1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: This is the best of two pros and a couple 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Joe with Lamar Arrington, Rating Win and Jonas Knox on 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: Fox four Radio. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: Oh, you can feel the electricity in the air. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 3: The fireworks will. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 4: Be there for us tonight. 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: It is the fourth of July, and we are here 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: for every ounce of the fun that we are about 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: to have in the next several hours. 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 3: Buck Rising Jason Fitz. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: Usually I'll be honest, you know what, Buck, Usually I'll 12 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: be honest. I start most shows in most hours with 13 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: sort of a monologue in a statement. But today it's 14 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: a fourth of July, man, Like you know, it just 15 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: feels like today is a day for us to peel 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 2: back a little bit, for us not to be as 17 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: serious as so many people are. Like today's a day 18 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: of glorious celebration. I feel like people driving around right 19 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: now that are getting to start their day need the 20 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 2: reminder that this is an awesome day. 21 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: It's just there's something about the fourth. 22 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 4: I'm not usually a sentimental guy or a guy that 23 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 4: really like gets war. 24 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 3: He gives me a look. I'm not I'm not that guy, 25 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 3: but I don't know. The fourth hits me. 26 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 5: Brother, Oh please, you spent the first three hours that 27 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 5: we did one of these shows together talking about, oh, 28 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 5: we've known each other for ten years and oh this 29 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 5: is so special for both of us that I just. 30 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 3: Looked at you. 31 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 5: It's like, it's seven in the morning. Leave me alone. 32 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 5: What are you talking about? 33 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 6: What do you mean you're not a sentimental guy? 34 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 3: Okay, you don't have a heart. Okay, Like if we 35 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: are all playing. 36 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: Roles on the Wizard of Oz, you were definitely the 37 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 2: ten men, and I'm definitely the cowardly. 38 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 5: Oh that's so rude, so rude to greet me with 39 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 5: on this Independence Day. You know what I want independence from? 40 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 5: I want independence from fireworks. I'm so sick of this. 41 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 5: I tried so hard to go to bed through the 42 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 5: fireworks last night. 43 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 6: Who the hell told you could shoot all fireworks. 44 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 5: On July third? I almost I was almost at person fifty. 45 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 5: I almost went outside and yelled at the neighbor and said, 46 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 5: I have to be up at four am. 47 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 6: Cut it out. I'm so close. 48 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: I once in my life when I was living in 49 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: Nashville one time and they we were lighting fireworks off 50 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: on the I think it was on the third. And 51 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: I've been gone so much. I didn't know that there 52 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 2: was a like a drought warning or whatever. So she 53 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 2: called the cops and they came and dancing at about 54 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: like eleven thirty at night. 55 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 3: They came in, let us know what we can do. 56 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: I look, I respected, I respect the crotchety old man 57 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: for you. Like because look, especially in certain parts of 58 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: the country, the third of July has become this big like, hey, 59 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: we know you're gonna go downtown on the fourth, so 60 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: we're gonna do our side community fireworks. People are gonna 61 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: have people over, like the third of July it is 62 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 2: its own little party. And while I agree with you, 63 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 2: I think we came to the consensus. 64 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: Yesterday that fireworks are overrated. 65 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 2: But we figured out in that conversation that it's not 66 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: just fireworks for you, it's really the crowds. The crowds 67 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: are overrated. The third of July should be your day, brother, Like, 68 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: you can get all the fireworks you need on the 69 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: third of July. You can have all of the fun 70 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 2: you need, and you don't have any of the pressure 71 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: of the crowds of the fourth. 72 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 4: Like this feels like this is a a good thing 73 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 4: for you. 74 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: The third should be your silly day. 75 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 6: I'm willing to accept that. 76 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 5: Listen, I'm open to negotiations on this because I understand. 77 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 6: That it is Independence Day. 78 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 5: We get to celebrate living and working and being a 79 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 5: part of the greatest country in the world. 80 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 6: I am one hundred percent for that. 81 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 5: I am one hundred percent for everything that it stands for, except. 82 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 6: These damn fireworks. I swear it's just it's the one thing. 83 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 5: But you're right, it's really more about the crowds and 84 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 5: the celebration to me, and we have I think somewhere 85 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 5: in the neighborhood of one point six million people flooding 86 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 5: the city of Nashville where I'm broadcasting from FITZI and 87 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 5: Connecticut and the rest of the crew hanging out in 88 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 5: La this evening or I guess this morning. So we 89 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 5: always do it big, right, Nashville as a city does 90 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 5: it big for Fourth of July. And I'm also proud 91 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 5: of that because it's one of the most impressive fireworks 92 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 5: displays anywhere in the country, to be honest with you, 93 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 5: and the way that the music community here rallies around 94 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 5: the celebration to make sure that everybody has a great time. 95 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 5: It's a really cool and special thing. So I'm gonna 96 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 5: ease myself out of the crotchetiness, if that's even a word, 97 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 5: this morning, and we'll see if we can't have some fun. 98 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 3: We got a lot that we're gonna get to over 99 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 3: the course of the morning. 