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Let Her Shoot, Bam, and CBAs with Trysta Krick · Rosters to Rings Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Roster's to Rings. I'm your host, Thad Levine.
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  Speaker 1: We have a very special show today. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: be joined by Trista Crick. Trista's media career kicked off
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  Speaker 1: in tenth grade at KPBS in Portland, Oregon. After graduating
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  Speaker 1: from the University of Oregon, she had a detour in finance,
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  Speaker 1: working for Wells Fargo and Fisher Investments. Trista returned to
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  Speaker 1: sports and has established herself as a powerhouse, consistently delivering convicted, unfiltered,
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  Speaker 1: and insightful content. From her early days at USA Today
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  Speaker 1: to making headlines at Barstool Sports, she has never been
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  Speaker 1: afraid to speak her mind. She took that same fire
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  Speaker 1: to Odyssey and BETQL, where she earned the title Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Parlays. As the face of bet MGM Tonight, whether
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  Speaker 1: she's sharing her perspectives and knowledge on WFN and WIP
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  Speaker 1: or breaking down the league as an entrepreneur on her
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  Speaker 1: show's Heat Check and Let Her Shoot, she's blazing trails
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  Speaker 1: in sports media. Trista him to Rosters to Rings.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty pretty damn good dad.
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  Speaker 3: It was more than just a LinkedIn scrub. I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you that I'm impressed I had I.
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  Speaker 1: Had more stuff. Why it made me cut it down?
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  Speaker 1: We may touch on a few more.
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  Speaker 2: How could you make him cut down the filating?
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  Speaker 3: Like? Come on, any good guest love like a good
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  Speaker 3: washing of our of our reputation.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to really dive into the KPBS stint as
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  Speaker 1: a tenth grader.
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  Speaker 3: But we're really like, step me back on my heels.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's ever gotten that that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing my homework here. So one of our
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  Speaker 1: traditions on roster syrings is we ask all of our guests,
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  Speaker 1: what is your sports passion origin story? How'd you fall
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  Speaker 1: in love with sports?
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  Speaker 2: So I was good, good question.
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  Speaker 3: My mom was a huge and is well, probably more
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  Speaker 3: so then than she is now.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: She's you know, older and less passionate about probably the
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  Speaker 3: Portland Trail Blazers. But in in like early nineteen nineties,
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  Speaker 3: probably eighty nine ninety, my mom had the satellite dish
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  Speaker 3: in our place in northern California and she watched every
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  Speaker 3: single Blazers game. And this was the Clyde Drexler era,
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  Speaker 3: Terry Porter, Kevin Duckworth, Cliff Robinson. I mean, this was
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  Speaker 3: a team that was finals bound right, and so I
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  Speaker 3: was three or four and she got me into it,
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  Speaker 3: and then I ended up playing basketball and really falling
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  Speaker 3: in love with the sport as a player. She went
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  Speaker 3: to every single game of mine. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I ended up in finance, I could tell that
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  Speaker 3: really I wanted to be talking about it and you know,
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  Speaker 3: talking about it with my friends with something that I
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  Speaker 3: did from the time I was little to you know,
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  Speaker 3: throughout even when I was in finance, So it became
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  Speaker 3: like a natural trend transition when all of my friends
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  Speaker 3: and people who didn't even know me thought it was
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  Speaker 3: very bizarre that I was in finance at all, and
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of the last one to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I was three or four when
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  Speaker 3: I got into basketball, and then also went to a
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  Speaker 3: ton of Portland Winterhawks games, which is the junior hockey
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  Speaker 3: league in Portland, where I fell in love with Joey Tedarenko,
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  Speaker 3: number five, one of the most brutal hitters in the
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  Speaker 3: junior league.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome. I share the same passion origin story. My
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  Speaker 1: dad passed it down to me generation to generation. It
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  Speaker 1: was the bond we had and we now still share it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I was the kid who he took
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  Speaker 1: to games when I was younger. I think he's Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Buttoning now. He's about twelve years old now, so I
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  Speaker 1: get to take him to games and hopefully you still
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  Speaker 1: get to share that passion in love with your mom
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  Speaker 1: and with your family. A scarring moment. You just reminded
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  Speaker 1: me of as a I grew up in Northern Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: Washington then Bullets now Wizards fan. I think there was
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  Speaker 1: a faded trade where we acquired Kevin Duckworth for Rashid
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  Speaker 1: Wallace and got the south end of that deal from
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  Speaker 1: you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rashid was a good one too. That was a
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  Speaker 3: fun time. I know that there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: who in Portland they don't think the jail Blazer era
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  Speaker 3: was great for the reputation of the city. I personally
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  Speaker 3: loved the jail Blazers. I thought they were super fun.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they played a very rough and tumble style
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  Speaker 3: of basketball. And then when Rashid went to Detroit and
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  Speaker 3: went a ring there, that was awesome. I remember seeing
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  Speaker 3: him smoke weed in my local park and asked him
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  Speaker 3: for an autograph and he was like, absolutely effing not
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  Speaker 3: beat it. Kid, I'm like smoking weed.
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  Speaker 1: It was his alone time, his me time. One thing
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  Speaker 1: throughout your career. We mentioned it in the bio. You've
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  Speaker 1: been blazing trails throughout and you've worked in some of
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  Speaker 1: the toughest markets in sports media, whether it be Chicago, Boston, Philly,
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  Speaker 1: New York. But then you also found yourself at Barstool,
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  Speaker 1: which is it was a very unique platform in which
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  Speaker 1: you were a prominent player. And I'm going to read
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  Speaker 1: a quote to you, which I read actually as a
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  Speaker 1: very strong assertion by Dave Portnoya of how much you
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  Speaker 1: meant to the Barstool. But I'm just curious at the time,
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  Speaker 1: how did this make you feel? Now that you reflect
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  Speaker 1: on it a couple of years later, where's your head
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  Speaker 1: on this? So his quote was, for the record, I
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  Speaker 1: will never know why everybody truly hated her so much.
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  Speaker 1: I think she was good for the content. Somebody has
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  Speaker 1: to wear the black hat. What does that mean to
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  Speaker 1: you at the time and now that you reflect on
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  Speaker 1: it years later?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, At the time it meant And there was a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big disparity between what I was told coming in
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  Speaker 3: by those who were in charge and what the reality was.
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  Speaker 3: So I was told, Hey, this is all fun. This
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  Speaker 3: is all games. We shoot the shit, we give each other,
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  Speaker 3: bust each other's balls, and that's that's I'm really good
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  Speaker 3: at that. And my mom is also really good at that.
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  Speaker 3: And as a kid, quite a single mom, like that's
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  Speaker 3: pretty much what we did. The entirety of my upbringing
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  Speaker 3: was just the Dozens, and so I was very happy
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  Speaker 3: to join in. And when I I think my first
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  Speaker 3: or second day, Dave told me, listen, like, nothing's personal,
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  Speaker 3: don't take anything personal. And I think my experience was
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  Speaker 3: that everybody did take it personal. They were not accustomed
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  Speaker 3: to someone who was, I think a woman and who
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  Speaker 3: comes from you know, my background in Portland. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I lived as one of I was in a neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: where I was one of the only, you know.
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  Speaker 2: White families in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: It was very diverse, and so that style of the
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  Speaker 3: Dozens is very different than the Boston style or the
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  Speaker 3: Chicago style of giving each other a hard time.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think I was very misunderstood.
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  Speaker 3: And people held it against me personally, and then I
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  Speaker 3: was sort of told to lean into it because that
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  Speaker 3: was good for the company, and being a villain was
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  Speaker 3: going to be good for my career. But Dave, to
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  Speaker 3: his credit, you know, told me listen, like you probably
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  Speaker 3: don't mentally want to do that. You know, you're not
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  Speaker 3: a you don't have hundreds of millions of dollars like me,
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  Speaker 3: you're not the creator of the company like me.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing the black hat. It's probably not something you want
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  Speaker 2: to do long term.
