Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll driving the cred episode for eighty eight,
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Speaker 1: are going to do four separate things we're not doing
Speaker 1: a mail bag today. Four separate topics that are you know,
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of three sports, one non sport. The
Speaker 1: sports we are going to discuss at some point in
Speaker 1: our baseball, international soccer, the pro Football Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 1: with a little bit on broadcasting accepted norms. I guess
Speaker 1: at this point in relation to the Rogers' latest appearance
Speaker 1: on Pat McAfee, Now I don't I don't think. In fact,
Speaker 1: I know nothing I have planned here over the next
Speaker 1: ten minutes. So when we're discussing this, to me qualifies
Speaker 1: as even quasi political. That is not the piece of
Speaker 1: this that I am interested in for our purposes. It certainly, however,
Speaker 1: is not x's and oh's sports stuff. And I'm saying
Speaker 1: that on the front end for a reason that will
Speaker 1: make more sense as we get to the back end
Speaker 1: of it, because it's one of my kind of broadcasting
Speaker 1: notes on it. But Rogers went on McAfee and decided
Speaker 1: to do a bit of you know, the greatest hits,
Speaker 1: and it was fresh off doctor Anthony Falci's appearance for
Speaker 1: Congress where he pled the fifth and didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk to them, and so Rogers did something similar to
Speaker 1: what Vic Fangio did from the Eagles podium, which is
Speaker 1: decided this was the right time in the place to
Speaker 1: discuss how COVID was dealt with and doctor Fauci from
Speaker 1: five six years ago. Fine Soviet a few things on
Speaker 1: Rogers before we get to the what I think is
Speaker 1: the most interesting piece of this. But I just want
Speaker 1: to do this on the front end because I've said
Speaker 1: this before, but I want to reiterate it here. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers has created an alternate universe where he was the
Speaker 1: only athlete who decided not to get the vaccine and
Speaker 1: that he paid a massive price for it, when that
Speaker 1: is not at all what happened. Aaron Rodgers, at least
Speaker 1: in most media circles, was not heavily criticized at all
Speaker 1: for and listen to the words I'm saying here the
Speaker 1: decision not to get the vaccine, because unlike in the NBA,
Speaker 1: where if you didn't get the vaccine there were real penalties,
Speaker 1: like Kyrie, it wasn't really an NBA thing as much
Speaker 1: as was a New York City thing where Kyrie couldn't
Speaker 1: play home games with the nets because of the city regulations.
Speaker 1: That wasn't an NBA rule because he was allowed to
Speaker 1: play road games. That whole thing was very weird. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, A lot of guys we still don't know
Speaker 1: who all did and didn't get the vaccine. We kind
Speaker 1: of could piece together if you remember the COVID times
Speaker 1: you had. There were different rules as far as if
Speaker 1: you tested positive, what the the protocol was, as far
Speaker 1: as how much time you had to miss, and what
Speaker 1: the rules were, as far as I think masking and
Speaker 1: other things, whether you were vaccinated or not. And because
Speaker 1: of that, you know, people piece together. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: think Lamar got the vaccine. There were some other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of players that didn't get it,
Speaker 1: and you only knew about it because their COVID protocol
Speaker 1: was different than someone else's COVID protocol. Again, it is
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I am not interested in relitigating any
Speaker 1: of those things. The only reason I even bring any
Speaker 1: of that up is because Aaron has created It feels
Speaker 1: to me this fake universe of murderdom where he took
Speaker 1: a stand no one else was willing to take, and
Speaker 1: he paid heavy price for it. It's not what fucking happened.
Speaker 1: Aaron got criticized because he lied without directly lying, knew
Speaker 1: he was doing it, and people didn't like that that
Speaker 1: instead of having the courage of his convictions he has
Speaker 1: now six years ago, when in the moment he could
Speaker 1: have as a League MVP, as one of the greatest
Speaker 1: players ever, took this stand that he felt was a brave, important,
Speaker 1: thoughtful stand that he thought could save lives all these things.
