Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, no, no, no, no-clock straight off. Cardin Show with Big Mac, great to have you here on a beautiful Wednesday in New York City. Snow on the way. I want to congratulate our producer, Petey. Apparently got signed by the Mets today. As he's got his MET uniform on, head to toe. I reminded him that he's not a New York Mett. The hoodie's dope. No problem with the hoodie. I've never seen that hoodie before. With the Blanche White and the Mets totally in blue, no orange at all. So I'm loving the hoodie. I think that's a fanatics hoodie. So I'll get a couple of those for us for sure And the hat doesn't match it

And you're not on the squad

But outside of that

Hope everybody's having a great day

Good afternoon, Big Matt Carey you today

I'm doing well

I'm doing well in my own Yankee sweatshirt

But I hope you don't have any...

Yeah, that's an old school sweatshirt

You've worn that before

I don't think I've worn it yet

But it's an old school one. I've seen that maybe last go run you had, possibly. Yeah, probably. It's probably a couple years old. Because my beat for your sweatshirt is that the baseball is white, the Yankees is gray. And that's confusing to me as a consumer as well. That's incorrect. What's incorrect about what I said? The word baseball is white. The word Yankees is white. The word Yankees is Yankee gray. Yeah. So it's confusing to me as the consumer.

I've never noticed that. How could you not? The Yankee emblem is white as well. Yeah. But the word Yankees isn't gray. Yeah. You've got conflicting colors going on. I would have, I would have, I was 100% positive. They were all one color. Or maybe like to wash

You accidentally like faded one out

I think that's on purpose. Maybe there's a chance my wife bleached it by accident. Or maybe. Is it possible that that was like a, we went to the outlets and it was a misprint by like fanatics or something. So they sold it for a couple bucks. Maybe. And you bought it for a couple bucks more?

I don't know.

But it looks good on you, kid.

It's not as nice as his.

No, I like that hoodie a lot, by the way. I do. So we'll make sure we get a couple of them set over here. I'm in a weird spot today, Big Mac. I'm in a weird spot. because Jalen Brunson gets credit for turning the nick franchise around.

Leon Rose, of course, as the president and all the true decisions he made. He's the architect of it, but let's be fair about it. If Jalen Brunson had not become the player that he became, which he was not endowed to be fair and became here in New York, the New York Knicks would not be one of the favorites to obviously make a run in the Eastern Conference to go to the finals. Is that fair to say? Oh, more than fair. So I'm going to get killed by Nick fans on this, and I kind of know that going into it. But I got to be honest with you, I told you I wouldn't lie to it. So the story today is that Nick Brunson did an article, Nick. Jalen Brunson did an article, pardon me, in Vanity Fair.

And in that article, he talks about how, and I'm kind of paraphrasing it, but the key words there are, I hope the next two write by me.

All right? That's the direct quote. The rest of it's kind of here and there, right? And obviously, he's talking about his contract when it comes up. The first time that he can renegotiate his contract is for the 2028 season. He can do a four-year deal then. If he waits to 2029, he can sign a five-year max deal. I'll get to the numbers in one second. So he's right. He did right by the Knicks when he came here and got that first extension. He certainly did. And he took like $130 million less than he could have gotten. How did he maxed out? It was like $1.13, 115. Yeah. Some like that. Yeah. So he, in a weird way, an argument could be made, we kind of owe them.

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