Pace of Play, Former Rays Pitcher Fernando Perez, Wonderlic Test!

the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now about to witness the strength of fantasy knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now tuned in to the Speeds and Spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. Next on that site book on the microphone. You know that I'm one of the best. Yet as you know what it is, it should boy Dane Martinez a k A. Speeds a k A to Spitting Statistician a k a. The stable Genius and vocal Minority, And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right

here on the Fantasy Sports Network. Welcoming back. You know the stats overbeat cipher. We are in full effect. Let's give a big shout out right away to my folks down on the fourth floor on the Fantasy Pit of misery. I got Danny Auto, I got my best friend forever, Mike Florio. They are on the ones and tools, keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. They are blowing up like a Samsung sebe. But we got a good show for you today. You know, check this out. Interesting

time in the NFL calendar. Okay, you got people getting cut, You've got people. Will they put the franchise tag on you or not? We had the NFL combine that just happened. We're gonna talk a little bit about the NFL combine as well. And then next week, let me tell you something. Next week, starting on Monday, we have what's called the legal tempering period. Okay, you gotta love that. For a couple of days people can kind of cheat on each other.

And then um, next Wednesday, free agency starts. Kirk Cousins about to get paid. Looks like after some decisions that were made, uh today, looks like Sammy Watkins might get paid a R fifteen. Allen Robinson will get paid. But we're gonna talk about who I think took the cake in the NFL combine over the course of the last weekend. We're gonna do that in a couple of minutes. We

gotta pull question up on Twitter as usual. Okay, hit me up on Twitter at Spitting Speeds, and my question is who was the most important or the most talked about or your favorite story from the NFL Combine. Wasn't Lamar Jackson, who you know is a quarterback. Okay, just like listen straight up, he is a quarterback, all right. He's not gonna do wide receiver. It's not like to

ask Josh Allen to do tight end drills. You know what I'm saying is it was it se Kwon Barkley, my man from the b X, from the Boogie Down, who did absolutely ridiculous at like two and thirty pounds. This kid ran a four four flat al right, which is absolutely ut. I think he's shooting up draft boards rightfully. So the New York Football Giants, I think they can wind up taking a shot at him of number two.

As you know, as your boy speeds, the spitting statistician is you know from the Buginea on Bronx as well, Big ups the sae Kwon Barkley or was it SHAKEM Griffin? This is a kid who really opened a lot of eyes at the combine. Got a late invite to the combine. We'll talk about him a little bit more, and then later on in the show, I'm gonna be very excited to have my man joined me with the status of each side. For we're gonna have Fernando Perez come on

the show. He's a former Major league who played a couple of years with the Tampa Bay Rays. We're gonna talk to him about all things, you know, baseball related

before we get into the season. It's good to get it from a player's perspective, you know, because we're on the Fantasy Sports Network, right, so we're talking about Whoba, We're talking about groundball raids, We're talking about bad and stuff, right and rightfully so and rightfully so right, but it's interesting to get some takes on from the player's perspective on some of these issues that are going on in

Major League Baseball. And then, as usual, we put the fun and functional Sports Radio when my boys down in the Fantasy Pit of Misery down there on the fourth floor, we're gonna take the Wonderlick test, and we're gonna see how Danny Otto does. We're gonna see how speeds does. We're gonna see if we are you know, are smart enough to play quarterback in the NFL. I gotta tell you guys early on, though Danny Otto has been cramming,

he has been seeing these wonder Lick questions. He doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of the stats over beat cipher. We got the chat room going. Let me know what you think. Who do you think will do better on the Wonderlick text Mike Florio, Danny Otto, boys speeds, the spitting statistician. Let us know and hit us up on the pole question as well. Let's start with news and notes from around the NFL. First of all, the

franchise tag is on and popping. Okay, uh, Levyan Bell did in fact get tagged for a second year okay, fourteen point five million dollars to play running back. They're kicking the can down the road. I think this reminds me very much of what happened last year. Okay, they're kicking the can down the road, and I think this is smart for both sides, because, to be honest, if I'm Levian Bell and I've said it before, I'm gonna say it again all season long. This is Big Ben's

probably last year. This is their last ride in the sun when Big Ben walks away. Why if you're a Levy on Bell entering your prime, would you want to stay with the Pittsburgh Pirates as they cycle back to a young quarterback. I don't think you would, So I think him having that kind of flexibility down the road is a good idea. Um. Other people that did not get tagged, I think we're very interesting and they are going to hit the free agent market. I told you

about Kirk Cousins. He's gonna get paid. There has not been a quarterback under the age of thirty that is actually healthy that has hit the open market in a very long time. Will it be the Vikings who are where I think he's gonna go. I think he's gonna go to Minnesota because he wants Stefan Can you digs it? And Adam I gotta Fellen. Will it be the Jets who are gonna throw money at him? Will it be the Cardinals, the Broncos. We'll see, but he's gonna get paid.

