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Speaker 1: This is the Bloomberg Business of Sports show. Well, we

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Speaker 1: explore the big money issues in the world of sports.

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Speaker 2: I'm Michael Barr, I'm Scarlett Foo.

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Speaker 1: It is all baseball on the show today. As we

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Speaker 1: enter the season's midway point, we do a check in

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Speaker 1: on some of the biggest stories from MLB Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame pitcher and Fox Sports lead MLB analyst John.

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Speaker 3: Smolts career strikeout number three thousand for John Smoltz.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to John Smoltz about Steve Cohens, big money

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Speaker 2: and underachieving New York Mets. Plus we'll get his thoughts

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Speaker 2: on two way Superstar show.

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Speaker 4: Hey with Tani this is a different, different kind of

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Speaker 4: freakish athlete that has really transcended the game and maybe

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Speaker 4: even created an opportunity for future two way players.

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Speaker 1: Our pal Damien Sasbur will join us for the conversation.

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Speaker 1: Fun fact, John Smoltz is a much better golfer than

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Speaker 1: you might think. We'll talk to him about competing in

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Speaker 1: the upcoming a Murrican Century Championship. All that is straight

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Speaker 1: ahead on the Bloomberg Business of Sports. But first we

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Speaker 1: zero in on one particular ball club that's surprising everyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the Miami Marlins, and this year's Marlins. They're

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Speaker 2: on a roll.

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Speaker 5: Pirates bring the infield in Cooper, Trump run right center,

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Speaker 5: gone away, got the three run.

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Speaker 5: The Marlins are punishing the Pirates bullpen and they late.

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Speaker 1: Six to four.

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Speaker 2: They're off to their second best start in franchise history,

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Speaker 2: only behind the nineteen ninety seventeen that went on to

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Speaker 2: a franchise that just last year lost more than ninety games.

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Speaker 2: And leading the way are women in the Marlins front

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Speaker 2: office and Scarlett.

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Speaker 1: To take us behind the scenes, behind the curtain of

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Speaker 1: the Marlins Big year, is Miami Marlins President of Business Operations,

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Speaker 1: Caroline O'Connor. Caroline, Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for having me, Michael and Scarlett. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: Well, first, we're going to get something out of the

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Speaker 1: way right now that I just learned at Scarlett, is

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Speaker 1: that you knew this. I didn't know this, Caroline, you

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Speaker 1: were an intern here at Bloomberg. Will say a few

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Speaker 1: years ago.

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Speaker 2: Let's go with a few years ago.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll go with that. But yeah, Bloomberg gave me

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Speaker 6: my start. I got internship there while I was in college.

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Speaker 6: I went up to their booth at the Career Fair

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Speaker 6: I owe a lot to Bloomberg of helping me get

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Speaker 2: Well, we'd love to take credit for your career success,

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Speaker 2: but I don't think we can. Nevertheless, we're excited to

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Speaker 2: talk to you, of course, because the Marlins is a

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Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit about how that came about.

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Speaker 6: So it's been wonderful. You know, we work really closely

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Speaker 2: And one thing that's notable is, unlike Kim, your career

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Speaker 2: five years as MD at Morgan Stanley, six years as

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Speaker 1: See Scarlett is very classy and how she described you

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Speaker 6: I think the old advice work really hard. You know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of transferable skills there. Of course, on

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Speaker 2: the field, the Marlins are doing very well, off to

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Speaker 1: How do you like the changes in baseball now with

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Speaker 6: Fans love the new rules. We have really gotten used

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Speaker 6: But a lot of positive feeds back, you know, for

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Speaker 2: Unlike Kim Eng, who probably is watching each and every pitch,

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Speaker 1: Before we were on the air, I was talking with

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Speaker 6: I think that you know, things have definitely evolved and

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Speaker 6: We spend a lot of time with the players, really

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, John, I understand that you are

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Speaker 4: put it together, they're as good as most ball clubs

438
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Speaker 4: in the National League. I'm not I don't jump on

439
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Speaker 4: and off fan wagons very very easily. As a national broadcaster,

440
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Speaker 4: have to be objective, and I think what they what

441
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Speaker 4: what Steve Cohen has done is he put together a

442
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Speaker 4: roster that should have competed, no doubt, and it just

443
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 4: it came out of the gates really bad. And like

444
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Speaker 4: I said, whether or not they can get out of

445
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Speaker 4: this big hole, they have the roster to do it.

