Hour 2: Stanton can’t open chips, Jets shake up the D-line, and St. John’s gets humbled

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A jam-packed hour with travel chaos, brutal commutes, and a check-in on the crew (including Connor Green and the latest “Loogie” tales). Then the sports hits hard: Giancarlo Stanton admits his elbow pain is so bad he “can’t open a bag of chips,” sparking a real Yankees roster conversation around rest, urgency, and what it means for Jason Dominguez and Spencer Jones. From there, it’s full Jets mode at the combine after a headline trade: Jermaine Johnson is shipped out as the Jets bring in massive nose tackle T’Vondre Sweat, with plenty of debate on what it says about Aaron Glenn’s defensive blueprint and what it means for the No. 2 pick. The QB carousel gets messy too, with Andy Dalton as a potential “competency” option, plus the usual Kirk Cousins and Derek Carr arguments, and even some Tanner McKee trade talk. To wrap it up, St. John’s lays an egg vs. UConn and the guys argue whether it’s an anomaly or a warning sign for March, with a quick spin through other big topics like ABS and CC Sabathia getting his number retired.

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0:00.0	You can't deny his affinity, especially for the Mets.
0:04.7	No.
0:05.0	He loves baseball.
0:06.2	I have no issue with him loving baseball.
0:07.9	I'm not a stranger to attaching some kind of sports game to a trip.
0:13.1	Yeah.
0:13.4	I'm certainly guilty of that.
0:15.2	What I find always fascinating about Evan, because now that we've worked together with him,
0:18.6	God, it's three years, four years, whatever this has been, is a normal human being, Tiki, the more I think about it, we'll just go,
0:26.2	I'm going to go for the week, and I'll insert the family vacation and then like, hey, you know,
0:31.4	we'll pop over to do the spring.
0:32.9	He's doing four days, coming back for four days, then going back down for three days for the spring
0:39.1	training. He's doing four total flights instead of just two total flights and just extending
0:44.7	it a full week. So he's gone today, tomorrow, back Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
0:51.1	Yeah. And then gone Friday and maybe Monday if he doesn't make his flight. If he doesn't make his flight, which he better because I'm not back. Yeah. And then gone Friday and maybe Monday if he doesn't make his flight.
0:55.2	If he doesn't make his flight, which he better because I'm not back. Like I'm going to Florida next week for multiple days one time. Now, I'm not doing spring training with it, but he's got to make two separate trips within a week. It would space it out. He's nuts. But that's why we love him. and we hope that he didn't lay down on the flight down to Florida
1:12.0	his back injury.
1:13.2	Brutal. By the way, I'll be here the whole time. It would space it out. Ah, he's nuts. But that's why we love him. And we hope that he didn't lay down on the flight down to Florida with his back injury.
1:13.2	Brutal.
1:13.7	By the way, I'll be here the whole time.
1:15.3	You will.
1:15.9	Tiki's unbelievable.
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