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the summer. Here tonight on a Wednesday, we got a good show for you. As usual. I'm gonna give you the starters who you need a Major League Baseball tonight to win that cash. We've also been doing our spotlight different team by team, and it's kind of interesting. Tonight
we're gonna be doing the New England Patriots. And if you know speed to Spitting Statistician, and if you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle, you know that it pains me to say a lot of the things that I am going to be forced to say about the New England Patriots when we preview them. But it was they're so dominant that I even had to change the poll that I usually do right there at Fantasy Radio on Twitter
or at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. If you want to get at us during this show, I usually just do a Super Bowl contender, a playoff contender, purgatory team, or a threat to pick in the top five. I had to put up the over which is twelve and a half.
It's insane on the Patriots and use that as a reference point, and you will not believe what percentage of people think to bet the over on the New England Patriots already at twelve and a half to get that they're gonna win at least thirteen games this year, So we'll get into that a little bit later on. I'm also gonna update listen, I've been talking about this beef.
Usually it's things like Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor, but the last couple of days when we talk about beef and social media, we've been talking about teammates up in Cleveland, Lebron James and Kyrie Irving, and that continues to bubble up. So when we come back from the break, we're gonna get into that a little bit as well. Also, you may be familiar with the return specialist formerly of the
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and check out for your special discount. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle. Right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network is your boy, Dane Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician holding you down with Chris Pavona, the bounty hunter on the ones and twos, keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. I gotta tell you something, Chris. It looks like once again, as was the case last week, we got a fish show at Madison Square Garden tonight.
I can tell by the attire of some of the people that are chilling here in studio third before and Rock and Riley's about to go across to Madison Square Garden. It looks like there is yet another fish show. So everybody having a good time, middle of the summer, here on a Wednesday in the Big Bag City. I want to start off today. We're gonna get to DFS. We're gonna get to the starting pictures that you need in
a hot second. But I wanted to start today. You know, we haven't talked as much basketball now that fantasy football season is starting to get into it. We're going day by day with the boys of summer. But this drama between Kyrie Irving and Lebron James is starting to get a little bit past the point of no return in my mind. Okay, just in the last twenty four hours, here are the some of the things that we have heard. First of all, Kyrie Irving on social media again another
post saying the quote unquote I'm coming home. If you remember last year or a couple of years ago, when Lebron you know, made his big epic return to Cleveland, that was the tagline, that was the uh you know, that was the song that was playing on Sports Center for weeks. So maybe that was a little bit of a mock post. A lot of people in the social media spear are thinking that was the case. Meanwhile, Lebron,
he may be turning the page himself. He's out there working out in Las Vegas with who with Derrick Rose newly signed Derek Rose, who maybe the lead point guard for Cleveland this year if they do, in fact make that Kyrie Irving deal, which it sounds like may happen. You know who else is working out with Derrick Rose and Lebron James out there in the desert. Eric Bledsoe and Eric Bledsoe. Uh, you know the slasher from the Sun's has been rumored in a lot of deals on
the off season. Okay, a lot of the deals involving big guys. Remember when Carmelo Anthony was on the trade block and they were talking about how, oh, this might be a three team deal, this might be a four
team deal. One of the deals that was always talked about to be included to make a deal like that work was the Suns with bled so Also we're talking about and these deals of Cleveland Cavaliers are making, they're thinking maybe Bledsoe might be involved, and this is the guy that is working out with Lebron with Derek Rose out there in Vegas. Maybe they are you know, trying
to see what their chemistry looks like to put it together. However, today in other Cleveland Cavaliers news new GM, Kobe Altman was introduced and he says that this Kyrie Irving situation is fluid, but they are not as an organization as willing to trade Kyrie Irving just because he made a demand. Okay, he may say he wants a trade, That does not mean that the organization of Cleveland Cavaliers has to actually
trade him. Why would they do this if you know they don't have the leverage or they don't think they're gonna get anything back. They were messaging today in that press conference that no, they may, in fact, you know, Grinn and Barrett may make them you know, like each other, because remember they are, or have been for the last three four years, the best team in the Eastern Conference. Dan Gilbert, their owner, today said the thing is not broken.
