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Should Richard Sherman Lose Amazon Prime Gig · Sports Exchange

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Happy one day everybody. Second half of our South Florida Tribune Broadcasting Network doubleheader,
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we had to reel and the rear we promoted a couple of books on
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there, and now we're gonna go out there and talk about some real sports.
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But I want to welcome JB. Ellis. This guy has been out
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for the last four weeks. We've managed just fine without you, but we
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managed a whole lot better with you. Mister Ellis, Welcome back to the
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big show. You what's going on? Everybody? You get everywhere Indianapolis,
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been to Vegas, where else you've been? Ellis enough. It was a
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long blunth I'm feeling the effects of it. I missed last night Silline Sports
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had a fever or was it feeling too well? I slept most of the
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day today. You know, I figured let's be tough it out here.
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One show for the week. I think I can handle, you know,
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but Opitality was a rough month. Well let me tell you something. When
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you're out in Las Vegas and you have to deal with a show with anybody
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that's not King of the Hill, and in my opinion, they can go
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out there and say way downtown bang Okay, and that's what we had to
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do with But you know what, like every professional in this industry, as
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Ernie Harwell would say, well we're back together. We are love gone okay,
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So there we go. So not king of the hill, but long
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gone in the eyes of the bet loved Ernie Harwell. So davey Ellis,
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welcome back to where you okay. And the guy that didn't get time off
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for good or bad behavior is a guy by the name of Jacob Christner pundits
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on it, but not tonight. He's at us far take change, JB.
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We missed you saying listen, you missed that a lot. Gotta listen,
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it's important. Good have you back, buddy. Now. I was
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doing my best to try to impersonate you. Ls is what I was doing,
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and I was getting some pretty good feedback there. I got that old
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voice where you know, we could go out there and immitake j B.
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Ellis to get that old you know, it's like COVID nineteen a long time
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ago, if you weren't there to get the cardboard cutouts whatever, But nothing
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like listen, listen, and after all, I'm wearing the army shirt.
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You know why because it said be all you can be and that's what we
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do on this shows and laughing out least mister Sports and Shane, we go
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back a long time towards that car. Yeah, a long time ago,
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and welcome back, JB. Good to see you again, Jacob and Scott.
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Looking forward to the night show. Well show it should. Richard Sherman
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loses Amazon Prime gig and that's what we're gonna lead off with it tonight.
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moment. So with that said, Richard Sherman restaurants suspicion of DUI should Amazon
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Prime retain his service at mister ellis, you get first crack at it since
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your back. So I'll be honest with you yea. Honestly, everyone should
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lose their gig because I don't have one yet. I mean the pecking order
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should be jb Ellis and then move on down the list, you know,
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and then from there we can really decide. So that's the way I look
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at it. And I don't really want to work for Amazon. I'm not
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a fan. I'd rather, you know, maybe CBS or Fox. I
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don't want to do ESPN too cliche, Ralph, what's going on? Man?
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But listen, I don't know this whole thing about people losing their job
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for stuff outside of work. I'm not on it. Listen, you do
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what you do as long as it doesn't affect me. I'm okay with it.
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I'm not okay with what he did, But who cares. He's working
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to talk about football. We watching him for any other reason? Is he
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going to teach me about how to be a good human? I'm not watching
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Richard Sherman for that, watching for him to talk about football. Besides for
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that, there's probably nothing else I really want to talk to Richard Sherman about.
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You know, he's not asking him for, you know, recipes for
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cakes. I'll call Buddy for that. I'm not gonna ask him for betting
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advice. I'll call Raphael. You know, I'm not gonna ask him what
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the weather like is like in South Florida. I'll call you, Scott.
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I'm not asking about Detroit. I got George for that. So I mean,
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he's gonna tell me about football. He knows football. Man's a smart
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guy. That's it. You know, people take too much stock in this
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hole. You know what happens off outside of the workplace and everything that's up
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to the bosses and all that. I could care less. It's not my
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place to say, all right, Jacob, this is three d UIs.
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I'm not gonna I'm gonna be with jab and I'm not gonna say lose the
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job. But please, let's start getting an idea of what this guy's problem
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is. And especially with alcohol, one should be enough one and it's like
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you get yourself an issue. You have an issue that and plus the fact
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we have Uber I was an Uber driver five and a half years. We're
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out there all the time. Why do you continue to think that you need
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to drink and go home drive yourself. I'm not gonna say lose his job.
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He knows how to he knows football, he knows the talk. He
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can do all this, but quit being stupid with drinking. You can go
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get uber, you can drink it home, but you're you're a day teenager.
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You're act like a teenager. It's like, I'm gonna keep doing this.
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I don't care what kind of sickness you might have with alcoholism, but
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do it somewhere else, because eventually, regards of what we say, they're
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gonna they're gonna make a decision anyway. George, Yeah, this is a
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tough one for me because he's a public figure. He's in the public eye,
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he's a former athlete, he's a big supporter of the national pastime,
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the National Football League is he has to be judged, probably the same as
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anybody else would be judged, even though he is on a bigger platform,
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meaning Amazon in the NFL network. I think he should have at least a
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suspension involved in this. But again I'm not the judge in this situation or
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the jury. But no, he has been he has been warned, he
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has faced charges before, and if you're in violation of those charges, then
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you have committed another crime. That being said, I still think Amazon Prime
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would be wise to suspend him. But I don't know what will happen or
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not, but I think he should serve some time away from the TV,
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away from the NFL for a little bit, at least for what he did.
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I'll put Candy at least comments up and I'll rereadom Verbatim. Okay,
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first of all, sermon in twenty two pleading guilty and to mis demeanor charges
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stemming from drunk and driving and domestic disturbance the year before, he also admitted
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to a criminal infraction of speeding and a roadway constructions on serious stuff. What
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does his contract say? You know what, I'll tell you what. When
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it comes to alcohol driving, I don't like it. Many years ago,
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when I used to go to concerts, have a lot of my friends and
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family wanted to go ahead and drink. At the Palace Oliver and Helse,
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I was a designated driver. So all I'm going to say is to me,
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I think there should be some disciplinary action taken. After all, you're
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putting yourself in a front of a lot of people. You have to show
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at least a decent example of you just can't do DUIs you can't Scott?
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Yeah, No, I think bad example it's a bad look show. No,
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I agree with you completely on that, But at the same time,
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you know there's obviously a reason for it. As Jacob said, just throwing
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them away at saying you're fired. You know that may actually hurt him more.
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You know, you have to kind of find the reason. It's not
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the employer's job to do that either. But at the same time, you
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know that may send them off a different cliff and make it worse, you
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know. And it's never good to drink a drop. There's never an excuse
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for that. But you know, again, I don't think it affects his
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work. We're not looking at him as a role model. We're looking at
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him to explain football to us. Right, well, well, I agree
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with your philosophy should explain football. The one thing that we can't lose sight
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of Joe and the rest of you guys is it depends on what Amazon and
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Amazon Time policy as towards his thort of behavior. If they're saying that it's
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a universal behavior across the board, then maybe you start off with a suspension.
