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Ted Robinson on the French Open beginning this week, Will top players boycott grand slams (?), Carlos Alcaraz out + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Peas Peace by Sean O'Connell's show.
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  Speaker 2: ESPN seven hundred and ninety two to one.
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  Speaker 3: A f am, Well, welcome back to the Sean O'Connell show.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome in, Ted Robinson. If you have been a fan
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  Speaker 4: of Olympic sports, of tennis, of our long lost and
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  Speaker 4: beloved PAC twelve, and of course of my San Francisco
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  Speaker 4: forty nine ers, then you have heard this man's dulcet
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  Speaker 4: tones many times. Ted Robinson, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: H Sean, thank you, thank you for saying that about
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  Speaker 2: a PAC twelve, because I think all of us feel
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  Speaker 2: the same way, even though we have a new version
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  Speaker 2: coming back. It's it's just it never should have happened.
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  Speaker 1: It never should have happened.
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  Speaker 4: There's always like these little points to drive it home,
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  Speaker 4: including this last NFL draft, where so much of the
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  Speaker 4: top talent was at one time gathered in the PAC
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  Speaker 4: twelve conference. A lot of the guys in the first
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  Speaker 4: round had either our former PAC twelve players or players
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  Speaker 4: at schools that should still currently be Pack twelve schools,
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  Speaker 4: and it was like, oh, thanks for putting that out,
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for twisting that knife.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who dug up the point.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I look and look you we
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  Speaker 2: look forward. The new rebuilt PAC twelve is going to
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  Speaker 2: be fine. It'll be an excellent basketball league, and I
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think it'll be a push to get
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  Speaker 2: football back to where the PAC twelve was at the
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  Speaker 2: end of its rug. Because the schools in the Pack,
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  Speaker 2: Utah being right at the forefront, really invested in football.
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  Speaker 2: They left basketball slip. I think that was the price
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  Speaker 2: they paid near the end. But football was really good.
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  Speaker 4: I was impressed with the broadcast figures announced for the
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  Speaker 4: new PAC twelve. Impressed in a relative sense, at least,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, a lot of these schools are Mount
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  Speaker 4: West Conference schools that are going to now be getting
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  Speaker 4: more money. They have a more robust share financially, and
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  Speaker 4: obviously that's the name of the game these days in
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  Speaker 4: college sports. And then it's like, oh, cool, you know
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get you know, twelve fifteen million dollars per
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  Speaker 4: year per school.
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  Speaker 1: Nice work.
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  Speaker 4: And then you look at the revenue distributions for the
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  Speaker 4: Big Ten and the SEC, and you're like, oh wow, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and then the Big twelve and the ACC are chasing
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  Speaker 4: the Big ten and the SEC, and you're like, man,
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  Speaker 4: there's a growing gap between the haves and the have nots.
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  Speaker 4: And as much as I want to applaud the efforts
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  Speaker 4: of everyone trying to keep up with the Joneses, they
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  Speaker 4: are running away with things.
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  Speaker 2: Ted, Well, there's a perfect sean you just said, of
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  Speaker 2: a perfect segue into tennis, because right now college football
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  Speaker 2: is a two horse race, and you said everybody else,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's third and fourth. You mentioned those conferences
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  Speaker 2: that are you know, a lap behind, and now the
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  Speaker 2: new PAC twelve is going to jostle with the American
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  Speaker 2: Conference to be basically the fifth and make sure you
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  Speaker 2: get your best team into the playoffs. And it's sort
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  Speaker 2: of where men's tennis is right now, where the top
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  Speaker 2: two guys centered out res have just you know, have
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  Speaker 2: lacked the field in a way that really didn't even
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  Speaker 2: happen in the Federer and the Dollar years because Djokovic
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  Speaker 2: came along pretty quickly to make sure it was a
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  Speaker 2: three man competition. I don't think we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: that in college football. I don't think that the ACC
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  Speaker 2: or the Big twelve is ever going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to match where the Big twelve and the excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: where the Big ten and the SEC are.
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  Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I don't even though we want desperately as
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  Speaker 4: a you know where the flagship home of a Big
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  Speaker 4: twelve school, our rival here in state is a Big
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  Speaker 4: twelve school, And it's like, we want great things, but
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  Speaker 4: you got to read the tea leaves and it gets
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  Speaker 4: depressing if we focus on it too much.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll just I did.