He says the drama is overblown and he expects Kyrie Irving to be at camp. This may just be trying to give the Calves a little bit of leverage in the event that they do trade him. So it looks like the Calves are willing to just hold their chips. That could be what's going on right now. But keep an eye on this as it plays out over the course of the next few weeks and months. I just wanted to make sure we got that in. But now we can get to our starting line up and start
talking about Major League Baseball. I have some news and notes for you. First of all, you I'm talking about you, Darvish to stud starting pitcher and all star of the Texas Rangers. Remember yesterday we got news that the Rangers are apparently willing and ready to deal you Darvish, who is thirty years old and will be in the last year of his contract if they get the right kind of trade. Today we realize more things about this one that you, Darvish, has a no trade clause to ten teams,
and the Chicago Cubs are on it. They are one of the teams that has actually expressed the most interest in you, Darvish. But the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Rockies, the Indians, the Pirates Orioles, the White Sox, Tigers, A's, and Blue Jays are the ten teams that you Darvish currently has a no trade close to noticeably Absent from that list are teams like the New York Yankees, teams like the Houston Astros, teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers,
as well as teams like the Arizona Diamondbacks out west. Also, you know, no Washington Nationals there, so if you Darvish just to move, there's still plenty of playoff contenders for him to go. If you were listening to the Fantasy Freestyle last night, I mentioned that Eduardo Nunez may get dealt to Boston and that it would be interesting because it could have been just like a trade of Bablo Sandoval for Eduardo Nunez. Well, what has happened since the
last episode of the Fantasy Freestyle? You guessed it? Another shot called by your boys Speeds and spitting status STICI. The Red Sox and Giants have in fact made a deal with Eduardo Nunez going over to Boston. He actually was playing well last night in the game for the San Francisco Giants, had already doubled, knocked in a run or two and then was pilled in the fifth inning mid game when they got word of that trade. This is a very interesting example. There was a couple of examples.
Remember J D. Martinez, Jose Cantana. I told you if you're in season long leagues and you're playing with a fab budget and like an a L or NL only, I was saying, the trading deadline is an interesting time because there will be new people in your player universe. I recommend spending a decent amount of your fab budget if you need an infielder that can do some things. Eduardo nunia is hitting over three hundred, stealing seventeen basses
so far this year. If you're in an a L only league and now Eduardo Nunez pops up as a viable option, I think that's a nice place to go. The other thing I'll tell you is Red shortstop Zach Coz start reaggravated that left quad injury running the basis on Tuesday's game, and he will not He was not in the game today, may miss an extended period of time. And this is interesting because a lot of people thought
that he was also on the trading block. Alright, so let's keep it moving though, because I know we gotta go to Brake soon. I gotta give you my starting pitchers for tonight. There are ten games on the Nights Late. You got Carlos Carrasco. You darvish auditioning as kind of the chalk at ten thousand. Here's who I liked, though. I like Aaron Nola. I like Aaron Nola, who has been sick in his last six starts, quality starts, all of them at eighties seven hundred dollars on fan duel listen.
And his last six starts, this guy has gone forty two winnings, so seven innings of pop, striking out fifty more than more than a strikeout perinning, only given up eight runs in the last six starts. And here's the thing. I know you're saying, but wait a second, what about that Houston offense. You know I've been on the Houston offense all season long. But here's the catch. At this point, there's no George Springer in that lineup. There's no Carlos Correa in that lineup, and so I think this could
be an opportunity for Aaron Nola. Other than that, I do like the high price guys, whether it's Carrasco, Arietta against the White Sox, who do not hit well against righties as we know. And Ariette has been good lately, with a sub two point to e r A over his last four starts. So those are some guys I think you could use tonight if you want to go a little bit lower, really, Bargaman basement, talk about a
guy that could be interesting is Jeff Hoffman. Jeff Hoffman is only at sixties hundred on FanDuel and he's at St. Louis. He's been decent in his last few roads starts away from Corpse Field for the Rockies, but I don't like the fact that he's facing Carlos Martinez tonight. Puts the Cardinals in a good shape to potentially get a win. Last night, though, Yeah, last night, I was on point. Bro last night I told you guys to stay away from mad Bum. You know, he only went five innings.
