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Maury Brown on MLB sponsorship BOOM + Toronto watch parties & hotel suites with a World Series view · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Mary Brown joining us right now, senior contributor to Forbes. Moury,
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  Speaker 1: great to have you and hope you're enjoying the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts so far?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it was a lot more competitive
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  Speaker 2: than I anticipated. I thought the Dodgers were going to
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  Speaker 2: go in and run ramsh I mostly due to pitching.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I think that it's been largely exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got a dog on series, guys. I
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  Speaker 2: think the thing that's most amazing is that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a World Series begin and end in Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and we've never seen that before. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's good. I think that it's great for the game.
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  Speaker 3: Maury.
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  Speaker 1: We enjoyed your article and tweet about the business of
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  Speaker 1: baseball and the World Series. But let's start with what
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  Speaker 1: you put out there last night. Can you explain to
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  Speaker 1: everyone how MLB sponsorship works and how much it's up
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  Speaker 1: the year and why.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the story centers on team sponsorship, right, which
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  Speaker 2: this is a little bit different than the league sponsorship.
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  Speaker 2: So if you think about this, the number I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to give you add more to it. So just for
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  Speaker 2: the clubs, for the thirty clubs, it exceeded two billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars this year, which is a substantial amount, right, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's climbed over sixty percent since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: So you ask yourself, how in the world does this happen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of business sectors that get involve financial
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  Speaker 2: as you see in the graphic right there, leads the way.
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  Speaker 2: And when talking to the folks that put this report together,
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  Speaker 2: a sponsor united about this, I asked, why is this?
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  Speaker 2: Why is baseball doing so well? Baseball is the only
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  Speaker 2: sport other than the NFL that has exceeded this two
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar threshold. So why Well, it's largely been conservative.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's you know, it's a fan sport. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's really family oriented, it's in the summer. I think
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  Speaker 2: the changes to the game have absolutely made more engagement
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  Speaker 2: and that's involved a lot more sponsors. But look, guys,
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  Speaker 2: the big driver, the biggest driver and all this is
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They have twenty Japanese sponsors this year, and
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously due to show Ao Tani, but also Yamamoto
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  Speaker 2: and Sake, So you add that together. The Dodgers have
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  Speaker 2: been the outlier that have made this extreme growth that
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  Speaker 2: we've seen over time. But I mean it's a cash cow.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's something that I think is largely underreported. We
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  Speaker 2: look a lot at television, which of course is still
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  Speaker 2: super important, but the way that baseball has continued to
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  Speaker 2: grow major League Baseball to I would assume we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get to thirteen billion dollars in gross revenues next year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when people say baseball is dying,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they really understand what that means.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, but Showhey was bad for the game when
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  Speaker 4: he signed with the Dodgers, and Yamamoto signing was bad,
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  Speaker 4: and Sazaki signing was bad, and we need a salary
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  Speaker 4: cap and we need Dodgers are bad for baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Everything you're telling me.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, they clearly there's teams that have money.
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  Speaker 4: Second of all, the Dodgers have been great for not
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  Speaker 4: only the Dodgers but for every other team. If they're
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  Speaker 4: bringing in all this money, you know, and then they
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  Speaker 4: have to give it to the Pirates, and they have
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  Speaker 4: to give it to the Rays, and they have to
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  Speaker 4: give it to the Marlins. So I don't know why
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  Speaker 4: people say baseball is dying. Viewerships up revenues are up,
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  Speaker 4: sponsorships are up. I just don't I agree with you, Moore.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand why people keep saying this other than
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  Speaker 4: to sell a narrative that's false.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, the idea that there could
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  Speaker 2: be more economic parody, Okay, I mean it's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: come with the salary cap, guys. I think that what
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna see is an attempt to have that happen.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I think that what you're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to see is tightening up of the system that we
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  Speaker 2: have now. I think that'll just continue to be happening.
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  Speaker 2: I think one thing that does come into play here
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  Speaker 2: if we don't have deferred compensation, and that really leans
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  Speaker 2: heavily into clubs like the Dodgers and the Mets, where
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  Speaker 2: they know that their revenues are going to be really
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  Speaker 2: strong over a long period of time, so that they
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  Speaker 2: don't run into a position to where you know, they're overleveraged.