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  Speaker 3: And he couldn't really figure out why people were holding
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  Speaker 3: the things against me that everybody else was doing to
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  Speaker 3: one another and were able to go out and hang
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  Speaker 3: out and be friends afterwards. So when I hear that,
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  Speaker 3: I hear someone who is also misunderstood in the industry,
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  Speaker 3: and I think a lot of people dislike And he
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  Speaker 3: was one of my greatest champions, and he tried his
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  Speaker 3: best to as much as he could during a very
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  Speaker 3: difficult time in the pandemic when he wasn't there to
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  Speaker 3: protect me.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not that well and he would admit that as well.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a sad it's a sad story, really,
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  Speaker 3: but I learned a lot and I try I try
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  Speaker 3: not to hold it against anyone, just based on how
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  Speaker 3: the company functions where there's so little airspace and drama
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  Speaker 3: fuels pretty much the bottom line and I.
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  Speaker 2: Was easy fodder for drama, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just I bring it up to say, like,
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  Speaker 1: when I read that quote, I see a person who
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  Speaker 1: is supporting you, and you've shared the backstory. I think
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  Speaker 1: that really comes through here because I think he's acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: in that statement that he sets you up what he
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  Speaker 1: thought was for success, but in practice he gave you
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  Speaker 1: a pretty hardhand to win. You did the best you could.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of followed the rules of engagement that he
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  Speaker 1: had set up for you, and maybe he had a
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  Speaker 1: little bit led you down the wrong path. And in
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  Speaker 1: that statement, I think he's saying, you know that there's
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  Speaker 1: as much responsibility is on his shoulders as anything here,
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  Speaker 1: and that he truly appreciated the contributions that you made.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I read it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And when I told him that I was going
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  Speaker 3: to leave, I think I had a few months left
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  Speaker 3: on my contract and I said, hey, well my contract
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  Speaker 3: is up, I'm going to go. And he said, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that I'm surprised that it didn't happen earlier. Really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've been abused and you've been bullied here,
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  Speaker 3: and you show up and you're super resilient and.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you need, I'm here to support you.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to go now, if you do, you
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  Speaker 3: want to come back, like all of it's up on
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  Speaker 3: the table. If you want more money, I'm happy to
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  Speaker 3: do that. And Isaiah is not really about money. I
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  Speaker 3: just can't I can't bear another I can't even imagine
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  Speaker 3: another year here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and interest, I think this is a very raw
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  Speaker 1: account by you, which is to say these jobs are awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Like we love working in sports, we are blessed to
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  Speaker 1: work in sports. But there is a line in which
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  Speaker 1: the quality of life supersedes the dream that we're pursuing.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're in positions where we know we're something
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  Speaker 1: less than the best versions of ourselves, at some point
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  Speaker 1: you need to get out, even if you are pursuing
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  Speaker 1: your dream, and you have to take another path. And
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  Speaker 1: you've done that, and I want to shift gears there.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about the inspiration for your launch of the
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  Speaker 1: Daily w.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think probably to a degree, I could thank
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  Speaker 3: some of the early traction that I got when I
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: was writing for Barstool on the blog there. I did
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  Speaker 3: WNBA blog and I started on the betting side, and
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  Speaker 3: I sort of noticed when you're trying to get information
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  Speaker 3: to bet a game that you see the gap in
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  Speaker 3: coverage and Britney Grinder, for example, left the bubble. I'll
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  Speaker 3: never forget it. She left the bubble and nobody knows why.
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  Speaker 3: Still to this day, it was never covered.
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  Speaker 2: She just was gone.
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  Speaker 3: She's out five minutes before the game DMP and no coverage.
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  Speaker 2: And on the men's side, that would just never occur.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody a star to that magnitude would be this would
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  Speaker 3: be a huge story. And so that was kind of
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  Speaker 3: the first kernel of Wow, there are really important things
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  Speaker 3: happening in women's sports that are not discussed. The storytelling's
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  Speaker 3: not there, the coverage isn't there, and that's a big
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  Speaker 3: component of what drives revenue, what drives ratings, what drives
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  Speaker 3: merch sales is those storylines and those narratives. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got really into the WNBA when I was at
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  Speaker 3: Odyssey talking about it from again another betting perspective and
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  Speaker 3: women's college basketball, and you see the world really fall
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  Speaker 3: in love with Jiuju Watkins and Paige Becker's and that
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  Speaker 3: was probably the first college player that I was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: she's going to be super special. Paige and Asy well
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  Speaker 3: before Caitlyn came into the picture. I remember actually talking
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  Speaker 3: to my friend on the phone, Hey, have you heard
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  Speaker 3: of this freshman who's like put up forty for Iowa?
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  Speaker 2: Never heard of her? What's her name? Caitlyn what?
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  Speaker 3: And it took some time for even fans of the
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  Speaker 3: sport to find her because Iowa was just not a
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  Speaker 3: blue chip school for women's hoops. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I look at Page, I look at Asy, I look
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  Speaker 3: at how Caitlyn took over, and there's just so much
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  Speaker 3: to do. And I've always come out at it and
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  Speaker 3: definitely honed it at Barstool, which was finding my voice,
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  Speaker 3: being a comedian, trying to find the bold, unapologetic angles
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  Speaker 3: of the things that I find to be true not
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  Speaker 3: happening in women's sports at all.
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  Speaker 2: They just it's a lot of gold stars.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of like, hey, we're just happy someone's here,
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  Speaker 3: and there's not a lot of you know, that person
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  Speaker 3: played low key trash today, or like what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with this player and that player. It felt like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the things that we do to lift up
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  Speaker 3: and build the intrigue around the men's game was not
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  Speaker 3: happening and so me and a few others who felt
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  Speaker 3: the same decided like, let's just start it and just
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  Speaker 3: see what it looks like and whether people want to
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  Speaker 3: want this, and it grew really fast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, when you're holding professional athletes and coaches
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  Speaker 1: and members of the media accountable, it comes across as
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  Speaker 1: very authentic because why else would you do that? And
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  Speaker 1: so I think it really build your credibility right out
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  Speaker 1: of the shoot. Can you share with the listeners, just
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  Speaker 1: give us a little snapshot of your two your flagship shows,
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  Speaker 1: he Heat Check and Letter Shoot. And also when I
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: read the descriptions of these, some awesome words were used
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  Speaker 1: in there. You use some great words about boldness and
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  Speaker 1: unapologetic and unfiltered, and it's everything you just talked about
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  Speaker 1: right there. You're bringing not only the third dimension, but
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  Speaker 1: the fourth dimension to these conversations about about professional athletes
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  Speaker 1: and collegiate athletes. Walk us through the two shows and
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So Letter Shoot is our flagship women's sports pod.
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  Speaker 3: The Heat Check started back at Barstool, and that's NBA content,
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  Speaker 3: so that's on the men's side, but Letter Shoot is
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  Speaker 3: started as a general women's sports pod. So you know, Softball, Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: everything that you're missing on the ESPN tab. We should
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  Speaker 3: be covering that in some degree. And it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: get it all in one hour.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: And so that sort of has gotten into probably eighty
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  Speaker 3: percent basketball conversations.
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  Speaker 2: See, and it's done in a way where, yeah, are
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  Speaker 2: we walking through the CBA.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, let's dumb it down to have these conversations about
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  Speaker 3: what what do these athletes want, what.
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  Speaker 2: Do they deserve?
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  Speaker 3: Put it into the context of what men's men's sports get,
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  Speaker 3: and let's make it funny and entertaining. Let's make it
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  Speaker 3: a two women chat show where neither one of us
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  Speaker 3: are are experts in everything and we don't claim to
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  Speaker 3: be right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's build a community that can grow and learn and get.
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  Speaker 3: Excited with us. Probably a perfect example was when the
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  Speaker 3: Women's World Cup for rugby happened and we don't know
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  Speaker 3: anything about rugby. I've never watched a game, and we
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  Speaker 3: live streamed a reaction after the US got trampled by
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  Speaker 3: I want to say, Australia, I forget what the game
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  Speaker 3: was and we were like, what.
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  Speaker 2: Are these rules? How is this different than football?
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  Speaker 3: Like tell us and people from across the park under like, you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are doing great, Like this is the thing that
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  Speaker 2: you missed.
