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It was.
It was 8 o'clock when I started it.
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I want to make sure the chat's up,
because that makes it a lot more fun for me.
Hope everybody is doing great.
Just getting the chat up here real quick,
and then we will get things going.
As it is a Monday morning, and we're
going to have a great time, had by all,
as I enjoyed the weekend.
Hope you did great as well.
And I think we have the chat.
There we go.
There's live chat.
That's what I need right there.
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We good.
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I'm glad everybody can hear.
Glad everybody can see.
Happy Monday.
Hope you are doing tremendous.
I have a lot to get to.
We always start with some social media stuff and an update
and all those kind of things.
But thank you, thank you, thank you.
Always the first thing that we do here.
John Lund Unleashed podcast, YouTube channel,
all sorts of social media stuff.
By the way, I joined everything.
And we're going to get fast to sports,
because you don't want to mess with this stuff.
But as you can see right there, I've
joined about every social media you can.
And so I'm on just about everything.
If you go to at John Lund radio, it's the best way
to get to me.
And less like I said, to the police of the IRS.
But YouTube, podcast channel, Blue Sky now,
already on Twitter, Facebook.
I relented.
Hadn't been on Facebook in years.
Instagram, threads, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So I'm on all those things.
Any of those places you want to hang out and see,
I'll post a bunch of stuff on there.
But first and foremost, just really
appreciate you hanging out.
Especially on a Monday, we have an absolute boatload
of things to get after.
And I got some great stories from not only over the weekend,
but the middle of the night, and people were hitting me up
and everything.
And we just had a great time.
If you came in on Saturday night when Willie Adam is signed,
we did a live chat on Saturday night.
Right when I heard it, I'm watching college football.
And my wife is sick of sports all day.
And she goes, can we just hang out for a minute,
no college football?
Because it started with Arizona State,
and I was stayed at nine.
And I just watched everything throughout Georgia and Texas.
And everything laid into the night.
And SMU gets in over Alabama.
And I'm not meaning to lead the show with college football,
because people are like, bro, it's the Bay Area.
But it was really cool.
And then all of a sudden, I get hit
like everybody does in the phone.
And it's like, Willie Adam is going to sign.
And it's like, I looked at it and went, sorry.
It's like, yeah, I don't want to hang around you anymore.
Anyway, go do it.
So for two hours, we hung out.
And we hung out for two hours.
And we talked about Adam is signing.
And I got more on that because it won.
Soto is signed.
And we just got, I mean, we got so much cool stuff going on.
So I'll hit up the chat.
But I just want to let you know, today, update.
You see, on the chalkboard there,
if you're new to the show, the YouTube show,
make sure you subscribe and tell all your friends
and hit me up on social media and all those kind of stuff.
Just because I end the show, and we'll go long today,
as long as you want.
I feel great on a Monday.
We'll go as long as you want.
But I'm doing stuff during the day, too.
I like to post stuff if you hit me up during the day.
I'll try to get back to you as soon as I possibly can.
So just a lot of great stuff going on, not only with this show,
but you're going to be a benefactor of a lot of cool stuff
and a lot of us coming together.
And it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.
But anyway, on the chalkboard today, update.
Social media I just showed you.
The 49ers stars.
They didn't get any help on Sunday, though.
Seattle ended up winning in Arizona.
The Rams in that wild game against Buffalo,
so they didn't get any help.
So we're going to have to, after we praise the 49ers,
which we should do, then we're going to have to sit back
and look at the reality of the situation.
My viewpoint has not changed on this year for the 49ers,
but next year I still think they're
going to be a factor as a grandeur at a nice game as well.
That class that John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan
and all the powers that be, the 49ers, tremendous job.
So you got that going on.
So we'll praise the 49ers as we should,
but we'll look at reality, which is not great.
The big story nationally, as you all know,
Juan Soto goes to the Mets, and I got a great video
that you can't miss of this guy going nuts.
And I want to kind of go off on a little bit of a tangent.
Nobody deserves you.
They don't owe you anything.
They go signed.
It's like, me or you, we go out to a job.
We get a better opportunity or a better offer,
or whatever the case may be.
There's no loyalty anywhere.
I'm case 1A.
I mean, the reality is Juan Soto went and did
what he thinks is best.
Yankees fans think they're the greatest ever.
I know that Pop was saying when judge signed,
it's the power of the pinstripes.
It's like, sign wherever you want.
I think as much money as you want.
I don't really care about the money aspect.
We're going to get into Juan Soto.
We'll do a ton of that.
The main thing is that you want to talk about is,
obviously, Willie Adamus.
To me, that's the huge story is the winter meeting start.
We'll get some guests this week from the winter meetings.
But real quick, and then we'll get real deep
into this whole thing.
For Buster Posey to not, this is the biggest thing to me.
And you heard me say this on Saturday night.
For Buster Posey to not get enamored with the pretty blonde
girl that he can't obtain, like I used to do early in my life.
I think I can get the beauty queen.
No, you cannot.
You cannot.
Look at me.
I can't get the beauty queen.
Maybe you can.
I cannot.
So don't even go over there.
Don't go over to that side of the room.
Don't go to that side of the bar.
Don't go over that side of the dance, whatever it is.
Just get what you can get.
And so today, Willie Adamus is not
a giant if Buster Posey waits to today.
Farhan's like, I did some fancy football.
I got some stuff I got to do.
I'll get to Willie Adamus.
He would never be a giant.
Because the Yankees would have pivoted, the Dodgers
would have pivoted, and the major market teams would have pivoted.
And Buster Posey gave his love.
I'm told, just went right to Willie Adamus and said,
we want you.
You're our guy.
You're not a backup plan.
Like the Dodgers, you're not a backup plan like the Yankees.
You're not a backup plan like the Mets.
You're not the backup plan like the Red Sox.
Those teams who are in on Wadsotto,
they don't get Willie Adamus.
Because Buster Posey said, I'm going after that guy.
Because when everybody else pivots,
he's going to be the number one free agent on the market.
And I'm going to get him first.
Brilliant.
So we'll get more into that situation.
And now, Smart, that was more on the winter meetings.
And we have a caboose pistol today that I know this guy is
well-known on the internet.
But I just want to highlight it because it's so funny.
So we got a great show.
Hit me up right there, as a lot of people
are doing in the chat.
I just love it.
And also at John Lund Radio on Twitter.
That's the best place to get me.
That's what I have in front of me right now.
So during the show, if you hit me up,
I'll be able to respond to that.
So anything else I'm missing?
I think I got it.
By the way, one thing that somebody's
bringing up in the chat room right now,
is this good as far as time for you?
Is 8 AM good?
I like it because I like to get up early anyway.
And I like to hit you in the morning.
And then you can rig it so your car can get YouTube as well.
And we'll make it shortly how you can get it live.
That's one of the problems with podcasting is.
It's taped.
And then you throw it back.
And look, I'm going to put this on a podcast.
And you can listen to it throughout the day.
So I just want to make sure that 8 AM is a good time for you.
Because I'll put this back out and everything.
But a big part of this game, YouTube, podcasts,
all these kind of things, is making sure
that enough people or most people, or as many people
as possible, can listen, watch, so forth.
So I'd love to get some feedback on that at John Lund Radio.
If this time works for you, if this is good,
you're in the chat now.
And so it might be good for you.
But I hope it is.
But anyway, good to see Taki.
True Blue Forever.
Kyle, thanks for coming in here.
Like and subscribe.
Yeah, I'm almost to 1,000.
This is my fifth show.
So I think that's a pretty decent pace.
I don't know.
I don't know anything about this stuff.
But it looks like it.
Let's see what else do we got.
Anyway, I'm early for tomorrow.
Marco, good to see you again.
A bunch of people in the room today.
If you're brand new, say hello to me.
Crews75, good to see you again.
So everybody for coming in.
Thank you so much for coming in.
And let's get moving.
Let's get moving because you're like, dude,
you've talked enough.
Now let's get to some things.
So one other quick thing, just one other quick thing,
I wanted to bring up.
These kind of things make my day.
You don't have to do it.
It's just it was the middle of the night.
So what happened was I was watching Chargers Chiefs.
I conk out.
I wake up like 1 in the morning.
Like I got a bunch of stuff to get ready for tomorrow's show.
So I come into the studio.
And I work for two or three hours.
It's 3, 4 o'clock in the morning.
And then this dude sends me a note that says, hey,
I love that I get to hear you.