He did get his first win of the season. The guy I told you about was char Lee Morton against these same Philadelphia Phillies. I told you about the Philly's second lowest run total in Major League Baseball. I told you about how the Astros could give him run support, and I told you about the upside in terms of strikeouts with Charlie Morton, what do you do? He went out there and pitched seven scoreless innings and struck out nine Philadelphia Phillies in seven innings, getting the win as
the Astros won five to nothing. I think, however, the Astros have a much tougher road to Hoe tonight Against my pick Aaron Nola at eight hundred on fan duel, I think he will outperform at least one of the big studs up at the top, whether that's Carrasco or you Darvish. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, I told you we're gonna turn the page. We're gonna look at football, and but grudgingly, we're gonna look at the New England Patriots and dissect them and break them
down into a fine powder. What you do with that powder is up to you, um. But we're gonna talk position by position with the New England Patriots. We're also gonna go through the New England pay treats schedule and we're gonna see what you guys think in terms of the over under of their wind total. Which stands out are whopping twelve and a half, the highest in the NFL IS It's still good value to think that they will win at least thirteen games and still take the over.
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But then again, the thing is when you tell too many people, then everyone's gonna get all that good information and it's just gonna be a little bit harder for you to win your league. But if you're a grown man with some stones, if you're a woman who likes to take risks, you will be okay sharing the knowledge of the Fantasy Sports radio network. Let's get into the cipher and start talking about football, because this week training camps are opening around the NFL, so we have some
actual things happening. And remember, for the last couple of weeks I've been talking about that there will be these greatest shape of his life stories all the time. That's what we hear in the summer. Well, that is now moving because we're in training camp already. So now we're gonna hear stories that I can only call like buzz. You know, we're gonna be hearing buzz on some guys, like for example, reports at a Detroit now are saying that they want to involve THEO Rittic in the red
zone more. That is just buzz. Okay. In my opinion, this is a confusing situation in Detroit, especially with Amer Abdullah healthy, everybody's saying they want Eric Ebron getting involved. Now they say they want theoretic involved more in the red zone. I will say this, there will be a lot more opportunity for all of them in Detroit because, as you know, an Kwan Bolden is not there and he had something like the third highest red zone targets
in the National Football League last year. So someone is going to get that red zone opportunity. Will it be Riddick, Will it be Ebron, Will it be Golden Tate? Keep an eye on that. I got more buzz from you out in Green Bay. Um Packers running back Time Montgomery. Apparently in the off season he worked with a kind of famous trainer. This guy was shot Whitfield on his footwork. Remember Montgomery transferred back from a wide receiver over to
a running back in during the season. Basically that's why he has to change his number for this year. This guy Whitfield was working last year in the offseason with Melvin Gordon, and a lot of people think that he's partially responsible from Melvin Gordon's breakout year. Maybe he could do the same for a guy like Ti Montgomery. Like I'm saying, training camp. Buzz I got more buzz for you. Um, we got buzz that Eagles wide receiver Jordan Matthews. He's
got a knee injury. They've been saying it's ten denit is for a while. There was buzz right now that it might be more than just ten Denight is ailing Jordan Matthews and his knee. I'll tell you what, I don't think the Philadelphia Eagles are high on Jordan Matthews because look at what they did in the off season. Okay, they went out and got Torry Smith, They went out and got Alshon Jeffrey, They went out and got Legarrett Blunt. They went out and drafted a guy even that's under
the radar from San Diego State, Donel pump Free. They did a lot to support Carson Wentz and not have to worry if Jordan Matthews was healthy. Also, Falcon's opening up and Julio Jones is not on the pup list. Okay, remember he had surgery for a bunyan on his foot and I believe it was March, and you always worried Julio Jones because of that UM Jones fracture or Liz Frank Frank that he had back in the day, but it's good to see that they don't need to use
a pup tag on him. And also two quarterback battles to watch all preseason long. Okay, these are things gonna be Two important quarterback battles that go down to the wire. First in Denver, it's Trevor Simeon that is opening camp in Denver as QB one. He will get the first snaps. I personally though, think at if it is close, they are going to anoint Packs then Lynch to start to remember they invested a first round draft pick in Paxton Lynch, so I think ultimately it will be Lynch in Denver.