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  Speaker 2: That played a large part into the Dodgers being able
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  Speaker 2: to go out and get additional talent by deferring that
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  Speaker 2: salary for Shoeotani. So you know, it's good for the
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  Speaker 2: game in the sense that right now we have star
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  Speaker 2: power in the World Series, and that's great. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that there are a lot of clubs out there that
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  Speaker 2: want to have this. But guys, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to tell fans. There's no way that a
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  Speaker 2: salary cap fixes the Pirates or the A's or the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: It will maybe help the middle class maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. It might, but even then I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think you would continue to see the usual suspects,
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  Speaker 2: the Phillies, Dodgers, Cubs, obviously you know, the Yankees, Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna see those clubs year in and year out.
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  Speaker 2: But again, if I go back to that sponsorship money
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  Speaker 2: that we're talking about, while the Dodgers are far and
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  Speaker 2: away more they have enough to basically find another club, right,
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  Speaker 2: That's how far and away they have more sponsorship money.
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  Speaker 2: Right behind them are the likes of the Yankees and
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, the clubs that you would expect to
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  Speaker 2: see a large amount of sponsorship dollars right large markets,
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  Speaker 2: big brands, historic brands. And that's why you continue to
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  Speaker 2: see that Mary, how did the Angels completely screw this up?
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  Speaker 6: Like it'd be one thing if show he was like Okay,
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  Speaker 6: he was in Milwaukee or Arley in Texas or Houston,
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  Speaker 6: and then he went to the Dodgers like, oh man,
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  Speaker 6: well you know the big market LA. He was up
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  Speaker 6: in Los Angeles, Savannaheim.
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  Speaker 5: I get it.
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  Speaker 6: But how did the you'll screw this up? And how
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  Speaker 6: if you were to guess, how much money do you
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  Speaker 6: feel like they left on the table the fact that
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  Speaker 6: essentially a Dodgers are bringing in enough money right now
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  Speaker 6: to cover his salary plus some based on the fact
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  Speaker 6: that they had showhey for the last seven or for
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  Speaker 6: seven years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I can speculate. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think this has to do terribly much with you know,
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  Speaker 2: the competency of the people around the sponsorship side. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers have always tied in tightly in the Pacific
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  Speaker 2: rim just as a general rule, and they just have
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  Speaker 2: I think an incredible amount of gravity given the name
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  Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. You know, I think Artie Moreno is a
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  Speaker 2: very hands on owner. I think that that has not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily played out well for the club, whether it's them
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  Speaker 2: trying to get a new ballpark or whether obviously the
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  Speaker 2: situation that we have going now with care and the
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  Speaker 2: situation with Skags and that whole scandal that's going on
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  Speaker 2: around a drug overdose, and I don't know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I would say that if you're gonna say screw it up.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it's largely around the flexibility that the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers created with this deal, and they just have this
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  Speaker 2: incredible amount I think of I'll say it again gravity,
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  Speaker 2: They just they just have turned into the Yankees. And
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  Speaker 2: for those obviously old enough to remember, I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was like the Yankees just seem to have owned the universe, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Red Sox were right there. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers are that team now, and they're smart. I
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  Speaker 2: just you know, Stan Kas and everybody at the top
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  Speaker 2: is not dumb. Everybody thought that when Mark Walter and
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  Speaker 2: Gougenheim Partners went out and purchased the Dodgers for what
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  Speaker 2: they did, that they over they spent too much. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, guys, and they're making so much
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  Speaker 2: money right now they're gonna make you know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: they'll make probably over the next couple two or three years.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they could approach five hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in sponsorship money. I mean that idea that the the
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  Speaker 2: Otani contract was somehow bad, just did not look at
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  Speaker 2: how the business side of sports works and how the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers have parlayed that into you know, obviously even more money.
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  Speaker 2: Let's think about this when we talk about a salary cap.