You've provided me with countless laughs over the years.
Thank you, GL.
I truly appreciate it, big dog.
I mean, I can't tell you how much that means to me
because this is why we do it.
Honestly, I'm not making what I was making at K&B
or any of the other places I've done through 25 plus years
of doing this.
But at the end of the day, what this is allowing me to do
is just kind of refocus in my love for doing this and everything.
And so when you hear somebody say that over the years,
because that's what you try to do,
I'm just trying to entertain people and laugh and everything
and not take this too seriously and give you
a break from all the shit that's going on in our world
and all these different things.
So it's just really cool.
And it's not something you have to do.
And I'm not begging for it or asking for it.
I'm just simply saying that that just made my day
because that's what I've always tried to do
over a long time in doing this is just laugh and give you
a break and all that kind of stuff.
So anyway, really cool stuff.
Really cool stuff.
And I really appreciate it.
And I don't want that kind of stuff to go unnoticed.
All right, the 49ers beat the Bears 38 to 13.
Let's go over a few things.
Let's do positive first.
All right, let's just be really positive about the 49ers.
So if you get any questions, comments, thoughts,
I'm glad that it was working for people.
Good morning, John.
I'm glad that mornings are working for people in this time.
But here's, let's kick it with the 49ers offense.
And if you look right there, that's
the biggest part of this whole thing right now
is offensively in the 38-13 win.
Now they get off to this great start
and all those kind of things.
But as bad as the season has been,
and we're going to play a clip from Rapsheet over the weekend,
if you missed it.
There's Brock Purdy, 20-25, 3-25, two touchdowns.
It's a rating 145.4.
I have been critical of Brock Purdy.
There's no doubt about it.
But great game yesterday from Brock.
The draft class just keeps getting better and better and better.
Isaac Garrendo, Garrendo, Garrendo.
15 carries, 75 yards, 5-2 a carry,
two touchdowns, had a long of 30.
Seems like he can bust it every single time.
And take note that the Bears defense isn't horrible.
We get this thing in our head where just the team is awful.
That team's awful.
But defensively, the Bears aren't awful.
And so Garrendo runs for 78.
Plus he catches a couple of balls out of the backfield for 25.
And maybe somebody reminded Brock Purdy, hey,
you can kick it out to the backs.
And they're going to do something.
Garrendo in open field.
Remember, Garrendo was a receiver for the most part
in college, and he's just starting
to learn how to play running back, which is huge.
George Kittle, I'm going to tell you
about a story about George Kittle in just a second.
Six carries, or excuse me, six catches, 151 yards on six targets.
And then Joann Jennings continues his season,
win healthy, 7 for 90, and two touchdowns.
So those are your stars of the game as far as the 49ers.
Couple of things here.
Garrendo hasn't played running back for a long time.
And much, I should say, played wide receiver, as I said.
He's got massive upside in 4-3-3 speed.
George Kittle, so the thing I want to tell you about Kittle
is, and he's just showing you, he's better than Kelsey.
He's better all around tight end.
He's the best tight end in the league.
He's going into the Hall of Fame.
He's a great guy.
He's always treated me absolutely golden from the time
that he was a rookie do recently.
And the thing, though, is you and I have talked about this a lot,
even on the show, but we talked about it on KMBR as well.
Brock Purdy's going to get a contract,
and we're going to play that rap sheet for you
in just a second, that video of it that played over the weekend.
If you missed it, it'll play it for you in a second.
But when I talk about guys who may or may not
be coming back next year, Ward's not
going to come back next year because they signed Dima Lenore.
And I think they think Green is going to be a guy, the second
round pick out of Florida State.
Green is a guy that they think is going to have
some pretty decent upside.
So there's one of those that's that deal going on.
And then I don't think that Javon Hargrave is going to be back.
Greenlaw, we're going to see Thursday against the Rams.
Not sure that he's going to be back long term.
So there's a lot of guys that you got to make decisions on
because Brock Purdy's getting all that money,
and the team's getting older.
And George Kittle would seem to be one of those guys,
because George Kittle can be hurt just because of the way
that he plays, the style that he plays.
And I had heard those things over the last couple of years.
There's no way.
The kind of season that George Kittle is having this year,
the kind of leadership that he provides in a different way,
just leadership in terms of how hard he plays,
how loose he is, how positive he is.
He's the most positive guy.
You have one of those kind of friends?
It's like, dude, you're relentlessly positive.
Stop.
And within the organization, and you can relate to this.
You don't have to be an athlete to relate to this.
Within the organization, there are people who are like, dude,
you're just too much, because he's just all the time.
He is on all the time.
There are certain people who are on, and then you get away
from them.
I'm kind of like that.
Papa's like that.
I got a lot of friends in this industry who like that.
I remember one time I was producing a show,
and I called Dick Vitale.
Are you Dick?
You're ready to come on the show?
And he's like, yeah, I'm ready to come on the show.
And I'm like, this cannot be Dick Vitale.
I hang up.
They pop him up into the studio.
He's like, hey, baby!
He's freaking out.
I'm like, wow.
So not everybody is on 24-7, 365.
Kittle is.
And it can be wearing within the organization.
It can wear out Kyle.
It can wear out guys.
And so over the last couple of years,
because of the injuries, you and I
talk about this all the time, the best ability is availability.
And sometimes Kittle isn't available.
And for that position, he's pretty highly paid.
He's highly compensated.
So Kittle, for me, was a guy, because I had heard this,
was kind of on that list that when veterans start getting
released by the 49ers, that George Kittle's
going to be on that list.
Not anymore.
6 for 151.
And it's not just this game.
It's the way that he's hung in in a tough season this year.
He's banged up.
He's hurting.
He just is.
He's blocking as well as ever.
He's catching the football as well as ever.
Breaking tackles, running in the open field.
I mean, he's absolutely, he's getting better.
So he's a guy that's not going to be gone.
And then Juwan Jennings 7 for 90 yesterday,
if they would have known that Juwan Jennings was this good,
and they didn't, Brandon Iukowic wouldn't have been
re-signed, because they drafted Ricky Piersal.
I know that Piersal has generally disappeared.
He's a rookie.
That's what happens with rookies.
But next year, throw Iukowic out just for a second.
And I know Debo didn't have a game yesterday.
Another good game when he ended up five carriers for 13 yards.
They figured that running thing out, Kyle, just so you know.
Was it two catches, 22 yards?
He didn't do much.
So he's going to be gone.
But Iukowic to that big deal, if they didn't know
Juwan was this good, they would have just traded him
and gotten picked.
Juwan Jennings can be a number one receiver even
though he runs a 4-7 plus.
He just, his positioning, it's like a basketball player,
rebounding.
I'm telling you stuff that you already know.
But yesterday, Perti Guerrero, who
has upside that makes that draft class,
look absolutely great.
Kittle, the way that he's playing,
and Juwan Jennings continually stepping up.
Debo will be gone next year.
But Juwan Jennings, Iukowic, hopefully Piersal,
they're going to bring back Kittle.
When you hear those names and then you
hear the national media going, they're dead.
They are dead.
All right, well, the guys I just mentioned, plus Brock
Perti, they're going to be three deep at running back.
They're going to lose Elijah Mitchell, who's
been out all year so you don't really know.
But when you're looking at CMC, Mason's
going to come back and looking at the upside of Garendo.
With the receivers I just mentioned,
Kittle playing as well as he is.
Brock Perti's going to get re-signed.
This team isn't dead.
This year they're not going to make the playoffs.
We'll get into that in just a second.
But this team is not dead.
You start looking at the team yesterday and you go, not bad.
Not bad.
Let's go to the defensive side of things.
And then I'm going to get out to some hits on the chat line.
So stay right there if you got something for me.
Let me know.
Now defensively yesterday, seven sacks, seven.
Now again, the Bears offensively are challenged.
They have an OK offensive line.
Not bad, not great, but OK.
You tore a gross Matos.
You tore a gross Matos, 94, in your program, three sacks.
A couple were covered sacks, but three sacks are three sacks.
Give it up to him.
Leonard Floyd's been interesting.
He gets two sacks.
And again, they get seven as a team.
And they talk to Leonard Floyd afterwards.
And he's a great guy.
I spoke to him quite a few times.
Pop and I had him on right after he signed.
And he's got 8 and 1 half sacks.
So you look at 8 and 1 half sacks and you think to yourself,
hey, he's pretty good.
It just hasn't felt impactful.
Maybe that's stupid of me.