Sammy Watkins, Alan Robinson, these are people. Jervis Landry via Trade, these are names you're gonna hear or about. Um. A lot of teams want whiteout We're hearing that the Washington football team maybe in on a R. Fifteen Chicago Bears want to get down with Jarvis Landry. So there's going to be some movement, all right. Also, rumors abound Seahawks and Jimmy Graham probably are not gonna be resigning him. Could he go back to the Saints? Wouldn't that be interesting?

You know, they've been trying to replace him for a couple of years. That hasn't happened in a while. There's also reports coming out of New York that the Giants might be cool with Eli Manning. Okay, And I'm reading the tea leaves here, and I think that, Like I said, I think they're gonna go ahead and and try and get Sae Kwon Barkley at number two. Overall, let Eli have his swan song. And let me tell you something.

Sae Kwon Barkley and old Dell Beckham outside of Leavian Belle and Antonio Brown, can you name me another combo at wide out and running back more explosive than that would threaten to be for Eli Manning. Of course, they still need an offensive line, but maybe, you know, maybe they make their investment there otherwise the rest of the

draft and growing some money around in free agency. Speaking of free agency, um, the cap in the NFL has gone up, okay, increase about ten million dollars, given teams even more opportunity to sign these players. The cap is going up to one seventies seven point to million dollars a year UM. So people are definitely going to get paid. A last note, I'll give you to the I guess most famous referees or calling it quits, Ed Hockeyly the guns show. That's why I have my guns out today,

you know, representing my line of verse. Everybody wrote a where you know what it is Ed hockey Lely with his guns out, and also Jeff Triplett, he of the flip coin fame. They're gonna be moving on. I've been saying they need younger revs to keep up with the speed of the game and the technology of the game. These guys were doing it for a long time. Maybe they can go retire and sit on some rocking chairs

and use their asthma pumps. Moving forward to big big shout out from Stattoo of Beachside for d Hockilee and Jeff triplet all Right, I wanted to talk about the combine real quick before we bring in my boy Fernando Perez to talk about Major League Baseball. If you don't know,

I'm about to let you know about Shakim Griffin. Okay, remember, first of all, earlier in the college football season where I've been on the University of Central Florida Golden Knights, I said they were the true national champions because they went undefeated at thirteen and oh this season, and I've been talking about them hanging banners and you know how they should have actually got a chance against Alabama because they beat Auburn in the regular season and they and

they really could have been. They got screwed in this new you know formula. Well, one of their linebackers was Chakeem Griffin. She came. Griffin put up a four point three eight in the forty yard dash over the weekend. Okay, that is the fastest for a linebacker since the year two thousand and three. She came. Griffin had twenty reps in the bench press. Okay, she came. Griffin last year had forty four solo tackles, fourteen tackles for lost, seven sacks,

and three turnovers. That after a junior year, were at fifty seven solo tackles, twenty tackles for a loss, eleven and a half sacks and three turnovers. Oh but I forgot to tell you she came. Griffin only has one hand. King Griffin does not have a left hand. Had a has a rare disease where he had to have his hand amputated right his His twin brother, Shaquille Griffin actually was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks last year in the

third round. I do believe it's kind of an up and comer in the league, if you want to know the truth. Okay, but Shachim this year ran the same forty time, but his twenty two point pounds heavier than his twin brother. That's a big difference, right. This kid has ridiculous speed, is right away a special teams player. But the question is will he get a chance in the NFL. He has legitimately one hand, and so people kind of close minded, you know, like, how, how, how,

quite frankly can he play? I have seen footage of this kid jump route to make interceptions and take him to the house. Okay, every time someone tells you he can't do it, he turns around and does it. He turns around and does it. And there's a great article in the Players Tribune. And I like to Players Tribune because, you know, you get the stories from the athletes directly themselves. And I think that's really cool. I think that's really

um getting straight from the horse's mouth, right. And he tells a story about like when he was eight years old and a youth coach UM tried to tell him he couldn't play in a playoff game because he thought he was saving himself from you know, from himself. But instead he went out and made the game winning play in that game to beat this other, this coach's team, and it's stuck with him, you know, it's stuck with him.

He said in this article. I got up. I ran off the field, holding the ball in the air with my one good hand, thinking that from that moment forward, no one was ever gonna tell me that I didn't belong on a football field, and no one was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great. That's what this kid has been doing for a very long time.

