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Speaker 2: to Jeff Passon, the great baseball writer for the Mothership.
Speaker 2: Why does everybody have a problem with the new baseball uniforms?
Speaker 2: Did anybody see this coming? And why is it? The
Speaker 2: players are saying these pants are see through. I think
Speaker 2: that would be good for ratings. Come out and see
Speaker 2: all of your favorite player and we'll get to phone calls.
Speaker 2: The poll question for the final hour is what seed O'Connor.
Speaker 2: We had two running so far, Dan. Both of them
Speaker 2: are court storming relating okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: We had court storming dot dot dot, add more security,
Speaker 4: find the schools, or leave it alone right now four
Speaker 4: Already three percent of the audience say just leave it alone.
Speaker 4: It's fine the way it is, okay. And then we
Speaker 4: also had court storming dot that's super fun, super lame.
Speaker 4: Fifty eight percent of the audience say it's super lame.
Speaker 4: So the audience basically says it's really lame and just
Speaker 4: leave it alone.
Speaker 2: Well, Jim Beheim joined this last hour and he said,
Speaker 2: you know, nobody gets hurt. You had a duke player
Speaker 2: get hurt, and but you know ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the time, nobody gets hurt. I don't think you can
Speaker 2: have that logic where you go, hey, nobody got hurt.
Speaker 2: You know, hey, kids go out there and you know,
Speaker 2: play with some matches here, anybody get burnt? No, okay,
Speaker 2: do it again. I just don't think you're going to
Speaker 2: have that logic and say, have all of those people
Speaker 2: congregating and they're all coming at different angles to the
Speaker 2: same centers, you know, center of the court, and then
Speaker 2: these players trying to get off the floor. If you
Speaker 2: are going to ensure this is what I would do,
Speaker 2: and look there's holes in all of these so called
Speaker 2: solutions here. I would have police ensure that the opposing
Speaker 2: team is surrounded or that you do your best to
Speaker 2: get them to the locker room. The kids are going
Speaker 2: to come on the court. Let them come on the
Speaker 2: court at their own peril, and your team at its
Speaker 2: own peril. But the visiting team police should be able
Speaker 2: to get onto the court to ensure that they're going
Speaker 2: to get to the locker room. And Duke should be
Speaker 2: aware more than any other school when you lose on
Speaker 2: the road, they're going to storm the court, even though
Speaker 2: wake Forest was a two point favorite. But you must
Speaker 2: ensure the safety of the opposition. We must do that
Speaker 2: anything else happens. Well, you guys allowed this at your
Speaker 2: arena or your stadium. What's the pole question we'll have
Speaker 2: for the final hour? Seaton?
Speaker 4: Well, this one could be a little tricky, but if
Speaker 4: we were to say, commit Rob Manfred's legacy will be
Speaker 4: dot dot dot dot dot. He's announced he's taking a retirement. Well,
Speaker 4: he did the same thing that I did. Maybe, yeah, maybe, yeah.
Speaker 4: We could populate this a bit. But will his legacy
Speaker 4: be the pitch clock?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Will it be the astros? Will it be expansion?
Speaker 2: Perhaps?
Speaker 4: A lot of talk of expansion right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to talk to Jeff Passon that Nashville
Speaker 2: and Salt Lake City might be on the horizon here
Speaker 2: because the NBA is going to expand Vegas and probably Seattle,
Speaker 2: or at least I hope it's Seattle. But baseball does.
Speaker 4: Baseball expand Nashville makes a ton of sense. I think
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City probably does too. It's just more of
Speaker 4: a surprising name to hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well Nashville is growing so big so quickly. Nashville
Speaker 2: sounds I mean, you know it's a baseball town as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but we'll talk to Pa about that, all right.
Speaker 2: What else? Is there anything else that we add to that? So,
Speaker 2: pitchclock expansion, the Astros debacle, there's.
Speaker 4: Some pitch clock overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now they want to modify it. Now They're like,
Speaker 2: well it was twenty seconds in between pitches. Now we
Speaker 2: want to make it eighteen seconds.
Speaker 4: See, I'm okay with that because they have some data
Speaker 4: after a year of doing this that says it might
Speaker 4: be better to go eighteen. It's not like it just
Speaker 4: came out of nowhere, Like, I don't think it's a
Speaker 4: random number that they've just invented. I think that they have,
Speaker 4: you know, they've done some research into it, and they
Speaker 4: have that data that they say, wow, this would actually
Speaker 4: we could probably do this.
Speaker 2: I just they could have enforced this decades ago. The
Speaker 2: rule has been in place since nineteen fifty five. They
Speaker 2: just didn't enforce it. If you're going to enforce it,
Speaker 2: like get in the batter's box. For years I would
Speaker 2: say just hey, get in the batter's box. Or I'm
Speaker 2: going to say to the pitcher, throw the pitch. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's really simple. You know, we've allowed all. It's like
Speaker 2: carrying in basketball and I'm watching a game yesterday, I'm like,
Speaker 2: what an advantage if I can put my hand under
Speaker 2: the ball and I can't beat you off the dribble.
