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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Scott, I'm Evan, Nobi Williams, and I'm Michael

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Speaker 1: Vary And this is the Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast

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Speaker 1: where we Evan did not participate. Man, it's like we're

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Speaker 1: going to explore the big money issues in the world

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Speaker 1: of sports. Part did you did you get the tweet

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Speaker 1: that I sent around that I tweeted for everybody to

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Speaker 1: see some guy named I assume guy, excuse me, John Gonzalez.

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Speaker 1: Did you see this morning? Tweeted After years of carrying

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Speaker 1: an Underscore in my handle, I have been liberated and

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Speaker 1: recognized as your one true John Gonzalez A New Day,

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Speaker 1: Dawns not there for you, you at you and at.

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Speaker 1: Evan Medina replied that was that was cool. This guy

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Speaker 1: is so happy to get rid of the Underscore A

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Speaker 1: New Day Dawns. Evan flexed these muscles. No, I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to have that John Gonzalez off the Underscore team. We

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Speaker 1: didn't want him anyway. We didn't want him anyway, Underscore, Underpass,

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Speaker 1: Captain Underscore. Let's start with um. Let's start with something serious.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Colin Kaepernick, he got a settlement. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know they don't discuss business at the dinner table.

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Speaker 1: But he got a settlement from the National Football Um

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Speaker 1: many zeros. That's the only question, and we're only left

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Speaker 1: to guess. Thirty forty million dollars what what? This proves

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Speaker 1: that the NFL, as it often does, settles these cases

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Speaker 1: because they do not want a discovery process. They do

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Speaker 1: not want people to see whatever is in those emails,

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Speaker 1: whatever is in those conversations. They would rather keep the

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Speaker 1: business in house, so Colin gets paid. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people were probably surprised to see that

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Speaker 1: this settlement had happened. As Scott just mentioned, there are

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Speaker 1: a plethora of reasons why the NFL wanted this grievance

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Speaker 1: case brought by Colin Kaepernick and Carolina Panther safety Eric

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Speaker 1: Reid uh to to to be stopped before we got

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Speaker 1: to that point correspondence but beween owners correspondence between President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and owners. Uh. Possibly, there's a lot in there.

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Speaker 1: Um And I think as a journalist, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of us were hoping that this thing kind of

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Speaker 1: went that distance, right, It would have been a rare glimpse,

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Speaker 1: possibly into into the inner workings of the NFL. However,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't you can't fault Colin for for

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Speaker 1: for settling on. You know, I hope a number that

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Speaker 1: he's tremendously happy with and sets him up. You know, well,

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Speaker 1: as lawyer said, he still wants to play. That's the

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Speaker 1: interest and even said the two teams you mentioned David

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Speaker 1: Tepper and the Panthers and the Patriots, Bob Kraft and

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Speaker 1: and who knows, I mean you mentioned the possible number

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Who knows if this settlement includes

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Speaker 1: another fee if he doesn't, you know, sign a contract

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Speaker 1: within the next couple of years, that there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways. Uh, this thing can can can slice out. Um,

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Speaker 1: do you think that this makes him more likely to

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Speaker 1: be signed? I have, I you and I have had

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Speaker 1: this discussion. I mean, it's probably going back a year

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Speaker 1: and I said, he'll never play in the NFL again

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Speaker 1: because what the brand is now, and I think it's damaged.

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Speaker 1: If he returns to football, he's more powerful now as

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Speaker 1: this as this figurehead. Then if he returns to play,

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Speaker 1: do you think he doesn't want to play. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he doesn't want to play. I think I

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Speaker 1: think he wants to play, But there's probably sort of

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Speaker 1: the the the angel Devil of am. I as effective

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Speaker 1: as a social justice warrior if I do play. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's move on to some Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball and Manny Machado ten years, three hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: with Evan Winston, I did not plan, changing was not planning.

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Speaker 1: He wins. What you just said called out of the

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Speaker 1: corner of my eye, just like man. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's yeah, it just is. He gonna win in San Diego.

