Steelers, DraftKings Merger, and SPEEDZ' Lineup!

This sh your boy, Dane Martinez, a ka speeds a ka to spitting statistician and you are listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Of course, as usual, I want to give a big shout out to all our sports byline affiliates around the country and to the service men and women out there getting a little taste to home listening on the American Forces Radio Network to the spitting statistician helping you win

your leagues and win that cash. It is a Thursday, and I got my man the Love Doctor with me Donnie Burns on a one and twols so hot that we sweat steam. We got a good show for you on Thursday. Big things going on right here in Rock and Riley's studio thirty four in Midtown Manhattan. People are celebrating it. You know. Maybe it's because it's the end of the school year, you know, and school is officially out for summer. People are celebrating right now happy hour status.

But what we're gonna do is we are going to hold you down. I'm gonna tell you who to start tonight in Major League Baseball to try and win that cash. Also, we have a Tim Tebow siding. There is Tim Tebow news. Okay, so you know we're gonna bring it to you here in the Fantasy Freestyle. Got a little hint for you. He was promoted, So we'll talk a little bit about that as well as I give you my spotlight on a different NFL team each day. Today we keep it moving and finish up the a f C North. We

talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. They have the second highest wind total in the a f C according to Vegas. Are they a threat to the Patriots? Should they be the high the second highest over under tootal in the a f C. We will get into that, and as you know, we will continue with our greatest of all time sports movies. We have an upset brewing right now in the football region. It's a five twelve matchup, so just like March Madness. Maybe that is where the upset

will come. It's uh, the program versus the water boy. We also have another one seed in action in the baseball region. If you build it, they will come feel the dreams as an action. And uh also, uh, you know University of Michigan standout Taco Charlton, who's with Dallas right now, got drafted. He's uh, he got an endorsement gig. You'll never guess what Taco Charlton is endorsing. All that and more. Coming back on the Fantasy Freestyles, boy Day

Martinez speeds the spitting statistician. I got Donnie Burns into building with me. Let's get it okay Fantasy Freestyle here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle. I mean, boy, Dame Martinez holding you down on a Thursday from seven a p m. If you want to get at me this hour, you absolutely can holler at your boy at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine, and you could also catch us on Twitter in a number of ways.

Get at us at F and T s Y Radio. You can always ask me questions, follow me as well at spitting speeds on Twitter. We got those pole questions up, so hopefully you know, you find ways that you can engage with the show. All right, that's what we're trying to do. Let's start it off looking at news around Major League Baseball. Last night, stud third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Chris Bryant in US, and he rolled his ankle on third base, not while playing third base, physically

on third base catching a pop up. They say he thinks he can avoid the disabled lists, but he might miss sometime. Rangers starting pitcher earlier today, Andrew Cashner was hit by a broken bat Okay, a broken back kind of sawed off, helicoptered and hit him in the forearm in that game against the Indians earlier today. They are saying they think he avoided catastrophe and he should be okay to make his next start. Uh. The Atlanta Braves have decided that enough is enough with bar Tolo Cologne

and they have designated him for assignment. Bartolo Cologne in thirteen starts had a ballooned up eight point one four e r A, but now again, word after he was d f ade that former team that New York Mets might be interested in continuing to smell a little bit of that bar Tolo cologne. The Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher

Chase Anderson. He's been sent to the d L with an oblique strain, and right now it's important to know if you are sent to the d L at this point, you are in essence out through the All Star break. There are only ten days left in the official first half of the season. Zach Britton, the stud closer for the Baltimore Orioles. He threw a scoreless rehabening. They're gonna have him back on the mound on Friday, and it looks like he is on track to return right after

