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Rob Manfred wants MLB realignment: Is it good for baseball? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  last couple of weeks. Jabba, how are you?
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  I'm good now. Grisham just let off the game
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  Yeah, hopefully we got the last day of of warm.
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  But yeah, other than that, everything's good, man.
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  It's just another day. Son had his first day at college
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  today and 1st 1st practice for baseball so getting him going
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  and getting all that exciting stuff.
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  Is, is that exciting going back to college?
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  I, I am never excited when I have to go back to school.
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  I know a lot of people sitting here today and saying, oh, I
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  can't wait to go back to school. I can't wait to go to English
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  and science and math. Oh my God, physical education.
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  To me, school was not my thing. I never ever was excited going
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  back to school, except maybe getting on a baseball field.
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  If that's why you're going back to school.
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  A lot of these kids can't wait to go back to school because
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  they want to play football. They're playing D1D2D3 and
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  that's why they're there. They're not there for the
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  education. They're there to play sports and
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  eventually, hopefully be drafted.
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  Now, if I don't know your son, is he a college fan?
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  Is he a school fan? I don't know, but it's it's
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  never exciting when I know I have to go back to school and
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  have to deal with professors. I got to deal with writing
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  papers and and doing anything of that magnitude that I stay the
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  hell away from. I am not going to enjoy any bit
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  of that. Over the last couple of years I
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  have, I've watched my girlfriend go through all that situation,
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  going through nursing school and, and dealing with all the
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  papers that she has to write in that long nights and staying up
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  and listening to her complain in the studio that she needs quiet.
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  I can't watch television. I got to go out to my car
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  watching football games, baseball games while she is
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  studying in the studio while the doors are closed and it's
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  absolutely silent and soundproof.
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  She didn't care. So it was never fun dealing with
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  that and watching her go through it.
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  So to me, school is never fun when I have to worry about
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  studying or doing any of that stuff.
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  So I, I, I understand what you're saying.
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  I guess it's good. Maybe your son is in is one of
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  those school rats or what do they call them, those bookworms?
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  I I'm definitely not. No, just it just comes super
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  easy to him. No, he was, he was on the well,
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  they call it the president's list of his schools, which is
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  like the beans list. But no, yeah, he's, I mean, he's
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  he's not excited about conditioning at 7:00 AM, but
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  yeah, just getting back. He's got his own, he's got his
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  own place. So he's excited about that.
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  So yeah, he's, you know, gets gets a little bit more freedom.
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  I mean, he's, he got his own freedom.
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  He's kind of had one year of it, but now he's got his own space.
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  So we'll see if he actually cleans it.
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  So does it really matter, honestly?
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  His own space. He always had his own space.
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  Even when he was living with you, he could do whatever.
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  He wants no, but I mean I got but like I understand this is
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  space. Like he's it's not like he's,
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  you know, downstairs or across the hall or in the kitchen or,
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  you know, whatever. Like he's these are way away.
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  So it's not like I can just. Here's the problem if you ever
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  gone to dorms and I I've been to many different dorms over the
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  years, getting a chance to visit my friends.
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  The dorms are like like rectangle.
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  You barely can walk in it. You have a roommate, one
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  roommate's on the other side, you're on the other side of the
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  the room and the room's not even that big.
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  It's like 10 by 10. Most of these these these places
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  that you stay at these dorms. So unless you're renting out a
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  house or dad's spending the money and making sure that his
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  son or his friends are taken care of and they're they're
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  enjoying themselves with a three bedroom house with two
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  bathrooms. I don't, I don't know the last
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  dorm room you've been in, but my son, they, they had three TV's,
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  4 desks, a walk in a little pantry.
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  I've been to. Dorm rooms.
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  Dorm rooms have switched a lot. Like they don't have keys
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  anymore. Everything is like via the an
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  app on their phone. Via app or they have cards now?
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  They have housekeepers that come in and clean the bathroom.
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  Wherever he's wherever he's going to.
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  What is it, Hutchinson? Where where is he going?
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  Hutch. Yeah, I to me, I when I was
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  well, I experienced going away. I didn't have that in college,
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  no. No, I, I mean, I Fish was a
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  college student and he had an opportunity to, and he's a
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  bookworm. Obviously, you know that Fish
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  has an economics degree and master's degree and, and, and
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  all that other crap. And I'm sure he enjoyed going to
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  school and enjoying listen to the professor's lectures and
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  three hour lectures and writing papers about it.
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  That's not something that I enjoyed and that's one of the
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  reasons why I stayed away from those those opportunities.
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  I just wanted to get on the ice. So I just wanted to get on a
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  baseball field or a football field and and do what I do best
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  and that's it. Entertain people and myself when
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  it comes to athletics. I never cared about school.
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  And that was the one thing that I never enjoyed even going to
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  high school. I miss high school.
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  Now everybody that sits here today listening to us right now,
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  I'm sure. People go back, kids, by the
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  way, kids listening don't, don't listen to a word he just said.
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  By the way, enjoy school because if you don't go to school, you
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  can't play. So don't listen to.
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  Any I'm not saying not to go to school.
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  That's not what I'm saying. Student athlete.
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  Not athlete Student. It's athlete student, right?
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  It's athlete, student. You ask anybody that's playing
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  D1 football or D1 basketball or D1 hockey, they're there for one
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  reason. 98 to 99% of high school athletes don't play D1 sports.
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  That's not what I'm. And then 9890 to 95.
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  OK, stop. Stop.
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  Put your calculus stupid. It's not calculus, that's.
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  I I. I don't have 4 function.
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  Calculus I I I don't care I I don't care about the
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  mathematical equation to what people do when they go to school
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  and enjoying themselves. Go to school.
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  The math says stay the hell away from it.
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  If you enjoy school, enjoy it. If you're playing sports, go and
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  play sports and enjoy your lives because you only live one of
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  them. And how many?
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  There are many people that don't live a long lasting life.
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  I've I've seen many of my friends die at a very young age.
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  And now obviously things have happened over the years and, and
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  the experiences that I have lived and and seen it.
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  It's a little bit more than most people on this show.
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  I'm the oldest, I'm the elder of this show.
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  I'm 43 years old. So I, I've seen a little bit
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  more than a lot of you guys, but nevertheless, I'm not saying
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  that I'm better than you because I'm a little bit older than you,
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  but I understand that school is important if you want to be a
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  certain doctor or you want to be a lawyer, if you want to be a
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  school teacher. But if you want to be a business
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  owner, you don't need school if you want to.
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  Be You know what you need, Errol, and it's and you're right
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  speaking the truth. You're right to a degree.
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  As a teacher, you're not really allowed to.
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  Say, the richest people in the world.
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  If you go back and you look at some of the guys, Steve Jobs,
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  did he finish school? Honestly, if we go back and look
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  at all the great smart people in this world that created the atom
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  bomb, you know, I'm talking about, or any of these different
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  people that we have spoken about in the past of history, not all
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  of them finished college, not all of them went.
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  It's not about like finishing school in my opinion.
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  I think it's just people don't realize it's a lot more about
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  your job experience than you know, how many classes you took
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  in something, right? Absolutely.
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  It's who you know now. And I think that's what you're
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  saying, Errol. It's not that that everyone
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  should be a dumb meathead jock, but on the other hand, it's
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  really not the only thing. And people just waste their
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  lives, you know, working on papers, stressing themselves
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  out, doing jobs that are just constant the paperwork,
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  paperwork, paperwork. And you know, life happens into
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  your plans. And sometimes that would be a
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  shame if you wasted your whole life doing stuff like that.
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  I understand what you're. Saying that's what I'm saying,
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  I'm not saying not to go to school.
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  If you enjoy school, enjoy it, but you have to go to school if
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  you want to play D1 baseball, basketball or football, you, you
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  have to go to class and do what you have to do to get through
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  that to, to get through the program that you want to play.
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  So I, I understand the whole situation of going to college,
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  but most kids that are playing D1 baseball, basketball,
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  football or any of the sports, they're going to play sports,
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  they're really not going for the education.
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  Most of those kids that are playing professional sports
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  don't even finish the college education.
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  Most of them don't that some of them go back.
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  I'm not saying that they don't, but a lot of them don't.
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  They, they, they're there strictly to get through the year
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  or two years or however long you you need to, to get through
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  college to go and play professional sports.
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  That's all I'm saying. Manford, yes, discusses
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  realignment and expansion. Baseball commissioner Ron
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  Manford discusses geographic realignment and expansion on
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  ESPN Sunday Night Baseball this past weekend.
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  Manford explained that the geographic realignment could
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  help save a lot and wear and tear of players due to travel
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  and also be better for regional markets since teams would rarely
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  start late for East Coast audiences or early for those on
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  the West Coast. USA Today's Bob Nightingale
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  reports that Nashville is a city that wants a MLB franchise.
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  That and Fox Sports says that Charlotte and Portland would
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  make most sense for Manford's plan to add multiple teams of
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  each coast. Mets announcer how he rose
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  blasted the idea on X, saying This is what I've been telling
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  you. It's inevitable for quite a
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  while now. The American League and the
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  National League will cease to exist as we know them.
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  It's the last move before the total destruction of the
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  traditions that made baseball great.
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  Yankees announcer Michael Kay supported Manfred, explaining it
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  would eliminate the need for Inter league play since the
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  rivalry now would be in the same division while making All Star
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  games mean something again. Although nothing is planned
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  immediately as the MLB wants to resolve the Rays and a stadium
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  issues, geographic realignment and expansion are now publicly
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  on Manford's and MLB's agenda. You know, it's interesting and
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  this story is going to obviously grow legs as we move forward
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  over the next couple of months and really the next couple of
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  years. Rob Manford's going to be
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  running baseball for at least another four more years.
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  And Rob Manfred wants to put baseball as the the lead sport
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  and, and trade and change the generational type of game that
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  it's been. And, and baseball has been
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  center stage over the last couple of years and trying to
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  grow their product. Now, obviously in the 90s with
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  the, the situation and the breakdown of what happened with
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  the strike, it, it affected baseball, it affected the growth
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  of baseball. And then steroids came out and,
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  and then you saw Mark McGuire and Sammy Soser and Barry Bonds
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  and, and the steroid error was there.