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Speaker 1: I'd be lying if I said I can name three

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Speaker 1: other San Diego Padres. So you know, the potteries have

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Speaker 1: been willing to spend, you know, have been Cosmer, James Shields. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a team that has been willing to

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Speaker 1: spend in the past. Uh. You mentioned the terms there,

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Speaker 1: Michael ten years, three million. It's one of the biggest.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the biggest free agent contract ever. It's

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Speaker 1: the biggest. Adjusted for inflation doesn't hit are adjusted for

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Speaker 1: he's gonna take it away. He's twenty six going to

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Speaker 1: go into his most productive. Look, there's so much, so much,

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Speaker 1: so much discussion right now about kind of the changes

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball free agency. This is the type

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Speaker 1: of deal that you know is not happening as much

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Speaker 1: as it used to. But if you are a Bryce

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Speaker 1: If you are a Manny Machado, uh, these monster deals

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Speaker 1: are still clearly still available for you. You know, I

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Speaker 1: to the next topic, because fantasy baseball is here and

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Speaker 1: we're all waiting on Bryce Harper. What what are you

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Speaker 1: gonna sign? Is he the topic in a fantasy draft? Well, no,

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Speaker 1: Mike Trump, but but Bryce Harper is going to be

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Speaker 1: up there. So it's like, where do you take the

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Speaker 1: gamble because you don't know where he who cares? No, Well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, if you still gotta hit what he's

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Speaker 1: gonna hit? He's gonna hit. But if he if he

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Speaker 1: gets into the wrong ballpark, is there a wrong ballpark

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Speaker 1: for Bryce Harper? There's some bigger than others, but Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper is gonna hit thirty plus home runs he's gonna hit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, let's put it this way. If I'm

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Speaker 1: just I don't think he's signing with the Rockies. So

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Speaker 1: heads out. But I'm gonna move along. Here. Tell me

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Speaker 1: where you draft him? Where do I draft him? If

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Speaker 1: I don't know? Round two? Second round? Oh my god, Harper,

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Speaker 1: are you listening? Michael Barr a nonbeliever? And no, I

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Speaker 1: mean because Aaron Judge or or Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: Stanton or Harper Stanton. You know what, I'm giving away

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Speaker 1: too much information because I'm not gonna see anyway. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna move on right along. AFU. Thank you from Carolina

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Speaker 1: Hurricanes owner Tom Dundin, who basically now owns the league.

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Speaker 1: He basically bought the league. He has agreed to put

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Speaker 1: up two million. That's quarter of a billion for those

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Speaker 1: can't do the math in capital. Over some years, there

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Speaker 1: was some talk that some teams didn't get payroll for

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Speaker 1: for last week. Good time to tease our guests. By

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Speaker 1: the way, this week we have Arizona hot Shots quarterback

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Speaker 1: Jack Hannigan will be our guest on a podcast. Uh

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Speaker 1: he He talks quite a bit about this first week

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Speaker 1: and and whether it's good or bad. And he's certainly

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Speaker 1: happy to have Dundin's cash. And Charlie Eversoul is involved

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Speaker 1: in the league. They understand the TV part of it

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Speaker 1: is needed. Uh there was a good rating for the

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Speaker 1: opening week. But can it sustain it? That's the big question. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: week two, the a F was struggling to make payroll. Uh,

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Speaker 1: glitch with the payroll system. Either way, you know, to

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Speaker 1: need a two million dollar investment um to come in

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Speaker 1: before week two of your startup league to me is

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Speaker 1: not a is not a shining endorsement of the business model. Uh,

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Speaker 1: certainly we'll see again. This is a year before the

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Speaker 1: a a F competes with the XFL Vince McMahon's new

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Speaker 1: new league. Um, there's a handful of other kind of

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Speaker 1: startup leagues that are trying to capitalize on on America's

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Speaker 1: absolute endless love of football. Um. But you know, Thomas

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Speaker 1: Dundon is a you know, he's a smart guy. He's

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, he's an early investor in top Golf. He's

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Speaker 1: got his own investment company. He clearly sees something. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned the revenue. I mean the ratings from week one,

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Speaker 1: they weren't terrible that there may be something. I'm putting

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Speaker 1: Eman in charge of getting done It on the show.

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Speaker 1: I know he's been trying. So I want to have

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Speaker 1: you seen the postgame celebrations. Their fantastic, Yeah, and like

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Speaker 1: some old fogies are killing them. And I'm not even

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Speaker 1: gonna say then in Canada they're now selling T shirts

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Speaker 1: selling T shirts. Yeah, I mean, at least they get

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Speaker 1: the entertainment the in arena. There's a reason to be

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Speaker 1: there that. Kudos to done It on all that. And

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Speaker 1: I mean I've been get him here. I really want

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Speaker 1: to talk to about what his view is on pro

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Speaker 1: sports as entertainment in arena and scalable media. I would

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Hey, you've been listening to the

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Speaker 1: Scott said, we're talking with Jack Hannigan quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: a a F former Dartmouth quarterback, equities analyst. He ticks

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