Speaker 1: ESPN reporter Alden Gonzalez joining us right now in foul territory. Alden,
Speaker 1: great to see you. I always look forward to your
Speaker 1: informative tweets and coverage at night on the West Coast,
Speaker 1: mostly in Insomniac.
Speaker 2: So this is.
Speaker 1: Prime time for you right now. You've got the Dodgers fallen,
Speaker 1: You've got the Padres rising, and these two teams are
Speaker 1: meeting up this weekend. Yeah, exactly, exactly. If people can
Speaker 1: see what AJ's doing right now for the podcast listeners
Speaker 1: later on, there's a little bit of a choke symbol, Alden.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing on the day to day right now?
Speaker 1: And let's start with the Dodgers, right you'd like to
Speaker 1: start with the panic mode and how they've really fallen
Speaker 1: apart to let the Padres jump back into this spot.
Speaker 2: What do you think I mean, it's a prolonged stretch
Speaker 2: of bad for them. I mean you look at July third,
Speaker 2: they had a nine game lead in the NL West.
Speaker 2: Since then, they are twelve and twenty two. Do you
Speaker 2: know who has a twelve and twenty two records since
Speaker 2: July fourth? Along with the Dodgers, It's the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2: That's how the Dodgers been playing, and I think the
Speaker 2: biggest thing right now, and it stood out in this series,
Speaker 2: especially the last two nights. On any given night, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts doesn't really have a high leverage reliever to turn
Speaker 2: to to hold leads. Blake China hasn't looked right since
Speaker 2: coming back off the IL, and there are six high
Speaker 2: leverage guys on the injured list right now, and the
Speaker 2: last one was Brought Stewart, the one guy that they
Speaker 2: got for their bullpen. He's out now with shoulder inflammation.
Speaker 2: And obviously the natural question is why didn't the Dodgers
Speaker 2: go do more. They were in on another high leverage guys.
Speaker 2: They weren't willing to give up their best prospects to
Speaker 2: get them, and that was with the thought that they
Speaker 2: were going to get a bunch of guys back, and
Speaker 2: they are Kirby Yates, Michael Kopek, Tanner Scott. Those guys
Speaker 2: should be back before the end of the month. The
Speaker 2: problem is that there's urgency right now and over these
Speaker 2: next few weeks, nobody has any idea who's going to
Speaker 2: be closing games for the Dodgers, let alone bridging the
Speaker 2: gap to the ninth inning in the seventh and eighth.
Speaker 2: And when you couple that with an offense that has
Speaker 2: been better lately but still not as good as it
Speaker 2: should be, what you get is this and it's a
Speaker 2: club that hasn't really spiled like this in years, and
Speaker 2: it's it's it's pretty insane to watch on a nightly basis.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, they don't have a closer, like you said,
Speaker 3: but there was a ton of closers available at the
Speaker 3: trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Have you heard anything that the.
Speaker 3: Dodgers were getting asked higher prices because everybody sees the
Speaker 3: Dodgers as well, we want to win the World Series.
Speaker 3: If they're calling about our closer, we're gonna ask more.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do that. Like, is there is there any
Speaker 3: of that? Or was it the Dodgers lack of willingness
Speaker 3: to say, well, we need help when reality was they've
Speaker 3: been drowning and they needed help at the trade deadline?
Speaker 2: I think I think it's more of the latter. I
Speaker 2: think when you're a team that's trading away these these
Speaker 2: big time relievers, like your focus is just to get
Speaker 2: the best return as pops And I think the interesting
Speaker 2: thing about the Dodgers basically, every trade deadline is when
Speaker 2: you match up their farm system and the guys that
Speaker 2: they can give up. Because of the talent they have
Speaker 2: on the major league level compared to all the other teams,
Speaker 2: they could beat out practically anybody at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: The question always comes down to their willingness. And you know,
Speaker 2: their front office is constant. They talk about this a lot.