Speaker 2: That would be pathetic, that'd be sad. But we've allowed it.
Speaker 2: Why I get, what point do we say, you know,
Speaker 2: these guys just aren't exciting enough. But now we allow it.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why. But now it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I keep saying to the commissioner, all I have to
Speaker 2: do is call it, well, three seconds are traveling, Just
Speaker 2: call it. You haven for decades and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, I look up and I go,
Speaker 2: there's really no guardrails here. Then we just there's certain
Speaker 2: things we just say, well, that's just the way it
Speaker 2: used to be. That's just the way it is. But
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be that way. I know, I
Speaker 2: sound like to get off my line, guy, and I am,
Speaker 2: I am, get off my lawn.
Speaker 5: Yes, ma, DP, it's not traveling. It's a gather step,
Speaker 5: the euro step.
Speaker 2: Okay, Boomer, learn the rules of the game. It's a
Speaker 2: modern game. Oh I know, Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: He just took fifteen steps in Yeah, and there are
Speaker 2: some that are just so egregious that I think the
Speaker 2: official has to go now. There is no way he
Speaker 2: just took four steps. I'm not going to call that,
Speaker 2: believe it. Yeah, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6: And all this is trickling down to the grade school level.
Speaker 6: They teach young kids how to eurostep, how to carry
Speaker 6: the ball where you're not going to get called, but
Speaker 6: you hesitate in the air with it. It's being it's
Speaker 6: been green light all the way down.
Speaker 2: By the way, I mentioned that the Joker had another
Speaker 2: triple double, and he now has one more triple double
Speaker 2: in his career than Lebron does. And then I looked
Speaker 2: at the number of games played. The Joker has played
Speaker 2: in seven hundred twenty games. He has one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty nine doubles. Lebron is one hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 2: triple doubles. He's played in one thousand, seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty four games. So the Joker has done this in
Speaker 2: over one thousand fewer games. He is going to be
Speaker 2: the all time leader. When it's all said and done,
Speaker 2: you'll blow by Russell Westbrook. It's not like the Joker
Speaker 2: is going to slow down. It's not like you go Yeah.
Speaker 2: But when old age sets in, he plays like he's old.
Speaker 2: He plays like old age is already set in. He's
Speaker 2: twenty nine. I mean, the only thing that'll stop him
Speaker 2: is he'll just decide he doesn't want to play anymore,
Speaker 2: and that might be in five years.
Speaker 5: Five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to be with my horses. They were
Speaker 2: just stop being me so much. I hate making all
Speaker 2: this money and these parades. They interrupt my vacation. When
Speaker 2: is parade?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 2: When is parade? Yeah? There's a parade.
Speaker 5: When is Michael Jordan cried?
Speaker 2: We had one last year? Yeah? Why another?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 5: Like I have to go home?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Blake and New Orleans been holding Hey Blake, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 9: I am honored to be your first non nerd caller
Speaker 9: of the day because, unlike the previous nerds to call in,
Speaker 9: I see no problem with court storming like behand said,
Speaker 9: no one's gotten hurt. The reason Philipowski may or may
Speaker 9: not have gotten hurt was because he was trying to
Speaker 9: trip a kid. And it's just as part of the process.
Speaker 9: If you go to school for four years or six,
Speaker 9: if you're a secret Polly, then you may do it
Speaker 9: one time. It's not like it happens every day. It's
Speaker 9: just it's more, it's on the news more. And just
Speaker 9: let the kids be kids. No one's gotten hurt. Like
Speaker 9: I said Philipowski trying to trip a kid. Caitlyn Clark
Speaker 9: flopped like it was the World Cup.
Speaker 2: Let kids be kids, all right. That's Blake and New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Thomas in Kansas, Hey, Tom, are you great?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about hockey.
Speaker 10: You know how they have the protective walls and part
Speaker 10: of the game. You know, schools put that into basketball.
Speaker 3: Have you know what do you think no one's sports
Speaker 3: storving the hockey court rink? So I mean could have worked.
Speaker 2: I think you might. I don't know if we could
Speaker 2: have a like the plexa glass there that keeps you
Speaker 2: away from getting on the court. Now you have to
Speaker 2: come up with the cost for this. Yeah, all the
Speaker 2: schools that have to pay for this because you can't say, well,
Speaker 2: it's just these schools, and then you know, you get
Speaker 2: to your conference tournament and all of a sudden, your
Speaker 2: storm in the court at Siena. You know, I have
Speaker 2: no idea. Hey, I'm open to any of these suggestions.
Speaker 2: Do I think it's an issue?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 2: I do? Larry and Montana Hi, Larry.
Speaker 11: Hi Dan first time Coller five nine a non maintained.