But it's like, oh my god, he has 8 and 1 half sacks.
And with both out, it's even tougher and more of a challenge.
But seven sacks defensively for the 49ers yesterday.
And the yardage-wise, let me go down to this
and press your friends with this.
Look at yards at the half yesterday.
For the love of God, man.
Look at that.
At the half yesterday, it was 3 10 to 2.
3 10 to 2 and 1 half.
As far as yards were concerned, the Niners blew them out
early enough.
And then real quick, some team stats
to give you for the 49ers.
So if you watched the preview show,
I did a preview because I talked so much
Willie Adomas on Saturday night that people are like, hey,
dude, you're going to talk any Niners?
I'm like, the greatness of this forum now is you just
talk what's hot.
Like, if the 49ers are a good topic,
I'll talk to 49ers.
But if they're not, I'm not going to talk about them at all.
So I told you, money downs.
I said the money downs defensively,
offensively the 49ers have been terrible all season long.
You get third down efficiency right there.
6 at 12, 50%.
They had been terrible.
Total yards I just gave you.
So they went 3 10 to 3 at half.
452 to 162 in total yards.
Sax I said 7.
But then here's the big one, red zone.
And we've talked about this all season long.
Christian McCaffrey is going to fix the red zone.
Not so much.
But they went 5 of 6 in the red zone yesterday.
5 of 6.
And I'm talking scoring touchdowns.
So then the Bears did go 2 of 2 because the Niners defense
has been so bad.
But still, you look at those team stats,
and they're pretty impressive as far as the 49ers are
concerned.
I'm going to take those off the board in 3, 2, and 1.
All right, let's get back to reality as far as the 49ers
gets.
Yeah, before that.
Because let's have fun.
We don't want to go to reality.
By the way, I quit coffee today.
That was real smart.
I mean, I'm drinking a sugar-free red bulb.
My wife's like, I told her, I'm going to cut coffee out.
I'm going to be healthier.
I'm going to do better.
And then what do I do?
I'm going to cut coffee out this morning and then get a bunch
of sugar-free red bulb because it's like crack.
I got to have something.
All right.
Do you know how many broken TVs there were at Chicago
yesterday?
Kyle says, they should be used to it by now.
I like Caleb Williams.
He's eventually going to be a good player.
But they haven't been good forever.
I have an autographed Debo helmet.
His play is declining.
Yeah, he's going to be gone.
And I got nothing against Debo personally.
I'm not going to be able to get him.
Too many hits.
He's not done.
I mean, Debo's not even 30.
But the reality is, is that the style that Debo plays,
and he combines that running back and wide receiver position,
and he's not the greatest of route runners.
It's just, he's going to take a short pass,
and he's going to run you over.
So even though he's a wide receiver,
he's actually a running back in terms of his build.
And I think that it's just taken its toll on him.
He's gotten banged up.
And I just don't think that he's a guy.
And then you look at the contract as well, and he knows.
So one thing I'll give Debo a ton of credit on.
He knows that this is his last season here.
He knows he hasn't been productive.
He knows that he's too expensive on a team that
is scrapping for money, especially when Brock
Purdy gets paid.
And he's been a professional.
I give him a ton of credit.
Breathing air is unhealthy.
You're right.
Black coffee.
Yeah, I do like black coffee, by the way.
I'm not one of those people that has put 90 things in and whipped
cream on the top.
We wonder why we're, never mind.
I'm not going to get into a why we're obese as a country.
That's not going to do anybody any good.
But when you see somebody walk out of a Starbucks with like
three pounds of whipped cream on the top, come on, bro.
What are you doing?
Let's see what else we got in the chat today.
Let's see here.
Lorenzo Neal.
Is there a Lorenzo Neal signing?
Somebody mentioned some Lorenzo Neal.
Yeah, there is some dead cap around.
Yeah, you're right, John.
Coffee is better than Red Bull.
I'm an idiot.
I won't drink coffee, which is pretty natural, right?
Just black coffee.
Go out and get a Red Bull.
It's full of chemicals.
Die early.
Too much soy.
So anyway, all right, let's move on to some other things.
Now, look, this is just the way it's going for the four
dinners.
And I promise we'll get to some Willi Adamas
and have some fun here.
But here are your playoff standings.
And this is reality.
So they beat Chicago 38-13.
Everybody's feeling good.
I just showed you the offensive stars.
And more so, I showed you that to say,
this national thought that the 49ers are dead.
Look at these guys.
Look at this draft class.
This year, it's been horrendous.
There's been injuries, weird stuff.
But that doesn't mean that's the way it's going to be.
But if you start looking, and that's just the NFC there,
you know what the Lions are going to do?
The Niners are going to play him.
The Eagles, Seahawks now third.
Bucks won yesterday.
Vikings are 11 and two.
Sam Darnold played well.
The Packers, Commanders.
But then you look at the bottom.
Would you ever thought in a million years, the 49ers
would be 11th?
11th?
I don't care about the injuries.
Rams won yesterday.
Falcons lost to the Vikings.
Cardinals lost to the Seahawks at home.
And then you see the lonely 49ers at the bottom there.
So that's really the reality of it, of the playoff picture.
And then to just kind of take that a step,
nobody likes to quit a job.
That's a good point.
And then you look at my fancy graphic there,
where this is what I'm projecting.
And again, when I project things,
they horrendously go wacky and they don't work out.
So this is another thing where you can say,
Lund, you're insane and you're stupid.
And hit me up at John Lund radio.
Hit me up in the chat.
Any of my many social media places
that I've just told you about.
So this is my projection.
This is no one else's projection.
We'll see what happens.
Generally wrong.
But the Seahawks are 8 and 5.
Green Bay, Minnesota at Chicago at the Rams.
I think they're going to go 10 and 7.
That's 2 and 2.
I think they'll beat Green Bay at home this weekend.
Probably not.
I think they'll lose to Minnesota at home.
Probably not.
At Chicago, we just saw the Bears.
That doesn't give me a lot.
And then they don't play well at the Rams.
So I'm going to go 10 and 7 for the Seahawks.
The Rams get that win over Josh Allen and the Bills
yesterday.
That was crazy.
So they're at 49ers on Thursday.
Niners get that win at the Jets.
I gave them a win.
My god, Aaron Rodgers.
What a joke.
What are they, 3 and 10?
Then you got Arizona and Seattle.
I project them to 10 and 7.
And this is what you care about.
Now, let me know here.
What do you think?
Am I wrong in this projection for the 49ers?
6 and 7.
You got the Rams are going to win that 7 and 7 at the Dolphins.
You're going all the way across the country.
Here's where you're probably going to disagree with me.
You're going all the way across the country,
which is not easy.
And two is looking pretty decent.
They beat the Jets.
It did take overtime and they were at home.
So maybe I'm wrong here.
I have them as a loss there.
So 7 and 7, 7 and 8.
Detroit at home.
Detroit's just going to be chomping at the bit, right?
That's my thought.
Is that Detroit's going to be like, we want revenge.
It's not going to bring back the NFC championship game,
but they're going to go pedal to the medal.
I really think that's going to be a difficult one
with all the injuries.
So what does that turns into?
7 and 8, right?
7 and 9, whatever that is.
Yeah, 7 and 9.
And then at Arizona makes them 8 and 9.
I think they win at Arizona.
So 8 and 9.
That's not going to get it done clearly.
And then Arizona's 6 and 7.
They've got the easiest schedule.
New England, Carolina, I give them two wins.
That's 8 and 7 at the Rams.
I think they lose, even though they blew out the Rams earlier
this year.
Niners, I think they lose that when they go 8 and 9.
So what do you think of my projections there?
And I know I'm being a bummer on a Monday,
because I feel great game.
I pointed out all those guys defensively,
look what they did with 7 sacks.
And Grenda was good.
And Jennings was good.
And Kittle is good.
And Kittle's not going anywhere and all this kind of stuff.
And then, Len, you've got to bring back reality.
I apologize.
So if I'm on crack and you think that this is crazy,
that I'm projecting these things that I'm projecting,
then let me know.
But what do you think?
Is that a bad projection right there?
Seattle 10 and 7, Rams 10 and 7.
I don't know what their tiebreakers are.
You care about it.
Is it the Niners 8 and 9?
Maybe you're already into the draft
and where that would put them in the draft.
Because last week, we got into Tankathon.
You go to Tankathon very often?
You go to Tankathon.
And you look at the whole thing,
and you're like, I'm already in the next year.
