Lebron's as the greatest of all time player or the Warriors as the greatest of all time team. We're gonna see if Chris can correctly guess that.

A little bit later on and when we get to this legacy question of Lebron James, you know, we are now kind of like engaging in this conversation of is Lebron better than Michael Jordan's Chris Bavoda, do we have that sound ready for you know Mike, you know, actually entertaining this conversation and and is he the greatest ever?

Listen to what Lebron had to say about how you know he hears that it's out there, but he is just you know, still he wanted to be like Mike, like all of us, when we saw that Gatorade and those Nike commercials, same thing, but he's actually addressing this. Check this out. I did pretty much everything that m J do and I was kid. I shot bataways before I should have. I'll wore legs, leave on my leg and folded it down so you saw the rare part.

I wore black and rare shoes with white sox. I wore short shorts because so you can see my undershorts underneath. I didn't go on like Mike, but I'm getting there. So it's a light, lighthearted. At the end, they're talking about that. You know, he tried to copy everything about

Michael Jordan, including his balding hair. But um, you know, I mean we are entering this, this territory, this rare air, and I believe if he does, in fact, two years in a row beat the seventy three wind Golden State Warriors and then that same team that improves and gets Kevin Durant, I think you really got to consider that because I don't know that Jordan's ever beat a team that was that great. You know, maybe some of the

Stockton Malone Jazz teams. I'm not sure, but would this be you know, kind of an accomplishment that in fact does put him on the Mountain Rushmore. So we're gonna be definitely getting into that next week. Wom Man Donnie Burns, the Love Doctor in Basketball corprespondent as the NBA Finals

kick off next Thursday, June one. But as we keep moving here on the spher, I've been telling you guys, one of the things I've been telling you about is this um series that Kyle Turley has been doing about the advocacy of marijuana for pain management as opposed to the chemicals the pain killers. I told you about the

change that happened in him. I told you about when he went to the Harvard Medical Conference and the struggles that doctors and researchers are getting to have clinical trials and what they on on marijuana that they believe have actually impacted have actually impacted, um, you know, kind of the brain recovery and protected the brain. And so in part three, what he does is he talks to current NFL players who say they are, you know, looking for other options and listen to the story of some of

these NFL players. Bavona, can we play one of them right now? Yeah? And right now? Seven? What are what are you hearing in the locker room? Uh, you know, are the players are more active players discussing this in the locker room. Guys are becoming more knowledgeable about the actual medicinal purposes of it, and so, you know, it's something that I've got a lot of support from, UM

just talking to my teammates about it. So I think guys are ready, UM, just to explore it and educate themselves more and just really take control of their health, be prodactive about it. What are you seeing when you look at the retired player field, the landscape of what it is you have to look forward to, UM, does it alarm you? I've talked to numerous former players and they almost classify retirement and everything that comes with it as a death. Is that dramatic of a of a

shift for them? And then when you add in the the trauma from playing the game on your body, it's a perfect storm. So you hear all these horror stories. UM, I had a guy on my team who was actually active player commits suicide. Did you hear all these stories? And it caused you to have some concern? You know, it's like the only thing I'm gonna asking for his research. That's the first step to to any any type of change. So that was Derek Morgan. That's Derek Morrigan currently on

the Tennessee Titans. And he makes a couple of points you know that he's hearing from these he's seeing these retired players and how they're almost calling it at death to move on, you know. But he's talking about how the crime is almost that they want to be educated on this so they know what they're going into. And it's more like the NFL is not informing the players of all the risks that come around all these pain killers or these chemicals that they're putting in their brain.