Speaker 1: He instead passed the buck, did a little play on words, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been immunized, and then kept that ruse running until
Speaker 1: he got caught. That's what he was criticized for. He
Speaker 1: then got more and more criticized, not for a decision
Speaker 1: that was not at all incredibly out of the mainstream
Speaker 1: to choose not to get vaccinated. He got more and
Speaker 1: more criticized because he wouldn't stop talking about this years later,
Speaker 1: and then kept upping the ante on his kooky conspiratorial
Speaker 1: stuff when he tried to bring Jimmy Kimmel into the
Speaker 1: Epstein list and the other nonsense he tried to pedal
Speaker 1: us or have his friends in the media pedal us
Speaker 1: about how he's playing safety and for the scout team
Speaker 1: and got an interception for the Jets when he was
Speaker 1: month removed from the Achilles, and how he might come
Speaker 1: back within the same season, and just all this just
Speaker 1: mouth vomit bullshit that people got sick of to go
Speaker 1: on top of the fact that he didn't seem to
Speaker 1: be a very good leader, a lot of pointing fingers
Speaker 1: instead of pointing thumbs. All of those reasons are why
Speaker 1: he went from I think, relatively popular to relatively unpopular.
Speaker 1: And he has convinced himself and is I think trying
Speaker 1: to convince others. Oh, no, it's only because I didn't
Speaker 1: get the vaccine. No, vak Djokovic didn't get the vaccine.
Speaker 1: Now you can the only reason I bring that up.
Speaker 1: You can say it's unfair that he had to miss
Speaker 1: tournaments that if you want to argue whether or not
Speaker 1: those regulations were right or wrong, and if you think
Speaker 1: that your reading of doctor Fauci pleading the fifth is evidence,
Speaker 1: I am not, certainly in this setting, and maybe in
Speaker 1: any setting, really interested in having any of those debates.
Speaker 1: And if folks think that's because I think that I'm
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of it. You're wrong. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not interested in it. But those are those
Speaker 1: are legitimate debates, and if people are interested in having them,
Speaker 1: they should have them. Whether or not they should be
Speaker 1: having them on ESPN at twelve thirty in the afternoon
Speaker 1: is a different discussion, which brings me to where I
Speaker 1: really wanted to go with this, But I did just
Speaker 1: want to set the record trail on the first. First
Speaker 1: of all, that Aaron Rodgers, who lack of personal accountability
Speaker 1: has become an absolute trademark of the last five years
Speaker 1: of his career up to an including. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was so much disingenuous bullshit that everybody remember this one.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows you gotta FaceTime me. I don't have phone
Speaker 1: surface I was ninety percent retired. And then I would like,
Speaker 1: there was just so much obvious bullshit that he just became,
Speaker 1: for a lot of us, a non credible person, and
Speaker 1: instead of taking any accountability for any of that, He's like, Nope,
Speaker 1: I just bravely wouldn't get that toxic shot. And now
Speaker 1: I've been proven right, you all owe me an apology
Speaker 1: it's just such a nonsense. But now to the broadcasting
Speaker 1: piece of it, because I have two major points to
Speaker 1: make here. The first one is about how the overten window,
Speaker 1: if you will, has moved on political topics on sports television,
Speaker 1: and this is one. And I do not hide everybody
Speaker 1: who is listens to this podcast, watches this podcast, has
Speaker 1: had any knows, you know, just a passing knowledge of
Speaker 1: me deeper than it's one of the guys on TV
Speaker 1: knows my politics. I am very old, openly and proudly
Speaker 1: progressive liberal. I vote as such, maybe not in every
Speaker 1: single possible election locally, municipally, everything. I don't just click
Speaker 1: the one thing st you know, party line, ballot or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I had a pretty you know, I have a
Speaker 1: I'm quite proud of my voting track record on causes
Speaker 1: and parties and politicians. I believe in if that if
Speaker 1: you are a person that that makes you unable to
Speaker 1: stomach my take on whether or not you know Cooper
Speaker 1: flag is gonna win an MVP, then you know, good luck,
Speaker 1: God bless But I don't hide it. But I also
Speaker 1: don't at every opportunity, in fact and rare opportunities these days,
Speaker 1: when sports and politics seemed to come together. Do I
Speaker 1: opt into getting into it, and that is for two reasons.
