May 8, 2026 • 40 mins
Dan Beyer & Monse Bolanos, in for Stugotz & Company, give no sympathy to the Los Angeles Lakers after they took issue with the refs after falling down 2-0 to the OKC Thunder, Monse gives her theory as to why MLB ratings keep climbing, a new side of a dedicated sports city is revealed, and more!
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at all.
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
Welcome in.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I know if you're listening on the radio, that is
all for the visual aspect of it. But last night,
speaking of visual aspects, you saw an NBA game where
for once Manci the Los Angeles Lakers just didn't get
their way and people are up in arms, specifically the
Los Angeles Lakers, as they are now down two to
zero in the series. To Oklahoma City because the whistle
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did not go their way last evening in Game two.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, but I see the frustration, and I have a
little bit of sympathy.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Because the Lakers were honestly playing their best basketball without Luca.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It was what you wanted.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Austin Reeves came out there and was ready to score
after the dud that he had in Game one.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
But despite despite the nice.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Whistle that let's say the Oklahoma City Thunder ten to.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Get, you are never gonna win. The thunder are just
that much better.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
And so it's like, yeah, you're complaining about the foul,
the fowls are the whistle and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
How many more fowls did they take?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Five?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Five? When I saw this, I went and looked at it.
I was like, oh, they must have shot fifteen more
free throws. And I just didn't urt me. That's what
I thought that, And I was like, how did I
not notice that?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
But it was like you it was five, it was five,
and they made such a big deal out of it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
It's really frustrating when you feel like you are playing
good basketball and you're maybe getting on a run and
then you get a little excited, and then Cason Wallace
hits a three.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
You're like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Case you Cason Wallace, not SGA, not chet Holmgrid, not
j dub not Alex Caruso, but Cason Wallas.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
There's nothing, There's nothing to disrespect caseon Wallace. It's just
like that is how deep the thunder are. It's like
they're just good and annoying.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Sure, now we're gonna hear from Austin Reeves because there
was a visual at the end of the game that
had everyone talking, We're going to hear from Shay Gildess
Alexander in a little bit on why maybe they get
the calls and other teams don't. But JJ Reddick, the
Lakers head coach, took to the defense of Lebron James
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in this case and talked about not necessarily the follows
that they were calling on SGA, but the follows that
they were calling on Lebron James last night, or not
calling on Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Lebron has the.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Worst whistle of any star player I've ever seen. I mean,
I've been with him two years now. Again, the smaller guys,
because they can be theatric they typically draw more fouls,
and the bigger players that are built like Lebron, it's
hard for them. But he gets clobbered, and he got
clobbered again to night a bunch And that's not like
a new thing, that's not specific to this crew or
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you know this series.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He gets fouled a lot.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
That doesn't happen to me. Guy gets hit on the
head more than any player I've seen on drives and
it rarely gets called.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I get what JJ Redick is doing there. I'm
not gonna dissect his words. I think Shaquille O'Neil had
the worst whistle in all of NBA history because he
was just so massive, right.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You didn't know how to guard him.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
You didn't know what to call you like, is that
is that a foul?
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Right, he's just so I can't tell.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You could have maybe shot sixty three throws a night
if you wanted to at times.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And but that so moving that aside.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And JJ Raddick's got a pretty good, uh, pretty good
sample of watching basketball, but he's sticking up for his guy.
And then at the end that's why you hear him
say like this has happened for a long time. I
also think Manzi that this is the Laker's way of
trying to salvage a series that they very likely needed
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to win one of these two games, because just winning
four out of five against Oklahoma City isn't gonna happen,
and it sure doesn't look like Luka Doncic is coming back.
This may be JJ Reddick trying to set things up
for games three and four, being like we're gonna be
at home. Lebron gets a bad whistle, maybe it's our
opportunity to change things. I just think ultimately that the
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Lakers are just they're frustrated last night because they know
that they're not better to your point, and so now
if you're not getting the calls as you perceive to be,
it adds to the frustration. I just have absolutely no
sympathy for the Laker fans who are complaining about the
whistle last night, considering the whistles that this organization has
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gotten over the last thirty years in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I don't know if JJ Reddick knows this, but Adam Oslin,
who hosts a show here on Friday night's early Saturday mornings,
he tweeted, so thank you, Adam. The Lakers took one
hundred and fifty seven more free throw had one hundred
and fifty seven more free throw attempts than the next
closest team this year. In the last five years, they've
taken nine hundred and thirty eight more free throw attempts
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than the next closest team.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
So what are you talking about, JJ, What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I also feel like they did this for maybe a
little sympathy, right, and the Laker fan base, I think
is a little split. There are some that are like, you, right, coach,
we don't have a whistle and they get all the whistles.