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  Speaker 4: I did want to bring you on to talk some
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  Speaker 4: tennis though, because uh, you know, there's a mild about
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  Speaker 4: a controversy, at least mild for now, with a little
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  Speaker 4: smoke and hopefully not too much fire around players threatening
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  Speaker 4: a boycott of this weekend's French Open at roll on
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  Speaker 4: Garros over you know, a lack of their what they
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  Speaker 4: believe is a fair share of the revenue going to
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  Speaker 4: the prize pool. And the argument is that even if
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  Speaker 4: the actual bottom line figure is increasing, the the share
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  Speaker 4: the percentage is decreasing, and there's very vocal and very
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  Speaker 4: important players in the field that are saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: if we don't find a better way to share, then
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  Speaker 4: maybe we won't play.
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  Speaker 1: How much of a real threat is this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's real down the line shown. It
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  Speaker 2: won't happened this coming week. It's too soon, but the
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  Speaker 2: conversations have been going on for a while. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: last year, a group of top players, both women and men,
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  Speaker 2: hired Larry Scott, of all people, a very familiar name
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  Speaker 2: to Utah fans and also a longtime tennis executive ran
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  Speaker 2: the WTA for years. They hired Larry Scott. These players
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  Speaker 2: did to negotiate privately with the four major tournaments on
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  Speaker 2: this very point. Basically, it's no different than what the
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  Speaker 2: team sports are going through and what Baseball will likely
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  Speaker 2: encounter next year. Is the players want a bigger they
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  Speaker 2: think a morey. They have earned a higher percentage of
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  Speaker 2: the revenue. Each of the four majors is an independent group.
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  Speaker 2: This is one significant difference that it's hard for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sports fans to get. I know and believe,
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  Speaker 2: being in tennis forty five years, even I have a
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  Speaker 2: hard time with this. But each of the four majors
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  Speaker 2: is an independent answer to nobody. It's very similar to
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  Speaker 2: the masters and golf answers to themselves. No one else
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  Speaker 2: say with Wimbledon. In tennis, the equal prize money fight
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  Speaker 2: that was finally ended in the two thousands was one
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  Speaker 2: at a time. Each of the four majors went one
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  Speaker 2: at a time, and eventually the French Open of all people,
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  Speaker 2: because the French, I think, as a culture, are still
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  Speaker 2: the least open to understanding women's place in business slash sport,
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  Speaker 2: that Wimbledon was the one that finally accepted equal prize money,
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  Speaker 2: and then the French didn't want to be the only
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  Speaker 2: ones standing out like a sore thumb, so they buckled
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  Speaker 2: after that. It may take something like that in this case,
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  Speaker 2: but I do believe there will be at some point
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  Speaker 2: there will be a give here, and there will be
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  Speaker 2: more a higher percentage of the prize money will go
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  Speaker 2: to players. And what we're seeing, to wrap that comment up,
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  Speaker 2: is that the majors have slowly started increasing every conceivable
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  Speaker 2: way to make more money. The qualifying weeks have now
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  Speaker 2: become a significant part of the events, very much so
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  Speaker 2: at the US Open, where the third week, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: the week of qualifying, is now massive fundraiser, and the
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  Speaker 2: US Open last fall added the mixed doubles, which was
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  Speaker 2: a huge success. The other majors will follow with that.
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  Speaker 2: They're all selling twenty five dollars drinks now, and the
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  Speaker 2: US Open was the leader on that front, and they
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  Speaker 2: made about eighteen million dollars last year selling melon ball
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  Speaker 2: drinks at the US Open. Just the drinks, Okay. So
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  Speaker 2: my point is that there's more and more ways, and
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  Speaker 2: right now there's an insatiable basically an insatiable supply of
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  Speaker 2: people willing to spend disposable money to come to these
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  Speaker 2: tennis events. The four majors are making that money, and
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  Speaker 2: the players I think will get higher share of that revenue.
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  Speaker 2: The question I think now is going to be which
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  Speaker 2: will be the first of the four majors to break
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  Speaker 2: the ice.