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  And now it's different. Now you look at the traditional
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  way of where the, where baseball is trying to recreate itself and
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  change rules and change different things that's going to
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  help the game or change the game in many different ways.
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  I, I think that Manford's doing things a little bit different
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  than other sports and other commissioners in, in sports.
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  Gary Bettman did something very original and very different when
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  it came to the NHL. He had the lottery, He put the
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  lottery center stage this past year for hockey fans to check
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  out and see how they're picking and how their, their lottery
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  falls into place. And it's, it's very different
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  now when it comes to watching these kind of different things.
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  And, and bring baseball and, and bring football and hockey to
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  center stage and, and trying to bring the market a little bit
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  more and drive more money to these sports.
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  The thing is, when you're changing something that's been
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  around for a long, long time, that's worked a long, long time,
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  it probably will change the different subscriptions and, and
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  different ways that money could be brought to the game.
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  And I understand the realignment.
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  I understand what he's trying to do.
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  If you have obviously you have a Metropolitan Division, you have
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  the Yankees and the Mets in the same division being that it's
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  New York. And then you have the LA, the
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  LA, the LA Angels, LA Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants, all
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  these different West Coast teams playing at the same time,
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  playing in the same, you know, conference.
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  It could help, obviously, young, young kids from going to school
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  or kids or parents by working at working at certain times, get a
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  chance to check out the their sports teams or their favorite
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  players. I understand everything that Rob
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  Manfred's trying to bring to the forefront.
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  Howie Rose has made a lot of interesting thoughts when it
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  came when it comes to baseball and Michael Caine.
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  How are you Howie Rose? Harry Rose works and has done so
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  many things for the New York Mets and Michael Cay works for
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  the New York Yankees. Michael Cay thinks he knows
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  everything and Michael Cay always comes out and says things
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  that kind of throw you off on on the way the league works and and
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  how generational thoughts of where the Yankees are going to
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  be in the future and where the Yankees could really put
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  themselves center stage in the future.
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  I I think that the realignment of baseball is unique and
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  different. I don't know if it's going to
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  help the game of baseball. Baseball is always trying to
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  redefine itself. I don't get it.
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  I I know Ron Bantford wants to stamp his name to it just like
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  Bud Selig stamped his name to baseball.
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  And when it came to the steroid era and, and not letting these
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  guys go to the Hall of Fame. Bud Selig is sitting very pretty
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  in the Hall of Fame right now as Rob Manford took over for the
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  league and now changing rules and trying to redefine the game
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  of baseball for for what he believes baseball should be and
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  how it's going to drive youngsters to want to go and
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  play baseball and choose baseball over football.
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  And we've seen that many, many times over the last couple of
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  years when these different commissioners are trying to
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  redefine their sports sponsorships and advertisements
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  are really changing the game. It's bringing the game more
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  money and more revenue. And with the new CBA rules with
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  and, and laws that they are bringing to the forefront with
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  TV deals and all the different things that baseball has had
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  over the last couple of years. You think that with the money
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  that is there and, and what they're trying to drive for the
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  money and, and with all the players.
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  And you know what, we were just talking about this the other day
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  with the players union. The players union is never going
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  to have a salary cap. Baseball is never going to have
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  a salary cap because the players union will never allow it.
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  Now there's so much being invested into these players.
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  You have a $760 million player in Juan Soto.
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  Eventually we're going to have a billion dollar player.
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  Now we have deferred money and guys that are making that kind
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  of money. A Friedman is making money
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  that's deferred. You have all these Mookie Betts
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  and all these players from the LA Dodgers making money, but
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  they're not making money because it's deferred money.
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  So they can bring more players to their organization and they
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  can ride championships all the way to the end.
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  The problem right now in Bay with baseball is Rob Manfred is
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  spinning the wheel and making the deal.
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  I don't know how this is going to change the game.
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  I don't know how this is going to make the game better.
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  It's going to ruin the game. I have seen this many, many
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  times in in sports, football. Remember football in the 90s,
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  you can pull on the the defensive players can pull on
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  the wide receivers. You can play man to man and and
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  pull them and and yank on them on the second with the
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  secondary. Now if you put your hands on the
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  wide receiver, you're going to get a penalty, a 15 yard
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  penalty. It ruins the game.
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  It's become a more offensive game.
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  Basketball. You used to be able to put your
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  hands defensively on a player and defend somebody up front in
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  the 90s and and play that man to man that, that really tight
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  defense. You can't do that anymore.
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  If you do that, they, these guys are going to go to the foul
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  line. You have LeBron James
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  complaining, you have James Harden complaining.
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  The game is changing. I understand when when the
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  game's changing, there's more money, there's more business.
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  They're they're trying to redefine and spin the wheel and
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  make the deal. I understand, understand that.
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  I think I and I, I get what they're trying to do.
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  I get what Ron Manford is trying to do.
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  Where there's more, more change, there's more money.
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  And when, when baseball is looking to get more games, being
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  seen by these young fans yet college fans, these high school
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  fans, I understand kids are going to bed early in the East
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  Coast. And the West Coast kids are
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  going to bed early. They got to go to school.
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  So I know me and Jabba, we're talking about this offset that
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  nobody get a chance to see how great Buster Posey was.
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  And Buster Posey playing in LA here on the East Coast, you're
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  never going to get a chance to see him because he played at ten
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  11:00 at night. OK, So what are you going to do?
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  You're going to you're going to make a conference of LA teams or
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  West Coast teams. How is that going to change the
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  way people and the East Coast are going to get a chance to see
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  those players? That's my question here.
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  I understand what they're trying to do and what Rob Manford's
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  trying to say and and spinning the wheel, make the deal.
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  I think they should bring in franchises, new franchise.
• 20:42
  Why? Because it brings in more
• 20:44
  revenue. And if it brings more revenue,
• 20:45
  it brings more opportunity. And that makes sense.
• 20:49
  Nashville, Charlotte, Portland, wherever they decide to bring in
• 20:52
  a new baseball team. Look at the NHL.
• 20:54
  The NHL has been doing that over the last couple of years.
• 20:56
  They brought in Seattle. Now we're going to probably see
• 20:59
  another hockey team, as Gary, it's been speaking about
• 21:02
  bringing in another hockey team for the near future that this is
• 21:06
  going to happen. And and that's what these these
• 21:09
  commissions are trying to do. Where there's more teams and
• 21:12
  more places to build those teams.
• 21:13
  There's more revenue and that brings in more profit sharing
• 21:16
  for the players, more profit sharing for the owners.
• 21:19
  But who is this benefiting? Is it defending, benefiting the
• 21:22
  players? Is it or is it benefiting the
• 21:24
  owners or is it benefiting more money being brought in to the
• 21:28
  league? That's the question.
• 21:29
  And again, we can go back and say this and we can we can speak
• 21:32
  about this about well, this is going to help the players.
• 21:35
  This is going to double headers. And and maybe the Mets and the
• 21:38
  Yankees could play more in a regular season if they're
• 21:40
  playing in the same Metropolitan Division.
• 21:42
  So they'll play 14 games instead of four games.
• 21:45
  And and Yankee and Met fans are going to want to see that.
• 21:48
  That's fine. And I guess that that's a
• 21:50
  beneficial thing if you're a New York fan.
• 21:52
  But how does does this benefit the LA fan?
• 21:55
  I want to see, I want to see the Dodgers and the Yankees play 14
• 21:58
  times in a season. Well, because the Yankees are on
• 22:01
  the East Coast and the Dodgers on the West Coast, we're only
• 22:04
  going to see that three times or four times in a season.
• 22:06
  I I want to see the best teams play against one another.
• 22:10
  I want to see the the highly profiled teams like the Dodgers
• 22:14
  and the Red Sox and the Yankees play against one another.
• 22:17
  I don't want to see the Kansas City Royals, when they're not
• 22:19
  going about going deep, dig deep into their pockets and spend the
• 22:23
  money after their players become free agents and let them go to
• 22:26
  the Yankees and go to the Red Sox.
• 22:27
  Does anybody want to see the Kansas City Royals play the LA
• 22:31
  Dodgers 14 times? Nobody wants to see that.
• 22:35
  And the same thing goes to the Baltimore Orioles.
• 22:37
  The Baltimore Orioles over the last couple of years has some of
• 22:40
  the best young, highly profiled, big time bats in baseball, but
• 22:45
  guess what? They're the Baltimore Orioles.
• 22:47
  Does anybody want to watch the Baltimore Orioles play?
• 22:50
  That's the facts. And then you go back and we're
• 22:53
  we're trying to figure out how this is going to work.
• 22:55
  And, and again, this is going to happen.
• 22:57
  Rob Manfred is going to make this happen, just like Gary
• 23:00
  Bettman over the last couple of years, making the Nets bigger
• 23:04
  and making the goalie pads bigger and make it the goat.
• 23:06
  Now being that the Nets are bigger and the the ice is longer
• 23:10
  and you can't be, you can't be smaller than 6 foot two.
• 23:14
  I've I've spoken about, I spoken with this with Mike Richter and
• 23:18
  John Van Beesburg. John Van Beesburg's 5 foot 9, 5
• 23:20
  foot 10 at the at the least. And then you have Mike Richter,
• 23:24
  who's 5 foot 11, maybe 6 foot. We're never going to see a six
• 23:28
  foot goaltender again. There's no way because of the
• 23:31
  Nets, the way the the game is played in the way they're
• 23:34
  they're they're changing the rules of the game.
• 23:36
  And and again, is it better for the the fan or is it better for
• 23:40
  the league? Is it better for the players or
• 23:43
  is it better for the owners? Now the owners are making money
• 23:47
  out of her fist. They're they're making billions
• 23:49
  and billions of dollars. They're still going to be rich.
• 23:52
  The players are the ones that are complaining about.
• 23:55
  Well, I, and, and here's another thing before I get get into
• 23:58
  that, the players love to travel the, the Yankees.
• 24:03
  I've heard this many, many times.
• 24:05
  I've talked to Johnny Damon off air in a conversation.