Independence Day on July five. The last thing I'll let you know here is that the Yankees are making some moves. It looks like Tyler Austin is likely headed to the d L. They have repurchased the contract of first baseman Chris Carter. We'll see how many times he strikes out in the next couple of weeks. All right, let's keep him moving here. On Fantasy Freestop last night last night,

the high end starters were Steven Stroudsburg and you Darvish Stroudsburg. Boy, did he deliver thirteen strikeouts in seven innings, only given up two runs. However, I told you that if you wanted a nice little sp two or if you wanted to go off the beaten path. The guy I told you last night was Toronto blue Jay's stud Marcus Stroman. He was only four hundred last night against the Orioles. I told you that he had a quality start every time he went out at home since the middle of April,

and last night was no different. He gave you seven and two thirds of scoreless baseball. He struck out eight as the blue Jay's beat the Orioles four to nothing. I also told you about Zack Godley against the Cardinals. He went seven innings, he struck out seven as well a k per nine. He did, however, give up three runs. Did not get the win. But that's not a horrible out in getting you seven k's in seven innings. So

let's look at tonight. Tonight there are eight games on the night slate and one of them has Clayton Kershaw on it. Okay, so Clayton Kershaw, with his twelve thousand, five hundred price he was moved up a day because Brandon McCarthy is out with an injury. Listen, this is the obvious play. I am never gonna say that Clayton Kershaw is a bad person to go with. UM. Sure you know, but you don't be. You don't need to listen to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network to know that

Clayton Kershaw is good at baseball. You also have a chrisch Archer today. Chris Archer's going at ten thousand, four hundred on FanDuel. This is a guy who in his last six starts has pretty much been alternating between like only giving up two runs, given up four runs, only giving up two runs, given up four runs. Okay, However, he has had at least seven strikeouts and six of his last seven starts. I like that tonight he's well

worth the ten thousand, four hundred on FanDuel. However, if you want to go a little bit different, I submit to you, Hi May Garcia of the Atlanta Braves. He is all the way down at seventies seven hundred on FanDuel. We're talking about five thousand dollars less than Clayton Kershaw. Tonight. I make Garcia is pitching at San Diego against the Padres. The Padres right now, big shout out to the Unicorns out there in San Diego. They have the worst run

total in Major League Baseball. The Padres have only scored two hundred and eighty one runs all season long. I like Harmmade Garcia tonight at Petco Park against the Padres. Now listen, this is also a great park shift. Remember sun Trust has been playing with a crazy power alley to right center field, and he goes away from Atlanta, goes to San Diego with a huge, cavernous park. I think it sets up nicely for Hi Garcia tonight in

San Diego. Remember five thousand dollars cheaper than Clayton Kershaw. Okay. The next thing I want to tell you though, I have Tim Tebow news, okay, and I mean when Tim Tebow does anything, we gotta talk a little bit about Tim Tebow. Um. Check this out. Timmy Tebow has played in sixty four games so far in Low A Ball and he had a sixty o p s. If you

don't know, that's not that good. You know you're looking for op s is you know, with your fantasy guys and in your season long as you're seeing guys you know with eight hundred nine h ops that's what you're really looking for on on base percentage, plus you're slugging percentage. Okay, guys like Aaron Judge or above a thousand at eleven hundred, you're not gonna see that sustainable. But six is certainly not something to write home about. But here's the deal.

He got promoted. He got promoted. He's now in High A Ball. He's at Port St. Lucy and uh, he had his first game the other night at this new level at High A Ball. You know what he did in his first game. He went yard. He hit a home run that is now his fourth home run of the season combined with Low A and High A. I don't think he's gonna wind up getting promoted all the

way up to the Mets this season. But I will say this, if they decide to sell off all their parts, you know, there's definitely the potential they sell as Drubal Cabrera, they wind up trading a guy like Ja Bluce. I think a guy like Addison Read could also be moved for the Mets. Maybe another reason why they might be interested in Bartolo Colognas because they know they're gonna ship off as much as they can. Also, maybe Curtis Granderson

could be on the move. If that happens and the Mets wave the white flag and they need to put butts in the seats in city field after the summer is over, don't get it twisted. You might see Tim Tebow in Queens. The other note, that's kind of interesting. Let's listen, Tim Tebow has now hit four home runs

in professional baseball this season. If you remember, all the way back to nine, there was another kind of like epic uh you know, athlete, and that was Michael Jordan's who had his sware into baseball in all season long, he only hit three home runs. Now, granted he was in Double A, not High A or low A ball, but Tim Tebow has now officially passed Michael Jordan's on the all time home run list. So I think that is pretty interesting. That's what we do here on Fantasy Freestyle.