100 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 2: Including why that fireworks display is not only amazing in 101 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: Nashville but also wildly difficult. I'll explain that later in 102 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: the show, but in the meantime, I had this philosophical 103 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: question for you this morning, because this is what usually happens. 104 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: I've been lucky enough, and I do mean lucky enough 105 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: to work on the fourth of July for most of 106 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 2: my adult life, music before and now radio, I'm always 107 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 2: sort of working on the fourth. I like working on 108 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: the fourth. I think this is an incredible opportunity to 109 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: hang out with people on a day where people just 110 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: have a good spirit. But here's the conversation so often 111 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 2: that happens on the fourth, so often when we start 112 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: these shows, somebody else, why doesn't Major League Baseball own 113 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: the Fourth of July? 114 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 3: Baseball hot Dog apple Pie like Total. 115 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 6: America through and through? 116 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: And I got to thinking about that weirdly this morning 117 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 2: when I woke up and I couldn't sleep, like I 118 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 2: was sitting there thinking about the philosophical question of why 119 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 2: doesn't baseball own the Fourth of July? 120 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 3: And I kept thinking, it's easier said than done. 121 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 2: And what hits me is, you know, for three years, 122 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 2: I was the sideline reporter for the Hot Dog Eating Contest, 123 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: and I don't think my phone has ever blown up 124 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 2: more than it did for whatever reason, the Nathan's Famous 125 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: Hot Dog Eating Contest owns the. 126 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 3: Fourth of July, like everybody watches it. 127 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: Well, look, there's a full slate of Major League Baseball games, 128 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: like Baseball is putting things on. I don't know that 129 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 2: the simple concept of we're going to own this day 130 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: is easier said than done. What the NFL has accomplished 131 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 2: with owning Thanksgiving and now taking Christmas from the NBA 132 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: is so particularly special. I don't think we should necessarily 133 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: assume that anyone else can do it. Like there's no 134 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 2: one magical pixie dust in the air, and it's gonna 135 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: make people stop their fourth their gliant so, you know, 136 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 2: whatever they want to do today, I want to check 137 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 2: out the Red Sox game, Like. 138 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 3: That isn't real. 139 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 5: And I think that's there's a couple of things to that, right, 140 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 5: what's the biggest. 141 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 6: Difference between football and baseball? FITSI one's fun to watch 142 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 6: and the other isn't. 143 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 5: Oh, why you see you're talking about everybody having good spirits, 144 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 5: good energy. 145 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 6: Today. 146 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 5: I come in here shaking a fist at the sun, 147 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 5: literally at the sky, while people are shooting fireworks off 148 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 5: and you side swipe baseball. 149 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 6: Now, the biggest difference, the biggest difference. 150 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 5: Good morning, by the way, We're happy to have you 151 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 5: here on Fox Sports Radio. 152 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 6: We really are. We're gonna have a good time. The 153 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 6: biggest difference to me is the inventory. 154 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 5: Right There is such a premium placed on the NFL 155 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 5: because there are only seventeen regular season games. 156 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 6: And we thirst for it. 157 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 5: It's an oasis in the sports desert each and every 158 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 5: year where I'm you know, I'm scrolling Twitter yesterday, and 159 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,799 Speaker 5: there's plenty of things going on, but the vast majority 160 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 5: of my timeline is consumed by football stuff because people 161 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 5: are craving football. Cam Ward, for example, here with the 162 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 5: Tennessee Titans. He's in Miami, He's throwing to his receivers. 163 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 5: People are around the country going to different places, working 164 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 5: out with their teammates in this dead time, and still 165 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 5: that is more captivating to I think a good portion 166 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 5: of the sports consuming audience than regular season baseball is. 167 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 5: Right now, it's just an inventory thing to me. There's 168 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 5: so many baseball games, and especially this I know it's 169 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 5: to say that. I mean it's early in the season. 170 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 5: It's early in the season at this point in time, 171 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 5: even though we are past the halfway point for all 172 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 5: intents and purposes, I just I have a hard time 173 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 5: gravitating towards things if you're just talking about me, and 174 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 5: maybe this speaks for other people in the audience, have 175 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 5: a hard time being captivated by something that I know 176 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 5: still has eighty something games to go. In principle, and 177 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 5: that this is not the most important time of year. 178 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 5: July fourth is not the most important time of year 179 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 5: for a baseball team jockeying for position. 