OverDrive - OverDrive - April 4, 2025 - Hour 3

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Join Bryan Hayes, Jamie McLennan and Jonas Siegel for Hour 3 on OverDrive! Former MLB Player and SiriusXM Host Cody Decker joins to discuss the Blue Jays' roster strength, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s overall game and the Dodgers at the top of the mountain in the league. Jonas lists the reasons for optimism for the Maple Leafs approaching the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the guys hand out their best advice in the latest editio of Dear Hayesy-B and Bryan gives his FanDuel Best Bets.

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And then Vlad he gets called out. He got a couple of cheers down there that fans are getting ahead of themselves here They're trying to wine and dine Vlad. He right. he always said he wouldn't want to play for the Yankees although he's changed his tune on that from a marketing standpoint and I think from a negotiating standpoint but as far as I know he hasn't said anything about the Mets or having any issue with the New York Mets so I guess anything's possible until he actually signs a deal he wants cash that he That's what he wants. He wants to get paid. Glad he wants like $500 million. That's what, it just seems like that's the bold number, right?

Like 500, fully guaranteed, lock it in, let's go figure it out. At some point you got to go, are you going to give it to me or not, or do you move on? But like, you know, I would love to know in a canned moment, do you actually like Toronto? Like, do you like being here? Do you like the city? Do you like all of that? Like I would say yes, but I don't know. I've never met him, talked to him about it. Obviously he doesn't speak to me. He's always said that's the case. I mean, everyone will probably say that about everywhere. But I have no reason to believe anything is untruthful there. He's been here for a long

time and I think it is simply about a dollar amount like, you know Because the Jays could sniff that out Like if they offered him 500 or met his price and he said started humming and high then he's not serious about staying here Right, you get your answer But at this point if he's you know holding strong, it's more about the negotiation and what is I wouldn't say frustrating because it's not imperative It doesn't have to happen right now. You've got a lot of games left. You have a full season, then an off season. It's that if the Jays know they're going to do it, they're just going to pay him at

some point, that's what can be a little bit confusing. If you're eventually just going to buckle and give it to him anyway, what are you waiting for? Exactly. Then maybe you just get it over with. He can breathe easy. Everyone breathes easy. He gets the great now. I'll move on. Exactly. Then maybe you just get it over with. He can breathe easy. Everyone breathes easy. He gets the great ovation and we move on.

But they don't seem comfortable with doing that as of right now. What if it can go down a little bit? I think that's what they're begging. I think that's not good for them, right? That's like kind of rooting against yourself a little bit, isn't it? Exactly. That's where it's kind of a lose-lose. But I do think that's what Shapiro was talking about a couple weeks ago, that it might lead into free agency next year and if Flattie

does love being a Blue J and wants to be a Blue J and doesn't take any of this personally, the fact that they haven't bit and just given him what he wants, if Ty goes to the Blue J's, they will meet whatever else is out there plus a dollar, let's say. And I think Shapiro thinks if he gets the free agency, it's not 500 million. It's 350 or 450, it's not five. And then Mark can basically say, see, I told you, it's not out there. And we shouldn't be forced to pay it to you either. That very well could be the case.

But what if it is? And what if it's out there in the match? So like, we'll just give you 550. Let's get it done right now. He goes, all right. I'll sign it. You know, I'm not going back to the J's. Like that, there's possibilities and an element of gambling on both sides.

That's the nature of the beast. All right. Dear Hazy B, later in the hour, here is former MLB, or you hear him on Beetle and Decker on SirusXM. Here is Cody Decker back on overdrive. What's up, Cody? How you doing? Oh, just living a nightmarrive. What's up Cody, how you doing? Oh, just living a nightmarish version of the dream.

How you guys doing? Yes, oh we're doing the same thing up here man. And the Jays, they took an L today down at Citi Field, the Met's home opener, but for the most part it's been pretty positive. Everyone we discussed the Jays with, we naturally start with Vladiian the perception of that person on bloody guru junior where do you stand on him as a player in potentially on a five hundred million dollar player uh... five hundred million dollars is a tough pill for me to swallow the as was the seven hundred and fifty million dollar price tag on

one so that you could never convince me was a good idea uh... this is a player that's eventually going to be a DH down the road. So how much offensive output is he? Are you planning for him to give you? And if we're talking about a 10 to 15 year deal, I don't know why any GM thinks that's a good idea either. Do I think this guy deserves to be paid a high AAV

for the following years? Absolutely. But I am not very sold that a 10 year deal is what's best for business for the Blue Jays, to be quite honest. That being said, it is best for business that Vladimir Grorero Jr. resigns there and comes back and hopefully spends the next five years there, but if we're talking 10-15 year deals, I don't know why anybody outside

