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MLB Realignment Always Timely to Talk About- Never Gets Old · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Sports Exchange. We have a big show lined up. Rob
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  Speaker 1: Moroska joined us in the second hour to go along
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  Speaker 1: with this incredible five alongside of me. We're bringing the
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  Speaker 1: man who has a hospital named after him, John Hopkins.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get any receipts from any of that business
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  Speaker 1: over there, brother?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have an old rugby teammate from San Diego
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  Speaker 2: State that tells me that I don't pay him enough.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I figured that. Great stuff. Glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you back. We have Jason Prock. Glad to have you back, Jason.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Glad to be back, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Great head. Second round of our doubleheader. The guy's a
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  Speaker 1: steady Eddie. I can expect out of this guy. He's great.
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  Speaker 1: And Cliff, let's get ready to rumble.
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  Speaker 4: Bring it on, Scott. Bring it on.
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  Speaker 1: Bring it on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready for it. I saw that rundown for tonight. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: See, when Ed was asked to come on the show,
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  Speaker 1: he said, oh, I get to see you and Cliff
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  Speaker 1: go at it, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I said. I get to see Cliff again.
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  Speaker 4: It's always fun.
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  Speaker 1: And we have the candy woman.
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  Speaker 7: I always love a front row seat for this rumble tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a really good singer, but I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: missed it for the world. Don't expect me on American
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  Speaker 1: Idol to try it out. All right, let's get it rolling.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's talk about ESPN first. They obviously
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  Speaker 1: shut down on December 1st, 2025. But here's my question
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  Speaker 1: to everybody out there. ESPN is a major media entity.
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  Speaker 1: media outlet. Do you think they should have been involved
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  Speaker 1: in the gambling industry? I don't know about you, John.
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  Speaker 1: I see a conflict of interest there between being in
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  Speaker 1: journalism and also in gambling.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to get me started on the gambling
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  Speaker 2: aspect because I understand that there's money to be made,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you wonder, you know, it's blood money.
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  Speaker 2: It's money that, uh, you know, I, I have, uh,
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  Speaker 2: seen how gambling can destroy people. You know, look what
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  Speaker 2: it did to Pete Rose's career. You know, he's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not in the hall of fame, even though he's got
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  Speaker 2: more hits than anybody. Uh, you see all these players
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  Speaker 2: that get suspended, they get caught. Uh, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: can be players. It can be referees. Um, I went
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  Speaker 2: into Capital One last year playing hockey, but you've got
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  Speaker 2: a sports book in there. That strikes me as fundamentally wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Then you wonder why you have players and you have
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  Speaker 2: executives getting in trouble for having betting apps on their
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  Speaker 2: phones that they go into practice with. It's making a
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  Speaker 2: deal with the devil, and it's going to cause people
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  Speaker 2: to lose confidence in and the game, whatever game that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be played.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, a little sidebar to that whole thing is
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  Speaker 1: ESPN and Penn Entertainment agreed to mutually terminate their $ 2
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  Speaker 1: billion exclusive U.S. online sports. Those are little things I
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  Speaker 1: just want to entertain you. You're right, gambling is bad news.
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  Speaker 1: It really, really is. I guess for me, being a journalist,
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  Speaker 1: and probably Cliff could probably relate to this too, is
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  Speaker 1: that there's a conflict of interest. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: you slice it. ESPN, announcers promoting it, and they're reading
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  Speaker 1: the news and the features, and then we're talking gambling.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like it. Go ahead, Jason.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's, yeah, you're right. It's not morally correct
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  Speaker 3: to be gambling. I'm not a big gambler myself. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, here's the deal. You know, you're seeing it
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  Speaker 3: more and more. It's greed, I think.
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  Speaker 2: It's just very.
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  Speaker 3: It just kind of gives a black eye to the
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  Speaker 3: sport in a lot of ways. And it's just because
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  Speaker 3: everything is betting, even college now. I was just seeing
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  Speaker 3: a report on Yahoo that college football, you can't bet
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  Speaker 3: like on FanDuel or FanDuel Sportsbook in certain states. So
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  Speaker 3: like you said, it's really a black eye, I think,
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  Speaker 3: to the sport.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn it over to you, Eddie.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, to what the guys were saying, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I think it's definitely a black guy. I think the
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  Speaker 8: viewer and the fan is going to start losing confidence.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we saw it in the Michigan game. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: how many people, as soon as that call was made
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  Speaker 8: by the referee, thought there was something underlying in it
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  Speaker 8: that somebody had a bet or something like that, you know?
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  Speaker 6: It just leads to that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 8: And to Jason's point, DraftKings has been all over the
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  Speaker 8: TV for the past couple of days promoting that they're
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  Speaker 8: in all 50 states now.
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  Speaker 5: So, I mean, it.
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  Speaker 6: Really, I think, jeopardizes.
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  Speaker 8: The spirit of the game and.
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  Speaker 6: The Black Sox scandal back then.
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  Speaker 8: Back in the day, you had the potential for those
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  Speaker 8: kind of situations coming up now.
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  Speaker 6: Across all sports. I think we're dancing with the devil
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  Speaker 6: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Cliff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so much wrong with this. You're totally right
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  Speaker 4: on the whole conflict of interest. They're right on top
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  Speaker 4: of everything. They know things that they don't necessarily release
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  Speaker 4: all the time because they can't. They are constantly in
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  Speaker 4: contact with the athletes, with the coaches. They know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on. Any bit of information, it can be very,
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  Speaker 4: very valuable. And they know it. And it's been a
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  Speaker 4: problem for a while. I mean, how long did it–
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  Speaker 4: I mean, remember Jimmy the Greek? I mean, he would
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  Speaker 4: be doing NFL on the NFL CBS show all those years.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, then you go– and I'm a massive
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  Speaker 4: fantasy football fan. But I think the whole fantasy craze
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  Speaker 4: kind of like normalized all that. Yeah, there was betting
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  Speaker 4: before that. Don't get me wrong. There's been betting there forever,
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  Speaker 4: but it's become more mainstream because of that. And then
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  Speaker 4: you have technology that made it so much easier. And
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  Speaker 4: ESPN fantasy, you can watch it every day. And all
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  Speaker 4: this galing that's going on, and then reporters are talking
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  Speaker 4: about it. What if they're involved somewhere with gambling, kind
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  Speaker 4: of like behind the scenes? Yeah, they're not supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be doing that stuff, but it's so easy now. Like
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  Speaker 4: you said, you have the apps. You have the apps.
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  Speaker 4: You can log in under somebody else if you want,
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  Speaker 4: a fake name or somebody else, or somebody else can
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  Speaker 4: do a bet for you. A friend can do a
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  Speaker 4: bet for you or something like that. So there's way
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  Speaker 4: too many problems there. And now we have, like you
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  Speaker 4: just said, you went to the arena and there's a
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  Speaker 4: sports book in there. And it's not Vegas, okay? It's
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  Speaker 4: all over. Don't they have a casino in Cincinnati right now?
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  Speaker 4: Or some kind of thing in there, some sort of
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  Speaker 4: sports book or something in Cincinnati Stadium or something I heard?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the ultimate ridiculous thing with sports. Pete
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  Speaker 4: Rose and all that. Um, the, the moment, the moment he, uh,
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  Speaker 4: the moment they put that in, they should have taken,
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  Speaker 4: they should have said, okay, you're in the hall of
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  Speaker 4: fame now. You know, this, there's way too many things
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  Speaker 4: going on. There's way too much money. It's way too easy.
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  Speaker 4: And there's way we as journalists that we take a sacred,
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  Speaker 4: it's like a sacred, it's a sacred trust, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and we have to do this right. If we don't
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  Speaker 4: do it right and we have other things getting in
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  Speaker 4: the way, uh, it's, it's, there's no point. We're not
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  Speaker 4: journalists anymore. You're fired. You're done. Goodbye. All right. But
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  Speaker 4: that's not the way the world, the world is. And it's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's just going to get worse and worse and worse. We're,
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  Speaker 4: we're already seeing things pop up here and there. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: gambling here, gambling there. It's, we're just getting started. We're
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  Speaker 4: just getting started with that. We all know it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be, it's going to be this big deluge and
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  Speaker 4: there can be some massive thing that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: exposed and championships and like maybe records or whatever, or
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  Speaker 4: certain things. They're all going to be questioned because the
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  Speaker 4: money keeps coming in. And as long as the money
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  Speaker 4: keeps coming in, that's all people really care about when
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  Speaker 4: it's not really, that's really isn't the way it should be.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well said. The bottom line is, is if there's a
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  Speaker 1: conflict between a sports organization that actually is delivering the
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  Speaker 1: news and then doing business as a gambling partner, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that again, I'll reiterate my thoughts to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: There's a conflict of interest. No way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Where do you start with this? I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 7: Betting has taken over the world. Let's face it. There's
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  Speaker 7: more casinos than there ever was. Now there's gambling on
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  Speaker 7: all the cruise ships There's casinos everywhere. And now you're
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  Speaker 7: talking about DraftKings and all these apps that you can
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  Speaker 7: use to bet on sports. Do athletes know that it's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And you can't tell me that they don't. We have
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  Speaker 7: all talked about it. Everyone has talked about it. But
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  Speaker 7: it's also... America has become... I want to make a
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  Speaker 7: quick buck and I want to have fun doing it.
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  Speaker 7: So what are they going to do? They're going to
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  Speaker 7: bet on sports. It brings a little more, it brings
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  Speaker 7: more of the casual fan in as well, because that
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  Speaker 7: now they can, you know, put a little money on it,
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  Speaker 7: have a little more interest in it, so to speak. Um,
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  Speaker 7: I know that there are people out there that maybe
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  Speaker 7: weren't as interested in the sport or watching the sport before,
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  Speaker 7: but now if they put a little money on it, Oh,
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  Speaker 7: the odds are, Hey, he, Their point spread is 10.
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  Speaker 7: Are we going to make it or not? And now
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  Speaker 7: they're more interested in watching the game as well. But
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  Speaker 7: it has no place.
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  Speaker 4: With athletes.
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  Speaker 7: The athletes have to stay away from it. And they
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  Speaker 7: just have to learn. That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, actually, it's funny how you say draft games
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  Speaker 1: because with that said, immediately after this took place, ESPN
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  Speaker 1: actually struck a major deal with draft games. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: one I have no problem with. Okay. Rav Kings is
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  Speaker 1: a credible organization. At least ESPN stays in the media
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  Speaker 1: journalism business. Rav Kings is an entity of its own.
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  Speaker 1: This one I'm okay with. What about you, John?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I still have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I remember it was one of the legends
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  Speaker 2: of the sport business, you know, Chet Forty. What happened
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  Speaker 2: to him? You know, he lost Monday Night Football. You know,
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  Speaker 2: because he was addicted to gambling. And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I understand it's hard to leave revenue on the table.
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  Speaker 2: You know, somebody's going to get it. But, God, let
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  Speaker 2: that stuff stay in Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's fair. I appreciate that, John. Go ahead, Jason.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, they'll be partnering with DraftKings, ESPN, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for sponsorship, obviously. I mean– I don't really
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  Speaker 3: see a problem with that, I guess. But then again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're advertising. It's constant, you know, from Sportsbook
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  Speaker 3: and beyond. But, you know, again, like I said, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really affect me on the thought process of them
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  Speaker 3: being a sponsorship. But other than that, I don't really
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  Speaker 3: have anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Eddie.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, they're not directly involved.
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  Speaker 8: They're indirectly involved, and they're looking at it from a
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  Speaker 8: business perspective.
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  Speaker 6: They're asking for advertising dollars.
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  Speaker 8: If you watch ESPN in the morning, the DraftKings logo
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  Speaker 8: is down by the thread that's running across the bottom
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  Speaker 8: the whole show. So you know who the ticker is
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  Speaker 8: sponsored by. And I think it just continues to what
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  Speaker 8: Candy said. earlier, it's, you know, betting is everywhere now.
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  Speaker 8: It used to be in Atlantic City and Vegas. Now
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  Speaker 8: it's even less in Vegas because all those casinos are
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  Speaker 8: shutting down. Now it's just everywhere else. You don't have
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  Speaker 8: to go to Vegas or Atlantic City. You can just,
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  Speaker 8: you know, back here in the D.C. area, you can
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  Speaker 8: just go over to MGM now. And so it's, I
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  Speaker 8: don't know. I just think.
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  Speaker 6: We're on a very slippery slope with sports betting because,
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  Speaker 6: you people are going to get hurt and people are
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  Speaker 6: going to potentially lose confidence in the integrity of the
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  Speaker 6: games being played.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Cliff.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, sponsorships, what in any, in any, um, organization, even
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  Speaker 4: like in TV news, the sponsorships and, um, uh, of, of,
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  Speaker 4: of certain companies. Now we're specifically talking about draft Kings
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  Speaker 4: and coverage has always been something that we've always dealt with.
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  Speaker 4: And I know you, you know that very well, uh, Scott, Because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, local advertisers, stuff like that, coverage. Heck, I've
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  Speaker 4: witnessed it myself. Some guy came in saying, oh, they're
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  Speaker 4: a sales guy. Oh, you can't talk about this story.