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  Speaker 3: This is these are some of the rules that you missed,
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  Speaker 3: and like, but we're happy that you are trying to
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  Speaker 3: bring enthusiasm and interest in a sport in a country
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't have it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Or Hey, did you guys know about this? Nija Kennedy.
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  Speaker 2: She's she plays for Texas Tech. She's getting a.
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  Speaker 3: Million dollars million dollars to play college softball, and she
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  Speaker 3: is delivering straight heat. One of the fastest pitchers if
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  Speaker 3: you put her up against baseball in terms of underhand
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  Speaker 3: pitch and the distance between the pitching mount and the
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  Speaker 3: plate actually like factors out to be one of the
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  Speaker 3: one of the fastest MLB pitchers in history. In eraldis Chapman,
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  Speaker 3: So like just trying to make things accessible for ourselves
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  Speaker 3: and for people who are like, there's just too much
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  Speaker 3: to watch? Can you guys distill it down for me?
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  Speaker 3: And like, what should I know? Who are the story
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  Speaker 3: what's the storylines? Who are the players that we should
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  Speaker 3: be falling in with? What are the games that I
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  Speaker 3: should be watching and reacting to? And then doing it
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  Speaker 3: in a very honest way that I would I would
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  Speaker 3: say is how men's sports are covered, which is like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: it's not that serious.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're capturing kind of that feeling of sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch or at a sports bar and you're watching
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  Speaker 1: with people who are very intelligent, but they're also having fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like we should be bringing these to life. It's the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment business that we work in. I think we sometimes
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  Speaker 1: lose sight of that. We take things a little too seriously,
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  Speaker 1: this notion of act like you've been there. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: how about we celebrate every great moment we can like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we should be doing. And it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: if the athletes aren't doing it, you're doing that. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: if there's some some pitfalls along the way, like let's
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  Speaker 1: highlight those as well. We're all human here and so trusty.
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  Speaker 1: You had mentioned previously in your reference to to Barstool
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  Speaker 1: that there are some real challenges that women face trying
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to break into this industry. What are some of them
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  Speaker 1: that you have faced, and additionally, what is the advice
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  Speaker 1: you give to you women who are trying to break
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  Speaker 1: into sports media in today's market.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think you know number one.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Part of it is, you know, what we imagine to
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: be possible for ourselves and what we've seen be a possibility.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: If you look at people who are prominent sports opinionists,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: there's not very many women.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And the ones that.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Are technical like typically are nerds, right, like the mena
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Chimes of the World, or even the gal who used
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: to run the Raiders, I'm forgetting her name, she's awesome.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: The gal who does the analytics for fantasy football as well,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Cynthia Frielan. And we're okay having them give their opinion
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: because they're so far and away smarter and have the
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: chops to dissect the game.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: In a very analytical way that we allow them in
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the room.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: But Mike Greenberg is not some genius, right, or you
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: know some of these other analysts like Skip Bayless, he's
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: just a guy and he gets to give his opinion,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and some of his opinions are asinine, but women aren't.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Given there's not a.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Lot of opportunities to see women be asinine, to talk shit,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to have an opinion about a sport that they love
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: very much without having to go so far and beyond
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: above what other opinionists have to be qualified to do.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: So I think that's number one and the more, and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I've never been deterred by that once I realized, I
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: thought that was my greatest strength is to give my
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: opinion and to be funny and to bring out a
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: lot of looseness and the people that I'm around and
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: make them feel that same enthusiasm and joy like that
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: is what I do really well in any setting. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: so not seeing that is fine with me because I've
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to trail ablaze that path for others to
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: see that as a possibility.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I think too.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, you get into these environments and I
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: was just talking about this right before the recording. You know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: you get on and you have co hosts and they
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: don't know how to take.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Criticism or you know, ribbing from.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Their co hosts when those co hosts are women, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: so there's a very delicate balance of ego bruising and
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: until you really get to know someone and trust someone,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: sometimes it can cause friction and can cause problems. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: it's caused problems with co hosts that are you know, professional,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: and it obviously caused a lot of problems at Barstool
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: as well. And that's a whole other world where the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: stakes just kept getting higher and higher and higher, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: so I just kept rolling higher and higher and higher.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And so I think that was a challenge as well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's also opportunities, right, Like, you
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: look at the decision makers and I ask them, hey,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: how many women are you guys looking at to hire
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: for a role like this, and they just don't have
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: any answers.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: You know, they don't.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: We it's easy to hire people that you know, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: it's it's easy to hire people that have less friction
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to get them in the door. And I think it's
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: hard for women to be the people that these decision
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: makers immediately think to go to because again, like until
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: you see it, it's really hard to see it, like
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: a house that hasn't been remodeled yet, you can't see
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: that this can be a mansion until you walk around
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and see, you know, what it looks like after the remodel.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Trust, I think you said it extremely well there. I've
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: worked in front offices for twenty six years, and you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: everyone says those things. They say, hey, you tend to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: hire people who look like you, who or who have
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: similar backgrounds, And you say that's not me. And then
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you look around the room and you're like, wow, there's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who do look like me. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: in baseball what we saw, and I'm sure you've worn
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: this burden as well as there were a few women there,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: but they also carried this incredible responsibility to be the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: best they possibly possibly could be every single day because
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: they felt as if there were so much higher standard
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: for them, and they were carrying this standard for future
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: women who could possibly work in baseball. And that's not
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fair for them either. They should just be the best
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: versions of themselves and not have to worry about that
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: level of legacy. And I'm sure they're inspirational for people
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: around them, but certainly their male counterparts are not wearing
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that level of stress when they come to work every
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: single day.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's why it's really hard.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: To see women in these roles because even if you know, say,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: for example, you look at Mally Carem or some of
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: these other women in really important positions in sports media
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and they're just very serious and they're just very buttoned
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: up and tight, and a lot of that I think
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: is coming from this psychological element where you feel.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Like you cannot say anything wrong.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: You have to be credible, You have to have to
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: be reputable above all else, beyond be beyond reproach. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think that's holding us back because that's something that's
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: not in the head of Matthew Berry, right, Like he's
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: just fucking around, like truly, and that collegiality and that
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: looseness is contagious. And when we feel a responsibility to
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: be the woman that holds the mantle or is going
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: to be the example for more women to.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Get hired, I think that's a disservice to us.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: And I am doing everything that I can to break that,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: like you know, and I think barstool helped a lot.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: You see that on my resume, you see the clips.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: You already know what time it is, right, and so
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: you're not gonna get a buttoned up version of me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: If you hire me, you're getting me.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: And I think if you can get more people in
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: who kind of care less, who can feel less responsibility,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Like I'm very aware of wanting to push women forward,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: wanting to be an example in a role model, But
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the way that I envision it is that I don't
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: think about it every day that I'm loose I'm prepared,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: but that I am always trying to have a good
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: time and have the viewer have a good time, because
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, we're not talking about
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the Iran War. We're talking about sports, and like it
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: should be enjoyable for the.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Viewer to consume your content.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: They should laugh, they should chuckle, they should think, they
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: should feel like the a part of something communal and parasocial.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: And I think sports media, especially on the linear side,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: has lost that over time. And the ones that are
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: really really good at SVPs of the world, they're the
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: ones that continue to be themselves and very approachable and
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like not take themselves too seriously.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Well, trist I think you said it. Men in this
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: world can kind of excel based upon their content, their charisma,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: or their sense of humor. Women are asked to be
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: front and center with their content. Primarily you're bringing content,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: charisma and humor to it, and you're doing it excellent.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: So let's shift to talking about sports. Let's have a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: little fun here. Last night, bam at a Bayou scores
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: eighty three points, which is a remarkable feat second most
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: ever in the NBA behind Wilt Chamberlain and surpassing Kobe
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Bryant's incredible game, eighty one point game in two thousand
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and six. Help us put that game into context.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: And they're slandering him bad. Do you see this?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, do you see what they're saying?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: A lot of shots.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: And I watched the grainy ass Toronto Raptors versus La
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Lakers video today.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: They only gave the ball to Kobe in the fourth quarter.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: He was chucking. He had the ball in the post
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: over and over and over again.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: He was going in, getting triple teamed, getting hacked, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: going to the free throw line. We cannot act like
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: there's purity over Kobe Bryant's performance.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant was always a ball hog.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant always wanted to have those type of performances.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: The fact that it's done by a guy who's a
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: center who was playing against the Wizards, Let's not act
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: like the Toronto Raptors were some sort of immense contender.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I think there were fourth from the bottom in the East.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: This is very similar as the Washington Wizards. Yeah, it
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: was a closer game than a blowout, but like you're
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: talking about a pace of play that was also way
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: slower as well. They looked like they were walking through molasses.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: So to me, it feels like poppycock the way that
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: people are representing it. And anytime you score that many points,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: we got to put some respect on your name, no
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: matter what. Considering like bam Adebayo wasn't even playing basketball
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: until I think he was like thirteen years old, grew
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: up in a single wide trailer.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Like, the whole thing is remarkable. And I don't even