I am certainly rooting for Hikine Griffin. They were saying early on that you know, despite his you know, despite his all first first All team conference play in the Athletic Conference for a team that went thirteen and oh, despite the fact that he did work in the Senior Bowl. He didn't even get an invite to the Combine. Then he blows it up and puts up stats that people

haven't seen in over a decade. This kid is improving his stock, and I I I challenged the NFL to go ahead and take a stand and you know, think clearly about what this kid can do to add to your team. You know, he said, so many people are gonna have doubts about what he can do. Some people thought he could do three, maybe five reps. He did

twenty reps with a prosthetic hand. Okay, if you don't want that in your locker room, if you don't want that on your squad, showing how you battle, showing how you you know, grind hard, showing how you use that fuel against you, if you don't want that on your roster, I defy you to not go ahead and you know,

take a mid round pick on this kid. Okay, yeah, obviously there are probably some limitations there, but this kid, it showed up, showed out, and so I want to let you all know about that on the stats overbeat Cipher. Let y'all know about Chechin Griffin from you U c F. I've been talking about the whole time shot called by your boy Speedes it's bitten Statista, and I think he was the biggest story of the NFL combriine. Like I said, we got a poll question up fifty six percent of

you agree. Alright, I've only had this pole question for like an hour. We got a couple of hundred people that have voted already. Fifty six percent say Shakim Griffin, thirty eight percent say say Kwon Barkley, four percent say Lamar Jackson were the big stories of the combine. Okay, So next week though, when I'm back here inside Studio thirty four here on the Fantasy Sports Network, um, it

is going to be free agent frenzy. Alright. We're gonna be talking about money getting thrown around at wide receivers and what the fantasy impact is going to be. So I can get you ahead of things because if you're in like dynasty leagues or something like that, to help you win your leagues and win that cast. But we're gonna do right now, is we're gonna bring in my man for Nando Perez, for Nando Perez former Major League or yeah, Fernando, you can come on in. What we

get Fernando? All set up? Let me also tell you about all people over at fantasy factor dot com. Come on in, Fernando. Did you know Fantasy Factor, though, is the perfect daily fantasy site for the casual recreational player. They have flatter prize pools, smaller contests, and you could do single entry contests. Okay, this way you're not competing against people with all those um algorithms and whatnot and

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want to get you in the shot. So right here on the Fantasy Freestyle, now we have my boy, Fernando Perez, Fernando, Um, you know, a couple of years in the majors. Yeah, with the Rais. Yeah, yeah, a couple of years is generous. W is generous. But you know you were out there, you were out there now there, you know, done some work in the past for vice for MLB as well, you know, and um, thanks for stopping by. How you feeling.

I'm doing great? You got me kind of hyped up talking about about your man, the one hand man, Yeah, Keen and Griffin man. Would you mean catching interceptions and running them back to the house, jumping routes? Yeah, what do you think do you think? I mean he shows you know, objectively sta for stat at these combines, being able to do what he has the production on the field as well. You know, do you think, um, he will go where he should go in the NFL draft

next month? I don't know. I don't know that much about the NFL, um, but I'm just saying, how do you I hope you know, you always hope when there was a story, right, when there's a guy and he's easy to root for, you hope he's good at the sport. Actually, yeah, well it looks like at the very and at the very least, hope he gets himself a Wheenie's commercial or something. He should definitely get him endorsements in the end in the NFL ever, definitely get endorsements. But yeah, I hope

he's actually actually good. Production seems to be there. But okay, so maybe not football, but you do know about baseball, no stuff about You do know about baseball, and that's why we wanted to bring you in. Okay, we were talking before the show about a lot of things, from advanced stats to pace of play, to how to make

the game more exciting for the fan. Let's start with the pace of play, because one of the things I thought was interesting is you mentioned that are we really bringing more fans into the tent by change like trying to make these changes like limiting mound visits or um, you know, trying to put pop in ads and shorter

commercial breaks. And you said that from a player's perspective, you don't really feel the pace of play as much, and you don't think necessarily you know, it's gonna bring new fans to the game if the game is shortened by ten fifteen minutes. I have a lot of feelings about it, and they're not all cohesive. There's some nuance in the situation. A lot of people who are are die hard fans of baseball. When you watch baseball, you want more of it. I'm not. I'm not there thinking, oh,

this game was three hours and thirty eight minutes. Why couldn't it have been three hours and fifteen minutes. No, you want it, you want more of it. And so I think that it's a matter of of the actual product not being that compelling. What are we worried about when we're talking about worrying about baseball? Right, there's a multi billion dollar enterprise. We're worried because we're losing. Are following right, and and then they're gonna be fine. Baseball