• 24:08
  Do you like to travel to Seattle?
• 24:10
  Do you like to travel to LA? And he says it's a, it's a great
• 24:13
  experience and get a chance to see these different cities and,
• 24:16
  and get a chance to see the different climates and the
• 24:18
  different places that they get to see over the, you know, over
• 24:21
  the years of playing baseball. Are they going to like where
• 24:26
  they're going to? They're not going to be able to
• 24:27
  travel 7-8 times a year if they're playing on the East
• 24:30
  Coast, or is it? Is it going to work that way
• 24:33
  where players are going to agree to this and the players union
• 24:36
  has to agree to this too? It's got to work both ways.
• 24:39
  And Rob Manfred, he is trying to make a statement just like Bud
• 24:43
  Selig had tried to make a statement at the end of his
• 24:46
  career. And again, does this benefit
• 24:48
  baseball? That is the thing.
• 24:51
  And I don't think it does any change where where a sports been
• 24:54
  around for over 100 years. It's worked so many times over
• 24:58
  and getting a chance to see, well, I didn't get a chance to
• 25:01
  see Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
• 25:04
  They played the game the way they played the game, the way it
• 25:06
  was built. And now you have the game where
• 25:09
  there's there's bags the size of pizza boxes and, and the the
• 25:13
  bags are closer and, and, and the way they you can't shift
• 25:17
  anymore. You can't do this.
• 25:18
  You can't do that. You have a pitching clock.
• 25:20
  They didn't have that in the in the 1960s and 1950s.
• 25:23
  They didn't even have that in 1980s.
• 25:26
  So how does this benefit baseball?
• 25:28
  Well, it speeds up the game. Well, guess what, If it speeds
• 25:31
  up the game, are people plying more beer?
• 25:33
  Are people buying and spending more money on hot dogs or
• 25:36
  sausages or whatever the hell they're spending their money on
• 25:39
  when they're going to bowl games?
• 25:41
  I get what they're trying to do, but again, you want to make as
• 25:46
  much profit as you possibly can as a professional league.
• 25:50
  So how does that help baseball? When you're losing money, you
• 25:53
  are losing money. And here's another thing.
• 25:57
  The way baseball works over the last couple of years and the way
• 26:00
  they're they've changed these different rules and, and, and
• 26:02
  trying to make their own, they want to stamp their own, you
• 26:06
  know, price to their their product.
• 26:09
  Here's the thing that really turns me off about the game of
• 26:11
  baseball, and that is the way they're changing baseballs.
• 26:16
  Look at, look at how many, how many baseball players have we
• 26:18
  spoken to over the last couple of years that I've said the
• 26:21
  Bulls are completely different every year.
• 26:24
  The seams are different. Jabba, you're, you're a pitcher.
• 26:27
  I you, you've said it. Baseballs are different.
• 26:30
  They're different than they were when you were pitching.
• 26:32
  They're lighter, they're heavier, they're you.
• 26:35
  They're easier to hit home runs with.
• 26:37
  I don't understand why they're changing the game.
• 26:39
  It's worked for so many years, for hundreds of years and now
• 26:44
  all of a sudden, hey, you know what?
• 26:45
  This is better for the league. It's better for the the the fan
• 26:49
  to go and get a chance to see their favorite player.
• 26:51
  Or it's better for the the owners to make more money
• 26:54
  because it makes more sense of shifting conferences and league
• 26:58
  and, and, and the way the league is played.
• 27:00
  I don't agree with anything that Rob Manfred has done over the
• 27:04
  last couple of years since he's taken over Bud Selig.
• 27:07
  I've given him an aim. I wouldn't even give him.
• 27:09
  I'd give him AD minus. I wouldn't give him an F because
• 27:11
  he hasn't done a lot. I almost gave him a name on
• 27:13
  this, but he he's a D minus kind of commissioner because even
• 27:18
  though there are things that he has done that's benefited
• 27:20
  baseball and has brought sponsorships and advertisements
• 27:23
  to help out, bring in more money for the players.
• 27:26
  He has hurt the game because he's trying to put his stamp to
• 27:30
  the game where it doesn't make sense.
• 27:32
  And that to me is a turn off as a fan of baseball.
• 27:35
  I've been a Yankee fan my whole life.
• 27:37
  I've been watching baseball since Don Mattingly, Danny
• 27:40
  Turnable, Pat Kelly, Roberto Kelly, Pat, I mean, every single
• 27:44
  Mike Stanley is the catcher for the New York Yankees.
• 27:47
  And we could go on and on and on with Dave or Getti.
• 27:50
  Remember him as a pitcher for the New York Yankees.
• 27:52
  I got a chance to watch all those Yankee players play in the
• 27:55
  80s and I love the game. Even though they sucked.
• 27:58
  I love to watch the New York Yankees.
• 28:00
  Now I'm watching a Yankee team that absolutely blows.
• 28:02
  Is this going to help the Yankees out?
• 28:03
  Is this going to bring in more profit for how Steinburner to go
• 28:07
  out there and spend more money? No, it's not.
• 28:09
  It's only going to bring more money and more money to the
• 28:12
  owners. It's not really helping the
• 28:14
  players. And the players enjoy traveling.
• 28:17
  They love to go to Texas, LA and Seattle.
• 28:20
  I know because I've had conversations with them.
• 28:23
  They tell me it's a part of the game.
• 28:25
  It's been a part of the game forever.
• 28:26
  So the the transition and thinking that this is going to
• 28:29
  help the league is absolutely false.
• 28:30
  I think it's going to make the game worse.
• 28:32
  Yeah, you also look at the expansion that you're seeing in
• 28:35
  other sports, too, and the way they've had to rearrange and
• 28:38
  losing rivalries in a sense as well.
• 28:40
  Because you look at hockey, like the Detroit Red Wings when they
• 28:43
  move for the Eastern Conference, lost a lot of great rivalries in
• 28:45
  the Western Conference that they had with the Blackhawks,
• 28:47
  obviously was the biggest one. And they had Colorado and the
• 28:49
  Blues. And you're kind of seeing that
• 28:52
  kind of thing with this potential realignment in
• 28:53
  baseball, too. Java, you, you being a Braves
• 28:55
  fan. Like, look, look at this
• 28:56
  proposal that Fox Sports had. The Braves would be in a
• 28:58
  division with the Rays, the Marlins and whoever the
• 29:01
  expansion team is. You look at you would lose
• 29:04
  rivalries with the Mets. You lose rivalries with the
• 29:06
  Phillies that I think you've even gotten better in the last
• 29:08
  five years since the Braves. Was that division speedy?
• 29:11
  Was that? Was that Charlotte that he semi?
• 29:13
  Yes. And Charlotte, I think is
• 29:16
  definitely a likely one, as is Nashville.
• 29:17
  I think it's a possibility if they were to add a third and a
• 29:19
  fourth one too on on the West Coast, Portland, I mean, they
• 29:22
  they'd have to figure out another one, I guess besides
• 29:24
  that, maybe another one in the Mountain West area.
• 29:27
  I don't really know. But like, I guess the, the
• 29:31
  obvious thing that you're looking at here is the fact that
• 29:33
  they're like when you have American League and National
• 29:35
  League rivalries that have been around for a while.
• 29:37
  Because baseball's a sport that has still mostly, I think old
• 29:40
  school teams, not as much of the expansion team because they did
• 29:43
  it a little later. Like football.
• 29:45
  They have some old school teams, but like they're all East Coast
• 29:47
  teams. I think besides the Rams and the
• 29:49
  49ers, like everything else is like sixties 70s expansion teams
• 29:52
  at that point. Baseball, there's some of them
• 29:55
  that came in the 60s, obviously, but like they haven't expanded
• 29:58
  since the 90s when the Rockies came in and the Diamondbacks and
• 30:01
  the Rays teams like that and the Marlins.
• 30:03
  But still like most of those teams have rivalries that go
• 30:07
  back further. Look at the look at the good
• 30:09
  Easting, the Guardians, they're going in division with the
• 30:11
  Nationals and the Pirates and the Orioles.
• 30:13
  Are there any rivalries there? No, like they've had rivalries
• 30:16
  with the Tigers and the Twins and teams like that.
• 30:18
  So I think it doesn't really make a lot of sense and it
• 30:20
  defeats the purpose to what they tried in 2022.
• 30:22
  They want the whole league to play everybody and that's better
• 30:25
  for the product of what it shows, like who you are as a
• 30:28
  team when you could beat everyone else.
• 30:30
  Yeah, and, and speedy too. It's like, and then some people
• 30:32
  will look at it. Well, now you're, you're
• 30:34
  creating old ones like with the Brewers when they, they, I think
• 30:37
  they moved in 98 or whatever. So now it's, I think you lose
• 30:41
  more than you gang as far as the rivalries per SE.
• 30:46
  I, I just, for me, I, it's, you're taking too much like
• 30:50
  you're already changing this game enough, right.
• 30:53
  And as a baseball periodist, I, I, I agree some changes have to
• 30:56
  be made with the time. I understand that I'm not
• 30:59
  oblivious to the fact things do change and I and I get it, but
• 31:04
  also there there still needs to be some sense of tradition and
• 31:08
  pride of of how long this game's been going and and what this
• 31:11
  game stands for. And I, I get kind of where it's,
• 31:17
  it comes from as far as the travel and, and what maybe the
• 31:22
  whole, I guess overview of how it would help like.
• 31:26
  And, and we talked a little bit off air where it's like, OK, now
• 31:30
  it, it may take away from that, you know, coast to coast travel
• 31:34
  in division in the AL like, and we've seen that play a part.
• 31:37
  I remember Mike Socia was screaming about it when we
• 31:40
  played them in the ALCS in O 9. And that's that.
• 31:44
  Now it eventually ended up taking away the extra off day
• 31:47
  because now most of the time you can't just use three pitchers to
• 31:50
  get through. So it, it's obviously not going
• 31:53
  to happen tomorrow, next year, even 2 years.