Speaker 1: First one is a pretty simple one that I've talked
Speaker 1: about before, and that first one is that because right
Speaker 1: when the TV show started, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: political sports political talk on TV, in large part because
Speaker 1: of Kaepernick. You couldn't avoid the Kaepernick story. That was inherently,
Speaker 1: you know, a political story in part, and there's a
Speaker 1: ton of it. And I think after that the door
Speaker 1: opened even wider for other things that aren't Kaepernick related,
Speaker 1: where people felt comfortable eye of a platform. I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and I use this podcast for that.
Speaker 1: When I feel deeply passionate about something. On the TV show,
Speaker 1: we basically never do it. I think the only time
Speaker 1: we've done it in the last three years was when
Speaker 1: we were doing a show from the Chiefs Parade. There
Speaker 1: was a mass shooting that we heard the gunshots of.
Speaker 1: We're evacuated out of We're for you know, our real
Speaker 1: experience of that, and that obviously, at least for me,
Speaker 1: becomes in part of gun story. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about that there. But we do it very rarely,
Speaker 1: and there are two major reasons for that, and the
Speaker 1: first one is this. And this is why I gave
Speaker 1: that little disclaimer at the beginning. It was my own
Speaker 1: reaction to tuning into a sports show that not only
Speaker 1: I like, but this was the most This was the
Speaker 1: moment of clarity for me that I agreed with the
Speaker 1: host's politics, that I thought he was on the right
Speaker 1: side of the major issues that on the topic he
Speaker 1: was discussing. I agreed with everything he was saying, and
Speaker 1: I was bummed out it's what he was doing because
Speaker 1: it wasn't where my brain was at the time. Not
Speaker 1: even not that my brain wasn't agreeing with him, it
Speaker 1: was not what I was looking forward to. The only like, again,
Speaker 1: to very messily mixed metaphors, it would be if you
Speaker 1: absolutely love chile and SeaBASS, it's one of your favorite dishes,
Speaker 1: you find yourself craving it at times, and you go
Speaker 1: to Taco Bell, which you also like, in order three
Speaker 1: hard tacos and a chicken Quesadia, and they come out
Speaker 1: and give you a perfectly prepared Chilean sea bass, even
Speaker 1: if typically you love it, in the moment, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not what I wanted. I was looking for. This
Speaker 1: You gave me that. And then imagine if you absolutely
Speaker 1: hate Chilean sea bass and you go to Taco Bell
Speaker 1: and you make your order and they give it to you,
Speaker 1: how pissed you're gonna be. And in that moment, when
Speaker 1: I heard someone I like who I agreed with what
Speaker 1: they were saying, I agreed with their politics, and yet
Speaker 1: I was still disappointed they were doing it, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I should do it less because the people who hate
Speaker 1: everything I'm saying or gonna be pissed, and a decent
Speaker 1: portion of the people who agree with what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be pissed, but they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: little disappointed. I was like. And so that to me
Speaker 1: was like a light bulb moment, like, Okay, if that's
Speaker 1: how I'm reacting, that to a lot of people will
Speaker 1: be reacting. Which is why I try to be very
Speaker 1: judicious on these platforms, more liberal about it pun intended,
Speaker 1: I guess here than on the TV show. But even
Speaker 1: here I have to be very very passionate about something
Speaker 1: to where it or I or either very passionate, and
Speaker 1: these are usually wrapped together or feel like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I have something to say that's important, and no one
Speaker 1: else has said it. Like people ask me sometimes privately
Speaker 1: why I don't talk, whether it's just you know, on
Speaker 1: this or on Twitter or whatever about Trump more. And
Speaker 1: there's a couple of reasons, one of which is my
Speaker 1: second point that I'm gonna get to in a moment.
