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Speaker 1: What the fuck are these regional sports networks like Bally
Speaker 1: Sports deciding to do?
Speaker 2: What are they doing? What is this?
Speaker 1: What is this ragmatag nonsense? Are you a real organization?
Speaker 1: Are you just stealing money and deciding to use your
Speaker 1: rights that you have the ability to broadcast games and
Speaker 1: just deciding it we'll just not do it.
Speaker 2: So I was talking to.
Speaker 1: One of my producers the other day. He happened to
Speaker 1: be flying out Wisconsin, right, and so he gets into
Speaker 1: his uber and the guy is like a big Bucks fan,
Speaker 1: and he's like huge lou elsendor fan, seventy one NBA champ.
Speaker 1: He's been in the set neighborhood as Junior Bridgeman and
Speaker 1: Sidney Moncreek. So anyway, this guy is like, hey, you
Speaker 1: guys need to be he found Out's podcast.
Speaker 2: He's like, you guys need to be talking about this.
Speaker 1: I think there's a legitimate everybody in bucks Land is
Speaker 1: complaining about this, and I think there's a lot of other.
Speaker 2: People who are going to be complaining to.
Speaker 1: He said that even though he buys YouTube TV, he
Speaker 1: can currently only see half of the Bucks games because
Speaker 1: they're split with another provider, in this case Bally's. So
Speaker 1: you if you don't buy a separate streaming package, you're
Speaker 1: not getting the games.
Speaker 2: Not getting the games. So I guess that's a capitalism
Speaker 2: before you.
Speaker 1: That's fine, Like, I'm not really too worried about that,
Speaker 1: But apparently there's a lot of other issues bubbling.
Speaker 2: Up to the surface as well. You might imagine all.
Speaker 1: That about Bally being pretty normal, because I think they
Speaker 1: already lost their rights to Sun's games last year, and
Speaker 1: there was a whole hoop to do about them in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball last year as well. So they're on
Speaker 1: the cusp of like not being a real organization.
Speaker 2: Uh So all this.
Speaker 1: Comes up to the boiling point when they're app They
Speaker 1: have an app, the people are paying money to use,
Speaker 1: you know, streaming app, and you know they play the Bucks,
Speaker 1: they play the Pacers, and that app was not usable
Speaker 1: for an entire week, and fans in Milwaukee and Indian
Speaker 1: just couldn't watch games, just could not watch them. NBA
Speaker 1: League Pass, you're blacked out YouTube TV. Nope, that's bally,
Speaker 1: So they just had to be I don't know, like
Speaker 1: illegally crackstreaming their ass off, or checking the box scores
Speaker 1: or going to little play by play when you go
Speaker 1: on to ESPN.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is just absurd. So let me explain
Speaker 2: what happened.
Speaker 1: Valley has the streaming rights to a bunch of NBA
Speaker 1: teams Detroit, Indiana, Milwaukee, Atlanta. They cover games for twelve
Speaker 1: NBA teams, right, which is why when the app just
Speaker 1: demolished on itself, it was a very big deal, especially
Speaker 1: for those who decided, oh yeah, we're gonna pay twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: A month for their home team, which remember.
Speaker 1: You can't get League Pass four because it's blacked out,
Speaker 1: which is also, by the way, kind of fucked up.
Speaker 2: So for Milwaukee fans, because the jank As app was being.
Speaker 1: Yanky and not working, they missed not only the Heat
Speaker 1: game last Monday, but also the Raptors game Wednesday, And
Speaker 1: since the game was blacked out on League Pass unless
Speaker 1: they had cable, there.
Speaker 2: Was just no option to watch the game.
Speaker 1: And since they're paying for the streaming app, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I probably don't have cable. They probably didn't decide to
Speaker 1: go and get Cable League Pass and Bally Sinclair. So
Speaker 1: Greg Doyle, Indianapolis Star summed up a lot of people's
Speaker 1: thoughts when he wrote this, Sinclair, Diamond, Bally whatever they are,
Speaker 1: they've changed names so many damn times, couldn't negotiate with
Speaker 1: streaming services, then couldn't form an app that was worth
Speaker 1: the darm I bought the thing last year, doing my part,
Speaker 1: watched exactly one game. How come watching that Pacers game
Speaker 1: last year basically ten stick figures moving back and forth
Speaker 1: across my TV reminded me of my childhood video game.
Speaker 2: Pong by Atari. That's a cold piece, Greg Doyle.
Speaker 1: So, with Bally having gone bankrupt, with their financial restructuring
Speaker 1: very unknown, it's probably gonna get worse before it gets better.
Speaker 1: The thing is just an unbelievable travesty in terms of
Speaker 1: what product they're trying to peddle and what they're actually
Speaker 1: giving you. Adam Silver has already said, listen, like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take over this ourselves. If this doesn't get better,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do whatever we want to do. We've got
Speaker 1: our own rights, we've got our own networks that we
Speaker 1: can create but the bankruptcy proceedings. Who knows when those
Speaker 1: are going to be done. Whenever Bally is going to
Speaker 1: be shut down, it could be the entire season. The
Speaker 1: league is gonna obviously have to step in take over
Speaker 1: for the broadcast, but like, I don't know what he's
Speaker 1: waiting for, Adam, you just need to do that right now.
Speaker 1: If one of your little subcontractors, whatever Ballet Sports is,
Speaker 1: can't actually do what they are supposed to do, which
Speaker 1: is provide the basketball game, not practice, but the game,
Speaker 1: you gotta just cut them off like it is eighty
Speaker 1: six for you. Before the season, Bucks owner Wes Eden
Speaker 1: said he expects every Bucks broadcast to be broadcast on
Speaker 1: television's inside the market. We are obviously way outside of
Speaker 1: that since three are already not done. Andrew marshaw on
Speaker 1: the sports media writer, traveled to Minnesota where he talked
Speaker 1: to fans about the ballet streaming service.
Speaker 2: This is what he had to report.
Speaker 1: They hate ballet Sports. Nobody had anything nice to say
Speaker 1: about BALI. No one's gonna miss Vallei. People want to
Speaker 1: clean clear away to get their games, and I think
Speaker 1: that price point is designed to keep people on cable.
Speaker 1: NBA fans need access to the games in order to
Speaker 1: be fans. If you make it difficult, if you make
Speaker 1: it inconvenient, you know what they will do.
Speaker 2: They will do something else.
Speaker 1: They will probably watch something else, TikTok, Instagram, whatever, anything
Speaker 1: besides your product that you want these young fans to watch.
Speaker 2: NBA needs to step in.
Speaker 1: They need to give the local area some way to
Speaker 1: make sure the games are happening one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: It works every time. All that to say, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is ballet sports doing.