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Milwaukee Bucks Coaching Blunder, Curse of Adrian Griffin · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Oh good here, very welcome to another edition of US
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  Speaker 1: Ports and saying, boy, we have a while show in
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  Speaker 1: a great group. It's the iconic group. People love this group.
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  Speaker 1: They have fireworks there tonight because we have Eric Tax,
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  Speaker 1: we have Cliff Neil, we have Marky Bilson. Okay that
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  Speaker 1: they're all lined up, Candy down, all line ups upside down.
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  Speaker 1: And then then you have Codd and they have Tony
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  Speaker 1: in here and then Era can you get you that
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  Speaker 1: by design? So you did I like that format with them? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you did or not, but some
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  Speaker 1: of us have the popcorn out here. Anyways, we have
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  Speaker 1: a great agenda here today. Let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have to get off the top
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  Speaker 1: of the hour, no big deal. That's why we keep it,
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  Speaker 1: keep it simple stupid here. And then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: start a simple stupid by talk about motorsports, which we
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  Speaker 1: don't really do an awful lot. But there's a good
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  Speaker 1: reason why we're doing at this time because when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about motor sports, you're talking about Roger Penske. So
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  Speaker 1: Fox is actually paying one hundred and twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five million to acquire one third
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  Speaker 1: stake in Penske Entertainment. For those of you that don't
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  Speaker 1: know about Roger Penske, when it comes to motorsports, this
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  Speaker 1: guy is definitely the big and iconic with it. So
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  Speaker 1: when Fox is looking to get a piece of that
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  Speaker 1: motorsports action for Penske, which Roger Penske owns the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: Motor Speedway, some thoughts killer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's Fox has been changing their what
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  Speaker 2: they do overall. I mean they did sell off not
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  Speaker 2: too long ago, twentieth Century Fox all those movies and
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  Speaker 2: all those shows, and uh looks like they're reinvesting into
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  Speaker 2: into into the Indy Car, uh realm and they they're
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  Speaker 2: always trying to like trying new things. We'll we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how that goes. Uh they know sports, uh and uh
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's gonna be if they wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I used to work for the company a long time
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  Speaker 2: ago and they, uh yeah, we worked at the Fox
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  Speaker 2: News Channel and uh yeah, Uh it was uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They they they don't do things that try they try
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  Speaker 2: not to do things that lose the money. So they're
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  Speaker 2: pretty good with that. They have they have a very
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  Speaker 2: diverse portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, they sure do. When they bought the NFL
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  Speaker 1: CVS was actually left out for a while, but then
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  Speaker 1: to get back in the game. Tony. Your thoughts about
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  Speaker 1: Fox diving into the Indy car circuit.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I guess this is a good way to take
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  Speaker 3: advantage of the eyes that's on race cars. You know, racing,
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  Speaker 3: you know the new eyes that are on racing. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and kind of corner of the market. I know Foxes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they always have sports going on. I remember
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  Speaker 3: them having NASCAR when I was young coming up, So
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  Speaker 3: maybe this is just a new way for them to
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  Speaker 3: get back into it. I'm not I'm not really into
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  Speaker 3: the racing and that per se. But hey, sports is
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  Speaker 3: big business. You want to try and get as much
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  Speaker 3: as you can. And I'm pretty sure they'll get more
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  Speaker 3: eyes on and NCW's getting for some of that race stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Marky hell of Blueberry Cat actually glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you on our days. Josie's in the house, so well,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Marky, some thoughts about Fox diving into the
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  Speaker 1: Indye car business.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was a little yeah, I was the Indy
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  Speaker 4: car business. I was a little surprised on that. I
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  Speaker 4: think that because for the last twenty years or so.
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  Speaker 4: Let's face it, motor sports has taken a huge, huge
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  Speaker 4: dip in popularity. I mean I from the Tri City's
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee area home Bristol Motor Speedway. It used to be that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you'd have two races, one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: thousand people at BMS when I the last time I went,
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  Speaker 4: there were by my count and I mean you literally
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  Speaker 4: could go one, two, three in many sections there are
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  Speaker 4: probably about there are probably about twenty six thousand people there.
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  Speaker 4: In NASCAR has not been announcing attendance counts. That's very telling.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're telling me that they have invested in Penske,
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  Speaker 4: but the indie car is what they're saying. I found
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  Speaker 4: that to be interesting, but not necessarily so much the
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  Speaker 4: stock car side of things. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Again, one million to Quare one third stake and
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  Speaker 1: Pansy Entertainment. In other words, that they're telling you that
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  Speaker 1: God forbid anything after Roger Penske. You know they're going
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  Speaker 1: to get a piece of that action, which includes obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Motor Speedy. Roger Bensky has no spring chicken
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  Speaker 1: at in but he looked at that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what I'm considering here is that, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: felt that NASCAR had taken the lead in motorsports, oh
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  Speaker 4: thirty years ago, more than thirty years ago, that the
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  Speaker 4: Indy five hundred had actually, by some counts, become an
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  Speaker 4: afterthought after the Coca Cola six hundred. They're on Memorial
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  Speaker 4: Day because of the dominance of NASCAR racing, the dominance
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  Speaker 4: of NASCAR popularity. I mean, it was only the diehards
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  Speaker 4: and people from other countries it seemed that cared about
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  Speaker 4: Indy car. I am curious though that I've just noticed
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  Speaker 4: a shift in the culture, culture of NASCAR, maybe the
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  Speaker 4: culture of the United States. You know, we don't have
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  Speaker 4: that many sedans anymore that are being built. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you have now the pony cars on the NASCAR trail,
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  Speaker 4: and it just seems like, you know, the push towards
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  Speaker 4: electric cars, that sort of style of racing is going
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  Speaker 4: to be phased out. Plus, I think that and I
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  Speaker 4: will just say this once, I think one of the
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  Speaker 4: booms reason why there was such a boone in NASCAR
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  Speaker 4: interest in the late nineties it was where the country
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  Speaker 4: boys could go to have a sport. I mean, Thomas
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  Speaker 4: Woolf wrote about this in the sixties, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: you had a sport where the championship was named after
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  Speaker 4: a cigarette company, and it was perfectly okay to say, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a country boy and waive a rebel flag. Well
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  Speaker 4: you can't do those things now in NASCAR, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that it had alienated them, you know, from some
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  Speaker 4: of the fans that they had. You can talk about
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  Speaker 4: the car tomorrow, et cetera. You could now be from
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  Speaker 4: what you're explaining now, that the future of motorsports will
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  Speaker 4: be indie car racing. Let's face it, nobody is going
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  Speaker 4: to compare an indie car with what with a Mustanger
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  Speaker 4: Camaro that you can drive on the street.
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  Speaker 5: Tody, I've never been in a real you know, NASCAR
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  Speaker 5: or any of that. All I know is the the
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  Speaker 5: Netflix series it was a Drive to Survive and the
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  Speaker 5: f one movie is really I know, more and more
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  Speaker 5: people have gotten into the racing game after watching you
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  Speaker 5: know that series or that movie. So I really have
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  Speaker 5: I really have no take on this. So I've never
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  Speaker 5: really been to one to watch motorsports, so I'll pass
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  Speaker 5: on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I meanwhile, I can recite the very first the entire
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  Speaker 4: dialogue of the pilot episode of the Dukes of Hazzard
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  Speaker 4: from memory. You can challenge me on that, So, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's I did live in East Tennessee for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: I believe you, Marky. I'm not gonna even test you
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  Speaker 5: on that one. I believe you don't.
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  Speaker 4: Even want to. I imagine I can.
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  Speaker 2: I can talk to you about the Dukes of Hazard too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, there you go, I will say.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know you were mentioning, uh, you know
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  Speaker 4: the motorsports in film if you go back always Days
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  Speaker 4: of Thunder and if you remember what was it Cole Trickles.
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  Speaker 4: Originally his car was sponsored and I couldn't get a
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  Speaker 4: real sponsor sponsored by City Chevrolet and all that there
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  Speaker 4: is actually that that dates back, I think is a
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  Speaker 4: reference to the very first day tone of five hundred,
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  Speaker 4: because City Motors in Johnson City, Tennessee, actually sponsored two
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  Speaker 4: cars in the very first day ton of five hundred.
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  Speaker 4: So that a little something that you probably did not know.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean again, from what you're saying and getting
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  Speaker 4: back to the topic, it just seems that they if
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  Speaker 4: they are investing more in motorsports in Indy car that
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  Speaker 4: that might be where Fox feels the future of motorsports
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  Speaker 4: is going to be uh and because it seems to me,
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  Speaker 4: I mean now that we're down to the pony cars
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  Speaker 4: and it was the only sedans you really can buy
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  Speaker 4: anymore at a at a lot. There are no more impalas,
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  Speaker 4: there are no more fusion you know this sort of thing.
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  Speaker 4: There are no old more old mobiles or Pontiacs. You're
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  Speaker 4: looking at a situation where that might be considered, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: the future just reiterated the Indy car, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for someone who watched NASCAR for how long, a bit disturbing, the.
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  Speaker 1: One to challenge everybody around here? Is there a cats well?
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  Speaker 1: And Eric, you're going to pick your moments later late
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  Speaker 1: to do this? Well, you're talking h topic none the less.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I haven't watched NASCAR in a very long time,
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  Speaker 6: so I couldn't really offer offer an opinion on what's
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  Speaker 6: going on. What's going on in the sport?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, bottom line is a five twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million and Tenske Entertainment's a real kicker here. Just peny
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  Speaker 1: Eric payment, he talked about entertainment. Eric, you want to
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  Speaker 1: move on to something else?
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  Speaker 7: Wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I want mine. So there
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  Speaker 7: was an article written to Day about this in the
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  Speaker 7: Sports Business Journal. Roger Penski, owner of Penske Entertainment, has
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  Speaker 7: submitted a public comment to the FCC regarding the current
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  Speaker 7: American sports television landscape and voice approval for keeping sports
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  Speaker 7: on free to air on TV the FCC. Penske addressed
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  Speaker 7: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and his letter and wrote, as
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  Speaker 7: the proud owner of the NTT Indie Car Series, I
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  Speaker 7: have seen firsthand what broadcast television can do for a
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  Speaker 7: support a sport, he added. Last year, Penske Entertainment and
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  Speaker 7: Fox partnered every race airing on the Fox broadcast network.