So great win.
I'm looking at more individuals than I am the team
at this particular point.
I'm excited about Grenda.
I think that Jennings is getting better and better.
I like that Kittle's going to be around.
Believe me.
There are a lot of people within that building
who get worn out by George Kittle and the injuries
and what he costs.
And people going, is he going to be on that cut list?
And that's not me talking.
That's not fandom.
That's not Mike Florio.
That's not somebody projecting something.
That's reality.
But I don't think he's going anywhere.
So that's good.
Not a bad projected at all, John.
We'll see.
I'm usually pretty bad at that.
I'm pretty poor at those.
Here's some good news.
So here's what I did.
Because this is what people tell you
when you are giving criticism to someone
or you're evaluating someone in a boss type position.
You give them a little good news, a little bad news,
and you always end on a positive note.
So that's what we did.
We looked at the Bears game, 38-13.
Looking good.
Look at all these guys who played well.
Look at these young guys.
Da-da-da-da-da-da.
And then I gave you a little bad news.
Here's reality.
And now I'm going to end on a little good news.
I think this is good news.
Tell me if I am wrong on this one as well.
This was Rapsheet yesterday.
This was before the game.
And you and I have had a lot of conversations
about Brock Purdy and what his future is.
And I know that you and I are going
to have a lot more conversations about Brock Purdy
in the offseason.
But he was great yesterday against the Bears.
Here is Ian Rappaport before the game yesterday,
saying that nothing has changed in the eyes of the 49ers.
And they want Brock Purdy to be their long-term quarterback.
All right.
There you go.
What am I doing?
I'm like waiting for the video to end.
And it ended.
And I'm just standing there sitting there,
looking at the camera.
My stance hasn't changed.
Brock Purdy played great yesterday.
I'd like to see a few more things from Brock.
You and I have had this conversation a million times.
A good quarterback is going to get paid
as much as a great quarterback because he's just the latest.
But another thing happened.
And I talked about this a little bit earlier
on in the podcast slash YouTube channel today.
Sam Darnold had another great game.
Now, if you listen to me on K and BR with any regularity,
I'm not a Sam Darnold guy.
He has all the physical tools in the chest that you need.
But the mental side for Sam Darnold,
like when I was at camp last year,
it just wasn't clicking in for him.
And that's really what it was.
And I'm not saying Sam Darnold's dumb.
It's just that the biggest thing that Brock Purdy gives you
is his quick times in order to just, you know,
he sees the field and it's out.
It's out.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And that's really not Sam Darnold,
even though he's gotten a lot better.
And so this morning, I was reading a piece
and somebody actually made the case for Sam Darnold
to be an MVP candidate.
I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa.
But this kind of applies to this whole Jared Goff thing
that I'm always telling you about because Jared Goff
has had everything perfect.
They've played the majority of their games inside.
Of course, they play inside for their home games,
but also a lot of the road games.
I think only two times Goff has had to go outside.
He's got all the weapons.
And therefore, Jared Goff, who's a good, not great quarterback
and has gotten paid like a great quarterback,
can look like a great quarterback even though he's good.
Does that make sense?
Same thing with Sam Darnold.
Look at Sam Darnold.
Really good running game.
Jordan Jefferson, yeah, he's fairly good.
Jordan Addison, T.J. Hawkinson, pretty good offensive line.
All of a sudden, it's like Sam Darnold can look pretty good.
And he looked pretty good yesterday.
So what's Sam Darnold going to make in the offseason?
I would think that a team that the Giants and the Raiders
are going to take quarterbacks where they are.
The Raiders, I think, are now 2 and 11
after another outstanding performance yesterday.
If you didn't catch that sarcasm.
But so they're going to take the quarterbacks.
And then I think Darnold's going to make a lot of money.
And I don't think he's going to stay in Minnesota
because JJ McCarthy out of Minnesota
was a first round pick, top 10 guy.
So I think Minnesota is going to pivot to him.
And then there's Sam Darnold standing there.
Now, I know you're going to call me crazy and on crack
and all those kind of things.
But would the 49ers be better off with a, I don't know,
$20 or $25 million Sam Darnold than a $50 or $60 million Brock
party? I'm just bringing it up. Don't throw anything at me.
I'm just, I'm just bringing it up because how many players
can you sign with the difference in that money?
Two or three? Can you keep two or three?
Can you bring in two or three?
Because the one thing about it is, and I've always had this
thought, and I could be totally wrong.
I'm just, I'm just spitballing.
Just throwing it against the wall.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But if Kyle Shanahan is your offensive coordinator
and he's brilliant, and then you have all these weapons,
I just told you, three deep running back,
kid will stay around.
I think Peersall is going to come through.
Jennings looks like a number one receiver.
They're going to let Debo go.
Iuk is going to come back.
The thing for me, and I've been saying this and preaching,
not only on K and BR, but here, offensive and defensive line.
Trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches.
That's what the 49ers do when they are winning at a high level.
They're punching you in the face.
And these teams who are, who are much better this year,
Philadelphia punches in the face, sodas Detroit,
the Rams are trying to do that.
The Seahawks are trying to do that.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
And so with the 49ers winning and winning and winning,
and everybody looked at them and said, you know what?
We got to punch people in the face.
And it starts in the division.
So the Rams up their offensive line.
Seattle's offensive line stinks.
But Mike McDonald's a defensive guy.
They fortified their defensive line.
They traded for a guy in season.
Robertson from the Jags.
They drafted by Ren Murphy in the first round out of Texas.
So their teams are trying to punch in the mouth in this division.
The better teams are starting to punch in the mouth all around the NFC
because they watched the 49ers punch them in the mouth forever.
So the 49ers have to get back to that.
I'm not saying Brock Purdy isn't great.
I'm not saying that I'm down on Brock Purdy.
I keep saying that over and over again, so I apologize.
But I'm looking at a Darl go, and man,
if you signed him for a few years at $25 million,
and I've kind of done a flip on him because Papa was sitting there
going, Darl, Darl, Darl, I'm like, I don't like Darl.
I just don't.
I don't like his mental side.
Physically, yeah.
Physically, there was a reason why he was the third overall pick.
Physically, there was a reason why Brock was the last pick.
Mr. Irrelevant, but Brock's got the brain that Sam Darl doesn't.
So I'm not sure if I would trust it.
I'm simply saying that if the 49ers want to get back
to dominance on the offensive and defensive lines,
they have to dedicate it through the draft,
and they probably have to go out and get a few guys as well.
Trent Williams isn't going to play forever.
We know what the defensive line has been doing.
I know they got seven sacks yesterday,
but they get both of back.
But to me, it's the interior of the defensive line.
And then I'm worried about the tackle's long term.
Banks isn't the answer at guard.
Obviously, Brendl isn't the answer at center.
So that's a lot of guys that you've got to get.
Can you pay Brock Perry all that money
and still fortify those lines to the level
you need to be the team you used to be?
Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me I'm on a crack.
I'm OK with that.
At Jodlund Radio, make sure that you hit me up.
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We do this daily at 8 AM, or excuse me,
Monday through Friday, 8 AM, Saturday and Sunday.
I was sleeping in.
Although, like we said, Saturday night,
we did a huge two hour thing on Willie Adamus live.
We were drinking whiskey.
We were partying.
We were having a great time because, my god,
Buster Posey signed the guy.
We're going to get into that next,
because that is the huge story along with Juan Soto
signing with the Mets.
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Make sure you're telling your friends.
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Let me get back to the chat line for a minute.
What's everybody up to?
Tacky, Saturday night was fun, Tacky.
I'm telling you, I was so jacked up.
Afterwards, it was about 8 o'clock.
And my wife thought I was going to be gone like 15, 20 minutes.
She goes, well, how long are you going to be gone?
She's not watching or listening.
But it's like she didn't want me around,
but then I did two hours, and then she was mad at me.
I'm like, I cannot win.
You've got to be kidding me.
Yeah, I'd hate to root for the team that broke off $60 million
for Tacky.
Right.
I mean, I guess that's what I keep saying.
I keep saying, man, I'm looking at Dallas going,
Dax not a bad quarterback.
He's had some bad injury issues, but they give him all that money.
And then Jerry Jones says, I can't afford anybody.
So they have no running game.
They have.
I mean, they need to start over.
They give lamb a bunch of money.
They give the quarterback a bunch of money,
and then they can't afford anybody.