Talking about how other is he had a teammate that wanted to commit suicide. You're now gonna hear also from another player, defensive end, Brian Shaffering, who played for four years, and some of the physical trauma, some of the emotional withdrawing that he is going through right now. And to be honest, it's it's really heart wrenching. Listen to what

Listen to what Brian Shaffering has to say. What is right that they don't describe me listing know when you're on all of those they've prescribed, all of those more they just keep and now they want to put put me on. Uh yeah, because of the because of the thoughts, because I can't control you know, I know injury is in my feature playing this game. I won't be taking any pills to build you go, LI sensitivity. Yeah, okay, that's why we constant like there's not a time my

hat doesn't hurt. It just varies in degree. I've never started in my life ever, and I started taking taking all kinds of pills and other stuff. And now I started, I started, you know worst, The worst part about it, Gilver Warm of thoughts. He goes on to talk about the overwhelming thoughts of doing harm to himself, doing harm to others. You know, this is real serious, and you know we've been talking about it on the Fantasy Freestyle. Big shout out to Kyle Turley for being an uh

hashtag kind of athlete on this. But you know, players, families, the entire league is dealing with this, and we're gonna continue to talk about this on the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. It is a serious topic and we'll see if, as you know, society changes a little bit, will they will the NFL have an opportunity to be a leader in this, but we're gonna flip it out when we come back after break. We're

gonna put the fund and fun functional sports Radio. I gotta Chris, catch up my man, Chris Bovona on all the fund and all the polls that we've been doing for the last week. Let's see, um, Let's see if you can guess what the listeners had to say. Let's see if what he thinks about some of the great stories we've been doing here. Come on back Fantasy Freestyle with your boy, Dame Martinez speeds and spitting statistician on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is is,

boy day Martinez. We are back on the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I got my boy Chris Bavona with me on the ones and two's blowing up like a Samsung seven, blowing up like Chipotle ten minutes later. Is it too soon to say blowing up like an Ariana Grande concert. I guess it is. I guess it is, okay, But that's Chris Bavona for you.

You know, he's the best in the business. What we're gonna do here is we're going to catch him up on all the fun and functional sports radio that we have been doing for the last week before next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. My Man Joey Pizza Pia, my Man Maddie Modica will get it to you with the Fantasy Black Book from eight ten here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Chris, We've had a lot of

stories that we've been talking about all week. I want to get you caught up because you know, used to be my boy all the time. Now only catch you on Happy Hour at Friday's. Remember when I was telling you that, um, there was a twelve year old girl in Japan who was fighting in her mm A debut. There was a twelve year old girl fighting mm A. Remember this moment? Do I remember? All? Right? So the fight took place. What do you think happened? I think

she won, Damn right she did. Momo choked her opponent out in two minutes of the first round and got her to submit within two minutes. So, now, like if you're twenty four year old mama, excuse me, Yamagassi, it's kind of like you're the worst thing ever, Right, you had a twelve year old gold choke you out. I mean I don't know about that, because obviously this girl much better. Girl has had a hundred amateur fights already at age twelve. She started training at age three. She's

no joke exactly, all right. So I mean, so, but you you were riding with her, you would have been money on Momo. You would have been money on the twelve year old. I think I would have I think I think you have no choice on this one. I guess so if anythink, if anything, would be a niche type of fair enough, fair enough, fair enough, um excuse me, but it would be a prop bet. That would be an interesting prop bet. But you know, momos want to Oh and I'll tell you what. If I see her,

I'm walking down the street, I'm crossing the street. I'm going to the other side, you know what I mean. All right, check this out. Here's another thing that I wanted to get into with you. We talked about first. Well, we congratulated Rashad Jennings for winning Dancing with the Stars and David Ross, the World Series champion with the Cubs Catcher. He finished in second place. Dancing with the Stars are really good to athletes, you know, em Smith one. I think Jenny Rice even one. A lot of guy, a

lot of athletes. He was a finalist, Okay, but still a lot of them. A lot of them do pretty good. So me and Donnie Burns we were talking about if we had a dancing with the Fantasy Sports Radio Network stars, who would be the top three dancers. Okay, so I I submitted myself because you know, Spezia spitting statistician, you know. Okay, So I'm I'm I'm okay, I'm okay with shaking the hips, you know. Um, But Donnie, Donnie nominated our man, Frankie Standfull.

