Are they still talking more about the Yankees, or are they pivoted at least for a week to the Rays and the Brewers in the World Series?

First off, Dave and J. Lou, always great to be with you guys.

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

I thought I got a lot of love yesterday, but leading off the power hour with you guys, I think, is the best gift that anybody could have.

So full gratitude to you.

No, look, even though the Yankees have been put to bed now for a couple of weeks, I mean, the conversation has kind of been resuscitated by their – Radio silence, essentially, until yesterday.

All the speculation.

Where is New York on this football team? Are they believing that John Harbaugh can make this work now with a guy they just imported off the Minnesota streets?

Is this Jets team still years away from genuinely competing?

Years is strong, Drake.

And by the way, Chris Saatchi, that is a great, that is a great, like, right out of central casting.

Like, right, a typical great New York name, Chris Saatchi.

God bless him.

Look, here's the bottom line, and you guys know I'm part of the broadcast team for the Jets for nine years now, and I think a lot of people collectively are all rooting for Aaron Glenn.

When he got hired, this is a guy who played for the Jets.

Am I wrong for saying that?

But in general, his offense and how he uses those pass catchers.

Yeah, everybody that I talk to on the team, they love it.

They love Frank Reich.

Obviously, he comes with that experience, you know, playing in the league as a quarterback for a very long time.

And, you know, his time as a head coach and assistant coach.

So he's well, well respected.

You mentioned the tight ends.

So that's good so far.

anybody, if anybody, I mean, and you're right, McLean is a big guy, but if anybody's running full speed and hit someone in the head, I mean, that's going to be really bad.

It was such a weird game last night, too, because I actually watch most of it because I like watching McLean pitch.

You know how many infield hits Philadelphia got? The only run that McLean gave up, think about it, it was with bases loaded, a slow ground ball to short that Lindor threw to second to try to get the force out on the fielder's choice to end the inning.

They originally called him out, and then the Phillies reviewed it, and then it showed that what's-his-name beat the throw to the bag, and that's how the Phillies got their one run.

Crawford, who hit the ball, the play that Jared Young got hurt, his previous at-bat, he hit another baby roller literally right up the first baseline that Young had to come and meet him halfway and tagged him out halfway up the first baseline.

And he hits the same ball in the same spot virtually, and two guys end up colliding, which sends one to the hospital.

But I don't look at, and it'll take me a while to look at the Jets and say, that's a playoff caliber football team.

I'm curious to see how they attack them, like defensively, right? Because, like, I don't know if we mentioned it before the show, like, Flores and the Vikings brought the house.

What about the veterans on defense? Anything on offense? Give me something else that stood out to you watching this team practice in training camp.

Well, you, you said veterans.

I mean, on defense, they went ahead and brought in some dudes who, you know, they didn't have last year, meaning, like, guys that could come in, help lay the foundation, the culture.

You know, Demario Davis.

People, you know, he's 37, 38, whatever he is, but the guy's in phenomenal shape.

He had a phenomenal season last year, still with the New Orleans Saints, but he's an Aaron Glenn guy.

This is a guy who's gonna be the quarterback of the defense.

W- how imperative is it for this organization to get off to a fast start?

Uh, who would you, based off of the draw, do you like their, uh, their chances over at Wimbledon?

Well, Sabalenka actually I think has a little bit of a tougher path, believe it or not.

Now, remember, she's...

Forget about never even winning Wimbledon, Tim.

She's never even made a Wimbledon final.

So the grass has not exactly been her best friend.

She's got Naomi Osaka coming up next, which again, Naomi is somebody also who's never been in a Wimbledon final before, even though she's won some Grand Slams in the past, but those were hard court at the Australian Open and the US Open.

What's your feel on that one with, uh, Frances Tiafoe as a very slight favorite over Bublik?

No, it's not going to be.

Okay.

You know, there are a couple of heavy hitters I was going to take on today.

So you know what? The one whose straw got pulled, we talked about it off the air a little bit, so I'm going to give him a shout out.

The good folks, and I say good in air quotes, at New Jersey Transit with this whole World Cup thing.

who tried to milk people, rob people, make it as hard as possible for people who just want to go see a soccer game, just want to go see the most popular tournament in the world in their own backyard, which is just something like a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

And they wanted to make it as difficult as possible on people.

Do they win that series in five games, if not for Jose Alvarado?

Okay.

Well, he, uh, R-Rick was thinking about going over, and I was like, "I wouldn't do it with my life, so if you're not gonna go over, you go under."

Sacramento.

I was actually, I was flirting with the A's possibly, possibly even as a surprise wild card pick for us.

Yep.

Uh, Daniel, what would you like to do here? We got, uh, we got two American and one National.

Do you wanna go National or close up the, uh, close up the American? Go National? I like the National one, and I like that under that I told you in the, uh, in the East.

Good division, take the under.

All right, so you got the Twins under, Baltimore under.

You got the Giants under, Philly under, Detroit over, Pittsburgh under, so mostly unders for you.

We got Dodgers-

Alan's very handsome.

I think the requirement of being the quarterback at Notre Dame is to be handsome, so...

Well, Jimmy Clausen was there, so that's okay.

Answer the question.

Uh, okay, so I will...

Boy, 'cause, 'cause this is the...

This is where you get put in trouble for the reasons.

Yeah, we need, we need to boo-y Jordan, but we do need to boo-y Jake a little bit as well.

Huge.

You know, put up or shut up.

You know, you, you went out and hired a coach, even though he's a weirdo, you know, that, that you think is gonna bring the best out of Trevor Lawrence.

Now they also thought Doug Pederson was that guy too and that never materialized.

Um, but I'll marry Trevor, cuddle Caleb and, and- (crowd awws) I'll trash Bryce Young only because I, I still, I worry about his size even in this current NFL.

Like I was never sold on him even coming into the league.

I just, I saw the dude in preseason that first year get tossed around like a ragdoll, you know, when they were playing the Jets and I'm like, "Damn, is this guy gonna hold up over a long career as a number one overall pick?"

I agree.