Speaker 1: But one of them is like, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think that beats pretty well covered. I very rarely
Speaker 1: have an opinion of the current president that I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know what, no one has said this. It is
Speaker 1: a unique individual thought that I get like, nobody has
Speaker 1: made this point, and so I don't, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much my voice would add rather than
Speaker 1: just being like the chorus on you know, certain things
Speaker 1: for people to see the world in a certain way.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons. But here's the other reason.
Speaker 1: And this kind of is tied up a little in
Speaker 1: what's happening currently in the WNBA, which is the stick
Speaker 1: to sports folks one and they they won so resoundingly,
Speaker 1: they got more than they actually initially were asking for.
Speaker 1: Because I do believe and I think, listen, things are cyclical.
Speaker 1: I think we've swung one way, we'll swing back another
Speaker 1: At some point like very rarely will we be in
Speaker 1: a proper equilibrium. I do think there was a period
Speaker 1: of time where the only, not the only, but the
Speaker 1: vast majority of either political or rarely was outright political,
Speaker 1: but politically adjacent commentary you heard on sports TV was
Speaker 1: progressive or liberal viewpoints that if people were not sticking
Speaker 1: to sports, it was saying a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: I personally agreed with. We have now swung in the
Speaker 1: other direction to where I think folks who see the
Speaker 1: world the way I do have been coled a bit.
Speaker 1: We are not quite as vocal, We pick our spots more,
Speaker 1: if at all, and folks who see the world the
Speaker 1: opposite are more emboldened than ever before. Whether it's boomerasiasin
Speaker 1: using his platform number one radio show in the biggest
Speaker 1: market in America to regularly regularly talk politics, whether it's
Speaker 1: the UFC as an entity holding an event, you know,
Speaker 1: at the White House and Dana White doing all the
Speaker 1: Dana White stuff, or whether it just be folks kind
Speaker 1: of just accepting that whatever the wild liberal athlete version
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers is would just never have the latitude
Speaker 1: of open mic Night during ESPN's afternoon block we like.
Speaker 1: It's just it's swung this way, and maybe it swung
Speaker 1: too far this way eight years ago, and it swung
Speaker 1: too far this way now and maybe you're trying to
Speaker 1: catch it in the middle. Well, never, it'll just swing
Speaker 1: back my thought on it. But here's the other here's
Speaker 1: the point, the the bigger point I'm making about the
Speaker 1: stick to sports folks, And this is what we're seeing
Speaker 1: in the WNBA. And this is what is really interesting
Speaker 1: to me. The stick to sports folks didn't actually mean it.
Speaker 1: And now that Caitlyn Clark is begging people to let
Speaker 1: her stick to sports, they're pissed because what they actually
Speaker 1: meant was if you disagree with me, stick to sports.
Speaker 1: But if you agree with me, you have an obligation
Speaker 1: to speak on it. And that has been a very
Speaker 1: fascinating thing to see play out in real time, that
Speaker 1: these folks who never gave two shits about Sophie Cunningham.
Speaker 1: Three weeks ago she comes out and speaks her piece
Speaker 1: on what she believes transgender athletes place in sports. Is
Speaker 1: the sick to sports crowd is like perfect, aimen totally
Speaker 1: agree with you. Let's have that conversation. Let's let's let's
Speaker 1: talk is there. Does it apply to the w NBA
Speaker 1: right now? Of course not. Is there a player that
Speaker 1: we're talking about that is, you know, draft eligible next
Speaker 1: year whose gender identity is in question? No, definitely not.