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If the behavior persists, maybe the second or third offense and he's out
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of there. And those are some really great areas that we have to understand.
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But either way, you have to set a good example if you're out
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there talking to a lot of people. You know, we talked about many
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weeks ago about the validity of Chrissa Thompson, whether she used to go ahead
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and do erroneous reports that didn't exist, where she had to fake it till
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she make it, and that was a bad thing that ultimately went away.
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And I like Chris It, don't get me wrong. I have no problem
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with her, but you have to understand where credibility is amongst the audience,
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and that one went away. I like Chris it, don't get me wrong.
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And obviously she but she came out with it later, so why But
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and then that obviously set a bad example with the sideline reporters voicing out against
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her. But this is something very very very serious, Okay, drinking and
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driving. How many death do we lose? You know, We've dealt with
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some schmuck here that wanted to go out there and deal with suicide prevention.
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Okay, And I say that to a specific age group, and I say
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that when I talk about different aspects of the whole thing. But I confronted
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this particular individual saying she shouldn't apply to just a certain age group. It
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should apply to everybody. Know what I'm saying, And I'm not asking anybody
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to comments specifically on the subject. I'm going about it on my own,
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okay. So I want to make sure that people totally understand exactly what we're
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dealing with. You don't single out anything out there, okay, that you
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feel is limited to a specific kind of situation. Is what you don't do.
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You have to treat everything objective as what you do. And again,
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I want to point out that the opinions on this network are strictly of those
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individuals that are seeing them, and not of the other crew members as well.
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So I want to make sure that that perfectly understood everybody out there.
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But as far as UI is concerned, you really take it seriously. And
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not only that. If you go around the world here, a lot of
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countries take it differently and they lock up forever. So you know. So
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I guess Amazon will have to force its way into doing what they've got to
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do in terms of what company policy it. But it is a hot topic
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and it's something that if you make a mistake, ONTs fine learn from it.
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You make it two or three times, you deal with it. Anybody
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want to close it out real quick? I got what I said. Yeah,
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I'm fine. Yeah, so I'm you know, I'm not going to
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say any more about what I said. I made my opinion exactly what it
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is, and we'll move on to the next topic, and that being Steve
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Kerr, who has agreed to a two year, thirty five million contractor sentiment
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with the Warriors. He has a high He's the highest paid coach in NBA
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history. Okay, take up your thoughts. Oh, I think he absolutely
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deserves it. I mean four rings, let's see four rings and seven total
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as a player too, No, nine because of san Antonio. Nine total.
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He's he has had a very very blessed career of every which way whatsoever.
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And it's the big thing about him is the only thing that's missing,
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truly is he doesn't yet. He doesn't have his web in Yama. He
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doesn't have that, which I can see him getting later. Once there is
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no clay and there's no step and there's no all of that. I wonder
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if he'd want to be like Pop and be able to kind of teach these
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kids and be able to do something like this and build a team one more
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time. But no, absolutely he deserves this because I mean, how many
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coach, how many players coaches everything? Outside of Riley, He's right in
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that level. Riley's gonna this year's going for ring number ten between executive coach
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and player. And then you had coach with you had coach with Phil Jackson
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at eleven, and did you have all of those? So it's a rare
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breed between coach well thirteen with Jackson because of the two rings. So it's
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very rare, and congratulations to him. He'll finish his career correctly. Remember
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one thing about Kerr though, there's a point at one time where he could
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have been given the New York Knicks job, and he decided to respectfully decline
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it. And obviously that turned out to be a great career move, is
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what it did, because we all know that Phil Jackson was running things and
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now up until Tom Thibodeau went out there and had done a really good job
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in New York, he really has. But how many coaches did you go
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through that? They were all looking at the triangle offense and nobody wanted to
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be bothered with it. If Phil Jackson wanted to do the triangle Offen bad
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enough. He should have done the job himself, but he knows that he
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was devoid of talent. So well, here's another thing too with Phil Jackson.
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He did not want to go on the road. He wouldn't have minded
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going at home like been coaching Hoby. He did not want to coach on
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the road. He has those hit problems, the health problems. He didn't
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want to do that, and they weren't going to allow that. Yeah.
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But you know what, though, I'll tell you this right now, I'm
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not buying that. I'm not any guy like he's smart enough to know,
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Jacob, And I'm really not going to buy that one at all. He
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didn't want to coach the garbage talent that he had, but he had Christus
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Worzingis and who else did he bring in there? Think about it, Jacob?
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Yeah, so you know, jb Elis, you've been away for a
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long time. So it's this point in the show. Okay, I have
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to go back to something that Fred Sanford would say, are you crazy?
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Are you crazy? Yeah? I have your pick targetties. I'm not pashtaking.
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Are you crazy? Jackson didn't want to coach him soil. He brought
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everybody as former players, but Derek Fasher and all these people that could do
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it. Seriously, No, Steve Kerr made the right career choice with Golden
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State. And you know what he actually did is he took the Greg Council
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route and that took as much money as he could get in the NBA,
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like Craig Counsel did with the Cubs. So with that said, I'm going
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to transition this comment over to Jvl's who loves to do Chicago Cub stuff,
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And do you see any parallels here, JVL is between Steve Kerr and Craig
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Counsel. Absolutely not. You know, Steve Kerr, as much as I
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like him, you know I might have him seeing Alan Iris that that says,
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say a practice. He's saying Jackson Jackson. You're talking about the Royal
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Jackson. He wrote the cotails of Mark Jackson, who built that team,
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and that's what got him to these championships. And he had everything there for
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him. You know, if I gave you a million dollars today, Scott,
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it said, now you're a millionaire. You didn't earn your money.
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You became a millionaire because I handed it to you, you know. But
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with Steve Kerr as far as his coaching, we don't know how good he
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really is. He was handed the keys to the kingdom with a team that
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was prefabricated for him. Does he deserve to get paide because they keep winning?
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Good for him? You know? And Kevin Durant, who has no
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no what's the word I want to use for Kevin Durant, no pride when
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he had to go try and win a championship, you know, enjoyed everybody
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else where. As much as I dislike Lebron, at least he went out
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of his own and recruited his guys and went to a different team to try
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win a championship. And it's done it all over, you know. And
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I have no love for Lebron, and I could say that, but you
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know, Steve Kerr hasn't had any trials or tribulations to prove that he's a
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good coach. Craig Counsel, on the other head, he's one in Milwaukee.
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He took the Chicago job, makes good money, He's earned his pay.
