Don La Greca (2:05)

So I, I send a congratulatory tweet out, right? Because you know, Carmelo Anthony is somebody that I covered closely. I got to know him, you know, fairly personal. I wouldn't call him like, oh, he's a friend of mine. Like we know each other and I enjoyed covering his time in New York. It Was some of the. For me, it was like one of the height of being a beat writer is being on top of the story from the very beginning, covering to the end when the story broke that he was officially being traded. I remember the first conversation I had with him when LeBron James was still out there as a potential free agent that everybody was chasing. And in Denver, I said to Melo, you know, if he doesn't come to New York, you're next. And he kind of gave me a look like, really? I was like, oh, yeah. And then sure enough, it happened. And at his press conference, I put my hand up to ask a question. All I said was, remember me, Remember what I told you. And so it was just such a cool thing and a cool moment in New York and a cool moment in the NBA when that was happening. But so the response that I got from some people on social media about this really blew my mind. There really are people, guys who don't think that he belongs in the hall of Fame, which you heard Shams give you his NBA resume. He won a national championship as a freshman at Syracuse.

Alan Hahn (3:18)

That's right. You could.

Peter Rosenberg (3:20)

Basketball hall of Fame. So college counts.

Don La Greca (3:22)

That is true. So. And you could say, you know, well, you know, the Syracuse team, he was the driving force in winning that championship. He was unbelievable in the NCAA tournament. He was great. He won a national championship as a freshman. He had a terrific start to his career in Denver. And no one will remember this and we'll all pretend it never happened, but I'm telling you, I was there. I covered the league. There was a debate at one time that Carmelo Anthony might be more clutch, might be a better scorer than LeBron James. There were people that at that time, early in their careers, first like three years or so, were like, you know, Melo's a little more of a dog in him. He's more of a Kobe guy. He and Kobe very close. Like there was that was there at one point in life. Then LeBron just went crazy and he became, you know, one of the all time greats, of course, but still it was there. And there were times when they would meet, play against each other. Melo always had his number and so there's that. Did he win a championship? No, of course, that's a big thing. We get it. But then let me remind you also of one more thing. He was one of the great Olympic players. He was a guy that understood the international game. He was a guy that was on the, you know, obviously the team that lost and only got a Bronze in Greece and it changed everything. And they were all young players. It was him, it was LeBron and I think Wade and it was a mess that team and they were all wanted to be on the redeemed team and Melo was part of that. And his years in the Olympics, which the London Olympics for him was like, that was his biggest moment where he would come off the bench and it was Olympics mellow and he was insanely good. And it was what Kevin Durant saw and said I can be like that later in my career as well in the Olympics because don't think for a minute that KD is not going to play in the LA Olympics. I think he's. No matter how. I don't know how old he's going to be at that point, but I guarantee he loves playing the Olympics.

Alan Hahn (5:24)

It suits him well as well.

Don La Greca (5:25)

Again, shooters and smart basketball players, they love the international game. So not only was he. Does he have his NBA resume, but let's not forget this is a guy who won a national championship as a freshman and also was a fantastic international player and Olympics player, clutch Olympics performer. So with all that put together, how is anybody putting up any type of argument against him being a first ballot hall of Fame?

Peter Rosenberg (5:53)

Well, first of all, I think people do confuse thinking it's the pro basketball hall of Fame and not the Basketball hall of Fame. What you do internationally, what you do on the collegiate level counts. So there are those people and there are those people that look at Carmelo Anthony as a failure in New York because they didn't win a championship. He was the consolation prize to LeBron James. And I remember doing all those shows. It was pre Peter with Michael, with Carmelo getting hammered by Nick. Fans constantly about how he's. He's the big controversy was. Well, the whole thing that happened with Linsanity never would have happened if Carmelo was here. And would it continue when Carmelo came back? Carmelo's not going to go for that. Like why it was always so negative.

Don La Greca (6:37)

He could tell you about that.

Peter Rosenberg (6:38)

He made players around him better. He was a selfish basketball player. Hog a ball hog. There were a lot of similarities between him and Alex Rodriguez in the sense that they both came over from another team.

Don La Greca (6:50)

Hell no.

Peter Rosenberg (6:51)

Both were not appreciated for what they did in real time because there wasn't a championship at the end of the rainbow. Now for a rod, he stuck around long enough to get it. Carmelo never did. I'm not saying these are fair, Allen, but that's. You went through it. He was never I think appreciated. I think in the building he was, because I always remembered him getting cheered more. But I remember just in talk radio outside, there was a lot of noise around that. Nick fans just did not appreciate him at all.

Don La Greca (7:20)

It's why earlier in the show, I brought up the Aaron Judge thing, because when Melo came to New York, he was loved. Like I was on the court when he came out for the first time for his first game.

Alan Hahn (7:30)

I'm coming home. Yes, I'm coming home.

Don La Greca (7:32)

The floor was shaking that night. It was. I think it was like February 21, 2011, and they were playing the Bucks. The lights went down. They played that song, right? And he comes out, and I'm telling you, the floor was shaking. People were that excited about having him there. And then, you know, they had this unbelievable game against that LeBron Heat team on national TV, and they had won that game. There was a lot going on. It was special. Then, of course, everything falls apart because everybody got hurt in the first round game against the Celtics that I thought they would have won that series against that Boston team that year if they had stayed healthy, but that's always been the issue. But after the next couple of things that you're talking about and the Linsanity thing, which everybody got wrong, and I've tried many times to explain what actually was going on at that time. I have told that story over and over again on the various shows that I've had on this station, and no one seems to want to believe it, but he was not the reason why it didn't work. And in fact, he was somebody trying to make it work, but nobody wanted to believe that either. But what happened is Phil Jackson came in and started doing what Phil Jackson wanted to do. Never really. Never really wanted Carmelo, never thought it would work, so never really bought into it. Did the triangle thing. Melo and Colby spoke a lot back then about Phil and about the triangle, but Mello was trying like hell to understand it. How do we make this work? Because all he wanted to do is win. And then Phil starts making these trades, and he's moving people. And he tells his story about when they traded iman Shumpert and J.R. smith to the Cavs. And he's like, why are we trading them to him? We're trying to beat him. Why are we giving them to him? Like, he was furious about that. So anybody that thought he didn't care that he was only about himself and his numbers and all those things, you weren't paying attention. He got frustrated. He got disillusioned but what started to happen was everybody turned on him because it can never be anyone but the player. We always blame the player. And so what you saw was this love for a player during the regular season who wasn't having post season success. And after the third straight year of not having post season success, then all of a sudden it turned. And that's what I worry about with Aaron Judge is when does it start to turn that, okay, this regular season stuff's nice. Remember this guy finished second in the voting for MVP, led the league in scoring, had a 62 point game. He has had moments, his playoff games against the Celtics his first year, that, that game too was epic in Boston. Like he's had moments, big shots, and yet all anybody kept saying was he doesn't win. Well, I'm worried that that kind of sentiment, although it's a lot longer later. Judge has been around a lot longer. When do Yankee fans start staring at him with that kind of same frustration of that's great, but when are you going to win us a ring?