180 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 6: In the standings. It's just simply not so. 181 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 5: With that in mind, I think that the time in 182 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 5: the sports calendar should belong to baseball, but it's not nearly. 183 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 5: It's not an equivalent of the NFL and what the 184 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 5: NFL means when you know that even though there are 185 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 5: more or games spread across more days than there ever 186 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 5: has been, surely by the time either. You know, in 187 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 5: twenty years from now, there will be football seven days. 188 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 6: A week and we'll all rejoice as a result as. 189 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 5: The NFL continues to try and dominate things both home 190 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 5: and abroad. Right that's really the biggest difference to me. 191 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 5: I just don't I don't think that that baseball is 192 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 5: in a position to own a specific day, especially when 193 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 5: this specific day just happens to fall right in the 194 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 5: middle of their season. 195 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: I mean, I had somebody walk up to me at 196 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 2: a bar yesterday. I didn't know, and he immediately like 197 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: first seen he says, is forty five days until. 198 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 3: College football is back. That's it. 199 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 6: Like, I don't know. 200 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: And his first thing he says, and he's like, I 201 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: just need something on TV that's sports. And I looked around. 202 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: I'm like, there's baseball on like three TVs right now, dude. 203 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 2: And maybe that's what planted the seed of this concept. 204 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 2: But you're right in the sense that you know, peel 205 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 2: behind the curtain a little bit. My first radio job 206 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: where Buck and I met was at a station there 207 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 2: was a flagship for the Nashville Predators, and it was 208 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 2: funny to me. I remember distinctly the first fall that 209 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 2: I worked, and it was October, and because we were 210 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: the flagship for the station, the broadcast partner of the 211 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: Nashville Predators, we were getting yelled at by certain people 212 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: at the Preds because we weren't talking enough hockey in October. 213 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 2: And I remember so distinctly looking at our bosses at 214 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 2: the time and saying, the third line defensive pairings of 215 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 2: a hockey game in October don't matter right now, like 216 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 2: people only care about college football in the NFL right now. 217 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 3: And it was funny. 218 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: You're right, It's hard to make one moment matter. And 219 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 2: this is part of the reason why when people say 220 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs are too long, okay, well, I mean 221 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: they're never going to reduce the NBA playoffs. They might 222 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 2: reduce the regular season someday if they absolutely have to, 223 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: although I don't think they will. Same with the NHL, 224 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 2: like the playoff inventory is the only thing that matters. 225 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 2: I think Major League Baseball has become that in so 226 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 2: many ways, Like we get swept up in playoff baseball, 227 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: but because there is such great drama to playoff baseball 228 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: that you simply can't replicate. 229 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: You can't replicate the meaning of. 230 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: That result in a sport that has so many games. 231 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: So you're right, like there's zero, there's zero sales pitch. 232 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 2: You can be done around Mets Yankees today. That's gonna 233 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 2: make Mets Yankees particularly interesting to somebody that doesn't really 234 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 2: care about football or baseball. But when we get to Thanksgiving, 235 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 2: it's super easy to say, hey, these particular games matter, 236 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: turn them on. 237 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 3: It becomes a family tradition. 238 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: I also think we forget how long it takes something 239 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 2: to become a tradition. 240 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 6: And that's and that's kind of that's. 241 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 5: Kind of the difficult spot that baseball is in, right 242 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 5: because they still do refer to the sport as America's 243 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 5: pastime when it's not anymore right. It had its run, 244 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 5: it had a great run as America's pastime. 245 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: It's having a resurgence right now with attendance. 246 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 3: People are happy to this zooing what about no? 247 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 6: And I don't mean this to like I feel like 248 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 6: this is the problem. 249 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 5: The biggest problem for me is anytime we have a 250 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 5: conversation about baseball, it sounds like it's denigrading the sport, 251 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 5: and the sport is in a pretty healthy place. It 252 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 5: would seem there are star players across the board. There 253 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 5: are interesting storylines across the board, and to say that 254 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 5: baseball is not capable maybe of captivating the national audience 255 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 5: across the board on July fourth sounds like a shot 256 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 5: at baseball. But I don't mean it to be just. 257 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 5: I think that there are a couple of different things 258 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 5: working against it. I don't think it's a problem that 259 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 5: Baseball has to fix, right, it's just kind of this 260 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 5: ancillary conversation around it, and it's compounded by some that 261 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 5: you sent to our group text as we were kind 262 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 5: of preparing for the show yesterday evening into this morning, FITZI, 263 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 5: which is that a lot of these games, with the 264 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 5: way that the broadcast rights have been redistributed or will 265 