Evan & Tiki
03-14-25 Hour 4: The Mets are a hot ticket ; Al Bundy fun facts
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It's depressing. It is. That is to me like if you told me that somehow the earth was just going to be different. Like the whole revolving and the sun and everything was different, right? All the astrology we learned it's changed and we're going to get sunlight more so in the winter than the summer. Like little light. Hear me out. So we still get the 80 degree weather but we barely get sunlight. But in the winter where we get cold weather, we get more sunlight. People would prefer the winter over the summer. But the sun is what creates. So how would you change that? Just hypothetically? I'm just hypothetically in the point that the light to me is more important than the temperature. And that's really what changes people's moods. Obviously that cannot change about suggesting that just that it's more light than it is temperature. Am I wrong? You just go north enough and you get light all the time some places. But it's contrasted by periods where it's dark. Exactly. Which is what we have. Like we aren't the North Pole but we're pretty North. So that when we do hit the dead of winter, we barely have sunlight. I understand it's not as bad as like the North Pole but it ain't good. So I'm just saying if we had an alternate universe where the period of time where we had a lot of sun, it was very cold out. And the period where we had basically no sun it was very warm out, people would hate the summer. I've confused you guys. But how would you go to the beach in the summer if it's dark out? I guess you wouldn't. I don't know. People love going to the beach in the pool. But I think if it's warm outside and it's dark, you're still going to enjoy it. You think so? Because it's warm outside. And you can go outside. I think part of the problem with being cold and dark is that you're stuck inside. Well, the problem is you have both. Both of them suck. And you're stuck inside. You can't go outside. I'm not saying that part's fun but if you split the baby up where I think if it's warm and you can go outside like at night in the summer, you can just hang out with your friends outside. It's so nice. So it's dark at 4.30. Even if it's dark and it's warm outside, it's nice. All right. So you're saying my hypothesis is completely wrong. No, I just think you're discounting how much people like warmth. I think I'm a loser. I think you're discounting how much people like life. Oh, that's the mean that's that's scientifically based. That's my point. We do not like the darkness. Aaron Rodgers likes it for a week and a half. But it sucks. Anyhow, think about what I just said more throughout your weekend. And I think by Sunday at noon, you're going to say Evan was right. That was a really good point. Cinco time. I'm in a delete that Cinco to five. I was brought to you by Helix wireless, connecting everything everywhere. And by Mercedes Benz of Morristown, visit us online at eight, eight, eight, the Benz Dotcom. All right. Russell Wilson is meeting with the Giants. And today, as we speak, I've not seen an update on how it went. If it went well, if it went whatever, but he is meeting with the Giants today. So my Cinco today is the five quarterbacks that are better options than Russell Wilson to start for the Giants in 2025. You've got five five better options and Russell Wilson. All right. All right. Here we go. Number five. It's Shane Falco. Now he had a bad, he had a bad sugar bowl, but you figure the toughness and you know what we don't see in the NFL a lot these days. And Evan will like this a lefty other than tour. Who is a lefty quarterback in the NFL these days? Michael Penix Jr. Right. Rookie. So it would give you a little bit different looks for the defenses. I would kick the tires on all Shane number four. That is the replacements. Keanu Reeves. Correct. Number four, it's uncle Rico. I mean, he never had a he never had a career, but back in 1982, he used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. So if you have that kind of arm strength, just think about it. Uncle Rico to Malik neighbors, you're talking about 80 or touchdown passes like it's nothing. And when you went through an hour of Daniel Jones, where they basically couldn't move the football, I'm all for uncle Rico ahead of Russell. What the heck is uncle Rico? I vote for Pedro. Really? Can I have some of your tots? Napoleon dynamite. Evan. I've seen it. It's. Can I tell you a quick thing about it? It's overrated. No, it's okay. So over the week, when I was in Florida two weeks ago, not the recent one and my kids were there and I was hanging out with my sister and my brother in law, there is a scene in that movie in which the grandmother or the mother calls quesadillas quesadillas. Get your damn quesadilla. Okay. You guys familiar with the same course, of course. So spends my youngest is four years old and obviously it's a little bit of a bilingual household that we have. Did you like Tina? Who's Tina? All right. Keep going. We didn't see the movie. That's the problem. So my brother in law and my cousin would continue to say quesadillas. Spence was not having it. It's quesadillas. It's quesadillas. It's quesadillas. And this was a constant like fight quote unquote for two and a half