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  Speaker 4: And the reporter's like, go away. I have a job
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  Speaker 4: to do. I don't care if they're a sponsor. But this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this, once again, we're going back into the
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  Speaker 4: whole DraftKings side. There's, yeah, they might not be directly there,
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  Speaker 4: but it's still in the mind. You don't know what's
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  Speaker 4: going behind the scenes. Um, because they are sponsors or
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  Speaker 4: maybe that you don't know if they're not supposed to be, um, like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: maybe giving them special benefits or, Hey, we have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the sponsor wants to bring us to dinner or something
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  Speaker 4: like that. And you don't know what that kind of
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  Speaker 4: things are things that might seem, you know, Oh, it's
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  Speaker 4: not a big deal. But as you know, I'm being
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  Speaker 4: a journalist too. That's, that's strictly like, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: strictly forbidden with those kinds of things and those kinds
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  Speaker 4: of benefits. Um, So it's yeah, it's I've always had
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  Speaker 4: a problem with that. Yeah, it's hey, yeah, I come
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  Speaker 4: from news. It's like how many things are how many segments? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: this this weather segment is brought to you by this
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  Speaker 4: car lot or this, you know, kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 4: it's it's always it's always been there. It's just it's
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  Speaker 4: not it's not a chicken place or it's not a
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  Speaker 4: car dealership. It's a gambling thing. And yes, they have
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  Speaker 4: the fantasy thing. So, oh, well, it kind of goes together.
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  Speaker 4: They're called draft kings. What's more draft than ESPN fantasy?
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  Speaker 4: It makes all that much sense. But you got to
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  Speaker 4: think from the bigger picture. You got to think about
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  Speaker 4: your credibility. You got to think about the very point
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  Speaker 4: of why you're on the air and what you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: It has to come down to that. And that's that's
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  Speaker 4: a problem a lot of times with a lot of
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  Speaker 4: different things and not just sports and in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of corporate things and coverage with news and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: things that shouldn't be, shouldn't be involved with it. They
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  Speaker 4: are because of the reality is when it always comes
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  Speaker 4: down to one thing, all these things are companies and
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  Speaker 4: they're there to make money period. All right. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so that's, that's something we have to understand. I don't
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  Speaker 4: like it. I never have, but that's their mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Go ahead, Candy.
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  Speaker 7: Let's face it. All of it is a business. Even
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  Speaker 7: the sports are a business. And we forget about that sometimes.
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  Speaker 7: So are there sponsorships out there? Of course. Should they
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  Speaker 7: be intertwined as some of them are?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 7: Back in the day, I mean, let's face it. How
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  Speaker 7: many cigarette ads did you see back in the day when...
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  Speaker 7: before they said it wasn't healthy for us. And how
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  Speaker 7: many alcohol ads do we have? How many of this
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  Speaker 7: do we have? It's a business, and the people that
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  Speaker 7: make the money are the ones that are going to
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  Speaker 7: spend the money more so. We see more and more
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  Speaker 7: of it all along. If you look around, go to
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  Speaker 7: a baseball game. college or high school and you see
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  Speaker 7: banners all around the edge and stuff like that, some
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  Speaker 7: of them could be DraftKings. You just never know. Does
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  Speaker 7: it make sense sometimes?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes no.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the bottom line is when you compare
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  Speaker 1: and contrast ESPN debt versus DraftKings, again, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go back to what I said earlier. Conflict of interest
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  Speaker 1: on one DraftKings makes more sense. We all know what
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  Speaker 1: betting does. Again, Pete Rose is a great example. I
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  Speaker 1: can think of so many other examples. He's definitely one
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  Speaker 1: of them, but that's what it is. DraftKings makes more
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  Speaker 1: sense mentally for me because they're a gambling organization. ESPN
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  Speaker 1: is not.
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  Speaker 4: I do want to make one last point. Your universe,
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  Speaker 4: sports podcasts, How many sports podcasts have DraftKings as a sponsor?
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many times I list it.
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  Speaker 4: It's any number one of any of them. And even
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  Speaker 4: if they just get started, they get a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of traction, chances are one of the sponsorships they have
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  Speaker 4: is going to be DraftKings.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's good. All right. Well, we'll talk baseball, and
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  Speaker 1: then the topic Cliff is anxiously awaiting.
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  Speaker 4: I like baseball, too.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, good. This one's right up Jason Proctor's
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  Speaker 1: alley because the Red Sox designated Jake Rogers for assignment
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  Speaker 1: is what they did. He goes from actually being from
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers to Baltimore for a short cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. To Boston and lands with the Chicago White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure. You talk about a whirlwind for a player.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: What do you think, John? Jake Rogers got some frequent
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: flyer miles pretty early. Oh, Lord.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: You know, that was a bit much. You know, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you see some of these players, you know, have changed.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: You know, heck, I look at some of the nationals
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: that we had. You've had Juan Soto, great player. He's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on his fourth team in four years. You know, it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: not just the Stars, but it's the other guys. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I understand. I love there's this player that I love
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that took over for Soto. when he got traded to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: San Diego, Joey Menezes, you know, he's gone back and forth.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You know, he's, uh, he played with the nationals, went
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: back to the minors, played a, got a cup of
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: coffee with the angels, went back to the minors, went
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: with the athletics. And now he's just gone back to
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the minors and, you know, and I love the guys
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that are chasing the dream. Uh, you know, I hope that, uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: he can catch fire someplace.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, he's with the Chicago White Sox. Here's an interesting
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: story for all y'all. I interviewed him as an upcoming
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: prospect with the Detroit Tigers down here. And I like
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Jake Rogers. And I have to tell you, most of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the time in my younger days, I was a catcher.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So I can speak the catcher language really good. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if you want to know that, go on Monday nights
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and you see my buddy Barry Foot and I on
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the air along with Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Warren Brewster. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I think the three of us have fun. But Barry's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a catcher. So is Jake Rogers. And Jake Rogers is
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: currently with the Chicago White Sox. Go ahead. And he
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: actually returned to Comerica Park as a member of the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: White Sox and a division rival. I'm setting you up
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: real good, Jason Brock. Take it from there.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: So he had a home run, a walk-off home run
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: for the White Sox last week. He's why I love
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the game of baseball. He's a great teammate. Defensively, he's
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: got good numbers defensively. This season, out of 15 runners,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: he's thrown out 11 guys. I mean, when he does play,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: that's 73% of his runners. He's 27% in his career.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: It's not too bad. And then, you know, in college,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Scott and guys, he was 83 of 146 runners thrown out.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: That's 56.8%. That's a school record at Tulane. So that's
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: why he still plays, and he does have power. And Baltimore,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened there in Boston. I think
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: they just didn't have enough room there for him. So
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Chicago picked him up, and I can't be more happy
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: for the guy, really. But he's definitely a good utility man.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: if anything.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Well, he's steady. Well, that's it. I was leading to that.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up. From an overall standpoint, when
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you evaluate him in general, he's steady. He's a good
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: defensive catcher. The biggest thing is he calls a great game. Offensively,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he's a little off. Okay, go ahead, Eddie. Great point.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Scott, like you, my dad played catcher in high
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: school and college baseball. My brother played catcher as a
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: I come from a baseball junkie family. But, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: I think Jake kind of shows the persistence of those
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: guys who are on the cusp of being good. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: they have to find where they fit for whatever reason.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: And what they have to do is they just have
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: to keep grinding.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: And that's what makes baseball so interesting.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: Some of these guys are drafted right out of high school,
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: right out of college. You know, and they have, you know, baseball,
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: if you really look at it, you know, there's a
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: long career span compared to some of the other sports. And,
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: you know, if he just got drafted in 19 and
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: just started his career and it's only 26, so he's
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: only seven, roughly seven seasons in, you know, yeah, he's
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: bounced around, but hopefully, you know, the weight sucks.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Give him a home. You know, Jason's reading off the stats,
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: you know, some good stats.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: And, you know, if he can start producing with the bat,
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Maybe he's going to find himself a home in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Windy City. Hopefully that'll be where he can set his
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: roots and build upon the career that he wants. But
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: I think he is really the epitome of that guy
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: who really needs to grind to get into the show,
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: if you will.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Les.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: This reminds me of, you remember Charlie O'Brien?
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Charlie O'Brien, former Braves, Mets. Braves. He couldn't hit very well,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: but he was good defensively, and he could call a
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: real good game. The secret to him, though, was Greg
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Maddux loved pitching to him. So if Greg Maddux loves
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: pitching to you, you're not going anywhere. That's what he
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: needs to do. That's what he had to find.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Is find a really good money pitcher that absolutely adores
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: that catcher. He might not hit one 75, but if
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: that star pitcher or a couple of the star pitchers
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: likes that guy, he will be there for years. Absolute years.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Charlie O'Brien couldn't hit, could call a game and he
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: had wonderful hair. His hair was very, very curly. Um, But, yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Maddox and the other guys, and remember, it's the Braves.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: They had a whole lot of Cy Young guys there.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: They liked pitching to him. And I think Javi Lopez
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: was on that team too, and he had the bat.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: And that's what he really needs. That's just like Charlie O'Brien.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: That's what he had to find, that guy who just
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: absolutely loves him. And he would have been on a
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: team for years and years and years.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Katie.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: You know, I remember you talking to Jake. Great guy.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: He was injured last year. When he got injured last year,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: Dylan Dingler came up, did a really fantastic job. That's
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: why he lost his job to him for the Tigers.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, he hit in 46 appearances last year, he
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: hit 187. You're not going to keep a job like that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: So then this year he played in 34 games and
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: he hit 161. Right. So the Tigers traded him to
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: the Oreos. For the Oreos he batted, he went one
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: for five. 200 batting average with a walk. So he
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: made three appearances. Then he was traded to the Boston.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Boston he went three for six.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: But.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Like you said, there wasn't enough room on their lineup,
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: so they designated him for assignment. August 14th, Rodgers was
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: claimed off waivers by the White Sox. His first game
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: with the White Sox was against his former team, the Tigers,
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: at Comerica Park. Welcome back to the old friendly confines.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: You know, some baseball players manage to stay with their
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: team for their entire career. A lot of them don't.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: And a lot of them get moved around and it depends.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Sometimes it's just about the right fit at the right
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: time and the right coaches for you too. Maybe he's
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: found that in the White Sox. That'll be yet to
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: be determined.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the fit with the White Sox. I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: really do. Number one, he knows the division well. Number two,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: they know him well as a good defensive clincher. As
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, I Outside of his offense, the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: guy's a heck of a catcher. I think the White
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Sox should be fortunate that this guy fell into their lap.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: All right, well, it's time to talk about Atlanta hockey, people.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And I know that Cliff is gearing up for this
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and everybody waits for the show because we need one
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of them. We might have a couple of side shows
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in this show. All right, well, let's talk about some updates. Obviously,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Atlanta hockey, Alpharetta itself is approved in Georgia. We're talking
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: about the suburbs here. Okay, you're not talking about downtown
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Atlanta where obviously hockey failed. If they're making a proposal
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to bring back to downtown Atlanta, I say there's no
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: way you're getting a franchise. But let me go over
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the statistics. The Alpharetta Planning Commission approved plans to redevelop
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the North Point Mall into a mixed-use development centered around
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a 20,000-seat hockey arena. currently waiting on approval for Alpharetta
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: City Council, which will pass with flying colors. The arena
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: is being built with the explicit intent, I said explicit intent,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: to bring a third team to Atlanta. Atlanta was home
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Flames and the Atlanta Thrashers. Well, the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Flames from 72 to 1980 and the old Omni. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: then the Atlanta Thrashers from 1999 to 2011. The Flames
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: moved to Calgary to become Calgary Flames. And the Thrashers
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: moved to Winnipeg to become the Winnipeg Jets. We'll start
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: with you, John.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Will they in eight years become the Quebec Nordiques?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's all right. I'm okay. That's what I need.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: The one thing about Atlanta is they are a media market.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, what was headquartered there? CNN. You've got a
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: lot of disposable income. You've got all the other major
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: league sports there. You know, I hate to see them
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: get a franchise ahead of somebody more deserving like Houston, Quebec.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Even Arizona has been promised to franchise for letting the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Coyotes go up to become the Utah Mammoth. But you've
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: got an arena. You've got somebody willing to pay the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: entry fee, which I think is $ 2 billion now. It's
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: hard to turn that away. Hey, sad note here, since
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: we're on hockey. Former Kings coach Barry Melrose just flashed
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: on my phone a couple of minutes ago, passed away today.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just noticed that too. Barry Melrose, rest in peace.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Wasn't he dealing with Parkinson's? Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Barry. Thanks for bringing that up, John.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I noticed that. I'm glad that you took a moment
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: just to go out there and bring it in. Great stuff, John.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: There's hope for you in this journalism business after all.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: kidding with you. You're doing fantastic, Johnny.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: God, my advisor back at Mizzou would be having a
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: heart attack right now.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: We don't need any more tests. Keep up the good work, John.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to tell you. You're doing fantastic.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jason. We'll work in Atlanta the third time.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: You know what, Scott? I was reading this on Fox News,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: an article I found on August 26th. It said that
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Proposal was led by real estate and place-making firm for
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: the site owner, New York Life, and in partnership with
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: real estate developer Machete Group, which specializes in this project. Look,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: it's obviously not harder. There's going to be a lot
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: of money moving around there. And also I wanted to
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: bring up that they're going to have a music venue,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: convention space, and a public hockey rink with 2,000 seats, 1,100-seat
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: music theater. and 35,000-seat hotel that I've rented. Here's the
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: hotel rooms. I'm sorry. Here's my thought on this. Man,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I just wish it was just another city. Like, I'm
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: not hating on Atlanta really so much. It's just, obviously,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Canada would be, you know, someone like a Quebec. Houston,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: like John was saying, you know, So, I don't know.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: If it didn't last the last time, 1999 to 2011,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: with the Thrashers, I just don't know. I'm just crazy
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: to think about what the fan base is going to
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: be there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Go ahead, Eddie.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: I think it's an interesting thought to move a team
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: down to Atlanta. As everybody said, a lot of money there,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: disposable income. They're going to build a facility to house
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: the organization.