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 5: continue to be redistributed, you're not seeing a lot of 266 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 5: these games, or as many of these games as you 267 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 5: might otherwise, because I think there's a disconnect between the 268 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 5: baseball audience, like the crux of the baseball audience, and 269 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 5: where you can actually go to find these games with 270 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 5: the streamers. Now, Apple TV had the Yankees last night, 271 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, and there were so many things 272 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 5: happening in that game that people probably were not aware 273 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 5: of because there's not that many people, but at least 274 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 5: not yet. 275 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 6: The numbers don't bear it out yet. 276 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 5: There's not that many people who are outright gravitating towards 277 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 5: Apple TV to stream their baseball games. And maybe that'll 278 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 5: change over time, and consumer habits will change over time, 279 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 5: and that'll become a more normalized thing. But as it's 280 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 5: still somewhat in its infancy. I know Apple's had baseball 281 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,239 Speaker 5: for several years now. This is not a new thing necessarily, 282 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 5: but especially right now when the games are not at 283 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 5: a premium for your attention, are you really going out 284 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 5: of your way to seek out different streaming services to 285 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 5: make sure that you can catch one hundred and sixty 286 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 5: two baseball names. I just don't think the vast majority 287 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 5: of people are doing that. 288 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 2: He's buck rising out, Jason Fitz. We're just getting rolling 289 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: in for two pros and a cup of Joe this morning. 290 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 3: We'll break all of that down. Got a lot we're 291 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 3: gonna get to. 292 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 2: But up next, I'm gonna help all of you degenerates 293 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: that want to bet on the hot dog eating contest. 294 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 2: I got inside you. You absolutely got to have. 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Listen to The Fifth Hour with Ben 310 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 8: Mather or the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you 311 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 8: get your podcasts. 312 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 5: There's no faster way to grab somebody's attention then to 313 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 5: mention the words super in sports, whether you're talking about 314 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 5: super teams, whether you're talking about super leagues. 315 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 6: It does seem. 316 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 5: To bring a little extra gravitas to any conversation. Good morning, 317 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 5: Happy fourth of July. It's Two Pros and a Cup 318 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 5: of Joe. He's Jason Fitz I'm Buck Rising filling in 319 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 5: for the guys here this morning on Fox Sports Radio, 320 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 5: and there is a story about potentially a college football 321 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 5: power for conference trying to join a super league that 322 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 5: we're going to going to get into and break down 323 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 5: with you here in just a few moments. But as 324 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 5: we have been sitting here for about an hour and 325 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 5: a half at this point this morning, FITSI the Twitter 326 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 5: reaction has started to roll in, and I wonder what 327 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 5: the feedback are you. Are you worried that the WNBA 328 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 5: hater and detractor that doesn't actually watch the WNBA has 329 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 5: infiltrated your mentions and is telling you how stupid we are. 330 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 2: No, No, see, the problem is, and this is how 331 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 2: you know you had a good take on something when 332 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 2: you don't get anybody yelling at you one way or 333 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: the other because it can't really yell like it's like, oh, 334 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: that's a prety good point. So you know, we'll see 335 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: what the WNBA haters say. But RB did ask me 336 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 2: to confirm that you're thirty one. He said he's thirty three, 337 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 2: and he said, buddy. 338 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 4: Sounds forty. 339 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: So I would just point out that, you know, Buck 340 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: is an old soul in a young body. 341 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 4: I mean, it is a little alarming when. 342 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 2: People like, if you see Buck too, he doesn't really 343 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: look like his voice. I mean it is there's a 344 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 2: whole thing going on here, Buck, So just confirm for 345 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: the world that you are thirty one. 346 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 6: I am thirty one. I will be thirty two in 347 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 6: sixteen days from now. Oh, sixteen day, sixteen days. Are 348 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 6: we having a part, hey, I'm having several. 349 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 5: I like to spread the birthday out across a couple 350 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 5: of different dates because it is what my birthday represents 351 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 5: to me, because that's of course what people want to 352 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 5: hear about on July fourth, as we broadcast here on 353 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio. What my birthday represents to me is 354 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 5: my last weekend of freedom before NFL training camp agains. 355 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 5: It's always the last or the last week or weekend before. 356 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 5: In my case, as I'm here in Nashville, Fitzy and 357 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 5: Connecticut and the rest of the crew, Megan, it happened 358 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 5: out of Los Angeles. I cover the Tennessee Titans for 359 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 5: a living. Tennessee Titans coverage involves day to day training 360 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 5: camp coverage, and so once that happens, my nights, my 361 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 5: weekends evaporate until basically the NFL Combine and the rest 362 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 5: of the you know, which is enjoyable because it means 363 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 5: football is back. It's back in our lives. It's the 364 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 5: most important thing and it will. It makes life a 365 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 5: lot easier, especially in jobs like this when you have 366 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 5: actual football to talk about as opposed to the most 367 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 5: interesting storylines in training camp and things like that. But yeah, 368 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 5: so my days as a thirty one year old are 369 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 5: soon coming to an end. That person is correct, but 370 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 5: I will simply be thirty two. 371 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: Bri, producer extraordinaire. Did you just catch the Buck Rising 372 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 2: Cities having multiple parties? 