Alan Hahn (10:46)

I think Judge will get a lot more slack on account of being a homegrown guy.

Don La Greca (10:52)

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Alan Hahn (10:54)

So Carmelo, Carmelo, you know, if you're not, if you're not aware that so much of his life, Carmelo's life has become a New York life. So my guess is for all intents and purposes, while the Denver part will be a part of his hall of.

Don La Greca (11:10)

Fame thing, I think he was loved more here.

Alan Hahn (11:12)

He'll end up being a Nick because it's where his life is now. But you know, for a very long time you could have argued he was a nugget like that. He had a real career there, to the conference finals. That was a legit seven year run in Denver. And so in a weird way that hurt him. I don't think that would happen. And also the idea of it, the idea of being that way in baseball, Don, in some ways is even more ridiculous. Like one player just cannot win a championship for you in baseball. I mean, now listen, I'll say this though. Judge, the fact that Judge hasn't been able to fully put it together in the playoffs. Well, I think that's is what's very problematic.

Don La Greca (11:53)

That's, I think what, why I make this connection. Because obviously one player can't do it in the postseason in baseball, but because he hasn't, except for that, obviously that big game in Cleveland, he had that big home run, but there wasn't, there's not enough evidence of him having the big Octobers that, hey, don't blame Judge. He brings it right. That's what people want. Everybody needs to blame somebody. So they blame Melo because there was nobody else to blame. And I wonder when do they get to a point where they start blaming Judge because there's no one else to blame.

Alan Hahn (12:24)

I thought last year when we went into the playoffs, Don, we talked about it some. I was like, man, what a high level playoff. A high level pressure situation this is for Judge. After all the years of not being able to perform. Then, as you mentioned, Alan, he has the huge night in Cleveland. You're like, okay, the average isn't great, but he's had a couple of moments. And then of course, he has the play that sets off one of the worst innings in the history of the team, which is sad. To close things out, he actually was.

Don La Greca (12:53)

Having a good game five.

Alan Hahn (12:54)

Oh, yeah, he was.

Don La Greca (12:55)

He was hitting the ball like that, that. But no one will remember the early stuff. They'll remember the drop ball.

Peter Rosenberg (13:01)

But because he's homegrown, because he chose to stay here when Soto left, as you said, there's gonna be a big rivalry between Judge and Soto that I still think as long as the Mets don't win, if Judge is better than Soto, that will build up a lot of momentum and more love for him because it's going to be epic. Listen, they love Dom Mattingly. He didn't win. Now, I understand that was a different generation of Yankee fans. They had gone a long time without winning. But everybody that was criticized here, Alex Rodriguez, Mike Messina, Jason Giambi, the guys took a long time to finally click. Eventually did like Moose. Eventually did. Giambi eventually did a Rod eventually won the championship and did. But those guys came here for the sole purpose, to win a championship. Judge was homegrown. He decided to take a hometown discount to stay. The Giants would have given him more money. There's a lot of things that will have the Yankee fans love him, but there is where both could be true. Allen, they love him, but they'll always be a. Yeah, but if he doesn't win, like, they'll. They'll tell their grandkids, I saw one of the greatest players to ever play the game, Aaron Judge. I remember that 62 home run season. He was a beast. Yeah, but he didn't win the championship. You know, he just never got the ring. Like, it'll just be a caveat to every great story about Judge. Where he'll be loved, but they'll always be that. But he didn't get the ring.

Don La Greca (14:23)

Yeah. And I think that, that, that's what I think sticks to Carmelo. It's that, it's the, the, you know, the, the ISO, you know, tendencies that he had that people didn't like that style of basketball. It's the fact that he and Phil Jackson just did not imagine. Terrible move.

Peter Rosenberg (14:38)

And what was the other narrative during the time with Carmelo? They loved Amar E Stoudemire because he chose to come here.

Don La Greca (14:45)

He wanted to be here and Melo forced his way here and they had to give up picks and give up assets.

Peter Rosenberg (14:51)

There was a lot that kind of hurt Carmelo, of course, and living during that time, it always felt like it was unfair, very unfair. So I'm not really surprised that now as he's being celebrated and going to the hall of Fame, Nick fans are like, yeah, I'm good.

Don La Greca (15:04)

It's sad. Now, meanwhile, going forward, speaking of bringing in another superstar, you guys remember after the trade deadline or do you remember? Because I wonder if anybody ever hears me. Do you remember what I don't mean. You do. I don't mean you guys.

Alan Hahn (15:20)

You mean not getting credit in the world for the brilliance.

Don La Greca (15:23)

You said Kevin Durant was in the rumors, but he didn't get moved. Do you remember what I said after the trade deadline?

Alan Hahn (15:30)

You said, this is going to come up again and be a big story of the summer. And the conversation of him to the Knicks is going to be a thing.

Don La Greca (15:38)

Yes.

Peter Rosenberg (15:38)

It's not a deadline move.

Don La Greca (15:39)

It's an off season move that there's going to be teams. And I mentioned the Thunder would be interesting. Golden State would be interesting. Miami will probably do whatever they can. And I said if you're the Knicks, right, you've got to be in this conversation. You got to at least think about it. What is it going to take? Right. Listen to shums also on McAfee about.