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  Speaker 4: The figures I've seen on the French Open, players want
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  Speaker 4: their share to go from around fifteen percent to twenty
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  Speaker 4: two percent, And twenty two percent is a better number,
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  Speaker 4: but as you know, Ted, it's still significantly lower than
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  Speaker 4: the standard and other professional sports when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: the share of revenues that are actually given to the athletes.
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  Speaker 4: So tennis is for me shockingly far behind the team sports,
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  Speaker 4: at least when it comes to revenue distributions.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what players Sean will tell you the very
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  Speaker 2: same thing. The players I know. The American players are
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  Speaker 2: the ones I know of a night I was with
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  Speaker 2: somebody two weeks ago who was showing me his phone,
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  Speaker 2: and several of the top American tennis players were in
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  Speaker 2: a communication with this person about tell me how much
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  Speaker 2: revenue the room the Italian Open that just finished makes,
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  Speaker 2: Tell me how much revenue Madrid takes in. The players
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  Speaker 2: are aware, and like I said, these conversations have been
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  Speaker 2: going on. I think perhaps to speed up the end
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  Speaker 2: game is why this boycott talk has started to circulate.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that's the last resort, and you have to
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  Speaker 2: remember that, as we learn in team sport, every time
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  Speaker 2: players go out, whether they strike or are locked out
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  Speaker 2: in anticipation of a strike, the players lose a lot. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the tennis players are the same. The top tennis players
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  Speaker 2: all have endorsement deals and sponsorship deals, and they all
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  Speaker 2: have escalators in them based on their ranking or their
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  Speaker 2: success in Grand Slam events, so that if the top
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  Speaker 2: players miss a major, they lose. Now the top players
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  Speaker 2: have enough cushion. I understand that no different than team sport,
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  Speaker 2: but still hard to ask somebody to walk away from
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars to help player ranked number one fifty eight. That,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is something that I think tennis has
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  Speaker 2: done very well well. And this is something that for example,
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  Speaker 2: let's just compare tennis and golf. Just this past weekend,
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  Speaker 2: the PGA Championship was held. The golfers that played Thursday
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  Speaker 2: and Friday and did not make the cut four thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars now sold tickets Thursday and Friday, didn't They They
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  Speaker 2: sold television rights, they sold sponsorships and advertising Thursday Friday,
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  Speaker 2: just like Saturday Sunday. Those people have played the four
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It's ridiculous. If you go to the French
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  Speaker 2: Open next week and you are in the main draw
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred and twenty eight players and you lose
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  Speaker 2: in the first round, you will still earn somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the vicinity of one hundred thousand US dollars. That's awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and that's been a great drive by the players to
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  Speaker 2: help the second tier of players. Let me use that
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  Speaker 2: as a phrase to subsidize their travel for a year,
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  Speaker 2: so that if you're in the top one hundred in
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  Speaker 2: tennis right now and you play an all four majors,
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  Speaker 2: you know you start the year with four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars in your pocket, out of which you pay through
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  Speaker 2: your own travel, your own transportation, your own coach, your
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  Speaker 2: own strength program, your own nutritionists, blah blah blah. That
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  Speaker 2: has been a major step forward. So golf is way
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  Speaker 2: behind on that. Live was the thing that finally shook
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  Speaker 2: golf to at least the US opened golf for years.
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  Speaker 2: If you missed the cut, you play Thursday Friday and
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  Speaker 2: didn't make the cut, you got zero zero. How is
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  Speaker 2: that allowed to happen for all those years? That's insane, insanity.
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  Speaker 2: At least Live forced golf to confront some of these
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  Speaker 2: things and make it a little bit better for their players.
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  Speaker 4: Ted Robinson is our guest here talking to a little
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  Speaker 4: tennis on the Sean O'Connell show. The actual tennis that
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  Speaker 4: we expect will be played, even after all the hullabaloo,
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  Speaker 4: will be without Carlos Alcarez. He's going to miss the
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  Speaker 4: French Open, He's gonna miss Wimbledon due to this risk injury.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for the rest of the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's tough for tennis. It's concerning for Alcoraz. Risk
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  Speaker 2: injuries in tennis have ended careers. The risk is that
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  Speaker 2: one's hard, it's hard to fix, it's hard to come
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  Speaker 2: back from. And the fact he's missing Wimbledon leads you
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  Speaker 2: to two thoughts. One is it could be more serious
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  Speaker 2: than any of us want it to be. And the
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  Speaker 2: second thought, which we all hope is the case, is
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  Speaker 2: they're being super cautious in making sure he comes back.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what everybody in tennis will hope is the
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  Speaker 2: real answer. For the rest of the field, it's massive.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the guy that is the most
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  Speaker 2: probably inwardly hopeful of all is going to be thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine years old in a couple of days. Let's Novak Djokovic.