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: If you look at it, the success of the hockey
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: has been coming from the South recently. If you look
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: at Carolina, if you look at Florida, Tampa Bay's even
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: had some successful teams.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: A lot of sports is down in Atlanta. It kind
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: of makes sense.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: Maybe all those Northerners who know how to skate are
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: coming down here and we've talked about it on sports rap. No,
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: why the Canadians can't keep good players in Canada is
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: because of the money. You know, the players want to
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: come to the, to the States and then even go
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: to the South where it's a lot warmer. They can,
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: you know, you know, Mike Santos has said it, you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: they want to take their wives and their girlfriends.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: To places that they can hang out and it's warm
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: in it. Land is relative.
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's not Florida, but it's, Still down in
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: the south, and it's warm for a good part of
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: the time. So, you know, it might make sense to
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: put a team down there and see.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: Who knows? Maybe Quebec will eventually get a team.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: But who knows? Well, here's the thing. I do agree
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: with John. Houston's going to get a team as well.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be the second one. They
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: want to put another team in Texas. And I think
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: there's thought that the Houston Arrows could be making return.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: That's what I think, John. Take it for whatever it's worth.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: There's a good history there. Gordie Howe and his son
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: played for the Houston arrows, but Atlanta, again, you're talking
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to major markets can afford $ 2 billion price tag.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: So here's a dark horse for you. Uh, Stan Kroenke,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: even though he owns the avalanche is building a brand
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: new sports arena in San Diego. And I always thought
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: San Diego would have been a perfect place for the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: coyotes to have gone to, you know, to keep them
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: at least close geographically. But, uh, Hard to say. You know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you have the Padres sold for a lot of money.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: There is money in San Diego, and they would probably
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: be a great NHL team. The AHL team, the Gulls,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: and the current sports arena averages about $ 12, 000 to $ 14, 000
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: a year, depending on how good they are.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Well, you know what? Let's turn over
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: to Cliff.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: You know how I feel about this.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Twice.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Twice they have failed. They have failed miserably. Stop trying
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: to make something that doesn't work work. I don't care
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: how many things they have planned. That doesn't mean they
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: give a damn about the game. I care about the game,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: the honor, the heritage of the game. Those people don't
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: care about the game.
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: They will die.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: They are flaky, right out the door. They're not going
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: to give two smorable flops. I'm coming up with words.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I can't even... It is disgusting. It is vile that
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: they want to go back to that joke. It is
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: insane that he wants to go, oh, I'm smart. Oh,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: we're intelligent. We know things.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, the market.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: I know all.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: About television and media markets. I spent 16 years in
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: the field myself, and I teach my students all about this.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: You can't use that stupid, out-of-date excuse anymore.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Anymore.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Have you heard?
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: Oh, there's this, it's 2026 now.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: It's not 1993, where it's just television and radio. It's,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: we do all this, there's this thing, it's called streaming,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: and they're always looking at the phones, and they have
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: all these things. So, that whole thing, we have to evolve.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: The industry has to evolve. Sports has to evolve with
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: the reality and the changing world of media consumption. Just
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: because there are a certain amount of people in a
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: given area doesn't mean they're going to go to the
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: games and they've proven it twice. Has it grown since
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: then with the media and the film? They're doing lots
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: of film and other television programming. Sure, but they still
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: don't give too much whatever's about the game. Real hockey
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: fans will go to games. Real hockey fans go through
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: snowstorms to go to games. They had two shots, two
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: shots to do it, and they failed miserably. I didn't
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: think Vegas was going to be able to do anything,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: but they proved me wrong, and I'm fine with them there.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: They've had two shots. Two of them. I'm tired of this.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Because they're going to pay for it. And then they're
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: just going to move away. This is an insult to
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: the game. The game is considered like. fourth or fifth
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: class to everything else i'm sick of it i love
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: the game i get the game and it's garbage like
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: this that says oh we're just gonna put it anywhere
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: oh yeah yeah they're gonna be there they're there to
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: get drunk okay they're there to get drunk and when
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: it's not entertaining anymore they're not gonna be there it
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: was a waste of time it was a waste it
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: was a slap in the face of the game i'm
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: tired of it i want real fans i want real
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: markets and i want this I want this sport to
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: be seen as the great sport and game that it is.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Garbage like this because of morons who have power and
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: who are rich and guide everything. They're supposed to be
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: caretakers of the game. They are not caretakers of the game.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: They keep trying to put in, oh, we have a
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: little thing. It's not the square peg in the round
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: hole constantly. How many times does it have to fail?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: How many times?
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: Stop it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: And there's other markets who deserve it with people who
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: love the game, who love this league, who love the
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Stanley Cup, who deserve it more than some, oh, they
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: got the stuff and they'll pay the thing. I don't care.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: It's an embarrassment on the league. It's an embarrassment on
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: the game. And I'm sick of people who's like, oh,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: let's look at the shiny new thing. Oh, oh, but
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: they did it. Oh, we don't don't remember that so
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: oh have a little substance okay some foundational substance I'm
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: sick of this. I'm sick of watching my league become
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: a joke because of these buffoons. I want this game
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: to be recognized the way it should be. And garbage
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: like this is what brings it down and what people
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: think it's a joke. They think the game's a joke
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: and think people who like it is a joke or
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: there's some sort of Neanderthal. I'm sick of it. It
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: means much more than being, oh, we thought it would
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: be cool if we did that. It didn't work. You
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: tried it. AHL, that's what you get. You can be
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Tampa's AHL affiliate and be happy with that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: End of story. Hey, oh, there's another place. Hey, Wisconsin. Hey, Candy. Candy,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: you're from Wisconsin?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Does it snow there?
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Does it have ice there?
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: Do people like hockey there?
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I think the University of Wisconsin has a pretty– popular
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: thing going on there.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: They have eight.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah oh chicago's not far minnesota's right there built
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: in built in rivalries but no no we're gonna go
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: to atlanta for the third.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: Time and and be another resounding failure waste the money
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: waste our time and make us look like a joke
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: make this game look like a joke and betman and
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: those buffoons should know better but they don't and they
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: don't care.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. Your rent will not qualify
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: for a short because that's longer than a short. I
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: call that a lump. Number two, what I need you
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to do is I do not have the proper insurance
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: paperwork in case you have a heart attack over this.
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: This!
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Now it's my turn. I'll let you... Are you out
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: of gas? Because if you aren't, God only knows you're
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: running better than a damn diesel, brother.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: And.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing. I don't know what to bet. Whatever.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Let me finish now. It's my turn.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: You ever heard of that thing called third time in
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the charm ever? Yes or no. Don't give me one
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of your clip answers. Yes or no.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I've heard of it, but no, not in this case.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Not with this. You don't mess around with this.
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: No.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: We're going to.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: It's going to work now.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: They're flaky down there. They're not going to do it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: They might go to a couple games. Oh, I was like,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: they're just. Oh, when's the next NASCAR week?
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, the Bulldogs.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: The Georgia Bulldogs are on. Georgia Tech's going. Oh, screw that.
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, MMA.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, give me a beer.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, forget about it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: Time out.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I gave you a yes or no question. Have you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: ever heard the third time it's time? Yes or no?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: It's a statement.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: No, because you're trying. Yes, I've heard it. You're just
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: trying to set me up.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: How many times? I won't give a damn what I'm
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: doing to set you up. So flipping what? I kept longer.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: kept quiet longer, so I have to argue with you
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: so you can get it out of your system so
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you can go ahead and wipe your head of all
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the sweat that you currently have on there now. So
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you for the fourth time, and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you're a college professor if you can't
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: answer a yes or no question. I did.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: I have heard it.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Let me finish. I'm the host, and you are one
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of the president's men, okay? Fair enough? So, have you
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: heard the third time is a charm? Yes or no? Also,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: he's going to nod his head because you don't want
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to admit it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've heard it. Yes, I've said I've heard it.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: All right, now let me finish. I'll give you my
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: point of view. Everybody, if you're all collecting up data
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: with this back and forth, when we get them later on,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I'm getting this guy warmed up. That's why we love
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: having this guy on the show. Number one, there's a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: big thing. I mentioned it earlier. There's no way it
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: would ever make it downtown. is going to the suburbs.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Don't give me your body language. Let me finish. I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: heard your body language in a loud form. So let
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: me finish. You understand? Say yes. No, maybe then again
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you can say no, you don't understand.
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: That's better.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: But here's the case. He's going to the suburbs. These
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: people in Alpharetta have a pretty good plan there. The
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Braves moved to the suburbs and they're drawing better than
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: they did downtown. And I feel that that's going to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: become the case in Alpharetta. And yes, you're right. It
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: is a big media market for sure. So I, I mean,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: so the NHL knows that the only reason they would
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: go there is with a long-term, the flames and the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: flat thrashers are awful. They didn't last a combined 20
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: years with both of those two, the way it worked
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: out because the NHL at that time was sold a
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: bill of goods, a new stadium. We know the flames
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: didn't last long in the Omni that was done. But
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the reality is the only shot it has is Alpharetta. Period.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Let me finish before you start again. Okay. I gave
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: you plenty of time. I was being nice. Stick your
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: tongue at me.
• 44:29
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: That's my problem.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I've seen a whole lot worse than that. The only
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: shot they have is in the suburbs. Otherwise downtown, forget it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: It would fail. Go somewhere else. And yes, if you're
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: looking for a potential city that I do feel good support,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: The NHL, Milwaukee would certainly be at the top of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: my list for sure. I would endorse Milwaukee all day long. Okay,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: you have heard Cliff and I, okay? I'm going to
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: go out there and ask John, what did you make
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: sense of this little debate with this guy and I, Johnny?
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: You see teams come and go. I think Cliff is
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: very passionate about this. I have family in Alpharetta. There
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: is so much to do, and, you know, the big
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: thing about Alpharetta is finding someplace else to go for
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: the weekend. So if it's going to work, like I said,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: eight years, they might as well put on the Nordique
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: jersey already.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair. Okay, Jason.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I appreciate your passion, sir, Cliff. And because I collected
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: early 90s pro set hockey cards, I will always be
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: there for a passionate hockey fan. When I started collecting cards,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: it was hockey, man. It wasn't anything else. And everybody
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: in my family are always hockey fans. We're Red Wing
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: fans here. And I know you're passionate about the Islanders.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: And I will always respect that. But yeah, like I said,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: it's just, I just don't really think that's going to
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: work either. But again, they're going to keep trying because
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: it's a media market. And I just, I don't see
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: it either because just the fan base and just hockey
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: in general. So I agree with everything you're saying on
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: that clip because I just, I mean, it hasn't happened
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: over the last 40 years going back to the Flames.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Eddie?
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: Two thoughts. Yeah, two thoughts.
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: I'm trying to figure out if Cliff's more passionate about
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: Atlanta getting a hockey team or the New York Mets.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: And I'm really kind of undecided right now.
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: Second, you know, Secondarily, maybe we need to send this clip,
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: the clip of Cliff, to the expansion, to the club
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: expansion subcommittee of the NHL and let them hear Cliff's points.
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Maybe they'll take that under advisement and be able to.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: No, but no, I mean.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: Over $ 2 billion at stake.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: No, right, right.
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: No, no, I know. I was being... It's being facetious. No,
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, we've talked about it here and we've talked
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: about it on all the other shows. It's about the money.
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: If the money's there, they get the facility, they're going
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: to try to stick that square peg into the round
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: hole again and then stick it somewhere else once it doesn't.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: That's fair enough.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Katie, you have the last word. You've said enough, Cliff.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: So in Dyersville, Iowa, they said, if you build it,
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: they will come. That does not mean it's going to
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: translate the same to Atlanta when you've done it twice before.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: How many times do you have to try it before
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: it just doesn't work? I mean, hey, if you have
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: some– it's a business. We've talked about this, too, and
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: I appreciate your passion there, Cliff. But it is a
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: business at the end of the day. So do you
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: have a businessman– that's willing to buy it, willing to
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: put it there, willing to get the players necessary to
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: make it worthwhile? And then do you have the fans
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: that are worthwhile, that are going to support it? I
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: think it deserves to go other places before you go
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: back to a market that you've been to and it
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: didn't work and it didn't work again. There are a
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: lot of other markets that would want it, I would
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: try it there first as opposed to taking it back
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: to a place that it has failed twice.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: That's all right. That's fair. I'm going to let Rob
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: in here. I don't want to leave Mr. Moroska out
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: here too long. Welcome back to the big show, Mr.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Moroska.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. We're just getting started, Mr. Moroska. Cliff and
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I went at it like we always do. You'll have
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: a chance to go at it with me later. I
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: enjoy this kind of dialogue, confrontational stuff, and I got
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the right guy on. I can draw it out of
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: this ranting monster all day long who does a pretty
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: good job, though. His rants are the classic. They no
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: longer classify for shorts. But they classify for something, you know,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: like putting him in other places when we need somebody
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to have their eyes coming out of their head. All right, well,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: with that said, let's talk a little bit of baseball.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: We're going to go to baseball history, July 13, 2001.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Mike Piazza hits his 300th home run. All right, let's
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: talk about the accomplishment, Sean. Mike Piazza is definitely a guy,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: to me, is, you know, worthy of all the accolades.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I think he's in the Baseball Hall of Fame, isn't he?