Shams Charania (16:01)

KD definitely could be. So you look at this from a macro perspective. We've seen from Matt Ishby in the last two and a half years how aggressive he's been. He is not spared any expenses. He's clearly showing that as an owner, as an NBA owner, he's willing to take multiple swings. He wants to take millions of swings at the bat to try to win a championship. That's what he did two years ago when he went and got Kevin Durant. This iteration of this team. Devin Booker, Kevin Durant. Then you bring in Bradley Beal. The summer of 2024, it just. Or summer 2023, it just hasn't worked out in Phoenix. And from a holistic perspective, there's going to be changes coming to Phoenix. Barring a miracle finish to the year, there's going to be a lot that they're going to have to look at to evaluate throughout the organization. But from a roster perspective, that's going to start with Kevin Durant and potentially finding him a. Unlike at the trade deadline when he was almost traded to the warriors, the Suns, Kevin Durant, they would work together on any trade.

Don La Greca (16:53)

So does that sound familiar?

Peter Rosenberg (16:55)

Very familiar.

Don La Greca (16:55)

Okay, now how about this part that he adds about the teams that were interested in KD at the deadline?

Shams Charania (17:01)

But I can tell you guys this. Back at the NBA trade deadline, there were a list of teams that there was mutual interest with Kevin Durant. And those teams, from my understanding, and that's Minnesota, that's New York, that's Houston, San Antonio, Miami. Those are the types of teams that had interest then. And I expect them all to be in the mix this offseason. But the biggest thing to keep an eye on for all NBA fans and fans of those teams, how does your team finish in the playoffs? How do the playoffs go? Because that's going to really determine who feels like they're a Kevin Durant away. And there's going to be. They might not get what they gave up for Kevin Durant. You think about all the picks and the swaps, but they're going to get a pretty good haulback for a guy he just finished his 12th year averaging 25 points and 50% shooting 12 consecutive seasons.

Don La Greca (17:44)

So Houston is a team that a lot of people are looking at because he's got a relationship with Eme Odoka, like, you see something there, they're a young team that could probably use somebody like him to put him over the top. But if there's a team in the east that feels close but might need one more piece to put him over the top, what team do you think that would be?

Alan Hahn (18:03)

10X.

Don La Greca (18:05)

And you heard him say, yeah, New York was interested and there's mutual interest, which means. And it's not surprising, KD loved playing in New York. The Nets thing didn't work out. It wasn't. It didn't go the way he could.

Peter Rosenberg (18:19)

Have been a Knick. It just that I don't think Dolan wanted Kyrie. Right. Is that the story?

Don La Greca (18:23)

There was a lot of that. It was the Kyrie aspect that originally it was just supposed to be kd. And I have been told by many people, not from the team side, from the other side, that they felt at certain points that New York was a lock, that he was coming, and the Knicks had set up for it. And what happened was, is the Kyrie thing got involved. And, you know, for kd, it's like, do I go there by myself? Because at the time, this roster was a barren wasteland and he didn't want to have that all on his shoulders. Whereas, you know, Kyrie had the setup with Brooklyn and, you know, we can go in together and we can build this thing so you're not by yourself. And so he went that way. It was a failure. It did not work, clearly, but it didn't mean he didn't like playing here. So that leads you now to a curiosity of is it worth whatever the price is going to be to make that kind of move in this off season? Let's say the Knicks do what people are expecting, which is get to the second round, but they can't get past the Celtics. They feel like they're just. They just don't have enough to beat that team. Mikhail Bridges has a contract extension that you'd have to give him this off season or you make another decision. I mean, that's not going to be easy to do. But if that's available at his age, at 36, 37 years old, is it worth doing it or is it just too late to make that kind of move for this Knicks team?

Alan Hahn (19:43)

To me, it's just about the level, the cost.

Don La Greca (19:46)

You know, it's going to be. It's going to be astronomical. We already know this.

Alan Hahn (19:50)

Well, when you say that, when you say Astronom future picks, how many picks do they still have left?

Don La Greca (19:55)

Well, they can. Again, their picks are the picks they gave up for Bridges, for everybody to know and please write this down and save it and keep it. They had to move those picks because I think there was two of them in this year's draft. As you know, their pick this year is like in the 20s. It's like 26. It's not really a valuable pick. Right. So they had to move some picks that they knew were going to time out. There are a couple of later picks that you do worry about if the team's going to be bad, but they don't anticipate being bad. There are later, later picks now that you can start to pull from. That's a dangerous thing to do.

Alan Hahn (20:27)

So.

Don La Greca (20:27)

But I'm also. My players, I believe. Well, you know, you're.

Alan Hahn (20:31)

Can you give me.

Don La Greca (20:32)

Well, I mean, if you're Phoenix. I mean, first of all, Bridges would have to be Right. Because if you. Are you going to extend them or are you going to give.

Alan Hahn (20:38)

I'm fine with that. Go ahead.

Don La Greca (20:39)

You know, so that's. That's one name for sure.

Alan Hahn (20:41)

Good night. Good luck. Yes.

Don La Greca (20:42)

Be in the conversation.

Alan Hahn (20:42)

Who else? Give me someone else.

Don La Greca (20:43)

But it could. Again, guys off the bench like Deuce McBride, you love them, but you know, that's. But you might even have to go into the realm of Towns and what.

Peter Rosenberg (20:54)

Does he got on his.

Don La Greca (20:54)

You might have. You might have to. I don't know, like, do you. Do you think of that? Because that's. To match salaries, to match all that stuff. If you're the son.

Alan Hahn (21:01)

That's. But that's such a huge. The problem is Alan, to me, that's.

Don La Greca (21:04)

And I'm just.

Alan Hahn (21:05)

I don't know. But.

Don La Greca (21:07)

But I'm looking at the numbers and the money and to match that up.

Alan Hahn (21:10)

Is going to be hard because what I'm thinking about is a version of this team with Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns and Kevin Durant. Is that the sort of three headed monster they've wanted here for a long time? Because I believe from a scoring standpoint.

Don La Greca (21:24)

And don't overlook OG Anunoby because he's playing out of his mind.

Alan Hahn (21:27)

No, he can be really great. But he still would be fourth in that group.

Don La Greca (21:31)

Yeah.

Alan Hahn (21:32)

As important as he is.

Don La Greca (21:33)

Yeah. If you could put all that together.