And then there's the other side of the Laker fan base.
They're like, you're embarrassing us.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Can you not act like that? Can you walk away
with your head held high?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And a loss?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Can you stop it?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Like I feel like it's split on how they handled it,
because yes, we know whatever we've talked about the OKC
Thunder and how they maybe flop last year it was foul, Merchant, MVP,
shake Gil just Alexander like, we get all this, but again,
the Thunder are much better team.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
So it's like, go out with your head held high.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It is decision twenty twenty six Laker fan Bo Benson
on staff as our executive producer today.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Bo Benson, what side are you on? Are you embarrassed
or are you enraged at the calls that the Lakers
haven't gotten in these NBA playoffs?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Can I take both sides?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Non. Have the votes canceled? Now you decide decision twenty
twenty six?
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Yeah, No, there's no. They're not gonna get any sympathy.
You're the Lakers. That's just how it is. Yes, You're
not gonna forget anybody. Somebody, even though I think they're right.
It's it's infuriating to watch Oklahoma City play basketball because
they are so much better than everybody else. They don't
need to play like that, but they do, and it
sucks to watch.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That's part of the equation. Let's hear from Shay Gildess Alexander,
because there's more to this what SGA had to say
in defending on why his team ends up getting the
whistle and maybe why the Lakers didn't on Thursday night.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The way basketball works, usually the more physical team and
the more the team that impostes, there will more just wins.
And that's probably why we went tonight. Probably why we
won last game. We did a good job, especially in
the second half, hopefully played our style of basketball, being physical,
pressure you though.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It is playoff basketball. Victor weman Yama talked about it
in Game two and when the Spurs won on why
they ended up having more success. Jared Allen talked about
it last night for the Cavaliers and why they haven't
been able to get past the Pistons in these first
two games and what's different. Why are things more of
a struggle for them offensively than they were in the
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regular season, and he says, this is playoff basketball, and
Monte I feel as the future owner of the Seahawks,
I feel like I'm qualified to use this example. The
Legion of Boom were the most physical secondary that maybe
we've seen in NFL history, and one of their defenses,
the referees cannot call a penalty on every single play. Now,
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I think that the Seahawks were really good, and I
thought that Earl Thomas was able to make plays that
other safeties couldn't make. Cam Chancellor was going to hit
you like other safeties wouldn't hit you. Richard Sherman was
going to lock you down. Their defensive line. Getting pressure
at the quarterback also made things easier on the legion
of Boom. But there were penalties. They were physical, they
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were bigger wide receive and the way that it makes
it look, and that's exactly what Shake Gildess Alexander is saying.
The tougher, the more physical team is going to get
it done and they're not going to get whistles every time.
I mean, there was a point last night in defense
of those who are saying that the Lakers aren't getting
any calls, where there was a review on a foul
on Austin Reeves and not only was it changed, it
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was changed to I believe a flagrant one on Shake
Gildis Alexander on a hook play on a grabbing of
the arm. So it goes from one side and then
you're looking at it the complete other way and saying, oh,
now that we looked at it, not only was it
not a foul on you, it was a foul on them,
and it was a more flagrant fowl. However, you're not
doing that every play, and I think that Oklahoma City
understands that, and it's frustrating because the Lakers aren't necessarily
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built that way to play that way. Even if they're
getting more of the free throws, to the point of
Adam's tweet, it's they're getting more of the whistle. Now
the whistle is maybe swallowed a little bit or changed
a little bit when it comes to in a playoff
road game. By the way, not surprising Thea's is part
of it.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Once it gets to the postseason, that whistle does tend
to slightly change a little bit and it tends to
favor the home team.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's not new information.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I will say that even though I like the comparison,
I think it's a little different because I feel like
in football, it's like we walked off like we want
you to, you know, knock someone out.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We want you to hit them, we want you to
be physical.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I feel like in the NBA that physicality is not
the same, and the physicality is like being in your
pocket the entire time. Is a physicality that you can
bring to the NBA because you're not supposed to hit anybody, right,
But it's literally breathing on your neck and okay, see
does it throughout the regular season?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Now, maybe they're just breathing in your neck with onion breath.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I don't know what it is, but they've definitely taken
it to the next level. But that physicality is not
exactly the same. And what people are more annoyed about
it's the the dramatic antics that the thunder tend to
do in a lot of their place.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, I think that that gets under people's skin.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But on the flip side of that, and you know this,
you hit seven threes.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
In a high school again, and sure did, and then
I got a technical.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Would keet my hand.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And when loud Dort is in your face right like
thirty five feet away from the basket, it's it's a
annoying but be he's also likely fouling you, and it's
just that they won't call it at that point. So
like if a player is up, as we would say
in your jock, ninety nine percent of the time they're
doing that, it is a foul, but it's you can't
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call it every single time. And so now as the
offensive player, you get frustrated, You got to adjust. Maybe
you do something that gets careless with the basketball and
then it gets in their heads. And I feel that
that was the case of the Lakers last night. To
your point that again they shot five fewer free throws
than Oklahoma City, and you know who.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Shot the most free throws, Austin.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Reeves there, and Austin Reeves had an issue with the
official that we saw after the game. We were wondering
what was actually going down where the Lakers giving the
refs the business because all of the officials stayed around.