of the Shohei Otani deal, which by the way is a 10-year deal, yes, but it's paid over a 20-year period. On top of that, you're paying justifiably for two pitchers. You're paying justifiably for two pitchers you're paying three hundred million three hundred fifty million dollars pitchers for the pitcher three hundred fifty million dollars for the hitter you're simply not getting even a semblance of that vlad is a hell of a hitter but he's not show hey otani on either side of the ball what about your perception of bachette i mean you know do you think he should be a guy that should be locked up uh... is that a nice little start here i think he's a high

value player what do you make of that solid player young it's just a matter what the years are going to be in the a a v i don't really know what the plan is going forward it's seeming like a lot of players want the deferred money or the blue jays interested in deferred money it's not like they're hurting for cash and we've been rogers is is about 10 billion dollars himself man like if it's all about that then quite frankly i don't know why this team actually hasn't overspent at all to this point they have the money to do it and frankly it's the blue jays you're the only team in town and when i say the only team in town

i'm talking about in the country man like get it going i i do believe in this blue jays team right now i think this is a team that could sneak into the wild card even the third or second spot the red sox are headed that's a hell of a pitching staff and the yankees despite not starting the year with hill stanton and being without coal throughout the year that is still the new york yankees and they're not going anywhere either yeah that's the reality of the american league east and you know we were talking a lot about that leading up to the the season that all these different teams

around the baltimore boston new york at all taken different hits in different areas you mention the yankees in particular but even baltimore with gutter henderson banged up early and you know they'd they didn't necessarily add to their staff if anything they lost uh... in terms of arms in the offseason yet you know the jay's are five and three with this loss today and of arms in the offseason. Yet, you know, the Jays are five and three even with this loss today and, you know, we're waiting on Max Scherzer and this is an element of trying

to project what could happen here is that you're hoping you could get maybe 120 innings out of Max, 130, it had to be reasonable. He wasn't giving you 220, 230, 240. That was never going to happen. But now I'm, I'm, I i have no idea what we're gonna see him throw again i don't know what it's gonna look like he he went to pennsylvania got the court is on shot uh... where do you stand on the likelihood that max surezer can have an impact on this blue jay season i think he could but i do think it's gonna take some time and frankly if

it's gonna come down to the idea that maybe we've got to put max on ice for a couple of months to really kind of get him up to speed so maybe there could be a late season run maybe that's a better option considering the fact the guy's up there in age we can't sit here and pretend that not to mention he's had no healthy track record over these last couple of years so frankly this is what needs to happen it's frustrating it's upsetting to see for the Blue Jays fans I like that Santander pickup I do think they should have been a little bit more active during the offseason But this team is still ready to win the game today was obviously going to be a wash

I didn't think they were gonna win this game Kevin Gossman does not have good numbers against this Mets team specifically for Specific players not to mention he got touched up a little bit early on in the game With Cody Decker again, you can hear him on SirusXM, former MLB-er himself. The Dodgers 8-0. Is this good for baseball if they run off 110 wins, win another World Series, Shohei wins the MVP? I think it's good for baseball if they win 162 games.

All the Dodgers have done is shown all of you what you all can do You just choose not to do it. I have no sympathy for billionaire owners that don't want to open up the purse I'm sorry do it or don't do it And if you don't do it sell the team to somebody that will the Dodgers clearly want to win and by the way all that money They spent generated a ton more money Just think about the Japanese money that came into the Los Angeles Dodgers last year If you believe reports, it's upwards of two hundred and fifty million dollars of just new Japanese money that came to that franchise last year alone So you're telling me show a Otani seven hundred million dollar contract will be paid off in three years Why aren't all of you doing this? It's a roadmap. It's right there

Well, so Cody do you buy that they can set the record this year for wins? I do. Yeah, really? And the truth, I. Wow. Is it 120 or 119 or something? It would be 117, I believe, would be the new record. And listen, I'm not saying they're going to do it, but we're going to pretend this team can't do it. An eight no run.

Remember, this team won the World Series last year with their JD pitching staff. They didn't have Tyler Glass now. They didn't have Clayton Kershaw. They didn't have Tony Gonsolin. They didn't have Dustin May. And they didn't have Shohei Otani. Like, that's a five-man rotation that's filled

with two Hall of Famers and three All-Stars, and they had none of them. And now they're all back, except, I don't know where you fit any of them because now they have a Nine-man rotation with more all-stars and more Hall of Famers It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen not to mention their bullpen that has four Quality closers in Scott Gratterall and not to mention Lyles. I mean, it's just one after oh Blake Trinen How do I forget about Blake Trinen of all people it's just dear god this team is built to win

Non-stop, I don't know where they're going to lose 50 games. I don't know where they're gonna lose 40 I don't know how they're gonna lose 10 That's crazy We talked about this last week Cody is is there a conceivable picture? Where they're in? Is there a conceivable picture where they're in the finals, they're in the World Series and Otani is hitting and pitching? Will we see some crazy thing where he hits a home run and then he has to save the game in the ninth inning?