We mix giving you the fun and functional sports radio along with what you need to win your leagues and win that cash. One of the things, though you may have heard recently, is that you know this, this is this possible merger right between Draft Kings and Fan Duel, But we don't know if that's actually gonna happen. There is another there is another kind of obstacle to it. Right now, Um, the FTC is saying that if they did, in fact merge, they would be a monopoly in the

daily Fantasy injury industry. And you're right, uh FanDuel and Draft Kings together they make up about nine of it. But is the industry DFS or is the industry all of fantasy because a lot of people believe that the DFS is actually not a meaningful substitute for you know, like paid uh season long leagues. You know, like these are not the same thing. They're kind of like oil and water. It's a different it's a different way of going about it. And also listen, DFS right now is

legal in twelve states. Remember we talked about this how Vermont was the last state to legalize Daily Fantasy Stay tuned, Okay, because fan duel and DraftKings, between their ad budgets going after each other, between the legal fees that they are both paying, I think ultimately this is gonna happen. You remember Speeds, the spitting statistician has said sports gambling is going to be legalized. There's just too much money in it. And these sports leagues right now, especially the NFL, are

realizing that they will maintain engagement, maintain viewership. Remember those ratings went down, so with the fact that maybe we can get more eyes to the set if we do legalize this. I don't care about these blocks that's happening by the FTC or what happens. This is going to happen. You heard it here first. You heard it from speeds and spitting statistician. When we come back, though, we're gonna

turn our spotlight to the Pittsburgh Steelers. We've got a lot of fantasy goodness in that lineup, Donnie Burns and day Mark Tenas. We're gonna break it down here on Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Welcome back. As the beat drops. You don't know what it is. We're dropping stats over beats here on the Fantasy Freestyle on me Boy, Dane Martinez holding you down with Donnie Burns, the love Doctor, keeping it so hot

that we sweats teamed yo. He gave you a little bit of overnight celebrity by twist Um when we were coming out of break Twister. Maybe the only guy on the radio that can talk faster than the spitting statistician. But let's get into the cipher right now. News and notes around the NFL. Like I said, it is a downtime in the NFL. The only news that I have for you is that Broncos or new Broncos run back Jamal Charles is saying that he is able to now

do everything that he feels normal. He is even cutting in practice that is usually the last hurdle for someone coming back from a knee injury. He says that he feels good. Remember, he's gonna be pushing guys like c j Anson and Davante Booker for carries and for touches in that Denver offense. I, however, I am concerned about that Denver offense. Okay, I love me some Damarius Thomas

and some Emmanuel Sanders. That's not the problem. The problem is these guys do not know who they're starting quarterback is gonna be? Is it gonna be Paxton Lynch, is gonna be Trevor Simeon. But the issue, in my opinion, honestly, they have Donald Stevenson as their left tackle. Okay, and uh in the a f C West, they each week are gonna be going up against guys like Joey Boatsa on the Chargers justin Houston. In Kansas City, it would DeFord as well. And oh, a little guy named Khalio

Mack when they play the Raiders. You need to have that left tackle spot a little bit more solidified. And Stevenson is no good. He is blunt, guts trash to me. And so that puts whether it's Paxton Lynch or Trevor Simeon in danger when we do our little spotlights on team by team. When I get to the a f C West, I'm telling you right now, I think the Denver Broncos are the last place team in the a f C West, But from now we are still in the a f C North. Earlier this week, we talked Ravens,

we talked Bengals, we talked Cleveland. Brown to Donnie Burns and myself think will no longer be a laughing stock. We think we're taking the over on their four wind projection. They will not be the worst team in the NFL. They are building something and may take a little while, but you know, the laughing stock could be reserved here in New York instead of in Cleveland. But we finished the a f C North today with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have the second highest wind total in the a f C in terms of the over unders in Vegas. Vegas thinks that they're over under is ten and a half winds. I gotta tell you about the Steelers last year. Last year, I was on the Steelers. Last year, the Steelers were my pick to represent the a f C in the Super Bowl. I loved the Steelers. Here's what happened though. Ben Roethlisberger is going to miss time.