days and they're like, no, we're just joking. It's a movie. It's Napoleon dynamite. It's quesadillas. It's quesadillas. It's not quesadillas. And then finally, so I get mad about it. And I'm like, no, it's quesadillas. It's not quesadillas. My brother was like, you should have seen Napoleon dynamite. I'm like, no, I'm going to pass. Yeah, just give it to the llama. By the way, the actor that played Uncle Rico, Teak is in White Lotus. Yeah. So tune in Sunday. Maybe they'll do something on this episode. Maybe we'll see something. This is number three. This is my last weekend watching it. They're going to that big party. So that should be good on the yacht. All right. Number three for me. I went back and forth on this one. I'm going to go with Vince Howard. Now, you could say Matt Sarrison. You could say Jason Street. There are multiple options here. But for me, it's Vince Howard. Of course, Michael B. Jordan. This is Friday night lights, the TV show and a lot of people like the movie, but I like the TV show more and I've never seen it now out of my era out of your era, we're in the era of streaming. I know, but it just never it didn't catch me at the right time. The movie was good. Movie was great. Movie was good. Who do Tatum? Also a good option there as well. Number two. All right. Again, these are the top five quarterbacks that are better options and Russell Wilson to start for the Giants at 2025 sunshine, Ronnie Bass. I mean, you could throw it a mile, but he can't pitch it three hours on that also known as Trevor Lawrence. I mean, they basically the same. They've had the same type of careers too, if you think it meant number one to me. Number one is obvious. This guy was Hosea Galatius before Hosea Galatius. Will he be good? I was going to say. I mean, he's got a music video third string quarterback that ain't going to produce bleep and he ends up being a star in the league. Now they move the team to Miami or wherever the hell they move the team and he stayed by, but shows he's got loyalty as well. Will he be good? There is one that you're missing one. I mean, there's a bunch that you're missing, but one that jumps out at me who is the great Al Bundy. I mean, Al Bundy to five was it five, four, five, four, five touchdown passes against polkite. Did you know about that? I did not. Maybe it was four polkite for polkite. I almost got it. That is one of those shows. I'm very curious to rewatch. I'm married with children. It was on for 10 seasons. It was very politically incorrect. It started in like 1989. I wonder if you're going to hold up if you watch it. I don't know. At the time it was like, if you're watching through the lens now, it's not PC, but at the time it was like, you know, Clinton's America. So it was like the 90s. That was pretty. No, it was not the time you felt that way. I guess I watched it. I'm not telling you how I felt because I was way too young. The reaction to that show, remember Fox was a brand new network. Yeah. There's one of the new shows on it. And they were clearly pushing the envelope. So I think that they were non-PC back then. Well, everything pushed the envelope. I mean, just used to be able to buy a Playboy magazine, like in the grocery store, back then. You know what I mean? And celebrities were in it. Right. You didn't have to pay whatever. Only fans to get them. There's celebrities in this magazine, like butt naked. So think about how different the world was. That wasn't that long ago. No, you're right. It's a different world, but I always like to look at, okay, obviously today we look at this and say it's completely different. What were they saying about that show or that movie then? And I think even then married, which I think they had like sponsorship issues where sponsors didn't want to touch it. Right. Again, the new network of Fox was attached to it. So they were breaking barriers back then doing that show. Oh, it's true. It's true. But I haven't seen it so long. I wonder how it holds up. Do you find intrigue in a rewatch or married with children? Yeah, I'd watch it. See, that's because I remember liking it when I was that age. You know, I've been rewatching lately. I can't believe I'm doing this. I feel like the 10th time, like it's one thing to rewatch a show you've only seen once. I'm back into the vortex of rewatching Beverly Hills 90210. Really? Yeah. You know what caught me? I was on YouTube the other day. That's your team. So you were pre-teen then. Yeah, yeah. I didn't watch a lot of it live. I got it more of it in rerun than I realized. I watched a little bit of it live, but it came in 1990. Yeah. I was seven years old. I was not watching it in 19. Some with me is I feel like that was my existence because that was 15th. Right. It was right in your wheels. It was me. It was my age. Yeah. So it wasn't me because there's no black people on it, but you know what I'm saying. It was all the age issues that we had. Yes. It was all the same stuff except it was in Beverly Hills. For me it was looking at someone that's older or groups of people that are older, but the only reason I got sucked back in because I've watched it a million times is I was on YouTube and there's a 90210 YouTube channel that keeps releasing like two minute clips. So all of a sudden I found myself watching two minute clips. And then