Speaker 11: I'd also like to say, I'm a fifty nine year
Speaker 11: old nerd court storm and about if the next home
Speaker 11: game no one with a student ticket is allowed in,
Speaker 11: the school's got to remburse those tickets or maybe just
Speaker 11: let the season ticket holders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I want to toy you
Speaker 2: with that. You know, that's part of what you sign
Speaker 2: up for when you go to college. A lot of
Speaker 2: times you'll get ticket allotments when you're there, depending on
Speaker 2: the program, going to see Alabama football. You know, that's
Speaker 2: that's part of your tuition. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's a solution to this where you go, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: I just think ensuring, certainly with basketball, ensuring that the
Speaker 2: opposing team is surrounded by police, not arena security police.
Speaker 2: You get them from the court to the locker room. Students,
Speaker 2: you can storm the court, do not engage with you know, players, now,
Speaker 2: can you do that? I SAMs logical, Yes, Boom or you.
Speaker 6: Should consider not losing big games.
Speaker 2: Oh just okay, I did not. Okay did they consider that?
Speaker 2: What about when Duke's football students football fans storm the
Speaker 2: court football field when Duke beat Clemson this year in football?
Speaker 1: That, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6: They was a big storming. It's twenty eight to seven
Speaker 6: Duke big win. First week of September.
Speaker 2: They stormed, They stormed the field, a couple of thousand kids. Yes,
Speaker 2: Josh in Texas joining us. Hey, Josh, Hey, how's it
Speaker 2: going great? Josh?
Speaker 3: So, I actually have a solution for the storm corming man.
Speaker 3: It's what we'll call the storm timer. Gay Man's fifteen
Speaker 3: twenty second timer.
Speaker 7: Pops up.
Speaker 3: Let the graphics guys play with it, have it rumble,
Speaker 3: lights up everything, and build emotions. And when everything hits zero,
Speaker 3: let it explode and everyone comes on. That gives guys
Speaker 3: time to get off the court, you know, staff to
Speaker 3: bring cones out to blow off areas, and then Boom
Speaker 3: is on.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're going to ask the kids to wait.
Speaker 8: See.
Speaker 3: At first it'll be shaky, it will be retarking and
Speaker 3: running out there. But uh, you know, two years into it,
Speaker 3: you know, you just say, here come the storm clock,
Speaker 3: Here comes the storm clock, you know, and then it'll
Speaker 3: be normal.
Speaker 2: Okay, But what if it's a buzzer beater.
Speaker 3: The storm clock pops up and get you put.
Speaker 11: It on the school?
Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you Josh. Once again, these all
Speaker 2: sound practical, like, okay, I see that, kids, we need
Speaker 2: you to wait. It's like when you know that the
Speaker 2: gifts are under the tree on Christmas and your parents like,
Speaker 2: get back in bed, don't get up until six o'clock,
Speaker 2: and then it's you know, it's four forty two, and
Speaker 2: then you're trying to sneak down. Get back in bed. Okay, kids, Look,
Speaker 2: once we win and pull off this dramatic upset, wait
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds, okay, and then we're going to have something
Speaker 2: on the jumbo tronfteen fourteen, thirteen, twelve eleven. You know,
Speaker 2: we used to have festival seating in concerts. I was
Speaker 2: working in Dayton and was going to the Cincinnati concert
Speaker 2: where The Who was there and eleven people died festival seating.
Speaker 2: Only a couple entrances into the arena that night, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure many people thought it's festival seating, which means
Speaker 2: open the door and you run to your seats wherever
Speaker 2: you want to sit. What could go wrong? Eleven people
Speaker 2: died and to show up at a concert and seeing
Speaker 2: ambulances and body bags. You can't sit here and go.
Speaker 2: You know, nothing's happened so far with festival seating, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure nobody thought that anything like that could happen
Speaker 2: prior to that. So am I being overly cautious? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I am.
Speaker 2: It's like when the gold post comes down. There have
Speaker 2: been people who have been hurt when the gold post
Speaker 2: comes down. Oh they're taking the gold post down Main Street.
Speaker 2: There have been students who have been injured, some seriously injured.
Speaker 2: But we love, We've glamorized it, and if you're a student,
Speaker 2: you're like, man, we want our turn.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like when you go to Duke you want to
Speaker 2: you know, paint your face and jump up and you're
Speaker 2: in the you know, Cameron crazy, like it's your moment.
Speaker 2: This is what we do, This is what everybody else
Speaker 2: has done. We should be able to storm the court.
Speaker 2: I get it, but at some point we need to
Speaker 2: just maybe pump the brakes a little bit and just say,
Speaker 2: all right, let's just look at this, all right. Is
Speaker 2: there a way to make this where it is safer
Speaker 2: for everybody. I still maintain if a student runs the
Speaker 2: run on the court and a student gets injured, that's
Speaker 2: on you. I must ensure the safety of the opposing team,
Speaker 2: and certainly when it comes to basketball, I've got to
Speaker 2: get twelve, thirteen, fourteen people to the locker room, surround
Speaker 2: the bench. Let the students know the police are going
Speaker 2: to be there with them. You want to storm the court,
Speaker 2: at least acknowledge, be respectful for those players so they
Speaker 2: can get off the court. Aaron and fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 2: Hi erin, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8: Hey Dan?