Ben Roethlisberger consistently gets hurt. We all talk about how tough he is, how country strong he is, how much of a leader he is. There's some other things in Ben Roethlisberger's past that we don't want to get into right now that may say that he's not a leader. But regardless, Okay, here's the thing though, even when he was in last year, he took a step back. He

regressed a little bit. I'm not sure how much Big Ben has in the tank if you want, the gods on his truth and that goes for that entire class. Like with him, Eli Eli regressed a bunch last year. These are guys that are entering their mid to late thirties, and that is you know, that is when sometimes it

falls off a cliff. Here's the other thing, though, when we talk about the Killer Bees, Ben Roethlisberger, Levian bell An, Tonio Brown, these are guys that honestly have only been together for fifty percent of the weeks since Levian came onto this team. Now at this point, what like four years ago, they have only actually played together half of the time in those games, and when those games are

happening to be in Hines Field. This is an offense that could be the most explosive offense in all of football. I give you that. However, I don't think Ben Roethlisberger is going to stay healthy. And because of that reason, I agree with my man Corey Parts in the Fantasy Executive he has Ben Roethlisberger as his fifteenth ranked quarterback this year. If you tell me he plays sixteen games,

I'll show you a top ten quarterback. If you tell me he plays sixteen games, I'll show you a team that likely would get a first round by in the A f C playoffs. Here's the thing I don't think at is going to happen, and I'm down on Big Ben this year. I'm fading him. I think he's a fool gazzy. I think he's someone you need to forget about. However, when we talk about the running back position, you got my man, Levan Bell. Call me on my Bell phone.

Levan Bell is, in my opinion, the number one not running back, the number one player in fantasy football for the year two thousand seventeen. This is a guy. I'm telling you right now. He will get two thousand scrimmage yards. Here's another guy I'm telling you right now. He could be a wide receiver in the NFL. Right now, he's gonna catch seventy balls in my opinion, he's gonna get I don't know, twelve touchdowns. In my opinion, he is a joy to watch. We talk about his patient style

finding holes. You know he's also doing that rap thing, okay, and we know about that. We know Juice has got bars. We Juice is trying to go to prom with young ladies. I love me some lady on Bell. I think if you have him as the number one overall pick, if you have the number one pick in your draft, I say, do not get David Johnson. Do not go Ezekiel Elliott. The right answer, in my opinion is lady on Bell.

And if you want to know who I think the number one wide receiver in the game is, Antonio Brown? Is that man? Okay? I think what you have here in Pittsburgh is white out one RB one that is incredible. The rest of it, I'm a little skeptical, Okay, I don't know if Big Ben stays healthy. The second wide receiver on this roster mark Tavis Bryant. This is a guy who has the skill to pay the bills. Okay, my man can do big things. The only problem is

I don't trust him. I don't trust him to not only play sixteen games, I don't trust him to act right for sixteen games. If you remember the NFL Draft when the Steelers drafted Juju Smith Schuster, who I know, my and Donnie Burns wants to talk about. Not hot second, it was Martevis Brian, who had just come back from a year's suspension, Who's talking about how Juju is really gonna be replacing Eli Rodgers in essence starting beef with another teammate, to the point where Mike Tomlin had to

actually interject and tell everybody to play nice. I think that is a problem. I don't think Martavis Briant has shown much maturity. If he plays in all these games, he will be the wide receiver too for that team, and he will be a viable fantasy option. The problem is I can't trust him. I can't trust Briant, and ultimately I can't trust Big Ben Roethlisberger. I do think Landry Jones will start some games. However, However, the schedule

sets up really nicely for the Pittsburgh Steelers this year. Okay, remember they have the NFC North in the crossover. Okay, the other d NFC division they played, They get the two best teams in that division in my opinion, at home, they get Green Bay at home, they get Men Soda. At home. They have to go on the road to Chicago, No big deal. They have to go to Detroit, no

big deal. If they have to go to lambeau Field late in the season, that might have been a problem, but no, they get to host the Green Bay Packers. Same thing happens with some of their a f C rivals that they have to play. They play the New England Patriots this year. They get him at home, the team they have to go see and I remember the way they make the schedule is the Steelers will have to play all the other first place teams in all

the other divisions. Okay, so that's Houston, that's New England, that's Kansas City. They get to host the New England Patriots. So this all falls in line where I think the schedule is pretty good for them. Put me put a gun to my head with an over under of ten and a half, I'd say this is not one to bet. I think the Steelers will finish ten and six, eleven and five. I think this is definitely a playoff team. But I just can't count on Big Ben. Donnie Burns.