finally I'm like, I want to see the whole damn thing. So now I'm fully engulfed in season three, the senior year, like I can't stop and it's all because YouTube gave me like a little bit of a taste and it's on a Paramount. Paramount Plus has 90210. Now Evan, if you had Al Bundy as your quarterback, I assume you would have him running the Wildcat. Right? Why was they called the Wildcats or something? No, because Al Bundy was not a quarterback. He was a quarterback. He was a fullback. What? I thought he threw four touchdowns for four touchdowns. I think Dennis and Long Island has more info on this. Dennis, what was Al Bundy in high school? I thought he was a quarterback. Hey, what Evan? He was a fullback. Wow. My mouth. Full back. He scored five touchdowns in a single game. Oh. Okay. Hey, T, did you ever score five touchdowns in a single game? I did not. You'd still be the best option for the Giants of quarterback when it's available, so never scored five. Three was the most I scored. I did that in the NFL. My last regular season game, my career. Not bad. Not a bad way to go out. Right. What this has taught me is my initial point of I need to rewatch my children is true because I clearly forgot. And only because you would really enjoy this. What school did he score the four touchdowns against? Polkai. He played for Polkai. John F. Kennedy High School. Abraham Lincoln. You're on the wash and you're on the right track because you knew Andrew Johnson High. Andrew Johnson High? Andrew Johnson High. 1966. Hold on a second. They named the fictitious high school after that douche. I wonder if they're actually there's no way there's an actual Andrew Jackson. Of course not. No, Andrew Johnson. I mean, Johnson Jackson was worse too, but whatever. That's different though. But he was at least lion eyes for a while. Yes. I mean, even to this day, some people still like him. Nobody likes Andrew Johnson playing for Polkai in the 1966 city. Every championship game against Andrew Johnson High, Polkai named after James K. Polk most successful one term president in American history. You don't have to agree with it because Abe Lincoln didn't, but he got a lot done. That's my point. Like in a legal war in Mexico, like he did a lot of stuff back then. Let's go to Chris in Brooklyn, New York. What's up, Chris? Hey guys. Can you hear me? Yeah. What's up, man? It's on your mind. Cool. I just think this whole Giants quarterback thing is kind of embarrassing. Let's go. Shout out to Piki. The 2001 NFC championship game was the best game I've ever watched in my entire life. Obviously on my Giants. Right. That was unreal. But how will we not bring in and Davis Winston at this point and sitting around waiting on these two guys on canes ready to pay down 30 to 40 million dollars a year when this guy James Winston, in my opinion, is a better football player at this point than both of those guys will be cheaper and will make more sense as a bridge. These guys are high profiles. It'll take so much once you have to go to the younger guy. Now we've got to deal with the press and all that stuff with James Winston. We know what we're going to get. This guy's going to give us a really good game. He's going to give us some turnovers, but it's going to be something that we can justify going to the younger guy. Now you're right. I mean, it's a good point, I think the emphasis on winning and having success as a team is what gives puts caution. And I think the minds of the executives over at the Giants right now because James Winston, you're right. He's going to be entertaining as hell and he's going to win some games, but he's also going to lose some. And if he loses too many, then they all get fired. That's the problem. But Chris's point is dead on. If you actually are drafting a kid that you want to be your future, whether that's one of these two guys at the top, or Jackson Dart in the second round or late first round, if you decide to move back in and ensure that you're going to get them, then you do have a excuse. Yeah. And depending on how he plays that young quarterback, if he's really good, it might save you. All of that. It's not winning. All of that is completely fair, especially when you look at the price tags like he mentioned, James Winston, you're going to get them for nothing. I mean, you look at the contract, Mac Jones just signed with San Francisco. Well, what did James sign for last year? Not a lot. Basically, nothing. Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers is probably getting 40 to $45 million a year. James Winston made $4 million last year. Yeah. That's it. Which is nothing. And he's probably maybe he'll make five this year or maybe even less than four, right? So you get someone cheaper, but here's the ultimate problem, the ultimate problem with James Winston versus Aaron Rodgers and James Winston versus Russell Wilson. Ask yourself this question, ignore the excitement, ignore the age, ignore the price tag, forget all that for a second. Ask yourself this simple question. Who under center gives you a better chance to win football games? And the answer is not going to be James Winston. Russell Wilson still gives you a better chance to win games now. Aaron Rodgers still gives you a better chance to win games now. And ultimately, I think that's what is driving this early