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  Speaker 2: If the Dodgers are making this much money now in
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  Speaker 2: an uncapped system, how much money are they going to
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  Speaker 2: be making in a cap system? And I think a
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  Speaker 2: cap system really just really lends itself to the owners
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  Speaker 2: right to make more money. Otherwise they wouldn't push so
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  Speaker 2: hard for it.
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  Speaker 1: support the show way way more. On a cap system,
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  Speaker 1: they would be profiting like crazy, and then what would happen, Maury?
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  Speaker 1: If you're Japanese player, you would say, Okay, money's going
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  Speaker 1: to be about the same because now my salary is suppressed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely signing with Dodgers every time because my marketing
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  Speaker 1: money is going to be one hundred x if I
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  Speaker 1: sign with them.
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  Speaker 3: And that's my question.
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  Speaker 1: Even under the current system, for fans that don't care
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  Speaker 1: how much money the teams, the league, even the players
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  Speaker 1: are making, they might want to know, how do we
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  Speaker 1: prevent the Dodgers from signing the top talent really in Asia,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely in Japan. Right, So, for example, this past offseason,
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  Speaker 1: they bring over Kim and then of course they get
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  Speaker 1: Roki Sasaki. Any team could have afforded him. Based on
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying right now, is there any pathway for
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  Speaker 1: fans of other teams to try and recruit Japanese players?
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  Speaker 1: If someone like Roki Sazaki can sign with any team
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  Speaker 1: for the same amount of money, Like fans want to know,
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  Speaker 1: how do we stop that as Roki is now the
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  Speaker 1: closer for LA during this run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you can. And the reason I
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  Speaker 2: say that is it's not like other sports don't have
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  Speaker 2: this problem. You know, you just cannot create a holy
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  Speaker 2: socialist system where everybody's going to be on an even
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  Speaker 2: playing field. I mean, Otani pulls in about I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, pulled in one hundred and twenty five million
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  Speaker 2: dollars in individual endorsement money. A lot of that is,
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  Speaker 2: of course, his star power, but the fact that he's
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles and guys, we've seen this across all sports, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe the NFL to a lesser extent where
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  Speaker 2: a skill player can really move the needle quickly, but
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  Speaker 2: you're always going to see players go to larger markets.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it makes for easier sponsorship deals.
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  Speaker 2: Now that said, cal Ralely has the most sponsorship deals
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  Speaker 2: out of any player right now in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I believe he's at seventeen now. His money's not approaching
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  Speaker 2: what Shoi Otani is. But I mean the opportunities are
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  Speaker 2: there and so on an individual level, as you'd say
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  Speaker 2: him in Seattle, which you know isn't a tiny market,
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  Speaker 2: but it isn't large mindy, you know, stretching the imagination.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there are opportunities there globally to do that,
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  Speaker 2: but there will always be I think those larger markets,
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  Speaker 2: the New York's. I think New York in some senses
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  Speaker 2: actually hinders itself due to the media pressure. Right. You
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  Speaker 2: just don't get that on the West Coast. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot mellower as somebody that lives out here. You
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  Speaker 2: just don't see people living and dying that much by it.
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  Speaker 2: And there's not that much scrutiny. I mean, it's their scrutiny,
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  Speaker 2: but not on the level that you would see if
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  Speaker 2: you were at the Yankees. And I think that that
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  Speaker 2: actually lends itself to some players wanting to go to
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  Speaker 2: the likes of the Dodgers, right so again, I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you can say, hey, if we put
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  Speaker 2: a salary cap system in, suddenly Pittsburgh is that much
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  Speaker 2: more attractive. I think that the problem for the Pittsburghs
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  Speaker 2: and any well soon to be Las Vegas or Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay is that they're pocketing revenue sharing money instead of
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  Speaker 2: trying to be more competitive. And you can be more competitive.
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  Speaker 2: Clubs absolutely have windows. Now as we saw the Brewers,
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  Speaker 2: the Guardians right, which were in the bottom, you know,
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  Speaker 2: third and some of them, right, I think the Guardians,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're twenty five by payroll rank. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can get in, and you know, if we expand
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs even further, you know, certainly with expansion there's
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  Speaker 2: talk about adding another couple of teams. I know that
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  Speaker 2: the owners try to get that the last round of
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  Speaker 2: collective bargaining. Okay, now you can get your foot in
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  Speaker 2: the door, and then then it becomes a question of
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  Speaker 2: well is their hope then, and for me, that should
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  Speaker 2: be a good sign. Get yourself in. That increases season
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  Speaker 2: ticket sales the next year, you know, and in a
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  Speaker 2: wild card series, guys, you know this, there's so much
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  Speaker 2: chaos if you line up right with your front end starter.