Would that be the apex of what he could do for Major League Baseball as well? 100%. picks of of of what he could do and and for major league baseball as well one hundred percent that we already got a kind of uh... a taster of the two years ago in the world baseball classic when he finished out and closed out the game for japan striking a shot off mike trout on three fastballs to this point that might have been the most electric at bat i've ever seen in my life and all i did was watch mike trout swing through three fastballs

uh... there is a very good chance we're gonna see something very spectacular we haven't seen on the mound yet we don't know what i get on him yet and again this is the guy who won an mvp his first year as a full-time d h in the national league no nationally d h is ever won an mvp no d h is ever won an mvp he did in this first try so i i put nothing past this man in this team now i think that's uh... definitely reasonable and i i'm curious which at work or the decker do you see him starting games like uh... i know the dot has been very coy on when he's gonna even be available i think they said

think robert said recently like we're talking weeks if not months i don't think they really have anything penciled in or do you think it could be like what newtons just pointed out that maybe he's a bullpen arm that you know spot duty especially come playoff time? This is actually why I think Dave Roberts is the best manager in Major League Baseball and I have thought this for a couple of years now that's why I always look back five years ago when people gave him flack trying to say oh they need to fire Dave Roberts I giggled the guy's a absolutely brilliant a great motivator and knows how to handle his

players. That team is, take it from somebody who's playing the big leagues, big league clubhouses are the most ego-filled places I've ever been in my life. And I cannot stress this enough, it seems like the Dodgers have absolutely no ego. You got Mookie Betts playing shortstop out of position right now. Everybody, it's all hands on deck. You have all-stars taking bench rolls. You have closers not more than willing to be a setup guy

or a seventh inning guy. The way he gets things out of his players, I put it past him to do everything. I bet we're gonna see Otani start. I bet we're gonna see him close. I bet we're gonna see him set up. Everybody does everything on the Dodgers. It's the most remarkable thing i've ever seen yeah and they're off to an eight no start ideas former m l b r you can hear

months here sex and with michelle beetle and uh... coasting beetle and decker great catching up with the cody we really appreciate doing this gentleman let's go to ronald yes i love blue jays world series please for the love of god give it jays dot ninety ninety five Let's go Toronto. Yeah, I want the Blue Jays in the World Series. Come on, please for the love of God Give it to a Jays Dodgers, 1992. I love it and 93. Don't forget Carter walk off. I never will ever forget that Thanks, Cody. Appreciate it Let it go. There's Cody Decker

Yeah, I mean that 93 run that's 32 years ago, which is crazy man It's a long time ago But they got them. they locked them in. They did. Well, 93 might have been pretty crazy around here, was it not? Oh, yeah. For sports did their run too, right? It was the Leafs right into because the Leafs were like the Jays won in 92.

Gilmore got here in 91. I think it was early 91 and then 92, 93 Leafs conference final lose to Gretzky and imagine that covering Gretzky in a playoff round at the Gardens And obviously the Jays had won the World Series a year before and then the Jays follow up and the Leafs followed up They end up playing Vancouver in the conference final Yeah, just crazy man And that alone is what is also wild is like they were playing at the gardens and they were playing the kings and the canucks in the final series

like to get to a cup final uh... which is just wild when you think about it that ronald was in the west for a long long time about that travel jones they played san jose the second year they played san jose i think in the first round

i'd believe They played San Jose the second year they played San Jose I think in the first round I believe and then Vancouver in the conference final. So they were going Toronto, San Jose like back to you know and you played every other night like you travel there and then the next night you'd play and then you come home and crazy. It is like that you know you think about it the travel you know them being in the West I forgot like Detroit used to be in the West. Like I remember playing Detroit in the playoffs when I was in Calgary, we played a back to back in the playoffs.

We played a Saturday afternoon game and us in Detroit and game five, game six was in Calgary the next night on a back to back crazy, like crazy stuff, you know? Yeah, on a back-to-back crazy like crazy stuff, you know Yeah, crazy travel and like for the media like direct flights Detroit to Calgary would not exist Yeah, you know like no one's doing a direct flight Detroit Calgary No, that that is challenging as well Anyway, thanks again to Cody Decker. All right, dear hazy be later this hour Jonas you have you have something in the tank here Do you have a couple yeah, I got lots we get to it today. We could save it for next week There's a lot of options here because we're getting closer to playoff time and you have some positives and you have some negative things