Speaker 7: Thank you for taking my call. Todd, what's up? I
Speaker 7: don't think this start coming stort. Of course, Stormy is
Speaker 7: a big deal. I mean, if you remember what it
Speaker 7: was like to be in college, there are a lot
Speaker 7: of marsh pits at fratthouses. I mean, if you want
Speaker 7: to solve this problem, let me take some of the
Speaker 7: players down to a local frat house on a Saturday Night,
Speaker 7: show them how to marsh pit. You know, don't go
Speaker 7: against the grain.
Speaker 2: And that's another great idea. Come on down to a
Speaker 2: nothing bad ever happens in amash pit, Oh boy eight
Speaker 2: seven to seven three DP show.
Speaker 5: Yes, Marvin, what did the NBA do Because back in
Speaker 5: the day, when the subs were, they were winning championships,
Speaker 5: they used to storm the court after they won.
Speaker 2: So what changed then, I don't know. And that when
Speaker 2: when the Celtics beat the Phoenix Suns in the NBA
Speaker 2: Finals and or when the Lakers won the title, I
Speaker 2: remember fans running the court or if the Celtics won,
Speaker 2: and that's when you would see these NBA players. They
Speaker 2: were just knocking people out of the way. They were like,
Speaker 2: you're gonna come on the floor, were coming after you. Yeah, po.
Speaker 6: But that was an NBA Finals, that was the title.
Speaker 6: It was worthy of being stormed. We used a term
Speaker 6: maybe ten years ago here court storm worthy. Yes, that
Speaker 6: game for Duke and wake Forest. I know it's been
Speaker 6: a long time. It should be Duke at Home, yes,
Speaker 6: but it's got to be court storm worthy. Your favorite
Speaker 6: act like you've been there, and that's tough thing to
Speaker 6: get to people's minds because it's become like I think,
Speaker 6: set instead of a minute, go off air. It's a rite,
Speaker 6: a passage for college kids. You want to do that
Speaker 6: at your school because you see everyone.
Speaker 9: Else do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take more phone calls on this and settle nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah we haven't.
Speaker 4: We have absolutely not settled in because you know what,
Speaker 4: there might not be anything to settle. That's why, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like it's one of those things that's gonna bubble
Speaker 4: up and then uh, you know, by Wednesday, we're not talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why I said it's twenty four to
Speaker 2: forty eight hours of outrage and then then we're done.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have March Madness, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: have you know, these conference tournaments and students are gonna
Speaker 2: run on the floor and we're gonna go gone, look
Speaker 2: at the pageantry. That is awesome. Yuh, that's fun. We
Speaker 2: don't want to get rid of this. I don't want
Speaker 2: to get rid of it, but I do want to
Speaker 2: make sure that players at least get off the floor.
Speaker 2: Then whatever happens after that, that's on the univer We'll
Speaker 2: take a break. What is wrong with see through pants
Speaker 2: in major League Baseball, Jeff Passing of the Mothership will
Speaker 2: stop by also the possibility of baseball expanding to Nashville
Speaker 2: and Salt Lake City. Jeff will join us from spring
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Speaker 2: PGA Tour bigins It's Florida Swing. It'll be the Cognizant
Speaker 2: Classic and the Palm Beaches. Rory McElroy and the stars
Speaker 2: of the tour are in Florida, as is Jeff Passing
Speaker 2: of the Mothership. Senior Baseball Insider. Before we get to Jeff,
Speaker 2: this statement from Major League Baseball. The uniform pants have
Speaker 2: the same material in thickness as the uniform pants used
Speaker 2: last season. There were changes to the fabric of the jersey,
Speaker 2: not the pants, Baseball said. A baseball spokesman told ESPN
Speaker 2: that Nike fanatics and MLB representatives have been making adjustments
Speaker 2: to the jerseys based on player request made during spring training.
Speaker 2: Now there was a report or at least some of
Speaker 2: the players said the pants are see through. Let's bring
Speaker 2: in Jeff Passing. Jeff, of all the things I've ever
Speaker 2: had you on, I don't know if I've ever had
Speaker 2: you on for sea through pants. So how did we
Speaker 2: get here with the uniform change or changes Major League Baseball.
Speaker 13: I'm just hoping there's not seen through pants under your
Speaker 13: desk right there.
Speaker 2: I don't have pants on beauty Beauty.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: Major League Baseball can say all that it wants that
Speaker 13: the material of the pants is the same and that
Speaker 13: you know, this is just a change and the fit
Speaker 13: of them or the ability to customize them. But the truth,
Speaker 13: like the only thing that matters is that we've seen
Speaker 13: things that we should not see this spring and that
Speaker 13: we have not seen in past springs. We have seen
Speaker 13: Twigg and berries if you want to call it that,
Speaker 13: or I mean junk however you want to put it.