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  Speaker 2: Anything can happen. I mean, you can see big club
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  Speaker 2: get knockoff just as easily as low small markets.
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  Speaker 4: Mariy, you kind of hit on this a little bit
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  Speaker 4: with cal Rawley. But who are the players other than
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  Speaker 4: show Hey that are getting some deals off the field.
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  Speaker 5: I know cal Rawley is a big one.
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  Speaker 4: You see starting to see schemes a little bit out
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  Speaker 4: there with the Tea mobile and he does the raising canes.
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  Speaker 4: It plays like I swear every commercial break it's Paul
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  Speaker 4: Skeins eating a chicken finger, right. I know there's an
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  Speaker 4: LSU connection there with him. Julio Rodriguez is the Team
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  Speaker 4: Mobile and Adidas guy. But who are some of the
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  Speaker 4: other guys out there that are really making big strides
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  Speaker 4: off the field besides Shohey. Obviously show Hay is on
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  Speaker 4: a different level. But who are the other guys that
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  Speaker 4: really are doing things that are special.
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly Aaron Judge, I'm sure is doing more than well. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor, you know you're gonna see guys that you
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  Speaker 2: would expect again here we go, Right, most of these guys,
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of the two Mariner players that you
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  Speaker 2: see listed here, by total volume of sponsorship deals. They're
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  Speaker 2: in larger markets, right, and that would be something that
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  Speaker 2: you would probably expect. They're going to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: more media spotlight. It's surprising to me the number there
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  Speaker 2: that we look at justin Turner, right, and I know
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  Speaker 2: it is always surprising and he is always there. But
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  Speaker 2: again I think that the question becomes then, right, like
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  Speaker 2: how how many deals you know, as opposed to the amounts,
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  Speaker 2: and the amounts are always kind of hard to suss out.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, I think that the Players Association
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  Speaker 2: has done a better job of trying to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and you know, have that happen certainly. I mean, guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know this. The agencies are the ones that really
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  Speaker 2: I think helped us a lot. And if you again
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  Speaker 2: you go look at cal Raley, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's a bores client. So you start to get into
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, that's stuff really largely plays out. And
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  Speaker 2: again I think that ball is moving in a positive direction, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for all of the pain and suffering that
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  Speaker 2: Rob Manfred went through with the implementation of the pitch
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  Speaker 2: clock and the rule changes, once we've gotten past that,
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  Speaker 2: it is a lot crisper and it is pulling in
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  Speaker 2: I think more fringe fans that are then becoming you know,
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  Speaker 2: your core hardcore fans. That's that's what you want. So
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  Speaker 2: attendance was pretty much flat. Television was up, you know again,
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  Speaker 2: Sponsorship money's up. Some of that, of course, is gonna
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  Speaker 2: ebb and flow, depending upon competitiveness. It never hurts, obviously
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  Speaker 2: to have the Dodgers or the Yankees or the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox involved in it. But we're starting again to
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  Speaker 2: see you know, Seattle. You know, I don't think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to squander this opportunity this time. Guys. I think
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  Speaker 2: they did when they made the wild card last time.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they felt that maybe they weren't on
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  Speaker 2: the development path, and fully there I would expect them
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  Speaker 2: to try and really continue to move forward and stay
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  Speaker 2: in this window. So I think you're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to see the likes of you know, Julio, you know again,
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  Speaker 2: cal Raley, if he continues to have that season that
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  Speaker 2: he had again, which of course was extraordinary in and
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  Speaker 2: of itself, whether he's able to repeat it now, I
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  Speaker 2: think he becomes more of a household name, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: look for guys like that.
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  Speaker 6: Cal Rally is actually with Excel Sports, not with boris.