The other job that I think is kind of up for debate is in Cleveland. Okay, with the Cleveland Browns, you got Cody Kessler opening camp as QB one. I have always said this, I'll reiterate it now I am. I am sort of a fan of Cody Kessler. He reminds me of former Jets quarterback Chad Pennington because he had the accuracy, but he just doesn't have the arms strength. Um, I guess there's brock Oswilder there, but the guy who's coming on really is Deshaun Kaiser. That is the second
round draft pick. I think it might be Kaiser towards the end of the season, but Kessler will open for the Cleveland Browns. He's at least opening camp at top the depth chart. Let's keep it moving though. Like I said, we're gonna talk about the New England Patriots, Okay, and uh, I mean, there's not much talk about the Super Bowl champions coming back from twenty to three down in the second half of the Super Bowl. And here's the thing. In the off season, they got better. They signed Stephen
Gilmour to play cornerback alongside Malcolm Butler. They trade for Brandon Cooks to give them a wide receiver option down the field like they have not had since Randy Moss. They signed not one, but two running backs to try to replace la Garrett blant In, Rex Burkhead and Mike Gillesley. And oh yeah, their quarterback is not suspended for the first four games of the season. When we talk about
the Patriots, we start at quarterback. Obviously, Tom Brady. If you listen to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, you don't need me to tell you he is good. He was the second best quarterback overall, despite missing four games last year, twenty eight touchdowns only two interceptions was absolutely ridiculous. The point I will make though, because he's my second rated quarterback, he's my man Corey Parsons second rated quarterback as well. The point that I will make it's not just because
it's Tom Brady. Any quarterback up this high will not be on my fantasy teams this year. I'm telling you, I'm telling everybody you need to wait on quarterback in your fantasy draft this year. Why spending track draft capital you will need in the second or third round to get Tom Brady when later on you can still get and you know the names I've been telling you, I've been repeating them ever since we've been going team by team. Here.
You can still get Matthew Stafford, you could still get Philip Rivers, you can still get um even Eli Manning, you can still get even tyrod Taylor, you can still get even Kirk Cousins. You know these guys. I will not be spending up for the Tom Brady's of the world. Although he is viable as a prediction to be the m v P of the league. I think Aaron Rodgers will be the MVP of the league, but you can't
go wrong picking Tom Brady. The one thing I will say, Tom Brady has been enormously lucky all seas, all career in terms of his injury history. Quarterback is a position of attrition. More than fifty of NFL teams that not have their starting quarterbacks for all sixteen games, tom Brady has only once had a catastrophic actual injury, even though there are all reports that he hid concussions last year. Is this the year when he's another year older that
someone does, uh, you know, snap him in half? I don't know, but if it's not, then the New England Patriots are gonna do just fine. I do want to also say this when it comes to the Patriots and fantasy football, the running back position is a problem. Okay. I love what the Patriots did as a team. Like I said, they improved because they now have a stable
of running backs. Okay, Mike Gillieslie and Rex Burkehead. These are two guys that they actually invested more money in than they usually invest in the running back position, so you gotta think they really like both of them. I think Gillislie will be a great replacement for le Garrett Blunt in that early down work between the tackles running. I think Gillislee demonstrated up in Buffalo that he has the ability to do that. I like Rex Birkehead as well.
Then they have their pass catching backs, okay, the James White's Dion Lewis is. They're all good football players. Everyone on New England is a good football player. I stay away from them in fantasy football. Here's why you know that. Week to week, Bill Belichick in the New England Patriots pride themselves on changing up their game plans and scheming
differently for what they're going to see. Their game plan specific that means on a week to week basis, if you're if you have Mike Gillisley on your team, you don't know if it's gonna be a week that James White goes off and catches eight balls. You don't know if it's gonna be the week that they just run Rex Burkehead fifteen times. You don't know if it will be the week that it is Mike Gillislee's turn and
he does score two touchdowns. But you won't know, and it will be incredibly frustrating that's the frustration I am not trying to have with a guy to be in my flex spot. I don't want them popping off like that week to week. I say stay away from the New England Patriots running back room. That is no way to win. It's a great way for win for the
New England Patriots, just not for your fantasy team. If we keep it moving and look at the wide receiver position in New England, listen, you got Julian Edelman, Okay, and he has been tried and true. Julian Edelman last year ninety eight catches over dred yards. He also, if we remember when we're talking about Matt Harvey in the off season, also got a catch in Adriana Lima. I will say that myself, there's no reason he won't repeat
as Tom Brady's best target. I know they brought in Brandon Cooks, and a lot of people think Brandon Cookes will wind up being a top fifteen, top twenty caliber wide receiver. I love Brandon Cooks myself. You know it's a charmed life going from Drew Brees to Tom Brady, right, but both of them will be doing big things. Julian Edelman, if you look like yesterday's showing Fantasy freestyle. Julian Edelman will be more of the PPR option, more of the
underneath option. Brandon Cookes will be more the over the top option. I think they are both solid wide receiver two's. I would be fine either one of them, especially Edelman. When it comes to PPR formats. Listen at the tight end position. We know what it is. It's Rob Gronkowski. He's the best tight end in all of football. However, once again, he will not be on any of my
fantasy teams this year. Two reasons, the same idea as Brady. Okay, I'm not gonna be investing in a tight end at the top when I can get one of like seven guys later on. Now, Gronk is a game changing week week person. But the thing is he hasn't played sixteen games in the season since two thousand and eleven. Okay, he he only played eight games last year. Okay, when we come back, I'm gonna give you why I'm staying away from Gronk. He's not a full gaze here or anything.