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We'll see what he can do with Chicago. I think he'll do a
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decent job. But Steve Kerr until he does something beyond having Steph Clay and
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the rest of that core nucleus there. He's just rotted Mark Jackson's coketails.
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And you know it's a shave that former St. John's alum, Mark Jackson
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cake at a job right now, Coachick, I am so glad. Okay,
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Jacob, I'll turn you in a moment, But Joe's on to something
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here, Okay. That Mark Jackson to me that you brought his name up.
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I view him as a Rodney danger Field of coaches. He never got
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any respect for turning Steph Curry into the guard that he turned out to be.
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Remember, lots of times teams make mistakes on star players. Mark Jackson
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made sure that Steph Curry didn't get off track and didn't get derailed. So
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all Steve Kerr had to do was inherit him, don't screw it up.
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And why he never got a head coaching job. And I'll tell you why
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the Detroit Pistons never hired him is anybody's guys. He could have made them
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look respectable. So I wish and pray and I met Mark Janson one time
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though JB when I was actually when he was with the Indiana Pacers, one
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of the nicest guys you can ever meet. When I needed to talk to
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him more than that cooperative of course, what do you think? He was
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great? He was a great announcer too, and he had that gig for
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a while. But why the NBA is so darned stupid now and he doesn't
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get an out of the opportunity and pozzles my mind. But I am so
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glad Joe that you brought his name up. Yeah, I mean, don't
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get me wrong, Steve Curz got a pretty good job. But when you're
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surrounded with a lot of talent, you could do that. But people in
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Detroit realized when Sparky Anderson, you know, took over for Ralph Howell back
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in Detroit, Sparky had to make some fine tune improvements. But Ralph how
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did the dirty work for him so that Shark Anderson can win that championship.
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So you know, again, it depends on the situation for what you inherit
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and all these circumstances around it. All right, Jacob, you want to
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add something to this real quickly, JB that you're correct on that way.
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He took Mark Jackson's he took Mark Jackson's team. But remember this part.
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Doc Rivers has four precavocated the teams and won one ring. Oh, I'm
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Jacob, I agree with you. I'm not saying Steve Carr is a bad
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coach. Yeah, that's that's hard. I'm just saying you know that.
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You know, I'm not taking anything away from Steve Carr. I'm just saying
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I need to see him in a second situation or after the team is rebuilt
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for him to do it again. It's like Greg Popovich done it multiple times.
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Yeah, you can't. You can't question that he is a great coach,
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Steve Kerr. He's had this corps now since he started. Now they're
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starting to age, you know, so now we're starting to see what he
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Kenny can't do. Does he deserve it? Yeah, he's been there throughout
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the hell. He should get paid. I'm not questioning that. But you
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know, the beginning part of the six US, I can't sit here and
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give him full credit for. Yeah, but bear in mind one thing about
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that extension. Joe and George will get to you in a moment. It's
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only two years and not like it's five. So we'll find out how it
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all plays out back to the chat room, Candy, why don't you go
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ahead and put a couple of the he's out Curwell coaching US team at the
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Paris Olympics, and he said repeatedly his focus will be on coaching and not
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his unsettled contract situation. While it's settled now, so we don't have to
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worry about that. When he won his five hundred game February fifteen, he
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did so in seven hundred and Sixtyfore a game the fewest games will accomplish.
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Stammark. Well, we're gonna make a comparison between you know, Jackson,
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and we're gonna, uh, we're gonna and woman to just throw Doug Collins
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in the equation too, that he's the guy that did the dirty work for
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Phil Jackson, and Doug Collins didn't get anything, bro, He got screwed
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in seventy two and they didn't win the gold medal, So why don't we
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just put Doug Collins in the equation. And let me tell you, when
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Michael Jordan saw that Collins ended up leaving, he brought him over with Washington,
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So we might have put Doug Collins in the equation. Oh, Doug
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did get other jobs. Don't get me wrong, But Doug Collins to me
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is another underrated coach. All right, And George and I both work with
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Doug Collins, and we flip it over to George. Go ahead, Well,
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I don't have too much to add. I mean, really, I
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mean, Kurr deserves the extension, He deserves the money. He's established himself
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very very well as the architect of that team. And I know he's got
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Curry and Draymond Green and Klay Thompson and a bunch of other stars, but
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you know, he has done a remarkable job with them. I believe he's
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the fifth fastest coach in NBA history to win his five hundredth game, which
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came on February fifteenth of this year. And yeah, I'm glad that in
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the chat room that he pointed out that he's the Team USA national coach.
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I got nothing but good remarks, good good thoughts about Kerr. I do
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understand JB what you're saying. You know, if he saw him in another
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environment and another team, how would he perform? And he still may get
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that opportunity, maybe not. He might coach these last two years of his
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contract. And say, I've had enough. We don't know. But I
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do know is that he kept that team together, and especially with one of
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the troublemakers, Draymond Green, former Michigan State Spartan. You know, he's
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had some tough circumstances there too. Now they've had some up and down.
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Every team has ups and downs. But I think curR has been really good
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and I rank him pretty high up there. As far as the coaches that
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I appreciate having in the NBA, well, I'd still like to figure out
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what Mark Jackson did that was so bad that would have not enabled him to
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get another head coaching job, And for that matter, he was let go
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by the Knicks recently. So to me, there's a lot of unanswered questions
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Mark Jackson. Hopefully we'll have answers to. I want to continue to move
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on a little bit just herbing trend that I'm really not too happy about.
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I'm sure neither of you. There's the court storming fans that we're starting to
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see around college basketball. This is a problem that's really starting to get out
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of control. We talked about it a last week on punned fund It,
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where I had a parting shot Pundit views that we have. But now I'm
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going to give the entire crew and opportunity to talk about it. I take
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it stincts and it has to stop. That's all I'm gonna say about it.
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Joe Allis go from there. Listen, it's been part of the college
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tradition for years. It's the school's fault for not having security to get these
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athletes off the court asap. You're not going to stop, you know,
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these nineteen twenty twenty one year old kids when you win a huge game from
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storming the court. So the school has to do the next best thing,
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which is have a security team that's there just to get these these athletes off
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the court. It's very simple because you know, obviously you see that they've
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implemented finds. I believe the sec has ridiculous fides for when it happens in
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football and basketball. It still doesn't stop it because these kids are so excited
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that you know, when you go to these schools, you live, breathe,
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and die with these schools. We're not talking, you know, Oh,
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it's you know whenever school and whatever place. These are big institutions with
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hundreds of thousands of students and you know, the Alma maters that are huge,
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and these games are big rivalries. They've been going off for years,
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so this is like the biggest thing that they've seen and it's an exciting thing
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and they want to storm the court. It's a stupid thing. I don't
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understand why you want to do it, but it's the it's whoever the home
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team's job is to get the athletes off the court, you know, because
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you know that this is a possibility. You know this has been going on,
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so it's your job to ensure the safety of the athletes. It's playing
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it simple, Yeah, it's playing and simple. But don't tell that to
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the Duke Blue Devils and this guy get injured on the court and they're forced
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to deal with it, right, Joe. I mean, this is the
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kind of thing where you have where when a guy gets hurt. Okay,
25:06
it's another story, isn't that. As much as you want to say it's
25:08
plain and simple, the reality is when you have injuries and you have too
25:12
many people in a situation like that, it's one of those things that has
25:17
to be addressed. But I don't think anybody knows which way to do it.