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: like the Heat.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I very much dislike the Miami Heat, and especially considering
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: the way that the Damian Lillard trade went down and
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: how they wanted to take them, and it's gotten a
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: little bit contentious between these two franchises. As a Blazer fan,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I don't want to give them any credit, but like
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: you kind of have to give Ban all the flowers
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: in the world for a performance, even with all the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: quote unquote asterisks around it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: What do you think, I'm with you? I mean, it's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: an incredible feat. I mean, to do that in a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: NBA regular season game as a center, as you said,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: he's hitting threes, I mean the numbers were amazing. That
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he had thirty six made free throws in this game
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: is just absolutely incredible of course, something has to happen
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for you to be able to score eighty three points
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: in a regulation game, and so the fact that they
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: were fouling some guys at the end to give him
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: more opportunities. It really wasn't that big of a blowout.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, they certainly had the game in hand, but
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he ran away with it in the first quarter, in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the second quarter when it was still a game and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: he was shooting the lights out. It also seems like
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: this guy has a great reputation in the game playing
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: for Team USA. He seems like one of those guys
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: when you think of guys scoring eighty three points in
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: today's game, I don't think bam out of Bayu's name
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: comes up. The fact that he did it and seems
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to be getting such credit from his former teammates Kevin
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Durant calling him out today and Lebron saying positive things
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: about it, I think there's this incredible respect for him
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: for having accomplished this feat and you know, passing Kobe.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: As you said, there was a lot going on in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that game as well. It wasn't as if he was
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a one man show and they were guarding double teaming him.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: The whole team the whole time. You got to shoot
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of shots to get to eighty three points.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just the math pencils out to that unless
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: you're you have one hundred percent efficient night. Also, the
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: reason that they were fouling the Wizards early on in
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: the shot clock is because the Wizards were doing the
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: same to them, and they were tripling and quadruple teeming
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Bam in the inbound past. So it was kind of like, oh,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: you guys want to play shnan against, we could also
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: play shenanigans.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I thought it was also really interesting that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I was pretty surprised that Bam broke Kobe's record because
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: he's so respectful.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I was so.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Surprised that Spoe didn't try to take him out to
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: respect the legacy of Kobe, who you know.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Rest in peace right and you don't.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: There's like that extra element and the specter of his
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: reputation holding that over the leak, And to me, I
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: was like, go ahead, Bam, Yeah, break the fucking record,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: go ahead.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Do it well. And he also said that he was
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: one of his heroes growing up, that he was a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: guy that he looked up to and only went that
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he could have played against and I guess their careers
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: just missed each other where they weren't able to play
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: against each other. Trista, I promise you there won't be
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: any more questions about the Wizards after I ask you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: this one. But at the time of the trade deadline,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you were very you had strong opinions about the Anthony
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Davis to the Wizard's trade. I'm just curious as a
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: marginal Wizards fan here, now that you look back, they
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: acquire Trey Young Anthony Davis, what is that era looking
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: like for Washington Wizards fans moving forward.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I think we're gonna have to see how the draft
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: ends up. I think there are some real franchise changers
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: in this draft class. I mean, I think Cam Boozer
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: is tremendous as a passer. He's six', nine six,' ten
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: he's got, incredible footwork he's a, good shooter, he's strong
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: and he's not even probably going to go. Number one You've,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: got ajdabansa this sick athletic phenom who can do a
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: little bit. OF everything i think he just had a
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: forty piece last.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Night in a conference. Tournament game he's.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Right there You've Got, darren peterson who, you know he's
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: six or five guard who can do a little bit,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of everything and people say might be the best Guard.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Since kyrie so there's a lot of good Options. For,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: washington now you got to keep. Losing games otherwise there's
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of possibilities that you lose in the lottery
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and you get a draft pick that's much worse than
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: your place in. THE standings i think, for them they've got. Good,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Pieces right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: You've got The.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Kid trey you've got The kid George. Or kyante what's his,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Last Name, Kyante, George. Yeah georgie so You've Got alex,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: sara there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Who's long he's a wing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Bill coolaballe i'm not sure if they'll keep him or
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: what the plan is for him and, his status but
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: like you've, got pieces and then you add In If
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: anthony davis could ever, stay healthy that's always the, Case
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: caveat And If trey young can be a real leader
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: on a team with, another alpha that's another caveat that's
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: always put. On them but you now have players who,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: are pros Who Are, all Pro all star caliber players
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: who can shepherd this younger generation into, better basketball into
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: knowing what winning. Feels like because this is a team
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: that hasn't done a lot of winning in, recent history
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: so kind of like with what happened With The. Detroit
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: pistons you have a, franchise player Maybe That's, trey johnson
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe That's, aj debantsa who knows who they end up
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: getting in the draft and what that.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Looks like and then these other veterans come.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Around and they lift the floor and teach these guys how,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: to win and you can very easily see a team
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: go from fourteen wins to two years later being number
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: one in. Their CONFERENCE so i think For, the wizards
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you have to feel like they're on the.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Right track that's.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Better than they've been for a. Long time before, THIS
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: show i actually treated myself to look up what was
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the last time there or in, the playoffs and somehow
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: it says it's, twenty TWENTY which i totally don't BELIEVE
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that i have no recollection. Of that it felt like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: it was twenty years ago that they were relevant in
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: any sort of. Playoff series it'd be great for that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: fan base to see them get back to some sort.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Of relevancy shifting gears a little, Bit here i'm Curious
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: With draymond green in the twilight of, his career aside
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: from Guys Like. Dylan brooks how much is the league
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: in need of, a villain who's the next up and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: coming guy that players and fans are going to love.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: To, hate oh, YOU know i Think Maybe.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Fears jeremiah fear says he wants to be. The
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: villain the kid who plays For The New orleans pelicans
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: right now and he's untying people's shoes while they're at
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: The frieda, Ha line he's bumping.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Into them he wants. THE smoke i think he's. NUMBER
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: one i.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Think you could SEE even, I mean i Don't think
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: wemby will ever be the, villain VILLAIN but i can
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: see him becoming a guy with a big target on
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: his back and certainly plays with a lot of fire.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: And intensity but you have to kind of get your
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: hands dirty to be.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: A villain you have to do. Villain Things Maybe jalen
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: brown can be.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: The villain he's obviously going to war with the refs
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: right now and getting. Himself ejected he feels like it's them,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Versus HIM and i wouldn't say he's a, dirty player
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: but he's certainly a very, physical player and definitely a player.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Who's very vocal goes on. The streams it's a.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: GREAT question i have to think more, about that but
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: those are the ones off the top of my HEAD
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: that i can.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Think Of, Uh tris i'm sure you could account for,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The SAME but i felt, in baseball you want to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: believe everybody wants to win as much as the, next
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: person but it's typically the guy who hates to lose
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: who raises the floor in the locker room and raises
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the standard of excellence for everyone. Around them and those
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: were the guys who you tended to love as, a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: teammate but they were kind of a little bit reviled
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: by the opponents because they were prepared to do damn
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: near anything it took to win. Baseball Games and i'm in,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: My career i'm thinking of Guys Like ian Kinsler And
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: mike napoli were two guys who were kind of on
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the forefront. Of that they hated, to lose and anytime we,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: were losing they weren't a bad mood and they would
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: talk to anybody in the clubhouse about what they needed
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to do to hold up their end of. The bargain
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: guys tended to not. Like them rugenett o'dor was another
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: one of. These guys but when the lights were, the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: brightest those were the guys who were shining in, those
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: moments and they really.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Carried, teams yeah you See With chris, PAUL too i
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: think like it's a responsibility and it's a rare one
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: for someone to make that much money and to still
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: continue to want to get better and want everybody else
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: to get better.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: With them it's.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: A sickness, i mean it was like winning at that
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: level is somewhat of a, sociological Disease right you Look At,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: nick Saban And nick saban never celebrated a, single win
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: not a, single championship just went back to work the.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Next day like that is a joyless existence and that
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: is what is required for. Sustained greatness and you're just
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: not gonna have everybody in any circumstance being, that way
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: otherwise you'd have a lot of sickos, running Around right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Like that that takes a level of resolve and focus
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: where no one, else matters a level of arrogance and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: narcissism where you are tuning out the needs of other
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: people who may need you and want to be with
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: you and you've designed your life around right and, so
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: yeah and then you add in, The well i'm willing
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: to do anything it takes to win every, single game
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: REGARDLESS if i have to get my hands dirty a.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Little bit there's like three people out of four hundred and,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: FIFTY max i think that are fitting all of.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Those requirements and when.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: We're, building rosters we're trying to hunt, those guys and
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: we oftentimes make mistakes. Misidentifying them but when you find the,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: right guy you covet them and you hold on to them.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: WITHOUT question i always felt in SPORTS like i was
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: trying to manage and maximize the highs and minimize The
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: LOW so i probably didn't fall quite Into The sicco
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: saban model right THERE because i was having a lot.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: OF fun i think you've got to have fun in,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: these games especially in baseball where they one hundred and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: sixty two games in. The Season trist AS the wnba
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is facing a collective, bargaining agreement what is your feeling
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: as to what should the players be fighting for? Right
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: now where do they want to see the?