Speaker 2: They're constantly and they're no different, but they're constantly weighing
Speaker 2: the now versus the latter, and it's a calibration that
Speaker 2: they have yet to fully figure out. And so you
Speaker 2: saw what they did this offseason. They were as aggressive
Speaker 2: as anybody that was largely and they said this often
Speaker 2: because they didn't want to have to go out and
Speaker 2: buy at the trade deadline. But the other part of it, too,
Speaker 2: is what they did this offseason to spend money. They
Speaker 2: have money, they'll spend money. What they're not willing to
Speaker 2: do as much is give up young players for players
Speaker 2: that they feel are only going to give them maybe
Speaker 2: like a very minuscule advantage for the stretch run of
Speaker 2: the season. Now, you could definitely argue that and it
Speaker 2: will be very valid. I'm just telling you that that's
Speaker 2: kind of their calculus this time of year, and so
Speaker 2: when they looked ahead, their thought was, Okay, it looks
Speaker 2: bleak now, but look at who we have coming back.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Kopek and Yates and Tenor Scott and
Speaker 2: you know, and we'll just get brock Stewart. He's been
Speaker 2: great against right handed posing right handed hitters. He could
Speaker 2: fit in nicely, and that's great in theory. But I
Speaker 2: think when you look at it now, it's not only
Speaker 2: about how are they covering these next few weeks, but
Speaker 2: it's also a lot is going to have to go
Speaker 2: right for all these relievers coming back in order for
Speaker 2: them to show up as the strength that the front
Speaker 2: office thinks they will be. Yeates and Scott haven't been
Speaker 2: good all year. Michael Kopek has made eight appearances this season.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying those guys aren't going to be good.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying they can't afford any more hiccups. So
Speaker 2: the margin for error on this season is it feels
Speaker 2: incredibly small. Right now.
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Speaker 4: Wait, hold up, Alden, I gotta know this. They were
Speaker 4: supposed to go one hundred and sixty two and oh
Speaker 4: they were supposed to be the greatest team ever assembled.
Speaker 4: And now you're saying they have a tiny margin for error.
Speaker 4: What changed? Because remember this offseason everyone was saying, oh,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are unbeatable, they'll never lose, They're gonna win everything.
Speaker 4: They're gonna do this, They're gonna do that, Like just
Speaker 4: be are the injuries that bad that they can't cover them?
Speaker 4: Because people said, oh, they have ten starting pitchers and
Speaker 4: they have twenty five relievers? What happened to all that? Yes,
Speaker 4: I know, injuries, but the narrative has changed so quickly
Speaker 4: from the greatest team ever assembled to holy crap, this
Speaker 4: team's not in first place.
Speaker 2: AJ. That's the beauty of baseball, isn't it that? You know?
Speaker 4: I thought every expert said, oh, it's so bad for baseball.
Speaker 4: Every fan that Dodgers are like, see, you just never know?
Speaker 2: And ah, I think, and you could definitely speak to this,
Speaker 2: But I also think outside of just what baseball is,
Speaker 2: there's a reason why there hasn't been a repeat champion
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball in twenty five years. And it's
Speaker 2: not just the randomization of adding extra playoff rounds, which
Speaker 2: might be real too, but it's not. When you're playing
Speaker 2: deep into October and sometimes November, there's a price to
Speaker 2: be paid. There's a price to be paid, especially with
Speaker 2: your pitching. And when you look at just when you
Speaker 2: take a step back from this season, look at the
Speaker 2: injuries that they've suffered in their bullpen, a bullpen that
Speaker 2: they rode really hard last October to win a championship.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that has shown up. It's
Speaker 2: not the only reason why they are where they are
Speaker 2: right now. I mean, you look at Freddie Freeman slump
Speaker 2: for a while, Mookie Betts is not having the year
Speaker 2: that you would expect to Oscar Hernandez, Tommy Edmund. They
Speaker 2: just haven't been right. That's certainly part of it. The
Speaker 2: rotation early on was very injured. It is now healthy,
Speaker 2: but it was very injured early on in the year.