446
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Speaker 4: They got to get going really fast. Yeah, baseball is

447
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 4: a long season, and we've seen some historic comebacks. The

448
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 4: Atlanta Braves when they won the World Series were something

449
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 4: like one hundred and fifty to one to win in

450
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Speaker 4: middle of September. So it can be done.

451
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Speaker 2: Well, there's they've got to really step it up in

452
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Speaker 2: the second half. Then I want to get your take.

453
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Speaker 2: Are you on the show? Hey o Tani Bandwagon. He's

454
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Speaker 2: seen as the best player in baseball, and of course

455
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Speaker 2: later this year he's going to hit the open market.

456
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Speaker 2: What would he get on the open market?

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Speaker 1: Do you think you know?

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Speaker 4: That's We've never had anything like this, not even Babe

459
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Speaker 4: Ruth and Babe Ruth way back when, you know, hit

460
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Speaker 4: more home runs than the whole teams did, so the

461
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 4: game was played totally different. This is a different, different

462
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Speaker 4: kind of freakish athlete that has really transcended the game

463
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Speaker 4: and maybe even created an opportunity for future two way players.

464
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Speaker 4: I've always said that, you know, the money at some

465
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Speaker 4: point has to hit a point, right, but it doesn't

466
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Speaker 4: seem to be at any point. We're there. And what

467
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Speaker 4: I would say about show Hey is how much longer

468
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Speaker 4: can he do the two way? And I think his

469
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Speaker 4: contract could be very interesting to be tied the two

470
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Speaker 4: way and then tied to maybe once he just does one.

471
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Speaker 4: So he's a freak. He's a great ambassador for the

472
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Speaker 4: game and what it can be, and sky's the limit

473
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Speaker 4: for him. I don't think we're talking about I don't

474
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Speaker 4: know how many teams we're talking about that got forward

475
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Speaker 4: that kind of contract, but he's certainly going to be

476
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Speaker 4: the highest paid player ever.

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Speaker 5: John, you know you mentioned those great Atlanta Braves teams

478
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Speaker 5: from the nineties, you know, the nineteen ninety five World

479
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Speaker 5: Series team. I mean, do you stay in touch with

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Speaker 5: any of your colleagues? I mean Greg Maddox, Tom Glavin,

481
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Speaker 5: Chipper Joe's, Mark Wohler, and Steve Avery.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he's still keep in touch with any of

483
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Speaker 7: those guys.

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Speaker 4: We try every year. They do every year having Alumni Weekend. Unfortunately,

485
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Speaker 4: I'm doing a game every Saturday for Fox, so for

486
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Speaker 4: most Saturdays, but I get a chance to kind of

487
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Speaker 4: with Tom and Greg. We see each other at least

488
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Speaker 4: four times a year, whether it be at golf tournaments

489
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Speaker 4: or whether it be at the Hall of Fame which

490
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Speaker 4: is coming up, and so we're always going to be

491
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Speaker 4: linked together forever and and certainly history will we'll share

492
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Speaker 4: that that journey that we had. But as far as

493
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Speaker 4: the other players, I still stay in touch as much

494
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Speaker 4: as I can. My schedule gets a little crazy, especially

495
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Speaker 4: when it gets towards October in the postseason, but every

496
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Speaker 4: July after or right around the All Star break, my

497
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Speaker 4: focus is solely on the American Century Championship. It's like

498
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Speaker 4: I got to slow down. I get too excited, you know,

499
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Speaker 4: I block off that time on the calendar, and this