search that the Giants are on. It's why it started with Matthew Stafford. It's why it's currently at Aaron Rodgers. And it's why Russ is the backup to that plan because they got to win games. So I get the appeal to James Winston. I do. But I think ultimately when you're confused about why they're doing things, I think they're trying to win football games. Yeah. Last year, James Winston threw 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions and Russ threw less interceptions than that in the last two years combined right in seven games, 13 touchdowns, 12 interceptions. That's a lot of turnovers. It is a lot of turnovers, toll free numbers, 888-808-1019 in less than two weeks. The baseball season will begin. It will start with a home game at Yankee Stadium. The Mets will play their home owner a home opener a week later. I got to figure out how I got to handle this because I am the commissioner of my fantasy baseball league. And we have keepers in that league and the deadline is today. It is now 535. Mm. Like when I say the deadline is today, isn't that like the close of business? That is. So you two, Tiki, Barbara, and Tommy, Luke, I don't have keepers from you guys. What do you mean? For some meat. Sean Morris. Oh, wait. He's on vacation. Well, hold on. Let me check my text messages. He did write something. What did he say? We're obviously keeping Fernando, Tati, Jr. and Edwin Diaz. For those who don't know, I am co-manager with Sean Moray. That's right. It's called a thumb and a pro bowler. What a great team there. So there are three keepers in the league and then you lose the draft pick of where they were originally selected. Yes. All right. We're keeping Fernando, Tati, Jr. and Edwin Diaz, obviously, have Tiki pick the third keeper. Who are my options? I haven't even looked at that. Let me see your roster. You've got Connor Wong, the catcher of the Red Sox. He'll be a 12th rounder if you want to keep him. Luis Angel Acuna, 11th round. He would also qualify as an NA. We do allow one non kind of minor leaguer who is not qualified as rookie to be kept. Jesus Lazardo as a 17th rounder, Max Scherzer as a 13th rounder. No, thank you. Joey Ortiz. That's a good one as a 12th rounder and Jonathan India as a 16th rounder. So they're not great options, but can you pick somebody so I can put this to bed? I mean, I'm tempted to go with Luis Angelacuna because he's a prospect and keeping prospects can pan out for you. You could also just redraft him and maybe even draft him later. Yeah. So what round was he? He was 11. Oh, no, so I'm not going to do that. Joey Ortiz was going to play every day in Milwaukee 12 about Connor Wong. Connor Wong is a catcher at 12. That's not bad. He's probably the best option. Tommy, can you give him some advice and Sean advice, even though Sean's not here? Who would you keep of that selection of baseball players? Who does Joey Ortiz play for? The Brewers. I'm not asking you for it. I don't even know what team he plays for. Well, no, I just was for context. I would keep Akuna. Really? Yeah. Here's why. It's a couple of things. Number one, I think he's going to be great, but I'm losing an 11th round pick. But here's why. He's not. You're not doing. I know what you're doing. It's not right. But finish your point. I criticize him. Yeah. I know what he's doing. I like what he's doing. You know, I get this at home. He wants him, doesn't he? He's going to draft him an attempt. No. So think about who's in the league. Teak, mostly Yankee med fans. Right. It's so valuable to have one of those players that's on one of those teams because anybody will want to trade for him. So it's a good chip to have. Even if he doesn't pan out, there will be people that are dreaming that he could be like his brother and you will be able to get a whole friend. Now here's the real problem with this. And I feel bad. So I got a text message last night from a friend of mine who was complaining about Tommy on the radio, which I wouldn't bring to air. But I'm bringing it to air because it has to do with Louis and Elacunya and basically how you are over the top and saying, just the way the ball comes off is bad. These guys are stunned. This was on the Luke Hour last night. This was the Luke Hour last night and he was very upset with you for being over the top about Acuna, which by the way is fine, it's your opinion. I got to wish you with that. But the fact that less than 24 hours later to clearly prove your point, you have to say Acuna because you just said he's the next Roberto Clemente last night. So I don't think it's a genuine opinion. I think you're just backing up positive thoughts. But his opinion is that because they're med fans, if he gets a chance to play because of whatever Jeff McNeil has done for whatever period of time and Brett Beatty is a bust, that med fans will really want him. I mean, that's possible. The med fans in our league. Yeah, I don't think that's crazy, but he's also not going to be on the team to start the year at all. You don't know that, though. I don't know that. He doesn't know that. He's an NA. You could stash the guy. That's right. He doesn't even count as a third keeper, not to get in the weeds. So if you want to keep Acuna great, you still need to get a third keeper. So who do you want Connor Wong? Jesus, look, and you