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Biggest, games yeah that's a.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: GOOD question I think, number one it's, shared revenue and
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: you know that's obviously Different Than Major, league, Baseball right
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: but IN, the nba you're getting a percentage of basketball,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: related income and you have been for a long long
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: time IN. The nba even WHEN the nba was doing
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: poorly and wasn't, that solvent they still found ways to
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: split the revenue even more than half and half Of
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: the one of the reasons for a big labor dispute
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: was the players were making more money percentage wise than
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: the league was at a time where the league was,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: very fragile a lot, MORE fragile i think THAN the.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Wnba is so the players union wants to get to
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: a point where they have the ability to make more
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: when the league, makes more not make more when the league,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: makes more and then the expenses, are less and so
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: then they end up getting a percentage of the. Net
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: revenue like the idea that net revenue is a word
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: or a phrase that is getting thrown around is like just, so,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Bullshit right like it's there is no such thing that's
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: that's considered that's, Considered, Profit, right like that's revenue is
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: how much you get before you. Pay expenses so don't
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: just give me a little in front of it and
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: think that means the, same thing and the players. Know
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: that so the players want to get money off, the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: TOP and i think they would love the goal was.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Forty percent they're not going to. GET that i think
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: right now what they're asking for is twenty. Five percent
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: twenty four and A half i think was maybe the
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: last OFFER that.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I saw BUT the wnba doesn't want.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: To, do that, AND that i think is the real
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: question is who's gonna? Blink FIRST and I think i
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: saw THAT the tv rights deal is up in twenty,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: twenty nine and that rights deal is going, to explode
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: especially IF the wnba negotiates that on their own and
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: doesn't package that WITH. The nba and the same thing
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: holds true for the brand sponsors that were attached to
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: THE w a lot of times those deals got done
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: WHEN the nba did those Deals With coca Cola or
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Pepsi or desani. Or whoever is, that like, oh yeah
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: you're we're already the water exclusive water OF.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: The wnba and, they're, like.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Well we didn't, do that we didn't get any money.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: From that, they're like, oh YEAH the nba negotiated that.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: For you and SO the tv rights deal if they
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: negotiated that on. THEIR own i think that it's slated
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: to go from sixty million a year to like three.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Hundred million or two hundred million.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: A year i forget the, exact amount but it explodes
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: and IF the wnba knows that they're not going to want,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: to pay, you know fifty million or forty million TO
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: the wnba players before expenses are. Paid out, and like,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: to Me if i'm, the players it's not really. My
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: responsibility if you're not a good business person and that
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: you've made bad business deals that you don't have direct
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: relationships with airlines or charter companies so that we can
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: get to our games without paying out the nose if
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: we need to change our flights for, Some, reason like
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: you guys need to get that side. Of them we're doing,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: The business we're doing the basketball side, just fine and
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: the ratings and merch and attendance numbers are going up
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: because of the product on. The court you guys got
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: to figure out that, business SIDE and i think that's
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: what would force them. To Do so i'd love to
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: get your, perspective too as someone who's been in these.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Conversations before, IS like i think paying grosser revenue out
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: to the players would force the league to be much
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: better business people, really fast or they'll. Be.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Unsolved, Yeah Well Major league baseball is about to embark
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: upon a collective bargaining negotiation at the end of the
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Six season you referenced. IT earlier i THINK
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the nba has done a wonderful job in solving a
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: lot of. These problems they do genuinely share revenues with.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: The players the players are highly motivated to generate additional
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: revenue on behalf of, the league and if, they do
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: they get a cut. Of that and as, you referenced
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: it's off of, the gross it's not off of. The
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: NET and i think that has driven the players of
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: that league to really market that league and to really
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: together where, that league WHERE the nba was fifteen, years
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: ago was not in a. Healthy place and they've done
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: an excellent job of joining forces with the players to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: arrive at what is a seemingly at, least fair if not.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: AMICABLE resolution i HOPE the wnba can get there because
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: it seems to me as a fan that there's never
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: been a better time to be a fan OF. The
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: wnba it's a really compelling product at this point, and
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: interesting maybe you could touch upon this too for. THE
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: listeners a lot of these women are playing abroad or
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: now in the unrivaled league to supplement, their incomes and
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes in those leagues they're actually making a good deal
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: more money than they're making playing FOR. The wnba that
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't look good TO. The wnba, for me that seems
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: to be something that we need to solve for. As,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: WELL yeah.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I agree question for you THOUGH before i move on to, that,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: topic like when you were Running a major league, baseball
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: team how much transparency did you get into?