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: If he isn't, he should be. I know a lot
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: of friends back in Southern California that regretted the day
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: that the Dodgers traded him. You know, they thought it was,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: you know, it was not believable. They thought it was,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: you know, to borrow a phrase, fake news. And all
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, he's gone, he's out of
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: LA and, you know, Lasorda was, I believe, his uncle,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: and they still let him go. Did he go wind up?
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: He actually loved him when he was playing with the Mets.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think many people remember that he played with
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: the Marlins for a cup of coffee, but especially that
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: 2001 playoffs, he was just a star. For no other
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: reason other than that playoff, he should be in the
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair enough. Okay, Jason.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had a great swing, 300-plus home runs, you know,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: and he hit it off of Derek Lowe, Boston Red Sox.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Can't say enough about him. Just a great player, great professional,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: made the World Series, I think, with the Yankees and
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: the Mets in 2000. You know, can't say enough. It
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: just seemed like After he left the Dodgers, kind of
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: the injuries kind of caught up to him there. So
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: he wasn't able to kind of have a lasting career,
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: but still definitely a great player. Can't say enough about him. Okay.
• 51:50
  Speaker 10: Cliff?
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: He was an absolute joy to watch. He was just–
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: being a Mets fan, we don't have that many great catchers. Yeah,
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: we just had Gary Carter. And that was great, but
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: we have a long line. Who's this guy? I talked
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: about Charlie O'Brien before Rob. So you'd be happy. I
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: think that Mackie Sasser, all these other guys, he was
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: just such, it was such a pleasure to watch him play.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: And I was like, when I watched him with the Dodgers,
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: it was just amazing. It was amazing to watch how
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: good he could hit and how good he was. And
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: then he came back. to the meds after yes, the,
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: with the, when they went to the Marlins for a week,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: it was like a week. And then, uh, then they traded, uh,
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Preston Wilson as part of a deal to, to get them. And, uh,
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: that time he was, and I remember when he got there,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: it was like, Oh, is it going to sign? And
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: he did. And I'm like, cause that doesn't usually happen
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: for the meds. They usually kind of get shafted most
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: of the time and he didn't. And he was such
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: a great player for them. And, uh, yeah, he, People
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: like– people denigrated his defense, but he wasn't that bad
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: a defensive catcher.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: He wasn't.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: And he called a solid game. So it's like– I mean,
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: the way he hit, he was such a good hitter.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: He had so much power. And I truly miss him
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: to this day. I really do. And, yes, he is
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame. It was just– it was
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: a pleasure knowing he was in that lineup. And it's–
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: you know, it's– we have our players that we love
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: and he'll, he'll always be one of those players for me.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, Mike Piazza, just class act all over and
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: every way. And, uh, I can't say enough good things
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: about him.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, let me just say this for a while. Okay.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Number one, if you can find a great offensive catcher,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: considering the domains of the position and I played the
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: position so I can, and I was awful. I was
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: more Jake Rogers and it came to the way I
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: played the position. I'm not afraid to admit it. Hey,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: when you're bad at something, but when you, but if
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: you can find a good offensive catcher to me, that's huge.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: And that's, I think the legacy that Mike Piazza brings on,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: of course, you know, the sort of good, but you
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: can be connected to Tommy all day long, but you
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: got to perform. And Mikey did exactly that. Okay. Rob,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: turn it over to you.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: Well, one of my favorite Mets, second Met elected to
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: the hall of fame. Um, His 300th home run.
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: I was at that game.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: I went to so many games because I did have
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: a season ticket package. The Mets lost to the Red
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: Sox 3-1. He hit a solo shot for his 300th.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: But listen, he was a great Met. Anytime he got
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: up as a Met, the ball could go out there.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: What an offensive power he was. And let's not forget
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: that he hit the game-winning home run in the first
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: game back after 9-11, which is one of the biggest
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: home runs in the history of Major League Baseball.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Great way, Rob, okay, to talk about something that we'll
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: be talking about later in the show. Great stuff, Mr.
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: Moraska.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And welcome back, Mr.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: Moraska.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, Eddie, some thoughts about Phoenix.
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, he was a great player.
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, no doubt. I mean, great catcher, great match.
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: He was a 12-time All-Star. He was the 93 National
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: League Rookie of the Year. He was the 96 MLB
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: All-Star MVP. 2016 was when he was elected to the
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: Hall of Fame. And actually, just the fun fact about
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: his power and catchers not being known for hitters, His
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: 427 home runs are the most ever hit by a
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: player who played primarily catcher. So, I mean, out of
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: all the catchers that ever played, there's some great ones.
• 56:00
  Speaker 8: You know, he was the guy who had power and,
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: you know, brought it with the 427. I, you know,
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: I enjoyed watching him play when he was with the
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: Dodgers and then, you know, towards the end of his
• 56:11
  Speaker 8: career when he was with the Mets and so on.
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: So, you know, he was a great player.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, Candy.
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: Couple of interesting points. He was drafted by the Dodgers
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: in 88 as a favor from Tom Lasorda to Piazza's father.
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: He was the last player selected by the Dodgers that
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: year and was the latest drafted pick signed in his
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: draft class to play in the major leagues. He initially
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: was a first baseman. He converted to catcher in the
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: minor leagues at Lasorda's suggestion of to improve his chances
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: of being promoted. One of the things that I thought
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: was interesting when I was reading about him is in
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: addition to his hitting, and you talked about his hitting,
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: Piazza's defense has undergone a more positive reassessment in light
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: of new defense metrics. His pitch framing... In particular, ranks
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: 7th best among all catchers, going back to the first
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: data back in 88. Among reported published in 2008 put
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: him 3rd among all catchers since 1948 in improving the
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: performance of his pitchers. Mets teammate Tom Glavin called Piazza
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: a first ballot Hall of Famer certainly the best hitting
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: catcher of our era, and arguably the best hitting catcher
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: of all time. He didn't make it to the Hall
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: of Fame on the first three ballots. It was the
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: fourth ballot that finally got him in, which.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Is, you know, cool. Either way, he's in. All right,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: let's talk about our featured tough of the night. That's
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: MLB realignment, always timely to talk about, never gets old.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: All right, the Tampa Bay Rays got their stadium situation finally,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: finally fixed as they head over to Hillsborough County. The
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: A's are about a year out from getting their new
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: home in Las Vegas. With that said, what's next?
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: Expansion.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: All I'm going to talk about in this particular segment
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: is they won an East team and a West team,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and everything is all speculation about the other two, although
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling nashville and utah are the two
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: league candidates from what i've heard but i'm just going
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to point out some scenarios and we don't have to
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: drag it on too too long but long enough so
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: everybody can get their appeal we're going to go to
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: the national league and here's some anybody say something or
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: okay okay so and i'll go to the national league
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: and i'll give you the breakdown of divisions that this
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: particular source is proposing and the League Midwest, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at the Cubs, the White Sox, St. Louis, and the Reds.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: The National League Midwest, NL Central, you've got the Colorado Rockies,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, and the Houston Astros. Keep
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: the Texas boys together as well as the Chicago boys
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: and the other guys in there. In the National League Southwest,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: you've got L.A., Dodgers, along with the Angels, San Diego Padres,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: and the Diamondbacks. And in the NL Northwest, you've got Seattle,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: the A's, San Francisco, and a team to be determined.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the AL Northeast. You've got the Yankees
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: and the Mets, along with the Red Sox and the Phillies.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: That one's pretty interesting. I can imagine how that would work.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: The All-Middle Atlantic. You have the Orioles and the Nationals,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: along with Pittsburgh and Cleveland, which makes sense because they're
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: pretty close to each other. And AL, Great Lakes. I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: like the Great Lakes. You have the Twins, the Tigers,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers in that division. And the Blue Jays.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: And the Blue Jays. I'm getting to it. Okay. And
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: then the AL Southeast, you have the Braves, the Marlins,
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  Speaker 1: the Rays, and the team to be determined. My gut
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: feeling is it would be Nashville. And then for the Northwest,
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  Speaker 1: it would probably be Utah if I were betting. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I've broken these down here. John, what are your thoughts
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: of them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're right with the people. And I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: was very surprised, but Utah, I think, you know, they've got, uh,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: at least a stadium framework, I believe, uh, owner with funding, uh,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Nashville doesn't have any of those things yet, but Nashville
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: is a growing market. They've got hockey. They've got football.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: They've got major college football. The one thing they don't
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: have is basketball, but I don't know how well the
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Grizzlies are doing in Memphis. I think they play a
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: game or two in Nashville. And what can I say?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: You know, when Utah took on the Mammoth, That really
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: put them on the map. And, you know, whether, you know,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Utah grabs another major sport or not, you know, I
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: think that's going to be looking to see because you've
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: got a lot of my friends from California have made
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: it to Utah somehow, some way. I don't know what's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: out there. I haven't been there myself. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something's happening there.
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  Speaker 1: See, I've been to Utah. They covered a few Utah
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Jazz games at the old Salt Palace. I truly believe
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: that Utah could be a really good market, plus a
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: good rivalry for the Rockies should that take place. And
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's what a lot of people are figuring.
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  Speaker 1: If that becomes the case, then I think that this
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  Speaker 1: divisional realignment could get altered just a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: that's what I think. We don't know yet. And again,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: these are just divisional. But National will get it done.
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  Speaker 1: I think they know where they want to put the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: They're just waiting for a commitment from Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And if they don't, there's plenty of other candidates as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and turn it over to Jason. Yeah,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: good point, Scott.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, you know, I'm not too
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: far from Nashville myself. I don't know if they're planning
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: on doing something with the Nissan Stadium, but they'll probably
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: build it closer there. It's it's a upcoming say I
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: can't speak for Utah. I haven't visited there even myself.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: So I don't know what the population kind of is,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: but I would think I even heard Dave Dombrowski was
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: kind of in the mix on those on bringing the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: team here in Nashville. But as far as like, like
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: this is going to be good for the game. Like,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: You brought up some good points about these divisions, Scott.
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  Speaker 3: I had just a little differ on the Yahoo. I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: even seen the Reds, Guardians, White Sox, Tigers. So the Reds,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: also the Pirates with the Yankees, Red.
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  Speaker 6: Sox, and Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: So I think what this is, this is a travel
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: situation that they're trying to eliminate.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want to travel all over like the NHL did.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: They brought the Eastern Western.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's kind of crazy that you would take
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: the AL and the NL away because we're so used
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: to that, that they want to change it to the NBA, NFL,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Eastern Western Conference. I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be interesting. I, it'll be hard to get used to,
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  Speaker 3: especially when you're dealing with, you know, AL, I know that's,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what the game is, you know, major
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: league baseball for 125 years. So, um, I think they're
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: just trying to do it for travel, like, like Detroit
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: moving to Eastern, you know, Eastern conference from the Western
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  Speaker 3: conference and they could, you know, playoff games were late
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: at night and, and, you know, the travel getting out
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: late early morning. So I think that's what they're trying
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: to do. And, I mean, more power to him. I mean,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: these are interesting divisions, moving the four-team division, you know,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: per 32 teams. If he goes that far, Manfred, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, Jason, you said one key word, which I agree,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: and I'll whip it around the horn, a lot more
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  Speaker 1: to get to. It is about travel. They're trying to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: shorten the division rivals. That's why I think the alignment's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: set up. All right, Cliff, what are your thoughts about this?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: I know you always love to talk about this. I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: don't think you and I will have a major debate
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: on this one. It's just about what you think about
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: these potential divisions, Cliff, and that's the nature of this topic,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a problem with Nashville or Utah getting
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: a team. That's fine. I don't want to gut the system.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: I don't want to gut the alignment. The baseball is different.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: There's so much history. It's so deep. I don't want
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: to hear, oh, they're all doing DH. I'm okay with
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: a couple little flip here and there, like Colorado. Going
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: into like a Midwest division with like Kansas City, Houston,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: and Texas. Because Colorado doesn't have any history. Same thing
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: with Tampa. I'd be okay with that. Little things here
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: and there. I don't want this big, massive gutting. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: It's baseball. It's special. We're not the NFL. We're not hockey.