25:19
Well, you know what, what does a p announcer Joe telling nobody's
25:22
allowed to come on and then you have to have more police. I mean,
25:26
it's it's obviously a disturbing trend. And now it is starting to get
25:29
more media attention because it take us Joe, They have more media attention where
25:33
these schools finally go out there and tell you have to be dealt with any
25:37
more or lesson I can characterize, well, the Washington Redskins were a great
25:40
nickname until the Indian got upset about it, right, and all of a
25:42
sudden they won't any good. But the reality was Daniel Snyder they didn't like
25:47
them, so they didn't like the Redskins. But how much you want to
25:49
bet all that? And why don't we go ahead and bring on Rafael as
25:52
Farsa and I'd like to have him talk about this one day? Okay,
25:56
how much does rathfaelle as far as they're going to go out there, But
26:00
the odds are that the Washington Redskins are going to re exist, although they
26:03
stand a better chance to reexist before the Montreal Act. Quote kidding, I
26:07
don't know what's happening in Canada, at least in Montreal, but believe it
26:11
at that, But the reality of the situation is there has to be a
26:15
meaningful resolution. And when you see a player get hurt, okay, it's
26:19
one thing we talk about fans. You don't know much alcohol they're consuming,
26:22
right, But this is what happens. If this guy they got hurt,
26:26
fort Too, is out for an extended period of time, one of your
26:30
better players, and all of a sudden, your road to the final fourge
26:33
it's a little bit more difficult, doesn't it, Joe Well, I agree.
26:36
That's why it's up to the school that's hosting the game to protect the
26:40
athletes on both sides, not just you know, the away side or the
26:42
home side. It's their responsibility to have security. You're not going to stop
26:48
the whatever five thousand to ten thousand people that are in the on campus areta
26:53
that are mostly students from storming to the court. It's not going to happen
26:57
unless you're tear gas of the kids. I don't see that happening. I
27:02
wish some cases, they are very excited about, you know, going playing
27:06
these rivalry games and winning. So the only way to stop it is okay,
27:11
the game is over. There's a security staff that handles the athletes and
27:15
gets them off the court right away. Is it the best answer? No,
27:18
But you're not going to stop it. He continues to happen unless you
27:23
want to do what New York did. If you look at the World Series
27:26
of the Playoffs from ninety five on, So remember when baseball everyone used to
27:32
storm the field after a playoff victory, you know, a series victory.
27:37
You know New York they started putting horses and you know, cops on horses,
27:41
and the whole field was surrounded with cops on horses. You want to
27:45
start doing that, you want to get crazy. It's not going to happen.
27:48
And you know in wake Forest, it's not going to happen. In
27:52
Alabama, what's going to happen is nothing, because this has been going on
27:56
for how long and unfortunately this poor kid got hurt. He hurt his knee
28:00
and it could mess up his whole career. It's not acceptable. The way
28:03
to fix it is to get them off the court. The home team is
28:07
responsible for the security. They need to get both both sets of teams,
28:11
both sets of players off the court asap. In a situation like that,
28:15
you know darn well that the conferences in the NC double aren't going to do
28:18
anything. In fact, the more I see the NC double A, they're
28:21
becoming more power less by the day with all the developments. But that'll be
28:25
for another day, in another time, all right, I'll plip it over
28:26
to shakeup. There's one big difference now then, because every we've been storming
28:33
courts doing all that stuff for years. You saw Celtics do that and all
28:36
that kind of stuff. There's one big difference now. You know what that
28:37
is, right, it's every idiot has to hold one and show the world
28:48
it's up in the air. They have to do that, and then you
28:52
want to know who gets hurt. Not just that kid Caitlin Clark. Idiot
28:56
was holding the dang thing and not serving in the elton riding a note with
29:00
the elbow. He had an old phone. That's what they had to do.
29:04
And then there's a billion of them with phones in their hand. They
29:07
can't just have it in their memory. Everybody has to see and then you
29:11
want to know what it is because they're not paying attention. People are getting
29:15
hurt because you we've had court storming, but people were using their eyes.
29:22
They were using their eyes when they were paying attention and everything like that.
29:26
And yeah, we've seen the little thing of when they won eighty four to
29:30
more than eighty four and then Bird had to run off the court before he
29:33
got killed. And they're doing all that stuff, but one hundred percent of
29:37
people, because there were no phones at the time doing that, one hundred
29:40
percent of people had their eyes where they were going. Now you have some
29:45
idiots. Everybody has to look at the stuff and they're not paying attention and
29:48
people get hurt. And that's where the problem lies when you're having this court
29:53
stormy now, is because idiots aren't paying attention. So I don't know what
29:59
they're going to the sight of something like this. But I would just love
30:03
to have to have these kids, for once in their life, just have
30:06
this in their memory banks instead of using their phone. And I have to
30:10
have the phone. I'll admit this. We all have to have the phone
30:12
now it's our lives. But just using your memory banks for once in your
30:18
lives instead of have that thing twenty four to seven. Yeah, and I'll
30:22
give you four words that describe that. Okay, you're ready for that.
30:25
Take up. Don't hold your breath right, okay, because not only you
30:30
talk about court stormy, what about what happens on the field. Anybody else
30:33
outside of George and I are alive to understand what happened to col and Stafford
30:37
when they had that band on the field. I mean, you know,
30:40
it gets dangerous whether you're on a big football field or whether you're out in
30:42
court. Either way, there's always your susceptible to injury when you have a
30:45
running back or whatever trying to run through the band looking to think, you
30:48
know where the end zone. I think when the New England Patriots were playing
30:52
the Miami Dolphins many years ago in the snowflow game, at least you can
30:56
find the end zone somewhere along the line when you got through the snow Cee
31:00
Joe Weller, here's the thing, man, you're way for four weeks.
31:03
Okay, you don't realize that you got a raging ball here on this show
31:08
who really loves and uses sports and shades that are really there. It is,
31:15
Chris Berman would say. But the amazing part about when we talk about
31:18
these specific topics is us people in the media are trying to bring him the
31:25
light. And even though we're trying to figure out there's any solutions or not,
31:29
right, are they really are, even if we're trying to make them
31:32
awareness. What have I always told you guys, it's our job to entertain
31:34
and inform, right and educate, Okay, and that's what we're supposed to
31:38
do. But who's to say that anybody's going to listen to us anyways,
31:41
It doesn't really matter unless it seems go viral with a one minute clip.