is gonna be fine. But we're not attracting young people. Well, why aren't we attracting young people? It wouldn't even be having this conversation if the product was compelling. And the product is not compelling, I will take you back. I have to say this. I have to say this. Two years ago, I was watching the opening day footage. It was live I think on ESPN, don't I mean, I roughly know who was broadcasting. It wasn't really the point who was on the broadcast. But it was the first game,

the opening day. You should be brimming and and and just full of interesting things to say, an encitement, Oh my god, and and four minutes, four innings into the game, these guys are talking about Balding and their and their kids little league careers and things like that, and so we there is now it's this whole problem is not uh necessarily encapsulated in in this awful stretch of television

that I that I watched. However, um, it just shows that, you know, you know, these people, what are they doing. They're imitating something that they've seen before. But there's a there's a part of the stadium experience and as well as the broadcast that's just not super fascinating. If I'm some kid, you know, pick a country that is not the United States, that knows nothing about football, and I come over from the said country, whatever it is, and I see a little bit of basketball, I want some

more of that. I see a little bit of football. If especially if I'm like, you know, into physicality, I'm like, give me some more of that. I see baseball, and I'm not sure necessarily if I want all that and This is is coming from a person I want all the baseball all the time. Right, So you know that bottled gift product that we you know, that we see on ESPN, it isn't quite as compelling as the other sports.

So there are lots of reasons, right, Uh, do the condensed games and I'm wonderful, that's wonderful, But you know, there's so many things at play. I think the unwritten rules make the product a little bit a little bit less interesting, right, I think there are some things we could we could Uh, you know, I've sat and talked with Tony Clark a few times. Tony Clark Clark one

of my favorite humans. Immediately when I met one of my favorite humans I've ever met, Tony Clark as the closest man that we have two Morpheus on the run the Purl, and we we talk about it about you know, well there should be some diplomacy here where players and you know start to talk and just like listen, you know, maybe we should stop being in our feelings about so many of these things. We could make the TV a little bit better, right, So that's pulling it a little bit.

But what about from the suspective you played outfield. Right, So some of these things that they're talking about, like the mound visits, but what are you doing during the mound visit? Look, you want that when you're playing defense. You there's incentive for that game to go quicker. You want a picture that works fast. So some of that stuff, like we're saying, it works itself out in the game.

But of course you gotta ice the kicker, right, You gotta go out there sometimes and make mound visits that you don't need. And it's just a technology. Though in two thou eighteen they can't have a speaker. I'm not not against shortening the game. I'm not against shortening the game. It's just that, you know, as I would say, it's like, you know, baseball's my cousin, and it's just like I tell you, like you want to short in the game, my cousin is gonna be very very upset, because they

will be very very upset. But I think, you know, baseball players are the world's premier improv athletes. Uh, And so I think that if you told baseball players, all of a sudden, uh, you have to keep your right foot in the box, or all of a sudden, there's a pitch clock they could adjust, right. We're just you know, we're hearing some some moaning and crying about those things. It's an ecosystem and they don't want it upset. I understand that, but I think the bigger issue is that

the product needs to be improved. The stadium experience sucks. Have you been to winter ball? Okay, so before you know you, I meet people as a baseball player. I meet people who are like, oh, I'm a fan of the Colorado Rockies. So we're gonna fly to Colorado. We're gonna fly there. We're gonna spend three or four d dollars on tickets, We're gonna you know, the flights, the hotels, all of that. I'm just like pocket half of that money go to the Dominican Republic. And you see base

in Asia, see it right, Asia? But soccer, other sports you know the energy and yes, that energy right. So there are a lot of things that individual teams can do to make that experience better. Listen, I had some great chance in the right field bleaches of Yankee Stadium in the early nineties and I was told to shut up. Yeah you know what I mean. So I hear you. They don't necessarily embrace. Yeah, that kind of energy that fan base, seen videos of the Japanese baseball What do

we do instantly? What are we doing over? I think I think you're right. We have to you have to sharpen the experience. It's about marching bands, but it's going to be better. And why is it bad? Look at who who works at Park Avenue and at that same stay executive. Yes, on the other side, you were talking about Tony Clark one of your favorite interviews, right, and he was very public, as you know, the union president. Right.

One of the things that we've been talking about in this off season is this the idea that there's a lot of free agents left unsigned, okay, and so many resigned hype to the fact that they were all Scott Boris clients to the free agent class of next year potentially. Why do you think this is going on? Why do you think, like Tony clock Eman, like didn't the MLBP almost come out with their own spring training like for some of the unsigned guys that stay in shape. What

do you think is happening? Why do you think you know there's so many guys left unsigned? Is it collusion among the owners? I know Collusion is a big word in society right now, But is it? I don't. I don't think what young talent that's cheaper? What's I think that?