probably should go to Lazardo, 17th round, pretty hell. Is he? He's not good. He's coming off a bad year. Is that the problem with your team? What is he? 33? No, he's 27. He's young. Oh, my God. No, he's all good. And what about you, Lugie? You haven't released your keeper yet. Hold on a second. It's the closeup in a second. My secretary was supposed to forward this over to you. I got nothing. They didn't do that. I got nothing. Let me, let me check now. They were supposed to send this to you. If I don't hear your keepers in the next two minutes, I don't respond to threats. I'm going to take all your picks away. No, no, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't allow you to keep people. I don't like chasing people. I got three guys on my list. I'm not including Tiki and Shawn because they're in a weird spot. I see. But there's Lugie and two other people. Okay. All I ask is send me your keepers before the closeup business on Friday, March 14th. It is 538. Couple of things. Business is closed. What are you waiting for? Business is tough. There's no advantage to wait. You don't get anything for waiting. I want to write it down in my document so I can take the picks away on the Yahoo fantasy site tonight. All right. Well, first of all, nobody works on Friday, so there are no business hours. So really midnight is the actual deadline. I have Lazardo. Yeah. You have Lazardo. Who knows? Is that guy even in the league? Who knows? Yeah, he's turning to the Phillies. Number one. Why is there even a deadline? It takes two seconds to enter these things. You're the boss. You're the deadline so that the league pool can be revealed to everybody. Okay. These are the guys in the draft. That's the way it's been forever. I know, but we probably don't need a week to stare at names. I agree. I was always good for like two, three days, but people in the league insisted that they wanted like a week and a half to learn who's in the league, kind of like you because you don't know what team Lazardo is on or Joey Ortiz. So you got to do your cramming. Okay. And the other thing is you said you'd have to chase me. I work with you every day. You don't have to. You know where I am. You could find me whenever. Okay. It's 540. Who keeps us? I'll let you know next week. Why would you want me to keep Lazardo? Enough with this guy. Seriously. Who's the other fellow? I'm just looking at him now. He's terrible. Okay. Don't keep Lazardo. Can you keep somebody? There goes. What the heck is wrong with you? Told you to keep a coon. You want to listen to me? Give me Connor Wong. Connor Wong? Yes. And I'm a coon. You'd put me in any way. I'm right. Oh, a coon isn't it? Always a catcher teat Connor Wong. Yes. Yes. Austin. So I want everyone out there who runs their leagues to see what I have to deal with. All I'm asking is these are the rules. Give me a team. I'm chasing you and now it's well, it's two other guys. I didn't even know about it until 30 seconds ago. You gave the answer. I'm happy with you. And Sean's on vacation bathing like a beeped whale having a good time. But I don't get why I have to chase people. Who are your keepers? Did you? Yes. Give your keepers to the commissioner? Yes. I am the commissioner. But how do we know that? I am keeping Julio Rodriguez. I'm keeping Trey Turner. Great. And I'm keeping Jackson holiday. Those are my three keepers. I was close to keeping the ground, but there was an AA meeting of people saying, Evan, you got to get off this. It's time to let go. So I've decided to let go, Jacob, to grab something. Yes. I wrote my keepers down two weeks ago. There you go. All right. I am keeping Jose Ramirez. Jose Ramirez. Aussie albies. Aussie albies. Thank you. Well, that's only two. You need a third. I'll let you know. No, no, no, I'll let you know. I'm getting this done now. I need everyone's answers now so I can move on with my day. You and I need to have a three way. I got to think about it and I'll get back to it. You know, it's funny. This is the first time I'm really thinking of just resigning as commissioner. I don't do it anymore. Why? Because it's distracting you from actually trying to win. Because I... What you never have? That's true. It's more that I work hard to like do the league. Every commissioner knows this. Yes. And I'm sick and tired of chasing people. It's annoying. And it's not really even you, Tommy, because you're more just having fun on the radio. Of course. It's other people. I am. And it's like, why do I have to do this? Like, why do I have to have another job in my life? I already do this job. I do the Rico. Why? Because you don't sleep. Why? What a sleep. You have time to do this. I don't want to do it anymore. Because everybody else wants to get eight hours of sleep. Tommy! And you're fine with three. Tommy, would you like to be a prisoner? I'd rather have a kids. I got a great idea. What? Paul Rosenberg is not in our league and he's doing a great job on the board. How about a commissioner who's not in the league? Ooh. You like that idea? Without a vested interest in any team. He can run things very fairly. What's the salary for the position? Zero. Oh, by the way, this is some great information. Forget the fantasy stuff I'm moving on. Opening day is in two weeks. Yes. Now, every team, of course, has a home opener. The Mets season