Speaker 1: Is there any relevance to this WNBA season on the court. No,
Speaker 1: But this is an argument I want to have. We
Speaker 1: have a popular player saying what I agree with, preach
Speaker 1: and in fact, teammate Caitlyn Clark. You got the biggest
Speaker 1: megaphone of them all. You agree with her? Right? Oh,
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about it, you coward. It's
Speaker 1: been really fascinating to see, and I I am really
Speaker 1: interested in if Caitlyn's able to do it, if she
Speaker 1: can hold her water on I truly do just want
Speaker 1: to stick to sports. Call me the Michael Jordan of
Speaker 1: the WNBA. Everybody buys sneakers. I'm not trying to get
Speaker 1: dragged into it. If these folks turn on her because
Speaker 1: she has been an avatar for them, Caitlyn Clark has
Speaker 1: been turned into a caricature by folks, by extremists on
Speaker 1: both sides of the political aisle, in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: I'm not a both sides guy. I do not think
Speaker 1: like we have equal problems with I do not believe
Speaker 1: that at all. I do believe that Caitlyn Clark specifically
Speaker 1: has been turned into a person that she may or
Speaker 1: may not be by folks who love her and hate her.
Speaker 1: And the person that she has been turned into by
Speaker 1: people who hate her is the exact opposite person that
Speaker 1: she was. There might be the same person that she's
Speaker 1: been turned into by people who love her. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it's it has not been her own doing,
Speaker 1: and she wants to stick to sports, and these people
Speaker 1: are pissed about it, and that's fascinating to me. Talk
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Speaker 1: All right, So we have done exceptionally well on this
Speaker 1: show historically of predicting the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: we normally do it when the list of twenty five
Speaker 1: semifinalists comes out. Two years ago, when it was down
Speaker 1: to twenty five semifinalists, we got the five Hall of
Speaker 1: Famers exactly right. Last year, I believe we got four
Speaker 1: of them right. But regardless, last year's class Drew Brees, Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: Keith Lee, Viniti, and Roger Craig. There was a whole
Speaker 1: debate last year about whether or not Crafter Belichick would
Speaker 1: get in, and the answer was neither one of them.
Speaker 1: And we now have a great example as to why
Speaker 1: the NFL Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: is the best hall of fame and why when people
Speaker 1: throw around future Hall of Famer willy nilly, they are
Speaker 1: so often mistaken because not only is this Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame hard to get into, it feels impossible to get into.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal of the non senior candidates and
Speaker 1: just the players, not senior candidate players and not contributors.
Speaker 1: It is a maximum of five eligible a year. Okay,
Speaker 1: so last year, guys who didn't I'm just gonna give
Speaker 1: you the list real quick. Twenty five semifinalists who did
Speaker 1: not make the fifteen finalists. Okay, these guys were semifinalists.
Speaker 1: They didn't make the finals last year. Lomas Brown, Rodney Harrison,
Speaker 1: Robert Mathis, Philip Rivers, Steve Smith, Senior, Fred Taylor, Earl Thomas, Hines,
Speaker 1: Ward Richmond Webb, Vince will Fork, Steve Wisnowski, they didn't
Speaker 1: even make the first cut last year. Finalists that did
Speaker 1: not make the final eight last year, Okay, they were
Speaker 1: as follows, Jarr Evan, Frank Gore, Tory Holt who's been
Speaker 1: waiting forever, Eli Manning, Reggie Wayne, Kevin Williams, Jason Witten,
Speaker 1: Darren Woodson. Finalists who made the final eight but did
Speaker 1: not get in Terrelle Suggs, Willie Anderson Marshall Yonda. All right,
Speaker 1: so you might feel like, Okay, so Suggs Anderson Yonda
Speaker 1: are in better shape than certainly the semi finalists that
Speaker 1: didn't make it. But then also Jarry Evans and Tory
Speaker 1: Halt and Frank Gore and Eli and Reggie Wayne and
Speaker 1: Jason Witten, Darren Woodson. Yeah, they might be in better shape.