500
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Speaker 4: year it's rolled up fast. I just recently got back

501
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 4: from Scotland in my first ever golfing trip there, which

502
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 4: was unbelievable. I feel like I'm headed in the right

503
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Speaker 4: direction coming into this tournament, minus my travel coming up,

504
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Speaker 4: and so you know what, it's it's it's the best

505
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Speaker 4: thing we have and I'm just fortunate that I get

506
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Speaker 4: to play in one of the greatest golf tournaments and

507
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Speaker 4: one of the neatest places in the US at the

508
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Speaker 4: time of the year when we get to play it

509
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Speaker 4: in Lake Taowe.

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Speaker 1: I must ask about more about shoe hey o'tani uh

511
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Speaker 1: and and I also want to ask more about golf,

512
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Speaker 1: but the topic came up. We were talking about this

513
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Speaker 1: on the air a few days ago. Anybody who was

514
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Speaker 1: going for Otani? Will they ever cross that line and

515
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: offer a player a percentage of the ownership of the team?

516
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Speaker 4: Oh?

517
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Speaker 2: Good question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. That's one thing about this sport

519
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 4: that really that that I know of, has never been

520
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 4: It's again, we've never dealt with anybody at this level

521
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 4: and the age factor that you're talking about, the contract

522
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 4: and the length of it. Look, this is a copycat league.

523
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 4: I've never understood certain things about the trends and contracts

524
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 4: that get off there. But it's a copycat league in

525
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 4: the sense that once certain trends are out there, it

526
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 4: seems like they followed. I guess that's life, and I

527
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 4: guess that's business. But this will be a trend center

528
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 4: for sure.

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Speaker 2: So I like what you said about that, John, about

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Speaker 2: this as a copycat league. Which are the teams or

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Speaker 2: which are the ownership groups that would kind of set

532
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Speaker 2: the bar or be innovative and think creatively about how

533
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Speaker 2: to attract and retain talent. Who's going to set the pace?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think we're going to see any surprises here.

535
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 4: I don't think we're going to see, you know, a

536
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 4: small market team all of a sudden jump up and

537
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 4: be the first to do something that has never been done.

538
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 4: I still think, you know, he's going to stay in California.

539
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 4: I just it just seems like that's the obvious fit,

540
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 4: whether the Dodgers, maybe even San Francisco, but it's the

541
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Speaker 4: Dodgers seem to be the team that has a capacity

542
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 4: and the whereabouts to create the star factor that has

543
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 4: been there for the kind of the essence of their organization,

544
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 4: and now that they broke their little streak of not

545
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 4: winning a World Series, they have the freedom to really

546
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: kind of roll into something special like this. You always

547
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 4: and always that the narrative for us was always been

548
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: when I played the New York Yankees, Right, the Yankees

549
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 4: were the king of these kind of things. I don't

550
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 4: know that they're in that arena, especially when they signed

551
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 4: their greatest player in Aaron Judge. So you could start

552
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 4: doing the math and eliminating teams and figuring out that

553
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 4: it really is not ten to fifteen teams she'll be

554
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 4: talking with. But I will say this about Shoheyo Tani.

555
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 4: The contract he signed the first time around was so

556
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 4: generous and because he wanted to do what he's doing,

557
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 4: it enabled him to get to this point. So credit

558
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 4: him and his people and the way that he went

559
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 4: about negotiating the first deal that has set him up

560
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Speaker 4: really for this next deal that's coming his way.

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Speaker 5: Well, John, you know enough baseball. We got to talk

562
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Speaker 5: about golf here. You know, we had Joke Eisman on

563
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Speaker 5: the show last week, and you know, Joe's playing in

564
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 5: that tournament, Tahoe. He's really pumped up. You know, we

565
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 5: had the match. You know Allen, you know Mahomes, you

566
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 5: know Rogers can put. You know, you've got Steph Curry

567
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 5: out there.

568
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 7: He can play. You know, talk to us about the field.

