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Evan & Tiki

Giants Shopping List, and a Jets Fan’s Patriot Paranoia

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Quick baseball free agency follows with Harrison Bader landing a two-year deal with the Giants. Then the phones light up with Giants roster-building talk, including a fan playing GM and pushing for a big move on the offensive line. A wild wrinkle comes from a caller with a meteorologist connection who says Belichick used to seek ultra-specific forecasts, which sparks more debate about how much coaches should know about incoming weather. The hour swings back to Jets pain as callers re-litigate the Sam Darnold alternate history, and it ends with a full tilt spiral: why the Jets chose Adam Gase over Mike McCarthy, why it still makes fans sick, and the only logical explanation for the Patriots always getting the breaks. Plus, a quick cameo from Jet to sign off and get a verdict on the new background.

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0:00.0

This is their gimmick. This is their schick. They are now in a relevant building in a great city.

0:04.8

And the way they get attention is by tweeting out, look, we're congratulating Philly.

0:09.8

Go get yelled at us. We're congratulating the Patriots. It's what they do. So don't get mad about it.

0:16.0

The other piece of information, this is so weird. And by the way, this is just more evidence that Major League Baseball is so stupid. Why would you announce this today? But MLB the show, the very popular

0:26.8

video game has announced that they will not be, let me see how they word this. We know that you're

0:32.5

just as excited as we are for the release of MLB the show 26. So we wanted to let everyone know

0:37.3

that this year we

0:38.1

have decided that we will not have a new cover athlete. Please stay tuned to all of our social

0:44.1

channels for more information to come. So I don't know if that means they're running back what

0:48.4

they did last year, which was a collection of young players, or if it's someone from the past,

0:53.8

or if it's just going to be like the

0:56.1

MLB logo, and it's not going to be any cover athlete.

0:59.1

So they've tried to add mystery to the MLB the show cover athlete.

1:03.3

My advice would be just don't release this on the Monday after championship Sunday.

1:07.2

That's all.

1:08.4

Yeah.

1:08.8

Well, does it matter who's on the cover? Yes, I no. You're buying it for the game. I guess some people might be buying it for a collector's item, a piece of memorabilia, potentially get it signed by whoever that cover athlete is and it has some monetary value to it. But does it really matter? It's a game. No, it doesn't matter to me. I think maybe there's a pride aspect. Like, oh, Juan Soto is the cover athlete, yay, or Aaron Judge is the cover athlete, yay, or Camp Schlutler is the cover athlete. So I think there's probably some pride in it, but as a grown adult, it does not matter to me. But I just wanted to pass that piece of news out there for everybody out there.

1:44.4

Do you have the other baseball news of them? I do not have any other baseball news. Is it good? Your boy, Harrison Bader, finally has a home after being talked about a bunch of the Mets and the Yankees. Oh, can I guess? Sure. My opinion is I hope it's not the Phillies. The Phillies could use them. It would be a smart move to bring them back.

2:01.9

So really, my opinion is ABP. is I hope it's not the Phillies. The Phillies could use them. It would be a smart move to bring

2:01.0

them back. So really, my opinion is A, B, P. Anyone but Philadelphia. And so if you tell me it's

2:08.2

someone else, I'll be good. If you tell me it's Philly, there'll be a level of disappointment.

2:12.4

The floor is yours. According to Ken Rosenthal, it is going to be the San Francisco Giants. Nice. Two-year deal, so he'll soon be having lunch with Jackson Dorton. Nice, that's right. That's right. Okay, good. I like that. Philly's don't bring back Bader. That's a stupid move. But you know what? It's not my problem. It's not my issue. All right, let's get back to your calls. Let's go to Franco out on Staten Island.

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