That's what I'm looking at here is I'm saying, OK,
they're giving receivers money.
Even with Deba leaving, they gave Ayuk $30 million.
They're going to give Brock Purdy $50 or $60 million.
And teams, as I said, teams get in trouble
when they give good quarterbacks great money.
Problem is, I think there's only two great quarterbacks
in the league right now.
Josh Allen, and if you watch that Rams-Bills game,
that was ridiculous.
And Mahomes.
And again, the Chiefs just pulled one out of the fire last night
against the Chargers.
Matthew Wright, by the way, former kicker for the 49ers.
Doink!
Doink's it off the upright, but it goes in,
because that's what Kansas City does.
And they end up beating the Chargers last night.
But it's just that I don't know how much longer
the luck can go for the Chiefs if they can just
do this all season long.
But it's like, that's what they do every game.
Crazy.
All right.
What else we got up here?
Saturday Night, Crack.
Hey, Michael.
Good to have you, man.
Again, say hi.
Any questions, comments, thoughts?
I'd love to hear from you.
Who else have we got in here?
Very cool.
All right, let's get to the big thing
that you want to get to, because I've
wanted to talk about this since 8 o'clock when we started
all this kind of stuff.
And that is some baseball stuff that's been going on.
You know this by now, but there it is.
One solo to the Yankees.
The Yankees lose one.
By the way, this is the way New Yorkers think.
New York Daily News.
It's not the Mets get one solo.
It's the Yankees lose one soda to the crosstown rival Mets.
A superstar takes 15 year, 765.
Bzzz.
Sorry, I was choking on my Red Bull.
765 million dollar deal.
I'm just going to let that sink in for just a second.
My god, man.
15 for 765.
If you get $765 million, you should never make it out.
And you should at home run almost every single time you're
up.
Couple of things in the Juan Soto deal.
I'm desensitized to money.
I don't know if you are, but I'm desensitized to money.
It's like whatever.
It's just funny money.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
It's crazy, whatever.
Juan Soto is good.
He's not a tonny.
I mean, he's a really nice player.
He's won championships.
He's been up since he was a teenager.
He's a really nice, offensive player.
All those things.
The problem I have, and this is not related to Brock,
but it is to a certain extent.
If I'm a general manager, and we're
going to kind of morph this in to talk about Buster Posey,
but if I'm a general manager, I will
pay the players who I think are going
to be generational talents and help me turn the turnstiles,
help me win, do all those kind of things.
They have to check off a lot of boxes, I think.
And a tonny checked off those boxes for the Giants
a couple of years ago.
Judge checked off those boxes.
I mean, you know who I'm talking about.
There are certain guys that are just that way that
can change your franchise.
I think Bryce Harper did that for the Phillies
a couple of years ago.
Juan Soto going to the Mets.
Is that going to change their franchise?
Maybe.
I mean, maybe it is, and maybe I'm short selling Juan Soto.
And I'm not bitter or angry or anything like that.
I didn't think that the Giants were ever going to get Juan Soto.
I don't think they should have even went
in the bidding for Juan Soto, which they didn't.
Thank you, Buster Posey, which we're
going to get into in a second.
And why it's so awesome what Buster Posey did,
because he didn't chase Juan Soto.
And while Juan Soto was being chased, all these other free
agents went off the market.
Farhan, which by the way, on Saturday night,
I went into this thing where I kept sliding over and bashing
Farhan, and I kept apologizing for it.
And people were like, let's bash Farhan.
And you're right.
So let me get to Buster and Farhan and Adamus
and what this means and the winter meetings and all that
in just a second.
But if you're offended by salty language,
and this is pretty salty.
I mean, this is a lot of salt.
This is like when the lid is loosened,
and you go to a restaurant, some smart ass kid
is loosened up the salt, then you go to put it on your fries
or something or your food, and the thing falls off,
and there's just mounds of salt.
You're like, really?
This is salty language.
So if you're offended by salty language,
and maybe you're listening on the podcast later on,
and your kid's in the car or something, just a minute or two.
Because I want to play this A because I think it's funny.
But also because this is just New Yorkers in a nutshell.
Yankees fans, I should say it in a nutshell,
because they think everybody should want to play there.
And it's just not the case.
So let me play this.
We'll do a little rant, then let's get into Adamus.
But here's pissed off Yankees fan after Juan Soto decides
to take all that money to go to the Mets.
Salty, 3, 2, 1.
Anyway, we did spend
like $500.
Before I got the box, get that THIAJ out.
And then I can teach you a little lesson.
Give me a TV set on Twitter if you're in the Mets.
Go ahead and subscribe here.
So if you're offended, if you just hit the middle of that, came onto the channel and
maybe this was your first time going to John London, you're like, what the, what the, what
the, my kids listening to this.
Look, we all talk like that.
I mean, again, this is one of the fun parts of being on this forum is just like, fuck.
I mean, who doesn't say fuck?
I may say it a million times a day, and I'm still struggling with it because almost 30
years on the radio, and it's the weirdest thing.
And I want to get into soda.
This is just a small tangent and I'll get right back onto the freeway.
But for, for all these years, it, something in my head, like I'll get off the air.
I mean, a minute off, a second off the air, and I'll walk out and I would talk to guys
in the studio and we're f-bombing and all this kind of stuff.
But in that studio, having the headphones on, having a mic in front of my face, because
I've been so programmed in my brain not to have, you know, not no profanity, no profanity,
that I'm still kind of like, it takes me a minute, it's taking me a minute.
But anyway, no, no, I, I would never, honestly, I would never, ever, ever.
But now it's like, it's going to be weird because I've got other things going on, some
other things going on, but I'm going to always do this show.
But I'm going to be back on, not terrestrial radios, so to speak, but other places where
it's like, you know, so I'm, I'm a little bit afraid of it just because I'm going to
go back and then we'll be like fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
And it's like, whoa, dude, I'm like, sorry, I've been doing a podcast and a YouTube show,
we can say whatever we want.
So anyway, okay, let me go back to that for just a second.
I know a lot of times this is for comedic purposes.
And I know that that guy's well known, dude.
And you got to decide, you know, a guy breaks his TV, like who's doing that because it's
just social media and you want clicks and who's doing that because they're pissed off.
But I'm just going to use it for what it is.
I know part of it is comedy and part of it is a set, but that is how Yankees fans think.
They think, why would you leave the pinstripes?
We're the greatest.
New York is the greatest city.
I'm a West Coast guy my whole life.
I did live East.
Like I said, I think I'm kind of an expert in this.
I worked in Pittsburgh.
I worked in Detroit.
I worked in Dallas.
I just kind of, there's a certain way you can go in this business.
You can stay in one place and grind there and climb that ladder as I'm doing that.
Or you can go all over the country and chase different jobs and try to grow your career
like that.
I did the ladder.
I don't know that I would ever do it again and I'm certainly not going back East and
freezing my ass off.
My California blood is way too thin.
So I'm not, no way, not ever doing it again.
I'm glad that I did because my sports perspective is I understand East Coast people.
The only place I didn't work is the South.
Have I ever told you the story?
Hit me up on the text line because if I have and you don't want me to tell the story, I
won't.
I do have a really good story about almost, my life almost ending on a stage because SEC
football fans were going to kill me.
I'm not kidding.
They were going to take me down.
Now, would I, would I've actually died?
Am I going a little too far on that?
Am I embellishing somewhat?
Maybe, but it was a big stage I was on and it was about ready to go down.
So there had been probably a major injury.
You know, I think, I think so.
I think I would add a major injury, but I've worked all over the country.
I'll tell the story in just a second, but I've worked all over the country.
So I have a pretty good sense of different sports fans and I just, I, no offense to anybody.
I love anybody.
I don't care where you're from.
East, West, Midwest, South, not from the country, whatever, man.
I get along with everybody, but I, there is a, there is an East Coast bias.
There is a, just all over the country, but there's a reason why.
Like when I lived in Detroit, it was cold and gray and bitter and there was nothing
else to do.
So when the Lions lost, which when I was there, they went 0-1-16 with Rod Maranelli and, you
know, the Tigers won 43 games one year I was there.
You know, there's nothing else to do.
So there's just, you're so pissed and bitter when it's over there into Michigan football
and Michigan State basketball.
And it's just such a big thing that when there's no more sports, it's like, what do we do?
And in California, it's like, I don't know, we'll go drink wine or we'll go to the beach
or there's a million things to do.
It's expensive as hell here, but there's a reason why.