When he plays, he plays incredibly well. But I'm gonna tell you why I'm staying away from Gronk. I'm gonna tell you who my slash tag sleep a week is. We're gonna look at the Pats schedule, and we're gonna look at what you guys say on the pole. All that's still about the New England Patriots. When we come back with you put the fun and functional sports radio. I'm your boy, Dane Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician, and you right now are listening live to the fantasy Freestyle
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and streaming it online. Get it on your phone, take it with you every where you go again. All love is the Lord that we live by Davidea wonder what much already had to die that's a little bit of lost boys right there. Renee coming back on the Fantasy freestyle where we dropped stats over beats. You know what it is. It's boy Day Martinez holding you down. On a Wednesday, we were talking about the New England Patriots before the break and I was talking about specifically Rob Gronkowski. Listen,
Gronk is gonna be Gronk. We've talked about Gronk before and how he's building his brand and doing his thing and lives outside of the rules of the NFL. But here's the thing. He's also not gonna be there for sixteen straight games. Check this out. In two thousand and ten, he played sixteen games. In two thousand eleven, he played sixteen games. In two thousand twelve, eleven games, still scored eleven touchdowns. In two thousand thirteen, seven games, still scored
four touchdowns. In two thousand fifteen, got back to playing fifteen games, scored twelve two thousand fifteen, fifteen games, got eleven. But now last year eight games. And here's the thing. It's a back injury. It's like his third back surgery something like that. These things don't get better, and you know, time waits for no man, even Rob Gronkowski. He's gonna be awesome. But if I'm gonna invest what it will take to get him, which is basically a first or
second round pick, I want someone who is safe. I want someone who's not going to be a huge injury risk, because then if he bangs up his back again. And let me tell you something, every safety, every linebacker that plays the Patriots is going to be the guy. You know, if there were still bounties in the league, I bet Rob Gronkowski would be a guy who had a bounty on his head. So I'm staying away from Gronkowski just because I think, uh, the injury history is not worth
the draft capital that I would have to spend. We're doing hashtag Sleeper Week here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and as it comes to the New England Patriots, I gotta I got a different one for you. I could say a guy like Mike gillies Ley, who I do think is gonna be the lead actual back in early down work for New England. And I just but I just told you that you've got to stay away from the running back room altogether in New England because you never know on a week to week basis what the
game plan is going to dictate. I'm gonna say the defense. The New England Patriots defense, I love them. I love the addition to Stefan Gilmore to play cornerback alongside Malcolm Butler. I think they make for a top three in the NFL kind of tandem. And also, and I mentioned this in the book that's coming up, my man Benny Richardi is coming out with The Definitive Guide on Fantasy Football, and I say in that chapter when talking about defense is one of the things to think about is what
kind of style the offense plays. Okay, the New England Patriots like to jump on you early, and then other teams will be playing from behind having to throw into that tandem in the secondary, and then they get the ability to put pressure on the quarterback in a way that you don't think their offense really helps their defense throw them off their game. What I want to do, though, is look at their schedule. Their schedule does them no favors.