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  Speaker 2: Because the obvious reason Djokovic continues to play is only
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  Speaker 2: to hunt one more major. It is virtually impossible to
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  Speaker 2: think he could ever win a major and have to
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  Speaker 2: beat both Alcaaz and Sinner in a best of five
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  Speaker 2: set match. That's just not This is not possible for
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  Speaker 2: that to happen. Now, he goes to this French Open
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  Speaker 2: knowing he only has to beat Sinner and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: he gets lucky and somebody else beats Center before that
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  Speaker 2: would have to happen. Whether it's if Djokovic ends up
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  Speaker 2: in the same side of the draw, he would meet
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  Speaker 2: Center in the semifinals if he's in the opposite half,
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  Speaker 2: which would be his hope, he would not have to
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  Speaker 2: play Center until they would both reach the final. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Djokovic is the first guy everybody thinks about. This is
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  Speaker 2: great news, But there were all kinds of hopefuls that
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  Speaker 2: now think I've got a much better road because again
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  Speaker 2: that obstacle. It was the same thing sean twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people thought, my god, who is ever
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  Speaker 2: going to beat both Federer and the doll in best
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  Speaker 2: of five in the same major. And that's where Sinner
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  Speaker 2: and Alcaaz have until injury to Carlos, that's where they placed.
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  Speaker 1: Men's tennis, is the draw based solely on ranking? Or
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  Speaker 1: can rolland Gerrol say, well.
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  Speaker 4: Let's put them on opposite sides of the brackets, so
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  Speaker 4: if we if we, if we get what we hope for,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be a final between the two biggest names left
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  Speaker 4: in the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, the draws. The draws are all the seeds
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  Speaker 2: are placed. So for example, one and two are where
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  Speaker 2: it starts. One and two end up in opposite halves automatically,
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  Speaker 2: so one and two cannot play until the final. Then
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  Speaker 2: everything else go three and four go next. But that's
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  Speaker 2: a random draw, so three could be in either in
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  Speaker 2: the one number one half of the draw or number
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  Speaker 2: two half. The seeds are then alternated all the way
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  Speaker 2: till the seeds are finished, and then the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the draws one hundred percent random. One hundred percent random,
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  Speaker 2: So there's no there's no tweaking or or it's not
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  Speaker 2: like the original NBA lottery. Everybody thought the Knicks the
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  Speaker 2: Knick envelope. For those who don't remember this whole forty
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  Speaker 2: years ago, the first NBA Lottery, the Knicks won it
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  Speaker 2: and got Patrick Ewing, and there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: hue and cry that the envelope was fixed inside the drum,
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  Speaker 2: that David Storry would pull the Knicks name out to
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  Speaker 2: get New York the big player. That doesn't happen to
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  Speaker 2: the tennis draw.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm I'm going to my first Wimbledon this year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very excited about it. Who do you know, Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's my wife's family. They have friends that are
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  Speaker 4: not using their tickets and so I get to be
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  Speaker 4: the beneficiary of this you.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously married well, Shawn, etually.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely, if I've done anything right in my life, Ted,
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  Speaker 4: it's marrying up. That's definitely. That's definitely something I can
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  Speaker 4: go to my grave with. But it sounds like my
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  Speaker 4: strawberries and cream are going to be like one hundred
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  Speaker 4: dollars in order for these tournaments to maximize our revenue.