373 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 4: Did you catch that multiple parties? 374 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 3: I also have thirty ones. 375 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: That really stresses me out because I feel like I 376 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: sound like I'm twelve compared to Buck. 377 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah that is. 378 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's years of smoking and drinking Tila, no, no, breeze. 379 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 5: Brie and I haven't met in person officially, but just 380 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 5: based on our conversations here working together these last couple 381 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 5: of weeks, I would take away Bri being a bit 382 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 5: more wholesome than somebody like me who lives a lifestyle 383 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 5: of a degenerate here in Nashville, Tennessee, which is as 384 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 5: close to Vegas as anybody's comfortable getting without having to 385 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 5: actually go to Vegas. 386 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: Follow up question here, Mighty Mark also part of the 387 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 2: team and we always hang out on the Fellaws. You 388 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: can check Buck and I also tomorrow morning for the Fellaws. 389 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 2: Mighty Mark, did you catch Buck Rising saying something about 390 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 2: multiple parties? I just want to make sure we all 391 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 2: heard the same thing. Mighty Mark, did you hear the 392 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 2: same thing multiple parties? 393 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 4: I think I was queueing up music. I didn't hear 394 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 4: the words, So. 395 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 6: Okay, let me reiterate. 396 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 5: I am having multiple birthday parties for myself. 397 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 6: Because I like to have. 398 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 2: Okay, now, just follow up question, Mighty Mark, have you 399 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: m Bree both, if you could chime in on this, 400 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 2: have either of you gotten an invite to a single 401 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 2: one of these multiple parties that are. 402 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 6: Happening from Buck? 403 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: Yeah? 404 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,959 Speaker 3: No, No, well, of course not. 405 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 7: He barely just knows us. 406 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 3: Why would he invite us? 407 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: Well, I just I'm just confirming because I also haven't 408 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: had an invite to single birthday. 409 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 5: I've known him ten years and he doesn't have an 410 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 5: invite to all of these things either. 411 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 4: I mean, like you, we are just sitting here working together, 412 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 4: and it's like. 413 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna have a dozen. 414 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,479 Speaker 3: Parties all over the North America. 415 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 5: In multiple different cities, one in Nashville. I'm going to 416 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 5: San Diego for a week. We're gonna have a couple 417 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 5: of nights there throughout the course of the week. And 418 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 5: none of this is happening on my actual birthday, which 419 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 5: will be a celebration unto itself. I think my birthday 420 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 5: falls on a Sunday this year, which is not terribly convenient, 421 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 5: but you. 422 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 6: Know, we'll make it work. 423 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 5: Here's the thing, though, I don't know you are all 424 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 5: over the place. This is not a justification, simply fact. 425 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 5: If you want to bring fact to an argument in 426 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 5: the way that we were shouting down WNBA detractors in 427 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 5: the last segment, you're in Connecticut, Bud. If you happen 428 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 5: to end up in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday this coming Saturday, 429 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 5: July the. 430 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 6: Twelfth, when we are going to dinner and then. 431 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 5: Taking in the UFC fight at Bridgestone Arena, you are 432 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 5: more than welcome to attend. If you happen to be 433 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 5: in San Diego for the four days that I'm spending 434 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 5: out San Diego with a group of friends with multiple 435 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 5: nights of celebration, then you are more than welcome to attend. 436 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 5: I will invite you to any of these things. You 437 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 5: are in a different part of the world. I'm not 438 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 5: coming to Connecticut, even though I love you dearly. There's 439 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 5: not really much you would do to get me to 440 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 5: the state of Connecticut, not to not to, you know, 441 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 5: detract from one of our great states in this mighty 442 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 5: union on this Independence Day. 443 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 6: But Connecticut, I'm good. I'm all said. 444 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: Wow, if I said the word speedo, does that change 445 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 2: any of those opinions. 446 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 6: For who you were? 447 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: Me? 448 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 3: You tell me. 449 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 4: Now that we've made the. 450 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 6: Entire both matching banana hammocks. 451 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 2: Match that's Can we make that, bree, Can we make 452 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: that the name of the show tomorrow? Matching banana hammocks? 453 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 6: I don't. 454 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 3: I don't think. Yeah, I'm gonna try not to get 455 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 3: us fired. 