openers on the road, their home opener is a week later. According to Game Time, which is this app where you can buy tickets based on that app, which I think is indicative of CQE, can stop up and all that, the average prices for each team's opening day, okay? One through 30. So which baseball team do you think has the cheapest average price for their home opener? For the home opener? The home opener. The cheapest average price. So that doesn't, it's not just opening day. It's the home opener. The home opener. I'm going to say Oakland. I would have thought the same thing. The Oakland A's are actually 14th. They're middle of the pack. What? People of Sacramento are very excited to see a baseball game. You know what? You're right. That's my bad. It's also not a big stadium. It's an novelty though. It's a novelty and it's a smaller stadium. So the demand is far different than bigger stadium. Let me see. So the Oakland A's are 14th with an average get in price. You ready for this? Not get in price. An average ticket cost of $188. Wow. How about that? It's a novelty. Yeah. It's like this is going to be short term. Let's soak it in while we can. I'm going to actually convert and save the White Sox. The White Sox. Very solid guess. What's your guess? Lugi. I was going to guess Tampa, but they fit all the criteria of Sacramento. Small stadium, novelty. Tampa Bay is right behind the A's at 15th with an average get in at 186 and you're right. It's not just a novelty. It's a small ballpark. There's a few tickets. Right. All right. So I'm going to go Miami. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Oh, because nobody's on that team. They're going to trade. There's a lot of things to do to the Yankees. Maybe. Well, probably to the Mets. They have more process. Shut up. The Marlins are OK. I'll shut up. I'm just telling you the truth. The Marlins $73. No kind of expensive, but they're dead last. The White Sox was your guess. They're 23rd. Now let's go to the top. Who has the highest average price ticket for their home opener in Major League Baseball? Baltimore. Where do you get those shoots? Easy. They're from DSW because DSW has the exact right shoes for whatever you're into right now. You know, like the sneakers that make office hours feel like happy hour. 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The Los Angeles Dodgers are third. Surprisingly, they are third. They are two teams ahead of them. Can I guess again? Of course, 372 is the average price, which again, very expensive. Boston. The Boston Red Sox. That's a great guess. They're eighth at 225. Who are the two teams with a higher average priced home opener ticket than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Yankees. The Yankees are 13th, 13th, 13th at $199. It's still cold. I think it's the cold and it's the lack of, I mean, they won the pennant last year. That's surprising. I bet this changes as we get closer. But you think it's the weather? For the Yankees, the fact that they're 13th, I would say it's the weather. Oh, it's the weather. It's not Soto. It's not Soto. It's not. Of course, it wouldn't be. Not. Can I guess again? Yeah, of course. The Metsis. The New York Mets are numero uno. The Mets, they're listening to Uncle Stevie, aren't they? The New York Mets have the highest average ticket price on the resale market for their home opener. Are you ready for the number? Four hundred and thirty five dollars a ticket. Wow. That is insanity. I'll watch it on TV. What if you got a freebie for thirty five? There's only one other team in the four hundreds for their average price ticket for their home opener. And if it's not the Dodgers and it's not the Astros are great guests, they're fourth at three sixty eight. Padres? The Padres. That's a very good guess there. Where the hell are they? They're 17th at one seventy three. Oh, it's too much apathy. You're right. That's like Miami. It's like the way better things to do. They love baseball, but there's better things to do. The second one is very surprising because there's nothing about what they've done in the off season that would jump out at you, but they've been successful. Weather won't be an issue because it's indoor. I didn't say that. So whether it's not going to be an issue. I was going to say Phillies Atlanta Braves are where the hell are they on this list? So they're down. So the Phillies in 19th at one sixty dollar. I have no idea Cubs. The Braves at twenty second now the Cubs did a lot though the Chicago Cubs are sixteenth. They did a lot this off. It's not the Cubs. Sir, Texas Rangers, what they're opening against the Red Sox if that means anything. So it's a good opponent, but the Texas Rangers two years removed or a year and a half removed from a world's championship four hundred and thirty one dollars on their average ticket price for their home owner home opener. The Mets are one. The Rangers are two. The Dodgers are three. The Astros are four that Tigers are five and then this is weird the Reds and the Pirates are six and seven. How about that? Reds I can see tradition tradition and there's some really interesting players. Yeah. Francona now their managers. Terry Franklin is their manager. Ella Della Cruz. Yep. What he's still a hundred bases. For sure. And Pittsburgh you get to see skeins pitch. I assume now plead