569
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Speaker 5: Talk to us about I mean, look, Tiger Woods is

570
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 5: on the record as saying you're one of, if not

571
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Speaker 5: the best amateur golfer over the age of fifty he's

572
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Speaker 5: ever played with. Talk to us a little bit about

573
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Speaker 5: the field. What can we expect on Jo?

574
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they're younger and they hit it far. There.

575
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to used by experience and the things

576
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 4: that I've been through before to draw from. Tony Romo

577
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 4: is the class along with Marty Fish. Those two guys

578
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 4: are as good as it gets when it comes to

579
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Speaker 4: celebrity golf. They've dominated along as well with Mark Moulder,

580
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 4: who's a former baseball pitcher. They've dominated the celebrity tour.

581
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Speaker 4: I was lucky enough to win two events, but I

582
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Speaker 4: think with the field that has been put together and

583
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Speaker 4: every year it's a great field. You've got Anica Sorenson,

584
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 4: the greatest of all time in LPGA, and you've got

585
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Speaker 4: probably eight to ten different participants that have a chance

586
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Speaker 4: to win this tournament. And it comes down to this,

587
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 4: the ones that make the most birdies. I know that

588
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 4: doesn't sound like much, but the birdies in this tournament

589
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 4: are worth three times the value of a part. So

590
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 4: when you do the math, that value is greater than

591
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 4: a stroke play tournament that everyone's used to do in golf.

592
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 4: So the Stableford format really rewards more scoring on birdies,

593
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: not necessarily your pure score, but you could actually have

594
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 4: around with more birdies and bogies than eighteen pars. And honestly,

595
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 4: if I have to critique myself in the one area

596
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 4: of why I haven't won, to finished second a couple

597
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 4: of times, I get way too many pars and on

598
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 4: an average day that would be okay for golf, but

599
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 4: it's not okay for this tournament. So I have to

600
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 4: find a way to get more birdies and be a

601
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 4: little bit more aggressive and not treat it like a

602
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 4: score that you want to shoot. So birdies and bogies

603
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 4: that's what I'm looking at. It doesn't sound right, but

604
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 4: that's what it takes to win the American Century Champions.

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00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: Well, and another shout out to you played in ten

606
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Speaker 1: events as an amateur and you've made the cut in

607
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Speaker 1: nine of them, so that shows you what talent you

608
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Speaker 1: have with a golf club. I'm impressed big time. Thank

609
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: you so much.

610
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 4: Like I said, like I said, i I've played a

611
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 4: lot of professional sports, but golf is a total different beast.

612
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 4: There's no teammates to bail you out or or or

613
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 4: no teammates to let you down. It's all about you

614
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 4: and mother nature, and that part of it is very

615
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 4: intriguing to me.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about a lot of golfers that you

617
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Speaker 1: know that are very good, like you. I got a

618
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: buddy that is very good, and I asked him about

619
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Speaker 1: his thoughts, you know, between live golf and the PGA.

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Speaker 1: Let's call it a saga. I'll leave it at that

621
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Speaker 1: before we let you go your thoughts about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm a pretty loyal guy. I'm I'm it's

623
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Speaker 4: hard to move me off of being loyal. And that's

624
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 4: probably the most disappointing part of what I Well, I

625
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 4: don't know how that's going to but if I was

626
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 4: defending and supporting one side and then that side collapse

627
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 4: and it merged, it would be very disappointing to me.

628
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Speaker 4: And I hope, you know, for whatever golf has been

629
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Speaker 4: for a lot of people, I hope somehow this turns

630
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 4: into a good thing. But at the saga that you

631
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 4: put it, very well, it's been very complicated. It could

632
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: have been very dividing and probably was. And you know,

633
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Speaker 4: the only way I can kind of correlate to what

634
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Speaker 4: DGA current members are going through. In my baseball playing career,

635
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 4: I was fortunate and because of my character played the

636
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 4: game the right way. If I fought for no steroids

637
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 4: and fought for it, which I did, and then all

638
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 4: of a sudden the sport turned around and said steroids

639
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 4: are going to be okay, everybody deal with it, I

640
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 4: would be very, very upset. And that kind of the

641
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 4: way I viewed the way this, this transit transaction came down. Now,

642
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, at might end end

643
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 4: up working great, but the current, the current atmosphere that

644
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 4: I would if I were in that shoes, I would

645
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 4: be so disappointed supporting and defending the PGA and then

646
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 4: have this come down the way it did would be

647
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Speaker 4: kind of shocking to my system.