I'm gonna give him the nomination to really to tell me more so, if you ever watch on YouTube live, if you ever watch Fantasy Best Friends Forever, Frank is always dancing. Frank is always dancing. Yes, so my my vote will be between the two of them. Now, granted, Frank really only has two moves and sort of a gun move. Really, so actually I gotta go between It's either Frank Stanfell or our boys Scott the King Angle. Yes, that's exactly what don said. That'scot the King Angle is

the other one. Why why Scott? Well, the one thing is that Scott seems to be having the most fun when he's dancing, Okay, Frank, when he dances on, when he dances best Friends Forever, you know he's having a good time with it. But he's a little bit more relaxed, relaxed to it, and he really only dances certain songs. Scott will dance to anything, and you know, as you say, Ang goes, you need to dance as though no one

is watching. And I'm Scot Angle does that very Yes, I have seen Scott dancing live and yes, he does dance. Like all right, I'm gonna have to let these guys know that. You know, both Chris Bavona and Donnie Burns think that Frank Standfull and Scott the King Angle would win Dancing with the Fantasy Network Stars. I think that's very very interesting. And then I don't know if you saw yesterday. Yesterday across I was gonna say across America,

but like across the world. I guess was Red Nose Day, where it was supposed to be, you know, wasting awareness and raising money to try to end child poverty, that sort of thing. And one of my favorite shows did a special celebrity episode and it was celebrity Ninja Warrior Okay, they had my favorite show. Yeah, it was awesome. They had you know, former Yankee Nick Switcher among others, running that obstacle course. And so it made me think, who

would be the best fantasy sports radio network? Ninja's okay, so let me give you my top five? Can I give you my top five? And then I want to hear how do you think about it? All right, I'm going from five to one. Okay, number in the five seed, number five, I had your boy, Dame Martinez's statistician. Come on, I mean, let listen. I am a college athlete. I played baseball at Syracuse. You know. They they called me speeds for a reason. Okay, but that was too a

c L surgeries ago. So that's why I'm only in the five spot. Okay. In the fourth spot, I had our man from DFS lineup block, Benny Riccardi. I think he has that Dad's strength. I think he has that Dad's strength, that dat awareness, and um, you know, I like it's another East Coast guy, you know, so I like him as my man. Mattie Modeca and his studio thirty four. Unfortunately I did not have you, matt in

the top five Fantasy Sports Radio Network Ninja Warriors. Okay, okay, Well, I have Dame Martinez is number five, Benny Riccardi's number four, number three. I had Jake Seely. I had Jake Seely because Jake Seely will be a maniacal preparer. Jake Seely will like really give it his all. And Chris, you know guys here on the network they make fun of him not getting a date, you know, stuff like that. I think Jake, if he had a chance to kind of prove himself in this kind of competition, would really,

you know, go balls to the wall. So I got Jake Seely in there, and I think he's I think he's a little I think he's a little maniacal. I think he would relish the opportunity to outwit, outplay and outlast them. Okay, the number two, Chris, number two, I have I have your counterpart. To be quite honest, I have my man, Donnie Burns. Donnie Burns. He seems like a little he seems like a fit, like a young guy.

He's only twenty three years old. He's coaching basketball. You know, he's he's all health conscious, eating salads when we're all eating tacos. So I had Donnie Burns in two and at number one. When I think fantasy, when I think Ninja's, I think about you know, karate, and I think about you know, all these other disip number one, yeah yeah, and I think about my man that's actually up next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, the sword Fighter himself,

Joey Pissapilla. I think about Joey Pizza Pizza, because I mean, he teaches people how to fight with swords. Isn't that ninja like? Na Like? It's not for Ninja warrior though, Yeah, but still I think he's got the skills. I think he has transferable skills. If you've seen joe in in person, yeah, the guy is jacked. Do me a favor when we have Fantasy Black Book up next here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, tell him that he is my number one seed for Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Ninjas, So no

love for me on this one. Now, you didn't make the top five, brother, man, I apologize. What do you have? Who do you have? Though? Who your top ninjas? Listen, I'm gonna have to you know, I'm gonna have to bump somebody off at this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who's your who's your list? Because I'm gonna put myself in number five. Putting yourself at number five, no doubt, no doubt. I'm a former football player. Okay, I respect this. I respect this, not only that I do a lot of kickboxing.