I want to talk about when it comes to the Maple Leafs. Maybe we'll get to that We'll get to dear hazy be our best bet still to come as well overdrive continues TSN 1050 and on TSN 2. Melodin Friday is brought to you by Boston Pizza, Canada's favorite sports bar. Enjoy $15 lunch at BP where you get an entree, a side and a drink and you'll get it all in 20 minutes or less. A fast lunch doesn't have to be fast food. See you for a $15 fast lunch at your local Boston Pizza. Melodin Friday is brought to you by Boston Pizza, Canada's favorite sports bar. Enjoy a $15 lunch at BP where you get an entree, a side and a drink and you'll get it all in

20 minutes or less. So fast lunch doesn't have to be fast food. See you for a $15 fast lunch at your local Boston pizza. Dear Hazy B coming up in about 15 minutes, 20 minutes. We'll get our best bets coming too as well. We get the Raptors playing Detroit tonight Alex Ovechkin at home against the Blackhawks capitals Blackhawks tonight and The Leafs are in action with Columbus in town tomorrow Jonas We are seven games away from the playoffs the Leafs have that axe beside their name right the Leafs are right there

They're one of the five or six You know best teams in the league based on points and they've been to the playoffs nine years in a row No other team in the league has a run like that nine straight years in the playoffs You have a six-pack a seagull and six pack here three reasons for optimism Three reasons for pessimism do you want which which way do you want to start here in terms of what? We're looking for in terms of the playoffs and the Maple Leaf. Well, can I just start with one thing? I mentioned that Dodger game. was really interesting for me I went on ring night yeah and the warmth that they feel towards their players I've never

experienced that here and I was thinking like it just must all be the obvious like they've won and so like there's this like you just feel this like when they announce Mookie Betts like they love him. Yeah, and obviously people here love all the stars with the Leafs But it it's not at that level and I wonder like if they went on a long run Like even when Gilmore comes to the game or Clark You feel that and you don't totally feel that with these guys even with everything that they've accomplished And I just it was just interesting for me because I've been to so many Leaf games I've never felt that and so I just wonder if winning is what cures that it does

There's there's nothing that can match it I was in the building for opening night after the Raptors won When their rings were being handed out as well. I can relate to that, especially as a Torontonian. You're from here and you were in LA, so it was probably an out of body experience somewhat for you to watch the Dodgers. You could probably be more objective and you can kind of soak it in a little bit more. That night was crazy. When Lowry came out, I think he spoke with the crowd before, and like Van Vliet,

and it was like everyone, they were calling trainers out and people were going nuts. And it really, it did have a very different feel. And you're right, even about those Leaf teams, who I idolized as a kid, like Doug Gilmore, Wendell Clark, my favorite players, they didn't even make it to the cup final. And they are revered to that extent because of those two runs and the same thing with Sundeen and a lot of the you know Great leaves to the late 90s and early 2000s Same thing in 9902 they made it to a conference final. That's it like it which great accomplishment great run revered and

You just you cannot get that level of affection for a team and an athlete like winning can't like they're just there's nothing that can match it and sure that's what Dodger fans feel and Celtic fans feel right now and but there's that's there's there's others there's other fan bases to like Boston's had a lot of winning in that city so a team that makes it to the second round to be like, nah, you know, like now because they would look back and go, hey, we've had so much winning. This is failing. Like you can imagine what Boston's like right now with the Bruins is like, oh, they suck.

You know, they probably don't even talk about them now. Yeah, right. Like you're out. We're not talking about you. But that's, you know, their expectations have adjusted because that whole market has had so much, you know, winning and success where, you know, they lost in the first round or if they lost in the second or third round, people would be like, all right, you know, that's not the type of thing.

The girl posts move a little bit because of what are the expectations for sure. And I think LA would be an example that LA probably expects as a market You got a win, you know And the Dodgers they actually want and they dominated and if you're a die-hard fan or even if you're just a fairweather fan It's just a great bandwagon to jump on like that the latest, you know Example that in Toronto would have been the Raptors where every single round it was more and more people got on board You know by the time you get to the finals, the whole city is on board. Not everyone was for game one when they were playing Orlando.

It wasn't like the whole city was buzzing about it. By the time they got to game six in Golden State, everyone was paying attention. But you're right. There's different expectations in every single market. Is Drake at any of the games these days? I don't think Drake's shown off a lot down the stretch. I mean they only play bad teams for some reason down the stretch. Their schedule's so easy. That's the thing, if they're a competitive team, they would

come down the stretch like 18 and 2. They would just be playing horrible teams every single night. It is, it's crazy. But've just been playing horrible teams every single night. Now you raise a good point, Jonas. It was just interesting. I think it's like a difference between loved and maybe beloved. They haven't reached that, but if they were to win, that's immortal. Those guys are popping the mountain. It's a different level if you pull it off, the civic pride that comes with it representing the city especially a fan base like the leaf fan base who have just been waiting for so long for something like a cup final would just be bedlam here yes even if they lost in it it would it would be something that

