Best Player or Biggest Need? Giants Calls and Knicks Concerns

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The episode centers on a sharp debate about how the Giants should approach the draft, weighing positional value, roster holes, and whether adding short-term veteran help on the offensive line really changes the long-term picture. The conversation digs into the team’s options at pick No. 5, questions whether New York should prioritize a premium position like cornerback or simply take the best player available, and revisits how past decisions still shape the emotions of Giants fans today. The hosts also pivot to the Knicks, where Mikal Bridges’ remarkable durability becomes a real point of tension: is his streak admirable, or is all that mileage starting to show at the worst time of year? From there, the discussion broadens into roster construction, the declining value of running backs, the rising importance of offensive line investment, and the lingering scars of the Giants’ 2018 Saquon Barkley decision and what it still means for the franchise now.

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0:00.0	The New York Mets are partnering with Odyssey, the company we work for, and sports bug to deliver real-time radio play-by-play at City Field.
0:09.7	So here's what they're doing, and this is actually very, very cool and old school.
0:13.5	When you go to City Field and you watch a MEC game, there are many people that like to also hear the radio broadcast of Howie Rose and Keith Rad.
0:21.0	Back in the day, Howie rose in Gary Cohen, even before that, Bob Murphy and Gary Cohen.
0:25.4	But nowadays, if you put on the Odyssey app, as great as it is, there's a delay.
0:31.4	And so are you really going to listen to a delay of the MEC game?
0:35.6	And the answer is probably not.
0:37.2	Right.
0:37.5	So this Odyssey Sportsbug partnership is they are delivering real-time radio play-by-play to City Field.
0:45.5	Currently, listening to Play-by-Play Digital Audio in stadiums comes with delays of 30 to 90 seconds, making it nearly impossible.
0:53.1	Sportsbug's technology reduces that delay to under one second.
0:58.0	Wow.
0:58.5	So you hear it when you see it?
1:00.3	Correct.
1:01.0	Right.
1:01.5	So through the MLB Ballpark app, fans inside Cityfield can listen to the New York Mets radio
1:06.8	play-by-play broadcast on 880 a.m. featuring Howie Rose, Keith Rad, and Pat McCarty,
1:11.6	McCarthy, in sync with the live action on the field. The service works on any mobile app,
1:18.1	with any wireless carrier, with any headphones at zero cost. So great job by Odyssey and SportsBug.
1:25.2	That's awesome. Because that's very cool. Because that's the issue.
1:44.5	100%. You're like, I just already saw that. Yeah. So you're not up to, it's almost becomes distracting. Yes. You need to hear it live. I want it live. We'll do it live. So that's very cool. And that's coming to City Field in about a week and a half when opening day occurs.
1:44.9	That's right.
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