my ignorance here. This is resale meaning secondary market. Right. This is not the team. Okay. They're ticket prices be high all no they do because people but that's smart because people are going to pay it for Soto they are well I it's crazy like the Mets and a lot of teams do this. They they change their price based on the opponent and the day of the week. So it's called dynamic pricing right. The Met prices for opening day but that but that's walk up tickets right. No, I'm a season ticket holder. I'm saying it for me as a season ticket over its dynamic and that pay a number at the beginning of the year. What I'm saying is the price per ticket varies based on the opponent in the day that week at the beginning of the year they they like detail this out. Yeah, I got it. It's good for resale because I can't go to every game. So you want to know, hey, what's the price of this game? My opening day tickets are like over three hundred dollars and I do not sit like in these high level seats like my average price is eighty ninety bucks. Right. Something in that range. But you do have a great seat. Thank you. Oh, I think it's the best seat in the house but it's not priced as if it's this luxurious seat. You know if this means Steve Cohen's going to get his way that the Mets are going to have a big attendance here but it certainly shows you the crazy excitement that the Mets fan has for opening day. Right. Because that is an absurd average ticket price like four hundred and thirty five dollars a ticket. Now Rosie, you go to like every opening day. What are you going to do? You're not paying four hundred thirty five dollars a day. You know, one of my friends who already we purchase tickets immediately. So we will get the face value at like one fifteen, one twenty average. Wow. Wow. And by the way, that's on the cheap one. Yeah. One fifteen and one twenties. I'm telling you they priced a crap out of this. So I think there's a good indication on the animalistic excitement that the Met had met fan has for opening day that they are right now the kings of the average resale ticket price for opening day. It's a weird thing to be the king of but it does show you the excitement that people have been just like the Jets. Mets are winning the all season. You got to throw in that kind of camera? Because Shawn is in here. So you're like, let me just jet sign somebody a punter. Oh, that's good. Austin McNamara, Texas Tech product. They brought in that guy. No game experience. Oh, he's just there to compete with us. All right. Can't complain. Try to be the best punter in football. That's it. Let's go to Rob and Greenlong. What's up, Rob? What's up, Rob? Hey, it's great show today. High school math future here. I have fun. You really shouldn't be talking about those average ticket prices because those suites and those expensive seats really shoe it. And you should be talking about the median, the median ticket price because I doubt it's that nowhere is even closed before. Great. Great. The only reason the thing I'm skeptical about with your point is I don't think you're able to buy like the high end sweet tickets on that app, but I'll go check it out. I get a better idea. I'm going to go on Seekyke right now and see if that really matches up. Because right now the get in price at Seekyke is $200. So it shows you it's pretty damn high. That's the get in price. But those are 75% of the tickets. Most of the tickets that are for sale are in the upper deck and most of the tickets for sale are in the 500s and the 400s. Very few tickets are on sale there down by the way. You make a good point, Rob, because some of these stadium ballparks, they don't have a ton of suites. Yeah. So it's just going to pull it down. Median is better because it's just it's right in the middle. I'm looking at the sections that I sit in or at least my area. I sit in 318, 319, 320. So good seat. Yeah. Not the highest end ticket. Yeah, but you're right behind the plate. Right. But it's not a club. You're not getting like free food or anything like that. Basically the average price is in the 700s, which is insane. Wow. $700, $800. If you go higher to the 400 level, you're looking at the mid force. Come in the fives. That is insane. I'm telling you. And if you go downstairs, it's over a grant. If you want to go sit downstairs, feel level. You're talking about over $1,000 opening day. This is just open. Open day. Yes. Just opening day. Let's go to Zach and Massapequa. Hey, Zach. Hey, what's going on guys? Love the show. Thank you, man. Um, so yeah, absolutely. Um, so yeah, we're going to talk about the metro tendons. Personally, I do think it's going to be much better this year as for me. I mean, I went to probably 10, 15 games last year. Um, I actually got a 30 game package for this year. So I'll be there a lot more. I know that a lot of people that are just like me, I'm 25 years old. Nice. Um, that are going to be doing it. I'm going to, um, basically every Friday, Saturday, um, or Thursday type of game, uh, basically all the big, big, big games, um, but I'm sure I'll be there even more than that. I think it's going to be a really good year for attendance wise. And I mean, people are so excited for one. Yeah. I mean, you should be excited. I was talking to my rep. We got the tickets, um, about a week before we