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: The FINANCIALS so i.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Think the reality of this is that the un tends
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and the players by association tend not to believe anything
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the owners say regarding their revenues because there's so many
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: ways to creatively account and as you, referenced earlier there's
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways to have expenses offset revenues to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: make it look as if they're not. As profitable and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of these teams have their own whether it's their,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: own television they, have outlet or they have real estate
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: in their local areas where they're driving. Money to they
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: feel like the players feel like it's being sheltered in every.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Which DIRECTION so i don't know how the owners get
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: credibility back absent of having an independent group, audit them
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: and they're just not willing to. Do that so there's
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: just a general lack of trust and equity between the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: union and, the OWNERS and i think until, That's restored
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: i'm not sure where the Health Of Major league baseball
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: is going. To go but that's why every time there's
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: a collective, bargaining agreement there's such protracted negotiations and there's
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: really a lot of mud slinging that goes. On before
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: typically it's not until the eleventh hour that they come
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to the table and get. Something done but they're not doing,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: it amicably and they're not doing it born out of
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: trust and respect for.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: One, Another YEAH and i think another reason, that fairly,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: you know the union doesn't trust owners is when a
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: team Like the braves had to open, the books it, was,
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: like well.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: You guys said you, were broke, and like you guys.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Aren't broke and also trust to it's hard to cry
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: poverty when you're selling, you KNOW the nba they're selling for,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you know four to ten, billion Dollars And Major league
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: baseball they're selling for more like one and a half
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: to three and a half to four. Billion dollars it's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: it's a tough SELL to i think the community, at large,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the fans but also the players in the union that they're.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Losing, money yeah and that's happening IN the wnba. As
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: well so these expansion fees are quarter billion, dollars now
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: And The Golden state valkyries had, you know.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: It was just their first inaugural season and they're already
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: worth five hundred million dollars after after having an expansion
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: a FEE of i think less than two hundred.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: And fifty this is the. New NUMBER so i think
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: it was fifty Million For golden STATE if I if,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: I'm correct and now all of a sudden they've ten
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: x their money for their valuation of the team based on.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Proper management joelacob did a, good job who's Also the,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: warriors owner and They, shared Chase The, chase center and
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: so there was some.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Synergies there, but like if you're getting ten x, your
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: money even if you're doubling your money valuation wise in,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: one year you should be able to stomach having to
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: pay out year to year where it doesn't necessarily feel
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: like you're solid or square just based on that the
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: investment alone has made you money if you.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Sell.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: IT yeah i think one thing to consider is these
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: guys are highly successful billionaires buying large who own. These
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: teams they're not used to. Losing money but to, your
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: point you can be a little cash flow of negative
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: year in and year out if you're selling for five,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: to ten in some cases twenty five x what your initial,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: purchase was and you're gonna do. Just FINE, chris tursta
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: thinking of, the draft which is coming Up on, april
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: thirteenth what are some of the things you're. Looking for
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: who are the can't miss stars that you see in,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: this draft and who are the people you think are
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: most at risk to.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: BEING busts i hope that we have a draft in
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: a month that's like first, And foremost but, to me
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: it's like not that difficult to see how pro ready
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: asy Fud Is Yukon Husky super senior has had a bunch,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: of injuries, BUT.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Like i think she's missed twenty free throws.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: In her entire Career, at yukon which is just bananas
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: fifty forty ninety gal almost one hundred percent from the
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: free throw line, this year.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: One of those two way wings that can guard the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: other team's.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Best player is, very tough, very physical, very stout lights.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: OUT shooter i think she's gonna be able to create
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of space for. Another guard she can play
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: on or off, the ball she can rebound her, ass
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: off she steals the ball, really well like gets out.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Into transition fundamentally.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Super sound and, she's OLDER so i think she's gonna
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: be able to come in and contribute wherever she ends
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: up getting drafted to.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Right away like For A portland, FIRE fan i hope
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: she falls to. That spot, LIKE truly i think she
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: should go number. One, overall TRULY like i.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: REALLY do i think current page running it back page
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: needs another person to be able.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: To shoot this is one of the worst three point shooting.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Teams IN, the wnba and their volume wasn't, Great EITHER
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: and i think if you're gonna go out and get,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: a center that takes some time, To develop AND so
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: i would go out and get a center in the free.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Agency spot and by, the way they've already.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Got one who's six' Seven, in lee yuru Who's playing
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: for china and is literally Over there in wuhal putting
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: up twenty two and ten or. Something like that SO
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: that's what. I would do i Wonder How far LAUREN
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: betts from ucla.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: IS gonna fall i. THINK she's tremendous i don't think
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: she's a bust.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: BY any means i just don't know based on what team,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: slot and where who has the, need for her and
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: if they have other needs that have players that they
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: can draft at that. Spot before her so she was
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: like SUPPOSED to be i think the second overall, pick
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: last year comes back to school to play with Their,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Younger sister sienna And now like i've seen her, marked
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: at nine which is that's a big fall from. Two
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: to NINE and So I think olivia miles will be
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: a really interesting case study.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: If she was to go to A. Place like seattle.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: And, for You guys, THE washington Mystics I think keiki
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: rice is.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: A no BRAINER she's. A dmv gal She Went. To sidwell.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Friends she's tough you know, What It is sidwell friends, producing, some, talent, tough.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Gritty tough, ritty you, said, well, Friends.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Yes yes carol lawson.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Saidwell friends alone and so you've got a girl who can,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: shoot really well she's shooting the best, of her, career very,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: physical very, tough can, defend can distribute has gotten really good.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: As a playmaker you Pair Her, with sonya citron you
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Pair Her, with georgia amore who's coming. Back from injury
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: you Pair her with kiki iriafin and, boy Oh boy
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: this mystics team could end up being one of the
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: most fun In the w so those are some of
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: The players that i'm really keeping my EYE on that
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: i think should should rise or at least stay in
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: the top five.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Of the draft trista one one follow up question. ON
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: the draft I, went To ucla so i've got to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: ask you. About that squad it's noteworthy to me looking
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: at all, the draft boards it looks like their whole
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: starting five is projected to go in. The top. Crazy
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: it's crazy i've never seen. Anything like, that that's, like
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you Know the running rebels Or The five slammage amma back.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: In the, day it's like you just. Don't see That and. So,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: i'm curious yet when you look on, The betting sites
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: yukon is a prohibitive favorite to. Win the tournament what
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: is the gap as you See it between yukon and
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the rest of the field.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Entering, THE tournament, well I Mean like sarah strong might
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: be the best college player in history when, It's all
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: done like she May win the natesmith three years.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: In a row like She.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: May surpass Dewey She's like Nafisa Collier and maya. Moore
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: put together she's and, she's a sophomore and she's already
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the best player in the country. By a lot and
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: she can, play point forward she can do every she
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: can really do. Everything out there and then you pair
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: HER with a z And You've got sarah williams.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: On this team. They're so deep this team just.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Want A title, kk arnold's there and they're, motivation, Super
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: high right like they've. Got the pedigree gino's the best to,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: ever do it and they feel super motivated to Win
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: one Without paige because page is, there, chirping saying hey.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: WE don't think i don't think you can win.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: One without me like the only reason we won IT
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: was because i was, On The team, and gino said
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: that's way more motivation than you. Can even imagine because
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: those conversations are happening. BEHIND closed doors I, think for
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: ucla they absolutely should go.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: To the championship.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: THEY really should I wonder about corey as a coach
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: and her ability to get over the hump against A Team.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Like South carolina south, carolina they've, Got You, know medina
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: ocott who's not nearly As Talented as, lauren betts is.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: But they're peaking they're just getting better and better. With
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Every Game and south carolina does this all what they.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Do is win we've seen that time and time and
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: Time Again. With don staley so the fact that they're
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: on that side of The Bracket with south carolina is.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: A little concerning this Is absolutely a. Final four Team,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: and like lauren As much as lauren, is so talented
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: sometimes the refs and the flow of the game can
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: get in her head and so you can take her,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: out of it you can get her distracted based on
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: because she's getting. Bodied out there she's getting slapped around and.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: That hurts her but like You cannot Deny gianna And
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Nipkins and Kicky Rice, and LEDGER walker, and i mean
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: this team is.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Just so stacked so if.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Anyone talent Wise can give Ucla can give yukon a run,
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: FOR their money i Think ABSOLUTELY it's ucla i think
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: it's probably like a two or three point difference on,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: a NEUTRAL court Whereas i think Yukon will smack Texas And,
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  Speaker 3: smack south CAROLINA and so i think they're VERY happy
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  Speaker 3: that ucla is on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Of that bracket it's.
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  Speaker 1: Again for sure thank you so much. For coming on.
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  Speaker 1: it again Welcome back To. Rosters to rings we have our,
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  Speaker 4: Have this episode thanks that we actually are just going
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: to do producer questions, for this episode and we're going
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: to kick it Off With the. Max crosby saga probably
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: the biggest story in, sports right now definitely the biggest
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: STORY in the nfl with all the. Trades going on
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: but just to lay this, out For, Everyone last, friday
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: March sixth the ravens agreed to a Trade with the
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: raiders two first round picks For Past. Rusher max crosby
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  Speaker 4: and Then last, Night, march tenth tuesday it Comes out
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: that baltimore backed out of The deal after crosby. Failed
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: his physical and then This morning the ravens pivoted And
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: signed former Bengals Pass. Rusher trey hendrickson now there's a
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: ton of reports. Around the, league you know some teams
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: aren't really Thrilled with how baltimore. Handled this, situation we,
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: had You Know, from TOM pellisero. An nfl reporter HE
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: said one gm summarized his feelings around the league as
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: this is very Much bs.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: On baltimore's part AND, then one Gm.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: According, to jane slater said he was never going to
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: pass a physical based on where he is. In his
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: recovery something else had to lead to this TO the
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: decision a question to you that is from a. Front office,
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: perspective you know failed physicals obviously happened across all sports
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: and deals fall apart. Because of them but in a,
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: situation like this do you view this as just part
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: of doing business or is there a line where backing
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: out of a deal like that can start to damage relationships?