Speaker 13: We done seen it so far, okay, and that is
Speaker 13: the change from the past that gives a whole new
Speaker 13: meeting to junk ball pitcher. So okay, how did Baseball
Speaker 13: not know that this was happening? You know, when you
Speaker 13: go through a new manufacturing process, there are always errors
Speaker 13: that come out, and that, to me is the most
Speaker 13: frustrating thing about this entire story. I cover a sport
Speaker 13: dan whose resonance among fans isn't quite the same as
Speaker 13: it used to be, and that is always looking for
Speaker 13: entrees into new groups of people to watch. And if
Speaker 13: your marketing is you can see our players and other regions,
Speaker 13: something's not going right there. And the immediate reaction, the
Speaker 13: very simple reaction to this should not be but wait,
Speaker 13: they were see through in years past two, which is
Speaker 13: what major League Baseball's trying to say right now, you know,
Speaker 13: which may be true. But the important thing is fixing
Speaker 13: the issue that you've got right now. And it doesn't
Speaker 13: seem as if they're doing a whole lot to fix
Speaker 13: this or change it. And that's the frustrating part of it.
Speaker 13: That everyone's kind of pointing fingers at one another. You know,
Speaker 13: Nike is the the you know, new manufacturer of the uniforms,
Speaker 13: and they're looking at Fanatics and saying, yeah, you know
Speaker 13: it's Fanatics that sooner, and Fanatics is looking at Nike
Speaker 13: and saying, well, we're just going off the designs that
Speaker 13: they sent us. And you don't solve problems by pointing fingers.
Speaker 13: This is a problem because I am on the Dan
Speaker 13: Patrick Show and the first question that he asked me
Speaker 13: was about the ability to see players through their pants. Like,
Speaker 13: if that's not a problem that you should be you
Speaker 13: should be out there trying to solve instantaneously. You've taken
Speaker 13: the wrong path.
Speaker 2: But I have a problem though that the jerseys. I
Speaker 2: mean I had these uniforms when I was in Little
Speaker 2: league where they would take an iron and then they could,
Speaker 2: you know, put your name on or your number on,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna probably still charge the same to fans.
Speaker 2: Like there's no raised lettering here. I mean, there's nothing
Speaker 2: that says boy, that's quality here.
Speaker 13: No, it looks like a minor league uniform. And I
Speaker 13: don't even mean like minor league baseball, I mean like
Speaker 13: weekend guys going to the park. It you know, it's
Speaker 13: Chico's bail bond. That's what it looks like right now.
Speaker 13: And you know, you don't understand how much better the
Speaker 13: large lettering looks until you see the small lettering. But
Speaker 13: we had an example of this just last year, Dan,
Speaker 13: do you remember during the World Baseball Classic, Great Britain's
Speaker 13: uniforms it looked like Times New Roman twelve point font
Speaker 13: and we saw just how goofy it can be when
Speaker 13: the lettering compared to the people who are wearing the
Speaker 13: actual letters is as small as it is. And to
Speaker 13: you know, to have those sorts of jerseys now, it's
Speaker 13: just been catastrophic from top literally to unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Bottom showing your bottom. Help me understand expansion, the possible expansion,
Speaker 2: and I know you've mentioned two cities, what kind of
Speaker 2: Is there a timeframe for expansion with Major League Baseball?
Speaker 13: Yeah, but it's probably not until the end of this decade,
Speaker 13: so we're a while off here, and I think the
Speaker 13: process would probably be a little bit quicker because expansion
Speaker 13: fees are going to be of scene. You know, we're
Speaker 13: talking two plus billion dollars Dan per franchise. When the
Speaker 13: last time Baseball spanned it was like one hundred and
Speaker 13: thirty million dollar expansion fee, So it's enormous money. There
Speaker 13: are people who are motivated to do it. The problem
Speaker 13: is there are a couple of issues that need to
Speaker 13: be resolved. First, Tampa Bay and Oakland. You know, the
Speaker 13: Raiser are trying to get a new stadium in Saint
Speaker 13: Pete and while it looks promising, they've got to pass
Speaker 13: a couple of votes before it goes through Oakland. On
Speaker 13: the other hand, you know, as much of a disaster
Speaker 13: as the uniforms have been this spring, the A's or
Speaker 13: probably ahead of them just in terms of messing things up.
Speaker 13: And so while they've got agreements in place to play
Speaker 13: in Las Vegas for the twenty twenty eight season, there
Speaker 13: is no shovel in the ground yet. There's not going
Speaker 13: to be for a while now. And ineptitude is really
Speaker 13: the modus operandi of the Oakland A's ownership at this point.
Speaker 13: And so I don't think anybody thinks it's a fate
Speaker 13: a complete that they're going to end up in Las Vegas,
Speaker 13: And that's been hanging over the game, and Rob Manford
Speaker 13: has said, we're not going to do anything until Tampa
Speaker 13: and Oakland are resolved. Beyond that, while major League Baseball
Speaker 13: can unilaterally say hey, we want to expand, the actual
Speaker 13: expansion process needs the Major League Baseball Players Associations back,
Speaker 13: and that's the sort of thing that doesn't happen until
Speaker 13: a collective bargaining agreement is negotiated. And so part of
Speaker 13: the CBA after the twenty twenty six season, when it expires,
Speaker 13: is going to include expansion processes. How do you draft guys,
Speaker 13: when do they start picking minor leaguers, those sorts of things,
Speaker 13: and until those are in place, it's really impossible to say, yes,
Speaker 13: you go ahead and get that stadium started and crank
Speaker 13: on this franchise, because you know, the stadiums are costing
Speaker 13: a billion, a billion and a half two billion dollars.
Speaker 13: The two cities you mentioned Nashville, which has been promoting
Speaker 13: this this Nashville Stars brand successfully for a while now,
Speaker 13: and Salt Lake City, which has this sprawling, enormous plan
Speaker 13: that the Miller family is going to pay three and
Speaker 13: a half billion dollars to make come reality. Those are
Speaker 13: the two favorites right now. But when you have so
Speaker 13: many years then until the actual expansion is going to
Speaker 13: take place. Weird things can happen in terms of who's
Speaker 13: a favorite, who falls back in the pack.
Speaker 2: I think I said Nashville sounds that's a triple A team. Okay, Okay, okay, yep,
Speaker 2: you got you got it? Okay, just want to do
Speaker 2: yet will show he Tony be playing in April?
Speaker 13: Yes, I think he'll probably be playing in March. I
Speaker 13: think he'll be playing in Korea. Okay, you know the
Speaker 13: plan this whole time, At very least they had a
Speaker 13: template for it, and that template was him because remember
Speaker 13: he's had Tommy John surgery and gone out and hit
Speaker 13: the next season. So he knows what his body needs,
Speaker 13: he knows when he needs rest, he knows when he
Speaker 13: can push, he knows what he's feeling all these things.
Speaker 13: You know, when he's been taking live batting practice, he's
Speaker 13: looked like show hayo Tommy. I was there for his
Speaker 13: first live VP and he absolutely crushed a home run
Speaker 13: off of JP Fireeyes, and so he's going to be fine.
Speaker 13: I just think they're being very judicious about it, because remember,
Speaker 13: you don't pay a guy seven hundred million dollars coming
Speaker 13: off of, you know, his second major elbow procedure unless
Speaker 13: you reasonably think he's going to.
Speaker 2: Be pitching again.
Speaker 13: And so while that's not going to be this season,
Speaker 13: the Dodgers want to do everything they can to ensure
Speaker 13: that when he comes back, he is the same quality
Speaker 13: pitcher that he was, or at least as close to
Speaker 13: that sort of picture that he was before he got hurt.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we won't be talking see through closed the next
Speaker 2: time I have you on, But.
Speaker 13: Listen, it's hilarious to me. Like it's kind of sad,
Speaker 13: it's a little embarrassing. And when people who aren't fans
Speaker 13: of baseball are texting you saying, hey, when did baseball
Speaker 13: turn into porn?
Speaker 8: Like that?
Speaker 13: That's not sort of the thing that you're exactly excited
Speaker 13: about here. But I find it hilarious. And I will
Speaker 13: talk about about sheer pants with you.
Speaker 2: And I like Patrick, that is hot. Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 2: It's jeff passion to the mothership baseball insider. I know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a ratings ploy that is hot. That is hot? Yes, Marvin,
Speaker 2: can we.
Speaker 5: Get Frank Thomas to do a commercial.
Speaker 2: For the super pants O the Big Hurt and she'll
Speaker 2: like it too?
Speaker 4: How do you already know that Frank. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't really like what you were implying about.
Speaker 2: Maybe some history. Yeah wait wait, what do you know
Speaker 2: about my wife? How do you know she's gonna like it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guarantee it, honey. Yeah, you have something, honey? Do
Speaker 2: you have you met Frank Thomas before? And then she
Speaker 2: has that little KOI innocent look there?
Speaker 5: Yes, Tony, And are they still offering free samples for
Speaker 5: those of us would like to try for ourselves.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm on MLB's website, and you can still buy
Speaker 6: jerseys from last year of players. So like, let's say,
Speaker 6: you know you could buy last year's player if they're still.
Speaker 2: Can I buy O Tawny Dodger jersey? But it's last
Speaker 2: year's uniform. I'm checking.
Speaker 6: But by the way, there's nowhere on the site where
Speaker 6: you could buy Major League Baseball official pants. Why is
Speaker 6: that that's an underserved market?
Speaker 2: Like I would ad bajazon, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: people show up at a game in full uniform. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's the new thing.
Speaker 6: Maybe they're gonna double sales by offering pants online. See
Speaker 6: you through pants?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would love some Cubs right pants?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That were really regretting managers wearing them too. Oh man, yeah, skip, yeah,
Speaker 4: skip going out there to yourself. He's excited about this
Speaker 4: pitching change.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, argument balls and strikes like, oh we are easy.