I know we were talking about this a little bit. You love Juju Smith Shoestar. I'd love to hear your take on him. And what do you think about a guy like Big Ben? Are you gonna invest draft capital in a guy who really has not played sixteen games in a long time. Yeah. So here's my take on the Steelers. Super fun team to watch, especially when the Triple Bees are all playing. You kind of figure going into each season that one of them is not going

to be healthy. Well, Lean hasn't got suspended for the weed just yet. So maybe here's my take on you wanted to kind of talk on and Juju as well. Um So in NFFC best ball, I actually took big Ben uh in terms of you know, I already had Drew Brees. I was looking for another, you know, gunslinger who doesn't take crazy chances of vet so I like him if there will be a two or three week streak when he has where he's gonna touchdowns exactly, So

I hear I like that. But season long, you know that you can't really rely on him, like if you can't rely on any of them. Um, you know, you will look to see a lot of running backs taking you know, slowly happened, but you mentioned Levian's kind of

he waits for those holes to open. You're just see a lot of running backs start to do that because that is a very effective Like I'm not even a football player, and I can tell that is one of the more effective ways to run the ball, waiting for your blocks to develop and then just to kind of touch on Juju from the tu shore um his hands man other than Za Jones amongst the rookies, one of the better hands in the draft. You know he could

play the slot. He's he's a big guy, so um kind of we kind of mentioned like a sterling Shepherd, a bigger version of him. I really like him. He's taking someone's job. And if you know, mart Tevis s wonts to, I'm telling you Martavis needs to act right, be professional, or else it could be him. I agree with you. So listen. Here's the deal though. All right, because some fantasy football players are focusing on their upcoming drafts later this summer, but here you listen to the

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get that good Angus Hamburgers. We don't want that cheap nonsense as we celebrate America next week when we come back. You know, I got some stuff to talk to you about. Upset brewing in the sports movie Brackets and Eli Manning got lucky with the judge he drew. We'll talk about that a little bit more Fantasy Freestyle. Let's go Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports

Radio Network. Big shout out, of course, to our sports byline affiliates around the country and to the service men and women out there listening on the American Forces Radio Network getting a little taste of home, helping you win your leagues and win that cash. Remember I told you we got some polls up on Twitter. You can get us at F and T s Y Radio. You could always find me at Spitting Speeds. I am happy to engage with you. Ask me some questions will get them read.

On this show, we gotta pull question up about the Steelers season. Like I said, they're over under is ten and a half for the season right now. Thirty one percent of you say the Steelers are a Super Bowl contender, a Playoff contender. Seventeen say that they might take a step back and become more like a five hundred team. Seven percent of you actually think they are a threat to pick in the top five of next year's draft.

I don't know about that, but I do think that wherever they pick it next year's draft, they do need to start consider to draft the replacement for Ben Roethlisberger. Remember we said that with the Giants looking to potentially eventually replace Eli Manning. We've said that with Philip Rivers as well. Out there in Los Angeles, not San Diego, but Los Angeles. Remember my quarterbacks category, sun Setting is one that's really hard to manage. You got those three guys.

You also got guys like Carson palmer Um as well, so it's hard to manage. They need to start thinking about that. Donnie Burns, do you think they're a playoff contender? Though, I would imagine one guy, and I do want to say big shout out real quick to Sal on Twitter, Salvatore or Castro for he says he doesn't think the Steelers are a Super Bowl contender? Does Big Ben even have anything left? I agree with you, Sal, I think the end is near for Big Ben Roethlisberger, whether that's

in his performance or in his health. I'm telling you about the sun setting quarterbacks. And before we went to break, I said another, Uh, I teased something about another one of these sun setting quarterbacks, Eli Manning, now Donnie Burns,

as we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio. Remember a few weeks back when Eli Manning was into that like memorabilia scam, when people were saying that he was using like he was trying to pawn off fake like cleats and helmets as game used, and we were like, that doesn't really sound like Eli, And he came out strong about it that he you know, but he was involved in this kind of memorabilia scandal. Were you familiar

with this, Donnie? Remember them? Okay? So, um, the cases in court right now, and uh, the judge for this case. Are you ready for this? Donnie? The judge for this is a guy named James J. De Luca. This guy owns two PSLs at MetLife Stadium and has been a Giants fan since the nineties sixties. What do you think about this? I don't know. I don't know. They get that,