Speaker 1: It also might not matter, because here's why this Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame's awesome, and I feel, you know, awesome. It's tough,
Speaker 1: but it's supposed to be new to the ballot this year.
Speaker 1: Among others, but most notably these six guys, Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, Rob Gronkowski, Richard Sherman, Antonio Brown and Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: So here's why the Hall of Fame is impossible. Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski takes one of the spots he is in, Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson takes one of the spots he is in, Big
Speaker 1: Ben takes one of the spots he is in. That's
Speaker 1: three down already. Cam Newton maybe one day. And I
Speaker 1: really like Cam. Cam Newton is not getting in first
Speaker 1: ballot and probably not ever. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: that because that's more, it's very, very hard to make
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame case for Cam Newton other than
Speaker 1: like change the game stuff cross him out. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: has a Hall of Fame caliber resume, but I think
Speaker 1: that they are going to have no problem making him wait.
Speaker 1: And had he not, you know, done what he's done
Speaker 1: over the last few years, they probably wouldn't have made
Speaker 1: him wait. He's a four time first team All Pro,
Speaker 1: he's got over twelve thousand yards, he's got eighty touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's not getting in first ballot, and this is this
Speaker 1: is a really tricky and to me, this guy is
Speaker 1: very clearly a Hall of Famer. Richard Sherman, I do
Speaker 1: believe deserves to be in and will get in. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be first ballot, and so that does
Speaker 1: but he could be. And if he is, only one
Speaker 1: spot else is open, and if Antonio gets in, no
Speaker 1: other spots are open. Gronk, Adrian Peterson, and big Ben
Speaker 1: are going to make it. I think Sherman might have
Speaker 1: to weigh a year or two. I think Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: might have to wait a year or two. But again,
Speaker 1: every year new guys come eligible. Next year, Brady's one
Speaker 1: of them. Like, guy, it's tough. My guess is next
Speaker 1: year's Hall of Fame class will be Gronk, Peterson, big
Speaker 1: Ben Suggs, Willie Anderson, which leaves Marshall Yonda, Sherman, Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown along with Jarry Evans, Frank Gore, Tory Holt, Reggie
Speaker 1: Wayne still waiting, Gosh, Tory halt Man. How many more
Speaker 1: years till Tory Holt falls off when he retired in nine?
Speaker 1: Willie Anderson's O eight like, let's get it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: But I think that's the hall. Next year's Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame will be Gronk, Peterson, big Ben Suggs, Willie Anderson.
Speaker 1: That's my guess now. Fortunately for these guys in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight obviously Brady walks in. The only other first
Speaker 1: ballot eligible guy I think that he's got it like
Speaker 1: a real shot is Alex Mack. But he he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be first ballot next So a year two years
Speaker 1: from now, there should you should be able to get
Speaker 1: four additional guys along with Brady. But I mean, great
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Speaker 1: year as well. Hold on tell me, is jj Watt
Speaker 1: eligible next year the year after? Okay, Okay, that's all right.
Speaker 1: Jj Watt walks in first ballot, walks in. We talked
Speaker 1: to Aaron Donald on the last show. There is a
Speaker 1: real argument. It's funny, I said in the last show.
Speaker 1: There's an argument Aaron Donald's greatest defensive player of all time.