Speaker 2: Now, come on, you're better than that. You're better than that.
Speaker 2: Carlos in Miami, Carlos, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10: Hey, mister Dan, how are you doing? Youre everybody for
Speaker 10: listening in the show. So I was how about the
Speaker 10: storm the court?
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 10: My idea is you can do like high profile like
Speaker 10: they do with the singers. Just put five trained crew
Speaker 10: members like bodyguards. Someone that's rushing, they just rush through
Speaker 10: the players and they protect them on the court. And
Speaker 10: then you know, people know whoever's took aiming at them,
Speaker 10: they're they're they're gonna.
Speaker 8: Get dealt with.
Speaker 10: Just you cover the high profile asset that's on the court.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to cover the entire team, that's all.
Speaker 2: The visiting team should be protected. They didn't sign up
Speaker 2: for this. They should be protected to get to the
Speaker 2: locker room. Maybe that's all we can ask.
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, I'm on the LA Dodgers website as I
Speaker 6: always am this time of day, and if you want
Speaker 6: to Tani Jersey or anyone else. You got to get
Speaker 6: the new officially license.
Speaker 2: The Nike fanatics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the vapor jersey they're calling this, And it's the
Speaker 6: print on, not the stitching. You can buy old Dodgers
Speaker 6: like you can buy a Fernando Valenzuela throwback jersey with
Speaker 6: proper stitching and raised lettering.
Speaker 2: But I know that they're trying to make a better
Speaker 2: design for the players. They have to wear it every day.
Speaker 2: You got to wear it in really, you know, hot temperatures.
Speaker 2: They want to make it so it's it's comfortable. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't are we Lulu lemoning the Major League Baseball here?
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. It feels like there's a happy
Speaker 2: medium between nudity and the old school of a nice uniform,
Speaker 2: a nice jersey, raised lettering. It looked great. Now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it just looks like it's bad news. Bears.
Speaker 6: Yes, it is funny though, because if you've ever worn
Speaker 6: a Major League Baseball uniform, a held one, it's the
Speaker 6: last thing you'd want to wear in ninety degree weather.
Speaker 2: And plus a black belt is rarely worned. I don't
Speaker 2: gotta have the belt.
Speaker 6: What sporting events have belts involved.
Speaker 2: Well, my old this was junior high basketball shorts had
Speaker 2: a belt. We had belts like that. You know, there
Speaker 2: was those sat shorts belt Patrick could get in the game.
Speaker 2: They you know, you could use the belt as a
Speaker 2: weapon if you wanted to. You could cut somebody. Not
Speaker 2: that I did, but they could have done that to
Speaker 2: me to try to stop me. No suspenders though, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I did have a belt herd. We had these shiny
Speaker 2: trunks that had a belt on it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Mark so Wilt Chamberlain scored one hundred points
Speaker 5: wearing satin and a belt. Yeah, greatest player ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, maybe that satin is how it was so successful.
Speaker 2: Who no, no, because it didn't help me. Then didn't
Speaker 2: help me. Well, I'm not gonna go any fir. We
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't. Yeah, and that's the problem. I didn't go
Speaker 2: any further. How about we take a break. Well, last
Speaker 2: golf for folks, You.
Speaker 6: Were holding up the sign in front you with zero points?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, zero zero zero instead of one zero zero
Speaker 2: Jacob break last call for phone calls.
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Speaker 2: We came back and realized that Peter King announced his
Speaker 2: retirement from writing his football column that he's been doing
Speaker 2: for decades.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: Peter will join us on the program tomorrow. Here's something
Speaker 2: for you. I know, we talk about court storming and
Speaker 2: Jim Beheim said he didn't have a problem with it.
Speaker 2: You know, people don't get injured. Players don't get injured.
Speaker 2: Something happened with the Duke game. Kyle Philipowski got hurt,
Speaker 2: twisted his ankle. But for the most part, you know,
Speaker 2: fans come on the court and they get to celebrate
Speaker 2: with their school. Do you remember when we didn't have
Speaker 2: the netting in Major League Baseball and people were so
Speaker 2: upset that they were going to put netting there and
Speaker 2: that was going to ruin the viewing experience going to
Speaker 2: baseball game. When's the last time you heard somebody say
Speaker 2: something about the netting at a Major League baseball game?
Speaker 2: And now when you go, you go, how is it
Speaker 2: that we sat here with these screaming foul balls. If
Speaker 2: you've ever sat close to the field and had one
Speaker 2: of those baseballs get on you in a hurry and
Speaker 2: hear that hit skin. Then you're like, what, how can
Speaker 2: we possibly be doing this? Remember when we didn't have
Speaker 2: netting with hockey? Hey, no glass, Hey, you just fire
Speaker 2: the puck. Somehow it went up into the audience in
Speaker 2: the stands. Did a may get hurt? Yeah, Jimmy's got
Speaker 2: the puck in the side of his head. He's a
Speaker 2: hockey fan. He's going to stay. But we have these
Speaker 2: things where we go, what were we thinking before this?