That's what I'm saying. Check this out. And then he was asked to recuse him self from this case and he said no. He said no, He said he can easily apply the law here. He says, yes, the PSLs are in his name, but right now, his son is the one who actually pays for the tickets that this guy, that judge de Luca, he only goes to one or two games a year. He'll only go to the one

o'clock kickoffs. But if this guy has been a Giants fan since the sixties, you think he's really gonna come down on Eli Manning, not one of the quarterbacks that won him two Super Bowls. Yeah, exactly. Listen, I'm gonna tell you the God's on his truth. I'm a I'm

a Jets fan. I haven't seen you know, I haven't seen a Super Bowl in my lifetime, but I do know a lot of Giants fans, okay, and they literally consider the two Giants Super Bowl wins or got the three Giant Super Bowl wins that have happened in my lifetime. They consider them sort of like the great one of the greatest moments of their lives, you know. And there's no way he's gonna come down against Eli Manning, the man who has created some of the greatest memories of

his life. Are foul, Donnie Burns, I smell foul on that. Yeah, I mean, what's fair to say that They probably think he's probably not He's gonna gets There's no way Flukey with some crazy catches. There's no way that Eli doesn't get off on this. The judge has PSLs that met life come on. But hey, that's the way these things go sometimes, you know, the deck gets the deck gets stacked sometimes. But yeah, let's keep it moving. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, where we put the fun in functional

Sports Radio, Donnie Burns, we got movie brackets to discuss. Remember, we are trying to crown the greatest sports movie of all time this summer. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Um, we have some good matchups. Last night he got game beat coach Carter in kind of a runaway. Remember that one seed was up as well. Rudy was up as a one seed. Little Giants hung in there but ultimately went down. Rudy will advance to the second round. Today, we have some interesting matchups. We've got another one seed

in action, this time in the baseball region. And that movie is Field of Dreams. Donnie Burns, the millennial that you are. This is a one seed. Are you familiar with Field of Dreams? I'm actually not. Are you serious? Wow? You caught me off guard there. I thought I thought you would definitely know about Field of Dreams. Have you ever heard the phrase if you build it, they will come? Okay? Well that is from Field of Dreams. Okay, and uh it's a deserving one seed. All right. I'm a little

bit surprised that you you know this. This This sports guy has never heard of that, and it is up right now. The sixteen seed in the baseball bracket is a movie called Sugar. Uh. Don I doubt you have seen this one. This is a great story. Though it is a great movie. I had to include it in the brackets, even though it is the sacrificial lamb in the first round. It is about a guy named nicknamed Sugar.

He's a Dominican baseball player, okay, and he finally kind of like that he thinks he's gonna make it big, you know, like pitch for the Yankees in New York. Wind Up, he gets shipped to uh single a in Iowa, Okay, and he doesn't really know much English. And it's really about how he has to try to adjust to life in the Midwest, in the Heartland. Um and you know, he only like knows one other guy there that's also Dominican, but that guy then gets hurt or gets called up

or whatever. And it's really a touching story about how this guy adjust and has really no life except trying to play baseball, trying or work for his family here in the US. And great, you know, it's a great movie. I liked it. But it's probably gonna lose the Field of Dreams. But we will see. There is still time to get out there and vote at F and T s Y and at spitting Speeds. We also we have an upset brewing, Donnie, and I want to see if you know these movies, because I think this upset could

be due to recency bias. Big shout out to my man Howie Balaban out there on Twitter who said that I maybe try to engineer a five twelve upset, because that's what happens in March madness all the time. I truly did not. We have the number five seed in the football region, the program going against the number twelve seed in the football region, The Water Boy. Donnie b are you familiar with these movies? Up? I know both