I do a little of boxing. You don't have to prove your credentials. You're in there, top five. Get yourself in the top five. Number four, you at number four, Thank you so much? Putting you at number four? Okay, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I have Claire, I have scaled a warped wall before. This is where it's gonna get tough, all right. I'm gonna put Jake Celi at number three. You like Jake Celi in there as well? Okay?

A maniacal like acting of him, and also I think his personality wise, he's it seems like he's very in tune, very focused. So that is exactly what a ninja is folk. I like that. Yes, his focus is definitely to be admired. So who are your top two? Where are you going here? I'm gonna go with my number two on this one. I'm gonna go with Benny Benny Riccardi. I'm gonna go with Benny on Okay again, Maddie, I know you're in studio, but I think you're a little over the top on

this one. And so Maddie Mode does not make the Christmas He's sorry, oh man. As much as I love my boy, oh boy, oh boy, I gotta go with Benny because well, you guys can continue to discuss that on Fantasy if you want the dad power, and I'm with you number one. Joe pis number one. I mean he's a sword fighter, for God's sakes, right if the I there's no other Ninja characters more than being able to fight with swords. So there you have it. Yeah, I knocked Donny Burns out only because he's a little

too small, and I feel he's too small. I think he's a little producer beef producer, beef chrisma small. This is something like I'm thinking of the obstacle courses that they do on fair Enough, and that it see him trying to do anything with the upper body strings. I could see him just falling into the water immediately. Fair enough, fair enough. And let me ask you this because we've

ben having some polls sure on the season. Uh, you know, I don't know if you saw, but Oldell Beckham signed the richest shoe deal for a football player ever, five years million from Nike. Okay, here's the other very important piece of information. He is currently on the contract for the Giants for four years and ten million dollars. Okay,

So who is his true boss? Chris? That's what we had as a poll question, who are these athletes actually accountable to their team, their sponsor or whoever pays the most money? What do you think? The listeners said, I think, and this is a tough one, but for Odell, I think it's gonna be who paid the most money. Interesting seventent said whoever paid the most money? One say their team. There's where you should be loyal to and I obviously

agree though. If it's uh, I agree with If you find a way where you can get paid five million dollars to like have a nice haircut, you know, and and and have a bromance with your boy Jervis Landry, then it's all good. Um. I'll take that. I'll take that right. So let me ask you this. Let me

ask you this. This is something, um, you know, we've been talking about marijuana and pain management advocacy on one side, We've also been talking about legalization of sports gambling in this society where uh, you know, kind of restrictions are loosening on both and mindset you're shifting on both. What do you think will be federally legal first, sports gambling

or marijuana? Chris, I want to say marijuana. I think it's gonna be sports game all right, So no, no, no, Forty percent of the people said marijuana, thirty three percent of the people said gambling, and percent of the people said, wait, those are illegal, so we know of the people are in fact thinking. And then listen, I was talking about the legalization of sports gambling because there were two very

important things that legislatively happened this week. One, there was a decision that came down in the quote unquote Derby Wars case which said that an entry into horse racing DFS was considered a quote unquote wager, not a quote unquote entry, meaning that it was in fact gambling. And all, there's a lot of states that are worried that they can extrapulate this out now and become you know, evidence or precedent or rationale for once again making DFS illegal

in many states including New York. However, there was actually a bill introduced into Congress this week also called the Game Act, which is actually going to look to start to introduce regulations and regulating bodies and requirements for states to legalize sports gambling. So we may we may be very close to more than just things like lotto, more than just paramutual betting, which is the horse ponies betting. We may be legal to actually help everybody win that cash.