I think that objectively, Like we're saying here we are we're both owners, we owned teams, and you're just like, man, I need an outfielder and it's last year or two years ago, and just like, oh, Jason Hayward is available, right, and just like, yeah, Jason Hayward ws a hundred and

eighty million dollars. So for you, like look, so for you to just say, like, I don't know if I want to spend that much money on Jason Hayward, it's like to say that you're like doing if we've just both discussed perhaps Jason Hayward is not worth that contract. And I love Jason Hayward, but like perhaps that money is not well spent, right, or or with a picture right, a depreciating asset who who throws? Which is sad for you? Yes it's not. Yes, of course, so I think that

that is. So you think it's not collusion. You think it's just collectively that organizations and ownership or whatever is is getting more intelligent. I don't reality, I don't know. I mean I think, you know, we know that gms are getting better. Before what was the GM, it was like a rich guy's homie. That's what the GM was. Now look at look at the Dodgers have so many gms that if they do something wrong, you don't need to blame absolutely, and so we're better at the position

at this point. Um, you know, the collusion or not. I think it's it's very easy to objectively say damn the rent to damn, right, It's just it's very just. But again, but like I don't even want to get into that because that's a fight. It's like, you know, those are like those are like my my friends parents fighting the union and the and the league. And that's like I don't even want to get involved in that because it's a lot of money. It's like if I'm if I'm too. A lot of this this debate offing

gets framed into like who should have the money? Like the players are the owners like the players, but they're both million millionaires billionaires, right, I don't really care absolutely. I was checking out. This is Fernando Perez here down with Dan Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician on the Fantasy Freestyle with the hashtags status, over beat, cipher, Fernando. I want to get you out here, and a couple more questions. One is you know this idea of the experience from

the baseball player. One question I want to have you And although the spike happened after you got out of the league, in the last two two and a half years, since I guess the All Star Game in like two thousand fifteen, there's been a spike in home runs and there's been a lot of reasons attributed to that, right, everything from uh, people consciously trying with things like launch angle, which is very hot in the streets right now, you know, so hot in the streets launch angle exit v low.

But it's also this idea we're getting a lot of energy around the ball itself may be different, less dense, less slick, and we're hearing that teams have to put their balls in the human door now right in the human door. In the human door. Can you tell what smells like a cover up to me? You mentioned the Colorado Rocky smells like a cover up, you mention, So tell me about why this is why it smells like Tell me because you have seen this baseball? Is it

a different baseball? I've touched a lot of Bases' say, okay, so tell me about this. Why do you think what's going on? So let us behind the curtain. Who look um the baseball? For the people who control it, it's like the Federal Reserve. It's inflation. You can your chicks didn't dig the guys that game more exciting. No one wants to see a one nothing. The tenders above, beyond and in between. They love the long ball, right, okay,

so there were more long balls. And look, and this doesn't even have to be like in a conspiracy moment kind of thing. I feel like there's a picture last year. I don't remember what company's receipt he compared a baseball too, but I want to say it was Adam Wayne, right, and I want to say it was a CVS receipt saying that that's what it felt like. There are many pictures coming out and saying, look it was maybe it was Verlander. Actually I put it on my Twitter timeline.

Hit me up at spitter speed spin speeds. He had a graph of two thousand, like thirteen and two thousand seventeen with launch angle and exit vlow and then overlaid it with the percentage that it was home run. Yeah, you know, like those spray charts, right, So the same launch angle and exit vlow that was not a home run in two is a home run in got them with the map. I didn't know that happened. I've been traveling that happened. So so what's going on? Like, there's

obviously some changes that have been made. Can you notice it as a ballplayer? And what you notice the thing is that it's it's remember, it's like, there's so many the the game has been played for so long, and guys know what things feel like. It's an ecosystem that is that is quickly upset. You like what I like it? It's a word I like, okay, And so I can

tell you a lot about how that ecosystem changed. It's the same game all the time, you know, when you get called up, they will tell you, look, it's the same game. Try to play the same game. Of course, it's a little bit harder to do that when you see, oh, there's fifty people here and this is gonna be on my baseball card. But it really really is the same game. But parts of uh, the parts of the elements of you know, that ecosystem change. So for instance, you'll notice, uh,

you know, pictures are closer to the zone. But you'll notice also that the ball in the major leagues is just flying in a way that it's not flying in the absolutely absolutely. So if I see a guy that hit forty home runs in the minor leagues, that's a lot of in the mind, that's a lot of home runs. Right, So it's a trend. Right, we have some smaller we have some smaller stadiums. Right, Yankee Stadium is playing very