• 31:57
  And it'll be interesting to see they've they've been talking
• 32:00
  about expansion teams in Nashville going back to
• 32:03
  Montreal, which I didn't get to play in Montreal, but everybody
• 32:06
  that played Montreal loved it and where it, it just becomes
• 32:09
  sort of like an arrow. Like we do like traveling, but
• 32:13
  it's, it goes in phases like we like traveling because you're
• 32:16
  stuck in spring training for so long, then you travel.
• 32:18
  But then when he gets like August, you're like, all right,
• 32:21
  I just want to get to the post season and, you know, just be
• 32:24
  done with it. And so that it goes in waves and
• 32:27
  ebbs and flows. It's it's awesome because you
• 32:29
  get to see different cultures, you get to see different things
• 32:31
  that go along with it. But I just I don't know if this
• 32:36
  in the if there's more pros than cons throughout the like from
• 32:40
  top to bottom, Obviously, is it going to create, you know, new
• 32:44
  rivalries? Yes do am IA fan of new
• 32:47
  rivalries? Not really.
• 32:48
  I like the old school ones where there's only certain teams.
• 32:51
  That really benefit on that though too.
• 32:52
  Like maybe, maybe the Brewers are one of those teams like now
• 32:55
  with the Cubs and the Cardinals, probably more than they had in
• 32:56
  the American League with maybe the Twins were the only one at
• 32:59
  the time. Yeah, so I it's, it becomes, you
• 33:04
  know, and some of those they were talking about on MLB.com,
• 33:07
  it's just like some of them now the travel becomes a little bit
• 33:10
  better. Obviously for Seattle it sucks.
• 33:13
  Seattle's closest literally game is 2 1/2 hours away.
• 33:16
  Like they they have the most plane hours of anybody, right?
• 33:20
  And so it, it does create some better travel, I guess expenses
• 33:29
  or travel time or what have you for some teams.
• 33:32
  But I don't think the pros outweigh the cons of tradition
• 33:37
  of, of the game of baseball and rivalries.
• 33:40
  And are you doing it just to make a buck or like Errol said,
• 33:44
  are you doing it to leave your mark and to say you did
• 33:47
  something like you, you did it because it's now when they think
• 33:53
  about the new realignment, my name is attached to it.
• 33:56
  So I I. Don't know if I don't like it.
• 33:59
  I don't like the way baseball and Rob Manfred trying to spin
• 34:02
  the wheel and and try to make a new deal with the devil.
• 34:06
  And I think baseball is so important to the way sports has
• 34:11
  really grown. We look at baseball.
• 34:13
  Baseball's been around longer than any other sport.
• 34:16
  It's America's pastime. You go and you talk about
• 34:19
  basketball, you talk about football.
• 34:20
  Football, all sports have been around for a significant amount
• 34:23
  of time. We've seen baseball being played
• 34:25
  in the 1800s. And and again, when when you
• 34:28
  look at the difference in the specific thoughts of what ramp
• 34:31
  Rob Manfred's trying to bring and deliver to the game of
• 34:34
  baseball, I get what he's trying to do.
• 34:36
  He's trying to bring in the new age of baseball.
• 34:38
  I got it. I understand what he's trying to
• 34:40
  do here, and I understand by realigning the game, it's going
• 34:44
  to make it more interesting for fans to get a chance to see
• 34:47
  their favorite teams or get a chance over there on the West
• 34:50
  Coast to get a chance to see more of the LA teams play
• 34:53
  against each other. That's fine.
• 34:55
  How does this make sense for the game of baseball when it's been
• 34:57
  around for a long, long time? It's like this.
• 35:00
  The Yankees and the Mets in the same division.
• 35:03
  It's just like the Islanders and the Rangers in the same division
• 35:06
  now. The Islanders and the Rangers in
• 35:08
  the old, in the olden days, in the eight 90s, they weren't in
• 35:11
  the same division that there was an Atlantic Division.
• 35:13
  It was a different, I, I forget how it was put together, but it
• 35:17
  it was different there. There was no National League or
• 35:20
  American League and there was an East and West and the the
• 35:22
  Islanders and the Rangers were both in the East and West, but
• 35:25
  they were in different divisions.
• 35:26
  Yeah, wasn't it the Campbell and the Patrick?
• 35:28
  Whatever it was, I I don't remember I, I, I again, I'm, I'm
• 35:31
  not going to go back to remember that I and if you guys want to
• 35:34
  look it up, you look it up. What I'm saying here is it I
• 35:38
  understand, understand what baseball's trying to do.
• 35:40
  If they think it's going to benefit the game and it's going
• 35:43
  to bring in more profits, well then Rob Manford and the leaders
• 35:47
  and owners are going to do whatever, whatever.
• 35:50
  It's going to bring in more profit to the game.
• 35:53
  I think that obviously the game and the change of the game is
• 35:56
  interesting. By the way, baseball has really
• 35:59
  driven the younger fans to come and watch it now.
• 36:03
  A lot of fans and a lot of parents have tried to keep the
• 36:06
  kids away, keep the kids away from football because of all the
• 36:09
  CTE situations and speculations that these kids are going brain
• 36:12
  dead or or these kids are not hitting.
• 36:15
  We're not technically hitting or getting on the field on the
• 36:18
  football field and doing the right things on a football
• 36:20
  field. And no parent wants them to play
• 36:21
  football if they're going to go brain dead or they're going to
• 36:23
  have CTE in the future. I've seen that before and I've
• 36:26
  understand why parents are pushing them to play not fully
• 36:30
  contacted sports like baseball by baseball.
• 36:33
  How many times do you see them running to each other except
• 36:35
  usually the third baseman running to the catcher?
• 36:37
  And even then and even even now, you don't really see that
• 36:40
  anymore. Baseball is taking that away.
• 36:42
  So I, I think that's why parents are trying to drive them to play
• 36:45
  baseball more. If there's more money in
• 36:47
  baseball than in there is in any sport.
• 36:49
  Basketball obviously has been a sport that's driving so much
• 36:53
  different international ways to bring in sponsorships and
• 36:56
  advertisements. And there's only 13 players on a
• 36:59
  basketball team. That's why the 13th player is
• 37:01
  making four or $5,000,000 to the, I don't know, 17th or 18th
• 37:06
  player on a baseball team, they're making $500,000.
• 37:10
  So I, I mean, it's a different game.
• 37:12
  It's a different way that it's played.
• 37:13
  It's different way to situate the money to go to the
• 37:17
  superstar, to the secondary backup outfielder.
• 37:21
  It's different. Now, if it's going to drive more
• 37:24
  money and more revenue for the backup player to make more
• 37:26
  money, then that's what baseball's going to do.
• 37:28
  This isn't going to help baseball.
• 37:30
  I, I do believe bringing in new franchises is going to help
• 37:33
  baseball. I, I do because it will bring in
• 37:36
  more money. It'll bring more fandom.
• 37:37
  Where would you put expansion team like if, if in a perfect
• 37:40
  world like take this alignment away, right?
• 37:43
  Like, let's throw that up. Charlotte is definitely a place
• 37:46
  that I would put a baseball team because we've, we've spoken who,
• 37:49
  who do we speak to, Rick? Curdy was the guy.
• 37:51
  Curdy. Rick Curdy was on our show and
• 37:52
  he's been pushing for a Charlotte baseball team forever.
• 37:56
  Forever. They've been trying to do it and
• 37:58
  baseball over there in Charlotte is huge.
• 38:00
  It's right between, it's right over there by Atlanta.
• 38:03
  They would drive more Atlanta fans to go in and and become
• 38:06
  Charlotte fans and I and he says it's a huge, huge baseball city.
• 38:12
  That's what he says. Yeah.
• 38:13
  I mean, you got the Durham Bulls and and stuff like that over
• 38:16
  there. Portland is an interesting place
• 38:17
  to the Portland Trail Blazers have been around, was around for
• 38:22
  a a long, long time and and now Portland is trying to drive more
• 38:27
  sports teams over there. I mean, I would love to see a
• 38:30
  port, a Portland hockey team over there because it's right
• 38:33
  there on the cusp of Canada. You talk about Seattle and
• 38:36
  Portland, they're right there up West where Canada is.
• 38:39
  So that'll bring in Vancouver fans.
• 38:41
  That's going to bring in more Canadian fans to come and watch
• 38:44
  their sports teams. So I would like to see that as
• 38:46
  well. Baseball over there in Portland,
• 38:49
  Portland and Seattle that that would be fun to watch to get a
• 38:51
  chance to see two cities right next to each other go against
• 38:54
  one another on the West Coast. So I, I think Charlotte and
• 38:58
  Portland make a lot of sense. Nashville, I don't know,
• 39:01
  Nashville's big with their, their music, they're big with
• 39:04
  their football, baseball, I don't know, the Nashville
• 39:08
  Predators are big over there and they're driving fandom and, and
• 39:11
  they're bringing in many different fans where you
• 39:13
  wouldn't believe that the, the cowboy wannabes over there that
• 39:19
  are going to drive to want to watch hockey.
• 39:21
  But now hockey's a big sport over there and the Predators are
• 39:25
  huge over there, as we've seen over the last couple of years.
• 39:28
  So and they're and they're built very well and, and, and they
• 39:31
  have a very good VP or now I guess he's now the GM of the
• 39:34
  organization and Barry Trotz. So I, I mean, there is
• 39:38
  opportunity and where there's opportunity, there's money and
• 39:41
  where there's money, that's where baseball's going to be
• 39:43
  surfing. I don't care about bringing an
• 39:46
  expansion. That's a great idea.
• 39:48
  That's not, that's not what I'm attacking.
• 39:50
  I'm not attacking Rob Manford to try to bring in expansion and
• 39:53
  bring in new cities to and build teams in those cities.
• 39:57
  I'm not complaining about that. What I'm complaining about right
• 40:00
  now is the realignment of the leagues.
• 40:03
  Baseball doesn't work that way as.
• 40:05
  A Giants fan before the NFL change to the setup that now is
• 40:10
  being suggested for baseball. The Phoenix Cardinals were in
• 40:13
  the NFC East forever. They were the Saint Louis
• 40:17
  Cardinals until like the mid 80s or whatever, but they were in
• 40:20
  the NFCS and I got to be honest with you, I don't miss playing
• 40:24
  the Cardinals. They were just some team.