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  Speaker 4: And I love hockey. And I like these other sports.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: Baseball's different. Don't touch it. This is different. It's been
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: like this. I... Travel, whatever. I don't care about the travel.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: There's things that are bigger. Once again, it comes down
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: to foundation, substance, respect something. I'm not an old guy. Well,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: I'm older than I was, but a grumpy old man
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: yelling about his lawn, get off my lawn kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have some respect for something like that. I'm okay
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: with the expansion. I'm okay with having a couple things.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: And move a little thing here and there. Preserve the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: National American League and then also... Once you have those
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: couple extra teams, you can put the interleague back in
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: from Memorial Day into July. The reason they can't do
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: it now is because there's 30 teams.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And you can make it special again. I don't want
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: all this realignment like that. I mean, I have an
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: entire plan. I can show you sometime. But, yeah, that's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: too far.
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  Speaker 1: As far as national stadium-wise, I can see the Montreal
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Expos becoming a dark horse if Nashville does not come
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: up with a team because they can either use Olympic
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Stadium or plan to build another one with the intent
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: of what they can do at Olympic Stadium. That's just
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: a thought, and that's all it is. Rob, go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, Olympic Stadium is a dump.
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  Speaker 5: There's no way they could play Major League Baseball there
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  Speaker 5: ever again.
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  Speaker 10: That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Even though people in Montreal would love it to happen,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: but it's just not going to happen. I see Salt
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 5: Lake City and either Nashville or Raleigh getting the team,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: which I don't care. Expand two more teams. But I'm
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: with Cliff. I do not want to see this other
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 5: stupid realignment. And I know it's because of the travel,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: but I do not want to see the vision where
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: it's the Mets, Yankees, Phillies, and Red Sox.
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  Speaker 10: Four teams.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: And That would be the American League East. I don't
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: want to see that. I don't want the Mets to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: go to American League.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I hate that stuff.
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  Speaker 10: I do not. I don't agree with that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to see divisions with four teams in them.
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  Speaker 10: It's ridiculous.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 5: Now we're getting into NBA and NHL territory with that stuff.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: And it's been headed towards that with the playoffs and
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: the expansion of the playoffs. Pretty soon, regular season's not
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: going to mean anything. They're shooting for that. It's all
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 5: about the money and the travel, saving time and less travel.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: I do not want to see that expand.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: You want to expand?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: But also, what happens when you expand? The talent gets
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: watered down, right? That's what happens when you screen it.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: And that's what's going to happen.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: Guys who should be in AAA are now in the
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: major leagues.
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  Speaker 10: It's watered down. That's what happens, but it's all about
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 10: the money.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. Montreal Olympic Stadium, not really a wise move.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: And the reports I saw, they're ranked sixth. They're not
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: one of the top choices. But for many years, Charlotte
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: was talked about I think Raleigh gets the team way
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: ahead of Charlotte. I think that there is some ideas
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: behind it. I won't talk about it all night. We
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: can talk about this all day long. But I can
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: see Raleigh way ahead of Charlotte. Go ahead, Cliff.
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  Speaker 4: You mean Ed?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: No, no, me.
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  Speaker 8: He meant me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ed.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's all good.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: It's all right, Cliff.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 8: No, no. Yeah, the expansion to Salt Lake or Nashville,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: even Raleigh, I think would be great. But I have
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: to stand with Rob and Cliff on this. Like I said,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 8: I come from a baseball family, baseball traditionalists.
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  Speaker 6: It's not broken.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: It doesn't need to be fixed. Maybe, like Cliff was saying,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 8: a couple tweaks here and there. Maybe you can make
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 8: it a little bit better. But it's worked for all
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: these years.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: Let's keep it intact.
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  Speaker 8: It's, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, mom,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 8: apple pie and baseball is what makes America great. Right.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 8: And so let's, let's not mess something up that we
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: got going good.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Where do I start? Let's start with Nashville. Is it
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 7: a place for an expansion team? There's a minor league
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 7: team right there. And they're only sixth in attendance. So
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 7: they're not first in attendance. They're not knocking it out
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 7: of the park. They're averaging roughly 6,500. Roughly, they're saying
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: between 6,479 to 6,828 in a stadium that holds seating-wise 8,500,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: but they can go to 10,000 standing rooms. But they're
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: ranked sixth overall across all of minor league baseball. With
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 7: that being said, the Nashville Sounds did celebrate a franchise,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 7: celebrated the 20th millionth fan, 20 million fans in team
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: history during a home series in late May of 2026.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 7: So they've obviously been there for a long time. Do
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 7: I think they deserve a team award? I don't know
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: if you're talking about they're only sixth in minor league
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: baseball attendance-wise, if that somehow means they should get an
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 7: MLB team. It does happen to be a minor league
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 7: team for the Brewers. I will admit that, too. As
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 7: far as Utah goes, I'm okay with that. I can
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: speak from a point of I remember my Brewers back
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 7: in the American League. And when they switched to the
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 7: National League, I thought that was the oddest, weirdest thing.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: The rivalries that they had, they no longer could have
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 7: because you weren't playing them at the same. So do
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 7: I want to see this alignment? Absolutely not.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: I am more of a purist. I don't like that.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: The other weird thing, I think, is why would you
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: call the divisions different things depending on if you're in
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: the National League or the American League? Like, either you're
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 7: in the American League West Division or you're in the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 7: National League West Division. Not the Great Lakes. I mean,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 7: Great Lakes is a nice name, but, like, I just
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: don't get that either. But four teams in a– no,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: I don't like that at all. Am I up for expansion? Sure,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 7: we want to grow the business. We want to grow
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 7: the brand. I can see that. Do I think Nashville
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 7: and Utah are the best places? I'm not sure about that.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 7: I'm not completely sold yet on those.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, you know what MLB will do? What they
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: have to do is an exhaustive search to alleviate any
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: doubt before they go out there and make that move.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk about a quick NFL note. Giants
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: signed Najee Harris. Do you think that's a good move
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: for them, John?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Uh, The Giants probably need all the help they can get.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he's going to play, but the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Giants need talent.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 7: Jason?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a good move.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: They signed him one year, $ 1. 215 million on that, $ 1, 215, 000. Look,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: he's going to probably fight for carries with Tyrone Tracy,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: Devin Singletary. He's coming back from ACL, though, so we'll see.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: It's not too much of a risk to Giants. I
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: think he's going to get the ball. I wouldn't see
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: why he wouldn't get the ball. They don't have anybody else,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: and they're going to much say, well.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: Terry, give me a break.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: He should be in there, and he'll help Scadaboo if
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: he gets hurt. It'll be a good one-two punch for them.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: That'd be good.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Don't beat up on my man, Devin Singletary. He's one
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: of the best things that ever happened at Florida Atlantic University. Okay.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: That's okay. He did good in Buffalo, too.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: He was good there.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: That's okay. You made your point. You stated it. Okay,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: go ahead, Cliff.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: I'm a Giants fan. I know Najee Harris very, very well.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: Went from his Pittsburgh days, and he went to San
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: Diego to the Chargers. He went to the Chargers after that.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: Something's wrong with Scottie Boat. That's why they signed him.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: He got hurt. He's coming back. I don't have the inside,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: but they don't do something like that and sign him
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: and have four running backs unless something's wrong. Something's wrong.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: That's why they brought him in. At the very least,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying necessarily take the job over, but at
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: least soften the workload. Maybe soften the workload for Cam
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 4: Scatterboo because he got hurt. Remember, neighbors got hurt last year.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's– when they signed– I like Najee Harris.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: I've always liked him. It's just something's wrong. They wouldn't
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: have signed him if something wasn't– if Cam's legs were
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: good and he was all systems go, I don't think
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: they would have signed him. And it didn't help he
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: did that silly little flip and then he fell on
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: his butt. But, yeah, something– I like him. I don't
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: know how they're going to do the four. When he
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 4: first did it, I thought maybe Tyron Tracy was going
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: to go, and he didn't. So I don't know how
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: they're going to do the four. I know Singletary stays
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: there because he has special– he does special team stuff sometimes.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: I think that's the only thing keeping him there. And remember,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: he's a Dable thing. He came with Dable, and Dable's gone. So,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know. We'll see how it's going to go.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: I think they're going to be splitting some time there
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: and some carries.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Okay. Go ahead, Rob. Yeah, I agree with Cliff.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 10: There's a reason why they did it. I think because
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 10: of injury. But the price is right, right? So, I mean,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 10: why not? It's, you know, a little over a million. So, they,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 10: you know, they have to do something. The Giants, of course.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: The Giants.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 10: The past couple of seasons, just horrible. Cliff, I know
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 10: you've been suffering.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: They're going to win five or six games this year,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: which is remarkably better than last year. Maybe seven. I
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: think I'm a wide-eyed optimist. I see seven.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 8: I'm just hoping my commanders finish above them. I'm a
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: little bit concerned. But no, I think that No, the
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 8: price is right. I think Harbaugh is trying to figure
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 8: out who's going to.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: Fit into his system as they're moving forward. There's probably
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: no camps.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 8: Scatterboo destroyed his leg, and it'll be interesting to see
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 8: how much load he's able to carry this season. And,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 8: you know, for the prices, right, for a guy who
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 8: was a first-round draft pick, has had 1,000-yard rushing seasons
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: so far, Why not take a shot at them and
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 8: put them in there and, if anything, make some competition
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 8: for the ball, you know? Get in there and, you know,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: that's how you produce winners.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Andy.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 7: Let's face it, Harbaugh has seen him repeatedly against him.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 7: He's had to try and defend against him. But then
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 7: his brother also had him last year.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 7: Harris is coming off a torn Achilles last year in
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 7: week three. So it'll be interesting how well he does
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 7: coming back. Harbaugh said he's an experienced back. Anybody that's
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 7: watched him play knows what type of back he is.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 7: He's a downhill runner, physical runner. I've played against him
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 7: a lot. I have a good feel for who he
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 7: is as a player. Everybody that's been around him, my brother...
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: Greg Roman, former Mike Tomlin. Love him as a teammate.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 7: So excited. for the possibilities. So, hey, low risk, you know,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 7: could be high reward. You just never know.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Well, when you have Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh changing
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: information on players, not wrong with that either. But, yes,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: high risk, low risk, low reward. I mean, low risk,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: high reward. I totally agree.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Anybody want to talk about fighting? Because I'll tell you,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: the NHL, I'm going to go for the most penalty
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: minutes in a single season. This is absolutely unbelievable when
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: you think about it. I had to give Cliff a
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: little hockey phone here. And John's pretty good at it, too.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: But first of all, you have Dave Schultz with the
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Broad Street Bullies at 472. Back in 74, 75, you
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: have Paul Baxter, 409. He played for the Penguins from
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: 81 and 81, 82. That's when the season was. You
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: have Mike Peluso, 408, with the Chicago Blackhawks, 91, 92 season.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: Dave Taylor, 358, 1980 and 81 with L.A., the Kings.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Tiger Williams, boy, he was a scrapper if I ever
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: saw one. He's obviously, I believe, me in the Hall
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: of Fame back in, oh, Hartford, rather. Okay.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 8: 1986, 87.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, once upon a time there was a team in Hartford.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: Chris Nyland, 358 for the Montreal Canadiens in 84, 85.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Basil McRae, 351 from 89 to 90 in Minnesota. And
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Ty Tomey with Toronto, 365, 97, 98. Okay. John, what
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts about this list?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't have Tom Wilson in there.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: I was going to say the same thing.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: However, I have to throw that in because that's my
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: wife's favorite player. She's already got her jersey dusted off
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: and washed and cleaned and ready to go for opening night. And,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll be there at Capital One. So I'm
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: looking forward to the hockey season. Two other names, and
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: it's probably because they were brothers. Bob and Barkley Plager
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: of the Blues, you know, part of the original Blues. Oh,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: my God. Those two could scrap.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's too bad. Brian Bugsy Watson is
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: a guy who used to love watching as a Red Wing.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: But Dave Schultz, by all means, they get a record.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Battleship Kill Penguins.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true, too. Great points. Okay, Jason.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good statement there, John. I'll tell you,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: when I read this, the Schultz guy, Dave the Hammer Schultz,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: he averaged nearly six minutes of penalty minutes a game,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: so five-minute major every game that he's in there, so
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: part of the Broad Street Bullies before my time, but
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: I just love the history of it. My favorite was
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: Joe Koser and Bob Probert. They were just, they, my favorite,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, Bob Probert was, I was fortunate to met
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: him when I was a young kid. And that's kind
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: of what we're, you know, what we're about growing up
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: for in Detroit. So this is always a fun stat.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: I always like playing the video games. They need to
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: fight and stuff. So the penalty minutes, this is definitely cool. Oh,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: Tiger Williams. He had nearly 4,000 penalty minutes. That's the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: all-time career most in NHL history.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Cliff?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 4: I love the game. It's a bygone era. You don't
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: see that anymore. It's a much more finesse game. They
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: don't put up with that stuff anymore. You're not going
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: to get 400 penalty minutes from anyone anymore. To get
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: that much, it's like... It's like, is he even playing? Really,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: he's on the ice. How long are you on the
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: ice before you penalize someone? It's kind of crazy, yeah.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, I remember those. I mean, Gino Ogic,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: Donald Brashear, all those guys just going at it. Yeah,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: we're not going to see that again. I mean, Tom Wilson,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: he can do other things. There's always been guys like
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: that that can fight and mix it up, but they
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: have some scoring touch. A lot of those guys didn't
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: have much scoring touch. Probert had a little bit at times,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: but they were there to fight. And I still like
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: watching the fights. People are like, oh, why did they fight?