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  Speaker 2: Now, well, I would tell you absolutely that that that's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be your experience. Wimbledon is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: sporting experience I've had. And actually I worked one Master's
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  Speaker 2: on TV way back when and Augustus fabulous. But Wimbledon
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  Speaker 2: is in a class by itself. It's in a beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: leafy suburb Wimbledon, just in southwest London. The club is immaculate,
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  Speaker 2: It is beautiful. There is a standard of behavior and
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  Speaker 2: decorum on the grounds that is enforced, so you have
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  Speaker 2: no real difficulties. You know, things are there. Pims is
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  Speaker 2: the big drink. You'll find that out. But it's actually
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  Speaker 2: the concessions there. And I haven't been to Wimbledon now
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  Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen was my last year, but it was affordable.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a magnificent Being on the grounds is just
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  Speaker 2: it's special. And by the way, why I reacted the
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  Speaker 2: way I did about the ticket now, I called a
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl for the forty nine ers. I was with
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  Speaker 2: a baseball team in the World Series and Wimbledon is
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  Speaker 2: by far the toughest ticket I've ever encountered. Wow, far
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  Speaker 2: the toughest ticket. So I always tell people, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't know somebody with one of the two or three
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  Speaker 2: major companies like ESPN or IMNG, pull your credit card
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  Speaker 2: out and call the ticket brokers because they all have
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  Speaker 2: them in London and you'll pay for it if you
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  Speaker 2: want to go that badly. So good for you for
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  Speaker 2: getting in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very excited about my wife.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, she got to be there for the iconic semifinal
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  Speaker 4: Alcoriz semifinal match last year. She got to be She
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  Speaker 4: was there watching that match. I stayed home to watch
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  Speaker 4: the kids, and I was like, I hope you realize
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  Speaker 4: what you were just witnessing.
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  Speaker 1: That's some of the best tennis that's ever been played.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just Wimbledon. And the analogy I've
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  Speaker 2: always used is Wimbledon is the Masters, different sport but
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  Speaker 2: the same concept. It is a private club you walk
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  Speaker 2: inside their gates and you answer to them, and they
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  Speaker 2: answer to no one else. And it is the It
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  Speaker 2: is the tournament that every tennis player, no matter where
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  Speaker 2: they grew up. Ralph and Nadal won fourteen rolling. Garros's
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  Speaker 2: the tournament he dreamt of winning was Wimbledon. It's the prize,
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  Speaker 2: it's the goal, It's the grail of the sport.
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  Speaker 4: Before I let you go, I'm going to call them
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  Speaker 4: our forty nine ers, because whether it's official or not,
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  Speaker 4: I'm still always going to associate you with the San
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  Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers. Is the Super Bowl window even
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  Speaker 4: cracked open a little bit still or is it slam
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  Speaker 4: shut given what you know, how aged the roster is
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and what they've had to do with some of those salaries.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I no, I think it's it's still open.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are definitely questions. You said, some of
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the people are, you know, have some tread on the tire.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: The concern in their division, first of all to me
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: is Seattle, which is good and young and has a
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: great defense. The Rams are the other team that's you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: has to turn the court. I mean, there was so
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: much focus on the quarterback in the first round for
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: the Rams. But to me, they finally had some draft
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: picks that they need to young the selves at other positions.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'll say you, my biggest forty nine er concern going
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: into the football season is McCaffrey. Uh. That's the guy
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that what he had four hundred some odd touches last year.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been a high use player for enough
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: years now that you have to concern yourself that, you know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: does he have enough tread to attire to play twenty games,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: which is what you have to do if you want
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to play for the big prize. So that would be
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: my first, my first concern. They obviously tried to address
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the receiver position. Kittles another guy that you know, Kittle's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: been around now and Kittle's been banged now. Kelsey's older
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and still playing at a decent level. So that's the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: hope if you the forty nine ers that that George
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: would still have three four to five years left in him.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: But again, McCaffrey to me is the biggest one in
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the obvious other one that everybody knows. They tried to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: address in the draft that they better be able to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: rush the quarterback, and they tried to fix that in
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the draft as well.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Ded, appreciate your time today. Let's chat against my friend,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Sean, Hey, listen, enjoy Wimbledon, man, I'll be envious.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I will enjoy it, and I'll enjoy it extra just
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: for you. So have a great call on the French Open. Thanks,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: thank you, Ded Robinson, a consummate professional in the business
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: of sports broadcasting, one of the great play by play
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: guys in these United States of America. French Open begins
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: this weekend at roll On de Gueros