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you are almost all caught up. We also had people from a sixty to forty margin thinking the Celtics should in fact trade Isaiah Thomas because they got all these number one picks. Maybe traded for a guy like Jimmy Butler if they could. We had people also we were talking about this hashtag free Ennis and his cancer got detained at a Romanian airport because of some of the things he was saying about um plays, political views of

his home country in Turkey and uh. We also we also decided that this NBA Finals would be more important for Lebron's legacy. Said that this finals, with a win, Lebron's legacy is the greatest of all time player, would be bigger than the Golden State Warriors legacy is the greatest all time team. So we shall see. But I'll tell you what you know, what we do here on

Fantasy Freestyle, help you win that cash. And Chris, when we come back, I hear that you have a little present for me, a little a new little bump showing how once again, Speeds, the spitting statistician, knows how to make the calls to help you win that cash. Your boys. Speeds picked the Kentucky Derby Cold, pick the Freakness cold, and that's what we gotta do. And you know, my man Chris is memorializing for that. We're gonna check it out when we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle

on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Happy Memorial Day weekend, everybody, especially to the shoulders on the American Forces Radio Network. We are back on the Fantasy Freestyle. A man Chris Pavona dropping b tracks all day here on the Fantasy Freestyle. As we cruise into a Memorial Day weekend, I'm gonna try and fire up the grill, do some fun things. You know. It's uh, I can wear white, so I feel good about that as well.

Moving on, Hey, Chris, remember I've been telling you guys that I've been picking these ponies cold, and it seems like you put something together a little bit. I'd love to hear. I'd love to hear the product of your labor, uh, you know, especially because it makes me look good, right, so, uh so, why don't we hear it? Hodd Pletcher? And then I see that one of my jockeys, especially here in New York, Johnny V Johnny Velasquez, is on the five horse, always dreaming. He's going off at five to one.

Right now, He's like a co second choice. Um, how do you feel if I wanted to throw a couple of shekels on him? I get it out of the newcomers. Though, out of the newcomers, I like, check out two horses. There's two horses that I think may have a chance, and I like the odds that they have. First, the number two horse, Cloud Computing, is going off at fourteen

to one. This is a horse that only had a couple of races but has improved this buyer figure every single time out, just didn't have enough points to qualify for the Derby. He did finish third at the Wood Memorial. And also interesting in the note, Javey or Castellano, one of the best jockeys in the world, when had the mount on Geneva on the Derby, chose to leave Geneva to go onto this horse, Cloud Computing. The two horse at going off at fourteen to one. There you go,

dare you go? You heard it here on Friday shows before the Kentucky Derby and before the preaching, it's me giving you the winners of both the first two jewels of the Triple Crown. That's what we do here on the Fantasy Freestyle, help you win your leagues and win that cash. Coming up next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, I got Maddie Mo, I got Joey Pizza, Pizza, and the Fantasy Black Book. They're gonna be giving you everything you need as we go past the quarter pole of

the Major League Baseball season. And that's what I was asking you on our pole questions. Right now, you guys are saying Aaron Judge is the most surprising hitter and Fantasy baseball of you say all rise for the Judge. Pent say confordoent, say Mark Reynolds. Percent, say Joey Gallo. That's Joey Gallo, not Joey Gallo. See A. L. L oh been on the picture side of things. You think Irwin Santana is the most surprising picture to date? You say Dylan Bundy and seventeen percent each from Mike Leak

and Greg Holland. That'll do it for me on a Fantasy Freestyle holiday weekend. Come on back on Monday. I want to talk about all the barbecue, all the burgers, and all the fun you guys had For Chris Bavona, your boy speeds and spitting statistician. We are out Fantasy Freestyle. Have a great weekend, guys. Peace,