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: There's a reason for it. But yeah, it's never going
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: to be like it was before. I mean, it is
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: a bygone era and I do miss it a little bit,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: but I still appreciate the game too. But yeah, those
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: guys are For whatever reason, there's a special place in
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 4: your heart. I mean, I still like Mick Vokoda. For
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: the Highlanders, talentless, couldn't do anything, but he could fight.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: And when he was protecting someone, he mixed it up.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, Rob.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember as a kid watching, you know, being
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: a Rangers fan, watching the Flyers and the Rangers.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 10: And seeing Schultz all the time.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: In fact, that one incident in the playoffs in 74
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 5: where he beat the crap out of Dale Rolfe. And
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 5: the Rangers just, you know, they didn't even go out
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 5: there and help their teammate. It was crazy. And that
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: was in a game seven also. And that eliminated the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 5: Rangers and the Flyers overall. went on to win their
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: first Stanley Cup that year. So that's what I remember
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: about Schultz the most. That guy was nuts. He just
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: fought and fought and fought. And he won two Stanley
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: Cups with them.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: Last time the Flyers had sniffed a cup was back
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: in the Broad Street Boys area. And I'll never forget
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: the Conflict of Ice episodes against the Russians. That was
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: even crazier. That's one time you had to be rooting
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Flyers. Every American was a Flyer fan
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: during that time period. Okay, Eddie.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, I remember the Broad Street Bullies very well.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 8: My family roots are in Philadelphia. My dad relocated us
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 8: down here when I was really young, but we spent
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 8: a lot of time going back up there. So I
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 8: remember watching Dave Schultz a lot and just the Broad
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 8: Street Bullies.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 6: Their whole mentality was about.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 8: Making it tough, fighting and stuff like that, hence the
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 8: name Broad Street Bullies. But, no, Cliff, no, it's a
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 8: finesse game now. You're not going to see those kind
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 8: of penalty minutes. Even Tom Wilson, he's a goal scorer.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 10: He's a leader.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 8: He's the enforcer. You know, it's not as much as
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 8: you used to see. Fights are more retaliatory now than
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 8: really anything else and something just coming out of the blue,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: if you will.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: But it's a bygone era that, you know, Hockey was
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: different back then.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 8: There were no helmets. You know, when you were punching
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 8: somebody in the head, you were punching them in the head,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 8: not in a helmet. You know, the goalies were.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: Wearing the cheap plastic one.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 8: I remember having, you know, those goalie masks that, you know,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 8: just kind of slid over your face, you know, trying
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 8: to catch a puck. You know, hopefully, you know, it
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 8: was just a different game.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: Back then, much more violent.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 8: And it always happened, as Cliff said as well, you know,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: Special place in our heart, but the game has moved on,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 8: and those numbers will never be broken.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, Candy, learn about hockey.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 7: Old school hockey is all about fighting. That's why you
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 7: went to the games. It wasn't to really see the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: skating on the ice. It was to see the fights
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 7: that broke out. Everybody would be standing up cheering for
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 7: their team in the middle of a fight going on.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 7: As far as some of the guys, you know, yeah,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 7: you guys all talked about Dave Schultz. He had penalty
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: minutes of 472 in one season. That was in 76 games.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 7: How about Mike Coluso from the Blackhawks? He had 408 minutes,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 7: but that was only in 63 games. So, 12, I mean,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 7: 13 games less, but how many minutes.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 7: You know, like everybody said, they've changed the game. Every
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 7: sport has changed their game. And whether you believe it's
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 7: changed for the better or not, you're not going to
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 7: see records like those again.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: One of the crazy things about Dave Schultz was after
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: he retired from the game, he became the commissioner of
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: a minor league, and he actually– tried to put a
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: stop to fighting in his minor league. You know, didn't
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: want it as part of the game anymore. And, you know,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: kind of amazing how he changed his attitude about that.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: Wasn't Bernie Perrant the goalie for Philly?
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: He was.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: Wasn't he even at 74?
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: Yes. He was so good. My dad was telling me,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: he goes, he's a pfft.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: And Moose DuPont, Andre DuPont.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Bobby Clark was on those teams. Yeah, there were some characters.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: on that team for sure.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: All right, you know what? I'm going to turn this
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: over to Rob, okay, and then everybody else can follow suit.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen's casino proposal near Citi Field, one approval. Rob,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: how important was that for them to get a casino
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: next to Citi Field?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: Well, it was important for Steve Cohen to, uh, apparently, um, I,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: I was down there. I was at city field two
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: weeks ago for the city field classic.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 10: And, you know, the whole area is changing. All those
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: chop shops.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: Are being eliminated and you're seeing buildings going up hotels, everything.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 10: It's like, it's amazing.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 5: The difference, it used to just be Shea stadium and
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: chop shops all over the place.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 10: Um, And what a mess that was.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: Now it's starting to look like it's going to be
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: a pretty, pretty nice complex. But for him, I guess,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: you know, you go to a Met game, the Mets lose,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: go to the casino and, you know, have a few
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 5: drinks and lose some more money.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 10: For him, it was very important.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: And, you know.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: That's going to, it's going to be, it's going to
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: be a nice, it so far, it looks really good.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: I was, I was really shocked at how, how much
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: it progressed. So it's going to look pretty good. I
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: think the whole complex there is going to be pretty,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: pretty cool.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Great stuff. So you say they started to break around
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: the casino? The whole area.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: They're getting rid of a lot of the chop shops
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 5: are gone and buildings are going up.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: All over the place.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 10: It looks great.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Anybody else want to give.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 8: Any other two cents on this? I'll just real quick, Candy.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 8: I think it's real good for areas to have that
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 8: kind of development because it spurs the economy.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 6: It brings in jobs.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 8: It does all the positive things, but circling back to
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 8: our whole gambling conversation we had in the first part
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 8: of the show, What you can do is you can
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 8: take the train down to Citi Field. The sportsbook can
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 8: be right on the first floor of the casino. You
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 8: can walk into the casino, place your bets, and then
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 8: go back over, watch the Mets play, and then to
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 8: Rob's point, and then after the Mets win or lose
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 8: or whatever, you go back to the casino.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 10: Hopefully you won.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 8: You get your money from your book, from your bets,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 8: and then you go put it into the casino. And
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 8: Cohen still gets all your money.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 6: It's the circle of light.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, Candy.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 7: So it's $ 8 billion. It's going to be called Metropolitan Park.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 7: It's going to feature a hard rock hotel, a live
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 7: music venue, a food hall, 25 acres of public green
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 7: space alongside the casino floor. Construction prep has begun with
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 7: a targeted completion and opening year around 2030. Let's face it,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 7: more and more of these.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 7: Stadiums are becoming entertainment districts. A lot of them are
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 7: doing it to bring more tourism dollars to not just
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 7: when the venue has an event there, but to the
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 7: whole area. They did it, Lambeau, they did it for
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 7: the Deer District down in Milwaukee for NBA. A lot
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 7: of them have done that. To be honest with you,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: it makes it a safer place around the ballpark. And
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 7: I'm not saying necessarily just city field, but like some
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: other venues, I could totally see this. I know freedom
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 7: park down in Miami is where inner Miami plays. And
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 7: that's going to, that has the same feel. Um, it's
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: not just the one venue. So smart move by some
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 7: of these, um, teams and owners that are doing that.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, you know what can't, what, what, So, according
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: to Source Sports Media Watch, NBC Broadcast Network will carry
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: two or four games per day during MLB Wild Card.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: All right, well, NBC's back in the baseball business. John,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts?
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's going to be good. You know,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: if you've got it on, it's going to be on
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: the regular NBC network and not on their streaming app, right? Yeah.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, that gets so frustrating for the
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: average fan because, you know, you've got to have, you know,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: five or six different apps in order to, you know,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: catch all your games. You know, I think, you know,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: with us, you know, we have our app in D.C.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: for Monumental Sports for the Capitals. But, you know, we're
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: going to have to watch. They're either going to be
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: on a different carrier, a different streaming, or a different–
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: network for 17 of our games this year, and that's
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: going to be a little frustrating. I guess I'm going
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: to have to go to all those games instead of
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: being able to watch them on TV.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jason?
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just reading on NBCUniversal. They said that
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: because ESPN, they're doing it differently from what ESPN did.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: So instead of airing the one afternoon game. They're going
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: to air, I think, uh, from September 29th to October 1st. Uh,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: there's going to be two games per day in the
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: wild card. So, I mean, I don't know if they're
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: going to change from that John from NBC sports network
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: to Peacock. Cause you're going to, I don't know what
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: they're going to do here. You know, like they always
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: like springing up on you like, Oh, Hey, we got
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: to buy this, you know, or, You know, so I
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: like that they're going to have more games during the afternoon.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: That's cool. It kind of brings back the whole, you know,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: Ben Scully, Joe, Gary Ola.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 10: So I like that.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 6: Tony Kubek.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tony Kubek.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: So I like that. I go back in history and
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: I'm watching. So, you know, like that's what baseball is.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: I love this. So it's a good look. uh, have,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: get the afternoon games on. I mean, TBS was doing it,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: you know, so good for wild card, good for baseball
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: on this.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. Cliff.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I, I, I, I liked, uh, as everybody else
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: seems to, I really liked the baseball covers. They really,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: they really knew how to cover the game. I remember
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 4: growing up and wait, you're growing up in New York and,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 4: if the Yankees or the Mets weren't playing, you wouldn't
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 4: really see it. We didn't have all the cable and
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 4: everything we had now. Oh, it's Chicago and St. Louis
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: on Saturday afternoon baseball. And that's the only time you
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: got to see things like that. And now they just
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: have a way of doing good coverage with that. Now
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: from the coverage of what you're talking about, I can
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: definitely see them doing that, maybe going to streaming and stuff.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: But I think that defeats the whole purpose. People want
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: to see it on that broadcast network for that tradition.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: That's why they're doing it. They're going for that nostalgia
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: they haven't had in a while. So that's why they're
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: trying to capture and trying to maybe, you know, not
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: only bring the older people such as us who remember it,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: but maybe like, hey, introduce it to the newer generation
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 4: to say, hey, this is pretty good. Maybe we can
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: like that there. So I don't know. Because remember, NBC
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: holds a lot of different, the NBC Universal Comcast monstrosity
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: owns like so many different networks that's why they have
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 4: so many when they have the olympics they have them
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 4: on like 17 different channels uh all the time so
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: i don't know i i think i think they'll they'll
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 4: stay to the broadcast network though because it's it's only
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: for the wild cards so they can handle that.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 11: Okay rob listen nbc always had great national coverage um
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 11: especially like the guy said, before we had streaming and, you.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: Know, you could watch any game, MLB Network, MLB app, whatever.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 5: You just had that. You had Scully, Garagiola, and Quebec, right?
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 5: And they were great. When I was a kid, they
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 5: were great. The game of the week was great because
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 5: you didn't get to– unless they were playing– I was
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 5: a– unless they were playing the Mets, you didn't see
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: those players too often. So when you got to see
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Reds or when you got to see the
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: Texas Rangers on, you know, the game of the week,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: it was great because you got to see all these
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 5: great players that you only got to see maybe during
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 5: the all-star game and the world series.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 6: I think it's good.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 8: You know, I don't think I can add much to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 8: what the guy's been saying.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: I think it's going to be great.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 8: NBC's always done a great job with them, and getting
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 8: us older guys back watching it and then bringing the
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 8: younger generation along to see the quality, I think it's
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 8: a great idea.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, Candy.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's a great idea. It brings back
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 7: a familiarity. They've had some great broadcasters. They've done some
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: special events. They've had legendary voices on there. They have
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 7: star analysis. They've recently retired greats like Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 7: Joey Votto, provide experts. analysis during pregame shows and postgame.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, I always think it's interesting to hear some
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 7: of the players, retired players' perspectives. I think they bring
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: a different perspective to the game. I think it's good.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right, Candy. You know what? I've always been
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: an NBC person myself. I could go back to Kurt
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Gowdy if I want to. For all you people out
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: there that know Kurt Gowdy, He was a true legend
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: as well. So, Candy, I met a fisherman up in Iceland.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: And you know something? I know Rob is probably waiting
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: to see this video because it relates to a lot
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: of what we're talking about. So, go ahead. I had
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: a nice, meaningful conversation. Candy, let everybody see it here worldwide.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 7: Okay. Let me kind of tune.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: This up. Welcome to another edition of the Motor City
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Mad Miles show. I am joined by a local who
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: has an outfit with 11 sheep on it to keep
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: himself busy. He's got a rope out there that keeps
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: himself out there in time. So anything that goes ahead
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: and happens to him, they just bring him up here.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: But no, I'm not at Gilligan's Island, but we've got
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: a big old boat behind us that they do fishing on.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: And when you look at the scenery in the background
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: and all the houses surrounding it, this is a pretty
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: cool place to go out there and do fishing. They
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: have houses around the area as well, so people can
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: live in them. And, you know, when you talk about Iceland,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: you talk about some of the hidden gems in the world,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: and this is definitely one of them. I can tell
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: you one thing. When you walk down this trail, it's
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: definitely not one. If you don't have good ankles, you're
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: in trouble. Luckily, I've survived the way down. I'm pretty
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: sure I'll survive the way up. But it's good to
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: meet you, my friend, right? See, he speaks non-sign language anyway,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter who you really get in here.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Johan is his name. The Motor City Mad Mouth is
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: my game. And this is a beautiful boat that they
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: actually catch sharks out of. And they go out there,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: and I think they take the liver out and put
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: the shark back in there. Oh, my good. This is
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: only fodder for Iceland. Anyways, but meanwhile, just another stop
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: on our tour here. It's been a great tour so far.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: We looked to uncover a lot of the hidden gems.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: let alone with guys like him. So we want to
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: thank Johan for joining the Motor City Mad Mouse Show.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: And he's a native Icelander, doesn't speak our language, but
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: you know what? The universal language out here is sign language.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: And if you can nod your head, you can shake hands.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. Johan, thanks for being on the
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Motor City Mad Mouse Show. We enjoyed you. And you
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: know what? This may not be a motorboat, but it
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: certainly gets you from point A to point B to
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: do what you got to do. So thank you very much.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: And we will hit the red subscribe button for more videos.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: Take care, everybody. All right. Well, you know what? Here's
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing my Iceland shirt because I was putting this
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: segment on here. And it's nice to meet a nice
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: fisherman who says very little, but he lets his body
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: language talk about it. What are your thoughts there, John?