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  Speaker 6: Just to just to clarify, but yeah, where does baseball?
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  Speaker 6: Where does baseball screw this up? Where compared to the
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  Speaker 6: other sports because of how monstrous the NFL is, but
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  Speaker 6: all the players have masks on, you know, the NBA,
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  Speaker 6: there's just less players. Where does baseball? Where can baseball
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  Speaker 6: grow compared to the other sports from a sponsorship standpoint
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  Speaker 6: for each individual player?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the difficulty is baseball's Does you know
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  Speaker 2: if I if I and this actually happened, right, I
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  Speaker 2: take Lebron James and he's in Cleveland, I take him
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  Speaker 2: to Miami and they win a championship. I have him
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  Speaker 2: go back to Cleveland and they win a championship. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that star player is able to be on the screen
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: for the duration of a game, right, and they just
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: have a lot more visibility. Of course, you know, if
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you're on the offensive side in baseball, you're up what
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: every inning and a half, maybe every fourth day if
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you're a a front end pitcher. So I think that's
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: been the problem that we haven't leaned into stars. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: of course you guys mentioned the Angels. I mean here
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: they had Mike Trout, they had show a Toni and
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: they couldn't make the postseason. So you know, their ability
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: to get stars elevated is has largely been I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the issue, and that, of course, you know, centers around
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: again the game's design. You just have to be built
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: with the oster that's solid from front to back, one
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: through nine. You just have to have that, whereas a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: skill player in basketball or football can really move the needle.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I guess the only other thing, and I don't know
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: how we do this, guys, We're starting to see more
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and more of it. But you know, in basketball and football,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: college is the theater system, and that gives a lot
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: of players additional visibility through television. Baseball doesn't have that
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: for the most part. Right, we have the College World
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Series and that's pretty much it, you know, So the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: ability to get star players' names as more household is
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: really going to be largely about opportunity. So again, you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I think that it's great that we see, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: somebody like Skiings and the Pirates, right, I mean, you're
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: starting to see the ability of some of these smaller
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: markets where the clubs haven't performed well. Him being involved
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: with Team Mobile obviously, Francisco Lindor. You know, you get
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: guys like that. But again, I think that it really
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: is going to boil down to trying to be competitive
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and being able to be competitive for enough time to
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: become household names for the clubs. It's a lot easier, guys.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's brands. Baseball leads heavily into brands,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: where the other sports I think leading into stars. We've had.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: We've been very fortunate the last couple of years, certainly
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: last year with New York and LA where we had Judge,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and we had in certainly Stanton, and we've had shoey
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Otani and the star power there. You know, you just
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: hope that that continues to happen. It's not going to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: always happen. That would be bad of course for parody
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: in general. But again, the ability to elevate stars on
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: television is going to drive those sponsorship deals for those players.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Well, that's always been one of Baseball's week links, is
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: trying to develop stars. Mike Trout for years, people complain,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: even Aaron Judge, as big as he is, he's out
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: there a little bit, but he's not. We still have
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Ken Griffey Junior running one of the biggest ad campaigns
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: for a big company like Nike, and he's been retired
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: for almost twenty years now, so that's always been kind
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: of one of baseball's big misses and it's a mystery
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: why they can't figure it out. And I hope they
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: do at some point, because I think baseball has a
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: great personality's great stars, and even show hey, I mean
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: as much as you want show, he is definitely bigger
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: in Japan as far. I mean, yes, he has his
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: things obviously in America, but in Japan. I want to
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: talk about some melse somewhere before we let you go,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: because I tweeted about this during the eighteenth inning game
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and it was about the music, and I work for Fox,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: so obviously I get to I kind of on the inside.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: You talked about the music they use, and we always
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: when we're we don't know what's coming in our ears
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: when it goes to a break. So when I'm doing
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: a game, it's always like, oh man, we went this song,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: we went this song, and it's such an awesome thing
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: that in like, especially when I do games with Adam Ameen,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: because we're kind of he's more of a music you know, junkie,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: nerdy kind of person knows more songs than I do.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: But every once in a while he'd be like, Oh,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: that's such a cool song from someone I never heard
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: of or something. Right, So this article you wrote, how
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: did it come about? And more importantly, like, how do
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: they pick the song? Because honestly, I know they have
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: to have license, but I don't really know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have always wondered about this. The jump music