I gotta tell you, listen, the Patriots. I looked they are actually going to be favored all all sixteen games. Will they go sixteen? And no, I don't think so. But they will be favored all sixteen games. But I got a couple of tough ones for you. For example, Week two, they go to New Orleans in the Dome and what will be the Saints home opener in the super Dome. That is no easy task with a team in New Orleans that can probably go point for point
with the Patriots. They also have a Super Bowl rematch against the Atlanta Falcons in Week seven that will be no easy task. They have a two game road stretch in a row out west. When in weeks ten or eleven they go at Denver and then at Oakland in a back to back road games out West, the Oakland Raiders will be ready and waiting for them. Then they have three straight road games weeks fourteen and fifteen in a row. The third of three road games there is
at the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week fifteen. So I just told you about six of their road games. Is that two game road stretch in a row, three road games in a row at New Orleans for the opener for the Saints and the Superdome. The Pats also play six of their last eight games on the road. That gives me pause and certainly them running the table and going sixteen and oh like some people said, but our poll question up here today is about the Patriots. Is there
over under his twelve and a half? Is the valued about the over? Is it to lean under? Is it to bet heavy on the under? Or is it his past and not bet this at all? We got a lot of responses. Also, Gambling Podcast says that best bet is to just go all all in on them winning the a f C East every year. Don't worry about the wind total. It's interesting because the next reply counteract that completely. Carlos Candido says that see Candido music. He says the value is to bet heavy under on the Pats.
He's expecting that the Dolphins can go twelve and four and win that division. If you remember I gave you the breakdown of the Dolphins yesterday. Chris Bovona and Speeds think that the Dolphins will only get like six or seven wins and wind up in third place in that division. Then my and Gabe Morante, who comes up next on Red Heat and Rage he chimed in as well, says that Pats can name their record. He says he thinks
they're gonna go thirteen and three. But he can't look himself in the eye if he bets the over on twelve and a half. The highest over he would bet, he says, is that ten and ten and a half for any team. Also, Craig Ballard out there, thanks for retweeting as well, says, if value is the topic, then the under I kind of agree on this pole question. I myself would pass and not take any action on this because it is a little too high for me. Chris Bovona, let's bring you in real quick though. Man,
where do you see on this Pat's team? I know where they're contenders clearly, But at twelve and a half wins as their season win total, are you gonna bet over that? Well, I will bet this. I think they have a chance to go undefeated in the a f C East. Think that would be a book. I think that would be a very interesting bet to make. Yeah, but I mean, like that's been done before. You know in this run of the New England Patriots, like they
own this division. We know this. So you're kind of agreeing with the gambling podcast out there saying that the bed is that they will dominate their division. I do like that, you know, I do, And I do, in fact think they will, you know, uh do work against these other teams because as you know, we've been talking about the a f C East all week and we've been kind of downgrading the Dolphins, thinking the Bills are
no great shakes. Tomorrow we will talk about the New York Football Jets j E T s Jets and the season. And this coming from a man whose family was a long time Jet season ticket older and we are here in New York, so we will see about that when I talk about their schedule. Though it brings me back to one other thing I wanted to mention. This was on my Twitter timeline as well. And remember, guys, if you want to follow me at spitting speeds, I'll give you what you need to keep it light as well.
There's a letter that Darren Ravel tweeted um from William Sullivan, who used to be the president of the of the Patriots in the seventies, to Wellington Mara, who is obviously the president of the Giants. Literally like a typed out letter, fully reads you ready for this, dear Wellington, As the occasion of our first visit to your beautiful new stadium draws near, I am writing to ask if you might consider playing the Patriots in Night at the Meadowlands, and
if so, what date might be satisfactory to you. That's the way they made the schedule back then, the owners wrote each other letters. Now it's a huge, you know, algorithm with all the teams in the positions you placed in, and they got to avoid you know, the concert that's going on at that stadium, or if the Pope is in town, or if the rodeo is in town. You know, it's such a horrible it's such a you know, just so many more conflicts and so many more kind of
you know, layers that go into it. But that's actually how they did that back then. The president of the two teams would be like, all right, what date is best? You know, kind of booking it almost like almost like college football, does I think? You know. So that's the way they do it now certainly not the way it was back then. And you know, then and now is another interesting topic because now is the time to start
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in my opinion about the Patriots. But it's interesting tomorrow here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we are going to be talking about the New York Football Jets, so it might be a different tale. We had to change the poll question at F and T s Y right now at spitting speeds, because everybody would have said Super Bowl contender. People are saying that say take the over right now, Right now, fifty of the over hundred people that have voted in