we haven't seen in almost 60 years so you want optimism first or pass with that note I don't know i think some optimism what do you call you only on the line was uh... you want to just stick with optimism and i get no i don't have some is a next week to do that okay because i was gonna say you could you should come with the heat to just set the fuzzy you know but that's all uh... by the way i don't know what the opposite of the will see where we're at

and i guess they can't suppress here way out. Number one reason for optimism is their power well I'm not gonna rank them okay the power play is number one in my little three pack and I think it's I was very skeptical of this five forward thing I don't think it's been perfect I think there have been real dips obviously I still have questions and I need to see it about it coming through in really important moments because that's obviously been a problem. But their power play has been bad in the playoffs pretty much every year except that year they went to the second round when it was good at times and not good at

times. But if their power play can be a weapon like this where it's just like it actually is dangerous and scores important goals That's something that they haven't had and that's a big factor. I think in the playoffs. Yeah, it's been lethal recently We had Mark Giordano on yesterday and Gio hates the five forwards like he's I wonder why yeah And well, he what and he made the point he followed up, you know, obviously he's a defenseman But he also said, you know a shorthanded goal in the playoffs is just crashing Like it's so deflated. Well, and can you imagine your show if they give up a shorthanded goal and they lose the game? You like it'll lead the first you'll talk about it the entire first hour

Yeah, two two and the third they get a power play and they give up a shorty because you know Marner cheats on something as the high Man or whatever. Yeah, I mean I mean that can happen can happen I looked up the numbers yesterday I believe it's four goals they've given up with those five guys on the ice okay optimism we're in the opposite we're in the optimism space okay get the power play is one of the three reasons for optimism okay what else do we have you mentioned Jake McCabe earlier in the show they have not had a top pair quite like this before in the playoffs, theoretically. We'll see what happens with the injuries and everything like that. But they've never had like a dominant shutdown pair like this.

Like they have had good pairs. Like Muzzin and Hall was pretty good, but it wasn't this. Rodie and Riley never played together in the playoffs really, and they weren't obviously this. But if you can have like one pair that actually can shut down an opposing top line and really Brody and Riley never played together in the playoffs really and they weren't obviously this but if you can have like one pair that actually can shut down an opposing top line and really Also impact a penalty kill That's a different thing that they haven't had in the past Like the closest thing to Tanev is Muzzin and I don't think Muzzin was quite on this level defensively. Do you think that's fair? Yeah, fair yet i think that's very was planned on his offside a lot

you know that that's another significant part of it yet and of just battles man you watch him fight for parks like that that's the the most obvious thing about him as you see like every single board battle he is like pushing and fighting is a pain in the ass to play against uh... and i would agree with that and that's why pain in the ass to play against. And I would agree with that. That's why the McCabe injury is so concerning. Did they even say what it is?

No, they never say anything. But the concussion history worries me. That's what worries me. He plays a tough game, but he's got the bad head. He's got a you know he's got the bad head he's got a couple concussions he had to fight where he got knocked you know down and and out or whatever it was and missed some time he got the puck in the back of the skull which was horrifying you know on so many different levels and but he plays a

brand of hockey where you know whoever you're playing somebody's punching him in the face in a scrum like that's you know that's the way he plays but you're right but I'm just saying like he's a guy that you worry about because if he doesn't have a hundred percent squash then you know that could hurt him same thing Carlo's a guy like I like that fight the other day but he's a guy who has concussion issues so you know you have to pick your fights because you don't want to just get involved and somebody lands one on the button and now all of a sudden you're out two weeks and that we don't have two weeks you know what I mean that's the the scary part

okay McCabe and Tann of top-notch good reason for optimism what about number three reason number three reason for optimism? I think the emergence of Knives and McMahon is the third reason for optimism. If you look back in previous years, I was looking at this the other day, the fifth and sixth score, they've had guys who've who've scored like around 20 goals. Like it's like, but it's not like this. Like it was like Michael Bunting. It was like Burtouzi. It was Mikhail once upon a time it was not guys Who I think will score in a series like I think nice especially and McMahon to a lesser degree

they didn't have McMahon obviously in the playoffs last year that hurt them and nice is just like he's just like a Like he's like a bulldog like he's a yeah, he's he's a beast And and in the playoffs we have seen him elevate. So I think the fact that they have those two guys on top of the other four guys gives them another dimension that I don't know that they totally have had in previous years. Yeah, I appreciate that. I mean, the, you know, the core four, the core four, and they're expected to do what they're supposed to do.