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: that we when we go to commercial is always something
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: that I've wondered about, and so I did. I reached
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: out to Fox Sports. I was like, hey, you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: can I talk to the guy that does this? So
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they put me in touch with Joe Carpenter, who does
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the World Series this year. And so to your first point, Aja,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it is absolutely all that all of it is licensed, right,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So he has a menu of a few dozen song
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: clips and he does it largely on the fly. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: now the stuff where we're rolling with graphics like pregame,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that stuff will be worked out in advance, and maybe
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: on occasion there might be some kind of you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: promotion deal where that maybe a label's doing that they
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: might try and work something, and but for the most
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: part it is completely art. You know, it is personal
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and it's largely driven by the moment. So Joe, the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: guy that does the World series, he's a big jam
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: band guy. So this is what struck me. I'm like,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: am I hearing Shakedown Street by the Grateful Dead? How
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: does how does this play in? And you go, well,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: shakedown Street? You know something that's going on with the game, uh,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you know. And in the eighteen inning one, the one
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that I think that was the most hilarious was the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow from and Yes, that's that's
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: exactly the one I twitted about.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, because they played Tomorrow and I was like, whoever's
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: picking the music for Fox is crushing it because they
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: had all these songs and then when they when it
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: got to midnight, they were like Tomorrow and I was like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: this is amazing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I love this.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had I think All Night Long by Lionel Richie.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: But he's you know, he said Jerry Joseph Widespread Panic,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: rival Sons, but there was Aerosmith and Ozzie he would
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: he is doing off an awful lot around obviously the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: markets that are there. So we saw some LA artists,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the big one that I remember and you just couldn't avoid.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It was when they were playing in Toronto and of
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: course the beginning of Tom Sawyer by Rush, it was
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: just two perfect Rush Canada Getty Lee behind home plate.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So as I did it because I'm a musician, you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: that's kind of my side thing. And I've always wondered
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: about that, right, like how does this happen? And so
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: now it's like these easter eggs with every single happening
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: when you're wondering when the team's coming up, what are
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: we going into. The one that was kind of brutal
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: at the time, but Joe explained this to me was
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in the Alcs and the Mariners are down to their
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: last happening, right and they played a live by Pearl
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: jam and I'm like, how are they alive? Well, He's like, well,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it means, you know, this is it. They can be
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: alive if they do it here. So you know, there's
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: all these little tie ins, you know, some of them.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I think he knows more personally than others. But yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I think it's a lot of fun. I think that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: it makes it more interesting now for fans to listen
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to this stuff and try and figure out how it
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: all ties in again. It just is one more thing
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to engage fans with the game.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Well morey, I love the kind of stories you put together. Genuinely,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: it's right up our alley for our fans, for us,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: So thanks for putting all of that together. Obviously, keep
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: doing your thing. Thanks for joining us on short notice too.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We saw you put that out there. We're like, oh,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: we gotta get more on World Series time, let's talk fits.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: So appreciate you joining us. Thanks Maury, great talking to.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: You, you bet guys. You have a great day. Take care.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Loves that hat too, jealous? Yeah, what is that the
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: chiawas what is that? Real?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Quick?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: What is that hat? No?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So this is the This would be the Hispanic hat
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: for the Hillsboro Hops, so yeah, minor league hat. So yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: it's it's you know, I love it when they do.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: You know how, I don't know how the hills and
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Pro Hops have a wolf howling, but I guess.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a wolf, So yeah, I think it's great.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is you know, we don't have time
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: for this, but man, we could go miles on merchandising
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: and how the game has made money that way. That's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: another big way, of course, on the minor league glevel
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Always have the best to All right, well, then Maury
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: will book in December when when we can definitely use
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the content.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you then. Okay, cheers, all right, guys,
• 26:28
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• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Whoa World Series upgrade for Hot Corner. I like it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You can upgrade your seat too in Toronto if you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: would like to be in one of those suites.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Bill Shakin wrote about it. You guys know about it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: So I wouldn't do this because it seats like how many.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: People in Toronto? By the way, shake it sleeps.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Five people, right?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, so if it's.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Sixty three hundred, that's like fourteen hundred dollars a person, ish, right,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: A seat at Toronto in game six and seven is
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: probably going to be around that. And in a hotel