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Around, THE league well i think there's so much to unpack,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: in this deal and so let's start big picture. And
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: work down, one Observation Is Unlike, major LEAGUE baseball the NFL,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and the nba when, free agency hits. It hits hard
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: and so we saw that earlier this week where there
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: was tons, of deals reported the vast majority of players
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: out in the, marketplace were signed and so there was.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Just this frenzy but then you have the secondary market
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: of guys who. Were getting traded and even though those trades,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: were reported earlier, as you reference they couldn't be made
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: official to today because this is the first day of the.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: New league season so those players who were traded had to.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Get traded today so you See Guys like gino smith
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: getting Traded to the Jets, from the raiders when it
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: was rumored that he was just going, To, get released
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: well they held him to the last minute for this
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: very reason because maybe they. Could confer trade so there's
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: that going on in addition to. Everything you mentioned but,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: from My perspective and i've been party to some of
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: these deals. On both, sides in baseball a lot of
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: the trades are made at the trade deadline and the rules.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Are very restricted the team that acquires a player has
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: the right to review medical files before that trade is
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  Speaker 1: made that the team that is trading him is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for keeping that medical file up to date so there can.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Be no mystery so when you, get the player you
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: should there should, be no surprises but a lot of
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: teams then will actually have an entrance physical For That Player,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: major league baseball, as a team you lose the rights
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: to send that player back the minute he sets steps foot,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: on the field and it's not. Necessarily to play if
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: he goes out there just to warm up and throw one,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: pitch a pitcher then. Is your responsibility and if he,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: then injures himself that injury is, on your watch it's
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: not on the. Previous team's Watch So In, major league
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: baseball there's pretty significant restrictions that would prevent you from
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: being able to undo these. Sorts of trades there is
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: also this amazing obligation on each part of each team
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: to be very transparent on the up to, date medical
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: files and so in the past teams have gotten in
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: trouble when they hadn't necessarily updated. The medical files that's
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: when the team that acquires a player has. The most
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: recourse but when you've approved the medical files and you've,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: accepted the player, by and large in Most Cases In,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: major league baseball that. Trade is completed but there. Are
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: some exceptions so in the, free agent market a couple,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Of Years ago carlos correa was famously. On the market
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: he ultimately signs a Deal With The, san francisco giants they,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: have a physical they end up a. Voiding the contract
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: he then goes and Signs With The new york mets
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  Speaker 1: for a. Slightly lesser amount they, have a physical they.
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  Speaker 1: AVOID the contract i Was With the minnesota twins. At
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the time we signed him to, a lesser contract we,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: approved the physical and we ultimately had the player under a.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Long term deal the team has since Traded, him TO
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: houston so i think that's what we should expect. In
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: This case max crosby's value on the marketplace has undeniably
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: been damped. Imaged BY this so i can't speak to.
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  Speaker 1: Whether Or Not the baltimore ravens, got cold feet and
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: there was much made in the last forty eight hours
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: about the fact that they gave up two first round,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: picks for him and that that was clearly more than
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: the market was. WILLING to pay i trust that that
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: was not. WHAT transpired here i think you. Alluded to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: it what they must have seen something in the medical file,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: that they approved and then when they, saw the player
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: he wasn't as far along, as they expected or there
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: was something else. GOING on here i think that's how
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: the league. Will, interpret this therefore you have Not Only The,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: las vegas raiders but also His Agent and max crosby
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: trying to do damage control to try to, restore HIS
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: value because i think the other things that happened here
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit more Subtly is the ravens let a
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: lot of their very. Good players Go they lose Rishard,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: to the giants they lose Likely, to the giants They
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Lost their. Pro bowl punter they did that in part
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: because they thought they were Going To get max crosby and,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: pay for him so they cleared space allocated That Money.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: To trey hendrickson but my guess is they would have
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: conducted themselves a little bit differently in terms of retaining
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: their own if they knew that trade was not going. To,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: come through Similarly, for the raiders they were as active
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: on the first day of free agency as any. Team
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: out there they spent a, ton of money and part
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: of that money they spent was the money that they
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: thought they freed Up By. Trading max crosby so my
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: expectation is they'll still be committed this offseason to trading
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: A Guy like max crosby to try to free up
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: that money to account for the players that. They've already
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: acquired what they don't want to do is trade them below.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: His market value so maybe it'll take sixty to seventy
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: cents on the, dollar right now or they could roll
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the dice that he could. Restore his value could they
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: trade him at full market value later, In the season
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: but the risk is that his injury is more significant
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: and then all, of a sudden the asset they have
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: is not. Worth That much so i'd expect some teams
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: to be making Calls to the raiders right now just
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: to understand for how little Could They acquire max crosby want.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: To move On To The world baseball. Classic You've GOT
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: but Team Usa Manager mark de rosso's caught some heat
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: yesterday after comments HE Made on mlb network before The
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: loss to. Italy Last night, de rosa said it's weird
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: we want to win this game even though our ticket
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: is punched, to the quarterfinals When IN reality team usa
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: had not clinched. Their advancement yet so now the scenario.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: Gets pretty COMPLICATED for the us, to move on They
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: need either italy to Win their team mexico to win
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: while scoring five. Or More runs if mexico wins but
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: scores four, Or FEWER runs team usa is actually out
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: that when confusion, like this happens is that really on
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: the manager or is it more of a broader communication
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: issue between, the coaching, staff the team. AND the tournament
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: i haven't seen any other Teams In This. World baseball
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: classic not understand the group advancements process, of this tournament
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: but really really interesting situation going On In The.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: WORLD baseball classic i know all of the coaches, on
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: this team and some of them are personal. Friends Of
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: mine so i'm going to sit here AND tell you
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: i think this is, a systemic problem Not Necessarily a mark.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Derosis specific issue somebody in that group has to know what,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: the rules are and they have to be apprising everyone
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: who has the potential of having a microphone in front
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of them of what the nuances are. Of these rules and,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: they're not simple as you, just mentioned why there's like
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: some very nuanced. Elements To This so team italy Will
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Be playing. Team mexico tonight who, Would have known but
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: all eyes will be on that game because it has
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: a chance to Determine Whether the United states of america
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: will have a team in the final eight, of this
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: tournament not even. The final four they were projected to be,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: in the finals and they may all of a sudden
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: find themselves eliminated and not get out of the initial,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: round of play the, round robin round which is a.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Signific an issue i'll throw in some, more factors Here Which,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: is benji gill who is The Manager of team mexico
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: and has done a wonderful job over the. Last few
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: WBCs as that manager is highly motivated to win tonight
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: and potentially do so AND. Eliminate the usa he's been
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: somebody who's long since been seeking Managerial Opportunities In, major
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: league baseball and so he's got a little bit of.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: An EXTRA motivation dare i say to try try to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: win tonight AND. Eliminate the usa i'm quite certain in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: other elements, of this bracket when you look At Teams
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: like Puerto rico In japan and Venezuela And the dominican
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: republic teams that are, likely to advance they would Love
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: To See major LEAGUE baseball's vaunted usa team out of
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: this competition because that gives them a real. Chance to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: win the thing that we also don't know why it
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: is how much this impacts your standings For, the upcoming
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Olympics Such As major league baseball has a chance to.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: PARTICIPATE in it i think the fact That Team, like
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: team italy, if they advance that will definitely impact their
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: standings in an, event like that which could be very.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Beneficial TO them but i think there's some underlying things
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: here that are going on in addition to the decision
