WEBVTT - The Sports World is All a Twitter 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.959 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:17.840 tech stuff from How Stuff Workstop coming, Hello everybody, and 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.439 welcome to text Stuff. My name is Chris Poette and 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.000 I'm an editor here at how Stuff Works dot com. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.280 Sitting across from me, as usual, is senior writer Jonathan 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.520 Stricklin there and uh, so, what do you want to 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.960 talk about today? Well, I thought we'd talked about topic 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.559 that we talked about. It seems pretty much every day pie. No, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.240 not pie, different topic. The other topic we talked about 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.159 every days the hundred forty character topic that that just 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.040 won't die. Um, there's no, no, no, there's no secret. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.960 I'm a Twitter junkie. I really am, and that really 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.800 is no secret, right everyone who follows kay and there 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.000 are a lot of other Twitter junkies out there, but 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:05.399 they're starting to become an unwelcome audience in certain venues. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:10.800 And that's why you wanted to talk about specifically sporting events. Yeah, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:18.279 this is uh, this is the sports section this week. Yes, um? No, actually, um, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.840 it's been in the news quite a lot recently, especially 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.960 with UM with the start of the Southeastern Conference football 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.880 schedule not too long ago. Yes, I had to have 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.440 someone explained to me. But football, apparently is a game 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.400 in which two teams battle it out on a field 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.440 that has been divided up into a hundred yards and 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.240 you have to move a ball from your side to 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.240 the other side. Um. You know, since you pointed out, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.680 uh in an attempt to embarrass me, that I have 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.040 not seen the movie Jaws and all in it, and 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.280 I'll own up to that. I can't see how you 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:00.560 managed to graduate from the University of Georgia, which is 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.360 one of the perennial well, actually everybody in the SEC 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:11.440 is is known for uh not knowing that football is 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.760 a game. I hate to tell you this, but I 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.560 did not attend a single football game while I was 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.560 at the University of Georgia. In fact, football games where 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.160 the bane of my existence at U g A. But 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.359 that's for a different that's for a different story altogether. Okay, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.000 so we've established that sports are an important part of 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.600 life in the Southeastern Conference. It's a big draw, especially football. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.160 I would say, yes, yes, there's a there's not an 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.800 underestimation to say it's a billion dollar industry. It's actually 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.799 a multibillion dollar industry. And uh so when you're talking 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.840 about a multibillion dollar industry, you've got people who are 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.679 financially uh involved in this thing obviously, and that's that's 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.760 a lot of money. So anyone who's gonna have their 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.480 finances dependent upon something like that, they want as much 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.200 control over it as possible. And part of that is 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.520 controlling the information about the games as the games go on. Yes, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.440 this is because of those really really lucrative television contracts yea. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.919 And when I said billions of dollars, that's what I'm 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.920 really talking about here. Yeah, Yeah, these TV contracts with 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.840 which give exclusive rights to certain channels to to show 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.840 certain games. Yep. Um. In this case with regard to 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:31.120 the with the SEC um, they have a vendor XOS Technologies. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.840 That's probably pronounced something different, but that's why I've only 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.640 seen it in print sauce. Yes, entirely possible. Uh And 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.480 so the SEC said, look, we are creating a new 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.760 media policy. You can't tweet, you can't send video out, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.640 you can't send audio out, you can't blog about the 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.080 games while you're sitting in the stadium. You can't update 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.560 your Facebook status to say just saw an amazing touchdown 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.400 by so and so. Yep, can't do it because we 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.320 said no, And that means that you're that they were 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.360 going to try to control I don't know, upwards of 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.120 hundred thousand or more fans usual. It was crazy. That 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.680 stadium is always packed. Every single SEC stadium has a 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.120 huge capacity at least everyone that I've been in, and 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.440 I've been in a few of them, and you're gonna 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.599 try and control all those fans, not to mention the 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.400 people in the press box whose job it is to 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.919 actually uh you know, talk about the games as they 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.240 go on, and it actually applied to them too. Yeah. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:37.359 The Southeast, Uh, they treat football differently than other parts 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.040 of the country. I would say. I mean, there are 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.400 people who are really into their football teams, don't get 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.960 me wrong, but the Southeast conferences that are going to 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.159 argue with you when you're gonna get listener mail about that, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.400 I don't care the Southeast. It is a religion people, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.200 I am not joking. You see generations of people from 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.080 like a U. G. A. I would see four generations 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.920 of a family all attending a football game. You would 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.080 have the the you know, the grand parents, the parents, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.000 the students, and then like their little nieces and nephews 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.919 who aren't even old enough to spell you g a 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.240 much less be a bulldog. So you and I mean, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.400 I know people who live in in in Georgia who 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.039 never attended the University of Georgia who call themselves bulldogs. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.480 This is crazy to me. I went to the U 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.920 to u g A, and I did not call myself 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.120 a bulldog. Well, but maybe that's just because I'm lacking 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.520 that sports gene. At any rate, it is a big 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.279 business and and that's why the SEC came out with 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.680 this media policy. They wanted to make sure that they 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.440 were protecting that very lucrative and and and and that yes, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.440 that's important. And uh, the thing is it's sent a 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:49.000 lot of people off into what they might call a tizzy. Yes, yes, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.840 there was a bit of a tizzy over this. And 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.839 uh and as you pointed out, how do you enforce 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 something like this, You're talking about such a Yeah, I mean, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.760 when you've got the combination of a huge number of people, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.000 you've got smartphone saturation reaching a point that is greater 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.800 than it ever has been in the history of the 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.400 United States. I mean, you know, everyone seems to have 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.120 some sort of phone that is compatible with with at 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.520 least Twitter. I mean, anyone with a text messaging plan 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.160 can can post a Twitter. It doesn't even need to 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.080 be a smart phone. It could be a regular cell phone. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.800 So you've got potentially nine thousand people who all could 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.080 access this social media uh certain, all these social media 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.719 services in some way or another. There's no way to 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.640 control that. So, first of all, the premise alone was ridiculous, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.960 but the policy really did tick off a lot of 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.200 people because there are other arguments to make, such as, hey, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.320 if I'm at home and uh or I'm on the road. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.080 Let's say I'm on the road and I don't have 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.640 access to a channel that is showing this, and there's 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.119 no way that I could watch this through a quote 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.680 unquote uh legitimate way of you know, there's no way 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.200 I could all the game legitimately. What's wrong with getting 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.320 a Twitter message that says that someone scored a touchdown? Also, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.480 I don't see this as replacing any sort of broadcast 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.120 kind of uh function. I mean, who in their right 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.800 mind is gonna say, you know, I could turn on 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.920 ESPN and watch the game, but I'd rather read about it. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.000 In a hundred and forty characters at a time. That's 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.440 the way I want to consume my football, so to speak. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.120 I mean, not literally consume your football as I understand it, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.840 they are made from pigskin. Uh yeah, I am. You know, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.720 I used to be a big fan of those. Depends 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.520 it depends on I think it depends on the league 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.440 and then and then, but yeah, probably anyway, Basically what 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.640 happened was, after after the initial outcry, the SEC realized 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.040 that it needed to resolve this before the beginning of 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.880 the football season, which so they rapidly approaching as we 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.520 record this, it will already be in progress once this 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.120 goes life right actually where we're we're podcasting immediately before 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:08.160 the the first the pardon kickoff weekend. We're actually tailgating 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.640 right now. Who um. But the thing is, they realized 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.360 that we're gonna have to take care of this very quickly, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.760 and so what they did was they actually revised it 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.360 a couple of times, but the most recent revision as 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:25.720 of this recording, allows credentialed professionals to do what they 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.360 need to do as far as you know, there what 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.640 what they what they need to do as far as 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.760 their normal media activity, but the average person in the 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.040 stands is still not supposed to be twittering or sending 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.199 uploading video or audio of the game. I'm sure that 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.160 you could probably be kicked out of the stadium if 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.560 you're caught, but come on, you're in. You're one of 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.920 ninety thousand people if they don't enforce the no alcohol rules, right, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.520 no joke. So yeah, this I just I don't see 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.400 them being able to enforce this at all without spending 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.160 way more money than they would lose from anyone watching 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.440 a little snippet of video online. Um. I mean, I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.160 assume that this is all because of exclusivity deals that 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.559 that that their contracts state. So technically, if they did 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.400 not take these steps, they would be responsible to the 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.080 broadcast partners who would say, hey, our contract says that 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.680 you would, you know, only do this for us, and 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.200 if you're letting other people do it, then you're violating 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.959 the contract. Okay, from a legal standpoint, I can understand it. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.160 From a practical one, it just doesn't make any sense. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.480 And this is the way the world is moving. You know, 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.360 We're moving into a world where you can't turn around 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.480 without someone having a cell phone out capturing video or 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.000 taking pictures of something. There's no newsworthy event going on 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.439 in the world today that does not have someone pointing 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.360 a phone at it. When you can see video images 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.280 from the darkest regions of the most remote places on 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.760 Earth because someone has a cellphone that happens to have 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.720 a camera and they are able to open it up 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.080 and take video of it, you can no longer expect 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.480 that to to be a non factor. It is here 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:05.160 to stay, Jonathan and yeah, breathe, pie, He's gone to 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.480 his happy place. Yes, my happy places. Okay. The thing 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.920 is it's not just the SEC. There are other people 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.920 trying to control Twitter too. What and uh well, I 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.000 mean other sports organizations. And the funny thing is all 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.680 of the sports major sports leagues and their teams have 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.079 Twitter feeds. Even the SEC does. There's an SEC Twitter feed. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:34.120 But other recent news has the NFL prohibiting social media 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.160 activities during games as well. Now as I understand that 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.880 the NFL is an organization where people play this game 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.640 I was talking about, but they do it for money 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.200 instead of for getting good grades. I mean, I'm sorry, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.840 I don't mean to suggest that football players in college 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.160 get good grades in return for playing football. I would 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.440 never suggest such a thing. I certainly never saw that 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.280 at g A. I was what. I never saw it 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.600 that I just said, I never saw that. Actually, if 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.800 you're going to go there, never mind, I shouldn't say 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.880 that something about, you know, violating rules by getting paid 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:10.319 while you're in college and playing ball, no kidding, um. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.360 And I certainly wouldn't say that about any school because 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.240 I've never seen that happen. Truth be told, I have 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.800 never seen it happen. I am not making any allegations now. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.319 We're teasing because it's one of those things that every 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.840 school has their opponent's school making accusing. There are certain 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.360 schools in the SEC that have in the past been 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.080 accused of such things. I am not suggesting that any 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.960 of them are actively doing that now. Okay, disclaimers over 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.320 the NFL, which which actually does pay their players and 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:41.600 they're supposed to and and it's actually legal. Um uh, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.080 we've lost control. Um. The NFL has uh is preventing 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.040 its own players from using Twitter and Facebook during the games, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.920 and referees and referees and you know and even uh 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.720 there are holding the sign that shows you when the 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:03.960 first Oh no, okay, um the wig on. That guy 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.120 can do it. Actually, that guy's in jail. I think 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.319 he was making bombs. Um. Apparently it is. Uh, it 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.640 is a prohibition during the game, uh ninety minutes before 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.160 game up until the postgame interviews are completed. They can't 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.960 talk about it, right, and even the media have restrictions 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.240 on when they are allowed to send out messages. It's 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.960 usually things like at the end of a quarter they 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.319 can give a score update. So apparently this game is 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.000 played in quarters. Yes, therefore that was played on the field, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.960 So anyway, is it close quarters? Smart bets? You have 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.040 a player from the Cincinnati Bengals who is not in 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.320 the least bit media savvy and can constantly drawing attention 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.320 to himself. His name's chad Ocho Sinko. Uh, smart bets 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.240 having him pulling out his cell phone and twittering in 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.200 the end zone after a touchdown at least once fines 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.080 be damned. Right, Um, Based on what I know of 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.679 this fellow, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. I just 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:11.720 want to why not, But for doing something like this, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.600 I'd be surprised that this phone could survive a football game. Now, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.400 I guess if it can survive a football game. Give 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.360 that man an advertising contract because there's your ad. Well, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.320 our phones can withstand a full tackle of my NFL players. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:30.160 You know, there you go. They are wearing pads. What. Um. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.920 In the past, other players have done such things as 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.959 Terrell Owens pulling out a sharpie and signing a football 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.520 and throwing it into the stands. This would be taking 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.120 that a little further. Um. But you know there are 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.880 other there are other organizations, I mean not not everybody 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.480 as as prohibitive as the SEC in the NFL are 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.600 and and we should also stress the NFL has said 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.160 that they want their players to be able to use 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.440 social media. They want that fan interaction the just during 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.880 the game, right they but they encourage their players too 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.680 to have this guy. If they want to have this 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.640 sort of user you know, this fan player interaction, they're 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.360 they're more than welcome to do it, which I think 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.880 is great because as you and I know, I mean, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.280 even in our field, which has nothing to do with 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.560 sports but has a similar uh feature in the sense of, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.480 you know, we have people who listen to us, fans 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.880 who listen to us. We like to be able to 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.120 have that kind of interactivity with them, and so it's 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.760 not just a one way street. It's good to that 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.720 they are fostering that with their players, And to me 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.920 it makes sense that you don't, you know, for the 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.480 players anyway, that you don't give away information that could 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.400 potentially affect the outcome of the game. Yeah, and then 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.240 I understand the reasoning behind that. And you also want to, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.080 uh as a team, keep your players focused on the game, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.680 right right, Sure, you don't want their head to be like, oh, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.920 I hope my five thousand followers like the fact that 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.480 I just, you know, avoided the tackle on that last 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.280 two yards. Oh wait, wait, I just thought of something. Yeah, yeah, Um. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.920 That's why the NBA team, the Milwaukee Bucks, prohibited Charlie 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.160 Villanueva from tweeting because he was tweeting during the game 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.000 from the bench. Now, then they basically said, yeah, can 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.240 you not do that during the game. The NBA, we're 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.400 talking about different. That's a game called basketball. There's an 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.640 orange ball and you bounce it up and down on 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.800 the floor and when you get to the end of 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.400 the floor, you're supposed to throw it through this little circle, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 which one of the sports has a field goal. That 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.880 would be football. Are you sure that basketball doesn't have 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.800 a field goal. Actually it would be basketball too, got 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.360 your Pilette, but both of them do, yes, So I 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.320 was that was a that was a trap for Pilette 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.120 because I actually know something about basketball. Actually trapped yourself 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.640 because you just proved you just proved that you knew 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:48.400 something about both sports, damn it. So um yeah, the 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.560 the uh yeah, NBA their policy is essentially that every 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.240 team has can develop its own policy. There's no there's 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.160 no NBA wide policy. And I was unable to see 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.320 anything about major legue baseball. Uh, whether you guys don't 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.680 know how to use a phone, I would like to 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.200 say that he said that and not me. I'm kidding. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.080 I'm actually have flenty of time if you're sitting, if 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.440 you're on yeah, if you have time to tweet. You know. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.920 I should also point out I am a huge baseball fan, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.240 so I'm definitely joking about that. And in hockey you 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.600 would not have time to because you don't have like 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.160 five seconds to rest and then you gotta go and 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.960 hit the ice again. So hockey that should change, right, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.720 So crushed climbing over wall, Yeah, I mean there would 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.960 be some great tweets from hockey. I think everything would 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.240 end with a so, um but yeah, king up teeth, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:44.320 hold on good nice. Yeah. So I'd love to see 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.440 some hockey tweets. That'd be fun too, That would be funny. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.960 We should make a fake Twitter account for for some 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:55.520 some fictitious hockey player. Okay, then patent pending, um everything 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.440 every time we make up something new or so yeah, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.600 So NBA, the policy is left up to each individual team. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.840 Uh and the going just this is backtracking a little 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.719 bit to the NFL. But whereas I understand that they 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.040 don't want you to to send out any messages that 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.640 could affect the outcome of the game, what I don't 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.399 understand is sending up messages of hey, we're we're twelve 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.440 points up. You know that Again? To me, I don't 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.840 think anyone out there is following folks with the intention of, Hey, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.840 this way, I don't have to have that that burden 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.400 of watching the sport I love. I can just read 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.480 about it in a hundred forty characters at a time. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.720 That doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, and and this 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.320 really is a um an issue that goes out to 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.919 a lot of other industries and organizations. UM. You know, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.679 especially considering marketing people who get excited about news that 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.320 that you know, may affect their company. I mean you 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.560 hear about it. Every once in a while, somebody will say, oh, hey, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.199 we just got chosen to be the so and so, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.600 and you'll find out that there wasn't an official press 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.480 release going out. Yeah, or we we've got a partnership 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.000 with such and such, or we're going to acquire such 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.840 and such company before it's actually finalized. And I have 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.520 I have the feeling that it's not going to be 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.920 much longer before there are official policies in place for many, many, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.680 many governmental bodies of legislation that hasn't yet been passed, 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.160 or things that are going on behind closed doors, because 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.520 politicians are starting to tweet a whole lot more than these. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.639 Once again, we've gotten to the point where the technology 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.800 is outpacing the legal system. I mean, it happens there. No, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.240 there are no official rules. There's a lot of these 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.880 cases because this stuff is so new, no one's thought, hey, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.520 how do we regulate this so that it doesn't affect 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.080 us in a negative way. Yeah, Um, let's get back 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.080 to sports. I was gonna want to talk about that 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.639 was the fun reason why we decided to start this podcast. Um, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.919 let's talk about the US Open. Oh, golf. That's a 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.600 game in which you hit a ball with a stick, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.320 go find it and hit it again until you can 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.800 knock get into a little hole. Or did you know that? 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.399 I was wasn't talking about that US Open? But all right, okay, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.680 that's right, the other US Open. Yeah, I was talking 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.439 about the game you play with some rackets and a 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.120 green fuzzy ball and you hit it over a net. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.800 I think if it as yellow fuzzy ball. But okay, okay, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.199 well yellowish, greenish whatever. Um, but hey, you know you 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.160 want to go on with that golf thing. I want 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.000 to hear where this is going. Um, actually, why don't 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.480 you talk about that? I'll see if I can find 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.240 anything on the internet. No, no, no, alright, So so seriously, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.480 let's just talk about about, um other reasons why you 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.040 wouldn't want to use Twitter in sports. One of the 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:36.800 reasons it would be very difficult to do if you're 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.160 playing tennis. Yeah, well, one of the reasons is that 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.600 you don't The reason for the the US Open administrators 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.719 don't want the tennis players to use Twitter is not 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.000 because it may give someone an unfair advantage, or it 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:53.800 may give you know, you may find out, oh, my 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.800 opponent tomorrow has apparently got a bum ankle um, I 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.600 should hit things more to his or her right instead 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.760 of left or anything like that. It's more because that 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:10.080 information might be used by the gambling community to adjust odds, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.600 and they are very much concerned with their appearance and 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.280 they do not want to look like they are feeding 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.320 into this gambling um community. So it's more of a 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.720 kind of a pr thing. You know, they don't they 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:28.240 don't want to be thought of as um enabling folks 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.520 to to wage your huge amounts of money on various players. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.480 And if you were to leave a little information about someone, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.760 you know, maybe their arm feels a little weird, something 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.320 like that, then suddenly that creates a flurry of activity 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.160 in the gambling community and it looks like you are 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.960 you are sort of endorsing it, I guess, just by 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.320 allowing this information out. So there have been a lot 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.960 of warnings put up at the US Open saying don't 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.720 use Twitter for those kind of reasons. Use Twitter, just 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.679 don't use it to to give information like that, you know, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.840 use a little critical thinking before you start tweeting, and 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.640 most people would say, hey, this is common sense. Who 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.040 the hell would you know use Twitter to give away 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.000 information that could potentially cause them problems down the line. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.760 But we see it again and again that people get 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.640 these ideas, like a thought occurs to them and they 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.800 have to put it down in Twitter, like they don't 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.240 stop to saying, hey, maybe I shouldn't share this with 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.840 the entire world before you know, hitting inner, and they 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:29.560 just go ahead and do it. I mean I've done 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:31.800 it too. I've sent out messages where I thought, you know, 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.560 maybe I should have thought a little before I actually 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.040 wrote that. Yeah, when you when you apply the logic 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.240 of how it might affect, um the odds and gambling 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.960 that that might cause some serious thought among the other leagues, 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.040 certainly are the major leagues and in the other professional sports, 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.320 because um, you know, when you think about that anything, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.440 you know, a picture could be going back in the 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:58.400 dugout and saying, you know, and feeling a little stiff, 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.200 hopefully I can work this out. That might you know, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.080 it's the second hitting all of a sudden that changes 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.120 the complexion of the game. You know, somebody calls back 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.600 to the dugout talks to the manager and goes, hey, dude, 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.960 you know Johnson just twittered that his arms feeling stiff. 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.000 You know. Now you know the guys and the other 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.560 dugout are also reading Twitter, you know. So, I mean, 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:22.720