• 40:25
  They were bad Jake the snake plumber and they had the best
• 40:28
  receiving fullback in Larry Centers and a whole bunch of.
• 40:31
  Nothing on that team. Yep.
• 40:33
  And a whole bunch of nothing. And now that they're playing out
• 40:37
  West, I see, you know, Kyler Murray, I don't think of, oh,
• 40:40
  this is the team that used to be in our division.
• 40:43
  I think they should have always been there.
• 40:44
  And I don't really care about that team.
• 40:46
  So I don't think that's actually a bad thing to try to have you
• 40:49
  play more relevant teams. Like when I'm coaching football,
• 40:52
  we don't want to drive 2 1/2 hours away.
• 40:55
  This year, we have to drive to Binghamton, face the team three
• 40:57
  hours away. We don't want to play teams like
• 40:58
  that. We want to play teams that, you
• 41:00
  know, are in the area that we have bragging rights with.
• 41:03
  I'm sure on the pro level with the travel is one thing, but I,
• 41:06
  I, I guess fans, I could care less about games against the
• 41:11
  Phoenix Cardinals when they were a kid and I don't care about
• 41:13
  them now. So I don't think it necessarily
• 41:15
  would be that bad. It would just be the whole
• 41:17
  getting rid of the American League and National League part
• 41:19
  of it that would rub a lot of people and myself the wrong way.
• 41:22
  Like there's so much history. Like I hate the fact that they
• 41:24
  just don't care about. That I, I would agree with.
• 41:27
  Obviously baseball changing the DH to pitchers hitting because
• 41:31
  it, it, to me, it benefits the American League.
• 41:34
  And I thought that baseball bringing the DH to the National
• 41:37
  League has helped the National League.
• 41:39
  I really do. And it and it keeps guys playing
• 41:42
  in the leagues a little bit longer and, and obviously
• 41:44
  players that are can't play the field anymore now could be an
• 41:48
  automatic DH. So I think it's helped baseball.
• 41:50
  So things that baseball has brought to the forefront has
• 41:53
  helped the game of baseball. When, when you hear Michael
• 41:56
  Caine, Harry Rose, go back and forth with one another on X or
• 42:00
  whatever you call it, Twitter on social media and go back and
• 42:03
  forth agreeing 1 agreeing with Rob Manford, the other one not
• 42:06
  agreeing with Rob Manford. And you're going to go back and
• 42:09
  forth and you're going to, you're going to, there's going
• 42:10
  to be a devil and there's going to be an Angel.
• 42:12
  There's going to be back and forth banter one way or another
• 42:14
  because not everybody's going to agree to it.
• 42:17
  I, I don't think changing conferences or getting rid of
• 42:21
  the National League or the American League is going to make
• 42:23
  any sense to what baseball is and what baseball has done for
• 42:27
  the fans, the old fans and now the new fans, now the younger
• 42:30
  fans and, and the younger fans trying to find ways to try
• 42:34
  themselves to bet on fantasy. Maybe it helps the fantasy world
• 42:37
  out because it's a change that's something or the betting man or
• 42:40
  woman out there that that want to spend a little bit more money
• 42:43
  on baseball. But how does that benefit the
• 42:46
  situation for what it is? I, I don't get this.
• 42:48
  I, I understand we're, we're trying to nitpick or trying to
• 42:51
  figure out things to talk about when it comes to sports, because
• 42:54
  this is not the time of year to figure out what to talk about
• 42:57
  because this is not the best year or the best time of year to
• 43:00
  talk sports because football's not around or three seasons
• 43:03
  around the corner. And then, yeah, well, it's, it's
• 43:06
  right now happening. And then the NHL and the NBA is
• 43:08
  not happening until, you know, probably in the next couple of
• 43:11
  weeks. So you're trying to nitpick and
• 43:12
  trying to find stories to talk about.
• 43:14
  And Rob Manfred is coming out with a story that is interesting
• 43:17
  or people want to talk about. This is nothing to me until it,
• 43:21
  it even becomes to fruition. Even even the, the conversations
• 43:24
  start to talk. He's mentioning it.
• 43:26
  Bob Nightingale is saying things and writing things that Bob is
• 43:29
  very well respected in the baseball world.
• 43:31
  And, and again, when you how when you hear Howie, Howie Rose,
• 43:35
  who's a Hall of Fame broadcaster and a Hall of Fame personality,
• 43:39
  and then Michael Kay, who's a Hall of Fame personality, go at
• 43:42
  it with one another on social media, you, you, you question
• 43:46
  the fact that Rob Manfred is spitting stuff and hopefully
• 43:49
  it'll stick. And again, are the owners are
• 43:51
  going to, are the owners going to agree to this too?
• 43:54
  I don't, I understand when, if George Steinbrenner was alive
• 43:57
  right now and George Stanburner was an old classy type of guy,
• 44:02
  he was like he was a guy that believed in the old style of
• 44:04
  baseball. Do you think George Steinbrenner
• 44:07
  would have agreed to this pitch clock?
• 44:10
  Do you think that George Steinbrenner would have liked
• 44:12
  that the bases are a little bit bigger, a little bit closer or
• 44:14
  whatever shift and completely knocking out shifting?
• 44:19
  Even though I thought shifting has affected the game since the
• 44:23
  Rays decided to really double Joe Madden decided to jump in on
• 44:28
  it and make it make it part of their game.
• 44:30
  I, I think I understand what, what baseball's trying to do.
• 44:34
  They're trying to bring in the younger fan.
• 44:35
  I understand it. It makes sense why baseball
• 44:38
  believes that this is, is, is going to be beneficial for the
• 44:41
  younger fan. But for the older fans, the fans
• 44:44
  like me that are in my 40s, fifties, 60s, guys that are
• 44:47
  dedicated to watch just baseball.
• 44:50
  There are fans right now that are not big football fans.
• 44:53
  They're baseball fans. There are fans that are not
• 44:55
  interested in hockey. Nobody cares about hockey,
• 44:58
  Boomer, as we hear on WFAN, Nobody.
• 45:01
  Some people don't care about hockey.
• 45:03
  Baseball is popular no matter where you go here in the United
• 45:06
  States. And when you're telling me that
• 45:09
  the Mets and the Yankees are going to play in the same
• 45:11
  division, that to me hurts. It hurts the value of what I
• 45:16
  love to watch over the years when they brought Inter League
• 45:18
  Baseball to the to the forefront when Winter League Baseball was
• 45:22
  here and started. I love the fact that I got a
• 45:25
  chance to see the Yankees in the Mets square off against one
• 45:27
  another four times in a year. Now I'm going to have to see
• 45:30
  them square off 12/13/14 times. Get a chance to see Juan Soto
• 45:34
  smack the Yankees around when he gets hot in the, you know, when
• 45:38
  he plays the Yankees 1415 times in a season.
• 45:41
  I don't want to see that. That's the thing, I, I don't, I
• 45:44
  don't get what baseball is trying to do.
• 45:45
  Again, we can go on and on and on about this.
• 45:48
  It doesn't benefit the game of baseball.
• 45:51
  And if it doesn't benefit the game of baseball, why is this
• 45:53
  even being brought up again? The whole expansion thing makes
• 45:57
  sense. Do it if if you can bring a
• 46:00
  baseball team to Charlotte, you can bring a baseball team to
• 46:03
  Portland, whatever city bring, bring six teams to baseball.
• 46:07
  If it makes sense and it's going to drive people to want to watch
• 46:10
  it in those cities and drive more fans to go and chance to go
• 46:14
  to a ballpark and go and watch professional baseball, then do
• 46:18
  it. But this, the shifting of
• 46:20
  divisions and conferences and making one league to another
• 46:24
  league or whatever the hell he's trying to do to realign the
• 46:26
  league. This doesn't make sense.
• 46:28
  That's all I'm going to say. It doesn't make sense.
• 46:32
  I think baseball needs to figure out what their identity is.
• 46:35
  And Rob Manfred shouldn't be the guy that's going to decide it
• 46:38
  because that is been the problem.
• 46:40
  He is the worst commissioner right now in professional
• 46:42
  sports. I don't care what anybody says.
• 46:44
  And Roger Goodell is not one of those smartest ones, but he's
• 46:47
  not he's not that dumb because he's bringing he's making 5055
• 46:51
  million a year. He's got his own jet and he's
• 46:53
  him and his family have their own benefits until the day he he
• 46:55
  dies and the day his family dies.
• 46:58
  So he's pretty damn smart, but he's also a guy that people
• 47:01
  don't like. But this story, the fact that
• 47:04
  Rob Manfred is trying to spin the wheel and make the deal,
• 47:07
  this doesn't help baseball. It's not cleaning up the game of
• 47:10
  baseball only does or the only thing it does is it makes me
• 47:13
  upset and it tells me that I have no interest in watching the
• 47:16
  game of baseball anymore. Guys, how many games do you
• 47:19
  think I've watched when it comes to a full game of baseball this
• 47:22
  year? Speedy, take a guess, give me a
• 47:24
  number. How many full games have you
• 47:26
  thought? When you and I know you watch a
• 47:28
  lot of baseball, how many games do you think I've watched this
• 47:31
  season? Full.
• 47:32
  Full games from from what? From the first inning to the 9th
• 47:36
  inning. 16 Fish. I don't know, probably like a
• 47:42
  dozen, but maybe, maybe since you haven't seen that many,
• 47:45
  maybe we could dive inside. Baseball, just take a guess.
• 47:49
  I just want to. I want you to take a guess. 12.
• 47:52
  Jabba, how many games do you think I've watched fully in in
• 47:54
  the baseball season so far? 4. 4 scoops.
• 47:59
  How many? How many do you think I'm?
• 48:00
  Gonna say 10. You know how many games?
• 48:03
  Eight games, 8 full games this year.
• 48:06
  I go in and out of Yankee games. I don't care.
• 48:09
  I don't I don't care about the regular season anymore.
• 48:11
  It makes no sense to me. And and again, everything that
• 48:14
  we're watching when it comes to baseball is just absolute
• 48:17
  ludicrous. It doesn't get important till
• 48:18
  the last two months of the baseball season.