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  Speaker 7: Ratings were up double digits, with the Indianapolis five hundred
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  Speaker 7: drawing more than seven million viewers, a forty one percent
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  Speaker 7: jump and the most watched Indy five hundred since two
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  Speaker 7: thousand and eight. Through the first three races of twenty
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  Speaker 7: six series, viewership has climbed an additional forty eight percent,
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  Speaker 7: and that's because it's on free TV. So kudos to
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  Speaker 7: the two of them partnering up and increasing the sports
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  Speaker 7: viewership free to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think racing, I don't think racing will fly
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  Speaker 2: on a pay per view basis. Honestly, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that that that it has to be on regular broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Well agreed, all right, So well I'll tell you, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's many of us or some of us are Pop four.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about hot dogs because I kind of
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  Speaker 1: Coney Island hot dogs hawker. Nathan Famous hot Dogs has
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  Speaker 1: sold for four hundred and fifty million. Everybody knows about
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  Speaker 1: Nathan's because of Joey Cheffnutt. So all right, cle this
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  Speaker 1: is up in your neck of the words about Nathan's.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about Nathan's being sold for four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine and that's an awful lot of dogs,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of dough.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's it's it's the brand. It's the brand.
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  Speaker 2: The brand is massive Smithfield, they own quite a few
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  Speaker 2: other companies out there. It just makes sense that they
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  Speaker 2: would want I mean, hot dogs. It's and it's Nathan's.
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  Speaker 2: It's they're gonna they're gonna go for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody.
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  Speaker 2: How many people watch the fourth of July people stuff
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  Speaker 2: in their face with hot dogs and that's that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the hot dog, like Haven or Heaven or so if
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have a hot dog brand, chances are gonna
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  Speaker 2: go for Nathan's. That's the They hit a home run
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  Speaker 2: on that one, and that's what most people think about
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  Speaker 2: with that with that, so good luck with that. I
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  Speaker 2: hope it doesn't hurt their hurt the brand, but I
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  Speaker 2: think they'll be okay, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Candy Smithfield Foods has agreed to acquire the iconic one
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  Speaker 8: hundred and ten year old hot dog brand, Nathan's Famous They.
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  Speaker 8: Smithfield had held the licensing rights to produce and sell
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  Speaker 8: Nathan's products since twenty fourteen, but now they're going to
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  Speaker 8: acquire all of the remaining shares for about one hundred
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  Speaker 8: and two dollars each. So if you had to share
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  Speaker 8: Nathan's hock dogs, that's what it's worth. But it's they
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  Speaker 8: announced it obviously, it's Smithfield is a major meat processor,
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  Speaker 8: and it's just going to increase their portfolio and secures
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  Speaker 8: full control of the brand.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's my go to I'm the only person
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  Speaker 3: in my house that lives and die by Nathan's. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: else ballparks, but now I'm a Nathan's guy. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the summers in New York coming in for me. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: as long as they don't mess with the recipe, we're good,
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  Speaker 3: all right. I don't need them coming in breaking something
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  Speaker 3: that ain't fixing something that ain't broke. All right, keep
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  Speaker 3: it the same, and I'm fine with it. Kudos to
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  Speaker 3: the people that Nathan's for getting his deal done. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure he's going to be a lot more time on beaches,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time chilling, relaxing, because four hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty million dollars, even if you got to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: break some of that up and spread it out, it's
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  Speaker 3: a nice chunk of change.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Marky Well, I don't know Nathan's from Joey Chessnut.
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  Speaker 4: I know Nathan's from Larry King. Talking about a story back.
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  Speaker 9: In the day.
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  Speaker 4: I'm dating myself, I guess. But tell you about a
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  Speaker 4: story back of the day when he was in high
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  Speaker 4: school and he and some friends got into a stam
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  Speaker 4: where they would collect money for flowers for a deceased
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  Speaker 4: classmate who really wasn't deceased. And what do they do.
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  Speaker 4: They took the money and they went to Nathan's you know.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, one hundred and ten year old history,
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  Speaker 4: pretty big back in you know, in Coney Island was
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  Speaker 4: all that in a bag of chips to Brooklyn Heights
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  Speaker 4: and such. I will tell you that I you know
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  Speaker 4: you'd mentioned enjoyed chestnut. I mean to me, thet the
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  Speaker 4: Nathan's hot Dog eating contest, giving anybody watched that over
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  Speaker 4: baseball on July fourth is a sign of the culture devolving.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I just think it's a sick thing to
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  Speaker 4: see people stuffing their face with seventy five hot dogs
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  Speaker 4: instead of watching a charming all American pastime on our
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  Speaker 4: nations in a birthday myself as far as going to
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  Speaker 4: being sold in all this, look, I remember when Nathan's
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of outlets, a lot of stores throughout
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  Speaker 4: the country, and a lot of them went away about
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  Speaker 4: fifteen twenty years ago. So I'm curious to see if
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  Speaker 4: we'll see more Nathan's hot Dog shops out and about
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  Speaker 4: in the you know, throughout the country or even beyond
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  Speaker 4: like there once were. They really tried to make that
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  Speaker 4: a brand that would you know, kind of a I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you can't take on McDonald's, but you know, a major
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  Speaker 4: fast food restaurant didn't quite make it. Be interested to
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  Speaker 4: see if that's going to be a strategy to try
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  Speaker 4: it again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if they were a past food all day long.
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  Speaker 1: I like hot dogs that for sure. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: I like their hot dogs. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have one right across the street from me.
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  Speaker 4: Any yeah, yeah, But what happened, Like I said, they
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  Speaker 4: suffered about fifteen twenty years ago, a lot of them
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  Speaker 4: went out of business. And I don't think the brand
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  Speaker 4: is quite down to restaurants are quite down to burger
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  Speaker 4: chef or anything like that. I mean, you'll still see
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  Speaker 4: them in well, I'm certain in New York and maybe
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  Speaker 4: a few airports that sort of thing. But yeah, will
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  Speaker 4: they try to revive the brand under this or are
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  Speaker 4: they willing to let the stores go the way of
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  Speaker 4: Howard john.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard burgersp and Howard Johnson's mentioned it a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 4: Because they're not around anymore, and they once were dominant.
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  Speaker 1: I remember those, all right, Cody.
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  Speaker 5: I mean sad to see that Nathan's is going to
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  Speaker 5: be bought out like this, But I mean, for me,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't care what hot dog was in front of
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  Speaker 5: me as long as it was burnt and everything, and
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  Speaker 5: I had to catch up in a bun I didn't care.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, look at me. I hate everything everything
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  Speaker 5: in sight with it, especially hot dogs and burgers. But no,
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  Speaker 5: Nathan's is just you know, with the hot dog eating
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  Speaker 5: contest and and all that. It's it's a it's part
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  Speaker 5: of history in American history. So it sucks that to
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  Speaker 5: see Nathan's being bought out by what Smith is what
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  Speaker 5: it was. But I guess that I agree. I just
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  Speaker 5: hope they don't change the recipe.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Eric, I mean we're seeing these like
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  Speaker 6: these places like that that are iconic with each read
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  Speaker 6: like in the Chicago area it's Portillo's, and obviously the
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  Speaker 6: East coast it's it's nathan especially around the Fourth of
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  Speaker 6: July where we're watching people stuff hot dogs in their
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  Speaker 6: faces and we're and we're kind of concerned about their
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  Speaker 6: health and well being after the camera turns off. But
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  Speaker 6: the but you know, it's it happens. I don't think
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  Speaker 6: they're going to change too much with it. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I think the idea there is you know, you know
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  Speaker 6: they you know, Portillo's is bought out with by a
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  Speaker 6: private equity company and their idea was not to ruin it.
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  Speaker 6: So hopefully the same thing can be can be said
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  Speaker 6: about whoever's buying Nathan's.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's talk about April baseball. The Guardians
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  Speaker 1: actually moved up a game in April and an anticipation
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  Speaker 1: of the fridgid temperatures, game should be played up in
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland in the month of April. Early April. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to cliff.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's early April. It's Cleveland. They know it's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we know what Cleveland is. It's you know, it's a plate.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's early April.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Sometimes, you know.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: That's part of it. I remember when Yankees, was it
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: ninety six or ninety seven, there was a big old snowstorm.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: They're right on the lake over there. You shouldn't be
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that surprised. I mean, you can't, really, like Chake control
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the weather. So you know, just suck it up and uh,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: you know, it's you're getting played to play Major League baseball. Okay,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's going to be cold, and hey, I've been
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: in some cold games too. I'm from the Northeast, so
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: actually kind I kind of like that. You know, it's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a difference.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Were many dome stadiums up there when they did have
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: one up in Minneapolis. I went to Open Air and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that was a Metro Gold.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Candy well the now Guardians, but it was the Cleveland
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Indians moved their home opener series against the Los Angeles
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Angels to Milwaukee Miller Park in April two thousand and
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: seven due to severe snowstorm in cold weather that had
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: blanketed Cleveland back in the day. So you know, that
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: was the smartest thing that Milwaukee did, was put a
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: dome over their stadium. So they're getting to a game
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: no matter what, no matter if it's raining outside, no
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: matter if it's cold. I think some of the I
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: get some people want it to be more you know, natural,
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: and they think it should be played outside.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: We have a dome, we open the you know, the roof,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: and you can play. But like I said, it allows
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: for people that they're guaranteed a game. So if you're
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: gonna drive two three four hours because you don't have
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: a team closer to you, you're guaranteed a game. So Cleveland,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: I get it, But you know, you moved a home opener,
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: a home opener. We're not talking just a regular game,
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: a home opener years ago to a different to a
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: different city. So, like I said, I really like the
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: fact that there is a dome or a retractable roof
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: over the old Miller Park. Now, American Family Fields in
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Milwaukee Cleveland should have been smart and done the same thing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Coin the quote the great philosopher Andre three thousand, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: could plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: It's just part of the sport.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess hearing that that is gonna blanket
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and be a snowstorm, you have to make a change
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: or adjustment. It thinks for the fans though. Home openers
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: are such a big thing for baseball, but like not
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: being able to have that it really stakes or stunk
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: at the time. But it's part of the sport. You
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: play an outdoor sport. I mean, we've seen it in Detroit.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: They're playing in snow the opening weaker, So you've seen
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: it in different places.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: It's the element I do feel like.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Now fast forward in the twenty twenty six we're hearing
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: more and more about the cold weather early in the season.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Suck it up, okay, guys, play is okay? Is all right?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I'm more so referencing Jashchism and his struggles right now
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: being a Yankee guy.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: But it's all good.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: It's I just feel bad for the fans like you,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Like you said, Candy, these people, man, you're probably playing
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: this a year in advance, right months in advance, to
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: go to these games, especially a home opener, for that
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to move that that's that's that's what I feel for.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Marquee Well.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I would just say that I was going to reference
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: actually with the three games in twenty oh seven that
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: the Indians played to when it was snowy in Cleveland
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: and such. I agree with you, actually, I think that
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: new ballparks should be built with retractable roofs. We all
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: like to sit out in the sun when it's nice
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and all that, but a lot of times it's not
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that way, and a lot of times it's very uncomfortable
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to sit in you know, those early thirty five degree
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: day games. And you know, there's a different mentality between
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: football and baseball. You do, you will be colder at
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: a thirty five degree baseball game. I feel, then, say
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: a fifteen degree football game, because of the football seat,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: You're gonna bundle up, You're kind of used to the
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: cold weather. You're gonna take your overca you just don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: have the mindset of long Johnson handwarmers and raccoon coats
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: to a baseball game, no matter when it's played. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: also think though, that it would do a Major League
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Baseball a lot of good if they recognized that early
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: in the year games should be played in southern locations
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: as well as in dome stadiums. Now. I know that,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: let's say Seattle or well, I'm thinking they're still in
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: the Kingdom, let's say just say Milwaukee.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: A lot of times teams don't want to do this
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: because it sacrifices the lucrative summertime games where families come
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: and you know, school is out so you can take
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the family on a Thursday night or whatever. And I
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: do get that. But if we're gonna be having as
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: many rounds of baseball playoffs as we have hockey playoffs,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: which in itself is absurd, If we're going to be
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: starting the season in March and try and then we
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: have a World Series that goes into November, for crying
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: out lap, you've got to start considering these things. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: if it means that you have to play those games
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and the warm weather teams are going to you know, hey,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: you know the first day of the baseball season, that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: going to draw a lot, especially when you have the
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: home opener on the first day of the season. Cincinnati. Okay, Cincinnati.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I've been to Cincinnati opening Day when it's really cold,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: but I think the populace there has kind of gotten
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: used to that. But that's about the only place the
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: most northern outdoor stadium. I think that we should be
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: playing games in early April.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And I've heard I've heard the argument made many times
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: marking here on target there Okay, Cody.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, why not just get a retractable roof. It's
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: it's not that hard. Seattle has one. I was at
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: a Mariners game for opening their opening weekend a few
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: years ago and it started raining, and sure, it was
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: nice and nice day out before, and then like right
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: around the third inning, it started raining and I just
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: see the roof gover and the play continued. It should
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: not be that hard just to get a retractable roof,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: be more updated with their ballparks. I mean, I'm speaking
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: because my Angels. They can't update anything to save their
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: life right now, not even their team.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: So I'm sorry for you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that it hurts, trust me, and it's a
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: more Angels fan kind of thing, but I really think
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: that teams should really if you're in that kind of
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: climate era, you should be more prepared so that way
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: you don't have to risk your losing your home opener
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: to be played in another state, another arena or stadium.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, come on, if you know the weather in
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: your area, you should be well prepared for that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I agree with you to a certain extent, but I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: think the existing stadiums, how practical is it to put
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: a climate dome over them? Do they really want that?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Right now? Look we can say that, well, they weren't
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: bringing ahead, you know in nineteen ninety four when Progressive
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Stadium or Progressive Field which was then Jacob's Field was built.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And okay, fine, but I don't see where now, how
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: are you going to put this, you know, over the
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: existing structure. It isn't built that way. Ballparks, I think,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: like what the Cleveland plays in, or refuse to call
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: them by their slave name, or what the Pirates are in.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: You know right now the pirates have and I'm going
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: to tell you, yeah, sure, it's going to be uncomfortable
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: April seventh in Pittsburgh, and there's a lot of rain there.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: In fact, it used to be that the Pirates always
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: opened up on the road because of the weather in
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh in April. That was that was a thing, just
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: as commonplaces Cincinnati always opening up at home first day
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: of the baseball season. But the situation is, you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: even if you could right now, who's going to pay
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: for it? And you know, is this structure going to
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: be coming out of the Allegheny River. I mean, what
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: is your plan here? And are you going to take
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: away that beautiful view behind the ballpark? What you're saying
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: in theory I agree with. I just don't know how
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: practical it is. But I would suggest that when new
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: stadiums are built, they should be built with retractable dumps.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's mostly what I meant. Because everyone is getting
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: new arenas news ballparks, A lot of people are doing that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: I understand. I understand, like the resources hard, but I mean,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: hasn't at least one or ballpark at least went from
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: not having attractable roof to having a tractable roof or
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: they just built that.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: Way the whole new stadium. Because it's expensive to do that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, Like, these teams
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: don't even want to they want a salary cap. They're
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: not spending five hundred million dollars for a new route,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: because that's what that was the number they gave the Rangers.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: They just built a whole new stadium.
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: But when everybody's complaining that Milwaukee is this small market,
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: and yet they're the ones that spent the money to
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: put a retractable roof over their stadium.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: They didn't have one before.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: The markets they got no money.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: So candy, they did not have one before, right, correct?
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: And then they OK, it's a market, it is doable,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: so why.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Not weet, I'm suggesting that, uh, in current current stadiums,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: that's going to be a little bit much when you're
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: saying it's doable. Also, you know, you're it's not that
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: easy to raise a billion dollars or whatever a new
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: major league stadium costs from the taxpayers when they've already
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: built one, say twenty five thirty years before it becomes hey,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: didn't we already.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Pay for this?
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: What do you got?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: You know, we'd have to have our schools open and
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: fix the potholes and make sure the fires are put
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: out and that the sewers run. Uh, there are something
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: And maybe if it means that a game has rained out,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: so be it for the time being. Now, maybe in
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: fifty years, in twenty years, in one hundred years, whenever
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: it's time to replace the current open air stadiums that
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: are in existence. Yeah, I would suggest if I'm the
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Commissioner of Baseball, hey, you've got to look at a
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: retractable route, unless maybe you're in a place like Los
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Angeles or San Diego. But otherwise yeah, sure, I mean,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I get it, it's a necessary item. I would agree
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: with that, but I don't know how practical it is
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: to put it on PNC Park. And I don't know
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: how practical it is to replace PNC Park or you
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: know where the team that should be called the Indians
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: play right now, or a great American ballpark in Cincinnati.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I lose track of the sponsorships with the stadiums. I'm sorry,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: these got the Red Yard, you know wherever. And like
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I said, how are you going to put that retractable
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: dome right now in the red Stadium? Is it going
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: to come out of the Ohio River? What's your plan here?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, you were talking about loss and everything like that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: But if you think about it, if people can get
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: retractable roofs, you could probably do more stuff year round
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: with concerts. You could all host you know, a monster
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: truck route. You could do so much more because now
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: during the winter time, when it is raining more, you
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: have a roof over that stadium, and you could do
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: so much more stuff during that dead time.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I hear what you're saying. Yeah, but I don't know again,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: how many hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayer
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: are they going to say, Oh, but you'll get more
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: monster truck pulls. Yeah, the little old lady he was
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: eating cat food doesn't want to hear that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you've had you've had your you've had your
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: talk time. Now it's my turn to have a talking stick.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: First of all, First of all, you guys are just
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: with this whole we need roof, we need this. It
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: sounds like you guys are are gen zing yourself out
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: of the sport completely. Secondly, yes, you can not. Every
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: southern state has a has a major League baseball team.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: You can't just put all the about twenty eight or
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: twenty seven other baseball teams playing in a southern state
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: during opening day. It don't work that like that. You know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: we've been playing in cold weather for years. No, Markie,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: you've already had your turn to talk. Now let me talk.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Put that figure down before, before before before you don't
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: get it back, I forgot put your finger down before.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: I fine, but okay, yeah yo.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: We uh we we. As a society man, you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: stop just yes. In some cases, in some states, you
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: know they have they have retractable rules. The Brewers do
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: it for obvious reasons. It's not exactly a tropical paradise
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: here year round. By the time October comes around, it's
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: it's kind of cold outside, you know. Second Secondly, baseball
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: is meant to be played outdoors. You know, you don't
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: need a roof. Oh it rains well somehow, somehow, open
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: air stadiums make do, and they're able to get one
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: sixty two in places like Yankee Stadium and City Field.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: More.
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: There are more stadiums in Major League Baseball that are
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: open air than there are with retractable roofs. It's starting
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: to it's starting to piss me off. The NFL teams
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: are moving to retractable roofs when you can easily play
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: football outside in the snow. You know, they're this retractable
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: roofs thing is crazy. You can make money with these
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: entertainment districts that people are talking about. Teams are doing
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: this all the time. They used to be about affordable
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: housing till the till the owners would find a way
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: to wiggle themselves out of it and not pay for it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: You have entertainment districts that you can use your round somehow.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: The Packers have one, and it gets and I and
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Candy can probably attest to this. It snows there. It
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: wouldn't be shocking if it snows. I'm pretty sure it
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: snowed there in April and May before you know. But
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: yet they have the lambeau Field Atrium, which has restaurants
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: and bars and merchandise shops and whatever and everybody. And
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: it can be you twenty four seven three three sixty
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: five during even in the dead of winter, and during
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: when when the Packers aren't playing football, it can be done.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Baseball is meant to be played in the great outdoors.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: They've been doing it. They've been doing that since since
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: before your ancestors came over from Europe. You know they here.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I would suggest that your argument there is as old
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: fashioned as baseball should not be played with lights. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: would suggest that if you look at where the teams
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: are located, well, yes, not every team, not every team
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: is in a southern state. If you combine and you
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: look at the warm weather location and combine them with
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: the dome stadiums, that's half of the stadia in Major
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: League Baseball. It can be done. I do understand.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: You know that it is sacrilegious. It is sacrilegious. If
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: you a thing like.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: That, you're you're you're really you're really sounding like we
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: can't have the World Series played at night. Well, you're
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: really sounding like that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Like you're sounding like gen Z for that matter.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean gen Z. I mean I'm talking about
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: generation before of World War One, and actually they were
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: saying things like that back in those days. You know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: what is this Crosley Field with lights? What what sacrilege
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: is that being going on? You know, the game played
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: in the sun? Well, I mean you know that that
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: was the same that's the same argument.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: I think that somehow northern cities with open air stadiums
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: like Wrigley Field, the White Sox stadium whatever it's called.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: These days, the Queen Stadium is open air, and somehow
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: we still get one sixty two w Yes, there are
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: rain owes.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: They may do that, but how many times are Yeah,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: they do do that, but you know, not obviously to
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: the optimum standards all the time. No one is saying
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: that we're trying to put all the team games indoors.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: We are saying in this that, you know, when future
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: stadia is built, maybe it would be a good idea
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: that when it rains, we can play the game inside,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: because you can't play it outside on that day, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: on the other days when you have the nice sunshine,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: let's play it outside. Let's play it outside, like you suggest.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: That's what double headers are for. And matter of fact,
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: when it was cold outside.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Mark doubleheaders or you know, unfortunately that's the way of
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: the Dodo.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: Well, let me ask you something. When little Marky was
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: growing up, what side in Pennsylvania be back with the dinosaurs?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: Did you wear a jacket when it was snowing outside?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: However, as I said, I don't see trying to make
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: your I mean, by the same token, I could say
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: that modern and I don't really believe this, But I'm
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: just saying the Devil's evgett here. Baseball shouldn't be played
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: in one hundred and thirty degrees in Saint Louis on
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: a hot August day, which it obviously has been in
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: a outdoor situation.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: I got a question about what.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Vegas get nearly?
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, I assure you that I've been to Saint Louis
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: during the summertime seeing a Cardinals game in ninety plus
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: degree weather, and I was sure I and I but guess.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: But for the longest time, despite that weather, Cardinal fans
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: showed up. Heck, they even outdrew the Yankees.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: For the thing is, was the game played in its
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: optimum condition when the players were on the astro terminal
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Bush Stadium, playing literally in one hundred and twenty degree
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: temperatures and some of the stories that went on and
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: having to play in the and even today in one
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: hundred degree temperatures and all that, and is that really
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: that comfortable for the fans? The fans showed up. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: think more fans would show up if they were knew
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: that they were going to be more comfortable.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: What about Vegas?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: I think I going to be a disaster.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Let me say this, in Arizona, they have a retractable rope.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I've been in it before, so they had to do
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: what they had to do their well know how to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: get there. You know what. This topic could go on
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and on, but since Mark he's on, he have a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: limited shelf live here, let's talk about Connor Griffin. Obviously
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: of the Pirates agree to contract. Essential is official nine years,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty million dollars, ourgest dealing franchise history.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Marky will start off with you, what are your talk
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: I'm glad the Pirates are finally realizing they've got to
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: keep their talent. They thought that thirty five years ago
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: that we need Steve Bouchelle and and Andy Van Slight
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: and Zane Smith, not Bonds and Benia. So I'm I'm
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: you know, and I know maybe there is a risk
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: if he's a bust, but you know, this is the
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: first teenager to play every day get a starting position
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: in eight years since. To tease, this is a very
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: highly regarded prospect. Surely that you know, I know that
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: maybe there's no can't missus or anything like that, but
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: it's worth the investment. It's worth sticking with this guy
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: and not throwing him away.
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: And yeah, so I like it very much. Uh. In
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: the old days. In the old days, the nineties, the
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Cleveland Indians signed their young players the long term contracts,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: whereas before U they were known for losing and such
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and trading away their prospects. I think this is the
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: way to go, and it hasn't happened this way in
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh in a long time. We just hope that the
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: contract doesn't work out like it was with Jason Kendall,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: where they signed lots of money and lots of years
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: A singles hitter.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, Tony, your thalughts about this contract.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Is the is the new way of the MLB. Uh
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: paying these guys early. They paid You've seen in in Seattle.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: It just paid Kevin and Magona.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: I don't know how to say his last name. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: want to throw it off, but they just paid him
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: in Detroit today.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I think this is a nice way to avoid arbitration
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: and it ends up keeping things from.
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: Being messy while they're still young.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: And for the players, it's cool because it gives them
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: another crack at the apple to get some more money
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: if they can perform in this contract, so I like
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: what's going on with it, and yeah.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Cody, well, I agree with what Tony said. You know,
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: it's a good way to keep the players out of
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: arbitration because usually when things go to arbitration, things tend
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: to go badly both ways. So you know, you're ruined
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: relationships that way with you know, team and player, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: you know, you know the team probably getting is trying
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: to get a good deal, and the players is signed
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: for a long term. He knows where he's gonna be
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: for the next eight to ten years. So I wouldn't
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: see why not to do these kind of deals, you know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: starting this time. And good for Connor Griffin. You know,
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know much about any Pirates prospects. I don't
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: even care about the Angels right now because they still
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: disappoint me. So all I know is Mike Trout's playing well,
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: and that's all I care about.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: Candy, you know, they The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Griffin in
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: the first round with the ninth overall selection of the
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty four draft, and he debuted last year in
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: with the Bradenton Marauters. In June, he was promoted to
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: the Greensboro Grasshoppers. In mid August, he was promoted to
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: Altoona Curve and then and then keep moving up. I
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: think it's it's really good to stay within an organization
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: because I think then you have the consistency of the
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: coaches and the message. So I think that's important and
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: very helpful. Especially we've talked about how sometimes you go
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: from one coach to another coach to another coach and
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: you don't have the consistency there that you don't get
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: developed as well. And so I think this is good
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: for the prospects and I wish him as much as
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: he can do well. As long as he's not playing
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: against my team, that's all, okay.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Clip there's some comparisons to him to Bobby Witt junior.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: We'll see. He got his hit and what about one
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: eighty nine. Now he's only thirty seven at bat, so
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you can't really go too much with that. He's just up.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: But the Pirates gotta if they gotta lock him in
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: long because he's probably he's probably gonna run away if
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: he because he's just like everybody else does. So if
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh had to do that, if they, hey, we want
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: this kid, We're gonna try to like market around him,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: build around him. But I don't know how he's gonna
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: be consistent, because do we know this is gonna be
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the same general manager and the same manager. It's the Pirates,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: that's the whole thing. I mean, you know, they they're
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: they're doing pretty well to start off right now, but
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: it's still the Pirates. I don't know. I don't know
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. They Oh good, good smart on their
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: part for kick having them locked in for at least
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: a little bit.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: You sound like how I feel about the Mits, how
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: you feel about the Pirates is like, all.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Right, get that, Eric. Is there anything you want to
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: add about the Connor Griffin? And I've got one more
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: feature top I need to get these guys in and
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: that's us. We're going to talk about a Milwaukee Bucks.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: But is there anything you want because I know you
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: mentioned a lot on Monday Night. Anything you want to
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: talk about the Griffin or you want to go on
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: to the next topic, which is our feature topic.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a league wide trend where everybody's trying
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: to lock up the stars. Lock up the stars now
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: before they get too expensive and and at least Bob.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: Bob Nutting finally did finally did the minimum, the minimal
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: part of his job, which is locking up guys long term.
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: This is the league wide trend. They're trying to lock
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: in stars before before they become too expensive. The Brewers
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: did this with Jackson Truro, and they also recently did
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: this with Cooper Pratt. The Tigers just did it with
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: Kevin mcdonagall, and so this and the I think De
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Orlanta Braves started that off when they locked in rond
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: of Cunon, when they locked in Ronald of Cuna.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: Junior and others.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: This is just the part, but this is just what
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: the league's doing. They're trying to get these gut. They're
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: trying to buy them out, buy out. There are years
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: and buy out the first part of free agency before
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: they get too crazy expensive and they're unable to keep
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: them around. I think it's just smart money.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about our peachert topic of the night.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I need to get Tony, I need to get Markey
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: in on this one, okay. And that's a Milwaukee bumps. Obviously,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: when they had Adrian Grippin, they went thirty and thirteenth
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: six ninety eight numbers since they run in Doc Rivers,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: we obviously stepped down and then ended up finishing ninety
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: seven one oh three. Marky, your thoughts about the.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: I have no thoughts past. I'm sorry, I have one.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Not a problem. Okay, let's go ahead, Tony.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I have plenty of thoughts NB joking not too much.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this, Doc Rivers is the most overrated
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: coach in NBA history. He is dining out on a
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: two thousand and eight championship and no one talks about
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: the fact that he has the most three one blown
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: league in the playoffs in NBA history.
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: He doesn't make any team over achieved.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, one team I could think of he
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: had overachievement, and I think that was the twenty fourteen
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: or twenty fifteen Clippers team that won two games against
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: the Warriors before the Warriors.
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: Went to the.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Doc Rivers never set through a rebuild to show that
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: he can develop talent, and then he Milwaukee a team
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: that was depeting for the playoffs and completing for championships
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: and they.
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: Are in the lottery.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I've been out on Doc Rivers for a while. Super overrated.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I'll take Rick Carlisle. I can go through a list
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: of coaches. I'll take above Doc Rivers. But for some
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: reason he want a championship with the Celtics. He's looked
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: at it. I'm great coach, and Rick.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Colonel when we were alluding to, is a great coach
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and it waits. You'm a fan of the couple. All right?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You know what, Mark, I know you have to go
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: in a moment. So once you're getting your party shot
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: in your mind, towns and to what's you get going?
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: What town do you want here for? I would say
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: that that we were since we're telling you that, Connor Grippin
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: and the Pirates say, we're stunned. They're ten and seven,
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: They're in first place. This has never happened before. And
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: there's the thing is, I think that only very few
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: to the Pirates have always been a slow starting team.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: And if you look they started nine and five or
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: ten and seven now, but if you look at like
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: the last four times that they started nine and five,
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: it's amazing. I mean, this is actually a precursor to
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: better things. So who knows. I mean, maybe this is
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: the year where the Bucks can make the playoffs again.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: That they haven't done. I guess it was twenty fifteen.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Uh you know they short with schemes in Griffith. Although
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Grippath that hasn't done much so far, it does give
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: some optimism for the future, so we'll look at that anyway.
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: I do have to leave.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Thanks you much for having me on.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: See you next Wednesday. Thanks you night. All right, Tony,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I know you have to get out of here pretty quick,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: so why don't you give us your party shots in
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Mike Town as well?
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Uh parton shots. Uh Wnba is kicking into high gear.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that the ladies are getting paid. Shout out
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: to Asia Wilson broke a record three years five million dollars.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Probably underpaid by the fact of what she brings to
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the Vegas but at least she getting a little bit
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: of bread and from my town. I've been talking about
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: the Magic I'm gonna keep talking about them because they
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: probably got one more game after they lose to the
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Sixers tonight. And Jamal Mosey seat is on fire right now?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, great, so all right, so I'll tell you what.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: We'll see you Monday night for one hundred and eighth fishes.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being out for the our market. You're awesome
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: as usual, and we'll continue the same with the Bucks
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: and we'll turn it over to Cody. Tody, what are
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: your talking about the Milwaukee Bucks and what's going on
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: in the Curse of as I say, Adrien Griffin?
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Uh, well, I mean, I don't know much about them.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: I don't even know. All I know is Johnnie is
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: there and Doc Rivers was the coach. That's the only
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: two things I really know. I don't really follow the
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: NBA that much anymore, so I'm gonna pass on this.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: All right. What about you, Eric, you live it?
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: Well, let me I'll tell you what though. What happened.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: What happens is the Milwaukee Bucks were pressing the pan
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: We're pressing the panic button every time Jannis was grumbling
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: because they were fearful that he's gonna leave. So they
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: made a reactionary firing by firing Adrian Griffin midyear and
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: used the excuse of if he couldn't really connect with
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: the players, and then you know, next thing, you next thing,
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: you know, they bring in Doc Rivers midyear, which put
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: the which put the whole wong, the whole thing upside down.
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: I knew Doc was a bad hiring from the get go.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: He was brought in because he went to Marquette. That's
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: the only reason why he was hired. And you know,
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: ever since then, Doc, the whole thing was going to
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: fall apart, and it did. And so here we are
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: now the Bucks are are are are playing for a lottery?
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: Are in are in the lottery? And who knows if
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: Giannice is staying. This team is a complete disaster because
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: there because David Forced would always react to anything Jannis said,
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: and and would and would make a move just because
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: Giannice is grumbling. Well, guess what now, You're not competing
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: for championships. All you're doing now is competing for a
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: lottery spot.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, who haven't I called on? So far? Me good?
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: The Bucks they're in a hard spot. And I'm gonna
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: say that should they have hired Doc Rivers in the
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: first place. You know, I believe he is, like they
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: had said, an overrated coach. I don't think he was
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: the right fit. I also think into day's day and age,
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: that we give too much to the star player and
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: them being able to, you know, say who they want
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: as coach or who they don't want, and having a
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: lot of input. They have to remember they're playing for
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: the organization. And I get that, and they could play
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: for anybody, they could stop playing and whatever. But and
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: as much as I love Giannis, don't get me wrong,
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: because I really do, but it's his job. He was
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: hired to do a job, to play a game, to
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: play a game. Get that, to play a game. How
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: many of us would love to be paid to play
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: a game?
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: Granted he plays it very well, but they've had problems
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: ever since they let Mike Budenholzer go. And I think,
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: and I think sometimes they lately have jumped too quickly
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: and they're not the only team that do this that
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: one and done, or they're not getting as many wins
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: as people like in all the different sports. The coach
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: that I missed the most is Don Nelson.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: But I I know.
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: Holtzer.
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: I was gonna say they pressed the panic button butt
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: on butten Holtzer when they should have given him another year,
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: which I always thought that, but button Holtzer like he
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: got a raw deal there. I thought, you know, okay,
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: give him another year and if he fails, so so
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: be it.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: Mm hmmm.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: And but you know, they pressed the panic button because
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: Giannis was grumbling this than David Force's career in Milwaukee.
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: I think Milwaukee won the championship in spite in spite
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: of David Force in some ways. But they happen to
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: get lucky with with getting Drew Holliday when they did.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: And next thing, you know, David Force got obsessed on
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: the idea of getting Damian Lillard, just for that to
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: blow off in his face. And now this team is
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: a complete mess, and who knows what's going to happen
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: to Giannis and now and but this is all David
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: Force creation. And if Milwaukee is sparked, they will start
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: thinking about blowing the whole thing up and bringing in
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: new leadership. Because right now this team has gone from
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: the highest of highs of winning a championship to now
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: they're all the way in a dumpster out back of
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: Pizer Forum.
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: They're a laughing stock right now. To be honest with you,
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: they don't have a coach, their main all star player
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: doesn't know if he wants to even come back like that,
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: how do you go from And Gianni's was the most
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: loyal player on the earth. We brought him in, he
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: paid for him. We paid for his family to come in. Heck,
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: we even have two of his brothers on our team.
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: They gave him, they gave him jobs. We've done a
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: lot for him. And yes, he renewed his contract with
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: us when everybody thought we're a small market team. He's
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: not gonna stay with us, He's gonna go to you know,
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: one of the big markets or so. But he didn't.
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: He stayed with us. So now, Waukee Bucks, you're at
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: a crossroads. You now no longer have a coach and
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: your star elite player of the league doesn't know if
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: he wants to play for you as well.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: They better get it right on the coaching higher and
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: they better talk to Giannis. But I'll tell it right now.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Things are absolute less. We talked about this topic non
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: sports rap. We're going to re bring it up a
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: different group of people, and that's what paid for Gold medals.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: And then we'll go ahead and start here. Norway does
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: not pay for medals. Probably smart. They actually use jewelry, painting,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Toyota crows, Howiday boucher, and few bedroom apartment. If Team
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Poland actually went to Gold, they get twenty one thousand
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: dollars along with see let's see well, it doesn't say
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: what they pay with, but they get two hundred actually
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: they get two hundred eleven K. Excuse me, So team
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Poland it pays to go ahead and win a gold medal,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: and let's go ahead and do the breakdown. So because
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: this is pretty interesting. Singapore they get seven hundred and
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: ninety two grand for a gold, three ninety five K
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: for a silver, one ninety seven K for a bronze.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go over a few of them, you know,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: we'll see where Hong Kong Boys seven hundred and sixty
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: eight K, three eighty four K, one ninety two. Obviously
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I was talking to and bronze gold, I mean gold
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: over in bronze, and a few other ones that are
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: worth noting. Nine say thirty eight, twenty three and fifteen
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: of your numbers South Korea two hundred and eight thousand
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and one, thirty nine and seventy. You get the idea
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: of people now here. Italy, this one for you, Cody
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen thousand, one oh seven K, seventy
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: one K. Those are a few pulls. Actually get paid
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: a new car and apartment and more for gold medals.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Then there you have it. So let's talk about paying
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: for medals in general. Cliff, what are your thoughts about
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: the fact that they're getting additional money just to win a.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Hardware Well, is that is that new since the professionals
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: went in? Or is that has there always been some
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: sort of.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't say or just okay, I
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: wish I knew that, but I don't have it.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, SAT's I think that would be interesting if they
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: were doing that before the professionals came in, because remember
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: it was always very strict. It's like, oh, they have
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: to be amateurs. And if they're doing that, then all right,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: what's going on here? But as of right now, hey,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: we have our pros in there. If they want to
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: pay him and give them the money, and I see
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: some big some big totals there. How often does Singapore
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: get a gold medal? I'm like, so it's you might
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: as well, you know, give him that's some prestige. Go
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: go for it if you want to give them that awesome
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: And honestly, that's a lot of those events. What kind
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of career they're going to really have? I mean, I
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: mean they might be okay, it's like okay, you got
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: to go medal, got some money there, and then they
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: might just go off into the sunset and do a
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: regular job like everyone else, or coach their thing, and
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: they're so, yeah, that's fine, I'm I'm good with that.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: I'm fine with that.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Well, you said it right there. Some of the countries
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: pay so much money, you prepare, arn't they may be
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: set for life. How they invest their money.
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: You know, it's kind of interesting because Poland for any
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: medalist a monthly payment. After reaching age of their fortieth birthday,
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: they get one eighty three dollars for the rest of
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: their life every month. Like, yeah, some of these are
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: just as I'm reading, some of them they get nothing.
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: Norway gets nothing. Some of them get get a lot.
• 57:20
  Speaker 7: I guess it's just you have to decide if you're
• 57:26
  Speaker 7: gonna represent a country, which country do you want to
• 57:29
  Speaker 7: represent one that pays you for life or not? But
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: you know, sports are hard enough, and then to actually medal,
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: you have to be really good. You have to be
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: really disciplined before the Olympics to get to be a
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: height the pinnacle of your you know, your sport, because
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: to earn a gold medal, it's not easy, and especially
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: the Olympics there's how many athletes out there. But kudos
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: to to countries for paying and giving them a little
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: bonus besides just the hey, here's a medal, you did
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: really really great. But yeah, there are some that give
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: expensive cars two hundred thousand dollars US dollars, luxury apartments.
• 58:22
  Speaker 7: That would be Russia. They have given premium cards valued
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: at fifty thousand to two hundred thousand US dollars and
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: luxury apartments valued at five hundred thousand to a million dollars. It's,
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: you know, pretty amazing what some of the countries do
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: for the top of the line athletes.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Part.
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a tremendous honor to even honor your
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: country much less much less metal. I mean the Olympics
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: is that you're you're like, if you're in the Olympics,
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: you are the best athlete at your sport, in the
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: in your entire country. I mean that everybody who plays
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: those sports, they chose you as the best. That's no,
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: that's no small feet. And you know, but for those
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: who are getting money, good for them. I know in
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: America we tax we actually there's a spot on your
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: taxes that you actually have to pay tax for Olympic badals.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: I kid you not, but yeah it was on my
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: tax form. And uh in Wisconsin too, because Wisconsin. We
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: have Wisconsin, we have Olympians all the time, especially in
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: the winter. I know, I know we have, but I
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: know we have the what that one speaks skater Jordan
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: Stoles was there this year. But you know, it's a
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: but it's a tremendous honor. The fact that other countries
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: treat it basically treat you for the rest of your
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: life for one thousand and eighty three dollars mind you,
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: which mind you, obviously theirs. Their cost of living is
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: probably significantly different than America's. You might and that in
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: those countries you might be able to retire and just
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: chill for the rest of the time.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: No, like, like everyone's brought up good points. I mean, this
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: is what I was on this. This is what I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: said last week when we brought this up on Sports Rap.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: I like, the players that are playing, they're that certain
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: sport professionally and getting paid. You know, well, I don't
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: think they should be getting that kind of prize money.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: I think that if they do, just be like what
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Mbappe does with his World Cup earnings, he donates it
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: to charity or donates it somewhere so it goes to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: a better cause. I mean, like the hockey guys, none
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: of them needed that extra what twenty one thousand dollars
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: or like that. Now I understand like some of the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: other players, like for you know, like the finger skaters
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: or whatever. Thing like maybe they're that's like their hobby
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: or they're just they're competitive at it, but it's not
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: professionally done and they don't get paid professionally. Yes, give
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: them what they all that, but if they're getting paid
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: like professionally and getting paid, well, I don't think they
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: should be getting that extra bonus money or give it
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: to somebody who deserves you know, that needs it more
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: than you know, like the hockey guys or the basketball
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: guys like or you know, players like that.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: See what's great about the top of you like this
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: because I like the different points of viewing that. That's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: why I put it in there. So that's great to
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: hear lots of different people say different thing. All right,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the World Bagotball clack. Actually the final
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: actually outdrew the twenty twenty five NBA Finals in viewership
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: WBC at ten point eight million, the NBA Finals at
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: ten point two million, So obviously baseball over the NBA.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's it's it's it's international. I'm not
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: an NBA guy, so I'm like, yeah, of course, right,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: uh Baseball, I mean it was it was the World
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Baseball Classic. You had US, you had Venezuela. And even
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: though Venezuela was a kind of a surprise to a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: lot of people, but I mean, there's still huge amount
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: of viewers for that. There's probably a huge amount of
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: viewers across across the planet because let's face it, probably
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of people around the planet, we're rooting against
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: the US and rooting hardcore for Venezuela. That you know
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: the truth. It's it's probably the truth, but you know,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: so that's that's gonna affect it. And it's good to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: see Baseball get some readings with that, and maybe Major
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: League Baseball can take some notes for that and see
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: what they what they can do to get some higher
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: ratings on Major League Baseball.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: Candy, I think, like we were talking about, it's an
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: honor to represent your country in the Olympics. It's an
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: honor to represent your country in the World Baseball Classic
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: as well, and I think that with the current state
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: of everything politically, I think more people are interested in
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: watching people representing their countries. And I think with more
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: of the MLB's stars participating in the World Baseball Classic,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: I thought it brought more attention to it. I think
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: a lot of people wanted to watch it because it
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: distributed some of the talent that isn't normally playing together
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 7: on teams to get together, and I think that intrigued
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: people as well. Plus it wasn't played just here in
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: the US, so I think that also brought some viewership
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: to the mix as well.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: I think it's I think it's great. I mean, he's
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: got there's clearly a lot of national pride with it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, especially with the Latin American company countries, you're
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 6: gonna there's there they're very prideful about about honoring their
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: country and representing them in the WBC. I know you
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: could say the same thing about Japan. Joey Otani is
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: probably gonna do that for the rest of his career
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: because of how strongly he feels about it. But it's great.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: It's great for it's grown. It gives us kind of
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: that It gives us a taste of postseason baseball, if
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: you will, before the season even begins, to kind of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: create that excitement heading into the season. I know everyone
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: can have arguments about guys getting hurt or you know,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: we should be doing this in the middle of the season,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: end of the season, blah blah blah. But I think
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: it's just fine the way it is, because, to be
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: honest with you, the injuries they could very easily happen
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: in spring training too, during spring training games where your
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: star gets hit by an erratic pitcher throwing ninety nine
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: miles an hour, and you have no idea where it's
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: going to go worse than nucleus. But it's it's a
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: but you know, I you know, it's it's it's just leading.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: It's just helping the game grow. And I think, you know,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: we're seeing that on TV where and at the ballparks
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: where the seats have never been as crowded as they
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: are and the television ratings have never been higher. There's
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 6: a reason they're putting on streaming service now because baseball
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: has not ratings are only increasing and it's and it's
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: been great for this or and it's led to tremendous growth,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: and hopefully we can get we can get gen Z
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: off the NBA, off the NBA and into Major League Baseball.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: Great commentary, Eric, Okay, Toby, I mean, it's always nice
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: when you see players play for their international, you know,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: their country. It's I feel like there's a step up
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: from their normal games. From what I've noticed, like there's
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: more pride, there's more heart, There's a lot more that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: goes into the games when they play for their country
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: than they probably do for their regular team. And they're
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: not even getting probably paid it nearly as much as
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: they do for the regular club. And I feel, and
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: I've noticed that for every sport. You know, whenever they
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: play for their country, it's a whole like it's on
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: a whole other level. And it's always nice because you
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: see all these guys competing against each other a year
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: in year out, and then you see huge team ups,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: you know, like Judge and Trout. I know this Trout
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: wasn't on the team, but you know when you see
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: Judge and t Out in the same outfield, I mean,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: that's just a dream everyone wants to see.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: Paul Skeins is on the mound and you know, and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: you got like what Bobby Witt Junior has a shortstop?
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, who doesn't want to see that kind of play?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: I mean I could see why the viewership was up,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: especially for it's it was the final and like as
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: Eric was saying, the Latin countries and they're going to
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: show up for their country no matter what. So I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: think this is great for baseball, and I hope they
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: get more and more viewership.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Then I'll say to close out the topic, anything that
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I'll draws it and the amole for it period, and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: I'm glad baseball did it in a particular take. Talk
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: about the Michigan Wolverines, I'll tell you what they'll they
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: got to give them a lot of credit this winner.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: They did punch their tickets to the Final four and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: the Frozen Four that came up short in the Frozen four,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: or boy, they did not any Final four. Clip about
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: those Michigan Wolverines.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Congratulations. You know I'm not a big basketball guy. Yeah,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: you were wearing the Michigan hat last last week, so
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: I know you've got your some roots there. So congratulations.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: I'm happy that a team that you've probably followed and
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: know very well. Uh, succeeded this time. Uh, maybe they
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: can do it next year. Uh maybe not with all
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: the with all the differences with college sports now and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: guys going from one to another team, maybe it'll happen again,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: or maybe even get to the Final four. I don't know.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be even harder than ever.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: Like what they're doing, Candy, I was happy to see it,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: not only for Michigan and a big ten person, but
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: for Dusty May too, because I think he is an
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 7: excellent coach. He was one of the best hires Ward
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: Manual did for Michigan. They played tough, they played they were,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: they played convincingly like they were they were supposed to
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 7: be the top of the you know. And yes they
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 7: fell a little short in the Frozen Four. But still
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 7: they made it to the last four, which is a
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 7: lot more than can be said of a lot of
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 7: other teams. And I believe their women's basketball team had
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: success and was in the tournament. I don't remember how
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: far they got, but they got pretty far as well,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 7: I thought, I think, so kudos to Michigan.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: Eric, I mean, Dusty Mays is a hell of a coach.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 6: He wasn't that long ago. He took Flora, he took
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: Floria Atlantic to the Final four. Who knew and then
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: since being hired by Michigan, he's taken Michigan to the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: Sweet sixteen and he's also and he recently won them,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: helped win, helped them win a national championship. And that
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: team was arguably the most dominant team in college basketball
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 6: far none. Their only lost at They're only lost in
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: the Big Ten was a loss to Wisconsin where Wisconsin
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: was just firing the free ball. It just kept going in.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was just one of those days for them,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: no matter what Michigan did. But Michigan was dominant. I
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 6: think you could place them for college basketball. Is one
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 6: of the greatest teams of all time. And as far
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 6: as hockey goes, you know, tough, tough build, you got
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: all that. You know, you got you got some. You've
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: had a lot of success and I think next year
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: they'll be vying for that national championship. But you know,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 6: but the kudos to the basketball team because they were dominant.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: Just what stop them?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: Like I said, I'm like Cliff, I'm not much of
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: a basketball person. So congratulations to Michigan on the winning
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: the March Madness Tournament and sucks that, uh Michigan didn't
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: win the Frozen Four because that's who I was picking,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: because I know it's been a while since they've done
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: much better. I know they would have gone against your Wisconsin,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: So like I said, and I was rooting for Wisconsin
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: after that because I like seeing I like seeing different
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: teams win. Okay, and I guess I'm across deep Denver
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: on that. But now, but Michigan, they looked good. They
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: you know, they were pretty much had the lead that
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: looked like most of the games. So congratulations to Michigan
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: on the win.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: They were pioneered. Believe I have won eleven titles and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: that's what they're no forth hockey anyway, And let's talk
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: about the Miami Marlins. They ended up signing Austin Slater
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: and I think he ended up having a couple of hits
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: again and again the Tighters on Sunday Austin Slater former
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: clicked you sho you know a little bit about him,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what from Detroit couldn't make them
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: and now he's with the Marlins and we'll see what happens.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: When are your thoughts about Austin Slater.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: It just seems to be uh jumping around for a
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: couple of teams here and there. I don't, I don't,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe he'll he'll stick this time. I
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: don't have a pin on him either way. Even if
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: he does great, awesome. But I mean, he seems to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: do pretty well in the minors, But does that mean
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: he's going to be good good in the majors. I
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: just if he does well with Miami, great, he finds
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: that spot. I just don't want him to do well
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: when he plays the Mets, even though everyone's doing well
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: when they played the Mets these days, because they can't
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: see him win any games. But yeah, good, I have
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: no bad feelings swords a guy. I just I don't know.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I think he's just going to be here and then
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: he's going to be gone, like so many other players
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I'm all right, all right. Candy so.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: Austin was born in just December thirteenth in Jacksonville, Florida.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: He's thirty three years old. He made his major League
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 7: debut June twond of twenty seventeen for the Giants. So
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 7: He played for the Giants from twenty seventeen to twenty four.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 7: Then he jumped around in twenty four to the in
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: the Oreos and twenty five the White Sox the Yankees,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 7: and then he did sign. On February tenth of twenty
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: twenty six, Slater signed a minor league contract with the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: Detroit Tigers. He was released by the Tigers on March
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 7: twenty first, after failing to win a major league job
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 7: in spring training, which what that tells me is that
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: they had more depth there and so then on March
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: twenty fourth, Slater signed a major league contract with the Marlins.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: Marlins are a young team. They don't have quite the
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 7: same depth as the Tigers do. Hopefully he does well.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: So far, he's through April third of twenty twenty six.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: His batting average is two forty seven for his career.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: At this point, he's got forty five home runs and
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty five runs betting in So Hopefully
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 7: with the Marlins they can get he can be a
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: productive player with them. Hopefully.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll bring it back here. I'm sure he'll
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: give us a candy. There are some thoughts about Austin Slater.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, the Giants were banking on him to be
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: a part of their long term plan. They kept him around.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: They kept him around for a while, but ever and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: he performed pretty he did Okay, he wasn't he wasn't
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 6: okay over there, but then then he kind of he hasn't,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: kind of become a journeyman player. So I think the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: Marlins are just gonna see what they have, see what
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: they have there, and you know, he's he's a vet
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: at this point, so he kind of knows how it works.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: And the Marlins are a young team, so at this
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: point they're kind of roll. It's pretty much their role
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: in the dice and are going to see see how
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: it pans out. Because but lately he hasn't he hasn't
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: stuck anywhere, Tody, I.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: Don't have much on Austin's life. I mean, I'm just
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: looking at his baseball reference page. I mean, hasn't played
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: you know, a lot. He's not like it doesn't seem
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: like a full time player, just you know, like Eric said,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: a journeyman. So Okay, hopefully he does well in Miami
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: and you know, he continues his career.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, I will go to one more topics that will
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: go to my town and party shot portion of the
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: program Matt. Steve Halt, Colen Matt's owner, says more than
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: half the free ticket winners no show the game. Fifty
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the lucky fans for the first game
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: didn't even show. If he use the what the heck
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: does it go and want.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 7: To go there for free?
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: Why would you?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: Why would you want to watch them? They just they
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: keep losing. They made so many mistakes in the offseason,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: and now it's coming to roost. All right, it's yeah, Okay,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: I get he's trying to do a good good h
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: do good pr move and uh they don't show up.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: Put it puts. Put a good team on the field.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Stop trying to This doesn't work for the Mets. Okay,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: you can't just buy people. That doesn't work for them.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: It's never worked for them. They're not the Yankees, Okay,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: they can't. When they try to do it, it always fails.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: They need they need they need guys who are some
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: of the guys that are their homegrown. That's when they win.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: When they have good pitching and you bring a couple
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: other guys in, that's when they win. I'm not surprised
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: that you know, people why.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: Would you want to go.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I'm like, they'd rather not go to a game and
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: see them play and lose because it's I've been going
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: through this for years. I can't blame them. I just can't.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Cohen. I we thought this was
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: gonna be great when we got Cohen because we had
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: will Pond for those years. And he seems to want
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: to do at least he he honestly wants to win.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: I'll give him that much. When they may not be
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: doing it the right way, but at least he seems
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: to want to win, as opposed to the Willpon was
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: like whatever after the whole made off thing? Uh where
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: he got messed over with that? Your financial Yeah, it
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: was it was it was. It was just a mess.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Of course the Mets got it involved in that, of
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: course he did. Yeah, that's how I feel about it.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: It's it's painful struck.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: I think we struck a nerve with club. Before we'll
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: get to you, Erica's going to go to Candy. I
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: have a feeling you're gonna want to. You're chomping at
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: the bit to get in. I don't have a lot
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: of popcorn left, So Eric's gonna go last, go ahead, Candy.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 7: Let's face it, the Mets fans, they're fair weather fans.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 7: They don't want to sit out there in the cold.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 7: And that's what it was. The free tickets were for
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 7: a Tuesday game and a Wednesday game, and it was cold.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 7: So yeah, more than half of the free tickets that
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 7: were giving up people just didn't show up. Well, put
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 7: a good team on the field, and maybe change when
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: you give your free tickets away, and maybe you'd have
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: a different result.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: Okay, Cody, I mean I've turned down free tickets I
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: don't know how many times just to even go see
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: my Angels play. Sometimes you just don't want to spend
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: any like because when you get there, you're gonna want
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: foods or something to drink. And I don't want to
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: give my money to Ardie Moreno. And it's probably how
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: Cliff feels about hit the Mets.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: I don't want to give him a single penny that
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: I earn. So I guess said, I don't blame fans,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: you know, because I'm pretty sure maybe those games that
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: were free, I guarantee you that beer and concessions were
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 5: probably a little bit higher than normal to probably recoup everything.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 5: So I think, you know, smart move by the fans
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 5: by not going and kind of shoving it to him.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: So good for them, all right, Eric, I know you're ready.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: Well, I like to think that they're not going to
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 6: the game because they'd rather be Yankee fans, which is
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: the right route to go. But I'm starting to believe
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 6: the Mets were put on this one purpose and purpose
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: in this world was to you, was to break their
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: fans' hearts, no matter, no matter how, no matter what
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: they do. Also believe, for those who watch Saturday Night Live,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: that the Mets are the Mister Bill of Major League Baseball,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 6: where they mean well, but every time they try and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: do something, something bad happens to them. I mean, I've
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: seen this my whole life with the New York Mets then,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: you know, but let's face it, they were a garbage team.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: David Stearns, I'm starting to believe was is overrated, you know,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 6: I'm starting you know, he's you know, yes, the Steve
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 6: Cohen apparently decided to be George Steinberner and try and
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: buy everybody to win. But what what people forget though,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 6: when George Steinberner was doing that for a lot of
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 6: the nineteen eighties, he didn't win, and you know, he
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 6: didn't win during that time. And you know now you
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 6: can't unless you're that the Dodgers. You know, the Dodgers
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 6: have a good mix though, because while the Dodgers are
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: you know, are seemingly buying everyone, they also have a
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: great farm system as well. And they also and their
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 6: guy Andrew Freeman was once a part of the Rays,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 6: so for a while there he knew when to spend
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: and when not to spend. He let Cody Seger go
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 6: away to to the Texas Rangers. He let a lot
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 6: of players go during that time and had a lot
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: of homegrown players in there just so just so he
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 6: could buy eventually get Otani, which he did. Now the Mets,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: I mean they got a top five farm system now,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: which which is good. They got Nolan MacLean out there,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: who I think is going to I think when it's
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 6: all when he when when it all comes together, he's
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: going to be a great arm for them. But let's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: face it, you can't just you can't just buy and
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: buy and buy because your buy free agency and baseball's
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: kind of is kind of screwed up where you're paying
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 6: for what they did in the past, not what they're
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: going to do in the future. That's just the way
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: it is. Apparently Steve Cohen didn't forgot his owner's manual
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: and and didn't think about that, and matter of fact,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: he's up. But you know, the Mets, you know, there'll
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: always be the Mets. The Mets, you know, their their
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: loll Mets will forever exist, whether their fans like it
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 6: or not. Steve Cohen will never make New York City
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: a Yankee a Mets town because the Yankees already have
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 6: won too much for him to even even hike up
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 6: that mole hill with hedge funds.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Just just just so you know, before him in the eighties,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: in the eighties, they were a Mets town for a
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: There, nineteen eighty six, that was about it.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: Eighty six eies because of the eighty forty five eighty
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: six because like you were saying, the Yankees weren't winning
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: because they were buying all those guys. So yeah, for
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: that short period of time, yes, they were.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: It wasn't ntil the nineties long.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: It wasn't long. No, it wasn't a long time. It
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: was like the mid eighties, and that was.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 6: It, right, you know, yeah. Yeah, during that time of
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 6: Good and Strawberry Hernandez, Yeah, which made a great documentary
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: and some pretty epic stories about plane rides.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they but they were, Yeah, what we care about it?
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 6: They did, they did, they were they what they had
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: New York slash Championship for a while there. But but
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: you know again, you know, the Mets just they just
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 6: don't know how to find the right formula. That's just
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 6: their deal. And until until Steve Cohen kind of figures out,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 6: I can't buy everybody, you know, he's gotta he's got
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 6: to realize though that, you know, you gotta have the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 6: right mixed veterans and the right mix of younger players
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: in order for you to bring home championship. You shouldn't
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: have promised five years Bud up on the podium. You know,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 6: you can't. You don't know what's gonna happen. And now
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: your honeymoon period is Oh, the honeymoon periods over for
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: your Bud. This is now. Now you're about to face
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: the wrath of New York City.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the stupidest thing he could have done. Like,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: don't say that, don't say that. Don't you're just like
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: you're just tempting fake. You do know that he's supposed
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: to be a fan. He's supposed to be a fan
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: coming into this when he was the home I'm like,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: you should know the history. You can't be doing that.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: You can't maybe making guarantees with this team. Just shut
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: it and do do do you guess? You can don't
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: be don't be talking, Oh, we're gonna win in five years.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: You're out of your mind. It's the Mets, all right.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not to say that I don't want
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: them to I want them to win. But you can't
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: talk like.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 6: That because baseball, you don't know how it's going to go.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 6: The ball has to balance a certain a certain direction
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: for you to happen. Look at the Dodgers in the
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: World Series. No one expected Miguel Rojas to hit the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: home run that he hit for the to to tie
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: the game. And nobody expected Will Smith to have his
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 6: heel bone right on the right on the plate to
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: get the out. You know, the bout the ball just ha.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: There are things that happened to break in the Dodgers direction,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: which is why they won. But Steve Cohen, baby, you're
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: about to You're about your honeymoon's over, Doc, You're about
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: you and your hedge funds are about to experience what
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: it's really like not winning in New York City and
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: being the scoring of w f A n at six
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: That field is going to get really interesting. A time
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: to go over two our my town segment goal start
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: off first and Mike Town for me takes us down
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: to the Daytona Beach Community College because brand Man Underwood
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: was actually the head coach of there twenty years ago.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: This year he guided Illinois to the Final four. A
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: great story out of dayton to be Scunity College and
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: taking the team to the final four. More power to Brown.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll do a lot more winning open champagne
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: for sure. Go ahead, Oh all right, Underwood. There's a
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: name that many people should be proud of in the
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: Daytona Beach area, and I'm sure they were the sentimental
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: player there for Illinois. Go ahead once again.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I told you so. I told you so, Cody.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: You say the Islanders and I said, I've been through
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: this before.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 5: I knew that.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew they weren't going to do it. And
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: of course they got eliminated. They this time, they made
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: it different, They made it different. They just let it
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: they had We're in a good position and they just
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: let it go away. The Olympic rate comes and oh,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: we were just gonna collapse now, Soarkan, Yeah, oh, he
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: can't keep saving all those things. We're not gonna play defense,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: and we're slow and we're old year after year, and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: fifty four years is coming too fast. It's forty three now,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: all right. They need to buy a bout. They need
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: to get a clue's. And what's more frustrating is so
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: many of my fellow fans actually think they were good things.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: It's hard to be out of Al's fan, all right, Katie.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 7: So there's numerous things, but the one thing that I
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 7: will highlight is Wisconsin's athletic director left his post to
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 7: go work for the NC two A. So I hope
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 7: that and I know Barry Alvarez is. They contacted him
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 7: and we're talking to him and he was surprised. But
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: I hope they get it right. In this day of NIL,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 7: it's really important to have an athletic director that supports
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: your athletics and knows how to help navigate through the
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 7: NIL so I hope whoever they end up picking, that
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 7: they take their time, they don't rush, and that they
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: get a good candidate. And I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 7: leave it at that because one of my parting shots
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 7: has to do with one of my teams, and because
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 7: Eric's I never know if Eric's going to talk about
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: it too, because he lives in where I'm from. So
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 7: I'll leave it that.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Now, pretty segue to mister Katz.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, I mean Wisconsin. They're they're at
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 6: you know, they're they're particularly a football program was gradually
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 6: going downhill. Even under Barry Alvarez. This kind of started
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: out and after after the peak year of them going
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 6: to the Rose Bowl in twenty nineteen, and then ever
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: since twenty twenty, they've kind of gradually started to go downhill.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: Twenty twenty one they kind of rebounded a little bit,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 6: but ever since then they've just been slowly but surely going.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: They just gradually went downhill. Part of the reason was
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: they were unprepared for and for the nil era, and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: they're also very they were and they never took advantage
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 6: of the transfer portal when they when they really should have.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 6: They thought they could just go the old way of
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: getting guys that fit, you know, recruit and developed. But
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: now you can't really do that anymore. It's all about
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: who you get in the transfer portal, who's good, and
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 6: then it's a roll of the dice year in and
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 6: year route. But it's it's almost become like like the
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 6: NFL in a way. But you know, it's you know,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 6: i'd like to say that though, that the athletic director
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: that left, which is which I who I've actually met
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: him before. He actually he actually did. He actually played
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: on Wisconsin one of Wisconsin's Rose Bowl teams, and he
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 6: you know, Chris mcintascha was an adjunct failure on his part. Yes,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: his non revenue sports one championships, particularly women's hockey, did,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: but him in's hockey, you've got Mark Johnson. That's not
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: a credit to him. Mark Johnson, he is the seed.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: At this point, What are you going to do? Fire,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 6: fire the captain of the miracle on ice team. No,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 6: you're just gonna let him do. Let him do his thing.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 6: You know, you know, what what's he going to do
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 6: If you do that, He's just gonna go home. You know,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 6: That's all that's gonna happen there, and somebody will. But
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 6: you know, I don't recred to him to that. He's
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 6: just been there a long long time and knows how
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 6: to win, win, win, no matter what era hockey is.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: After for crying out loud, he was. He was on
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 6: the team that beat the Soviet Union the miracle on
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 6: ice game, but and led them in points and I
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: think goals as well. But it was an adjunct failure
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: under him. Football declines so badly to the point we
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 6: are in the pre app to the point of I
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: think worse than the pre Alvarez Wisconsin Badgers. It's just
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 6: been an adjuc failer Wisconsin basketball. Why won't you get
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: rid of Greg Gard? Wisconsin basketball hasn't gotten past the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: sweet sixteen since the first two years of Bowarts bo
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 6: Ryan retiring. You know, haven't even advanced past that. But
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 6: yet there he sits. You know, Wisconsin was completely unprepared
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  Speaker 6: for the NIO era and it will take a while
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  Speaker 6: for them to recover because the Big Ten schools like
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 6: Ohio State and Michigan, Illinois and others have embraced it.
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  Speaker 6: And you know this is this is a failure of
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 6: the university to understand that the college landscape was changing
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  Speaker 6: and preparing for it. Shame on them. And there's a
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 6: reason why Chris mcinto's left because the universe as much
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: as as much as the failure it was on his part,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: particularly with Luke Fickle, it's also a failure on the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: university to not be prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, man, these my towns are starting to sound like
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  Speaker 5: parting shots.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny because minor are going to be about the
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: same team, so oh mostly so my town is. You know,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: both the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings both
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: made the NHL playoffs barely, but they're both in. The
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: Ducks haven't been in twenty eighteen. So I'm happy about
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 5: the Ducks finally being back in the playoffs. And then
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: my partying shot will be a lot worse than what
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about that team right now. But it's good
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: to see that both southern California teams are back in
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: the playoffs and we're starting to see that California gaunlet
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  Speaker 5: like we used to have back in like the twenty tens,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: where if a team went through California they to play
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: the Sharks. Kings and Ducks were all top player, like
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: top teams in the league. You know, that was fun
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: hockey to see. So and it's gonna be nice to
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: see those rival rivalries back being more competitive again.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: Oh that said, you know what, you can start off
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  Speaker 1: with the party, all right.
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  Speaker 5: So back to the Anaheim Ducks. Man, we freaking suck
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 5: right now. We're we're what one nine and two in
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: our last eleven. We've lost to the Vancouver Canucks, and
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 5: we lost to the Iowa Wild last night. Yes, you
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 5: heard that right. We lost the Iowa Wild because the
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: Wilder benching all their players, Hughes Caprasov bowl, the all
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 5: the top players, and we still lost. We don't, like
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 5: I said, we just we keep getting goaliade somehow, and
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 5: we keep giving up three plus goals every game, I think.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: And we finally had one game where we did not trail,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 5: and then we go right back to trailing and games again.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: But I was at the game against the Canucks and
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: we got completely outplayed by the worst team in the league.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 5: Like this team has no urgency, they don't know how
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: to play defense. Like it's like they were doing so well,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: like they were playing like decent defense. They were scoring,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 5: you know, they were looking good, they were keeping the
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: things in the offense zone, and then all of a sudden,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: like they just forgot how to play hockey, like they
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: want to give up, Like they get a goal and
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: then they give up the lead right after, and then
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 5: they climb their way back. That's the only reason why
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: the Ducks have so many come back from behind wins
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: this year. And it's driving nuts. I'm I'm getting more
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 5: and more gray hairs every time I watch a game.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 5: But then again, I love watching and I hate watching
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 5: at the same time. But this team is driving me nuts.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: And like, if we just win, not like we had
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: with that six game, you know, like I said, I said,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: what we were one nine and two. If we just
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: won half of those games, just half, we'd be number
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: one in the in the division and we wouldn't have
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: to worry about having to face the Colorad Avalanche. But
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: the way we're playing, if we lose tomorrow and depending
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: depending how the Kings and all their overtime losses, you know,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 5: all those lucky points that they're getting, we're gonna play
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 5: be the last team in the West Western Conference. So
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: we we hade a chance to be the number one
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: team in our division. To be in the last team
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: in the conference and have to play the Colorado Avalanche.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 5: So I'm expecting it to be a very quick week
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 5: for the Ducks in the playoffs.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: Well, at least you're in the playoffs. And then I'll
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: tell you my situation by not saying them, but that
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: the little season going at her.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, though, Pat Murphy, you're wrong. The fans
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: have every right to boo. It's no different than if
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 6: you buy and I know Pat sure, Pat Murphy has
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 6: done this in his personal life. It's no different than
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 6: when you buy a product from a company and you're
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 6: dissatisfied with it, you tell the company that you're dissatisfied
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 6: with it. The fans they pay to go to the
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 6: to go to the games. If they don't like the
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 6: product on the field, there's no way they can tell
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 6: Matt Arnold directly, so they're going to boo. You know,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 6: if Trevor McGill would have would convert his save and
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 6: stop being less shaky on the mound, he wouldn't be booed.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 6: And the fact that that hiss blown save eventually led
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 6: led the Burers to a nine to seven loss, and
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 6: eventually and what became their sixth loss, their six loss
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 6: in a row. Fans are fed up. This team's coming
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: off an NLCS appearance, Pat Murphy, They're going to keep
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: booing until you figure out how to win again. And
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: don't give me the excuse that your key players on
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 6: injured list. This leaves about finding a way to win.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 6: You've done it before. You're a two time manager of
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 6: the Year, so go get after it.
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  Speaker 1: Really good. Eric, I like it, Okay, Candy.
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  Speaker 6: I got it.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 7: It's kind of funny because I was gonna do almost
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 7: the opposite of Eric, because I think it's too early
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 7: in the season to really be yes. I understand you
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 7: you pay for a product on the field, but to
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 7: boo one player specifically, I think might be a little
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 7: early yet to be doing that, but you know, it
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 7: is what it is. Congratulations to Jordan Love and his wife.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 7: They're expecting their first baby. Should supposed to be a girls,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 7: should be born sometime this spring. But I guess mine
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 7: is going to be about really about the bucks that
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 7: you really have to get your higher right, because if
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 7: you want any chance of keeping Gianni's in Milwaukee and
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 7: a chance of getting another championship, you need to bring
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 7: in the right coach, and what I've heard is that
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 7: he wants the culture to change in Milwaukee, and from
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 7: what I've heard, it was awful those last couple of months.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 7: They really need they really need to to shore that
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 7: up and figure out what direction you want to go.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: In Clay, it looks like no McLean for the Mets
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: is the new Jacob de Grom. He's pitching just fine,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: they're not hitting. I've seen this many, many, many times before. Okay,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's astounding. It's like I keep watching
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: the same thing over and over and over and over again.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: It's like a big old fate loop and what else
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: to call it. They just put in different little pieces here,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: different active, different people, but it's the same old stories.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: It's just it's astounding. They blust seven. Have they lost yet?
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: Does anyone know?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: Losing to the Dodgers to nothing?
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, so they are losing. It's gonna be eight eight
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: in a row. Wonderful. I knew they were going to
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: lose to the Dodgers. But you know what good Okay, yeah, yeah,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: well it's uh, it's but that's what they do. They
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: put all that money in again and it doesn't work,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: and I feel I feel bad for mcclient, I really do.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: And he's been pitching well, and I'm thank you, thank
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: you for giving us some hope even though we know
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: the bullpen is gonna blow it or they're not going
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: to hit for you. So yeah, that's the life of
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: med fan.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: Clay Holmes pitching well. Clay Holmes is pitching well for now.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: For now, I'll take what i can get. I'll take
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: what i can get, but I'm not it's it's a
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: long season.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I'll end it here. Number One, I want to wish
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: my friend Paul would a happy retirement in the color
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: commentator of radio for the Red Wings for forty years.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Paul's a very good friend of mine and enjoy a
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: lot of great memories of them. Second, well, the Detroit
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Red Wings lost. The best part about living not living
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: in Metro Detroit is reasons like that. The Detroit Red
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Wings lost tonight. Today Floral Canther is eight to one.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Their long off season is going to continue, let alone
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: a ten year playoffs route. Steve Weiderman, all I can
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: tell you is he's going to have the face for critics,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: and you know the way I look at It will
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: be a long off season for the Redlands in Motown.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Five years in a row getting in and now you
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: have a period of ten and a row in the
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Savers snap their drought at fourteen seasons. We'll see
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: what happened. But the Red Wings unfortunately hold the longest
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: rout in the NHL and they're gonna have to wait
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: a while to do it. I just hope to get
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: the gold tending situation right. I think the ward John
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: Gibson out and they got to do way better than
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: what they did with this guy. It was at John
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: Gibson fault. It was in every single game. They need
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: to find out how good Sabbatic Coosa is. You know,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: we don't know about the August Tee kid out of
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Michigan State, so that doesn't here. But before we get going,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: Cliff Honish to everybody know how they get a hold of.
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• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: week in a week out. He's done a really good job.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: He's come a long way. But if we have a
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: lot more things to get ahead of us. Okay, Eric,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: you're a workhorse with us, you write for us, and
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: again I have rin Still you don't work for a blog.
• 1:38:04
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• 1:38:07
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or I hope we have a lot less technical.
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  Speaker 1: That happens, will work through it. Yeah, I'm going to
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: be trying to get a new computer up and running
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• 1:38:49
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• 1:38:54
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• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you one day when they did happen,
• 1:38:57
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• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I know I'll let everybody know. While Eric will have
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: his own show on Saturday, Coey Spink will be my
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• 1:39:37
  Speaker 5: of his time, and I can tell you this, I
• 1:39:39
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• 1:39:41
  Speaker 5: And he actually told us one of his most chaotic
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 5: moments in the booth. And it happened not that long ago,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 5: about two weeks ago, when the Ducks played against Toronto,
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  Speaker 5: So go check it out. It was great and I said,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 5: I'm having so much fun doing this with my dad
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 5: every week I actually got more news to talk about,
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  Speaker 5: but I can't talk about it right now, so it's
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 5: not nothing's official yet, but I got more news coming, so.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Candy Well. I was glad to have Marcian,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to have Tony on. More importantly, we have clips.
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• 1:42:09
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  Speaker 1: All right, my friend, Yeah, a good night everybody, God
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