31:45
But the reality situation, this stuff has to stop, whether it's on the
31:48
court and or on the field, all right, George, Well, yeah,
31:52
it has to stop. I mean, it's gotten ridiculous. It's got
31:56
out of hand. We've seen it before in football for years, in years,
32:00
it's not as prevalent, I think, a little less prevalent in the
32:04
college football games as I remember growing up when it was much more commonplace.
32:10
But it's a dangerous act. It is dangerous and the students have to be
32:14
told that it can't not be acceptable. The acc did have immedia teleconference on
32:21
Monday, and they're definitely talking to each other, the commissioners of the various
32:27
conferences they you know, they mentioned the Big Ten and the Big Twelve,
32:31
the Big South Conference USA, a whole bunch of conferences recently were polled I
32:37
think by ESPN, and they said that this is a big priority. The
32:44
home schools responsibility for court storming and that could be subjected to fines as we
32:51
know and we've heard already. But yeah, the athletes are in danger.
32:57
I like your idea, Joe. I mean, I hope that could be
33:00
worked out that way where there's an escort. Don't forget the men in the
33:05
zebra too, the referees. The officials have to be protected as well because
33:09
there's a lots of crazy stuff going on when the call doesn't go your way.
33:14
So we haven't seen anything on this level as far as the officials getting
33:19
attacked, but it could happen. And so the security measures I think the
33:23
NBA has got, like you've got to have at least I think I was
33:28
three uniformed undercover I don't know if they're police or retired policemen escorting the officials
33:36
out of the NBA and into the court. But that's a little different.
33:39
But yeah, the conferences, everybody's got to work this out. This has
33:43
to be settled. They have to make improvements, and this craft's got to
33:47
stop, no question about it. Yeah, you know, it's a shame
33:51
though that it takes something like this. I'll remember a long time ago that
33:54
a player that gets injured here by Duke, and like jb Ellis said,
33:59
you know, you'll but doesn't become a career ender. But you know,
34:02
we have to learn from adversity. And when Dale Earnhardt was killed, NASCAR
34:07
finally woke up and decided to have the Hans device and then padded walls.
34:12
And it's unfortunately that we have to learn the hard way. We really do.
34:15
And you know, and again, like Joe's has been saying all along,
34:19
the schools have to regulate it to the best of their ability. We'll
34:22
just see if anybody can use the Duke situation and try to get behind it.
34:27
Every one of you guys are making valid points, it really are.
34:30
But unfortunately it's a situation which now because of an injury to a student.
34:36
You know, this is do need to get a lot more heightened attention than
34:39
it ever had in the past, and our responsibilities to address to that.
34:44
Well, let's talk about a nicer subject, okay man, We're going to
34:46
talk about the National Hockey League players will be allowed this spate in the twenty
34:52
twenty sixth and twenty thirty winter Olympics. All right, Joe, some thoughts.
34:57
It's it's hockey. Does anyone watch hockey? No, seriously, though
35:00
it's great. I mean, I prefer when amateurs play. I'd rather see
35:06
that than the professionals actually be the Olympics. I'm not a fan of the
35:08
Dream Team and all these different NBA guys that play for all these different countries.
35:15
Even if they beat the US, it still doesn't excite me. I
35:17
like seeing the amateurs. It's the Olympics, you know, same thing with
35:21
the NHL, and you know, I don't think it's done much to draw
35:24
viewership to the sport. So for me, I'm anti, you know,
35:30
good for them because I know that they all want to play for their country.
35:31
It's a you know, everyone, it's an honor to do it.
35:35
So I'm happy for them, but overall, I'm against the whole thing.
35:37
We're pro's playing. Okay, No, that's fair. For many many,
35:42
many years, and when we had the Olympics, you always had the you
35:46
know, and I like to refer to as basketball. The Miracle on Ice
35:51
was one of those situations which probably I'll tell you what, when you look
35:54
at the American born coaches that are winning like the John Tortorellos and all these
36:00
eight players like Patrick Kane and I know the list goes on and on.
36:04
You know, now you've seen the United States hockey grows significantly. But I'll
36:08
tell you I remember years ago, back in the seventies, a lot of
36:12
the pro college guys were way better than the world until they caught up with
36:16
us, and then we had to go to the dream team format. But
36:20
the one thing that George Ecorn and I can both say is being from the
36:23
Metro Detroit area, George, you got to tell the audience about, you
36:29
know, the Team Canada versus the Russians, and how the Summit Series and
36:34
all of those. Really you got a lot of these guys playing which really
36:37
talked about worldwide growth. A lot of our audience may not be familiar with
36:42
it if they're younger. Yeah, the yeah, what Scott's referring to.
36:46
Obviously you had the Team Canada, the Team USA, Team Russia or Soviet
36:52
Union at the time, and yeah, you had these series called the Canada
36:55
Cup and a lot of those games were played around the holidays. As I
37:01
recall, we have an advantage here in Metropolitan Detroit of being able to watch
37:07
the Windsor Ontario station because we're right across the river from Canada, so we
37:13
were able to see a lot of games that especially the Americans never saw because
37:17
of hockey in Canada reigned supreme and covered all these games. But yeah,
37:23
there was a time when it was really, really a big deal with the
37:28
international competition, and I think that's what Gary Bentman and the players are trying
37:32
to get back to. The problem is that so many of those Europeans obviously
37:37
have come over to the United States and played in the NHL or in Canada
37:42
in the NHL, so you don't have that fierce competition and rivalry among the
37:46
nationalities as you once did. But that being said, I think it's important
37:52
for the NHL to still support the Olympics and to still be able to play
37:58
there. I mean, I have been fortunate to see the Miracle on Ice.
38:01
I was one of ten thousand, eleven thousand fans. I was lucky
38:06
to have a ticket to that game, and there was no greater excitement.
38:08
There's no greater sporting event that I've ever covered or attended in my life.
38:14
Obviously, the Miracle on Ice was remarkable. We just had another anniversary of
38:19
that, so I think it's important. I do agree with what you said,
38:23
JB. Though the ideally you would like the kids that are coming up
38:29
and haven't made the pros yet to perform, But I think those days are
38:32
behind us. I don't think we're going to return to that, at least
38:36
not for this maybe in baseball for the Olympics, but in basketball and hockey
38:40
seem to be going with the professionals. And it is what it is.
38:45
But yeah, it means a lot. It means a lot to the diehard
38:47
hockey fans and to the players and coaches themselves. Well, I mean,
38:53
JVL is the point. You just made it for him anyways, if we
38:57
were able to win with our with our obviously our amateurs over the Russia.