Speaker 2: That taxed the bullpen even more so. But I mean,
Speaker 2: talk to the members of the twenty twenty three Rangers
Speaker 2: and how winning the World Series spilled over into twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Talk to members of the current Dodgers about
Speaker 2: just the toll on the body, not just playing deep
Speaker 2: into October last year but then opening up remember mid
Speaker 2: March in Japan. I think that has a lot to
Speaker 2: do with it as well. And it's just it's hard,
Speaker 2: and I will I didn't think they were gonna go
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two and oh obviously, and I
Speaker 2: didn't I didn't even think that they might. I thought,
Speaker 2: maybe they'll have a chance at setting the regular season
Speaker 2: wins record, but I knew that was unlikely. I thought
Speaker 2: they were as well set up to be a repeat
Speaker 2: champion as maybe anybody this century because of how they
Speaker 2: fortified that roster in the offseason. But it just goes
Speaker 2: to show how difficult winning back to back champions is
Speaker 2: championships mean.
Speaker 4: To follow up on this, we talk about this with
Speaker 4: the Mets a lot. Their starters don't go deep, and
Speaker 4: the Dodgers for years have not allowed their starters to
Speaker 4: go deep into games, especially in the postseason. And then
Speaker 4: the bullpen just slowly but surely gets worn down, worn down,
Speaker 4: worn down, And that's kind of what you're talking about,
Speaker 4: a lot of starting injuries, so they don't trust guys
Speaker 4: to go as deep, right, then the bullpen gets used,
Speaker 4: then you get the bullpen injuries. Is this just a
Speaker 4: combination of the philosophy of what the Dodgers have been
Speaker 4: for years and years and now it's this is the
Speaker 4: year it's finally really kind of catching them.
Speaker 2: I think that's certainly a valid point, Aja, and I
Speaker 2: would say that that is an industry wide issue where
Speaker 2: starters are not going deep. Bullpens are being taxed, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Dodgers are guilty of that as well.
Speaker 2: What they will tell you as a counter is that
Speaker 2: they feel like every year they're going to be writing
Speaker 2: their starters in October and they got to save them
Speaker 2: for that. I mean, look, yoshinob Yamamoto, I think is
Speaker 2: a good example. He's made every turn through the rotation,
Speaker 2: but his innings are very manageable, partly because he's part
Speaker 2: of a six man rotation most of the time. Partly
Speaker 2: because to your point, AJ, he doesn't go super deep
Speaker 2: in the games because they want him healthy for the
Speaker 2: stretch run. I think that's part of it. But I'll
Speaker 2: go back to what I said before. I think the
Speaker 2: bigger part of why that bullpen was taxed is because
Speaker 2: they were just really hurt. I mean, the Dodgers got
Speaker 2: to a point early in the year up until like July,
Speaker 2: they were staging bullpen games twice a week and they
Speaker 2: were also suffering injuries to their bullpen, a bullpen that,
Speaker 2: as I said, had been taxed on October. It's just
Speaker 2: not sustainable and Dodgers I haven't checked recently, but I'm
Speaker 2: almost certain I'm correct that Dodgers' relievers lead the major
Speaker 2: leagues and innings. They've led the major leagues in innings
Speaker 2: basically all year. And yes, that could be a function
Speaker 2: of where the game is going with the usage of
Speaker 2: starting pitching. But I think it's more pronounced for them
Speaker 2: that they've just had a lot of pitching injuries. And
Speaker 2: by the way, it's a second consecutive year in which
Speaker 2: they've had a lot of pitching injurers.
Speaker 3: I got one more Dodgers que for you. Is there
Speaker 3: a team that needs to have the wild card by
Speaker 3: like miss the wildcard round more than the Dodgers, a
Speaker 3: team that they've been mitigating injuries. You've even talked about
Speaker 3: Yamamoto like a you know, another extra round does not
Speaker 3: set the Dodgers up very well, so they almost have
Speaker 3: to win the division.
Speaker 2: No, I think I think you're right about that, Eric,
Speaker 2: And I think the thing about the Dodgers that we've
Speaker 2: seen this in recent years as and maybe that's not
Speaker 2: the case this year because they might be a little
Speaker 2: bit more flawed, But the Dodgers annually are deeper than
Speaker 2: any team in baseball, right, Like from a when you
Speaker 2: look at the totality of like a forty man roster
Speaker 2: a twenty six men roster. They have the most depth.
Speaker 2: And so the thought with the Dodgers has been, if
Speaker 2: you're going to beat them, you got to beat them
Speaker 2: in smaller sample sizes. Right, look at what the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and the Padres did in back to back years in
Speaker 2: the division series. If it's in the wildcard round, probably
Speaker 2: even better. When you stretch to a seven game series
Speaker 2: against them, usually their depth can really show up and
Speaker 2: they can get the better of you. I mean, we
Speaker 2: saw that during the twenty twenty COVID playoffs, right when
Speaker 2: there were no days off, like that was an advantage
Speaker 2: for them because they were deeper than the teams that
Speaker 2: they faced. And there was a huge narrative about the
Speaker 2: Dodgers when they lost those back to back division series
Speaker 2: and Diningbacks and Padres that like, maybe they just need
Speaker 2: to play the wildcard round. And the thought with them
Speaker 2: was always no, no, no, we'd rather have the days off.
Speaker 2: We would rather set our pitching staff. I know it
Speaker 2: hasn't gone well, but we would much rather prefer to
Speaker 2: get to buy And that's why, honestly, that's why I
Speaker 2: like this playoff format, like, there's a real incentive to
Speaker 2: get one of those top two seeds in each league
Speaker 2: because team see it as an advantage, and I think
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are foremost among them.
Speaker 1: And then we have the Padres. We only got a
Speaker 1: minute left here, but take everything that you just said
Speaker 1: and then reverse it, right, Hey, the Dodgers need a closer.
Speaker 1: The Padres have five of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny because the Dodger strength is
Speaker 2: in their rotation. I think it's a legitimate strength too.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you go into a playoff series and
Speaker 2: you could run out Yamamodal smell Glass now and Otani
Speaker 2: with Kershaw also there, that's huge. And the Padres strength
Speaker 2: is in their bullpen's it's five guys maybe six that
Speaker 2: could they could cut games in half in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And that's been their formula the last two years with
Speaker 2: aj Preller right. Last year he went out and got
Speaker 2: Teter Scott and Jason Adam to a bullpen that did
Speaker 2: need reinforcing, and he sees that as a clear pathway
Speaker 2: to win a World Series. But so when you look
Speaker 2: at last year with the Padres, they didn't really round
Speaker 2: into form until the last two months of the season,
Speaker 2: and it was right after the trade deadline. Aj Preller
Speaker 2: sort of completed that roster and they became one of
Speaker 2: the deepest, most menacing teams in the sport. And that's
Speaker 2: what they are right now. U Darbage coming back and
Speaker 2: being effective is huge for them. Michael King rejoining their rotation,
Speaker 2: even though his return was spotty, huge for them right
Speaker 2: Like the fact that they could run. They have four
Speaker 2: guys that to go run in the playoffs. But you
Speaker 2: couple it with that bullpen and a lineup that now,
Speaker 2: at least in my view, looks as deep as it
Speaker 2: did last year with ready for Me and Ramon Loreano
Speaker 2: and Ryan O'Hearn. Like that's that team is as good
Speaker 2: as last year's team. And I thought last year's team
Speaker 2: was the best team in baseball going in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, they finished basically one win short. They would
Speaker 1: have dusted the Yankees in the World Series. Almost everybody
Speaker 1: thinks that Alden, you're the man. Thank you for joining.
Speaker 1: He's got to go, He's got another show.
Speaker 4: Did the Dodgers or Padres win the West? One word answer,
Speaker 4: Dodgers or Padres win the West?
Speaker 2: At this point, I'm going Padres.
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Speaker 1: Let's sizzle, the A's might push for more day games
Speaker 1: in Sacramento. In twenty twenty six, they had a record
Speaker 1: number of night games on their schedule for this year.
Speaker 1: That's to avoid the heatly any games in the three
Speaker 1: months where it's supposed to be the hottest right June, July,
Speaker 1: and August taking place during the day. Manager Mark Kotze
Speaker 1: was outspoken about this and how it definitely affects rest, recovery,
Speaker 1: family time, et cetera, which is precious in the sport.
Speaker 1: And it has been much cooler this summer than last
Speaker 1: year Sacramento. Last year was blazing and everyone was concerned
Speaker 1: about how that would play out, including the league and
Speaker 1: the team. Now, temperatures have not been as crazy as anticipated,
Speaker 1: and that has led to them thinking, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe we can sneak in some more day games next year.
Speaker 1: Good idea, aj or bad idea.
Speaker 4: Now next year we'll go back to the way it
Speaker 4: was the year before, right, because just seems like they're
Speaker 4: with the A's, that's what happens. They make these moves
Speaker 4: and then whatever can go wrong has gone wrong, which sucks,
Speaker 4: But I mean, I was a big I mean there's
Speaker 4: a day game, night game, if it's a day game
Speaker 4: and you can fly somewhere and get they're quicker, I'm
Speaker 4: all for it. If it's a night game, I'd rather
Speaker 4: just play the night game because your body gets used
Speaker 4: to the night games and during the season, so just
Speaker 4: stick with the night games. But if it helps them
Speaker 4: travel wise, I'm all for it. But the weather, you
Speaker 4: can't control. The weather, you can't control. I thought global
Speaker 4: warming and everything was it was supposed to be one hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy two degrees every day in Sacramento. But I
Speaker 4: don't know. Man, it's that was a joke, by the way,
Speaker 4: so everyone, uh but yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You can't control the weather. You never know. It could
Speaker 4: be whatever. I don't know, just do what everything is best.
Speaker 4: I'm scratching my head because I'm confused by this. But whatever,
Speaker 4: I don't know about this.
Speaker 3: I've never I've never heard anybody go, man, we want
Speaker 3: more day games. Yeah, it's nice to have a meal
Speaker 3: with your family at night, but it's something that during
Speaker 3: the season you enjoy. For me, I enjoyed having breakfast
Speaker 3: in lunch with my family during spring training. I enjoyed
Speaker 3: having dinners with my family, And you never get breakfast.
Speaker 3: So it's like one of those things just to have
Speaker 3: like a night out, to have a day game and
Speaker 3: a chance of one hundred and ten degree heat, No thanks,
Speaker 3: I'd rather have a night game unless it's getaway day.
Speaker 3: Getaway day is nice, but no, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have to play in one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten because you know it's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah but wait, Kratz, let me throw that back at you.
Speaker 1: This is the main concern. They want this for getaway
Speaker 1: days because I guess they're playing later on getaway days.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's.
Speaker 1: The main concern here, is that they don't want to
Speaker 1: play at night for getaway day.
Speaker 4: And you can survive one day. I mean, let's come on,
Speaker 4: you can survive it one day at homestand one day
Speaker 4: home if.
Speaker 1: It's one to twelve, if it's one hundred and twelve degrees,
Speaker 1: it's okay.
Speaker 4: Done. It played in Tucson. I played one hundred and
Speaker 4: forty and Tucson we played every day. Dude, you ever
Speaker 4: been to Tucson in august Son.
Speaker 3: The only place that sucks that sucks more is White
Speaker 3: Sox spring training because it's much hotter than when you
Speaker 3: play at a Dodger spring training. Now in Arizona, it's
Speaker 3: always hotter when you play the White Sox because nobody
Speaker 3: in the stands and the yellow seats are like its
Speaker 3: own sun. But seriously, you one hundred percent agree with AJ.
Speaker 3: You can play in one hundred and ten degrees for
Speaker 3: one day, especially since then you have the recovery of
Speaker 3: essentially a day and a half to your next game,
Speaker 3: and you're flying, so you have to. It is tough
Speaker 3: getting into a city, especially going from the West coast
Speaker 3: to the East coast. It's tough getting into a city
Speaker 3: at seven in the morning. You can go through a
Speaker 3: game and get into the city at one in the morning.
Speaker 3: That's way better.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is a good idea for getaway day
Speaker 1: to get games.
Speaker 4: I never had to play getaway days most of the
Speaker 4: time unless I really begged.
Speaker 3: But not because but not because of the weather, like
Speaker 3: the weather. It was brought up. It was brought up
Speaker 3: because of the weather. They're like, oh, well, because it's
Speaker 3: been cooler, we can play more day games. No, you
Speaker 3: play more day games to get out of the city sooner.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, not because we.
Speaker 4: Had a whole conversation krats about this with the with
Speaker 4: the Angels. Remember the Angels were playing all these night
Speaker 4: games and having to travel east to play right, and
Speaker 4: the players are like, we want day games on getaway days. Well,
Speaker 4: maybe the athletics, the West Sacramento Athletics had the same thing.
Speaker 4: We're like, hey, we have to go east some days.
Speaker 4: Guys like, we need to have different times for these
Speaker 4: getaway days because let's say, okay, let's say they're going
Speaker 4: even to Texas, it's two hour time. You lose. They
Speaker 4: have a seven o'clock game. You're not taking off till midnight,
Speaker 4: which is two am. That's a three to four hour flight.
Speaker 4: You're getting in at six, seven in the morning. Even
Speaker 4: with an off day, that off day is a waste
Speaker 4: because you're so tired, right, and then then you have
Speaker 4: to catch up for that whole off day. You don't
Speaker 4: get to enjoy the off day. Whereas if you get
Speaker 4: in at like two in the morning, Okay, you can
Speaker 4: live with two in the morning versus six or seven
Speaker 4: in the morning.
Speaker 1: And it'll be year two. They're used to Sacramento. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're doing great on the attendance front right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the team's not playing well. They certainly have.
Speaker 4: Nine thousand, isn't it nine thousand city? What the attendance, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's the lowest one. It's like nine thousand.
Speaker 1: Isn't right because it's a small park.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't pretty well with pre sale.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's supposed to hold. I think in that
Speaker 1: range pre sale did well. But again, this is the
Speaker 1: whole paid versus who's actually going right if you're a locat.
Speaker 4: The Rays though, have a bigger attendance with a smaller park.
Speaker 4: They have more people at the raise games per game
Speaker 4: in the in the Sacramento is bigger than Steinbrenner. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that's Remember they were like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 4: sell out every single game in Sacramento. The fans are
Speaker 4: so excited and for about a week, and the Cubs
Speaker 4: came there in the first week and yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden it's.
Speaker 1: Gone exactly, Oh we have the John Fisher clip. Can
Speaker 1: we run that right now? John Fisher was at the
Speaker 1: game the If you don't know the backstory, you might
Speaker 1: feel bad, but you know he's sitting in first row
Speaker 1: and then he's walking through the crowd and nobody's stupid
Speaker 1: out there. They all know the situation. To me, that
Speaker 1: clip is the definition of why I get confused about
Speaker 1: why it's worth it to own a team. I get
Speaker 1: that you're super rich and you're making a lot of
Speaker 1: money off of it, but like, but they're making a
Speaker 1: lot of money off other things, Like this is the
Speaker 1: only thing that he can do. There's other things that
Speaker 1: you can do where you don't have to just be
Speaker 1: like a public villain. Guy can't show face in public
Speaker 1: without getting a boot at.
Speaker 4: It's an ego thing. By the way, that's the same
Speaker 4: reaction Tom Brady got today at Fox. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: There's a complete opposite reaction of what Tom Brady got.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the uh, it's an ego thing, Scott, don't
Speaker 4: you it's an asset, it's a check. Look, I'm one
Speaker 4: of thirty in the world that owns a baseball team.
Speaker 4: That's a big bragging right, Like, if I own a
Speaker 4: baseball team, I'd work this says I own a baseball
Speaker 4: team and you don't. It'd be pretty awesome because there's
Speaker 4: thirty people that really own a baseball team. I know
Speaker 4: there's minority owners in this and net. But there's thirty
Speaker 4: heads of baseball teams out there in the world, and
Speaker 4: it's a pretty big flex if you have one.
Speaker 1: A j let's just put you in his exact spot,
Speaker 1: though I'm putting you in his body. Would you enjoy
Speaker 1: that part of the job when you are in public
Speaker 1: at any point in time?
Speaker 4: You're just getting But I wouldn't run it like that,
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I know you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. But I'm
Speaker 1: saying different.
Speaker 4: I don't choose, of course.
Speaker 1: Not if you choose to run it like a villain.
Speaker 1: Do you really enjoy walking around like you're getting?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Probably just have guys that deal with this, right, it's nutting.
Speaker 4: It's a full lad inside. He's got the middle finger
Speaker 4: up going, I'm making a billion dollars or whatever. I'm
Speaker 4: about to make two billion dollars. Boom me all you want? People?
Speaker 4: What was the who was the player not long ago?
Speaker 4: That's like, I don't care. I'm rich. I don't know
Speaker 4: whatever baseball player said. I don't care. I'm rich. I
Speaker 4: don't care what they people, boom you or not. I'm
Speaker 4: still richer than all these people. In John Fisher's mind,
Speaker 4: he's thinking, like, I'm richer than all y'all. I could
Speaker 4: buy every one of y'all. Like, I don't care, boom
Speaker 4: me if that's a you think. But I'm trying to
Speaker 4: do what's best for me and my family and to
Speaker 4: make more money. Give me more money.
Speaker 1: I think that was Jazz. By the way, when people
Speaker 1: were getting on him about the derby, right, yeah.
Speaker 4: He said, I know it was somebody. I don't remember
Speaker 4: it was Jazz.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Kratz, you got something before we head out here.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just being a hopeless romantic, like why why
Speaker 1: do you enjoy this? My thing is, if you're him,
Speaker 1: I don't know, shouldn't you be in the suite or something.
Speaker 4: He's a man of the people.
Speaker 3: He's trying to be He's trying to be a man
Speaker 3: of the people. But uh, kind of like the kind
Speaker 3: of like the groundbreaking ceremony they had in Vegas, just
Speaker 3: it's fake. It's fake, and it's not if you are
Speaker 3: a genuine owner. You're going to have ups and downs.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get booed, you're gonna get cheered. At least
Speaker 3: you know at the end of the day, you gave
Speaker 3: it everything. You had when you own the team and
Speaker 3: it didn't work out. I don't think he can say that,
Speaker 3: and I'll be honest, I don't think he really cares.
Speaker 3: But we would have to ask him. Ah, he doesn't talk,
Speaker 3: so we don't know.
Speaker 1: Correct. Most walk around like, yeah, if you're John Middleton,
Speaker 1: you're a freaking rock star in Philly. You know, Steve Cohen,
Speaker 1: even though the team's not playing well, he's all over
Speaker 1: the place and people take pictures with him and it's cool.
Speaker 1: And there are many others, right, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: the five are good. Yeah, there are a lot that
Speaker 1: are great. But if you're one of the five villains,
Speaker 1: I'm always watching them in public when they walk around
Speaker 1: and these videos go viral and I'm like, does he know?
Speaker 1: Does he know? Like does he read anything?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 4: I have a buddy that's a you know, he has
Speaker 4: a share in the Green Bay Packers because you can
Speaker 4: buy shares in the Green Bay Packers and he's a
Speaker 4: Packer fan. He walks around like that and he owns
Speaker 4: a share of the Packers. So, Jason, just because you
Speaker 4: own a share of the seven bazillion shares doesn't mean
Speaker 4: you can walk around like like John Fisher does.
Speaker 1: But he's not a villain. That's the difference.
Speaker 4: No, but he thinks walking around like a villain, nobody thinks, right.
Speaker 1: Right, that's fine. You want to walk around huffing and
Speaker 1: puffing and proud that you own a team, that's great.
Speaker 1: But when you are one of the few villains in
Speaker 1: the sport, I just think it's a tough look. But hey,
Speaker 1: that's his life.