very small. You know, the New Atlanta had a jet stream right center or so we have to adjust for those things. People like that. I mean that you know, is that good pictures are going to complain. I mean, all these things in time have been adjusted. Right when we were just like, oh, we've got to change the game. Bob Gibson is too good. We've got to change the game. Raise and lower the mound exactly. So's never hit a

home run against the black man. He didn't know. We're comparing errors and we're comparing baseballs and all these things. It's hard, and baseball is such a game of its record and nostalgia, as you mentioned, traditionalists, whether it's the broadcast or the records, right, but you can't compare anyway, you know, whether it's steroids or not, because it's like

the staple of sports. Let me ask you this, because you were talking about these different adjustments that have been made, and you talk about the smaller stadiums in your experience, UM up at the big show, Like, what was the what was your favorite stadium to hit in? What was your least favorite stadium to hidden? Were there any that you knew, like I could get a hold of one here. My favorite stadium hit in was any stadium they allowed me to play in fair enough. But I'll tell you what, Um,

The Roger Center is a fascinating optical illusion. It feels like you can just hit the ball off of the back wall and you can't. You can't. I mean, it's happened, Carlos Delgado's done some people, but it's just it's just

the the optics of it. Another thing that I could tell you very very quickly, imagine yourself as an outfielder running after a flyball somewhere in the gap when you you're playing in a stadium that only seats you know a thousand people, let's say it the most, which is basically all of your experience until you get to about triple A, you don't really it's it's um as you're running when you don't notice the stands, like you don't

see the stands. It's a totally different thing that happens when you get to the major leagues and you're doing all of this running and your mind is kind of placing you a little bit differently because you have the vantage of the stands as you're running. It's a weird thing.

So in the major leagues it feels like you can run and run and run and run like you're not going anywhere, Whereas in in every other stadium that you played, a sense of like, oh, I've run this farm, you know, so that you know that that can also be nerves and so many different things. Um, you know, I played in maybe a third of the stadiums. Um A lot of them have that big feel like Texas has another one of those big fields where it is you know, as the joke says, everything is big in Texas, Texas

feels huge. We talk about the ball flying out of Texas in the summer and the humidity is there. Can you tell that playing the outfield, you know, I'm carrying more in the summertime down in Texas. There there are certain places that the dynamics change, Like I know in in Wrigley for instance, a place that I haven't played that early in the season, I think they they say that the that it's blowing in and later in the

season that's blowing out. I mean, there are all these things that you that sometimes change when you know, they knocked down a grand stand and try to make a new one and whatever. But you know, players they're used to all of those things. If trends are making stadiums smaller, and then of course the ball is just standard every year. You know, there's like we don't we don't really know

now is it? Is it good? Obviously people are going to especially in fantasy, you know, when we're talking about these stats and people are betting and making plays, it's about offensive stats. It's about generating run production, right, So so yeah, well fantasy too, I mean, fantasy is about like you know, trying to predict the action and so players, you know, were that's in every everything in baseball. I Re just like never ending struggle between the position players

and the pictures. So if if it's better for the game, if more runs are on the board, like the lower the mound, hate to be the guy and like institute, like let's follow the mound, let's bring you a little further apart, or let's make the plate smaller or something like that. But you know, um, if if they if it's more clear, like but we're gonna pay you the same. I think people are like, all right, fine, fair enough. This has been Fernando Perez here in the Fantasy Freestyle,

true friend of the Cipher. Can I have you come on back sometime? I will come anytime? All right, absolutely, let me real quick before because I don't know if I'm gonna have it before the season starts. Can I get you on record? Who do you like this year? I'm doing my division by division previews right now. I'm settling in on. I think I'm settling in on. Give me every division, give it for sure. In the A L I gotta go with Houston, although I do like I do like the Angels as a wild card team. UM.

In the Central, I like Cleveland. I think they're gonna run away with it. I do like the Yankees but I'm gonna take the Cleveland Indians to represent the American League in the World Series this year. I love Klueber. I think some of those other arms, the carrascos of the Salazars of the world, A're gonna show up, show out um in the National League. I like the Dodgers, but I do think the old guys of the Giants can keep it together for one year, come together the

Longorias themc cutcheons of the world. I like Chicago with Milwaukee Fest on their heels, and I like the Washington Nationals in the Bryce Harper Swan song to get it done. If sers around Stroudsburg stay healthy, I'm gonna take the Nationals to put it all together for me in the World Series with the Cleveland Indians, with the Indians Nationals World Series. Other people will say that too, because it's just like you guys should probably win one this yeah,

before they lose. Harper, I'll tell you that you know so so about you? What are you? What are you thinking? If you had this conversation and would be on these too many tips to fall and I know that this is this is going this is recorded, so I don't want to say anything he doesn't want to accountability. But I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this. The world is good when the Yankees are supposed to win. Baseball is good when the Yankees are stacked and supposed to win.

