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00:00Hi, Rad Radio, it's Carl and Dave on the morning Rad Race.
00:06Quick sports.
00:06Good morning, David.
00:07What do we have?
00:08Okay, well, let's start with football, where analyst and broadcaster Trey Wingo is reporting
00:15that the Aaron Rodgers to the Jets deal has been completed.
00:19Hell yeah!
00:21Well, hold on.
00:22We haven't heard anything yet out of the Rodgers camp.
00:25This is what Trey Wingo tweeted, quote,
00:28hearing Rodgers to the Jets is done.
00:32History about to repeat itself between New York and Green Bay, close quote.
00:37I hope the second part of that repeat itself is not going to repeat itself,
00:41because the first time when this happened, we didn't do so.
00:43You don't want too much repetition, because the Favre experiment fell apart at the end.
00:48Not good.
00:49But this is what Trey Wingo is reporting, and again, we'll say his name multiple times,
00:55Trey Wingo is reporting this, in case the deal falls through.
00:58So I want him to get thrown under the bus, not myself.
01:00Not you.
01:01All right.
01:01Well, listen, wake me up when somebody has something real to say about it,
01:04not some guy who's just tweeting from an ESPN office.
01:08He no longer is ESPN.
01:10He's working for the gambling sites now.
01:12He used to be an ESPN guy.
01:13Even worse.
01:14Even more reputable.
01:15The gambling sites.
01:16Oh, the gambling sites.
01:17Listen, you get all kinds of information there if you're into the gambling thing.
01:21Now, on the Giants side of things, the G-Men have signed free agent linebacker Bobby Okereke
01:26to a four-year, $40 million contract, $22 million guaranteed.
01:31Last year with the Colts, Okereke had a career-high 151 tackles,
01:37so certainly was very productive with Indianapolis,
01:40so the Giants could use some linebacking improvement.
01:43Basketball, the Knicks, Nets, and 76ers all off yesterday.
01:47Tonight, the Knicks go against the Trailblazers in Portland.
01:50The Nets take on the Thunder in Oklahoma City.
01:53The Sixers play on Wednesday in Cleveland.
01:57College basketball, the men's NCAA basketball tournament tips off tonight
02:01with two play-in matchups, so check your local listings for that.
02:05Hockey, the Devils, Rangers, and Flyers were inactive last night.
02:09This evening, the Devils face the Lightning at the Prudential Center.
02:12The Rangers go against the Capitals in Madison Square Garden,
02:15and the Flyers play the Golden Knights in Philly.
02:18Baseball spring training, the Yankees lost to the Twins 1-0.
02:21The Mets beat the Marlins 9-3, and the Phillies were off.
02:25And finally, former Yankee Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 82.
02:30Pepitone, three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner with the Yankees,
02:36and winner of the 1962 World Series with the New York Yankees.
02:40On top of that, had pop culture references.
02:45He was featured on Seinfeld when Kramer claimed Pepitone designed New York City Central Park,
02:52when Kramer was moonlighting as a horse carriage driver.
02:56And that was a bizarre factoid that Kramer just threw out there
02:59because he didn't know the actual answer.
03:01He claimed Joe Pepitone designed Central Park.
03:04Who did design Central Park?
03:07That famous architect guy.
03:09Moses? Was that Robert Moses?
03:10I think so.
03:11I think he was involved in that.
03:14The other time that the other pop culture reference to Joe Pepitone
03:18was on a flashback in The Sopranos when a young junior soprano
03:22picked up a little child, Tony, in the car.
03:26And then he said, hey, did you see that?
03:27He goes, hey, Tone, did you see what Pepitone did last night?
03:30Three RBIs.
03:31So two shout-outs.
03:33One from Seinfeld, one from Sopranos.
03:35That was a pretty big shout-out.
03:37Huge, right?
03:37Huge pop culture shout-outs.
03:39Add a Simpsons shout-out.
03:41You got a big three right there.
03:42Known for the pompadour hair.
03:44In later years, he admitted he had a collection of wigs
03:47because he loved his hair so much.
03:49First major league baseball player possibly to bring a blow dryer into the locker room.
03:54That gave him a lot of guff.
03:55Everyone's like, what the hell is this guy doing?
03:57It was like 1961, and he was working on his hair.
03:59And Mickey Mantle was like, what the hell?
04:03But he was a character.
04:04He's a Yankee original.
04:05He's going to be missed.
04:06Rest in peace to Joe Pepitone.