39:02
So it is what you did. You really made Joe's point. And nowadays,
39:06
with hockey becoming more and more popular in the United States and everywhere else,
39:10
you know, below the NHL level, I can see where it would
39:14
be much better to try to go to what Joe's talking about. I really
39:17
do believe that, you know, let's keep the spirit of the competition being
39:21
what it is. But then again, you have the World Baseball Classic right
39:23
where everybody's motivated for that moment before spring training. And you're talking about the
39:30
Miami area where I live, and we just had the Caribbean Series down here
39:32
and they put thirty five thirty six thousand people in that place over in at
39:37
Loan Depop Park, so out of the spirit of the But nowadays, you
39:43
know, and if you look at the American players now at the amateur they're
39:46
much better. They really are. You got powerhouses in college hockey that can
39:52
produce them. But you know, I understand Betman's desire to support the Olympics,
39:55
but I'm with you, Joe, I would rather see the amateurs play.
40:00
The play at the amateur level is much better these days than it ever
40:04
was, So I don't think the next miracle on ice and that you'll see
40:07
will be such a miracle when you look at the much better coaching you've had
40:10
at that level, you follow what I'm saying, it won't be. You
40:14
won't catch them off guard like it did in eighty. Well that said,
40:16
Jacob, go ahead, absolutely, you know I was going to agree with
40:20
you on this. Amateurs at this point of time now like nineteen before,
40:25
for one thing, that was a perfect storm. The miracle on ice.
40:30
You had the Russians. You had the Russians who had just beaten you like
40:34
ten to three or eleven to three or something the first game around. They
40:37
were completely powerful. You know, you have the events off the Tretiak,
40:42
you have all of that kind of thing. You have all of the you
40:44
know, and then they pull him out in the second period and stuff like
40:46
that, and then you get them Night States has a chance, perfect storm,
40:50
perfect story. But here's the thing. Now we have all of these,
40:54
You've got high school players who are in such powerful in anywhere anywhere.
41:00
I mean, I'm watching my own team in my own alma mater in Quincy
41:06
High School thirty one to three, being this close to a state tournament bid,
41:12
and they've got three guys that are probably going to Division One. Never
41:14
happens. It's a forty thousand person town, doesn't happen. It's gonna start
41:19
happening and happening and happening. It doesn't seem to matter. You had Skyler
41:22
Thompson basically whose dad and I mean, who's dad's coach at Palmyra in this
41:29
little, big farm town. He's in the NFL. He was a he
41:31
would play starter in a playoff game in the NFL. Everybody's better now,
41:37
so you couldn't get the same story. But let me but to bring a
41:42
thing about this is the fact that it's just too much money to make amateurs
41:46
go there now, there's just too much. Everything is competitive. Will people
41:52
watch amateurs anymore? Well, US four watch amateurs, absolutely will the majority
41:58
I don't think so, which is unfortunate. But they want the pros,
42:01
they want the big boys, they want the names. Right, let me
42:06
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43:52
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43:54
because we're killing with baseball spring training. But before we with spring training,
44:00
let's talk about what occurred before spring training, and that was a Baseball Hall
44:05
of Fame class being announced. We know Jim Leland's going there, Adrian Beltray,
44:08
Joe Mauer, and Todd Helton. Okay, Joe, why don't you
44:13
give me your thoughts about this class? You know, I actually thought that
44:17
everyone that was picked actually deserves to be there, which is a nice feeling.
44:22
You know. I love Joe Mauer's career. He played in Minnesota,
44:25
which probably is not the most exciting place to play, and people don't realize
44:31
when you're in Minnesota who you are because a lot of people don't pay attention
44:36
to the woods. But he was a really good catcher and then became a
44:38
first basement after he got hurt. Jim Leeland was a great manager for years.
44:45
You know, he was great in Detroit, great in Pittsburgh. I
44:49
just love the guy. I wish, you know, I wish the Yankees
44:51
would have hired him, but he would be a Yankee manager. But he
44:52
probably got fired like thirty times by Steinbrunner. He seemed like that type,
44:57
you know, he'd go back at the boss. Who else was there?
45:01
I got those two. With the other two we got Adrian Beltra and Todd
45:05
Helton. I don't think you mentioned either a thing about those. Yes,
45:07
both of those guys were really good. I'm not as excited about either one
45:10
of them. Beltray had a long, illustrious, killed career, did everything
45:15
well, you know, longevity definitely played a big part of what he did,
45:21
and he was a really good player. And hel did I think I
45:23
didn't really excite me. But I can't see why he's in the Hall of
45:25
Fame. He's the phenomenal player, you know. I don't have to like
45:30
him for them to be good. I didn't like Larry Bird either, so
45:32
every one's a lot. I don't like somebody that's phenomenal. Well, you
45:37
know what's amazing, though, Joe, many years ago I was covering the
45:38
Cactus League. I had the opportunity to talk to Todd Helton, one of
45:42
the nicest guys you'll ever meet. And you got to remember, though the
45:45
thing I like about Malre and Helton is they played their entire career in one
45:47
city, so you don't see that a lot. We all know that Leland's
45:52
won everywhere he went except Colorado one year. That the you know, playing
45:57
at Chorus Field is enough to make anybody still eternal. Put that's there,
46:00
and Adrian bell Tray got in with the first ballot, So whate else right
46:04
have to say about that? All right, Jacob, I love all four
46:07
of them. It's like, as far as Todd helpon. It doesn't sound
46:09
exciting, but there are there are men and women in all sports that don't
46:15
have the excitement factor quart unquote. They're just the consistent They're just the consistency
46:21
type. They're there every day, every day, every day. Go there
46:25
and be mean and do your job and hit well and and play defense and
46:31
and you know something. They don't get a lot of the press, and
46:35
they don't get a lot of stuff, but they and I'll tell you this,
46:38
when it comes down to it, the fans love them, and they
46:42
get to that whole situation. But I will tell you this. When I'd
46:45
say about ten some odd years ago or so, I was saying them,
46:51
I was saying that the Hall of Fame was going to have to change its
46:53
mind on Clemmons and his bonds and all of them, just because you run
46:59
out of names, you run out of names, you run up people.
47:01
Then I mean, you've got to make money somehow. But so far they're
47:05
making it. They're making it work without you know, these I mean,
47:08
these guys were all time greades with or without theirs, with what not.
47:13
They're problems with the pds and all that kind of stuff. One to all
47:16
type great players. Baseball wants to make an example to stay clean and be
47:22
able to do all this. So I was thinking, you're not gonna be
47:23
able to keep this for long, but so far they are all right.
47:27
Well, I should point out, folks that everything I just spoke about here,
47:30
if you look down at the bottom at our ticker, you can also
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So everything that we have on there, you can see it, and of
47:53
course I've read it a few times. One more topic I want to get
47:57
to and that's this and this one's going to appear. What about Georgy from
48:00
the microphone part too, And that's why I've mentioned it now for the second
48:06
time, George. Before I do that, though, I'm gonna let you
48:07
go ahead and talk about these four guys, and then I'm gonna go ahead
48:10
and get to it, all right, all right, So yeah, I'm
48:15
not surprised by any one of them. Clearly, Jim Leland has a lot
48:22
of good friendships and a lot of good networking still in the game today.