456 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 6: You look up what a banana hammock is? 457 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 4: Hey, you know what this is? 458 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 2: Hey, We're just it's all fine. That's probably the best. 459 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 2: That's probably the nicest thing anybody would ever say. If 460 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: Buck and I walked into a room in speedo, is 461 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 2: it's it's all fine. 462 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 6: Well, you know, what that's just fine college football? 463 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 4: You mentioned? Is college football going to be fine? 464 00:20:59,680 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 3: Buck? 465 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 4: Look at that segue. Look at that sure, I mean 466 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 4: just that is a transition of. 467 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 6: The so tickled with himself for being able to do that. 468 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 6: I mean, is college football going to be fine? I 469 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 6: don't know. 470 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 5: You work with a lot of college football people in 471 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 5: your responsibilities for Yahoo. Obviously FITSI and SEC Country. We 472 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 5: talk a great deal of college football here. It is, 473 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 5: I would argue, it is the most important thing to 474 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 5: the local audience here is the tribal nature of college football. 475 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 5: Even though we do have a professional football team. We 476 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 5: have a professional hockey hockey team. We have an MLS 477 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 5: team that's won or has thirteen unbeaten results in a row, 478 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 5: and getting ready to play the Philadelphia Union tomorrow, which 479 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 5: is going to be crazy. It's crazy what Nashville SC 480 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 5: is doing. And Yeah, and you've played that stadium. You 481 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 5: have had the or at least you have been a 482 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 5: part of the opening ceremonies for that stadium. 483 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 6: In fact, was that like the first. 484 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I opened that stadium, played the national anthem for 485 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 2: the first ever game in that stadium. 486 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 6: I have videos. It was like a proud stage mom. 487 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 5: I was taking videos of him Brion Mark on my 488 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 5: phone from the stands as he broadcasts the violin rendition 489 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 5: of the national anthem and the opening salvo of Gioda's 490 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 5: Park here in Nashville. But anyway, if you talk to 491 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 5: college football people and you ask them that specific question, 492 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 5: is it going to be fine? It depends on what 493 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 5: your entryway into that conversation is. I guess. So what 494 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 5: I'm trying to say is, like the health of the sport. 495 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 5: Is college football on the field as healthy as it's 496 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 5: ever been? One could argue, yes, I think that the name, 497 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 5: image and likeness situation. I think that the transfer portal 498 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 5: situation has allowed there to be has allowed there to 499 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 5: be more competitiveness top to bottom, Whereas it's not just 500 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 5: the top four teams that we're talking about in any 501 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 5: given year, and even in a twelve team playoff format, right, 502 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 5: you're still getting the cream rising. 503 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 6: To the top. 504 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 5: The best teams will ultimately end up having the best 505 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 5: results and will weed out the SMUs and the Indianas 506 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 5: of the world, respectfully to my alma mater and all 507 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 5: these different things. So, like the health of the sport, 508 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 5: I think it's in a good spot where it's not 509 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 5: just one program, not just Nick Saban dominating things, even 510 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 5: though Kirby Smart is recruiting at Georgia is at as 511 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 5: high of a level as Nick Saban was during the 512 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 5: height of his powers. Right Clemson getting back into the 513 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 5: mixed Ohio state winning the most recent recent national championship. 514 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 6: I'm a Notre Dame fan. 515 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 5: If you'd have told me that Notre Dame would be 516 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 5: playing for a national championship last year prior to the 517 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 5: season beginning, I want to spittaked. I want to laughed 518 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 5: in your face and spit out whatever my eighteen dollars 519 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,479 Speaker 5: coffee beverage was that morning. Like that's just to see 520 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 5: all the different things about the on field product that 521 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 5: still have that meaning. But the business component of this 522 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 5: can wear people down. It wears down the diehards, and 523 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 5: they'll still show up on Saturdays and we'll all still 524 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 5: make college football the second most popular sport in America 525 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 5: with the way that we consume it. But to get 526 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,719 Speaker 5: there and all the different shift the way that the 527 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 5: ground constantly shifts under your feet is being discussed in 528 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 5: this sixty eight page agreement that was obtained by the 529 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 5: Athletic where the ACC which has been embattled or at 530 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 5: least some of its member programs have been embattled in 531 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 5: seventeenth month litigation with Florida State and cleansing at this 532 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 5: point where the idea of a super league being potentially floated, 533 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 5: not necessarily likely to happen, but just the opportunity for 534 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 5: a super league to be created if these member institutions 535 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,239 Speaker 5: were to be were to be able to trigger this 536 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 5: clause in the agreement to leave the ACC for a 537 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 5: seventy five million dollars sum from twenty thirty to twenty 538 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 5: thirty one through twenty thirty six, which is the final 539 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 5: year of the contract. Those things do, I think give 540 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 5: college football fans and college football diehards just a little 541 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 5: bit of angst and anxiety, and you know, just a 542 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 5: little additional stress like why can't you just leave the 543 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 5: thing that we know works alone? Why can't you just 544 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 5: continue to let us have our college football traditions, our 545 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 5: traditional conferences, rather than just strip this thing down to 546 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 5: the studs and trying to maximize the profits on it 547 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 5: the way that they've clearly done, similar to an NFL model. 