Because I walk, you know, we, not me, we all walk outside.
And the other day it was like 67 degrees and it's almost mid December.
I mean, there's four, I was talking to my mom the other day.
She traveled back.
She had to, she didn't want to.
She traveled back to Michigan because her boyfriend is from there.
She's older and there was four feet of snow.
It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
So they're bitter and they're angry and they're pissed off.
So I'll try to stay focused here.
But as far as Yankees fans are concerned, it's like, who wouldn't want to live in New
York?
Who wouldn't want to play for the Yankees?
Who wouldn't want to play for the pinstripes?
Who wouldn't want, there's a lot of people.
In fact, the majority of the people won't.
So they have this attitude of who wouldn't want to be on the biggest stage.
I don't know.
This is a pretty big stage in San Francisco.
I mean, it's, it baseball is baseball because of the social media reach and the reach of,
of everyone now of, of, you can play in Milwaukee.
You can play in Minnesota.
You can be as big of a star as you want to be and play for anybody.
Like the days of LeBron James and the league being pissed off because he's in Cleveland
and he's got to get out of there.
Now he's a Laker who was in Miami.
It doesn't matter where you are.
You can be a superstar wherever.
So to me, just personally speaking, I wouldn't want to play for the Yankees.
When Aaron Judge signed with the Yankees and Papa kept telling me it's the power of the
pinstripes, I don't care.
Like it wouldn't have moved me, but I get it.
But not everybody wants to be a Yankee.
That's just the way it is.
Not everybody wants to be in a major market.
And then the other side of it is when, when people get pissed off about where a guy decides
to play, how do you know?
Like you, you and I take a job, right?
You and I take a job.
Maybe it's at home.
Maybe it's not.
Maybe it's away from home.
Maybe it's like all these different things go into the decision that you make to further
your career or maybe to just say, look, I'm going to wind it down, whatever the case,
maybe it's your decision.
Because when people like that gets so pissed off, when Aaron judge, or excuse me, when
Juan Soto says, I'm playing for the Mets, who's, who's this guy?
Oh, look at that.
Why are you so angry, man?
Relax.
But that's, that's an East Coast sports fan to me.
West Coast, it's like, Hey man, we want to win.
Maybe I'm wrong.
We want to win.
It's just, if we don't, yeah, we're, you know, it's a big deal.
But you know, there's other things to do.
What are you going to do when it's freezing ass in New York or Detroit or that's all you
got?
So that's why they're so angry.
Pissed off guy.
All right.
Here it is.
This is from a Saturday night.
Willi Adamus.
Did you have, were you like me?
Did you have to kind of double check?
Like, is this, is this real?
Is this really real?
But there's Jeff passing with it, the blue checkmark and all that kind of stuff.
That's a reason why I put Rokie Suzuki up there as the third story there, but there it
is seven years, 182 million dollars.
There's willi Adamus getting the deal from Buster and the Giants.
So first of all, I'd love to hear what you have to say about Buster getting willi Adamus,
how will he, Adamus fits.
I do have a lineup here and I do have a great video that I'm playing for you in just seconds.
It won't go anywhere.
If you're going to go off to work or something, it's like, I got to go hang on.
But there's a lot of different layers that are really cool about this.
First and foremost, let's start here.
Let's start with the baseball side of things, shall we?
Is that okay?
Let's start with the baseball side of things and then we'll get into what it means for
Buster, what it means for the Giants and what they could possibly do at the Winter Manings
that start this week.
So this is MLB.com.
This is Major League Baseball tweeting what the lineup could look like with the Giants.
And so Jung who leaves at the top, he's unproven.
Tyler Fitzgerald had a good year last year, but I'd like to see it again.
Willi Adamus hitting third.
I like that.
LeMontway, Jr. at first base.
No, I just, I don't want that.
I want him to upgrade at first base.
I want him to get some power.
I know that Bryce Eldridge is on the way.
I don't think it's wise to rush a 23 or excuse me, a 20 year old through the system, not
23, 20 year old through the system.
LeMontway, Jr. gets hurt too much for me.
I like him, but if they had a different kind of a lineup, maybe some more power somewhere
else, I could live with them.
I don't want LeMontway, Jr. at first base, let alone him hitting fourth.
I love taking walks, but not for my forehater.
Matt Chapman, that's fine.
I'd rather have him in a six or seven spot.
Mike Yastremsky, I think I have made my opinion known on him.
I think you need more out of right field.
I'd love it if Yastremsky was a fourth outfielder, came in for defensive purposes, you know, 350,
400 of bats.
I don't want him to be my starting right fielder on a team like this.
If same thing with LeMontway, Jr., if I had more on offense, I could live with Yastremsky,
but I don't.
Elliot Ramos, is he first half Elliot Ramos or second half Elliot Ramos?
Patrick Bailey, we know he's a great defender.
No, not Grant McCray in left field.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no.
That's not enough hitting.
So that's their projected lineup.
That would not be my projected lineup.
You want to take another quick gander at that and give me your thoughts on it at John Lund
Radio or in the chat.
So that's what MLB.com thinks could be their projected lineup.
I don't.
This is just the start.
So from a baseball perspective, it's awesome.
All right, from a baseball perspective, he's a middle of the order hitter, 32 home runs,
115 RBIs.
And from what we know is a pretty good clubhouse guy.
So let me play this video for you and then let's talk more about Willie Adamus and let's
talk about what this all means.
There's a big picture component to this that you and I need to discuss today.
But here is his former manager, Pat Murphy, who was recently on a baseball podcast slash
YouTube channel and loves himself some Willie Adamus.
The biggest, another thing to take out of this video that is kind of subtle, but really
not is that the giants are acting like a big market team.
Milwaukee's a small market team.
San Francisco's a big market team.
I've said this before and I'll keep saying it.
With the A's leaving, this is the single biggest market, single team in a market in baseball,
not New York, not Chicago, not LA.
Those are all two team markets.
Fourth largest media market in the country is the Bay Area in San Francisco and this
is the largest single team market.
So start acting like it.
So Pat Murphy just says, we didn't have a chance, man.
He's going to go to a major market team.
So this is before Adamus signed.
All right.
So there is Pat Murphy, the manager of the brewers.
So not only the stats we can see, right?
The 32, 115, et cetera, et cetera.
He's 29 years old, so he's in the prime of his career.
But you just heard a couple of things from his manager.
One on the player loves him, loves his mental makeup, baseball.
It is so important.
You know this, but I'll just remind you.
In baseball, it's so important of mental makeup and the type of guys you have in the clubhouse
and those kind of things because you're together in that clubhouse nine months a year.
You're traveling.
I know it's like that in the other sports, but you're practicing a lot of time and you're
playing game after game after game and you're going through what you're going through in
terms of ups and downs on a season and guys are having injuries.
And it's just, it's a lot of time being together.
Believe me, I've talked to a ton of guys.
You already know that.
Chemistry to me in baseball is more important than it is in any other sport.
So when you, yeah, you look at the stats and yeah, you can look at the analytics and all
those different kind of things.
But when you hear his manager, Pat Murphy there, say, love the kid, love the guy, love
the kid, that's something that's going to add.
And again, Buster Posey knows this.
This is why a baseball ops guy who's not far, honzai, and it's a guy who's actually been
in a clubhouse and knows what chemistry is about.
That's not a tangible, you know, you look at, you look at far hon in his computer, it does
not compute.
No, he gets along in the clubhouse.
Guys like him.
He's a leader, does not compute, does not compute.
That's not a number.
That's not an analytic, but it is important.
And that's why getting Buster Posey in his president of baseball operations and bringing
in guys who are scouts who actually go to games and see how a guy interacts and what,
that's important in a clubhouse.
More important than any other sport.
So that's one.
And then the other thing is Pat Murphy saying, hey, we're going to lose them to a big market
team.
Hey, the Giants are acting like a major market team.
Okay.
Then let's move this conversation on to what it means for the Giants.
First of all, the most impressive thing, and you and I talked about this on Saturday night
when we did the emergency podcast slash YouTube channel on William Dhamma's Signing with the
Giants.
Buster Posey.
This is what I've heard.
Buster Posey zeroed in on William Dhamma's.
He's also zeroing in on Corbin Burns.
So he went after both of them, but he made them both feel and I have not looked at anything
this morning.
So I don't know that Corbin Burns has done anything yet.
So let me double check.
And I am going to talk about Roki Suzuki in a second.