Alan Hahn (21:35)

Kevin Durant. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you mean just including him in the pack, what they are?

Don La Greca (21:38)

No, I'm saying, of course, if you.

Alan Hahn (21:40)

Could find a way to keep those four on the floor, that's a Josh.

Don La Greca (21:43)

Hart still on the team.

Alan Hahn (21:44)

And I really believe that at this stage, Kevin Durant in a role where he is just expected to be the killer scorer that he is.

Don La Greca (21:53)

Yeah.

Alan Hahn (21:53)

I think he has two or three years left to do that. I think he can still do that effectively. Obviously health will be a factor.

Peter Rosenberg (21:59)

How much does he left on his contract?

Don La Greca (22:01)

It's got a year, I think. I haven't looked.

Peter Rosenberg (22:05)

Can this go beyond just one year? How long can you think he can play?

Don La Greca (22:09)

You'd have to get well.

Alan Hahn (22:10)

He.

Don La Greca (22:10)

Again, he's a couple. Like Peter said, his numbers are still fantastic. You worry about his physic, him breaking down like again, he had another ankle injury. Like he does tend to have that. But you know, and you're playing Tom Thibodeau, it's not like he's going to play 25 minutes a night. You know he's going to play. So by the way, those are things you all have to Think about he's.

Alan Hahn (22:29)

Owed for next year. It's one more. You were right. 25, 26. The cap hit form is $54 million.

Don La Greca (22:34)

You know what I mean by that number? Hard to match that number.

Alan Hahn (22:37)

That's a big old number.

Don La Greca (22:38)

That's why like as I hate to say Towns. Towns is in that realm. He's. Him and Adonovi are making that kind of money. The 40 plus, you know, like somebody.

Peter Rosenberg (22:48)

How does it look? How do they lose? Bounced in the first round or they lose in the second round? Towns is awful.

Don La Greca (22:57)

Like, like I think it's my second round and can't. Just can't keep up with the Celtic offense. Just can't. Can't keep up.

Peter Rosenberg (23:02)

And if Towns doesn't play well, it might be easy to say, all right, we're going to get rid of Towns.

Don La Greca (23:06)

Well. And Phoenix going to have to want that.

Alan Hahn (23:08)

Well, can I just tell you though.

Don La Greca (23:09)

He'S in a huge contract.

Alan Hahn (23:11)

Well, Bridges is up. So it doesn't matter.

Don La Greca (23:13)

He's up.

Alan Hahn (23:13)

Money doesn't matter because he would have been beautiful matching money.

Don La Greca (23:16)

Yeah. Again, all spitball in here. But it's something that I've been just. It's going to likely be in the conversation.

Alan Hahn (23:23)

Oh no. Bridges is one more.

Don La Greca (23:24)

The chances. Well, he has an extension due though. He's due for one.

Alan Hahn (23:28)

But it says. But. Right, but it says he is not an Unrestricted free agent. 26, 27.

Don La Greca (23:33)

Right. He's not unrestricted. But the problem is is that if you don't give him the extension, you kind of know already his future here.

Alan Hahn (23:38)

Right.

Don La Greca (23:39)

Because he's eligible for it and the expectation is that he is.

Alan Hahn (23:43)

He's next next year. He's 24.9 and OG's 39.5.

Don La Greca (23:48)

Yeah, yeah, it's the money's. So all I want to just do is because Shams had it out there, is just to remind everybody that this off season that Kevin Durant story is coming back. It's, you know, and it's going to be a very difficult decision, an interesting one and it'll be highly competitive as well.

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Don La Greca (27:43)

Thank you for taking my call.

Alan Hahn (27:45)

Always. I just wanted to make a point about ESPN's top 100 list for MLB players.

Caller (27:52)

Yeah, I think it's ridiculous that they.

Peter Rosenberg (27:54)

Got Bobby Wood Jr. And Mookie Betts ahead of Judge.

Alan Hahn (27:58)

And also I wanted to mention that they have five players ahead of Soto.

Peter Rosenberg (28:05)

That I don't think should be ahead of total.

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I think.

Peter Rosenberg (28:10)

Nestor. I don't know what they're using. If you're using war, then it should be Judge. If you're using any other metric, I'm not aware of it. Now, is Whit Jr. An amazing player? Yeah, but he didn't win the MVP last year. Judge did. Betts is awesome. Soto's awesome. There's a lot of good players in the league. But you wonder if there is a New York bias sometimes. The only player that I'm willing to have a conversation that could be better than Aaron Judge is Ohtani. Because he pitches. If Ohtani didn't hit Judge, well, who else are you going to.

Alan Hahn (28:48)

Who else is going to take it out?

Peter Rosenberg (28:49)

Now, obviously, with that fifth inning notwithstanding, Judge is still an A plus defender, covers a ton of grounds, got a monster army, great on base percentage, hits for average, hits for home runs. I mean, what's not to like about Aaron Judge that you're going to put, you know, Bobby Witt Jr. Ahead of him?

Don La Greca (29:08)

Okay.

Alan Hahn (29:09)

But if you have a fully healthy pitching Ohtani, then I would say, yeah, he's better.

Peter Rosenberg (29:15)

He's a unicorn. You know, because of the argument that I would get with K is, well, he's a better defender. Ohtani doesn't play the field. Yeah. But he's also a pitcher and that can be one of the best pitchers in baseball. So I'm sorry, you could be upset all you want. If I've got Ohtani ahead of Judge, we can have a conversation. I can't really have a conversation with anybody else in Major League Baseball over Aaron Judge right now. I just can't, can I?

Alan Hahn (29:38)

Can I just give My opinion. And maybe I'm a hack.

Peter Rosenberg (29:41)

No, I don't think there's any maybes.

Alan Hahn (29:43)

Thank you. But it's a yo, yo argument by Michael. We get so caught up in the conversation about a plus defender. Don. Like, how good if it I. There's not an outfielder good enough on earth defensively in the major leagues to outweigh if you have a legitimate borderline. A starting pitcher. I'm sorry. No matter how good an outfielder you are. Well, it doesn't matter.

Peter Rosenberg (30:08)

It's unfair. He's a. He's a unicorn. He can do it.

Alan Hahn (30:11)

I'm sorry. Was there a law that Aaron Judge couldn't pitch? Everyone's allowed to do it.