48:28
He isn't a paid position for the Detroit Tigers as a consultant, and let's
48:34
face it, I mean, he loves the sport and he is passionate about
48:37
it. Taking nothing away to Cito Gaston or Lou Panela or any of the
48:42
other managers that were up on the ballot this year. I think Davey Johnson
48:45
too. They're all deserving. But Leland just had a special He's got that
48:50
special connection to the guys still playing the game, the managers, the coaches,
48:53
and the players. As far as the Helton, I think he deserved
48:59
it, you know, played his whole career, like Scott said, and
49:01
in Colorado. And there's a lot of people in the Hall of Fame that
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played on the on that in that same kind of vein. You know,
49:09
when you think about Mickey Manno, Derek Jeter, lou gerrig Uh, you
49:14
know, Mario Rivera. There are so many of them that played their whole
49:17
career with one team, and baseball writers seem to like that a lot too.
49:22
Uh. And the other two I think we're deserving to Beltray And who's
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the other one I'm missing? Well, got be maer Helton and oh yeah,
49:32
well maur Of course I got a chance to see a lot in Detroit
49:36
because he killed the Tigers with his bat and with his glove. So yeah,
49:40
those guys were all deserving. I think it's a great class for twenty
49:44
twenty four. So, uh, hats off to the four of them.
49:47
Thank you. I got you face the team eighteen times a year. You
49:51
get sick and tired of them after a while. I'm original League Baseball,
49:54
but it had made it twelve so you can incorporate and early play all year
49:59
around. Which will be for another day now. The last topic I'm gonna
50:02
mention, which will appear in less than from the microphone. Part two is
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going to be the largest streaming deals in live sports and entertainment Prime video.
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Boy, I wonder where we're going back to that one again, right,
50:15
Richard Jarman? My goodness? All right? Anyways, Thursday Night Football is
50:20
one point two billion annually mL LESS season basket. This one. I didn't
50:23
even expect to see this on there, but it's interesting. It's two hundred
50:28
and fifty million annually. Not bad brand, mel Lesson. Here's a sport
50:30
catching on. And when I saw that number, I was pleasantly surprised that
50:36
the mL UST is doing that well. And now you have YouTube TV,
50:40
which is Sunday Ticket two billion annually. That one doesn't surprise anybody. And
50:45
here's one that Denzil and Jacob should take a little prior. I don't know
50:50
where you're going with this one, but wwe raw five hundred million annually.
50:54
Don't you do something like that with the rope broadcast? I don't even know
50:59
to talk. Yeah, yeah, we talked about next week. That's for
51:01
sure five hundred million annually. So I guess the easiest way I'm gonna do
51:06
with Joe is which one surprises you and what doesn't surprise you? Joe,
51:13
So I would have thought MLS should have been a little bit more. You
51:16
know, Apple TV has done a great job supporting MLS. They were a
51:21
huge part in making the big move over the last year, bringing MESSI down
51:27
to enter Miami. So I would have thought that was a little bit more.
51:30
But they contributed with that. So I guess that's kind of why it's
51:35
like that. You know, it's not surprising to see all these different streaming
51:39
platforms paying all this money. Not a fan hate streaming, missed the old
51:45
broadcast days, wish instead of they instead of going to a streaming platform,
51:51
wish, they go for a pay per view platform where if I want to
51:53
watch the game, I could pay ten dollars, five dollars, whatever about
51:58
they decide. And if I want to watch Detroit first Cincinnati, I pressed
52:02
the buy button. I want to watch the Yankees versus the Dodgers, I
52:07
pressed the buy button. I can care less about Amazona. I don't like
52:10
watching Thursday night football. They give the bad games anyway, and I hope
52:14
they continue to be bad. WWE. I think what they're doing is genius.
52:20
Doing more streaming. I think it fits their business model and it makes
52:24
a lot of money for everybody. But yeah, I would say, you
52:29
know, probably I thought MLS would have been a bit more Yeah, Apple
52:31
TV. Okay, I guess I didn't see that on here, But maybe
52:37
I'm missing in somewhere mL as season passes that produced by Apple TV. Maybe
52:42
I'm missing Oh, yes, okay, that's why you brought it up.
52:45
Oka. I wasn't sure, So thanks for clarity on that. Okay.
52:47
With that said, well, Jeremy Jacob, go ahead. Oh the only
52:53
shock I see is I would have thought MLS would have be seems a bit
52:59
lower and up to the next year, and they're starting to build up fast.
53:04
Ww doesn't surprise me, an ounce, especially with their with their merger
53:08
with you calling it TKO, with the UFC, so all of their money's
53:13
everything's going completely different. Really, you want to know where we're gonna start
53:16
seeing more and more over the next couple of years. Women's basketball because like
53:22
like Iowa like this is the B one G tournament is bound to have one
53:28
hundred thousand tickets sold for their tournament last year. There's breaking their record of
53:35
forty seven thousand last year right there, and this is Caitland Clark effect.
53:38
But there's going to be more. You're gonna start seeing this and you watch
53:44
to the point. I bet five ten years down the road, women's basketball
53:47
gets their own They're gonna get their own streaming because of these type of things.
53:52
And you're gonna get more Caitlyn Clarks, You're gonna get more Angel Reeses,
53:54
You're gonna get more of everybody. And this is where there's gonna be
53:59
moreny around because guess what, you have plenty of men stars, male stars,
54:06
plenty out there. They're gonna be on this thing. You're gonna get
54:09
women's stars. Now, you're gonna add to the coffers with the women's stars.
54:15
You're gonna add to the coffers with like like for instance, I'm gonna
54:17
say this the shocking thing, like for Mac McClung being a two time dunk
54:22
champion, it's not just like a star do this. You're adding stars to
54:30
everything. So there's gonna be more options for the stars with women, with
54:35
smaller guys, with all this stuff. So there's more money out there.
54:38
Okay, George, I think that, Yeah, I agree. I agree
54:45
with JB. I think that the MLS should have been a little bit higher.
54:50
The WWE doesn't. Doesn't surprise me at all. It has a great
54:53
following and it's really good ratings. Hog And and then your last point which
55:00
you made, Jacob, I agreed. I think the women's sports is just
55:02
on the cusp now of really really taken off. We've seen the WNBA on
55:10
major networks of course, ESPN, ABC, We've seen now Fox putting women's
55:16
basketball and prime Time. You've never I never saw that before on one of
55:21
the major over the air networks doing as many women's basketball. I mean ESPN
55:27
has been doing it for years, but now you see him on Fox.