Let me make sure, make sure that I'm not missing anything is you and I are sitting here.
No, not missing anything because it is the winter meeting.
So we're sitting there going, okay, what's going on here?
Okay, nothing, nothing, nothing.
But what happened was is that Buster Posey said, I'm not chasing after, I'm not chasing
after the big, the big fish.
I'm not going to chase after one.
So I wouldn't have chased after like Aaron Judge, you got to chase after.
He's a local guy.
I totally understand that.
All right.
Totally understand that.
But the Harpers and some of these guys and Jean Carlos Stanton and all that kind of stuff,
they were done for the wrong reasons, they were done to turn the turnstiles.
The Giants weren't always in a position where they were saying, just get a guy because he's
going to make us better.
Mike Troutes on the Angels has been there forever, you know this, and they're no good.
So it doesn't matter.
It's about getting a bunch of guys together.
It's about chemistry.
It's all these different things that it's about, which is Buster Posey's been there
and absolutely knows it.
So he didn't, he didn't try to get Juan Soto.
And then when Juan Soto, you know, told him no, which he was never going to have a chance
to get, then he had to pivot.
Well, what happened the last two years with Farhan when he had to pivot?
And then he gets, you know, a bunch of scraps.
None of the signings generally work out.
Chapman did.
You got to give it up to him.
Sinell to a certain extent, but he left.
But two years ago when it was like Mitch Hanniger and Ross Stripling and all that garbage,
you got rid of all those guys.
Jorge Solari already got rid of that guy.
And he panicked at the end and was like, oh my God, I got to get somebody.
It's 2am, the lights just went on at the bar and I got to get somebody and I got to take
him home.
And that's what he did.
So Buster wasn't doing that.
He's like, look, I'm not, I'm not going to do that.
I want somebody who's realistic.
I want to show him the love.
I want to, I want to go all in on him.
And that's what got William Domus to be a giant because William Domus wouldn't be a giant
today.
And you know this.
If Juan Soto signed all of a sudden the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Red Sox, all these major market
teams would then up their offers to William Domus.
William Domus would not be a giant.
And they, and here's the other thing, seven years 182 for William Domus who's 29 years
old in the prime of his career.
That's a good signing.
Let's go back to Carlos Correa two years ago.
Sometimes it's the ones you didn't get.
Carlos Correa was a 13 year, $350 million guy and he failed his physical and everyone,
oh my God.
Well, guess what?
You'd be stuck with that guy now at that number.
William Domus for seven and 182.
Yeah, that's ridiculous money.
Everybody's overpaid.
I loved it today with Juan Soto.
Juan Soto's overpaid.
Everybody's overpaid in sports.
Not everybody, but you know, when you get to this level, it's silly.
But seven years, $182 million.
I would have thought they would have had to overpay, give William Domus double years.
I said that all last week.
If they're going to get William Domus, it's going to be 10 years.
It's going to be way more than anyone else would give him, but what Buster Posey did
is a guy who's been there, look man, you're our focus, not Juan Soto, you.
And so when William Domus, when all those other teams are like, if Juan Soto, we don't
get Juan Soto, you're going to be our guy.
It's like, no, it's human nature.
Everybody wants to feel loved.
Well, that's what Buster Posey did.
Brilliant.
Thank you.
Well, Farhan's out chasing the player he can never get.
Buster Posey went, this is the guy we want, let's focus on that guy and we're going to
get him.
And that's what they did.
It also tells that an early stage of the offseason, other free agents were serious.
You know, left side of the infield of Matt Chapman and William Domus, which is about
as good as it gets.
Tyler Fitzgerald, maybe at second base.
I don't want Lamont Wade at first.
Bailey is a good defensive player.
I can live with that.
There was a question up on the, let me see if I can find it.
There was a question up here.
Jackie's got a, we can talk about Bellinger attack.
You know problem.
Somebody asked about, who did you ask about there?
I lost it there.
Sorry.
Lost my train of thought there.
By the way, let's, let's bring in a conversation on Bellinger just because we had it on Saturday
night.
I know that you probably hate Bellinger because he was a Dodger.
I understand that, that hilarious throw he threw from what was it?
First base to third base, like 50 feet over his head.
John Miller had that awesome call on it.
But if you, if you look at what Bellinger could bring to the table, first base, DH, outfield
defense, late in the game, you could put him in, I know that Jung-Hoo Lee is a pretty
good defensive center fielder.
Mike Yostromsky is probably going to be back.
He's in right.
Bellinger could fill it in one of those spots.
Super athletic.
I've been screaming from the rooftops about athletes, athletes, athletes, athletes, athletes,
athletes, athletes, let me slow down.
Athletes and Cody Bellinger's athletic.
So look, his contract is $27.5 million next year, that might be too rich for Buster's
blood.
So maybe Bellinger isn't, but Chicago is looking, the Cubs are looking to either move Bellinger
or Suzuki.
That's another guy that they've talked about moving.
I wouldn't mind him either.
He's nice.
So there's a thought there, but let me go back to Buster for a second and where the
Giants are.
It sends a message at the beginning of the winter meetings that serious, that we're serious.
Now again, this move isn't going to have him catch the Dodgers.
And it's not even going to have him catch the Diamondbacks or the Padres, but it's
a sign and they're not done.
I know that for a fact.
They're not done.
That's why I kept checking my Twitter here because I've heard Corbin Burns is close.
And then I popped up that Roki Suzuki thing and let me do this.
This is Mark Feinstein who does a nice job, one of the insiders that you trust.
And he said Roki Suzuki is going to be posted.
He's 23 years old.
I told you this last week.
It's not going to be about money.
He's going to choose where he wants to go.
In fact, I'm looking at my Twitter right now, Jim Bowden.
Roki Suzuki is now expected to sign with a Major League Baseball team between now and
January 15th.
And he hashtags Padres, Metz, Yankees, Red Sox, Reyes, Cubs, Dodgers, Phillies.
I know for a fact that the Giants are in on him as well.
And they could not only get Corbin Burns who's going to cost you $200 million, but Suzuki's
not a money grab.
Suzuki's not going to cost you $200 million.
If you're not familiar with it, he's 23 years old.
You probably saw him at the World Baseball Classic.
He's got nasty stuff.
Still needs a little bit of refinement, but he can throw over 100 miles an hour, a bunch
of different pitches.
And he's just going to go to the team he wants.
A couple of years from now, he could make that big Yamamoto money, but more and more
of these Japanese players don't want to wait that long.
They'd rather get over here.
They know they can get endorsement money right away from Japan.
They can obviously live on that kind of money, make a decent living.
And then in a couple of years, they can cash in and they just want to bet on themselves.
They cash in in a couple of years and then they make their big money.
They're not obsessed as much with money right out of the gate as American players are.
So Roki Suzuki, you could afford, so you got Adamus, you could afford Suzuki and Burns.
Now I don't know that Corbin Burns, and I don't know that that's going to happen.
They got Corbin Burns and they got Willie Adamus as greedy as this sounds.
I still wouldn't think that that would be enough in the off season because we just showed
you the lineup.
Do I need to go back to that?
I love that Willie Adamus is sitting in the middle of that lineup, but I don't like Lamont
Wade Jr. hitting fourth.
Tyler Fitzgerald maybe.
I like Ramos.
Oh, I know what I was going to do.
Somebody had asked a little bit earlier about Ramos tailing off in the second half.
He did.
He used to be an all star in the first half of the year, but he tailed off greatly in
the second half.
So it's not like he's a known commodity.
He is to a certain extent, but still he did it for basically half a year.
Fitzgerald did it for three quarters of a year.
So there's still questions in that lineup, and I love that they got Willie Adamus and
the message that it sends and all those kind of things, but they need to work more on that
lineup as much as anything else.
They got to get some more pitching, but they got to work on that lineup.
So give me your thoughts on that.
All right, we've got over a lot today.
A lot of Niners, a lot of baseball.
Give me your thoughts.
Let me get to the, the tech sign as well.
What do you think?
What do you think that, what guy, is there a certain guy that you'd want the 49ers to
go after a certain person that they'd want to go after you?
Do you like this Suzuki idea?
Do you want Corbin Burns?
That's where a lot of people are saying Corbin Burns.
Mike says, do you see the current Giants roster as being a top five base stealing team?
I'm glad, Mike.
You brought that up and welcome.
Really, Adonis stole, stole 21 bases last year.
So if you start looking at this thing, Adonis is an athlete.