and uh you gat you gave Waterboy twelve. I did give Waterboy a twelve because listen, there were some people that were telling me, Oh, I don't think Jerry McGuire is really a football movie. The water Boy is kind of a football movie, but it's really a comedy. I was trying to have movies that were really focused on the game of football a little bit more. You know, this movie was more about the mcdoula, oblongata and slap hands,

slap hands, that sort of stuff. In that same light, though, you'd have to take longest shart out because that's a comedy as well. Yeah, but you're talking about the Adam Sandler version. You're not talking about the original over there, Donny Be, You know you are that Millennial, so um the program for those of you guys who don't know and are listening right now to the Fantasy Freestyle on

the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. This is a movie that was profiling kind of like a college football team and all of the craziness from the hazing that goes on to the performance enhancing drugs. But there were two guys on that defense in Lattimer and Mac that were bosses. Let me tell you about that. If you remember that movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Laddimer like pregame ritual, but he got them suspended for taking steroids and came back.

And also there was a very famous scene about these guys the football team. They were all amped up one night, they literally go and lie in the middle of traffic with oncoming traffic coming in like a pretty major road. That scene was pulled from the movie. Okay, they changed the movie after a week after it was released, and they pulled that scene because kids were mimicking that and then lying in the street. In the United States. I

kid you not, this was happening. There were football teams doing this as a kind of like bombing experience to try to be like this movie. So they pulled that scene. Donnie Burns. I know you like to coach the kids. What would you do if you saw your kids lying in the middle of the street. That's that's not happening. It's not happen. It's not it's not happening. So that that was a scene, and that was a scene in the movie. Yeah, that was a scene in the movie.

They were all like partying one night, you know, or they were like hazing the new guy, and they all went and they lied in the middle of traffic like you know, playing chicken, trying to be macho, you know, whatever it was you're doing, and they all did it together. And uh then like kids across the country started doing this thinking that they were cool, you know, life imitating our decisions and a press on my quarter. Fair enough, So you can still get out there and vote right now.

But right now we've got the water Boy up over the program to thirty six and Field of Dreams dominating Sugar as a one sixteen matchup should be Field of Dreams nine percent. If you build it, the votes are coming. Hey, Donny, I'm not gonna see you for a while, my friend, because you know, on Friday's it looks like I'm gonna I'm gonna have JP the night out with me And just a little note here next week on the Fantasy Freestyle, my guys are gonna be filling in for me next week.

Benny Richardi and Tony Sencada are gonna absolutely get it done. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, We're gonna continue the sports movie brackets and all but done. We have to talk about this Big Three because you know, we we were

we're talking about it, we were ranking guys. You know, we were talking about the draft, and then they had the opener at Barclay's in Brooklyn on Sunday, and I gotta tell you, the God's on his truth, don I think there are some things that are like awesome that happened really well, and there's something I have some constructive

criticism for ice Cube and the Big Three. So there were some close games, Okay, three Headed my first of all, the Three Headed Monsters beat the ghost Ballers two to sixty, Power beat to Try State, and those were two very close games. It was tight. At the very end of the Three Headed Monster game, Richard Lewis was bawling out. And by the way, Donnie, you know who else was bawling out for the Three Headed Monsters with seventeen and thirteen.

That's right, my man, Quam Brown, like I said, you know, with towering over Ivan Johnson becoming a boss in the post in that game as the Three Headed Monsters got a win, the Power gotta win with a game winner from Deshaun Stevenson. Those were the first two games, and those were awesome. Then Three's Company beat the ball Hogs and the Trilogy beat the Killer three sixty five and so there was some good games. Fifteen thousand at Barclay, so they had a nice little attendance. But here's the issue,