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: you can get room service. You ain't got no lines,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: you got your own restroom. And does have pretty good
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: views of this of the field.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I say.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It's not like far out. I mean, what's the comparison.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say Wrigly, But that's not that far
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: out either. It's pretty clear.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: These are always like built into the ballpark.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: These are on the field. I trust you. We used
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: to stay there, and we guys used to get these suites. Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: and you used to go in there and look down.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: It's pretty awesome.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: It's cool, and it's so he said during the World Series.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: The nightly rate for these rooms starts at three nine
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: There's a view from someone who doesn't know how to
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: hold their camera, but.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: They were trying to catch the ball.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Oh job, about twenty eight fifty and US dollars.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: That's but that's regular season.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And here during the World Series.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's only four thousand dollars. Said the one I
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: saw was sixty three hundred. I thought four thousand dollars
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: or five five people can sleep in there, dude, let's
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: see a fight.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: We can fly Toronto. Oh that's us.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: It's close to three thousand.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Oh wow, sign us up, Mark, Let's go get our flights.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Let's do it FT live from the Rogersoner Hotel. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: get the room. You guys sleep on the floor screen
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: in the bed. Okay, perfect.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: You know where I would have actually liked to watch
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: the game from. I don't know how well the view
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: would be from the c N Tower if the roof
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: is open.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: With the p.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know, because I've been catching.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I've been catching, and they have those people that walk
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: around the outside of that thing, and I've been looking
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: up there and I'm like, man, I mean I can
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: see the people.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: With binoculars, you can see the game.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: I'm sure, yeah, sure. Question was always that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: We always asked this when we looked up at the
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: sea and tower if it fell, which way do you
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: run if it's falling on the sky like if it ever.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Got I mean, hopefully never happened, God forbid it, we all,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: but you know that was always our course. Just during
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: the game. We don't, I don't, we don't.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: When the roof was over, we looked up there and
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: be like, if that thing starts falling, do you run
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: to the outfield or do you run under the tunnel?
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Like? Which way do you go?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Because it's right there, like the Rogers Center and then
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: the sea in towers like right here and it and
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: there's people up there on the doing the skywalk thing.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I stand completely still because it's going to fall somewhere else.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Not right, I take the pitch right down the middle.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But for people that want to know, like oh and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I see you know kershan o'tani to chatting.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: And the doves, we talk about everything.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You think they're just talking about the next day b sometimes,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: but most of the.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Time we're talking about ever anything and everything.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: You can think about everything anything in I would always
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: every stadium especially maybe think of it as city field.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: What if a plane came into the field. You see
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: it coming, which way do you go? Do you go
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: back deeper into the stadium so that you're in a bunker.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Do you run out onto the field and hope it
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: hits the bleachers? It's the thought process got a lot
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: of time.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: I hate to be some morbid, but yeah, it's just
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: what we talk about. We talk about all kinds of
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: crazy stuff.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Mm hm.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: A couple other details. There's fifty five of those rooms.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: We're not getting paid to promote this, we're just telling
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you about it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: And the earlier hopefully they've renovated since last time I
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: was there, it was a while they were.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I think they have.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I think there are two stories too. I thought there
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: some of them were two stories you could even have.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: That's not all of them.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Not all of them were though. I thought those are.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: There are options. There's suites and then there's just regular rooms.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: And they when I played there in fourteen, that's the
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: only time I ever stayed there, they were like the
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: basic place. I mean, it was a sliding door closet,
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: a bathroom, a bed and some carpet, and they were
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: they were pretty bad.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Bruh.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: In March, that was what we showed you the clip
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: of someone getting a baseball from Colton Kazer chuck them
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: at baseball. We also have a little clip of some
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: people enjoying their suite.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: So six the Jays are on the road for three games.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: The Rogers Center is hosting watch parties on their video
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: board for people to come into the stadium and watch
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: them play, pretty similar to coming here for a regular game.