So I hope actually to to bolster this thing this way that I love the world. I need them to sign like Lancelin or somebody or maybe arm. Yeah, because they're only in the in the luxury tax right there, number eighth. They can George that we're spending more than exactly exactly the number eight. They had another another arm. Potentially, they got a lot of good one a's, but not so many, you know, true aces to not a grade

seven arena. I think they're all one as they need that ace to truly go up against a guy like Clory Cuber unless they fail, unless they just decided to change the entire game and make it so that these guys only throw four innings. But I'm just gonna say that and leave because it's too fascinating. We're gonna talk about that another time, Stations and yeah, we'll do that next time. Thanks a lot for being on the show. Absolutely, Fernando Perez, everybody, Uh, catch them, catch them all over

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we got Danny, we got Florio? Do we got anybody down there in the fantasy pit of misery? What we're gonna do is, uh, we were talking about potentially taking this Wonderlick test. Hey, Danny, how you doing, man? I'm doing pretty good about you? Good? Did you hear any of my my talk with fernand Though He was talking about the ecosystem of baseball and how to make it a more I guess, engaging product. You're a millennial? What do you think? I? I liked it. I was hoping

he was going to continue to talk. I was listening to it was really interesting. All right, Well, maybe we'll have him on back. We'll have him on back. You know. He, like I said, he played a couple of a couple of seasons with the Rays attention to get that baseball perspective. And uh, you know it sounds like we're gonna talk more. He'll be a friend of the podcast, friend of the show. Dilly Dilley has tag status with beat Cipher. But let's have some fun. Danny, you already to take this wonder

Lick test. I mean, I'm as radio as I'm gonna be. Listen, man, let's be, let's be, let's be optimistic. I'm gonna feel real dumb after No. No, no, no, no, Danny, No, no, no. I don't think that's true at all. I think I think we're gonna do an incredible job. Is there anybody in the status of beat Cipher in the chat room that's talking about the wonder Look test at all? Danny?

Does anybody? Uh? Because they could be rooting us on now, Okay, all right, so we'll see what the status with beat Cipher saying in in in the cipher he hasn't been talking about the wonder Lick test, but he's definitely what's strong Style saying, he's actually we've actually been talking back and forth about our our teams from last year. Because we were talking, we were getting but he said he wanted to comment that you know, Bell is not going to leave the Steelers until they win a Super Bowl

that he feels like. Yeah, he he came out today and says he wants to be a Steeler for life. You know I was talking about before, but you know strong style. My only thing is if Big Ben walks away after this year, why would love Bell want to hit the reset button instead of being able to sign big money and go to a place that's ready made

for a contender when he's still in his prime? That being Levy on Bell, I was gonna agree with everything said right there, But I was hoping that I could maybe maybe I could take the wonder Dick test with Yeah. Absolutely for me, I've I've been around a long time. I'm thinking maybe I could get some some questions, right, Okay, I hope that could. The more the merrier, we have a fantasy league at the home. Really, and how did

you do in your fantasy leagues? I came in third place because I craft my dependence and they wager that I'd be the first one out. Really okay, but here's the thing that's not they measure. It's not even about bodily function, right, So if you're if your if your bowels go, that does not necessarily mean that your mind has gone. That was the whole Our fantasy league was rich person coach in there. Diper first with sports. Well, that's a different kind of fantasy altogether. That's a different

kind of fantasy altogether. And I was in Korea and Vietnam. Those are the fantasies. It's a different network. I think it's showtime and I think it's right around one am. It's a different kind of fantasy. Grinder that didn't shape your mind. Well, that's also a different kind of thing because in football, we don't know, we don't know how

many people are using grinder. There's definitely a percentage of them, but they haven't come out just with all the pain his body sitting next year, it's like a blind guy got caught in the paint yard and that was on out of all. He's looking good though, he's looking good. Oh you got you gotta paper and pen now, all right, So here's what we're gonna do. Face. We're gonna I'll take this one to look test. Uh. Do you have it on down there? Do you need me to relay

the questions to you here? You're talking? I got yours? All right, Let's see let's see. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take it. It's about three and a half minute. It is times, so we gotta work efficiently here. You think we can make that happm all right, let's do it. Grab that pluma, Grab that bluma. Not the one that has the oil in it these days, that's a different kind. All right, here we go. First question, What word, when added to the beginning of mill and

the end of chain, creates two other words? What word, when added to the beginning of mill and the end of chain, creates two other words? Okay, got it? Dang gang mill chain gang. All right, let's put it in. Let's see how we go. We still got three minutes. We already we already went, all right, Danny Cohn is a math one you're supposed to be go at this. What is the next number in the sequence? Four eleven fifty three? It's a pattern? It's a pattern. Old man's alright.