the last hour are saying bet the over. Over half of you believe that the Patriots will win at least thirteen games. Say lean under, sixteen percent, say pass, eight percent say heavy under. I agree, I would pass. I would not bet any action on this. Do I think the Pats can win thirteen games? Yes? In fact, if you asked me, would have gun to my head what I think their record is. I would say thirteen and
three or fourteen and two. But the road games in that schedule that I told you about, and the fact that you never know with things like injuries or anything like that, I think that's way too high to still bet the over. I gotta tell you, all right. But keeping it moving here because we've talked too much about the Patriots. We keep the fun and functional sports radio here on the Fantasy Freestyle. One of things we have been doing all season long is crowning the greatest sports
movie of all times. So tonight, Chris, we've got Field of Dreams up against forty two. Forty two, Uh, you know a movie about Jackie Robinson obviously, and Field of Dreams. You know we've got Kevin Costa in there. If you build it, they will come. How do you think this one shakes out? Chris? I'm gonna be dead honest here. Uh, Dane forty two. It's obviously an iconic movie. Uh well, excuse me, it's about an iconic figure figure in American history,
in baseball history. But nobody there has really been no, no, but there's nothing really like memorable about the movie. So in that case, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones versus Chadwick Boseman and Lucas Black, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to go with Uh, I'm gonna have to go with Field of Dreams. They will come and if you build it, they will calm. The question is are the votes coming in? And the answer is definitively yes, they are. Right now, Field of Dreams is up big time on forty two
by an eighty nine percent margin. They are getting the vote. Well, the margin, I guess then is a oh, I don't know, what is that? A seventy eight percent margin of eighty nine to eleven. Field of Dreams look like it will continue to roll in this tournament. I gotta tell you, though, Chris, if they if they do in fact move on, which it looks like they will, they face sand Loot in the sweet sixteen. So that could be very very interesting. Hey, Chris,
you did some matchups on the Producers. One of them was slap Shot verse Mighty Ducks, You and Pete Considori before I know you guys are hockey guys. How did that one turn out? So that one actually did turn out, slap Shot was able to take care of the Mighty Ducks, although Kevin Walsh, our third host, he was just so adamant about the Mighty Ducks, the Flying V. The flying V. That's a personal bias and recency bias that was his?
Is that what it was? Okay? And also last week and you also gave another matchup, it was Friday Night Lights, which just got past We are Marshall. How that one goes by? We Yeah, it only just got past it, but only by such a slight margin. You know. Everybody was saying how much they love Matthew McConaughey the story
of the of the Marshall football team. But I had to go with my Texas Boys, my boys Friday Night Lights, even though Lucas Black I don't like him as an actor, who was also in forty two and probably the reason why I thought the movie was so dull. I had to go on Friday Night Lights. It's all right, well, we are fastly approaching the sweet sixteen of that tournament
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and Phillies are still scoreless. Remember I was telling you about Aaron Nola today as my DFS stud pick Um Brewers are up on the Nationals to nothing that game in the top of the fourth, Santana with his seventeenth home run of the season, AI's and Blue Jay's scoreless in the bottom of the third. In that one in Cleveland, they are tied at one Indians and Angels bottom of the third after two Royals have a one nothing lead on the Detroit Tigers. Those are the games that are
going on right now. To recap what you guys have been contributing to the Fantasy Freestyle today, I asked about the Patriots, where the value was okay, and a lot of people, all the guys that I trust, including myself, SPEEDI and Spitting Statistician, say that even though the Patriots are a great contender, this over under total of twelve five is way too high. I would just pass and not take any action on it at all. However, fifty six percent of you disagree with me and say that
you should bet the over. Maybe that's true, but there's just no you know, it's a very narrow window for that to be possible. And field of dre teams continues to roll over forty two with eight of the vote, as we look to crown the greatest sports movie of all time. Coming up next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, my man Gabe Morancy, Red Heat and Rage, and remember yesterday I told you about their horse that was running
during live during the show, Conflict Diamond. Well it it sounds like Conflict Diamond not only one their race one going away. Tony Sankada told me that Conflict Diamond won by about nine or ten lengths and was cruising down the stretch. Chris, you gotta congratulate my men when they come on in a couple of seconds, Conflict Diamond getting the wind. Big shout out to my man Gabe Morancy. Stay live here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. They're
gonna break down everything. I'm sure they're gonna talk a little bit about Conflict Diamond. Let me be the first to tip my cap to them. Big shout out as always to the Red Heat and Ray At you guys come on back tomorrow. I told you. Unfortunately, we're gonna talk New York Jets and if Lucky Whitehead is actually lucky,
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