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a place. That's on the bucket list.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I cost you a few bucks, but I
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: guarantee you'll never regret it. Yeah, the guy was a
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: cool cat. He really was. Okay, Jason.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: Hey, you did really good there, Scott, introducing everything. Great video,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: and like I said, it's a great place to be,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: I'm sure. I definitely would love to go one day.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you guys got to be there. What a
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: nice view and nice people there, I'm sure. Good stuff.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Cliff.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: I think you should take some fashion advice from Johan.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 4: I want to see you wearing that in our next episode.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: Exactly what Johan was wearing. I think that would suit
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: you very, very well. You should be wearing what Johan,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 4: I think you should be wearing what Johan was wearing.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 4: Johan's a fashionista and you should take advice from him.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 4: I think that would be a great look for you
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: on your next podcast. No, it was, it was a
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: great little interview. That was, that was cute. And I like,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: that was that guy that, that guy was just along
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: for the ride and he was a good sport about
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 4: the whole thing.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 10: So.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: That was great. I would love to go to Iceland
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: one day.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: I really would.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: My nephew and my niece went there. They go everywhere.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 4: They went to Bora Bora. But yeah, that looked great.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: Good job.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm not dressed like that guy, but I'll
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: tell you, he was cool.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 7: Hey, Ron.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that was fun. You know what? You should bring
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 10: him on the show live.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Johan looks like a cool cat there.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do it if you can find his number.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: That was good.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 10: It was good, and I definitely want to go to Iceland, too.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: I get it cut, Iceland, of everybody that's willing to
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: put their credit card out there for you. Okay, Eddie.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 8: He did a great job. I think the next one
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 8: you need to do a a remote broadcast with Johan
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 8: rolling you the boat out into the water and showing
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 8: you how he actually catches those sharks out there in
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 8: the same garb as Cliff was saying that Johan's wearing.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 8: And just you, him, and Candy working the camera now.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 8: It looked great. You are the international reporter. You made
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 8: it work. Language has no barrier. with you, my friend.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 8: And now hopefully someday I will get there. Maybe we
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 8: can have a, maybe we can do a group trip there.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 8: Sports exchange, remote in Iceland.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 10: Nice.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 8: Live from the water, live from the coast.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You need to find a sponsor. Yeah,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: we're working on that. If you can find one, we'll
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: give you a piece of the action. But yeah, that
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: was surreal. Can you tell everybody what that situation was like?
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 7: I mean, he speaks Icelandic, so our tour guide was
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 7: our translator, obviously, through the tour. He talked about how
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 7: they actually live in some of those huts, how they
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 7: preserve the fish in some of those huts, how cold
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 7: it is, and that helps to preserve some of the
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 7: fish that they can keep there for lengths of time. Um,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 7: obviously we couldn't, Scott couldn't correlate or talk really with him,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 7: but we had the translator. So that was great. Um,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 7: Iceland was beautiful. Um, definitely. It's kind of funny. We
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 7: were talking about him on the show earlier that Iceland
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 7: is not ice. It's green. Greenland is ice. I always
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 7: thought that was kind of backwards. I think everybody thinks
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 7: that way, but, um, Still, it was a beautiful place
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 7: to go. I would recommend it being on everybody's bucket list.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about the top 15 countries in the
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: world for 2026. I'll go over the list with everybody,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: and then we'll proceed from there. Rob and Candy will
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: have a chance to pick you their show, which returns
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: on Monday night. But according to U.S. News & World Report,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: Switzerland is number one, Denmark is number two, Sweden is
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: number three, Germany is number four, Netherlands... It's number five.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: Norway's number six. We're going back there again, Candy. What,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: next year, I think? I think Oslo's on the dock.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: I think we're heading to Denmark, too, aren't we, Candy?
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's on the list. Yeah, we're hitting a
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: lot of the Baltic regions is what we're doing. The
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: United Kingdom encompasses four of them, but we got England
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: out of the way. Finland, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium. Great waffles there, people. France,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower is awesome. Ireland, Australia and Iceland round out
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: the list. Okay, John, that said, which one or two
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: stands out to you other than the fact I got
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: in your pocket for Iceland?
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: Well, none of them. You know, former U.S. Navy sailor here.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: Australia has got to be on the top. I have
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: taken my wife on a trip from Perth to Sydney.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: We took the train, you know, my carrier left Perth,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: took the great Australian bite. We met it in Sydney.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: And then I had to go back to work. But, oh,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: you talk about a great place, great scenery, and most
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: of all, great people, uh, down under.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 11: Jason.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: Scott, you're going to have a private jet. You'll get there.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 3: I can totally see you guys jumping on that jet
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: and just getting over to Denmark and Norway and all
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 3: those great countries. I've never been overseas Canada for me.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, so just have a lot of fun and,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: you know, live life to its.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 7: Fullest, sir.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 3: That's very commendable. I'm very happy for Candy and Scott.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: You guys deserve to do that great stuff. Again, for me, Australia, maybe.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 3: Good stuff. I'm glad you're able to go there and
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 3: enjoy that.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: Cliff?
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: Little known fact, I was born in Europe. I don't
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: remember it. My dad was in the army. I came
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 4: back at a year and a half old, but I
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 4: was born in West Germany, Nuremberg. Strange little weird fact also.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 4: I was born in the same exact hospital as my
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: grandmother who immigrated to the United States many decades before
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: just by chance when she was born in it. It
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 4: was a regular hospital after the war. It became a
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: United States Army hospital. And I never met her. She
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 4: died about a month before I was born. But just
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 4: a little thing there. I still want to go to Germany.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 4: I'm also Italian. I want to go to, like, Florence.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: And apparently we do an exchange thing, a trip in
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: the summer to Florence now for my department. And I
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 4: want to go and see where I'm from. Um, I've
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 4: heard enough nice things about it, but you know, it's, yeah,
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 4: this is something I want to do. I really can't
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 4: afford to travel anywhere. So I really want to go
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: and do these things and, um, you know, getting older,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 4: it's getting scary. Um, I want to see some things
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: before night falls. So, but it looked great. Everything looks great.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: It's yeah. Thanks for sharing.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, Rob.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 10: Um, I love Switzerland. I was lucky to go to Switzerland.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 5: So I wouldn't mind returning there again sometime. And Germany,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 5: I've been to Germany also on that list. But the
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 5: one place I definitely want to go to, and John
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 5: just talked about it, is Australia.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 10: That's on my bucket list. Hopefully, within the next couple
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 10: of years, I will get there.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: Eddie?
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to jump on that Australia bandwagon.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 8: That is definitely on my bucket list. I've done some
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 8: traveling to Europe, both Western and Eastern Europe. I just
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 8: always think traveling outside the U.S. is really good because
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 8: you get to see the rest of the world and
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 8: how other people live and how other people.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 12: how they do things, you know, and some of the
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 12: stuff is not much different than we do it here.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 12: And some of it is, and it's just, I've always
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 12: found it fascinating to take in.
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  Speaker 6: So I highly recommend traveling.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 8: Jason, if you ever get the chance, get on a
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 8: plane and go somewhere and just kind of embrace the adventure.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: Right on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Candy.
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  Speaker 7: So one of the things I tell people is, When
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 7: you travel, you create memories, and you can take those
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 7: memories anyplace. Are you going to remember if you had
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 7: the latest and greatest computer or the latest and greatest phone?
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 7: So start saving up for traveling and making memories. Scott,
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 7: next year we are headed to Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Sweden,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 7: and then back to Norway, as well as we fly
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 7: in and out of Southampton, or... out of London. We
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 7: catch the boat in Southampton. As far as places I
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 7: want to go to see, of course there's places I
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 7: want to go see. This will be the second time
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 7: we've been to Norway. We will not see the northern
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 7: lights in Norway because we go at the opposite time
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 7: of year where it's almost all daylight. Do I want
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 7: to see some Northern Lights at some point? Yes, I'd
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 7: love to go to Alaska. I haven't been to Alaska.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 7: Scott's been to all 50 states. Like, that's kind of
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 7: a cool thing to say. Hey, I've been to all
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 7: 50 states, you know. But definitely, if you can, don't wait.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 7: Don't think you can't afford. Cut back here and there.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 7: And then find cheap ways to do it. Like, there
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 7: are cheaper ways to go to some of these places.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 7: You don't need to, you know, break the bank for them.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 7: But those are the memories. Those are the things you're
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 7: going to remember. You're not going to remember what was
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 7: the latest and greatest phone or, you know, all these
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 7: different things. But definitely create memories.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: A couple of shout-outs. Number one, I want to wish
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: my late uncle Bob Stroll a happy birthday. He would
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: have turned 82 today. Number two, during 9-11, I actually
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: flew from Phoenix to Rather, Fort Lauderdale back to Phoenix,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: which is where I was living on 9-9. So leading
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: to our next topic, Candy and Rob are going to
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: talk about their show on Monday, but 10 facts you
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: probably didn't know about the Twin Towers. Rest in peace
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: for all those individuals at 9-11. The exterior had hundreds
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: of steel columns giving the towers their unique look. Rob,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've visited this place a lot of times
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: or been by it. The towers used sky lobbies where
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: people could change elevators on certain floors. The plaza had
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: a different giant sculpture called the sphere between the towers.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: There were 99 elevators in each tower, creating a huge
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: vertical transport system. Boy, I can only imagine how dynamic
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: that was. The roof views were famous before public observation
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: decks fully opened. The tower swayed in strong winds and
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: were designed to move slightly safely. An underground mall connected
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: to the complex with shops and walkways. The North Tower
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: had an antenna, boosted television, and radio signals. Parts of
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: the original site are preserved in memorial history today. The
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: windows were narrowed by design as part of the structural system.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: And of course, what else can we say? John, some
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: thoughts about the Twin Towers as they were. I never
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: had a chance to go to them. I've always been
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: the Empire State Building, but I've driven by them. And also,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: once again, we pay our deepest respects to all those
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: folks that were tragically killed at 9-11. Go ahead. And
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: we visited the 9-11 site, Candy, when we were there
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and it's surreal. Even the
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: development is a must-see. Go ahead, John.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had been there in August of 2001. I had
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: some family in Jersey visiting them. We went there, we
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: did some shopping. We stopped in the subway stop there. And,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: you know, that was a very bittersweet day for me
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: because on the 10th, I was in the Pentagon and
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: working on a project with some lads there. And I
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: was working in Southern Maryland at Naval Air Systems Headquarters
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: they came down to visit us so we could look
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: at the mock-up we were working on. And, well, by
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: the time they showed up, the planes hit the World
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: Trade Center in the Pentagon, and they huddled in our
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: secure facility and left immediately. Full disclosure, one of the
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 2: neat things, right after that, Uh, there is an amphibious
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 2: assault ship, the USS New York. It's a, uh, LPD.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: They carry Marines and a few, uh, Osprey. Uh, but
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 2: it has got steel from the world trade center in
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: the hull, uh, USS New York, LPD 21.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 3: So real.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: Jason.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 3: I would love to see what they did to it. Um,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 3: I've never been to New York. It's still on my
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: bucket list. I got a friend that lives there. And
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 3: you guys know Cliff and Rob. Look, I would love
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: to just see what it is. All the men and
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 3: women who tragically lost their lives. However, they saved many lives.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 3: So it just goes without saying. I was 18 years
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 3: old when it happened. You don't realize what's happening now.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 3: I think I was going to work that morning and
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 3: I heard, you know, that happened in 2001. So again, it's,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 3: it's something that I definitely want to see Scott and
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 3: what they've done to it with the monuments and the memorial.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 3: So it's definitely really cool.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 3: Is that a picture of it? Yeah. I just... you know,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 3: what a, what a legendary, you know, you know, monument
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 3: and Memorial there. I, I, you can't say enough. And,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 3: and I just, I just read a story the other
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 3: day about firefighter, how he, you know, he went in
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 3: and lost his life. So you see it all the time.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 3: And it's, it's definitely what this country is. We're fighters.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 3: We're United States of America. And, and, um, things have happened,
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 3: but at the same time, we came back and because
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 3: of those things, we make us stronger. And there you.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 8: Go.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: Cliff.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 4: All right. Um, sorry. You know, this is tough for me. Um,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 4: I haven't been back to the new one. I want
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 4: to go. That Friday before the Tuesday, me, my wife,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 4: and my friend were in that area. And we went
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 4: for dinner. And it's like, oh, let's go up to
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 4: the top. And I'm like, oh, not now. We'll get
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 4: there sometime. And, of course, I regret that. And, of course,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 4: my friend died that day. Police officer Glenn Pettit. He
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 4: was one of us, Scott. I knew him from News
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 4: 12 Long Island, and then he wound up becoming an EMS,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 4: and then fireman, and then he finally got his dream
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 4: job of being a cop and a video production unit.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 4: And he actually saved a couple of our former colleagues,
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 4: the guys Jack and Neil, because they were photographers, because
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 4: he knows we push it. We always push it to
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 4: get the shot. And he's like, you don't follow me.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 4: You come anywhere near, I'll shoot you. And he said,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 4: you just run. You just run. And they both say
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 4: he saved our lives. So I do want to go back.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 4: And I want to see my friend's name on there.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 4: Glenn Karen Pettit. NYPD 3815. I still have a T-shirt
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 4: that I got when I went to his memorial service.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 4: I gave out T-shirts for him. Such a great guy.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 4: And every time I wound up shooting, I knew it
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 4: because he was crazy with the way he would shoot.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 4: He just hustled. And I'm like, I did exactly what
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 4: he did. And I make sure all my students know
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 4: who he is. So this is something I want to see.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 4: I want to go there. But I know it's going
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 4: to be tough. Even though it's only five years, it
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 4: still hurts.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: I'll say this, Cliff. My deepest condolences for your loss
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: for sure. It was hard for me to avoid it.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: We talk travel. We also talk about, we can't avoid
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: the tragedy because our lives have changed because of that.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: But my deepest condolences, nonetheless. Okay, Rob. Yeah, I, you know, I.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 5: Was in both towers a bunch of times. And, you know,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 5: still to this day, I can't believe that they're gone.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: I was working for North Jersey media at that time.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: So I saw everything that was going on.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 5: And if you live in the city or in New Jersey,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 5: You know someone who unfortunately got killed that day. And
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 5: we know too many people. I have so many stories that,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 5: forget it, we'd be here for a couple of hours.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 5: All I have to say is, you know, let's just
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 5: remember the heroes. Remember the people who died in those
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: buildings for no reason.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: No reason at all. Except hatred.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 3: But.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 10: You know, like I said, I was in both towers
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 10: a bunch of times.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: Great points. Okay, Eddie.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 8: A handful of years ago, probably 10, maybe more now,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 8: I was up visiting. My brother and his wife live
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 8: up in the city. And we went down to visit
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 8: the memorial.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 6: And Scott, to your point, it is very surreal to
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 6: be there.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 8: And I think everybody, to Rob's point, if you're in
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 8: that tri-state area, I went to school in Philadelphia. I
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 8: had a fraternity brother of mine who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: Up on the whatever.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 8: They were all the way up at the top who
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 8: perished in the plane crash. And even if it can
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 8: even be more tragic is his wife was pregnant at
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 8: the time. And, you know, you think about, you know,
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 8: I saw a video of two kids. I think the
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 8: naval officer running and they were doing a video and
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 8: they're doing a mile for each one of the victims
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 8: that lost their lives in the tower and they're saying
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 8: their names and so on. And the interesting part about
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 8: these two women is that they were children in the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 8: daycare at the Pentagon the day the plane hit and
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 8: were rescued out and survived it and are now adults,
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 8: which is kind of I think we all know where
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 8: we were the day that it all happened, and we're
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 8: already 25 years later. So may all those souls rest
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 8: in peace on a worthless tragedy that should never have happened.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, Candy?