• 48:21
  Then I'll sit there and watch a full Yankee game.
• 48:23
  I'll, I'll watch from, from, I would say from the month of
• 48:27
  August all the way into September.
• 48:29
  I will watch every single Yankee game.
• 48:31
  And now we're we're in the month of August.
• 48:33
  The Yankees suck so much. And I don't care about what
• 48:36
  people are saying about this team because the Yankees aren't
• 48:38
  making the playoffs. I don't care.
• 48:39
  So I've watched 8 full games for the New York Yankees.
• 48:42
  There's so everybody understands why where I see baseball and
• 48:46
  what I think baseball is right now.
• 48:48
  I've watched 8 full Yankee games all season long.
• 48:51
  That doesn't mean I haven't watched Yankee games, I just
• 48:54
  haven't watched them fully. I'll watch 4 innings and I'll be
• 48:56
  done with this. I don't care about this.
• 48:58
  I'll watch 6 innings, I'm done. I'll watch 2 innings, I'm done.
• 49:01
  I I have no interest in watching the game anymore.
• 49:04
  It's boring. It doesn't matter how fast it is
• 49:06
  or how quick the game is. To me it doesn't get exciting
• 49:10
  until the last two months. Just like basketball, how many
• 49:13
  times have we've heard people watched it come on this show and
• 49:16
  tell me, oh, I don't watch basketball until the last 3-4
• 49:19
  weeks of the basketball season because nobody cares about the
• 49:22
  regular season of basketball. It only gets more interesting
• 49:25
  the last month when they're fighting for a playoff spot and,
• 49:28
  and even in the playoffs, the first round of the playoffs, how
• 49:30
  many people really strategically watch the first round of the
• 49:34
  playoffs? Nobody cares because everybody
• 49:36
  knows mostly, most likely we know the guys that are going
• 49:39
  into the second round. So that's, that's all I'm
• 49:42
  saying. And I think sports, I understand
• 49:45
  sports are trying to figure out and configure ways to make the
• 49:47
  game interesting or more driving for the youngsters.
• 49:50
  I just don't agree with it. I don't like what they're trying
• 49:52
  to do. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 49:55
  we're going to get into inside baseball.
• 49:57
  Now let's go deep, deep inside what I am exciting.
• 50:01
  This is inside baseball. Well, Errol, let's get the music
• 50:10
  on, please, for INSIDE Baseball. Let's get into it.
• 50:13
  Errol, you said you haven't watched that much.
• 50:16
  Full games. Full games of the Yankees.
• 50:18
  I've watched Yankee games. I've watched probably I've
• 50:21
  popped on a Yankee game all season long.
• 50:24
  I'm not watching a full Yankee game.
• 50:26
  I've watched eight games. Fully.
• 50:29
  Well, guess who else isn't watching?
• 50:32
  Aaron Boone. Because Aaron Boone said that in
• 50:35
  a in a quote to the media said that Judge isn't going to be
• 50:38
  able to throw normal again this year.
• 50:41
  And then Aaron Judge the next day said that's not true at all.
• 50:46
  He hasn't even watched me throw at all.
• 50:52
  Not on the same page, guys. Aaron Judge because he hasn't
• 50:56
  been able to throw so far. They've had to sit Giancarlo
• 50:59
  Stanton. Giancarlo Stanton is hitting
• 51:02
  like 300 and hit two home runs. Yesterday, the Yankees had nine
• 51:05
  home runs, second time this season, eighth time in the
• 51:09
  entire history of the Yankees. But of course, that was the big
• 51:14
  great output. They swept the the Cardinals,
• 51:16
  but before that, they weren't doing well.
• 51:18
  They have a huge series this weekend with the Boston Red Sox.
• 51:23
  Do you think that the little mini hot streak they're on right
• 51:26
  now is going to be able to carry them in the most important
• 51:30
  series of the year? No, I think the Yankees right
• 51:33
  now are a crappy team in a crappy organization.
• 51:36
  They got to figure out what they're doing with their manager
• 51:38
  and they're going to have to figure out what they're doing
• 51:39
  with their GM. It doesn't matter what's going
• 51:42
  to happen when they play the Red Sox in a couple of days or a
• 51:45
  week from now, because the Yankees shouldn't make the
• 51:47
  playoffs. The Boston Red Sox have been the
• 51:49
  better team in the American League.
• 51:51
  In the American League East, the Yankees have not been a very
• 51:54
  good team. Really.
• 51:56
  Two weeks before the All Star break and they've been horrible
• 51:58
  since then. The only player that's actually
• 52:00
  hitting and playing good baseball for the New York
• 52:03
  Yankees is Bellinger. He's the only one.
• 52:06
  The team stinks. How many times do I have to tell
• 52:08
  you guys we could go over and over and over and over again
• 52:11
  about the New York Yankees? Aaron Boone is as good as gone,
• 52:14
  as good as gone. And Brian Cashman, Don't be
• 52:17
  surprised if he steps down at the end of the season.
• 52:20
  This team is in the gutter right now.
• 52:22
  There's nothing good about this team and Aaron Judge throwing
• 52:26
  the ball or being an automatic DH.
• 52:29
  It's not going to make a difference.
• 52:31
  They're not making the playoffs. They're not good.
• 52:33
  So it doesn't matter if they're playing the Red Sox, It doesn't
• 52:37
  matter if they're playing Seattle.
• 52:38
  It doesn't matter if they're playing the New York frigging
• 52:41
  Mets. The Yankee stick Game over.
• 52:44
  Put a cork in them. Yeah, it's one of those things
• 52:47
  that yeah, you look at Aaron Judge and you were saying, all
• 52:48
  right, how long are they going to need him to DH?
• 52:50
  And we're thinking it was going to be only like a 10 day period.
• 52:53
  Aaron Boonthal even could have been earlier than that.
• 52:55
  This kind of report definitely screams a lot more alarming if
• 52:58
  he's not going to be able to throw properly at all.
• 53:00
  Nevertheless, the range in the outfield, but from any spot in
• 53:03
  the outfield, throwing it deep. Judge has always had a good arm
• 53:06
  throughout his career too, and now you're going to have to have
• 53:08
  him DH more. That hurts the fact that Yankees
• 53:10
  have built up so many other like outfield DH types and it's just
• 53:13
  really not I good for the Yankees identity right now.
• 53:16
  Yeah, and I think you got to be on the same page.
• 53:18
  You don't obviously coming from Judge, it's a little bit
• 53:20
  different than coming from everybody else.
• 53:22
  And it wasn't good. They Boone kind of backed off on
• 53:25
  it, whatever. But you know, obviously he was
• 53:27
  said. So people are going to look into
• 53:28
  it and see what it is. But yeah, it's if he's saying
• 53:30
  that it's, it's not good and everybody's not on the same
• 53:33
  page. All right, let's go to the next
• 53:36
  one. What we have here is a really
• 53:39
  weird story. I don't know if you were
• 53:41
  following this arrow, but Kettle Marte, All Star second baseman
• 53:45
  for the Arizona Diamondbacks, had to apologize to the team for
• 53:50
  being missing in action. He he was robbed.
• 53:53
  Apparently his house was robbed during the All Star break.
• 53:56
  He had some issues back home. I got a couple of quotes here.
• 53:58
  He was frustrated in a bad spot. He no showed the first series
• 54:02
  back from the break. The team did great without him.
• 54:05
  They swept thing was the Cardinals and a lot of sweeping
• 54:08
  of the Cardinals going on right now.
• 54:10
  But then when he came back, they lost 9 of 10.
• 54:13
  There's apparently a lot of weirdness going on with him in
• 54:16
  the clubhouse. Here's what manager Tori Lovolo
• 54:18
  said. I know there's an elephant in
• 54:20
  the room and I'll just say what I want to say about it.
• 54:22
  I know Kettle talked to you guys and I'm proud of him for doing
• 54:24
  that. That's not easy for him to do.
• 54:26
  I know he showed some vulnerability.
• 54:27
  I'm really proud of him digging in the way he did.
• 54:30
  What I'll say about Kettle are things I know he's a great
• 54:32
  teammate. He's a great young man.
• 54:34
  He plays hard every single day for the Diamondbacks.
• 54:36
  He just just wants to win baseball games.
• 54:38
  That's it, guys. I don't, I don't know if you've
• 54:42
  ever had like a situation like this with a teammate, but it
• 54:45
  certainly seems like we're not being told most of this story
• 54:48
  and that's something pretty weird happened here.
• 54:50
  Michael Jordan was not really not liked by any of the players
• 54:54
  on the team, but they won ball game.
• 54:56
  They won ball games. Michael Jordan is one of the
• 54:58
  greatest basketball players of all time.
• 55:00
  When he went and he practiced, everybody was expected to play
• 55:04
  at the top of their game. He it didn't matter if it was a
• 55:06
  practice or an NBA game. He expected you to play at your
• 55:09
  full talent. When you look at this Kettle
• 55:12
  story and all this other stuff, if Kettle's going out there and
• 55:15
  throwing players under the bus and not getting along with
• 55:18
  teammates, you got to get rid of them.
• 55:19
  Now he's going out there and he's saying the things that he
• 55:22
  has said over the last couple of seasons or the last couple of
• 55:25
  weeks and and he hasn't played well and he couldn't stay
• 55:28
  healthy and all this other stuff.
• 55:29
  And then he's having problems over there during the All Star
• 55:32
  break and then he comes back and they're not waiting.
• 55:34
  Obviously there's a specific situation right now that is not
• 55:38
  working out. Players do not want to play for
• 55:39
  him and the team just doesn't want to stand behind him.
• 55:42
  So obviously there's a big problem over.
• 55:43
  There. Yeah.
• 55:44
  You wonder if that's something that could have hurt trade
• 55:45
  deadline value too, because it looked like the Diamondbacks
• 55:47
  were trying to go for big swings with him, especially since he's
• 55:50
  been been MVP finalists each of the last two years.
• 55:53
  And I I was advocating for it to be a big move.