White Chocolate. Jason Williams out for the entire season with an injury, Corey mcghetty out for the entire season with an injury. And here's the other thing I'm gonna tell you. They've already come out and say they are changing the rules after just one week. Because these guys, you know, they're veterans, right, They've been out the game for a little bit, so they was sucking wind. They are changing it. It is now games are not up to sixty games are now up to only fifty points. They are adjusting

in the middle of the season. I don't know how I feel about that. And also the TV product on FS one. They say they're doing that to shorten the game so they could fit all four games and more action in their three hour broadcast on f S one. The last thing I'll say to you, Donny before they go to Charlott it next week. I saw Paul Pierce wants to get involved. He said he's gonna try and ask Kobe and Kevin Garnett if they want a former team. Now that would be you know, the truth part in

the pun. What do you think about Big Three? How it went down? Um, I'll tell you they look really old. Yeah, man had gray hair. One of the one of the interviewers you know, asked Ai after He's like, oh, how do you feel? And he his response was forty two and retired. Yeah. Listen, they got a lot of buzz going. A lot of people were excited to see it. Fifteen thousand people showed up. Do you think though, that interest will Wayne because the product on the court was not

as good as people were hoping. Dude, just because I heard uh, most of the people wanted to see Ai. Who Yeah, and he's not even really gonna play much like I said, I saw. I saw some clips of him like shooting around stuff. He looks old man. He doesn't look the same guy. And a lot of his stuff on the court was based on quick at moves.

He doesn't have those anymore, alright, So I mean what I'll also say is they have already named that HACKEM Warwick will be replacing Jason Williams on the Three Headed Monster. So I gotta give a big shout out to HACKEM Warwick as a as a Orange Man alumni myself from Syracuse, I do wanna say big ups to HACKEM Warwick taking the place of white chocolate Jason Williams. But I gotta tell you I feel the same way, Donny Be Like I was all excited about this. The the actual game

was not impressive to me. Um, it was not. It was not something that I hope it could sustain all summer because there's not a whole lot else going on. Remember we talked flag football yesterday with the Michael Victorrell Owens League. We have big three. You know, we'll see, we'll see what happens or if we're all just waiting for NFL football. That's what I think is gonna happen here on the Fantasy for Ports Radio Network. When we come back, We're gonna tie a nice neat little bow

on this episode of Fantasy Freestyle. It should boy, Dame Martinez Speeds the Spitting Statistician, come all right back, Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. As always, want to give a big shout out to our sports byline affiliates that are listening in. We appreciate it, We appreciate your votes. We appreciate you tuning in. Uh and also to the American Forces Radio

Network called the service men and women out there. I thoroughly appreciate that Speeds and Spitting Statistician can hook you up and give you a little taste of home. Let me give you what's going on around Major League Baseball right now. We are scoreless in Pittsburgh in the middle of the third inning. We have the Orioles up on the Blue Jays one nothing. That game is already in the bottom of the fourth. That game moving very quickly. Um in the third inning, the Brewers are all over

the Cincinnati Reds. Remember I told you in great American small park. That's what's going on. Homer barely giving it up. Ryan Brawn already with his ninth home run of the season. The start of the Yankees and White Sox game has been delayed. In Chicago, Mets have gotten two on board already against Jose Arena and the Marlins. They're up to nothing in the top of the third. And in Boston the Twins are up on the Red Sox one nothing that game early on. Kyle Gibson trying to hold it down,

hold that lead for Minnesota. Like I said, right now, we got some poll questions going on. The water Boy continues to lead the program and what could be an upset in our football bracket of the Sports Movie Contest and also Field the Dreams continues to dominate over Sugar in the baseball region as a one seed. Up next here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network is Tout Wars. They're gonna be giving it to you hard, giving it to you live and direct. Everything you need to know

for the baseball season, whether it be season long. They're gonna be telling you as we head to the All Star break, which you really need. Tomorrow, I'm gonna have my man the animal. No, no, no, but I'm gonna have the night Owl with me, and so we're gonna save this story. Donnie. I'm sorry Taco Charlton, remember Jake, but also on Michigan Wolverines last year was endorsing Scharman toilet paper. Jake. But I'll give you one guest, Donnie, what you think what you think Taco Charlton is sponsoring.

Don't say it now, Donnie, because you may ruin it for the listeners. You have to think about it all day long, and tomorrow I will share with you what Taco Charlton is sponsoring down there in Dallas for my man, the love Doctor and basketball correspondent, I am Dane Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician. I'll tell you tomorrow, right back here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Ye