even heard about the Soto news and after getting the tickets, the price jump was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, well, you made a good decision then. Yeah. That's for sure. That's actually great for like young professionals in New York. Oh, absolutely. It's the 30 game back because you're not who's realistically going to go to more than that unless you, unless you've, you're not working for me or you're entertaining. Yeah. Well, I can't even go to that many more games like there was a time in my life where I would be able to go to that higher number than that 50, 60, 70 games, but now living in West Chester kids, a wife, like my goal is do you get to? It depends on the year and it's not because of their success. A lot of it is weather related because if I'm taking my kids, as much as I don't mind sitting in the rain, people know what I'm talking, I can't pull that one off. I think last year, I got to about 35, right, which is still a good number, including opening day. We almost got fired. Why? Because of that bleeped? Yeah. Spike asking. And now I feel bad saying the word that I used for spikes and that day though I did say it into a telephone last year. I will come back with your calls 88880, are you an adult or are you a child? A child, Spike, answer your question. We don't want to grow up. Yeah. It's when are you not at work today? She's when are you not at work today? No, I got lucky this year because the Mets play in the afternoon and the Yankees are playing in the afternoon as well. It's a very weird schedule start this year because when the Yankees open at Yankee, it's a three o'clock first pitch, the Mets are in Houston and they play at four o'clock. The following week, it's the opposite where the Mets start at three o'clock and the Yankees are in Pittsburgh starting at four o'clock. It's a lot of afternoon baseball. Are we even doing a show? I mean, we're doing a short one. That's for sure. Hey, see you guys. Have fun at the game. I got another text message from a guy who's like, "The deadline is midnight, right?" What is up with this? What is up with you? Why does the deadline have to be a midnight? You're tired. I don't want to work today. That's what it is. There's no way. There's no work. It's like case of deal at night. No, no, no, but teak, he gets a name, a baseball player's name sent to him and that's it. No, that's not true. No, that's not true. You know, you know, that's not true. Right? He's got to input it into the system. First of all, I've got to write down the guy's name on a list that I send to everybody so everyone gets access to the keepers. And I got to go on the Yahoo website and take the pick away and insert the player because those are the rules of the league. It's not nothing. And then he's got to find time for his dang quesadillas. My quesadillas. Quesadillas. And then I got to record a Ricoh bro and you're reacting to Clay Holmes being the opening day starter. Lord, how mercy. And then both of my kids have major wrestling plans tonight. Spence, who's four, is pumped up because it's the book. Much like a lot of people out there. I got WWE 2K 25 and he's booked a lot of matches for this evening's festivities. How long did it take? How long did what take? The matches. In the video game? Yeah. How long did they take? Sometimes like 35 minutes. Yeah. Come on. What are you? What are you? Well, first of all, you don't understand. Spence wants to explore every match type and it needs to be like activity, like we're out of the ring. We're in the ring. I hit the referee. He hit the referee. It's like it's kind of scripted because I'm not going to beat him, but I'm not going to lose a media. So it's like a 35 minute match and then my oldest son wants to do the wrestling figures. He's got all these matches booked. I got a busy ass night and you're telling me I got to wait an hour to tell me which keeper you're going to keep. Can you tell me? So I can do it. This is what you get for getting your kids into wrestling. I know. Isn't it fun? I haven't reminded you of your life like it took over my life when I was that age. Really? My mom used to hate us because we would jump off the couches and into the couches and break the edge of the couch. Dangerous. Oh man. We're in trouble. Yeah. My kids have been doing it too. I just bought them a Mr. Met. Mr. Met's like the biggest villain in this game. Oh yeah. They beat the crap out of him. Wow. They like him, but they beat the crap out of him. He's turning heel though tomorrow. He's going to join me. Yeah. He's going to join me in an evil faction. I'll be the rock and Mr. Met's going to be John Cena's going to be nuts. Next weekend, I took Luna, my rescue mutt, who thinks she's part wolf, out to this off the grid beach, you know, the kind of place where dogs are technically allowed as long as they don't go full chaos mode. Luna though, queen of chaos. She went straight for a flock of seagulls like she was slo-mo in a nature documentary. Normally, this is the part where I panic, but nope, I'd already set up a virtual offense with her halo collar. 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Hour 4: Tommy's Cinco on options for the Giants at QB, Evan might re-watch Married with Children and messes up an Al Bundy factoid and the Mets have a hot opening day ticket.