And they've got all that uber talent and all the money and all that but I do Think you know you got to fill out a line like the great lines in the sport the third guy isn't just some plug who Cruises around I mean the guy they've they've got to contribute something and You know I think the fact that there's symmetry with left shot right shot. They both shoot left They're both bigger guys like McMahon can get in on a four-check a chip-and-chase play Like he can he can make that play because it's skating ability And they also are well aware of who they are like the pecking order You're you're third in line like go into the corners go to the front of the net if something happens with these guys where someone's

Popping off you got to get in there and help you You know, all those, I think in terms of the identity of the line, finding McMahon in particular, Nyes has been there the whole year, it's been that top line the whole year. But they've worked in different guys with Tavares and Nylander and that's officially been solidified. It's McMahon and I think that's big. Well, it is because he settled in there. It didn't, you know, it is because he settled in there. He kind of wasn't in there.

They were moving at Patcheretti early on, Robertson, Homburg, guys like that. You needed stability in that top six. He's provided it. And he's playing with more confidence, too, now. There was a time there where he wasn't playing with a lot of confidence. And it goes hand in hand with who you play with Your your ice time all of that. He wasn't he nicked up earlier in the season I yeah, we didn't start well remember he did never he was a healthy scratch in the opener

Yeah about that wasn't happy with him And yeah, and a lot of it is who you're playing with like you got it You got to be a smart player to play with those guys and you got to get stay out of their way But also put them in positions to succeed. It's a weird mentality when you're the third guy. And McMahon, it's particularly pronounced. But credit to him, he's taken advantage of it. He knows exactly what he's supposed to do.

And Barube, you know, can have that chat with him, I think think in a much more concise way you know like I don't know if Barube is talking with Willie on a wavelength of the way he operates the way he plays Barube I'm sure can look at McMahon and kind of see himself to an extent say don't like take advantage of this man like yeah you were in the American League like a 16 months ago now you're playing with john to bars and william the letter in the playoffs go fights like home battle and skates and hit everything in sight block every shot

and i think the ruby appreciates that i'm sure that messaging is probably pretty clear cut uh... all right i like i think we still we we leave it at optimism and jonas i think you being labeled an optimistic guy i think goes a long way for your reputation as i need i think so i think i'm a realistic i know you're known as i don't you know this kind of a negative guy on the leaves on the show

yet as you guys are going to hear anything that's real but i don't think that you're on your church truthful those are my reputation would be clear yeah I can guarantee you it's not. Turns out there's not always good things to talk about. Sometimes it's not always rosy. You try to keep things balanced. We mentioned nine years in a row they made the playoffs. No other team in the league has done that.

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People send in a tweet they write us for our professional advice on life things Dear Hazy B Every morning my boiler has a gas leak My wife thinks it's the baby Dear Hazy B If you want to come to Hazy B I need honesty from you Hazy you got dumped a lot tell them tell them tell them Growing adults with birthdays

it's asin sorority because the the medium guys here right now you have a guy is not here and uh... this is his brainchild this is his baby this is how he like he likes to operate run the whole thing jonas yet but i think this is great that we're replacing him, his idiocy, his warped view of the world with you, Jonas, who is I think very even keeled and very cultured and you've well traveled

the whole nine, right? So I think you can help with this stuff. All right. Let's begin with Jimmy from St. Catharines tweeting in, I believe. Dear Hazy B, I'm the captain of a summer mens league team that includes my daddy played a few years in europe can still snap it around a little bit with us young guys my girlfriend's dad caught wind of this and asked to get in for this year's

team uh... but he hasn't played in ten plus years and we got bumped up to the a division this year as opposed to the beat here where we were the champs last year. My girlfriend thinks it would be a great idea to allow him to join the team. I'm also planning to pop the question in July, so don't really want to gas this guy and then maybe it's rocky in the future if I got to ask for permission and he becomes an in-law in the future.

Dear Hazy B, Jonas Noodles, how do I handle this? What's the play? I think that's tough because if you end up gassing him, then how are you going to have that conversation when you want to ask for his daughter's hand? You've got to let him play. I don't think you have a choice, man. No, I wouldn't let you play on our team, but. Yeah.

Here's the answer. You've got to accept it. You've got to let him play. You've got to lean but yeah, he's not you got here's here's the answer you got to accept it You got to let him play. Yeah, you got to lean on him because he's older. Maybe he's got a little bit more money He's got a supply beer probably more than the other guys do, you know, generally, it's a rotation. Everyone's got to be included I think it's reasonable to say you can play But you know, you got to bring something to the table here and in terms of playing in terms of endurance if which gets laid into a game because these games get serious man I find it goofy I think it's crazy but you get into an

eight-year like these guys think they're playing for the Cup right they think like there's NHL Scouts in the building it's it's lunacy some of the activity you see you got to make it pretty clear that it's not house league rules where everyone gets a shift he might get skipped at some point the big game thank you just gotta have you got to be blunt and you gotta be clear with that don't you think to you could say to him like listen you have it you gotta get out and get back into shape or at least skate on the side a

little bit to get your game back in order right maybe you tell them that it's serious like a but get you want to be on this team, you're going to have to like get your act together. You can't say that to, you can't say that, right? It's tough. Sure, you could say, like say, listen, we're going up a tier, we'd love to have you, you know, you're a really good player back in the day. How are you feeling about your game right now?