Peter Rosenberg (30:14)

And you know, when you bring that up and it's like, well, you bring up, oh, you know, Babe Ruth. He could have went to the hall of Fame as a pitcher. Yeah, it's a thing. And then not since then has there been somebody to be able to do it. He's number one.

Alan Hahn (30:26)

If he's doing both, he's number one.

Peter Rosenberg (30:27)

But I do think there sometimes is a New York bias, Peter, when it comes to let's. Oh, it's easy to put Judge. So let's think outside the box. Let's blow everybody's mind and come up with other people. I mean, come on. And I understand that he hasn't been as good in the postseason. He's been in the regular season. But a lot of the guys you're throwing out, we don't know because they don't spend enough time in the postseason. You know, Royals had a chance to beat the Yankees, didn't do it. And Whit was good, but, you know, Judge was on a team that was better. I don't know what the metric is. I'm sure there's some yo, yo metric that they're going to say that they're smarter than me, but I'm with Nestor. I don't get why that they would they have Judge third, fourth. It is yo, yo.

Alan Hahn (31:08)

Bum jump. All right, well, I just want to remind everyone.

Peter Rosenberg (31:11)

Yeah, do it.

Alan Hahn (31:12)

You know, when Alan, yesterday we had a moment on the show, got a little heated, a little unpleasant. We're late in the show as it was described. A caller palooza Allen said, we have all the callers. It'll be so great.

Peter Rosenberg (31:27)

Yeah, I.

Alan Hahn (31:28)

It didn't interest me. I said, I don't think that'll be good programming. And it got a little emotional. And Tessa got very mad at me because I said she was no Richard.

Peter Rosenberg (31:36)

Right.

Alan Hahn (31:38)

And Alan, in that moment Don, you would think was caping for the callers, right? That was. That was the role he played, wasn't it?

Peter Rosenberg (31:44)

Was. Oh, no, that's a word. Caping.

Alan Hahn (31:46)

Yeah.

Peter Rosenberg (31:47)

Oh, yeah, sure.

Alan Hahn (31:48)

That's. I looked like the bad guy because I was saying I'd rather be dead. And Alan was looking like the good guy because he wants to have a caller show. Look at the call screener right now and tell me who's the true friend of the. Of the regular callers on our show.

Peter Rosenberg (32:08)

The true friend of the regular call.

Alan Hahn (32:09)

Yeah, because I'm going to go pick up line two right here.

Peter Rosenberg (32:12)

Well, that's Griff.

Alan Hahn (32:13)

The Griff. And what does it say on next.

Peter Rosenberg (32:15)

On hold, what he wants to talk about or Connecticut.

Alan Hahn (32:19)

No, no, I meant the amount of time.

Peter Rosenberg (32:21)

Oh, four minutes.

Shams Charania (32:22)

I know this, this is a problem.

Peter Rosenberg (32:24)

Sorry. So I'll answer for. They reset it on me because I.

Alan Hahn (32:28)

Got reset on you. I'll tell you what it says on Allen's screen because I moved over here.

Peter Rosenberg (32:32)

Okay.

Alan Hahn (32:33)

149 minutes. Now, you consider Danny from Long Island a regular.

Peter Rosenberg (32:38)

Oh, yeah.

Alan Hahn (32:39)

103 minutes. Just, just remember that when I get framed as the bad guy just because I don't want to call her palooza, just remember who's the guy who, when he, when he gets the mouse, goes straight over to Griftster in Connecticut. Hey, Griff.

Caller (32:54)

Hey, guys. How are you?

Alan Hahn (32:55)

Good, good. Thank you for hanging in there through the Allen time, as it's known if.

Peter Rosenberg (33:00)

We'Re living here in Allen time.

Alan Hahn (33:04)

And then Griffin is still waiting on hold and Danny's got something to say. Cause we're living here in Allen time.

Peter Rosenberg (33:19)

I didn't even rehearse that.

Alan Hahn (33:21)

We live. What do you got, Griffin?

Caller (33:23)

Where can we go sometimes on this show?

Peter Rosenberg (33:26)

Well, everywhere.

Caller (33:28)

Everywhere. Yes. I want to talk about the college basketball for a minute. There are a lot of people that are downplaying the final four for those.

Alan Hahn (33:37)

Yeah, me and Mom.

Caller (33:38)

But I feel like we have four really not. Sorry. Three really good games for the men and three really good games for the woman. These are going to be really good games. I think we have the best teams that we could have asked for in these games. And I know while you say that Duke you think is gonna just cruise through it, I kind of disagree with you.

Alan Hahn (34:01)

I hope you're right.

Caller (34:02)

A very good team. They're a very good defensive team. They have two really good guards. So Houston could give Duke a little bit of trouble. Florida, according to Steph Greenberg, he said is the Yukon of is this year's. Yukon of last year. So look out for Florida, their scary team. Walter Clayton Jr. Can take over a game when need to. And another thing is, can you guys make sense of this? So the Met. So the men's finals four starts on Saturday.

Peter Rosenberg (34:32)

Yes.

Caller (34:32)

The woman who ended their olite on Monday start on Friday. So by the way, ucla, who ended up ending on Sunday, was able to get to Tampa. We ended on Monday. We have to play halfway across the country to Tampa and we then start again on Friday. Why do the woman start before the men? And you're having teams fly halfway across the country that ended on Monday?

Peter Rosenberg (34:56)

Well, I mean, the simple answer is that they want the championship game on Sunday. That's always been the case. So you got to play Friday, Sunday so the men can play Saturday.

Alan Hahn (35:05)

Griffin. It starts in the very beginning. They. They start the women's tournament later and want it to finish earlier.

Peter Rosenberg (35:13)

Right.

Alan Hahn (35:13)

So it's, it's. The truth is it's biased. I'm just being honest. It's biased against the women's tournament.

Peter Rosenberg (35:18)

And I favor the men because that was the better game right now. And don't correct me if I'm wrong. I always remember the Sunday being an afternoon vehicle. But have they moved that to prime time on Sunday, the women's championship game, or is it still like a 3:00? I remember it always being like in the middle of the day.

Alan Hahn (35:34)

That's a great.

Peter Rosenberg (35:35)

But I think they might have moved at the prime time.