548 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 2: Well, similar to an NFL model is an important part 549 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 2: of this he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. We're in 550 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 2: for two pros and a cup of Joe on Fox 551 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 2: Sports Radio. And I think part of the reason that 552 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 2: the NFL model needs to be part of the conversation 553 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 2: is that's where I believe we're headed. 554 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 4: And I'm okay with that. 555 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 2: Like again, this is where I don't emotionally get invested 556 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: in much of anything, right, So I'm just sort of 557 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 2: a person that steps back and says, Okay, this seems 558 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: fairly inevitable. I love college football. It is my favorite 559 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 2: sport to care to cover. I am honored to say 560 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: that I have a Bolitanikov Award vote. I get to 561 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 2: vote for the best wide receiver in college football every year. 562 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 2: My media accomplishments in college football are the proudest things 563 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: that I've done. I absolutely love the sport, and if 564 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 2: it changes, I'm okay with that. I think we just 565 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,719 Speaker 2: have to look around at this ACC deal and remind 566 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 2: ourselves because to Bucks point, the way the clause is written, essentially, 567 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,959 Speaker 2: if six teams choose to leave the ACC to go 568 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 2: join a super conference, those six teams would have to 569 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 2: pay seventy five million dollars each and they would be 570 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: capable of doing that. Seventy five million dollars is less 571 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: than a buyout for Jimbo Fisher, like. 572 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 6: Dropping a bucket. It's like ten dollars less. 573 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 2: So you know, I'm looking around and I'm saying, that's 574 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 2: not an outclause, that's an out invitation, right, And it 575 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 2: leads me more and more to this inevitability of a superconference. 576 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 2: And I hear it when people say, well, that stinks. 577 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you like, I'm right down the 578 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 2: road from University Connecticut, if you're a Yukon football fan, 579 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 2: you're a Yukon football fan, but you know that Yukon 580 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 2: football ain't playing for a national championship, right, So at 581 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 2: some point I think we're gonna end up with a 582 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 2: system where the Yukons of the world can play whatever 583 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 2: insert other team that maybe the Indianas of the world 584 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 2: that may or may not even be part of this. 585 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 2: You know, I think we're going to have a situation 586 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: where football separates itself from everybody else, and then schools 587 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 2: are going to have the opportunity to decide do they 588 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 2: want to handle football like the. 589 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 4: Big boys in this super conference? Do they want to 590 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 4: be in a middle tier. 591 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 2: Like look, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater has a very successful 592 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 2: Division III program, all right, so they want a lot 593 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: of national championships and people go to those games and 594 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: they care about those games. Do we nationally sit there 595 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 2: and flock to a UWW game, No we don't, right, 596 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 2: But at some point every school is going to have 597 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 2: to decide do they want to be whatever this second 598 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 2: tier is or do they want to be in the 599 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: super conference? 600 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 4: And if you want to be in the super. 601 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 2: Conference, it's going to require a huge investment in salary 602 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 2: caps and a collective bargaining agreement and all of these 603 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 2: different things. And that's complicated. But through it all, if 604 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: you are wired your entire life to be a Georgia 605 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: football fan, as long as you can still be a 606 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 2: Georgia football fan, you're going to be a Georgia football fan. 607 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 2: And I just that's the part of this that everybody 608 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: gets worked up. And here college football people tell me, oh, 609 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: it's the death of the sport. 610 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 6: No it isn't. 611 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 2: It's just the evolution of the sport. It's a change 612 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 2: to the sport. And you know, frankly, jarring change hurts 613 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 2: everybody in every sport. 614 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 4: I remember growing up as a kid with. 615 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 2: The Seattle Seahawks's arrival because the Seattle Seahawks were in 616 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 2: the AFC West, Like I rooted against the Seattle Seahawks. 617 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 2: They're now in the NFC West, and nobody sits there 618 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 2: and remembers that anymore, Like we don't remember how different 619 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: these conferences looked like when it was a Big eight, 620 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 2: like right, right, So I just think, as much as 621 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 2: everybody's running around like Kermit the Frog with their arms 622 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 2: in their ah every one of these changes in five years. 