55:30
And I know that's part of the agreement that they signed with a Big ten.
55:34
And yeah, there's just in the Apple thing. I'm not with that
55:39
at all. They're trying out like Major League Baseball at twelve noon or you
55:45
know, eleven o'clock on a Sunday morning. I don't know what the ratings
55:52
are for that, but it can't be that good at that time of day
55:54
on a Sunday. But all that being said, yeah, there's a lot
55:58
of money out there, Scott, a lot of money for stream sports.
56:00
Streaming sports was the future, and we know it's gonna go gangbusters more and
56:06
more in the future as well, so it's here to stay, definitely.
56:09
Well, the only I'll say about Apple TV is that destroyed the PAC twelve.
56:15
Yeah, because what ended up ditting the convention. I run out of
56:17
there and that's why ten schools went out, went elsewhere. So that shows
56:23
you that when they're all talking streaming, everybody else is talking these big contracts,
56:28
the PAC twelve was down to the pack too. That's number one.
56:30
Number two. I don't have enough information to talk about the MLS, so
56:36
I'm going to leave it alone. WWE, Yeah, I understand. I
56:39
grew up in an era where wrestling was fake and I was dealing with Dick
56:43
the Bruiser, Bobo Brazil, and all of a sudden, we're dealing with
56:45
a lot of this stuff. So I'm going to say that the two billion
56:50
from YouTube TV with the NFL Sunday Ticket to me obviously is powerful and that's
56:57
why I did. That's why Direct TV got a run out of town and
57:00
Prime Video. I'll tell you what. I have a feeling for some reason
57:05
or another, it might go down a little further, but you know what,
57:08
I'm gonna go with Joe Ellis on this one. If it were me,
57:12
Okay, I would rather, but it wouldn't do the sports part won't
57:16
be wanting to sponsor me after these comments. If I could buy my games
57:21
individually, I'm not winning any friends there with the sports bars because I like
57:25
to bring people in, and that's why they're not selling the games individually.
57:30
That's where you have a problem. But Joe, I see your point.
57:31
I'd like to be able to sit here in my place with my wife and
57:36
be able to watch the games, be able to buy the games anybody.
57:37
But you know what, don't hold your breath. It makes so much more
57:43
money if they did that. Though. You realize if you pay one sixty
57:47
or one ninety nine for the whole year MLB, Right, if you charge
57:52
me ten dollars a game, which is not an absurd amount. Right,
57:54
you don't think I'm gonna watch more than twenty games throughout the whole year besides
57:58
my home team. Right, I agree, they would kill it. It's
58:02
bad business. Well, let's face the reality, Joe. You want to
58:07
live out of a hotel, go ahead and do that. Maybe you're lucky
58:09
enough to find someplace you can buy these things like that. I've just never
58:13
seen it done. I mean, they do it with movies, right.
58:15
When you buy movies, you can buy the movie, right. Why wouldn't
58:17
you take the same concept to turn over the sports. There's only one sportscaster.
58:22
Iver knew that we'll live out of a hotel. But I'm not going
58:24
to get into that wasific individual because he's been paid tributa a couple of times.
58:29
But with all due respect, Okay, I'm with you, Joe.
58:32
I would rather be able to buy the games at home, but the sports
58:36
bars are making it killing. It's pretty hard to get away from that.
58:37
But I'm not saying I disagree with you. But remember, Joe, there's
58:40
perception and there's reality, and that's where we're at with this whole thing.
58:45
But the perception is this is a sports exchange, and the reality is the
58:49
four of us are all back and better than ever. So I don't have
58:52
to sit here and debate it. All you have to do is comments,
58:54
send his emails any way you want to talk about it. If you think
58:58
I'm too loud, tell me something I haven't heard before or doesn't make any
59:00
difference. Anyways, I didn't go ahead, trade MotorCity mild Mouth. Otherwise
59:05
it would the trademark would have gone through a lot quicker than that mouth because
59:08
they wouldn't have confused me with Ted Nugent anyways, man man, But we'll
59:13
leave that for another day for Detroiter's to digest. But anyways, that does
59:16
preclude this edition of the Sports has change. Don't you have any partying shots
59:21
or anything you want to get off your chest? N get exciting, for
59:24
get it, excited for the conference tournaments and college basketball, then March Madness
59:30
a couple more weeks looking forward to it. You know, now's when great
59:36
time of year I always love. With the Super Bowl ends, we get
59:38
to go right into college basketball, which goes right into baseball, and then
59:43
we're right back at football with the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs in between,
59:49
and checkout Cliff version and oh, just really quickly, I've got mine.
59:53
I got mine. I brought up Quincy just that point. They are
59:58
five games from the state title and there is sectional finals coming up thirty one
1:00:02
and three right now, so proud of them, and a lot of these
1:00:06
guys are juniors, so they could do it again next year. I can't
1:00:09
wait to see it. All right, George, what do you want to
1:00:13
get off your chest? Well, no, I'm just gonna tell you that
1:00:15
hockey Town is back and the Red Wings have a eight point lead in the
1:00:21
wildcard race over the New Jersey Devils sixty four points. The Wings have seventy
1:00:25
two. Hockey's back in town. Man, watch out for the Red Wings
1:00:30
six six game winning streak right now. And general manager Steve Eisman has done
1:00:34
a great job in Newsy The coach has done a great job. So they
1:00:38
they've really they've really picked up some of them momentum that they had years ago.
1:00:43
Patrick Caine on board, just a tremendous to brinkt It's just a great
1:00:47
team to watch, a lot of fun. Hockey is back in Detroit.
1:00:51
I'll just leave it at that. Man, I'll tell you what, I'm
1:00:53
very proud of my Alma Mano Niversity, South Florida has a thirteen game winning
1:00:58
streak and they're under They're doing really well. And I'll say what, I'm
1:01:01
also delighted with Port Atlantic University Owls. I had a chance to see them
1:01:06
a couple of weeks ago. But both programs are headed in the right direction.
1:01:08
The only thing I'll wonder about and is whether or not Dusty May is
1:01:13
going to get a bigger job or whether he's going to say that Fau.
1:01:15
That's something we'll find out the plays out. But Dusty has been great to
1:01:17
work with, and the new coach at US have been great. And I
1:01:22
also had a recent conversation with Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly. That will
1:01:27
be that's on our YouTube channel. I'll be writing stories on both of those.
1:01:30
So meanwhile, it's so great to have Joe Ellis back. And obviously
1:01:34
we're in Happy Birthday George of course. Well actually this year we do know
1:01:39
when to celebrated. Every other year we don't know when to do one.
1:01:44
Yes, yeah, there you go, Georgia, George to go climb the
1:01:49
mountains for your birthday. Yeah, yeah right, they don't have any in
1:01:53
Detroit, but but that George Doll. Everybody know how they get ahold?
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