Alan Hahn (35:37)

I know who will be on the call.

Peter Rosenberg (35:40)

Ryan Ruka.

Alan Hahn (35:41)

Ryan Ruoco. All right, let's go to another man who's been on hold, hopefully still with us. Danny.

Peter Rosenberg (35:49)

Hi, Danny.

Caller (35:51)

Danny's on overtime, so you can, you can put me back in the queue for a few more minutes if you want. But listen, there's so many great stories to talk about, but you have to rewind Richard sometimes to understand what he just said. And we ought to believe that there's a possibility that Richard was in the bar the night that Bruce met his friend, the baseball player. Do you realize how close we came to Richard walking out of that bar, seeing Bruce Springsteen, and then changing history by grabbing him by the ear. Speaking in Richard terms for seven, Bruce could have become so disillusioned that not only did he not write a song about a baseball player, he didn't write any songs at all. I mean, we, we came close to losing Bruce because of, because of Richards from Manhattan there. That, that's unbelievable.

Peter Rosenberg (36:34)

If he's in the right groove, you're right. He Walks out of the bar, never gets the inspiration, ends up doing something forever. It's like a Back to the future moment. Right.

Alan Hahn (36:41)

Everything changes. Right there. The picture's disappearing.

Caller (36:44)

Right. Instead of getting glory days, we get dental days. Right? Exactly. Yeah. Now, listen, we covered a couple of things. Let me just comment on this. Caesar. The original Batman is amazing because he set the tone as to Batman's mannerisms, the way he spoke the way.

Peter Rosenberg (36:59)

Right.

Caller (37:00)

That never changed. They all kind of kept that. The only thing is, the Joker, played by Cesar Romero, was completely different than what the Joker eventually became. And Cesar Romero is my favorite Joker because I like to. I like the fun joke. And because Cesar Romero, at the age of 37, demanded to be entered into the Coast Guard during World War II. It actually served in combat on a ship in the front line, even though at that point, he had been in 50 major movies and he certainly did not have to be there.

Alan Hahn (37:25)

So I didn't know that. Yeah.

Caller (37:27)

Cesar Romero, a good American patriot. Happy to announce that Lindor has fielded three ground balls today without an error. You would have thought the world was gonna end because a man who had a child 48 hours ago had a bad day in the field. And last but not least, if I may be like a Richard, Peter, how's the baby sleeping? Because I'll tell you why. I asked that man with four children. That tells me all I need to know. Because a child who's sleeping well, is digesting well, is happy, is well cared for, and it's sleeping good. So any man who's been. When you tell me, oh, the kids are sleeping well, well, then that opens up a conversation as to, you know, can't find the right formula. We can't do this. So how the baby's sleeping to me is all the information I need to know. When I ask someone who has a new kid, I would never ask you how you're sleeping.

Alan Hahn (38:16)

Like a question, but do you understand, Danny, there's like a. It sounds like a similar question, but it's a really big difference between so getting any sleep and, hey, how's the. Your baby's two months, right. How's she sleeping? That's so different.

Caller (38:30)

Completely different. Depending on who you're asking, who is sleeping. How is your baby? How is she sleeping to me is a mess. It's all.

Alan Hahn (38:38)

That's a legitimate question about the health of your baby.

Caller (38:42)

That's right. So anyone who asked you how you're sleeping. Bad guy. Thank you anyway, by the way, for us, Lollapalooza, what would be in it for me to sit somewhere with Richard.

Don La Greca (38:54)

I love they don't.

Caller (38:56)

I would be trying to talk about football. He would start talking about the 1967 NCAA Final Four. I'd be like, what are you talking about?

Alan Hahn (39:04)

Well, I thank you, Danny. You're the best. I don't listen, we obviously have to. If this was going to be a thing, we would have to flush it out or flesh it out, whatever the term is. I always get confused.

Peter Rosenberg (39:17)

Now I think it's flush, right? You're flushing it out, but I think it's flesh. Well, then I don't know. But what are you fleshing?

Alan Hahn (39:24)

It's a great question and maybe a drop that you just said. But let's discuss it on the other side because now I do think there's a world where we do like the caller all star segment for Don. Like one or two segments at a beach bash.

Peter Rosenberg (39:38)

That could be the beach bash. We could work something in.

Alan Hahn (39:41)

But like a hey, you're coming out so we can see just callers take the stage with each other. To me, that would be the. That would not be good content. We need you got. Listen, everyone would rather see the richer dating game than anything we're talking about. Let's just be honest, getting people's moms to date Richard. That is the kind of content we need on this show. We are going to talk to Mr. Ray Dennis. Two. Dennis's on hold. You don't see that every day. Felicia's here, Jose. And we even have one line open at 1-800-919-3776. We got ENN at 6:00. It's Peter and Don. And I got to talk to you guys about FanDuel because right now FanDuel is of course America's number one. It's the sportsbook. It's the best place to bet on sports. There's an absolutely loaded sports calendar this week. And whether you're basketball, baseball, hockey or any other sport, girl or gal or girl or guy, even check out some of the exclusive promotions I'm talking about Dinger Tuesday hump day parlays and golf profit boost tokens all over the weekend. All right, busy night for the locals, as we know. We got Knicks, we got hockey Ronger, we got the Mets playing right now. It's all happening. And right now, new customers could get $200 in bonus bets with any winning $5 bet. Just visit FanDuel.com Peter to make every moment more 21 and over and physically present in New York. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as non withdrawable bonus bets which expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms@sportsbook.fanduel.com for help with a gambling problem, call 8778 Hope NY or text OPENY at 467-369. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile with a message for everyone paying Big Wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop with Mint. You can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying. No judgments. But that's weird. Okay, one judgment anyway. Give it a try@mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for three month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate.

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Don La Greca (42:17)

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Alan Hahn (42:20)

I didn't listen to anything you just said.

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Alan Hahn (42:29)

Well, we're living here in Allen time.

Peter Rosenberg (42:34)

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Alan Hahn (43:23)

And our fathers fought the Second World.

Peter Rosenberg (43:25)

War, spent their weekends on.

Alan Hahn (43:28)

Why did you jump so early? I got. You got to give me the way to beat. But you jumped the note.