Speaker 1: There is an argument for that. There's also an argument
Speaker 1: he's not the best defensive player of his own era
Speaker 1: because JJ Watt was in that era. That's how good
Speaker 1: jj Watt was. Two quick stories, because I went longer
Speaker 1: than I usually do on a Friday show. One is
Speaker 1: the US men's national team, like Cinnon, Mauriso Pochettino. That
Speaker 1: was obviously, unequivocally and undeniably the right call. I was
Speaker 1: stunned how many people, because of the game against Belgium,
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, let's move on, guys. Giving him a
Speaker 1: full cycle. Giving the team the stability is the best
Speaker 1: thing we can do. From a coaching standpoint, they had
Speaker 1: a terrible game, there is no doubt about it. But
Speaker 1: restarting this whole thing and running the risk that you're
Speaker 1: gonna hire a zero, it just can't be done. So
Speaker 1: I thought it was a no brainer. I'm thrilled he
Speaker 1: agreed to do it. I liked that he seemed to
Speaker 1: really enjoy coaching the team. I also think having one
Speaker 1: World Cup under his belt that went fine, not great,
Speaker 1: but went and had some great moments. And now having
Speaker 1: the full four year runway, you'll have even more authority
Speaker 1: to create the team in the image that he wants have,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I think that's great. And the
Speaker 1: other big story that we have not gotten to is
Speaker 1: school will going to the Dodgers. And this, to me
Speaker 1: is a fascinating example of almost human psychology. And so
Speaker 1: I'll just try to do this quickly. If you believe
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are bad for baseball, if you believe that
Speaker 1: you need a salary cap, that it has to be
Speaker 1: more competitive balanced, all those things, those are all totally
Speaker 1: legitimate beliefs. Obviously, I think you can you know, Cowherd
Speaker 1: and others make the exact opposite argument all the time.
Speaker 1: I think that is, you know, good ground for a
Speaker 1: vigorous debate the pros and cons of having an evil
Speaker 1: empire like the Yankees and the Aughts and the Dodgers. Now,
Speaker 1: what I find so fascinating is the Dodgers trading for
Speaker 1: school has almost nothing to do with their financial advantage
Speaker 1: and what's supposedly wrong with baseball. Yet from a narrative
Speaker 1: discussion and from the momentum of oh my god, a
Speaker 1: lockouts coming or work stoppage, that this can't go on,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. It just it's the Slim Charles line
Speaker 1: from the from the wire, it don't matter. If it's
Speaker 1: a lie, we fight on the lie. I butchered that line.
Speaker 1: Slim Charles, fight on the lie. What is the exact
Speaker 1: line the if it's a lie, then we fight on
Speaker 1: that lie. A dozen teams in baseball could have trumped
Speaker 1: the Tiger's offer for schoobl Tiger's gonna pay school like
Speaker 1: nine million bucks. Who's on a one year, thirty two
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. It was only a few months left
Speaker 1: in the season. Now, if they re signed Schoobl, that
Speaker 1: you can talk about that being what's wrong with baseball.
Speaker 1: If that's how you feel. If he had already been
Speaker 1: on a long term contract, that was like an albatross
Speaker 1: and they were gonna take it on. Fine. Hell, if
Speaker 1: baseball had a version of the franchise tag where it's
Speaker 1: like yeah, they trade for him. He's on her contract,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely gonna keep him. None of that's true.
Speaker 1: And they didn't trade a bunch of stuff. They traded three,
Speaker 1: from what I'm told, kind of mid tier prospects. A
Speaker 1: lot of teams could have traded for Trigued Schooble, Trek Scooble.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers just did it. But it's the schoolbl trade
Speaker 1: that people are like, that's too much, enough is enough.
Speaker 1: But it had such so little to do with their
Speaker 1: financial advantage. But the fact that that's the reality of
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. And it seemed like this was
Speaker 1: the final straw for a lot of people. With that said, man,
Speaker 1: baseball's got more momentum right now than it's had in
Speaker 1: twenty years, maybe thirty years, certainly twenty years, we'll call it,
Speaker 1: not thirty years thirty years ago. As workshop it a
Speaker 1: work shoppage would be so bad for the sport. It'd
Speaker 1: be so bad. I haven't really spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time studying how to get this thing fixed with the
Speaker 1: meetings of the minds, but it be so bad. But school,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers got Schooble because nobody else wanted to step
Speaker 1: up in trade for him, not because they've got the
Speaker 1: richest local television deal in the sport. Huge thanks to
Speaker 1: hard Rock, Bet, boost Mobile, and even a thanks to
Speaker 1: Seat because I forgot to thank him yesterday. Thank you
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