623 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 2: As long as you can watch your favorite football team 624 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 2: play for some version of a. 625 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 4: Championship, you're gonna keep watching it. 626 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 2: And the small audiences for the small schools will have 627 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: small audiences with small schools, and the big ones will 628 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: have big ones. 629 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 5: College football is unique this way, though, because I mentioned 630 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 5: the tribal nature of SEC fandom and stuff like that, 631 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 5: and the way that traditions have have held stood the 632 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 5: test of time, essentially in this sport versus a lot 633 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 5: of other sports, where you're right that evolution has come 634 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 5: for a lot of different sports, be the the NFL, 635 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 5: the WNBA, like we were talking about earlier, Baseball has 636 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 5: had to go through changes, and that's some of the 637 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 5: most some of the most crimudgety, you know, reticent to 638 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 5: change fans that you can have who are probably happier 639 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 5: with the idea that they can go to a baseball 640 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 5: game and get out of there in under three hours 641 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 5: at this point in their life based. 642 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 6: On the right. 643 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 5: It's just like these things, they will become more ingrained 644 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 5: as more time passes, to your point, but college football fandom, 645 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 5: they feel differently about it. And maybe it's just because 646 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 5: I'm in the southeast part of the country and I 647 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 5: feel this more viscerally from the audience that I work 648 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 5: with on a local basis as opposed to what we 649 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 5: do here nationally on Fox Sports Radio. But that is 650 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 5: something that that's the most common refrain that I get 651 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 5: that we have been able to hold up. We've been 652 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 5: able to continue to do this and do it our 653 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 5: way and still be America's second most popular sport after 654 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 5: the NFL. 655 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 6: Why are these changes having to come? 656 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 4: Now? 657 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 5: This is not the college football that I know. It's 658 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 5: not the college football that I love, and that's fine, 659 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 5: and those people, there are some people who will go 660 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 5: to their grave with that, and some people will eventually 661 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 5: adapt to those changes and just be able to watch 662 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 5: the best games, because that's. 663 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 6: I'm more like you, FITZI than I am. 664 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 5: The diehard college football fan in this particular arena, because 665 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 5: I just want to watch the best teams playing as 666 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 5: many games as humanly possible, and if a super league 667 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 5: accomplishes that to where I can watch Texas and Michigan 668 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 5: on a regular basis, or Alabama and Clemson on a 669 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 5: regular basis, or whatever power for program versus another power 670 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 5: for program that you might not otherwise get unless you 671 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 5: went to a super team power conference model or a 672 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 5: super conference model. In this particular case, I just don't 673 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 5: see what the issue is because that's going to be 674 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 5: the best, the best entertainment value for my dollar, whether 675 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 5: I'm paying for YouTube TV, a cable subscription, any one 676 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 5: of these streaming services that now carry college football. I 677 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 5: think Peacock now has Notre Dame games on a regular 678 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 5: basis and things like that. It's just that you're going 679 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 5: to have you're going to have a harder time with 680 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 5: college football die hard in this particular thing. Evolution not 681 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 5: lost on me that you would have trouble with an 682 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 5: evolution theory in the South, But you know, what I'm 683 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 5: saying like this is. 684 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 4: He's a rising. 685 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 5: By the way, listen, they got me locally. 686 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 6: They know what this is. 687 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 5: That's it's I love you all very very much, but 688 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 5: you understand my point. They're just going to It's gonna 689 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 5: take them more time and they're you're gonna have to 690 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 5: drag them kicking and screaming, but eventually we're all going 691 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 5: to move in the same direction. 692 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, And everybody that's sitting here resisting it at this 693 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 2: point is spitting in the wind. That's the thing to me. 694 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 2: It's wasted energy. Every single legal challenge that has tried 695 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: to thwart the player's ability at college football to get 696 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 2: paid and to have name, image likeness, to have transfer capability, 697 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 2: every single legal challenge that has been made has been lost. 698 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 2: So if you're sitting here saying, oh my god, I 699 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 2: want the college football that I had of old, I 700 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: will remind you that it has been challenged in court, 701 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 2: not the court of public opinion. It has been challenged 702 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 2: by actual judges, and it has been ripped apart. So 703 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 2: if your answer is it was great the way it was, 704 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 2: and scholarships work and blah blah blah blah blah, guess what. 705 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,479 Speaker 2: The courts, the US judicial system decided you are wrong. 706 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 2: So you just got to hear it, acknowledge it, and 707 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 2: move on from it. And that's the hardest thing for 708 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 2: people do. So what's it mean for the future and 709 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: what's it gonna look like. We'll keep breaking it down. 710 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. We are hanging out 711 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 2: with you on a glorious fourth of July edition of 712 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 2: Two Pros and a Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio.