WEBVTT - WTF Bally Sports

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<v Speaker 1>Breaks, breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines tuned in so.

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<v Speaker 2>The Heat Checked The Heat Check.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just a crack the best podcast covering all

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<v Speaker 1>the drama around the association.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me look forward.

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<v Speaker 1>What the fuck are these regional sports networks like Bally

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<v Speaker 1>Sports deciding to do?

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<v Speaker 2>What are they doing? What is this?

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<v Speaker 1>What is this ragmatag nonsense? Are you a real organization?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you just stealing money and deciding to use your

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<v Speaker 1>rights that you have the ability to broadcast games and

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<v Speaker 1>just deciding it we'll just not do it.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was talking to.

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<v Speaker 1>One of my producers the other day. He happened to

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<v Speaker 1>be flying out Wisconsin, right, and so he gets into

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<v Speaker 1>his uber and the guy is like a big Bucks fan,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's like huge lou elsendor fan, seventy one NBA champ.

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<v Speaker 1>He's been in the set neighborhood as Junior Bridgeman and

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<v Speaker 1>Sidney Moncreek. So anyway, this guy is like, hey, you

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<v Speaker 1>guys need to be he found Out's podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, you guys need to be talking about this.

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<v Speaker 1>I think there's a legitimate everybody in bucks Land is

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<v Speaker 1>complaining about this, and I think there's a lot of other.

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<v Speaker 2>People who are going to be complaining to.

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<v Speaker 1>He said that even though he buys YouTube TV, he

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<v Speaker 1>can currently only see half of the Bucks games because

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<v Speaker 1>they're split with another provider, in this case Bally's. So

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<v Speaker 1>you if you don't buy a separate streaming package, you're

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<v Speaker 1>not getting the games.

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<v Speaker 2>Not getting the games. So I guess that's a capitalism

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<v Speaker 2>before you.

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<v Speaker 1>That's fine, Like, I'm not really too worried about that,

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<v Speaker 1>But apparently there's a lot of other issues bubbling.

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<v Speaker 2>Up to the surface as well. You might imagine all.

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<v Speaker 1>That about Bally being pretty normal, because I think they

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<v Speaker 1>already lost their rights to Sun's games last year, and

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<v Speaker 1>there was a whole hoop to do about them in

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<v Speaker 1>Major League Baseball last year as well. So they're on

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<v Speaker 1>the cusp of like not being a real organization.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh So all this.

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<v Speaker 1>Comes up to the boiling point when they're app They

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<v Speaker 1>have an app, the people are paying money to use,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, streaming app, and you know they play the Bucks,

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<v Speaker 1>they play the Pacers, and that app was not usable

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<v Speaker 1>for an entire week, and fans in Milwaukee and Indian

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<v Speaker 1>just couldn't watch games, just could not watch them. NBA

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<v Speaker 1>League Pass, you're blacked out YouTube TV. Nope, that's bally,

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<v Speaker 1>So they just had to be I don't know, like

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<v Speaker 1>illegally crackstreaming their ass off, or checking the box scores

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<v Speaker 1>or going to little play by play when you go

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<v Speaker 1>on to ESPN.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, that is just absurd. So let me explain

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<v Speaker 2>what happened.

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<v Speaker 1>Valley has the streaming rights to a bunch of NBA

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<v Speaker 1>teams Detroit, Indiana, Milwaukee, Atlanta. They cover games for twelve

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<v Speaker 1>NBA teams, right, which is why when the app just

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<v Speaker 1>demolished on itself, it was a very big deal, especially

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<v Speaker 1>for those who decided, oh yeah, we're gonna pay twenty dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>A month for their home team, which remember.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't get League Pass four because it's blacked out,

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<v Speaker 1>which is also, by the way, kind of fucked up.

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<v Speaker 2>So for Milwaukee fans, because the jank As app was being.

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<v Speaker 1>Yanky and not working, they missed not only the Heat

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<v Speaker 1>game last Monday, but also the Raptors game Wednesday, And

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<v Speaker 1>since the game was blacked out on League Pass unless

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<v Speaker 1>they had cable, there.

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<v Speaker 2>Was just no option to watch the game.

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<v Speaker 1>And since they're paying for the streaming app, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>I probably don't have cable. They probably didn't decide to

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<v Speaker 1>go and get Cable League Pass and Bally Sinclair. So

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<v Speaker 1>Greg Doyle, Indianapolis Star summed up a lot of people's

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<v Speaker 1>thoughts when he wrote this, Sinclair, Diamond, Bally whatever they are,

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<v Speaker 1>they've changed names so many damn times, couldn't negotiate with

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<v Speaker 1>streaming services, then couldn't form an app that was worth

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<v Speaker 1>the darm I bought the thing last year, doing my part,

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<v Speaker 1>watched exactly one game. How come watching that Pacers game

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<v Speaker 1>last year basically ten stick figures moving back and forth

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<v Speaker 1>across my TV reminded me of my childhood video game.

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<v Speaker 2>Pong by Atari. That's a cold piece, Greg Doyle.

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<v Speaker 1>So, with Bally having gone bankrupt, with their financial restructuring

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<v Speaker 1>very unknown, it's probably gonna get worse before it gets better.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing is just an unbelievable travesty in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>what product they're trying to peddle and what they're actually

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<v Speaker 1>giving you. Adam Silver has already said, listen, like, we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna take over this ourselves. If this doesn't get better,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna do whatever we want to do. We've got

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<v Speaker 1>our own rights, we've got our own networks that we

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<v Speaker 1>can create but the bankruptcy proceedings. Who knows when those

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<v Speaker 1>are going to be done. Whenever Bally is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be shut down, it could be the entire season. The

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<v Speaker 1>league is gonna obviously have to step in take over

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<v Speaker 1>for the broadcast, but like, I don't know what he's

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<v Speaker 1>waiting for, Adam, you just need to do that right now.

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<v Speaker 1>If one of your little subcontractors, whatever Ballet Sports is,

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<v Speaker 1>can't actually do what they are supposed to do, which

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<v Speaker 1>is provide the basketball game, not practice, but the game,

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<v Speaker 1>you gotta just cut them off like it is eighty

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<v Speaker 1>six for you. Before the season, Bucks owner Wes Eden

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<v Speaker 1>said he expects every Bucks broadcast to be broadcast on

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<v Speaker 1>television's inside the market. We are obviously way outside of

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<v Speaker 1>that since three are already not done. Andrew marshaw on

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<v Speaker 1>the sports media writer, traveled to Minnesota where he talked

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<v Speaker 1>to fans about the ballet streaming service.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what he had to report.

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<v Speaker 1>They hate ballet Sports. Nobody had anything nice to say

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<v Speaker 1>about BALI. No one's gonna miss Vallei. People want to

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<v Speaker 1>clean clear away to get their games, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>that price point is designed to keep people on cable.

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<v Speaker 1>NBA fans need access to the games in order to

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<v Speaker 1>be fans. If you make it difficult, if you make

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<v Speaker 1>it inconvenient, you know what they will do.

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<v Speaker 2>They will do something else.

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<v Speaker 1>They will probably watch something else, TikTok, Instagram, whatever, anything

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<v Speaker 1>besides your product that you want these young fans to watch.

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<v Speaker 2>NBA needs to step in.

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<v Speaker 1>They need to give the local area some way to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure the games are happening one hundred percent of

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<v Speaker 1>the time.

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<v Speaker 2>It works every time. All that to say, what the

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<v Speaker 2>fuck is ballet sports doing.