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Speaker 1: John Smoltz, lead MLB analysts for Fox Sports. Also, of

649
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: course MLB Hall of Famer former National League Cy Young

650
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Speaker 1: Award winner, John, thank you so much for joining us

651
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Speaker 1: on the Bloomberg Business of sports. We really do appreciate it, sir.

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Speaker 4: I look forward to the future.

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Speaker 1: Thanks our thanks to John Smoltz, MLB Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: Cy Young Award winner and Fox Sports Lead MLB analyst.

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Speaker 1: It's also a pretty good golfer. He'll be competing in

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Speaker 1: the American Century Championship Golf event in Tahoe along with

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Speaker 1: other sports stars like Friend of the Show, Joe thaih

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo, Charles Barkley and more. It kicks off on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: July fourteenth.

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Speaker 7: My goal is to be Num one pigs sometime I

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Speaker 7: been dreamnawting a kids.

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Speaker 2: It feels better to be number one than number five.

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Speaker 6: I'll wear a.

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Speaker 1: Number because of Mike.

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Speaker 7: We have a chance to go for three in a row.

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Speaker 6: Good numbers at a good time.

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Speaker 7: When I first started wearing that number, how we just

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Speaker 7: happy in proud Ploomberg Business of Sports the number of

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Speaker 7: the week.

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Speaker 1: Due to popular demand, it's back the number of the week.

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Speaker 1: And since we had a nice talk about golf with

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Speaker 1: John Smoltz, this is also about golf, and this is

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Speaker 1: about Michelle Wee West. She wants one more chance at

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Speaker 1: winning a major, and as I was checking her bio,

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Speaker 1: I did not know this. I'm gonna ask simply how

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Speaker 1: tall is she and what's her age?

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Speaker 7: Wait?

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Speaker 2: Wait, this is a twofer.

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Speaker 1: This is a twofer.

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Speaker 7: Well hmm, I mean, I know she's tall.

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Speaker 5: I know she's tall, but I mean I don't know

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Speaker 5: if she's six feet tall. I mean, I guess I

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Speaker 5: would guest six feet.

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Speaker 2: But hold on, now, age, no googling.

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Speaker 7: No, she's got to be thirty years old, though, I'm

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Speaker 7: just thinking I'll say thirty. I'll say thirty years.

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Speaker 5: So I'm saying, okay, so I'm saying six feet and

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Speaker 5: thirty that's what I'll go with.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say five eleven and thirty one.

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Speaker 1: And we're all winners. Damien, You're right. She is six

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Speaker 1: feet tall, and you are closer with the age. She's

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Speaker 1: thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Ah, and she is just such a star.

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Speaker 7: She is.

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Speaker 1: She is one hell of a golfer. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: want to see her, you know, just knock it out

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Speaker 1: of the park. I remember in two thousand and she

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Speaker 1: was just ten. Uh and I remember when she came

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Speaker 1: out on television. You know, this ten year old Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know it's that was I'm just like, I.

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Speaker 2: Know we've seen her grow up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's scary because.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know I know what you're gonna

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Speaker 2: say next.

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Speaker 1: This has been by cracking The Bloomberg Business is Sports.

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Speaker 1: We explore some of the big money isshoes in the world.

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Speaker 1: There's sports. I'm Michael Barr. You can follow me with

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Speaker 1: my walker at Big Bar Sports on Twitter, and.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we should be giving our heights stop

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Speaker 2: her names.

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Speaker 1: He's six' one and old as hell.

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Speaker 4: B mhm