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: You're just watching it on the video board round and
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: seeing the players actually play.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Here's the most important things.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: Fifteen dollars. They all go through Day's care and every
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: ticket holder gets a free small pop pornt two, so
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: we're getting a lot of value and a lot of
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: great vibes.
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: It truly feels like a real game day here. All
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: the concessions are open, they got them, merch them. You
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: can grab a Glizzie and sit in your seat and
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: all that for fifteen bucks, which is not something you
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: can really ever do in the Rodgers Hunter.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: It's amazing, but tickets are affordable, so all the real
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: fans are here.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: This is the best watch party it's been to way
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: better than a sports bar.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: It's been amazing.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: It's been so fun.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: The energy is absolutely electric.
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: We've done like GA tickets, we've done some of the
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: club house tickets, so the atmosphere here it's pretty comparable.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: That's really cool. And I butchered hot to see the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: intro there. We're talking about the watch parties. We moved
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on from the suites.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fun. I mean they're not the only ones that.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Do it, but no, but does they do it? Really?
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of more people than normally are at those things.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: And fifteen dollars for ticket and a popcorn that's pretty good.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: And then you get to hang out with all the
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: people and then celebrate when they win, especially when they
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: win it's got to be all an eighteen any game.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: But think about it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: What so the Blue Jays by doing this, Yes, they
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: get the money and all that money goes to jay'scare,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: but they still get the concessions, they still get the
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: the merch that people are buying because everyone's going to
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: buy a T shirt or jersey or whatever it is.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: This is super smart, but for the fan experience, I
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: mean most ballparks have tours, and it's at least that price,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: if not more.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: So.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: You think they actually you think they have the Jays
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: girls that are singing Let's go Blue Let's.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: They have everybody there in the stadium, right. You saw
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: them dancing on the dugout with.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: What You've got a homer Jay, You got a jingle
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: that one every one wins. Okay, Blue Jays, Let's play ball.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Sounds like someone that's heard that a few times.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I heard that song a lot of times.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: What's isn't It isn't the mascot's name Jay, the Blue
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Jay is his name Jay.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: In rookie in rookie ball, because they have Jay in
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: the big leagues and rookie ball. We had I don't
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: even know the appropriate word to say, but in medicine
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Hat we had Blue Jay's uniforms. We were the medicine
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Hat Blue Jays, and so we had old uniforms. I
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: wore David Wells's uniform and they had J. Jay was
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: a much shorter person but the same size head as
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: j the mascot.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I don't know what the.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Junior Jay, little j he was literally.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: You buried the lead the point of that whole story
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: was besides that, you were David Wells's uniform? Like how
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: fat were you? Just fit?
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: What fits? Extra extra? You just put some extra loops
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: in your belt.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Uniform has been through it.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Oh hey, one of how old was that uniform? Because
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: David Wells was not exactly on the Blue Jays recently?
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: No, I mean I didn't I put there. Sure wasn't
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Vernon Wells.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: I'm positive because it was the only pair of pants
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: that fit in my butt.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: When did David Wells play for the Blue Jay? Oh
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: so it's like three years old? Okay, that's fair.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last part here to go back to this sweets
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for a moment. It's a question that does get asked.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: Ace.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Ace is his name? Dang it, it's not Jay, it's Ace.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Thank you pro Dominico now and.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: A dang it.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Last part here.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: If you're watching from the Sweets and there's funny business,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Apparently they have curtains where they can close it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Really, that's what I've heard.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Because otherwise things can get messy. Really, that's what I heard, right,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: But do you have you heard that too? Kratz that they.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Have never heard that part?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Now that they can block out.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Now, we'll think about it. It makes sense in today's world.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a dark scenario.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: So, yes, you don't even have to go there. Yes,
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: but I'm.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Saying, like behind home plate you can do promos. There
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: are big businesses that can do promos themselves that would
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: be questionable for.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: The audience, so they can just go. Now, you don't
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: get to watch.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Inappropriate okay, Blue Jays, don't look up at the hotel.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: So that was our little fun sag on some perks
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: of what you can do up in Toronto, whether you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: want to watch the game or a watch party.