How do you feel about it? Danny? I think he's right. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Next up. Whoo oh, all right. Charles was fired from his job last December. For four months, he was on unemployment, but he's going back to college in June. Which are the following sentences, joins the sequence of events correctly. I don't know if this is gonna happen for you, old man, because I would have to read out too many This is weird, all right, come on, come on, DANIELO though you got April. Okay,

we're gonna go a for April. There we go. Absolutely, let's keep him moving. Um, it's another math one. This sounds like a high school math one. Bill and Jerry start at the same point. No, that was Tom and Jerry. Bill walks west, Jerry walks east for six meters. They both turned right. I'd walk three more meters. Who's closer to the north pole? This one? I know, the one that was going west, which is Bill. All right, let's go all right, next up. You're definitely helping us out.

What is the average of all of the numbers between seventeen and fifty five? All of the inswers are all the whole numbers. They're the same thing, Danny, come up or numbers. What's the question, what's the average of all the numbers between seventeen and fifty five? We're moving on, though, my friend, because I've got that one. We're moving on because time is of the essence. Uh. The NT answer was,

I believe thirty six um. A road construction crew is resurfacing the highway between points D and E. The distance is ninety three miles. The crews completed thirty five miles. If they do two point nine miles a day, how long will it take them to finish two point nine to day. That's what they're doing today, including their smoke bricks minus thirty five. It's like we're two weeks. Thank you, We're moving on. We're moving on. This is all math, hunt, Danny,

let me ask you this one. The mic, the mic you know that was actually my fantasy team name three is the mic and it was good with Danny's gonna do this next question. Let me ask you something, old man. Do you think this matters for a quarterback in a while? I don't think about it for anything. It's the reason they do just show embarrassed the athletes everything handed to

them their entire lives. Why do you think they released the numbers so that we know that Gary fencerk got a perfect score, or that we know that um um um um uh a quarterback in Tampa Bay out three. He said, you think it's public shaming, Let's see how they handle public shaming. Knock them off their peg of you stupid, But I have a good quarterback and saying,

what do you think are the attributes that matter? Then if it's not this wonder lick stuff back in your day, you know when you were doing it, you know, searching for Charlie and whatnot. You have to have a couple of pick up football games back in your day or even struck me how I said, I had been to Korean Vietnam. But it's fification, always different stuff. Um No, I think if you're gonna be a quarterback very similar to a guy in the front lines, you think quickly

on your feet. You gotta be able to, you know, change things as the defense presents, maybe different things to you, and you can't panic. The biggest problem you know what don Naps not going to the whole fame? Well, I know some things he did at Syracuse which started off the writers because he threw up at the Super Bowl. If you can't handle pressure, that's not a guy that can lay the team. Plus you're leading men, you know, you know, I remember ray Lewis once said to me

over a cocktail at a bar in Houston. We're just there having a cocktail, just having a cocktail. Before he got so Ray, I was in Atlanta, but I saw Ray, Lewis said. He said, listen, the difference between me and the fifty two other men in the locker room is that I'm more of a man. They'll follow me and I never waiver. Plus I might have killed somebody and they're afraid of that. Yeah. See, I think I think when it comes down to it, I will always follow

the uh you know, the accused murderer. God damn right, well, because that guy could snap at any moment. And then you know, you know, they always say, you know what they always say, like, who do you want in the bunker with you? I want the guy who may have killed a man with his own two hands. Now that's exactly who you want. I'll tell you something else there Best radio show f s w A Awards, s w A Baby Man pots and pans. He spits it so fast you don't know what whether or there's a fart

or just gas. I can go on all day. Here's the thing, here's what you want, all right? Tell me you need to have people that could kill yes, and that's what makes the that's you don't know that that guy could kill you. This is just about putting it into the brain. It's the same. You know, I don't have any kids, but when my parenting starts, I just want my children to know what I'm capable of. They just got it. Just gotta be in the realm of possibility,

you know exactly. You only got to follow through it. It just wants to let them know that you're capable of it. Thanks a lot, old man for hanging out with us a couple of minutes. Our score we're in the sixteenth percentile, but if we can read defenses, we will be okay. That's how we do it. Having fun here on the stats overbeat cipher listening Danny, you said that, uh, you're gonna be embarrassed you're in the sixteen percentI but I still think it's okay. He did, he did, all right,

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