Fitzgerald is an athlete.
Matt Chapman is an athlete, very underrated base runner.
Go to the outfield.
Ramos, okay, as an athlete.
Jung-Hoo Lee is an athlete.
Mike Yostromsky is an athlete.
The one thing that I keep screaming and yelling about is you got to get more athletic in a
ballpark like this.
You play half your games in this ballpark.
And for some reason, Farhan just never came around to the fact that you've got to, you've
got to make your team fit your ballpark.
That's just what it is.
I want them to get more athletic.
But look, you got to love what Buster did.
It sends a message.
They're a major market team again.
He went, you know, is Buster going to be a guy who can close deals?
I think so.
And he knows that they're not done because that's what we keep hearing that Corbin Burns
is a guy.
And he's not, they're not running that lineup out there.
That lineup I just showed that MLB.com did, they're not running that lineup out there.
So is he officially posted, Perak Dapa?
Is he officially posted?
Yeah, I think that all we can offer him is two million.
Yeah, it's the, you're right.
It's the international money.
So maybe I'm wrong on that, but I have heard that the, that the giants have interest there.
All right, let me get to a little bit of, this is a different caboose and I was going
to play the caboose pistol today.
This goes back to something I said last week.
You don't get credit for, for something that you said you were going to do.
Honey, I almost bought you that diamond rig.
Damn.
Can I have sex?
No, you can't.
You don't get any credit for something you almost did.
Man, I almost brought you a coffee this morning.
Sorry.
Almost got you a donut this morning.
It makes you more pissed off, doesn't it?
Like somebody says they almost got, it's like, almost.
That's worse.
Don't even tell, don't tell me you almost got me something.
I want to hear that.
Anyway, we went on that tangent last week, remember?
All right.
So for the caboose pistol today, you probably know this guy, but I don't know.
I've just been obsessed lately with it.
This isn't a traditional caboose pistol, but it is a caboose pistol nonetheless.
So you see that guy, Steve Inman, right there.
And you probably know who he is.
MMA Sports Commentator, Narrates, Random Videos.
You've probably seen this guy do a bunch of stuff.
But for some reason, because it's the, the Christmas season, and I just, I've probably
watched this thing five times and just laughed my ass off every single time.
And I can't, I don't know how much you do this anymore.
But anyway, Steve's great.
I'm going to play a clip for you in just a second, but I don't know if you do this.
I'm a grown ass man.
Like, I shouldn't be like a kid and just, like I come across certain things on social
media or things like that, and I'll watch the videos over and over and laugh, and then
I'll go to the next one, the next one, the next one.
All of a sudden, I'm like 20 minutes in.
Like, what am I doing?
I have stuff to do.
Like I can't sit here and watch videos like my son does, who's 20 years old in college,
and he's like, you know, he's taking all my money and doing all that stuff, but he's
watching.
Or, you know, we got a seventh grader in the house around here.
We got a freshman in high school around here.
Like, they can do that stuff.
They can sit in the room.
They can laugh.
They can watch YouTube videos and all that stuff.
I can't do that.
I'm a grown adult.
I can't do that.
But then I find myself doing it.
So for today's caboose pistol, and again, there's Steve's, you should follow his page.
If you're just, I guess it's because we need mindless stuff sometimes.
You know, things aren't going great or whatever, the economy, you're pissed off.
You're like, I got it.
I need a break.
I tell my wife all the time, we'll watch mindless TV, stupid shows, whatever, for some people
that sports.
So sometimes you do need kind of an outlet.
So anyway, I'm sure you've watched him.
But if you haven't, and again, let's get into the Christmas season a little bit.
And here's just a clip of it.
But I find myself just watching his stuff and going, God, I need to grow up.
But here you go.
Am I, am I soft morick?
Am I immature?
Possibly.
You can tell me.
I'm using that as today's caboose pistol.
I'll get back to the regular wacky stories tomorrow.
But I just, I don't know why that struck me.
I think it was, I woke up in the middle of the night.
I told you this at the beginning of the show.
I was asleep.
I was, I was watching everything.
I'd done a bunch of stuff all weekend long.
And then I just, end of the Chargers chiefs game and watch it after Matthew Wright, the
former Niners kicker, doinks went in and I fell asleep.
And then I woke up like one in the morning, like I got to do all this stuff.
And then I found myself getting caught on these videos and I'm like, stop.
You got stuff to do.
And like you said, who said that?
I'm a man.
I'm 40.
Who did that?
I got to give you credit for that.
But it's like, come on, man.
I can't be doing this stuff, but still.
And then it was like, you know, grandma got ran over by a reindeer.
It's the holidays and all that kind of stuff.
So anyway, that's, that's how I was.
Mike says burns then Vlad.
You know, I read a thing on Vlad this morning.
And if you're with us on Saturday night, when we did the breaking news, YouTube show slash
podcast on, on Willie Dhamma's signing, we all were like, okay, who's next?
Who's next?
And we're throwing names against the wall.
How much fun is that?
By the way, as a fan, like your team is actually relevant and signing free agents.
And then therefore you can go into this conversation and be like, could we get this guy?
Could we get this guy?
We have this guy.
Somebody tweeted out today, one of the baseball insiders, one of the many on social media
with Juan Soto getting his outrageous, what is it?
15, 765.
Is that what it is?
15, 765.
Let me go back to that New York.
Is that what it is?
Yeah.
15, 765 deal.
The biggest free agent next off season is Vlad Guerrero.
And I thought Vlad was older.
He's 25.
So I doubt that, you know, maybe there's going to be somebody mid-season or something
like that that might trade for Vlad if Toronto's out of it.
But we forget oftentimes because it's up in Canada.
I don't know if you've ever been up to Toronto.
It's awesome.
Toronto's a major market team.
They were going after Juan Soto.
They're not Milwaukee.
You know, they're not Minnesota.
They're not going to just sell off guys because they get expensive.
Now if they're not very good, they might sell off Vlad Guerrero.
But Vlad's going to get, Vlad is going to get the bag.
And I'm not saying he wouldn't come here, but I'm simply saying that would you trade
for him with one year left on his deal?
Would you have to work out a deal for Vlad?
That's what I'm talking about.
But then you're going to have to include Bryce Eldridge.
And if you know me at all, I'm not afraid of doing those kind of things.
Too many GMs, too many fans.
Like they want to hoard prospects.
I want to, part of the reason you have a minor league system is so that you can trade those
guys.
You identify the guys you want to keep and you trade the guys that can bring you value.
And nine times out of 10, I tell you this all the time, nine times out of 10, the team
who gets the best player wins the trade.
Nine times out of 10.
I know that there's Zach Wheeler situations.
I know that, you know, you can go through the years and there's certain guys and I'm
like, ah, we shouldn't have traded that guy.
But most of the time it's like, who were those guys?
Oh, who is that guy?
Why did you do that?
Huh?
So most of the time you win the trade if you get the best player.
That's all I'm saying.
So Vlad's 25 and he's going to get the major bag next season.
Now is he worth it?
Let's go back to what I was saying earlier about the type of player that you want.
If I'm going to pay somebody that kind of one, so do kind of money, he's going to be
the guy on the field.
He's going to be the guy off the field.
He's going to turn styles.
He's going to ratings.
All, you know, he's, you know, he's the American Idol.
He's everything.
If I'm going to pay that kind of money, I'm going to go double digit ears, all that kind
of stuff.
You're American Idol.
You're going to get the full-flaw.
That's just how it is.
Now I know you got to overpay for guys, but I don't look at Adamus as an overpay.
I'm saying if I'm going to go out and get the number one guy on the market and I'm going
to pay all that kind of money, you know, Vlad's not a great defender.
Blade third.
Now he plays first.
DH is a lot.
That's not the kind of guy I'm going to give that kind of money to.
I'm looking more as far as the first baseman is concerned.
I'm looking like a year or two.
Can I get a year or two if Eldridge is supposed to be all that?
You know, Christian Walker's name has been brought up.
We were just talking about Ballinger, somebody like that.
Don't get me wrong though.
I'd love it.
They need a first baseman.
They need some power out of the first baseman.
Mike says, agree with you on Vlad.
Love that song.
Let's see.
What else do we got?
The tacky.
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It was awesome.
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Thanks as always.
Thanks for hanging out.
We had a great time.
Oh, by the way, I was going to mention, if you listen to the Krug or if you watch the
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We will have the collaborations.
I know I keep saying that, but we're getting the guests together this week.
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