I don't know if he is though. That's the thing. I would just stress that it's a really competitive league. Just be aware that this is really competitive. And then I think you're secretly hoping that he sees what it's like and he's like, I can't play in this. That's the only way out. That he bails. Or he bails.

Or like maybe it's one and done. And he's like, that's the way out. Hey, you know, I'd love to have you on. I want you on the team, but the guys are kind of crazy about us being competitive. You know, that that might be your way out. Lay the framework like I want you on the team. You're on the team. I'm you're on my team. You know, like you'd be really, really adamant about that. But you make it clear that this is competitive. It's high stakes, the guys are good players. And because if he shows up there, man, and he's bent an ankle out there and just huffing

gas, you're like, you can't, you can't, that's crushing, man. And hopefully he would have the presence of mind after that first skate to be like, I can't play in this league. Like, I can't keep up. There's no way. And then makes one of your teammates the bad guy and be like, Ted over there, he just doesn't think he can hang. Right.

Like, I don't know. Ask him, be like, dude, within earshot, little chirp, how this guy make the team, you know, like just so it's kind of an indirect comment. Who invited this guy out? Okay, hey, relax. It's Ted. We love Ted. Yeah, we love Ted, but who gave this guy a jersey?

So just send a little bit of a message to him. All right, I get people sending me DMs on Instagram all the time with Dear Hazy Bees, all the time. Like they'll tweet into the show, they'll Instagram into the show, and they'll send DMs to my Instagram, and then I start filtering through them and send them to Dougie and this is one that came in. I love this. The guy ends it with hashtag Hayes is a fraud. I don't even know why I'm even accepting this submission.

But yeah, he said quote, my good girlfriend who we will refer to as Bendy got a hole in one at our local simulator last week he's been sending the video to anyone and everyone talking like the ace is legit he's getting roasted in our friend group for even suggesting it counts as a real ace real hole in one how should we handle this there it is he also said much like our beloved tsn colleague with jack armstrong get that garbage out of here would love to see you guys and hear you guys weigh in on this

uh... johnson i could see you being a golf sim guy uh... if you had a whole and one on a simulator body how you supposed to handle that not a whole lot of one well i don't know that i like that let's get that out of the way with it's not a real people at one and you know you're there and i think it is is crazy but even if it was a real one like Hayes like you golf lot say you hit a hole in one would you be sending everyone at TSM video would you? I would be played on the show immediately. We wouldn't hear the end of it. We'd have to break into Sports Center.

I honestly might storm the set. Like just move Sarah Davis right out of the way. Like you're out, Kara, you you're out Carol. You're out You know everyone's got to move because I'm coming in to tell my whole one story I do think a real legit hole in one is one You know you'd say I'd send it to my friends like a lot of people. I think you got to be careful I don't you know we're being facetious. I wouldn't be stopping people in the streets, but a golf simulator one I'm sorry just does not I I don't even know one, I'm sorry, just does not count. I don't even know why, like I'm sorry, it's ridiculous.

That's like saying, hey, I played Mario Kart and I'm a great driver. That's right. And you know guys, like I can be a race car driver. I'm going to go race Jeff Gordon out on the course because I'm really good on TV. Like you know that's, I'm sorry that it's ridiculous like that's not even close it's not even close you hit a screen if you probably flush the shot good for you good contact right you you really can rest your iron or whatever but you hit

a screen that does not count you cannot be conclude you can't be pretending as if you've accomplished something there was was no wind in there. There's nothing. There's a perfect lie. There's nothing. There's nothing about it that's real. I have a good question for you.

Maybe it's a good question. When you were nominated recently, congratulations by the way. Thank you, yes. Did you send that to everyone? That is a legitimate honor. That's not like a Joe Cole one in a course. It was. That's not like a joke hole in one of course. It was that's legit Well, here's here's I actually I'm glad you brought that up because I was getting chirped again on Instagram because I did post a story

About it. Okay good after it had been mentioned on the show. I did not I didn't post anything. I didn't say anything I didn't bring it up all brought it up noodles. You were on the show He brought it up you guys brought it up. I appreciate you bring it up all brought it up noodles. You were on the show. Yeah, he brought it up. You guys brought it up I appreciate you bringing it up. It's a great honor Canadian Screen Awards, and then I was like, you know what? I'm proud of that. I'll post something why this captain quote tweet after that like there were a couple of quotes Hey congrats, it's like quote. Thank you very much That's deserving though. No it was. We were all proud.