Peter Rosenberg (43:33)

I jumped the note only because this is what we're doing. Well, but you try to edit it up for time.

Alan Hahn (43:39)

But I was gonna hit. We gotta hit the Jersey Shore part big. That's the big. That's your part. That's you.

Peter Rosenberg (43:44)

Well, now we're putting too much thought into it. There was a spontaneous moment that now died. Thanks to you.

Alan Hahn (43:50)

I thought it was thanks to you.

Peter Rosenberg (43:51)

Editorial content.

Alan Hahn (43:52)

You had to jump. You jumped my nose.

Peter Rosenberg (43:54)

No, because I'm trying to condense things.

Alan Hahn (43:56)

The fathers fought the Second World War, spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. The people must go crazy when they hear that line down the shore. You kidding me?

Peter Rosenberg (44:09)

It's always a big deal.

Alan Hahn (44:10)

It's funny, too, because, like, such a big moment. He's. Billy Joel is really good. And maybe this sums up why. Like, what makes him both good and weird?

Peter Rosenberg (44:19)

Okay.

Alan Hahn (44:20)

Well, he just always is good at representing things that are not him. You know what I mean?

Peter Rosenberg (44:26)

Interesting.

Alan Hahn (44:27)

Like, he just. He can write songs about things that are not him. It's like he's. And when he did an interview with Howard several years ago, I thought one of the most interesting things he said that was telling about Billy Joel is that early on, his writing was always with other people in mind. But then he would just keep all the songs for himself. So he would sort of have a vision of what a. You know, what it might feel like if so and so sung a song. And he was really good at sort of harnessing that. But then he'd sing them all for himself. You know what I'm saying?

Peter Rosenberg (45:00)

Right.

Alan Hahn (45:00)

So it's almost like he's playing a part because he was. He was thinking about other people.

Peter Rosenberg (45:05)

And the thing that got a lot of people from Allentown, Pennsylvania, upset is that Allentown didn't. It's really Bethlehem he was talking about, but Bethlehem just didn't hit the way Allentown did. So he kind of took some liberties.

Alan Hahn (45:16)

What's. How different was the experience in Allentown and Bethlehem?

Peter Rosenberg (45:19)

It just wasn't the. That's not where the industry was. It was in Bethlehem. Bethlehem. We're living here in Bethlehem.

Alan Hahn (45:27)

It sounds like a religious song now. It doesn't even work.

Peter Rosenberg (45:29)

Yeah, that's probably. Listen, I'm not going to question him. He made the right.

Alan Hahn (45:32)

He got it. He. Listen. He got it right.

Peter Rosenberg (45:34)

Chris tells us yes, the phrase is flesh it out.

Alan Hahn (45:37)

Thank you.

Peter Rosenberg (45:37)

To add more details or substance to something. The phrase likely comes from the idea of adding flesh to a skeleton structure, giving it more shape, detail, structure.

Alan Hahn (45:46)

This little dog on TV reminds me of Rocky. It wasn't a Rocky. It was like a Shih Tzu, I think. But all the little white dogs remind me of Rocky.

Peter Rosenberg (45:55)

I'm sorry, should I take over?

Alan Hahn (45:57)

No, it's fine. It's. I'll tell you what though, it's still not great. It'll be a month on Friday. We still, we still miss our guy. Let's talk to the people. That'll cheer me up.

Peter Rosenberg (46:05)

Mm.

Alan Hahn (46:06)

Let's start with Jose was calling from Connecticut. He wanted to back Allen up. Alan's on his way to the Garden. But Jose, you're in on Carmelo as a great Nick?

Caller (46:19)

Yeah, I mean, not even just a great Nick, but like just a Hall of Famer in general. But I just think Knicks fans, you know, I'm a Knicks fan, but just frustrate me because we all know, you guys know over the years how they prop up like they will prop up bench players and, and over, like a Landry Fields over a Carmelo. And I want to make two points. First of all, we need to, we need to retire the whole Jerry Millenn talk, right? Because a lot of people turn on Carmelo because of Jerry Lynn. But this man refused to play in the playoffs that year against the Heat, right. Because he wanted to focus on free agency. And then he turned out to be nothing more than a six man rest of his career. So like, and Carmel, in my point Macy was Carmelo. His biggest failure was that they just didn't build a decent team around him. He had no hall of Famers in New York, right? Not one. I think the best besides Panther prime, right. Jason Kidd and Rashid Waters, who are already in their 40s.

Peter Rosenberg (47:12)

And Stoudemire had the bad news.

Caller (47:14)

Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say Omari unfortunately was injured.

Alan Hahn (47:18)

Right.

Caller (47:18)

But I wanted to. And also just to attach a. I wanted to read you guys really quick. The Carmelo's the last game as Nick the lineup of the Knicks, okay. And you told me like I feel like Phil Jackson wanted them to fail. He just wanted to get fired and collect the check, right? So the last game of Carmelo's Knick career, the starters were Ron Baker, Maurice Nador, Courtney Lee and Willie Hernande. Going in that starting center with Mason Plumlee, Tahsan Randle, Sasha, Justin Holiday, Kylo Quinn. This was the last team that he played on on the Knicks in his Knicks career. So I just wanted to, like Knicks fans, just need to, you know, retire these dumb talking points and just appreciate the guy.

Peter Rosenberg (47:57)

It's one of. It's one of the frustrating things about what we do for a living. Believe me, I love every second of it. But the problem is, is that the callers, who are probably represent a very small percentage of the fan base, have the loudest voice. So when we say Nick fans, we're talking about the people that used to call the show all the time. For all we know, Peter, that was a very small percentage of the fans. I remember him being cheered at the Garden. I remember him being revered in that way. But the phone calls, the narrative was completely different. It's like the Yankee fans being spoiled. It's probably not all of them, but we can only go by the ones that call. And that's what the frustrating thing about sports radio do the callers represent the actual voice of the fans?

Alan Hahn (48:40)

I just saw something pop up on my timeline here, Don.

Peter Rosenberg (48:43)

What's that?

Alan Hahn (48:44)

MLB posted this. It says, Michael k. And Paul O'Neill discussing one piece lore is an iconic baseball broadcasting moment with. What. What is. This is anime talk? Because I don't even know I saw.

Peter Rosenberg (48:59)

This last night, but I don't know what it meant. Well, I'm not an anime guy.