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: or the lack of COMMUNICATION on the, usa team, side which,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: is you know when you look at the composition. Of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: the team so not only, did they think at least,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: for a moment that they had already, punched, their ticket
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: well the lineup that they put out there last night
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: was probably, reflective of That And Even mark de rosso
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: said he was going to give some of his his,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: regulars days off and so the bench was populated by
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: guys who had been playing more prominent roles. On the, team,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: and hey listen everybody on this team is a Very
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Very Talented major, League baseball player so THERE'S no real
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: b squad, on this group but such, as it is
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: they sat some of their best. Hitters last night they
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: also started, their rookie McClain who is a very talented
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Pitcher For The, new YORK mets and i think part
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: of the reason he was on the team is twofold
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: ONE was Because I Think major league baseball tries to
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: build these rosters such that they can envision who would
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: be on the next ITERATION of, the WBC team and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: i think they view McClain as an up and coming
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: stud starting pitcher, in the game and maybe he would
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: be there with guys Like schoolbl and schemes down the
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: ROAD on, a wbc team and maybe that would be.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: The vaunted three so they wanted to give. Him some
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: experience but, then another thing which is a little bit
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: unique to This Event Is major league baseball has to
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: get insurance on every player who participates. In the event
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: the insurance is based, upon your salary, your career earnings and. Your,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: projected earnings well McLain is at the, major league minimum
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: so he's easier to put on the roster than maybe
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: somebody who's a little, bit more established also known as
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: somebody who's making a. Lot more money so he finds
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: his way as the starter of, last night's game perhaps
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: starting in a game that at some point the coaching
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: staff thought was insignificant to their. Ability to advance maybe
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: they would have rethought that if there was a chance
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: that that game was, on THE line but i bet
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: they would. Still STARTED him and i just think they'd
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: never thought for a second that they would lose a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: nine Inning Game. To team Italy And give michae lorenzen
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: And The offensive team italy. So Much, credit francisco. Cervelli
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: their manager they managed to, Win that game they played to,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: win that game and they didn't back down against a
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: team that, was on paper much more talented.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: Than they were if you, also saw that it appeared
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: that there, WAS a moment i think before, The Eighth
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: inning clayton kershaw, was warming up and it Seemed that
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: de rosa was told, or you know finally realized what,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: the Rules Were and mason miller came out to pitch
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: the eighth.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Right and, as you said, as YOU said the usa
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: team was starting to make a comeback, at that point,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: and YOU know so i think not only did McClain,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: start the Game But then ryan yarborough, came IN second
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: and i wonder if they would have managed the middle of.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: That game differently is, as you mentioned why they managed
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: the end of the game to try to get back into.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: To win it they didn't necessarily put their best pitcher.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: In The middle ryan arlberg is a, very talented pitcher
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: but they certainly have guys who are probably a little
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: bit higher in the pecking order in that bullpen. At
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: that time so there were some managerial decisions. Along the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: way unfortunately they did not pay Off FOR. The team
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: usa they're gonna have their. Fingers crossed tonight They're Pulling
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: for team, italy For sure or mexico in a landslide
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: and scoring more than more than. Five runs tonight We're.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: Both proud americans what WOULD You grade usa baseball's performance
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: so Far In This World Baseball Classic between aaron judges
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: pump up Speech between cal rawly not giving a handshake
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: TO His guy A randia rose, ARENA to, this i
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: mean what do you make of all?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: This so, FAR you know i think you look at
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: these these teams, and their performances and you look at
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: like kind of, the gold standard Which Interestingly. Is team
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: japan they take this. Event very seriously they put their,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Best roster forward they tend to whomever they, ask to,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: participate they play, and not shockingly they tend to do
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: very well, in this tournament and they typically kind of punch.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Above their weight last time they famously won And THEY
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: beat team usa with a Tremendous Finish where mike trout
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: was facing Off, against shohe otani one of the most
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: iconic finishes to A international competition. I've ever seen and
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: then you have teams who seem to take it a little,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: bit LESS seriously and I MAY lump team, usa in
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that where they invite certain players to come and they
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: turn it down because they don't really want to participate,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: in the event or they then go to the event
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: and they treated a little bit more as an exhibition
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: than something that they're, trying to win or they feel
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: that they're entitled to win in so they're just going
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: to go out. THERE and win i think now they
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: find themselves in a position they never thought they, would
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: be in which is it's going to come down to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: two other teams playing to. Determine their fate, when on
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: paper it looked like they had a pretty easy draw
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: in the first round and even in, the second round
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: because on the other side of this bracket sits The, The,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Jap Team, japan Team Korea, the Dominican, republic and venezuela
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: who are four of the best teams. IN this team
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: usa was in a little bit of a more favorable
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: first round matchup and looked like they had a more favorable.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Second round matchup and, lo and behold here they are
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: holding on, for dear life watching two other teams playing
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: and keeping. Their fingers crossed We.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: Can Talk world baseball. CLASSIC for hours i think we
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: can get into it next week once the, dust has
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: settled and once the tournament. Is wrapped up i've got
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: one more. Question for you So We've Got The los
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: angeles dodgers have reportedly committed to Providing Former outfielder andrew
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: toles with lifelong health insurance and long term treatment support
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  Speaker 4: as he continues his battle. With mental illness how monumental
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  Speaker 4: or unusual is a commitment Like This In? Major league
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  Speaker 4: baseball and do you think this could possibly set a
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  Speaker 4: new press.
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  Speaker 1: IN the league i think this should. NOT go unnoticed
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  Speaker 1: i Think What The los angeles dodgers ownership, is Doing
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  Speaker 1: Here what andrew friedman, is doing here. Is Absolutely Exceptional
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  Speaker 1: so andrew toles was a. Very talented, outfielder you know,
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  Speaker 1: in sports today we're so much more aware of mental
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  Speaker 1: illness and mental health problems than we ever once we're shedding,
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  Speaker 1: light on it we're trying to provide. Resources, For Players
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  Speaker 1: well andrew toles had some significant Issues And The los
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  Speaker 1: angeles dodgers have stood by him every step. Of the
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  Speaker 1: way and for, listeners to understand when players are under,
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  Speaker 1: major league contracts they are given some of the best healthcare.
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  Speaker 1: In The World the players association. Has negotiated this it's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best benefits for. Players and, coaches but
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately when you are no longer under the terms of a,
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  Speaker 1: major league contract that. Insurance goes away and so why
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  Speaker 1: it is talking about. Here is that but the Ownership
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  Speaker 1: Of The, los angeles dodgers under The Recommendation, of andrew,
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  Speaker 1: friedman their president have Decided To support andrew toles and
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  Speaker 1: keep that same. Level of insurance It's the best. I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen So whatever challenges, andrew is facing and, they
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  Speaker 1: are significant he will be availed of the best insurance
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  Speaker 1: you can, buy out there and that will be Subsidized
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  Speaker 1: By The, Los angeles dodgers and it sounds like in
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  Speaker 1: perpetuity as long as he's going, to need it because
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  Speaker 1: he has some issues that he will be battling for
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  Speaker 1: the rest, of his Life and the dodgers will be
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  Speaker 1: their lockstep with him the entire way to make sure
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  Speaker 1: he can focus on his own general well being and
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  Speaker 1: not the finances associated with supporting the challenges. That he's
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  Speaker 1: facing and SO once again i just want to give
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous hat tip to the Ownership Of The los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers and andrew friedman for making this such a.
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  Speaker 1: Priority for them they're doing absolutely. The right thing we
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  Speaker 1: don't always get a chance. To do that they. Are
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  Speaker 1: right now they're. Not doing it they're not asking for fans.
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  Speaker 1: Fair for this we're giving it out on. Rosters TO
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  Speaker 1: rings because i think this is one of the Most
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  Speaker 1: admirable things i've seen in sport. In recent memory it's.
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  Speaker 4: Great to see teams taking care of of their players
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  Speaker 4: and their former. Players like THAT that's all i got.
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  Speaker 1: For, you today well thank. You to, Everyone once again
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  Speaker 1: Thank You. To tristan crick we will see you next
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  Speaker 1: Week and Every thursday On rosters to rings