We were all proud and it was very cool. But no, you did not storm the set. You knew about it, to be honest, a few of us just found out about it like an hour before type of thing. Like it was, I wasn't on the information waterfall. Like I literally heard about it before the show and then Oh Started the show with it. So right pretty cool. I did not say anything Like I spoke with people at TSI spoke with with Jeff McDonald our boss that day. He called me about something else He was calling me about the Masters or Sal's brother or something

And I didn't bring it up to him even though I knew I'm like, I'm not saying anything cuz I There's part of me that's wondering if they were gonna like rescinded like sorry there was a mistake what if it's a joke for you know i think i got wasn't what we're supposed to do uh... but uh... anyway thanks for bringing that up jonas someone else brings it up is that that brings up a good point you know whole one's gulson guy if the boys if someone else brings it up then i

think you're free to run with it Yeah, and say it was amazing and really exciting and you know it's all good But I you're right there was it like if you're driving if you're at an arcade and you're driving some Race car game that doesn't mean you're Lewis Hamilton Yeah, like big buck hunter or something you shot it you shot a bear like you did right? I killed a bear Yeah, exactly like you just all you did earlier. I'm a marine now. Yeah, exactly. All you did was shoot it on a screen. You're not an actual hunter or whatever.

Go try that. Go see if you can go test that theory out with real bears in the wilderness and see what comes back. Yeah, but the golf sim stuff, it's, I mean, golf sims are, they've really revolutionized the sporting world. And I saw actually Lawrence Applebaum, our good friend Lawrence,

doing a hit with Bob Weeks, I think it was at the Players. And they were just talking about golf in the country and how popular it is now and how popular it's become. And I think Lawrence mentioned like golf simulators because you need it in the winter time like that's the the thing with if you play tennis if you pickleball I guess you can go inside I guess you can but it's not the same you know there's certain outdoor sports where um you know golf in particular tennis in particular tennis I guess you can play indoors as well with a dome and all that. They have those throughout the city, probably throughout the country.

But golf, you get to November, it was like we're done for five months, can't play, gone. Put your clubs away. Now with golf simulators and that business kind of being alive and available to people, it really allows you to kind of feel like you're still in form or at least you pick up the club, you go out and hit some balls. It really has changed I think the way Canadians approach dad sport. So I don't know, maybe the time will come where a hole in one of the golf simulator will actually mean something.

Like you take the ball from the establishment. They come and take your picture. Yeah, exactly. You're on the wall. Drinks on me. I'm buying because I just did a hole in one of the golf sim Anyway, there you go. Dear hazy B and As we know it's brought to you by Boston pizza Canada's favorite sports bar

Enjoy $15 lunch at BP we get an entree aside and a drink and you'll get it all in 20 minutes or less So fast lunch doesn't have to be fast food. See you for a $15 fast lunch at your local Boston pizza. All right, Columbus in town tomorrow. And it feels like every game is borderline must win because of what's on the line here. And after this, they're going to go down to Florida, they play the Panthers on Tuesday, and Tampa on Wednesday. That's just tough of a back to back. And it's meaningful of a back to back in the regular season as I can remember. In a long time. Like when was the last time they had they they scooted through Florida in April in the regular season and it meant what it's going to mean next. Well remember all the previous

years where it's like we know who they're gonna play since like January? Yeah. It's different now. It's like they could play anyone any combination They could play like they could still start on the road in Florida or in Tampa They could follow to the three seed by next Wednesday You know you lose tomorrow night, and then you lose those games down there in Tampa and Florida You probably are a third at that point like it can happen that quickly they got a three-point buffer You know it's a good spot to be in But you got it you got to try to get one tomorrow and again if you're if you're Montreal if you're Ottawa if you're the Rangers you're

looking at Columbus here thinking the Leafs can beat them tomorrow night in regulation that's a big hit for the Blue Jackets yeah can't take them lightly because the Columbus plays Toronto really well and they got something real on the line tomorrow night man you're gonna get a good effort under that Blue Jacket team big time that is for sure the Jays continue their series down really well and they got something real on the line tomorrow night. You're going to get a good effort under that blue jacket team. Big time. That is for sure. The Jays continue their series down in New York.

They lost this afternoon 5-0 to the Mets, the home opener for the New York Mets. So we'll see what comes out of it with the Jays and by Monday we'll be on the air and it'll be Masters week, right? We got one more weekend of golf down in San Antonio, then the Masters kicking off next week. We cannot wait for that We'll obviously be talking leaves Raptors Jays the whole nine. All right, Jonas good seeing you man Thanks boys for doing this Jonah Siegel of the athletic. Thanks to everyone behind the scenes for helping out We appreciate it everyone for tuning in today TV radio podcast web. We appreciate that. We're out of here Enjoy your evenings. Enjoy the games tonight. Enjoy your weekends. We're back Monday at 4 PM. We'll chat then.

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