Speaker 2: And that's just you know, there's so many things down
Speaker 2: through history. Wait, you want goalies to wear a mask
Speaker 2: in hockey. Wait, you want catchers to wear a mask
Speaker 2: in baseball? Wait, you want to put netting around Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball the foul poles, just to make sure that
Speaker 2: fans don't get hurt. So maybe we look back on
Speaker 2: this in ten years ago, why did we allow this?
Speaker 2: It just becomes part of the well, that's what we do. Well,
Speaker 2: that's what they did before. I don't know if we
Speaker 2: get to that point where we go, what were we
Speaker 2: thinking back then? Eric and Montana? Hi, Eric, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 8: How's it going? Dp?
Speaker 13: Great?
Speaker 8: Great? No, So when the levee breaks and people storm
Speaker 8: the court, you know how like airlines have little life
Speaker 8: vests underneath your seat that you grab.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was just hoping that maybe that they store like
Speaker 8: cattle prods for the opposing team and they can just
Speaker 8: prod their way off the court. Also, I have a
Speaker 8: good advertising campaign for the Angels next year. They finally,
Speaker 8: you know, gather around Mike Trout and make it a
Speaker 8: magic Mike Trout here.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, got it, magic Mike and his trout.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did, he worked hard. Yeah, yeah, it us
Speaker 2: a buzz. Next one might be a double us. And
Speaker 2: just keep that. You never know, you just keep Why
Speaker 2: doesn't Major League Baseball have a designated free agency period?
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger just signed with the Cubs. Baseball missed out
Speaker 2: on that, you know, frenzied, you know, contain finite amount
Speaker 2: of time you gotta sign free agents. It's like a portal.
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Take advantage of this? Like, uh wait, Cody Bellinger just signed?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, okay, spring training starting yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of kind of lost the impact of free agency there.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: Emerson in Minnesota, Hi Emerson, Hey.
Speaker 14: Dan, how are you doing great?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 14: Hey, I got a best in the works for him.
Speaker 14: My best being Purdue and Zachi ed yesterday taking over
Speaker 14: the Chrysler Center. My worst being watching it on CBS
Speaker 14: and Kevin Harlan on the call and just thinking of
Speaker 14: Fritz the whole time, like he has just ruined Kevin
Speaker 14: Harlan for me.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you think Kevin Harlan sounded yesterday?
Speaker 5: The Nuggets are on a thirteen to two run, and
Speaker 5: the Cavaliers want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: This is the NBA on TN two. Well, he was
Speaker 2: talking about Purdue. I was doing a random game, okay,
Speaker 2: because you're not aware of anybody on Purdue or Michigan exactly. Okay,
Speaker 2: and you're not alone. Yeah, boiler Makers want to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Matt pater is upset. Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 2: that's a good late poll for you. This dance shorts history, PAULI.
Speaker 6: This will go right with your spring training guy signing
Speaker 6: a contract nineteen thirty five, Dan, the New York Yankees
Speaker 6: released Babe Ruth and.
Speaker 2: He signed overrated.
Speaker 6: Ruth signed with the Boston Braves for twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 6: and a share of the teen's profits. And that's about it.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of good sports is okay. Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: perhaps you've heard of him, hit twenty six or twenty
Speaker 2: seven free throws and he had fifty eight points and
Speaker 2: a win against the Nets on this day. Oh Tom Landry,
Speaker 2: he was fired on this day in nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 2: after a twenty nine year career. Oh here's one. This
Speaker 2: guy won the Daytona five hundred, the only time a
Speaker 2: driver born outside the United States has ever won the race.
Speaker 2: I did not know this one. If you said Mario Andretti,
Speaker 2: you would bring you right on this date in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty seven. That's the media. Very hill. Mario and I
Speaker 2: need structure in my life, and without football, I don't
Speaker 2: have structure because you know, you have Thursday and then
Speaker 2: you have Sunday, you have Saturday football, then you have
Speaker 2: Sunday night football and Monday and I'm kind of lost,
Speaker 2: not sure what day it is. Sometimes just sort of meandering. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm meandering through the calendar.
Speaker 4: I know exactly what you can start watching to occupy
Speaker 4: its alrighty, it's on almost every single day. There's usually
Speaker 4: great matchups every day all over the world. It's a
Speaker 4: thing called football. All the original their Yeah, dude, start
Speaker 4: watching soccer. Yeah, but it feels like the season never
Speaker 4: starts or stops. Correct, That's why it's great. It's always happening,
Speaker 4: and then when it's not happening, there's like the uh
Speaker 4: you know, like the national teams play and.
Speaker 2: Then they go back to there.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's perfect. I know, yeah, because I think I've
Speaker 2: text seating before and I'll go, damn, what a finish
Speaker 2: and you know it's Nottingham Forest or something. You go, oh,
Speaker 2: that's from like two years ago. I'll go, oh, okay,
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