• 55:55
  If the Yankees made a big swing or one of the one of these
• 55:58
  American League teams, the Guardians that were going for a
• 56:00
  big swing on offense, I think that could have been a player.
• 56:03
  They're doing it. Maybe, maybe teams in front
• 56:04
  offices were alarmed by the way he was as a as a leader, as a
• 56:07
  culture guy for that Diamondbacks team.
• 56:09
  Because two years ago, just two years ago, they were in the
• 56:11
  World Series. It looked like he was like
• 56:13
  resurrecting his career on the top of the world.
• 56:14
  And now all of a sudden it's the complete opposite.
• 56:17
  Yeah, it's, I mean with Katel and all the things that
• 56:19
  happened, it's, you know, he's a person personality.
• 56:21
  He's he's gone through a lot this year.
• 56:23
  So I think it all just kind of came to a head and, you know, it
• 56:26
  just was one of those things where, you know, just added fuel
• 56:30
  to the fire and, you know, sometimes you just need to check
• 56:32
  yourself and, and have a self talk and, you know, just being a
• 56:36
  leader. It's it's a little different
• 56:37
  and, and much more is required. So you know, it's now it's water
• 56:42
  under the bridge. Move on, keep going, keep it
• 56:43
  moving. All right, Speaking of keeping
• 56:46
  it moving, let's go to the team that's been moving to the top of
• 56:49
  the standings for the last couple of months, That's the
• 56:52
  Milwaukee Brewers. They're the best team in
• 56:54
  baseball. It's kind of remarkable how
• 56:57
  they've done that, at least record wise right now.
• 56:59
  Obviously, before they got swept in a doubleheader yesterday by
• 57:02
  the Cubs, they won the first game of that series, so they're
• 57:04
  going for the split tonight. They've been short of
• 57:07
  unstoppable. They're 79 and 4732 games over
• 57:11
  507 game lead on the Cubs. They've won before that.
• 57:16
  They won 29 of 33 games. Incredible.
• 57:20
  They have the top starting pitcher ERA of in all of
• 57:23
  baseball. Their staff is Freddy Peralta, a
• 57:26
  healthy Brandon Woodruff, who has a brand new repertoire of
• 57:29
  pitches, not a fastball pitcher like he used to be.
• 57:32
  So he reinvented himself. Veteran Jose Quintana, Jets,
• 57:35
  Mets fans know about him. He's he's picked it up.
• 57:39
  And you know, after a shaky first month or so, Quinn
• 57:42
  Priester was traded for nothing by the Red Sox to the Brewers at
• 57:47
  the beginning of the season. He's been a revelation out
• 57:50
  there. And then I haven't even
• 57:51
  mentioned Jacob Mesorowski, who is the electric rookie throwing
• 57:56
  103 with mid 90s sliders. The only real name on the roster
• 58:00
  arrows Christian Yelich, who's past his prime MVP years, but
• 58:03
  he's still hitting 265 with 26 homers.
• 58:06
  He's having a good year. There's a series of players
• 58:09
  having great years from William Contreras to 2nd year second
• 58:12
  baseman Bryce Tarang, who's an elite defender who's got the
• 58:16
  biggest jump in exit velocity of anyone in Major League Baseball,
• 58:19
  going from like the bottom of the barrel of of exit velocity
• 58:22
  to hitting like 70th percentile. And they have all these guys
• 58:26
  that you may have heard their name, Sal Frelich, Blake
• 58:29
  Perkins, Isaac Collins is a good rookie.
• 58:32
  And then there's Yankees prospect, former Yankees
• 58:35
  prospect Caleb Durbin, who was traded for you.
• 58:39
  Got it, Devin Williams, who is doing it.
• 58:43
  So here's the question, is this team a real World Series
• 58:46
  favorite? Or is it just an incredible hot
• 58:49
  streak for our for a good young team that's maybe ahead of
• 58:52
  schedule? Time will tell when when it
• 58:53
  comes to Milwaukee. Milwaukee is not a good playoff
• 58:55
  team. They have proven that they're
• 58:57
  not a good playoff team. They don't show up in the
• 58:59
  playoffs. We know what the Mets did to
• 59:01
  them last year or they were a pretty good team last year.
• 59:03
  And and then you remember somebody named the Polar Bear
• 59:07
  slaps A3 run home run in the later innings and wins the game
• 59:10
  and knocks them out. So only time will tell.
• 59:12
  I don't know if Milwaukee's the real deal until they get out of
• 59:15
  the first round. The well, it's not going to be a
• 59:17
  wild card because they're they're going to win the
• 59:19
  National League. But whatever, whatever they do
• 59:22
  in the divisional series is going to be my thoughts of what
• 59:25
  they could do in the National League Championship.
• 59:27
  Yeah, it's a very 2021 Giants field that I kind of have with
• 59:30
  them too, because there's some advanced metrics where it comes
• 59:32
  when it comes to power, when it comes to extra base hits that
• 59:34
  the Brewers offense has not been great at.
• 59:36
  So I'm still a little concerned about that even amidst all that.
• 59:39
  Like they they scream really good on paper, but it's like one
• 59:42
  of those teams where are they really as as good as that down
• 59:44
  the road in that playoff identity like Errol was saying
• 59:47
  too, like the Brewers have not won a playoff series since 2018
• 59:50
  when they went to the NLCS and lost a tight one to the Dodgers,
• 59:53
  lost A7 game series. So can they find that playoff
• 59:55
  identity again will be another question.
• 59:57
  But like Corey Hart was saying yesterday, they are really well
• 1:00:00
  run organization and deserve a lot more respect for the kind of
• 1:00:03
  factory they put together as a lower market team.
• 1:00:05
  Yeah, and you add Brain and Woodruff, who almost been out
• 1:00:08
  two years and, you know, coming back from serious stuff and, you
• 1:00:11
  know, doing what he's done since he's come back from injury,
• 1:00:14
  that's a huge, huge piece to what they're going to do.
• 1:00:17
  And you know, I think they they have the pieces.
• 1:00:21
  But yeah, it's just when it gets to to nut cut and time in the
• 1:00:24
  playoffs, they they fall a little short time in and time
• 1:00:27
  out. So adding an arm like that, I
• 1:00:28
  think that's helped. They got some guys that want to
• 1:00:30
  prove some stuff in the postseason.
• 1:00:31
  So time will tell. I'll just say this before we
• 1:00:35
  move on, I love Tarang. Tarang is like one of these guys
• 1:00:38
  I took as my sleeper in fantasy this year.
• 1:00:41
  That guy they got, I'm going to give him the nickname that no
• 1:00:43
  one's given them yet. The Tarangutang.
• 1:00:46
  There we go, the Tarangutang. All right, we've got a couple
• 1:00:49
  more going on here before we get into it.
• 1:00:53
  We got to go to right to injuries.
• 1:00:54
  There's been there was a major, major injury, Arrow, Zach
• 1:00:58
  Wheeler, he is on the IL definitely.
• 1:01:03
  He had the old blood clot in the throwing arm.
• 1:01:06
  So they did surgery to remove it.
• 1:01:08
  I immediately always think of David Cone when you hear about
• 1:01:12
  this one. He had that armpit surgery and I
• 1:01:15
  think it was, was it 96 actually?
• 1:01:17
  And he came back or it was one of those years that they won.
• 1:01:20
  It was might, maybe it was 98. But regardless, that one can
• 1:01:25
  knock out even the best pitcher and Wheeler's been a top five
• 1:01:27
  pitcher in baseball all season. Other injuries, Felix Bautista
• 1:01:32
  the OR another guy the Orioles depended on, they thought he was
• 1:01:35
  going to come back from surgery. Let's from Tommy John now he's
• 1:01:39
  got been shoulder surgery. He was there closer just says a
• 1:01:41
  lot about what happened there this year.
• 1:01:43
  Francisco Alvarez, the Mets catcher, he has the backwards
• 1:01:49
  Tommy John, the one that you don't have surgery on, the one
• 1:01:51
  that was on the thumb. So there's the elbow part of it
• 1:01:54
  at the end on one side and the thumb part of the UCL on the
• 1:01:57
  other. I think Dustin Pedroia famously
• 1:01:59
  had that injury and really couldn't play that well after
• 1:02:02
  it, but Alvarez has that one. He's on the IL.
• 1:02:05
  Vlad Guerrero, junior, not on the IL yet, but if you saw him
• 1:02:09
  do the splits at first base, you'd understand why he might go
• 1:02:14
  on the IL. What an incredible stretch.
• 1:02:16
  But he he even jogged off. But they're saying that he has
• 1:02:20
  some inflammation in the hand. He's from doing the splits.
• 1:02:22
  Jacob degroms, he's going to miss a start.
• 1:02:24
  Shoulder fatigue. And Adley Ruchman again, another
• 1:02:28
  Oriole was supposed to be, you know, one of the great catchers
• 1:02:32
  in the league. He's going to be out of town at
• 1:02:34
  the end of this year. He's got another injury.
• 1:02:36
  The Zach Wheeler one is scary. I mean, blood clots.
• 1:02:39
  When you hear blood clots, that's usually something that's
• 1:02:42
  never going to go away. We've heard that from basketball
• 1:02:44
  players webbing Yama. I've been saying he's young.
• 1:02:46
  Zach Wheeler is what, 3334 years old?
• 1:02:48
  He's at the tail end of his career.
• 1:02:50
  He already says that he wants to live out his contract, and after
• 1:02:53
  his contract's out, he's probably not going to extend.
• 1:02:56
  He wants to retire. So that's the scariest one out
• 1:02:59
  of all of them. The other injuries are
• 1:03:01
  significant. The Groms always hurt, but Zach
• 1:03:04
  Wheeler having blood clots? That's the scariest one out of
• 1:03:07
  all of them. Yeah, you definitely feel for
• 1:03:08
  somebody like that to a guy that's been pretty after his
• 1:03:11
  Mets career, has been pretty healthy in his Philly's career
• 1:03:13
  so far. And that's definitely a scary
• 1:03:15
  thought. Obviously we saw it with Chris
• 1:03:17
  Bosh in his career when his career ended and somebody like
• 1:03:20
  Steven Stamp Coast and the NHL have not really been the same
• 1:03:23
  health wise since then. So you hope Wheeler doesn't
• 1:03:25
  accumulate for him, that kind of thing.