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there are very few dates that you
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 7: will always remember where you were when something happened. this
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 7: happened to be one of those in this generation that
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 7: we will all remember. At the time, I was working
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 7: for a credit union, but inside a VA hospital. And
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 7: the minute those happened, and then the Pentagon, and they
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 7: all went immediately on lockdown because they thought that they
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 7: were coming after veterans and military, and so they thought
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 7: we were a target. Never forget that day. I'll never
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 7: forget one of the hospital employees. She came down, and
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 7: we were talking, and she's just like, my sister's in
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 7: the Pentagon. I can't get a hold of her. I
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 7: don't know what's happened to her. And just the whole, like,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 7: she went, like, sheet white, and.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 7: It's just surreal. Luckily for her, her sister was fine,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 7: but many people perished. Just a sad day in our history,
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 7: an unfortunate day in our history. The only thing I
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 7: will say about that is I loved what we were
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 7: the next day. I loved the America we were the
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 7: next day, and I wish we'd get back to that
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 7: America more often.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 6: Amen.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, amen there. The only thing I'll say about this
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: is I was actually living in Chandler, Arizona at the time,
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: going to visit my attorney, and I didn't hear about
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: it because I was driving. I don't listen to a
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: lot of radio, just mainly music. And my attorney told
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: me about it and said, did you hear about this? No,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: kind of like driving to you. I was undergoing a
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: divorce and had to meet with him. But when it
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: all sunk in, it was bad. And here's the irony, sports-wise,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: I'm living in Arizona, and the Yankees are... get to
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: the World Series. Now, you know, 49 states are going
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: to root for New York. Well, I don't know if
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: Boston will, but at least 49. And I'm the lone
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: amigo in Arizona where, you know, us Diamondbacks would like
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: to win it too. But I understood the sentiment that
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: went in terms of the tragedies and so forth. And again,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: I can't speak louder with my heart that I'll go
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: with Candy. I wish we were the America back then
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: that we are right now because it is ugly. Rest
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: in peace, everybody. All right, now I'm going to turn
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: it over to Candy and Rob. They were off the
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: internet last Monday night, but they're going back on Monday. Well,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know which one he wants to take over,
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: but you got a little bit of travel tonight, and
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: now you're going to get a lot more with these two.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: Take it away.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 5: You want me to start, Candy? You can go ahead Yeah.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 5: The show, the last show was great. We had a
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 5: pretty big audience and it was a lot, the, the
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 5: past couple of shows, they all been fun, but the
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 5: past couple of shows have been really fun because we've
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 5: been going over lists of stuff in the 50 States.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 5: So it's been, it's been really fun. And I think
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 5: if you like to travel, we give a lot of tips.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 5: We talk about a lot of great places and it's
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 5: just a lot of fun. It's the, Quickest half hour
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 5: out there.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: Right, Candy?
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 7: The quickest 30 minutes in travel. I say that all
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 7: the time. We start talking and all of a sudden
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 7: it's 35 minutes. I'm like, wait, where did the time go?
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 7: I think this time, Rob, I think I love the
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 7: list ideas that we've been doing. I have a list here,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 7: USA City's bucket list. The average person has checked five
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 7: of these off their bucket list. So tune in Monday
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 7: night to see how many you've checked off your list.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: Sounds good. All right. A great preview by you two.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to having it back on. And immediately after
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: their travel show, we have 108, Stitches Baseball Talk. Great show.
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: Good to have John back in the house. Got Jason
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: back feeling better. Cliff, you know how I feel about you.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for topics to get our rant train rolling.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: And Rob, good to have you back in. And Eddie,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: you're the superstar this week. There is no show for
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: sports wrap tomorrow night, though. Candy and I will be
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: covering the Miami Hurricanes and Florida A & M. I
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: think they're called the Rattlers. but we'll be on a
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: normal schedule on Monday. Also, we have a game with
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: Navy against Florida Atlantic. It should be an interesting game
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: in the American Athletic Conference. So with that said, John,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: please let everybody know how they can get ahold of you.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: Great to have you back, John. Looking forward to seeing
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: you next week. All right, buddy?
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: So, John, let everybody know how they can get ahold
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: of you, buddy.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 2: Okay. Hey, I'm just on email, john.r.hopkins58 at Gmail. You
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 2: can find me on Facebook.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: And you can find him here on, I think, what,
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: Wednesdays and Thursdays? Is that correct?
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: This guy is unbelievable. All right, Jason, go ahead. All right.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 3: You can find me on the Sports Exchange at Scott
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 3: Motor City, Mad Mouth, 8 to 10 Central, 9 to
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 3: 11 Eastern. I always enjoy being on the show with
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 3: you guys. It's so much fun. The more that I'm here,
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 3: the sadder I was missing last week. I had a little...
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 3: issue but I'm good now and like I said and
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: like I said you can also find me on YouTube
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 3: ProcSportsEdge1 as well so glad to be back I'll.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: Say you've come a long way Jason I can only
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: imagine how much better you're going to get with more
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: reps great stuff okay Cliff my man.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 4: You can find me on Facebook and Instagram and every
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 4: Wednesday night at 9 o'clock right here on this wonderful
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 4: podcast alongside all my great friends All right, RM.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 5: Here on Wednesdays, Monday nights, 7-10, around 7-10, the Travel Show,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 5: and everywhere else, NYMLB Talk, where tomorrow night at 8.30 p.m.,
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  Speaker 5: the return.
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  Speaker 2: Of Anthony Savino.
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  Speaker 5: And, Scott, you have to come back on with Anthony
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  Speaker 5: Savino soon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. We'll make that happen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you can get this guy to do
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  Speaker 1: it on a Monday afternoon, but... Otherwise, I'll have to
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  Speaker 1: break away for a half an hour somewhere along the lines.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to talking with Anthony. He's a
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  Speaker 1: really class act. All right, Eddie, you're the superstar. You
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  Speaker 1: are unbelievable. I appreciate you coming on as often as
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  Speaker 1: you like.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely. You can find me Tuesday nights inside the pigskin
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  Speaker 8: with Scott and crew where we talk all things football.
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  Speaker 6: Then on.
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  Speaker 8: Wednesdays, it is the Motor City Mad Mouths Anchor Show
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  Speaker 8: where anything goes, as Scott likes to say. And believe me,
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  Speaker 8: anything goes. You want to learn about the crazy? Come
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  Speaker 8: join us on Wednesdays. And then on Thursday nights, except
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  Speaker 8: this week, it's Sports Rap where we're talking all things
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  Speaker 8: sports now on the new format it's sports rap show.
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  Speaker 8: And you can catch me on all forms of social
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  Speaker 8: media at Ed McAndrew. And then also wherever Scott wants
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  Speaker 8: to throw me, I also go there.
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  Speaker 1: I got an unbelievable group tonight. Every one of you
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  Speaker 1: people here tonight between John, Jason, Cliff, Ed, of course, Rob,
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  Speaker 1: I've known you at least a year, but all great finds.
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  Speaker 1: And I always look to do everything I can to
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  Speaker 1: improve the talent. And I got thoroughbreds on tonight. Candy,
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  Speaker 1: take us home.
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  Speaker 7: South Florida Tribune Publishing Company published a book, Lessons from
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  Speaker 7: the Microphone, Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders.
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  Speaker 7: Our host, Scott, the Motor City Mad Mouth, Morgan Roth,
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  Speaker 7: wrote it. Talks about his media career over 40 years.
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  Speaker 7: Monday nights we do travel on No Limits and then
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  Speaker 7: we do the baseball show. Tuesday nights is football. Wednesday
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  Speaker 7: nights is, yeah, like Ed said, anything goes. Motor City Memo.
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  Speaker 7: You never know what we're going to be talking about.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, never know. Like, did you know that there
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  Speaker 7: was Lakes in Canada. All kinds of different names. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm not even going to give them. You've got to
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 7: go watch the show because to see, listen to what
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  Speaker 7: some of the crazy names are of some of the lakes.
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  Speaker 7: And then, of course, this show Wednesday nights, Thursday nights
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  Speaker 7: is normally sports wrap. And then the country club fire up.
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  Speaker 7: And one last. Well, I'm going to here. I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to show you guys our travel channel. is Destination Discoveries
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  Speaker 7: Media Network. The QR code right now in the top
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  Speaker 7: corner is for Destination Discoveries Media Network. One last shameful plug.
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  Speaker 7: Us girls do the Girls the Chicks podcast. It's three
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  Speaker 7: chicks in a pod. There's actually five of us now,
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  Speaker 7: but there's three chicks in a pod. Tuesday nights, 7.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Great job by this group. Proud of every
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  Speaker 1: one of you. Please don't forget that. So on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of John, Jason, Cliff, Rob. How do you like that?
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  Speaker 1: The way I can drag it out is Rob.
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  Speaker 7: He's trying to be Spanish and roll his R's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I was just.
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  Speaker 7: Rob.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. Ed and Candy. My name is Scott Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: Rothenberger City, Manmouth. Thank you for joining us on this
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  Speaker 1: edition of the Sports Exchange. We'll be back at 9
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Wednesday night, next Wednesday night, for more great sports information. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we like to have travel on the back
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  Speaker 1: end of the show because why not? We got two
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  Speaker 1: of the people doing the show on it. Might as
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  Speaker 1: well go out there and throw that out there as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find a new video and some other crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, everybody, thank you very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: And see you next week. Enjoy your weekend. Bye now.
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  Speaker 5: Bye.