Alan Hahn (49:02)

Yeah, so.

Don La Greca (49:03)

So I'm not a real much enemy.

Peter Rosenberg (49:04)

Guy like I used to be.

Don La Greca (49:05)

But One Piece is a show that apparently, Jazz Chisholm. That's one of his favorites.

Alan Hahn (49:10)

All right, let's. I'm just playing this. I don't care if I get in trouble.

Peter Rosenberg (49:12)

Here we go.

Don La Greca (49:12)

Here you go.

Alan Hahn (49:15)

Well, that is. He wears a lot of things from an anime series called One Piece. And on his armband, you see Monkey D. Luffy, also known as Straw Hat Luffy. He's the captain and founder of the Straw Hat Pirates. Nice. And protagonist of the anime and manga series One Piece. I. I know you were asking about this, Paul. That Monkey D. Luffy has the properties of rubber after accidentally eating one of the devil fruits.

Don La Greca (49:51)

Okay.

Alan Hahn (49:52)

Yeah.

Don La Greca (49:53)

I'm glad you explained that.

Alan Hahn (49:54)

Jazz is a big anime fan. Now, guys, you know that big chain.

Don La Greca (49:57)

That he wears sometimes?

Alan Hahn (49:59)

Yeah.

Don La Greca (49:59)

Well, that's from that series as well.

Alan Hahn (50:01)

And he also has that same design in his teeth. In his teeth? Really? So it was new this spring.

Peter Rosenberg (50:08)

I think he got it at the.

Alan Hahn (50:09)

End of last year. I asked him about. I was like, wow, I haven't seen that before.

Peter Rosenberg (50:13)

Wow.

Alan Hahn (50:13)

That was first of all, Go ahead. What was your first of all? I was today years old when I found out Jazz Chisholm was a loser.

Peter Rosenberg (50:23)

Well, I don't want to judge.

Alan Hahn (50:24)

No, I mean, I'm sorry, it's too far. The characters names on like on his body displayed.

Peter Rosenberg (50:30)

It is very popular. Why does.

Alan Hahn (50:32)

No, no, listen, listen. By the way, so pro wrestling was very popular, right? If I showed up to my whatever my job was to perform and I wore a uniform and I took a Roman Reigns OTC band and wrapped it around my arm wrestling, other wrestling fans would go, you are a mark loser. That's what would be said. Now, Jazz Chisholm seems like a very cool guy. I'm not trying to. I like jazz, I really do. But that is a bit far, my friend.

Peter Rosenberg (51:01)

But how does Michael know all this stuff about anime?

Alan Hahn (51:03)

He was handed to him on a note.

Peter Rosenberg (51:05)

But Michael, tell me more.

Alan Hahn (51:08)

I want to learn more about my anime.

Peter Rosenberg (51:10)

I don't want to overproduce the YES network. They do a phenomenal.

Alan Hahn (51:13)

Oh, we love the S Network.

Peter Rosenberg (51:14)

But why would you talk about something you know that not only does Paul O'Neal not know about, doesn't care a lick about?

Alan Hahn (51:20)

Oh, I think.

Peter Rosenberg (51:20)

Why would you leave him out the dry light? You can hear him saying, oh, wow, man, that's.

Don La Greca (51:24)

Yeah, it was the.

Peter Rosenberg (51:25)

It was the okay.

Alan Hahn (51:27)

I might need a drop of the okay to be fair. Yeah, because I was watching. Of course. Of course you were. Mr. Yang. We got two. What do we got there?

Peter Rosenberg (51:34)

Michaels this year.

Alan Hahn (51:35)

One was the Tiramisu cup in the. In the Yankee hat. The Tiramisu Yankee hat was that over the weekend. And the second was what does jazz got going on with his pads?

Shams Charania (51:42)

And why does it.

Alan Hahn (51:43)

But why can't. So he asked.

Peter Rosenberg (51:44)

But the thing is, why does Michael have to own it? Michael doesn't know anything about this. He's probably given the information. So why can't he at least be on Paul's side? Like, I don't know anything about this either. But he comes across like, yeah, you're supposed to know this. Napoleon.

Alan Hahn (51:57)

No, I don't think that. I don't think your read on this is right. I think Michael sounds clearly like the guy who was handed the information and is explaining it and has no idea either. And I think the yes. Producers know that. It's very funny to hear Paul O'Neill just going, okay, because Meredith did the work. Obviously she asked and she had it all down, right? She. She knew, like she weighed in and she'd obviously talk. And then when Michael explained what it was. He said, I found it funny. He's like, I'm good now. Paul wanted to know. And he was like, no, I don't want to know anymore. All right, all right. No problem.

Peter Rosenberg (52:30)

All those Yankee fans love Paul. They don't want to see him out to dry. Right.

Alan Hahn (52:34)

But I didn't think he was out to dry.

Peter Rosenberg (52:36)

I don't know. It just comes across like the guy that doesn't know. But I don't think most people know.

Alan Hahn (52:41)

No, I think most people watching that did not know.

Peter Rosenberg (52:46)

So I don't like it.

Alan Hahn (52:48)

Let's go to Dennis. Let's go to Dennis in North Carolina. I know. We got to go. Dennis, go ahead.

Caller (52:54)

I was hoping Alan would be there, but this because his whole idea of this Caller Caller Palooza loser thing.

Alan Hahn (53:03)

Yeah. Oh, my God.

Caller (53:04)

It would be a nightmare. Like, I'm just thinking in my head, like, Danny from Long island checking people's IDs, throwing people out even though they're over 21. You got Tessa holding Peter in a chokehold like, I know him up.

Shams Charania (53:18)

Griffin's in.

Caller (53:19)

Griffin's in the corner, like, having a panic attack. And then Richard's on the mic talking about some first athlete from God knows when about God knows what. No one knows what he's talking about.

Alan Hahn (53:30)

So. Yeah, would not work out. Thank you.

Peter Rosenberg (53:32)

Honestly, the way he distributed sounds better than some of the remotes we've.

Alan Hahn (53:36)

It's a fair point.

Don La Greca (53:38)

Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast. I don't want to know how the sausage is made, but I just want to know. It's good. Hear more of Don, Alan and Peter weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers.