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We have an Only 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.920 Kate's Cares coming up in our final segment of this hour, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.920 and we have a top story of the day with 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.639 Matt Smith in New York City, the voice of the Chargers. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.000 But right now, I guess we'll call this the flip 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:15.639 Top story of it. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.239 I'll I will put you out. This is the Flip 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.239 Top Story of the day. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:28.320 Today's Flip Top Story of the Day involves Sophie Cunningham, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:34.680 a basketball star who is bff's with Caitlin Clark. She 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:40.760 is from Columbia, Missouri. She played at MISSOO. Just like 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.600 coach Drinkwitz says, if you say m I Z c 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:50.840 ou Sophie, she says it right back. She's a WNBA star, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.880 She's got a lot of personality. She's a scrappy out there. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.520 And I guess there's some kind of WNBA lockout going 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.560 on or some kind. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.320 Of different I think a bunch more money. It's a 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.240 difference of opinion. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.680 This is infickout knowing what's gonna give it. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:21.600 Frinch guys by no more money. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.120 And some of them are playing like that three on 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.639 three league or whatever, like Angel Reese played and got 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.760 a bunch of her knee bounds, which are rebounds. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.680 That she gets for herself, but she missed. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:31.520 Yeah. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.280 Generally, yes, I'm only marginally aware of the w NBA lockout, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.360 and I'm only marginally aware. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:39.640 Of Sophie Solf. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.120 But here is Sophie Cunningham on her TikTok, as so 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:49.000 many young people do today regarding politics, or a girlfriend 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.040 or a boyfriend, or a restaurant. They do or don't 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.720 like or anything. What everybody does is just go straight 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.320 to their phone and post a video of their thoughts 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.640 to talking about it. And Sophie Cunningham, who probably comes 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.960 out here to LA for model shoots and things of 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:11.080 that nature, took to TikTok to talk about how she 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.600 doesn't believe that Los Angeles are city. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.120 It's for her, So I promise you I am not 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.239 being judgmental, because I think there's a place for legit 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:26.280 everyone and some people thrive in different areas. I don't 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.560 think I'm an LA girl like at all. It's just weird. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.680 Like people don't dance, people are like, don't even say hi, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.920 don't like they have no personalities. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.400 They have no personalities and they all look the same. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.440 It's weird. Please tell me that's not weird. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.960 And like all these personalities you see on like Instagram 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.520 and TikTok, like all these famous influencers, like I like 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.760 how they have found a space where they can feel 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.720 like themselves and gain confidence online. But if you can't 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.480 speak to people or look people in the eye, it's 0:04:59.480 --> 0:04:59.960 like in person. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.400 Is that weird? Am I am I weird? I mean, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.440 I know I'm weird, but like. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.400 I mean I don't know why we're so used. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.960 To talking to their phones, like talk to someone in person. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:11.280 Well, why is that just that? 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.240 Ugh? 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:20.760 Like, I don't think she knows. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:25.039 Like if she had lived the half Nelson intro with 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.320 Joe Pesci from the eighties and that music montage, I 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.120 think she'd probably feel differently. I think if she's ever 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.440 been to Cerritos or even the Wiener Stincil across the 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:42.680 street that serves beer and Sea Dog on Fridays, Sea 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:43.440 Dog all week. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.720 Maybe we're all a product of our environments. And obviously 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.039 we can't be as diverse as city as Columbia, Missouri is. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.719 Well she's just saying, we don't know, we're not as friendly. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.360 But I just don't think she's been. I mean, La 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.920 is a big city, sure, and yes, there is a 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.480 good level of rapidity in the Hollywood world. And when 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.320 you're at a photo shoot with a bunch of weird 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.560 Hollywood types that are staring at their phone and weird 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.440 influencers and a bunch of TikTok types, yeah, people at 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.680 in line at Crustacean. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.440 At Earth's restaurant. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.600 Thirty years ago that people used to go to. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.839 I just don't think Sophie Solf knows what she's saying. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.200 I think she's met some people that sock in LA, 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.560 and there are a lot that do not surprising. But 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.719 I don't think Sophie knows about the diversity of our city, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.719 and I think that she would be much more impressed 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.280 than I mean. I've been to Columbia, Missouri. I did 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.599 a game there, and the nicest restaurant in Colombia is 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.360 the Red Robin. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.080 It's great, great, great spot, right. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.960 So if the nicest restaurant in your town is the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.280 Red Robin, maybe dancing and talking to people as a 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.360 high priority is all I'm saying. But you know, words 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.000 to think about from a young person. And that's the 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.240 impression that we give off, much like the Mighty Mighty 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.200 Boss Towns. That's the impression that she gets when she 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.560 comes to LA. That's the impression. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.880 Maybe she's hanging out at the airwand too much, getting 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.320 that Haley Bieber smoothie end. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.600 Of it feels like it feels like she's living the 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.680 Bieber life and not the Ronnie Fossio North Hollywood. I 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.960 changed my oil once a week life and I am 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.680 having now I am having a dehydration meltdown and these 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:36.560 people are here to help. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:37.320 That was a hot. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.840 That was a hot, and right now we're dealing with floods. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.480 And that brings us to the next story here in 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.800 the FlipTop story of the day. You know, yesterday, Matt, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:48.720 we dealt with so much basketball aggression, and there was 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.400 an explosion of aggression over the weekend that we went 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.120 through in a long segment of the popcorn machines bursting 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.160 into flame, the guy at Kansas State ating his players, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.800 Ed Cooley and Danny Hurley, attacking the fans at Yukon 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.880 for not being good enough, full on fisticuffs between Providence 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.080 and Saint John, the Texas Tech band bus getting their 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.480 tires slashed by Arizona fans because they went to McHale 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.880 and won. I mean, there was so much aggression yesterday 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.360 and today it's cragit's I mean, there is no basketball 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.800 aggression out there to really. I mean, there's the effing 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.240 of the sister in law in baseball, but yeah, there 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.520 is no basketball aggression. So I thought, you know what, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.079 let's turn it to the ladies. And so we talked 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.719 about Sophie Soulf cutting down and now. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.560 What you forgot about one of the biggest basketball stories 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.719 is did we talk about it yesterday? Yeah? 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.440 Okay, and again I understand if you're not calling that, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.360 that's fine. You had the exact same play at both 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.360 ends in the last play of the game, the exact 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:01.080 same play at all that the exact same plan. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.040 Sorry called it on one side, didn't call it. You're right, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.400 that was more basketball aggressions. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.280 Than sorry, Doug, the exact same plan. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:14.400 I'm sorry. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.640 We will have high school action and I call and 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.679 use it notre dame to call a game, right, so 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.480 there will maybe there'll be some aggression tonight. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.760 But Matt, you know I have said, anybody have a 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.920 tuft of hair on the back of their head, but 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.400 nowhere else that might make it so press. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.440 Movement Powell, that guy from Providence. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.240 So how do you want me to cut your hair? 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.920 Just leave the afro puff on the back please. I'm 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.720 just at the rest of it. Has life. Oh all right. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.880 I've ignored these ladies for a long time, our East 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:53.640 La divas. I've there political messages and Dodgers. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.559 Matt their message about flash flooding. I think it's important, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:57.160 Thank god. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.360 Ls Mila Morris have a very, very important message. Now 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.800 I'm doing this knowing that they're gonna slip into my 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.320 DMS and go, would you like us on the show, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.880 mister Petros And no. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:15.560 No, they have appeared on uh on Jerkface and Jerkface already. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.959 Yeah, we're done. But Los Mila Mones with their messages 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.120 of the World series and think Blue when they're talking 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.800 about the Dodgers and they go out to Dodger Stadium 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.079 behind the fence because they're not allowed in, and they 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.040 do like one of their little skits out there on 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.240 the street. Here they are doing a skit about flash flooding. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:42.640 Rivers rise in, streets will flow, heavy rains are sent 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:50.280 to show see kai grounds, don't delay flash floods. Steichlan 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.120 out of say. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:58.960 Stay Satala, gracias Los Mila Mones one of my great 0:10:59.080 --> 0:10:59.840 great stuff there. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.800 It's listen, Matt, I know, like I said, it's great advice. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.800 Seekai ground quick water is very dangerous. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:12.240 Rivers rise and streets will flow. Heavy rains are said 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.280 to show ski. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.000 Grow flash floods. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.320 Strexlent out, stay sa. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:32.120 Grasses miamgassa grasses poor la. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:37.520 Message very important to get it out there. I think 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.439 that message reached somebody who was like, you know, I'm 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.079 gonna go outside. I want you what I think it 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.480 will if we play it one more time on a man. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.120 One more rivers rise and streets will flow. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:55.400 Heavy rains are said to show see kai grounds. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.480 Don't delay flash floods. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.680 Strexlent out say stay. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.599 Yeah, you know. I didn't know, but now I know 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.040 that flash floods strike without a say. They don't announce it. Hey, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.840 mister flash flood here giving your heads up. I'm coming 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:20.240 real flow that la. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:21.840 La. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.400 I think if Sophie had been with Peshi in the 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.319 la you belong to me and she'd feel differently, no 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.160 doubt if she was with Jerry Royce. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.319 Well maybe maybe we reach out to SOF Sophie's hall 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.240 and say, Sof, come on, man, I know where she's 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:39.680 start traveling in a bad circle. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.280 She's at the hotel Sophie Town. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:41.439 Ha. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:49.319 Yeah, get off, Samvicente, sof he la can last mile 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:50.960 morees more. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.160 Petros and money top story today Coming up next on 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.400 m five seventy l a sports her Home of the Dodgers. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:07.679 This is petrosend money to man, All right, let's do it. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.679 Let's give away the tickets first time ever here in 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:17.480 lokengarrace the legends of FC Barcelona Real Madrid. 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How can I help you? 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.559 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy I'm 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.480 sorry eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.720 condin Ember three is going to the Barcelona versus Real 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:26.680 Madrid Old Head Legends game at BEMO popping off. I 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.200 want to see Renaldino what he looks like now, if 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:30.680 his hair is all full and long? 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.600 He got braces, so the uh the overbite has gone. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.560 Does he still have the bracest on he's one hundred 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.680 years old. Yes, it's time for the top story of 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.120 the day, top story of it. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.080 I saw enough of this on the many Dodger. I 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.240 don't know what you want to call him, the the 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.720 shoulder programming social media Dodger site, the one with the 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.040 now gnas like the one with the now gone on 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.640 us tickets, girl, right, check it out. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.400 But you only won one and there's only one bad. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.440 But they were posting the quotes from Manny Machado and 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:13.400 Bryce Harper. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.600 Oh we played those yesterday and we had a big 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:16.480 party over it. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.000 Right, and uh understand, those are just the first two 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.720 of the many that you are going to be hearing 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.640 and seeing and reading over the next week to ten days. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.080 That was said by one Tim Katz and the seam 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.840 Head Corner. Yeah love it. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:31.800 I love it. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.880 I mean, honestly, I think every team should be doing it. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.320 You know, they figured out a way to do it 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.320 and just great for the game. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.280 Yah if it is. They may be competitors on the field, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.160 but of course there is a much larger battle that 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.760 they fight, and that is the financial war between players 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.640 and owners. In which the stakes are far higher, much 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.160 more lucrative. There will not be a single voice that 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.560 waivers from the idea that team willing to spend five 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:06.240 hundred and seventeen million dollars on salary and taxes is 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.000 some sort of negative for the game. So the players 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.920 don't care what their owners of the teams on which 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.480 they play want. If it is a player, if it's 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.840 Paul's Schemes and the Pirates, or if it's a Marlin 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.280 or one of these squeaky wheeled teams with pathetic payrolls, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.640 they do not care about what their team's priority. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.080 You're nothing but a squeaky wheel team with a pathetic payroll. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.560 You're nothing but a lot of talking to badge. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:39.120 They are instead singularly focused on their players' union position 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.040 and a baseball system that'll pay individuals as much money 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.480 as possible and add as many players, add as much money, 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.200 with as much money and as high a salary as 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.400 possible to their payroll without regard to any rules. So 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.720 pick your favorite team, figure out what the face of 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.840 that team is, and get ready for that player to 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.720 make a statement. Similar and it was not a coincidence 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.000 that Bryce Harper and Manny Mitchell made almost the exact 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.080 same statement. I would imagine it was in their folder 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:15.000 that was placed in their clubhouse locker by the players union. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.720 Here are talking points, let's stick to them. Do not 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:27.320 waiver united. We stand what a normal ray all of it, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.720 lech will less all of it. That's what we're doing. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.560 But of course we're in a different position B because 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.560 we're the Dodger station and ultimately for those that are complaining, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.680 for the owners that are upset about this, and what 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.800 The Athletic wrote with Ken Rosenthal with Bob Nightingale wrote 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.520 today in the USA. Today's headline set of bloodbath is looming, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.719 A lot of its centers on Tony Clark, having perhaps 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.280 been a weak union leader. He resigned earlier. He has 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:01.360 got some legal issues, sister on a payroll charitable organization, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.080 maybe not being on the up and up. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.840 Sister in law, Matt inappropriate relationship with his sister in law. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.440 Well, that would certainly be awkward at the holiday meal, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.879 wouldn't it now? And some'm saying that Tony Clark was 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.440 what happened was, Yeah, you know, I was trying to 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.800 I was trying to take the high road, you know, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.359 and just say it was like a financial thing. Kind 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:24.840 of weird to be getting in your sister in law. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.639 Am his sister in law at the union office? What 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.080 else you gonna do in that office? 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.480 You got one negotiation a. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.320 Year finding myself with my sister in law here I 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.879 am negotiating for the player. 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.439 And some players said, is he really because it certainly 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.600 seems like Rob manfred is is the one that is 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.639 calling the shots here with Tony Clark as our leader, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.520 and the guy that's in our corner is this bulldog 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.560 lawyer Bruce Meyer number two, or the lead negotiator, the 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.720 actual lawyer with the log degree, with the precedent, with 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.560 the case law, with the JD hanging in his office, 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.320 all that sort of the guy that has Esquire after 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.680 his name is the one that really has their best 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.440 interest in mind. And they say Bruce Meyer was the 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.080 guy post pandemic, before Clark overruled him that said no, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.960 we're not coming back, we aren't going to play any games. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.600 You will get no benefit. And then all of a 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.359 sudden they were back to playing baseball. And a lot 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:35.960 of people said that was Tony Clark, that this is 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.600 the guy that wanted to dig in and really bend 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.119 Manfred over a barrel and try to get exactly what 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.560 the players wanted for longer than they wanted. They say 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.920 a salary cap as a non starter for the players, 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.639 and that no salary cap as a non starter for 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.440 the owner. I don't even start with that. That's probably 0:19:55.520 --> 0:20:01.520 why Bob Knight get started as right. So I guess 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.080 I'm just gonna kind of sit sit in the gates. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.520 Horses are gonna get awfully ornery and nantsy, and that 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.560 gate is not gonna open if that's the case. So 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.040 get ready for Trek Scooble and Pete grow Armstrong and 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.080 Mike Trout and Vlatty Guerrero Junior and the list goes 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:17.639 on and on and on. The players they're gonna be 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.960 speaking through social media and traditional channels about why the 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.240 Dodgers are great and why everything about them is great 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.359 and why you would want them as the face of 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.760 your professional league. They'll craft a message that'll certainly speak 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.399 to fans. Even I feel like I always get her 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.520 name wrong, but I'm gonna I'm gonna roll the dice again. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.560 And Kate's usually cracks the mic and he's like, well, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:45.040 that's right, that flat faced, widespread eyed brie from Chicago 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.280 that was always complaining about the Dodgers getting everything and 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.760 screaming and yelling, and she works blue. She likes to 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.600 use the curse words. Even she will be able to 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.120 relate to the players, because it's gonna paint owners as 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.760 greedy billionaires that simply don't want to spend money on 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.639 players but would rather pad their pockets and raise the 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.399 valuations of their teams. And well, that certainly doesn't play. 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:11.840 I might play on Wall Street pe but it won't 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:12.240 play on me. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.040 Not When you have a flat face and widespread eyes. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.159 Do you might attract some white trash losers, but not 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:19.959 discerning men like us? 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.840 Exactly right, We're onto you. The game has grown exponentially 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:30.040 over the last decade in popularity and revenue, and that 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:32.280 other teams simply have not kept up their end of 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.520 the bargain and spent the requisite amount to be competitive 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.000 is not the player's fault. Is not the fault of 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:41.480 no salary cap. It's pretty easy case to make. You 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:43.520 just point out the Dodgers are making so much money 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.960 from everything we see when we're they're ticket sales, merchandise, poor. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.600 Busts they're making a ton of money, and they're arresting 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.359 a ton of money. They're making more than anybody, and 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:00.119 they're laughing. So if they don't have the favorable television deals. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.040 You just did the perfect haha. If instead of paying 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.440 the players and shelling out one hundred and seventy million 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:13.280 bucks in tax payments, that haha would be haha because 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.960 all of it would be going to their bottom line 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.159 and they would just be making hundreds of millions of 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.760 dollars more than they are by spending a half a 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:27.040 billion dollars every year on their roster. The Dodgers are 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:32.520 the most popular sporting product we have seen in Los Angeles, 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:36.960 and you can even argue nationally since the three peat 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.040 Shaq Kobe Lakers. In Los Angeles, they are the most 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.760 popular team since then, when that team won three game 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.600 three titles in a row, when they had the two 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:51.320 biggest superstars of their sport playing on the same team 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.360 in the biggest market a quarter of a century ago. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.000 This is far and away the biggest thing since and 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:00.600 it feels like it's even a lot bigger than that. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:04.880 They point out that not only the Dodgers spending money 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.520 on the payroll, for players themselves. But the system works 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.120 because they're passing out one hundred and seventy million bucks 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.520 to the people that say they can't afford it, and 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.119