• 1:03:27
  As far as Alvarez, definitely a big loss.
• 1:03:29
  You starting to play a little better for the Mets, but again,
• 1:03:31
  the Mets have bigger problems than their lineup right now.
• 1:03:34
  The blood clots scary because you just don't know what that's
• 1:03:36
  going to happen. Another one that just came out
• 1:03:38
  that you didn't touch on fish was a wise ago.
• 1:03:40
  They say he has a flexor strain now.
• 1:03:42
  So we all yeah. So we all know what that leads
• 1:03:45
  to. But yeah, this time of the year
• 1:03:47
  where things start popping up, which it's obviously not a great
• 1:03:49
  time of the year, but going through it, some key pieces that
• 1:03:52
  are lost and you know, it's, I mean, it sucks being hurt and
• 1:03:56
  what happens. And you know, there's some some
• 1:03:58
  tough ones out there and we'll see if they can pick up the
• 1:04:01
  slack or some of those guys in big names.
• 1:04:02
  So find out what happens. Yeah, we will find out what
• 1:04:06
  happens. We got only about 35 games left
• 1:04:08
  in the season. We'll see what happens inside
• 1:04:12
  baseball as it plays out. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:04:15
  now it's my deuce of the day. The deuce of the day.
• 1:04:19
  You log, not a log. I don't have a log but.
• 1:04:29
  Ladies and gentlemen, the 49ers are in the tabloids again, and
• 1:04:32
  it seems like the 49ers can't control their own players as
• 1:04:36
  Kyle Shanahan suspends DeMarcus Robertson.
• 1:04:39
  Yes, they're bringing in wide receivers because they can't
• 1:04:42
  keep them. They're on the DL or whatever
• 1:04:45
  the hell they are. They trade them away.
• 1:04:46
  Debo Debo Samuels no longer with them, he's with Washington.
• 1:04:50
  Since signing wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson in March, the
• 1:04:53
  San Francisco 49ers have been bracing for him to be suspended
• 1:04:58
  for the first 3 games of the season as part of the fallout
• 1:05:02
  from the misdemeanor of DUI charge.
• 1:05:04
  On Wednesday, Niners coach Kyle Shannon revealed on KNBR Radio
• 1:05:10
  in San Francisco that Robertson has indeed been suspended for
• 1:05:15
  the next three weeks. D Rob were not going to have
• 1:05:21
  through the 1st 3 weeks, Shannon said.
• 1:05:23
  You can always appeal it, but ladies and gentlemen, there's no
• 1:05:27
  way of appealing this. He this is a guy that can't stay
• 1:05:30
  out of trouble. They bring him to the team.
• 1:05:32
  This is not the first time DeMarcus Robinson has gotten in
• 1:05:35
  trouble. He's been in the league for
• 1:05:36
  quite a few years and he still puts himself in harm's way.
• 1:05:40
  And the 49ers can't control their own players.
• 1:05:42
  They're bringing in guys from other rosters and can't control
• 1:05:46
  their players. I don't know, man, Kyle
• 1:05:48
  Shanahan's it really on the hot seat.
• 1:05:50
  I don't care what anybody says, him and John Lynch are
• 1:05:53
  absolutely on the hot seat. And all it spells to me is
• 1:05:58
  delusion. As we all know, Owen believes,
• 1:06:01
  and he's delusional about this team, that they're going to be a
• 1:06:04
  playoff team. They're not a playoff team.
• 1:06:06
  This team is going to fall flat on their face this year.
• 1:06:08
  And the 49ers can't control their own players.
• 1:06:11
  They bring Bambi out and they bring all this garbage back and
• 1:06:14
  it's never going to work. This team is done for as they're
• 1:06:18
  in a division that's going to be run by the LA Rams.
• 1:06:21
  So my deuce of the day goes to the incompetent Kyle Shanahan
• 1:06:26
  and the San Francisco 49ers. I want to apologize to all the
• 1:06:30
  fans in the beginning of the show with my Vertigo situation
• 1:06:33
  that usually never happens. It's it hasn't happened on the
• 1:06:36
  show really for 13 years. It's never happened to me
• 1:06:40
  before. I it got worse probably two
• 1:06:42
  years ago. There are days than others that
• 1:06:46
  I get it, but I don't throw up like that.
• 1:06:48
  I, my face, fucking excuse my language turned purple.
• 1:06:52
  I went to the bathroom. I did what I had to do.
• 1:06:54
  I didn't even think I was going to get through the show.
• 1:06:56
  So I want to apologize to the fans with that.
• 1:06:59
  But All in all, we got through the show.
• 1:07:01
  I don't know how I did it, but thank you to all the fans
• 1:07:03
  following us on Spotify and Apple.
• 1:07:05
  Keep following us. YouTube, Twitter or X, whatever
• 1:07:08
  you call it, TikTok, Instagram, all of them.
• 1:07:11
  Thank you to all the fans for continuing continuously.
• 1:07:15
  Keep following us and we'll be back on Monday.
• 1:07:19
  It has been one hell of a week dealing with the cable
• 1:07:23
  situation. Excuse me, the cable situation
• 1:07:26
  on Monday, but that won't happen next week.
• 1:07:29
  Thank God. There is hurricanes going on.
• 1:07:31
  Hurricane Aaron is hitting, hitting everything right now
• 1:07:35
  and, and it's just absolutely demolishing everything that it
• 1:07:39
  hits. So hopefully all the families
• 1:07:41
  out there that are dealing with the situations with the
• 1:07:43
  hurricane, hopefully everybody's taking, taking cover and taking
• 1:07:47
  care of their families. So that's a horrible story right
• 1:07:50
  now that's going on right now here in the United States.
• 1:07:52
  So hopefully all the families are are being taken care of.
• 1:07:56
  Yeah. Do we have anything on Monday?
• 1:07:58
  Yes, Nathan was able to get Lindsay Berra, who's a Yogi
• 1:08:01
  Berra granddaughter, and he's a board member.
• 1:08:04
  She's a board member on the Yogi Berra Museum now, did a lot of
• 1:08:07
  Yankees content in the past with espnandmlb.com and was the
• 1:08:11
  executive producer as well of a documentary called It Ain't Over
• 1:08:15
  about Yogi Berra. I actually watched it.
• 1:08:17
  It's a great documentary of Yogi Berra and she was actually on
• 1:08:20
  it. It was sensational.
• 1:08:22
  Anybody that hasn't checked it, It was in the movie theater.
• 1:08:25
  It was in the movie theater for like a couple of weeks, but now
• 1:08:27
  you can get it. It was on Netflix.
• 1:08:29
  I think you can get it on Netflix right now.
• 1:08:31
  It's still on Netflix. If you haven't checked it out.
• 1:08:33
  It is a great documentary. The the tale of one man that
• 1:08:37
  just absolutely dominated the catching position, not only for
• 1:08:40
  the New York Yankees, but the MLB and baseball.
• 1:08:43
  He is really the face of the catching position.
• 1:08:46
  I don't care what anybody says. He was the all around greatest
• 1:08:50
  catcher to ever play the game, power wise, defense wise and
• 1:08:53
  winning as far as I'm concerned. And and the story behind him on
• 1:08:58
  how he became a Yankee is pretty unique.
• 1:08:59
  He wanted, always wanted to be a Saint Louis Cardinal, and the
• 1:09:03
  Cardinals passed him up and then he winded up being picked up
• 1:09:06
  from St. Louis.
• 1:09:07
  And he, the Cardinals passed him up for, I think McCarver,
• 1:09:10
  McCarver. And I don't know if it was
• 1:09:13
  McCarver, but it was somebody. And he, he signed with the New
• 1:09:15
  York Yankees. And you know what happened after
• 1:09:18
  that, so. And he served his country.
• 1:09:21
  As he did. And Yogi Berra is a special.
• 1:09:23
  I never met him. I know Jabba's met him.
• 1:09:25
  I'm sure Nick has met him. I never got a chance to meet
• 1:09:28
  Yogi Berra. I met Mickey Mantle.
• 1:09:29
  I did. So that was a unique opportunity
• 1:09:33
  that I had. I also met Pete Rose, so 2 Hall
• 1:09:37
  of Famous, two of the greatest players to ever play the game.
• 1:09:38
  I met Derek Jeter and all those guys too anyways, and Java
• 1:09:41
  played with them and so did Nick.
• 1:09:42
  So that's it. So I know Lindsay, I talked to
• 1:09:45
  her too. There's some cool things that
• 1:09:48
  she's gonna do and we'll post it or whatever, but, and we can cut
• 1:09:51
  this and put it up, but yeah, they're trying to break the
• 1:09:53
  record on September 21st for the most people to ever play catch,
• 1:09:57
  you have to play catch for 5 minutes simultaneously.
• 1:10:00
  They're doing it at the museum. We'll have more information, but
• 1:10:03
  if you guys want to go and check it out and kind of what they're
• 1:10:06
  doing, it is Yogi's big catch.org and it'll give you all
• 1:10:10
  the information. You can be a fan.
• 1:10:11
  Come watch it. But yeah, really cool thing.
• 1:10:14
  And she'll explain some more to us on Monday.
• 1:10:17
  But it's a really cool thing and she is so passionate, such a
• 1:10:19
  wonderful, wonderful human being, and she's really cool.
• 1:10:23
  So that would be fun. Yeah, sounds really cool.
• 1:10:25
  And again, if you're a Yogi Berra fan and you know nothing
• 1:10:28
  about Yogi Berra and your father, user or your grandfather
• 1:10:31
  used to tell you about Yogi, well, you get a chance to know a
• 1:10:34
  little bit more about his family and his background when Lindsay
• 1:10:38
  comes on and joins us on Monday. OK, that's it, ladies and
• 1:10:41
  gentlemen. Again, I hope everybody enjoyed
• 1:10:43
  the show and we'll be back next week.
• 1:10:45
  Goodnight. It is the worldwide sports radio
• 1:10:48
  network. Radio Network.