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Cowboy Joe West, NBA Playoffs & NFL Draft Recap/Grades
The Bucks win Game 1 and Hank isn’t putting his mini whomp button away.(-) We talk Grizzlies/Warriors and some hockey (Biz coming Wednesday). (-) Who’s back of the week including recap from Saturday Night at MSG Taylor vs Serrano. (-) MLB Ump Cowboy Joe West joins the show to talk about his career, his music albums, stories from the road, and how he never made a bad call. (-) We finish the show recapping the NFL Draft and give out grades for a bunch of teams from the weekend.(-)
Recap
HankI would much rather lose a game playing like absolute dogshit than lose while playing well
Spin zone is I would much rather lose a game where you play like absolute dog [and] play worse than lose a game where you're playing really well and the other team just beat you. Like the Celtics played so bad. Jaylen Brown was so bad. Jason Tatum didn't play well, no one was playing well.
Big CatGiannis Antetokounmpo is indisputably the best player in the NBA
I wonder, I think that we've all decided that Giannis is the best player in the NBA right now. Like, I don't know if that's a debate anymore. I think that's just because Giannis is too nice. If he was meaner, I don't think it would be a debate. ... [Giannis] has the killer gene. He's just will also kill you and then say a dad joke afterwards.
PFT CommenterThe New York Rangers will win it all because they finally moved on from Henrik Lundqvist
The narrative that I want get going ... now that the Rangers don't have Lundqvist anymore and they've got a clutch playoff goalie [Igor Shesterkin], this is what they've been missing over all the years. ... It's the Bryce Harper orthosis where after we got rid of him, then the Nats win the title.
Big CatThe Eagles and Ravens absolutely destroyed the 2022 NFL Draft
Regrettably, I think that the Eagles killed this draft. I think they just destroyed it. Like when they got Nakobe Dean, I think everybody who was watching was like, oh yeah, that guy should have been the first overall pick. ... I think I might put a future on the Baltimore Ravens set it right now. ... [They're] just going to run the ball and play defense and have a bunch of fucking crazy ass dudes on defense.
PFT CommenterBaker Mayfield's trade value is now only a fourth or fifth round pick
Going—if you had asked this at the start of last year, what would Baker Mayfield be on the open market? Probably like, I don't know, second round pick or something like that feels right now. It's like he's a fourth or fifth round pick. Crazy.
Big CatDeshaun Watson will be suspended for the entire 2022 NFL season
I don't think that Deshaun Watson is going to play next year. The more I think about it, the more I think that Roger Goodell is going to step in and be like, that's me, Roger Goodell champion of women everywhere. And we're suspending Deshaun Watson next year. Holy fuck.
Who Is Back
Billy FootballWomen's boxing is on the up and up following the electric Taylor vs. Serrano fight
Women's boxing is on the up and up. ... What we saw in the last Jake Paul card with Amanda Serrano on it is that those fights are extremely electric. ... It was the first headline by women fighters at Madison Square Garden itself in its 140 year history.
Interview
Joe WestRobotic umpires are less accurate than human umpires
The biggest problem with this K-Zone system is it's not exactly accurate. ... They grade the umpires on a machine for home plate every game. ... We didn't have a single umpire—not one umpire—that scored under 95%. ... They already know [the robotic computer] misses 7% of the pitches. We don't have an umpire missing five.
Joe WestThe Universal DH is a bad rule that will slow the game down
This designated hitter's going to slow down the game because—and I've said this before—if Tom Seaver threw more than nine pitches to the seventh, eighth, and ninth hitter... in the old National League, they would go right after [them]. In the American League, they didn't go right after [the DH]. ... It's going to slow the game down.