Austin Reeves gave clarity to what happened last night. At
the end of that game two.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
Loss, he turned around just yelled at and yelled in
my face. I just thought it was disrespectful, But at
the end of the day, grown men and I just
didn't feel like he needed to yell in my face
like that. I told him that I wasn't disrespectful. I
told him and I did that to him first, I
would have got him TECH. I felt like the only
reason I didn't get a TECH is because he knew
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he was in the wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Just didn't felt disrespected.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
On a day where the NFL and the Referees Association
agreed on a deal and we and I say we
me you, Isaac Lowncron Bo Bentz and Iowa Sam want
more personality from NFL referees as part of this new deal.
You can't be yelling at players. You can't. You can't
be like this is, this is. It would borderline Major
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League Baseball umpires with that sort of stuff, and I
don't think that fans like that, and that's why they
don't side with them. I also get in in basketball
there is a much more closer relationship that you have
with players than you would in football than you would
in Major League Baseball, just by the nature of the game,
the number of players. There's not as many in the
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game flow that can fine the confined space all of that.
If I'm by you all the time for two hours,
you know, twenty nights out of the year, I'm gonna
actually get to kind of know you a little bit.
I actually think Austin Reeves was right in that factor.
He wasn't complaining about the officials, but NBA officials can
be you know what, and last night there was one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Sometimes they get in their feelings right and they're offended.
And so I agree with you that Austin Reeves was
not wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
But I want it quickly to go back to.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Why send someone out there to put loud dort on
his ass? Like I've just sent someone out there to
put him on his matter, because I feel like every once.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Like over here like oh they're too physical to do okay,
well go put him on his ass then and tell
them that you can be physical too. Get in there.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's not physical of knocking someone over on a play, No,
I mean, you.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Know that vicious physical, but I mean like get in
his pocket where you you know, bump in whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The Lakers don't have a player that's gonna sit there,
and that's why there's.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
They're Bronnie James get out there and knock loud door
on his desk.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That would that would not have They don't need to
knock someone on their butts. They need to someone to
be knocked on, you know, guard someone thirty five feet
away from the from the basket and just be that
annoying guard them full court. Do those sorts of things
be that pest? Be that all the pest.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
That's why the Thud they're all pests. There are teams
where it's like you have won two three pests.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
All the Thunder are pest.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I'll tell you this. In the Thunder made their run
last night without shake. Gilders Alexander on the court like
in the third quarter, Uh, it was aj Mitchell, it
was Jared McClain hitting shots. S SGA was the only
thing he was waving was a towel. Like he wasn't
flopping on the court at all. He was waving a
towel because that's when they ended up making their run.
That separated me. It was true, Like he wasn't on
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the floor. That's that's what he was.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Now, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
So kudos to the Thunder and Sam Presty for having
a team that deep that's able to do that.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
That's the part about the Thunder. You just named a
bunch of players that are not supposed to be their guys.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
That's how good the Thunder are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I feel like we don't talk about their role players
and how they're not afraid of the moment. The role players,
all of them are like, oh, you want to take
a shot. I'm happy to take the shot. When can
I take the shot? They are all and they make
the shots.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
They're all.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's it really like, I understand the dislike or the
annoyance with the Thunder I do, but at the same time,
I'm just like, but they's such a good basketball team,
and all they want to do is hoop all of them.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That's all they want to do. And like guy six
seven eight ninety ten, if you leave them open, he's
gonna make the shot. And that's how good they are.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The other Jalen Williams, had a four point play last
night as part of that run to continue it. So yeah,
there's another example.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
So the Lakers are down two oh and not happy
about it, as they shouldn't be. But I'll tell you what.
Sacramento Kings from two thousand and two are having a
good laugh from what happened last night. She's Monty Milanios,
I'm Dan Byer. We are in for Stugatzen Company Live
The Company today, Bo Benson, Iowa Sam and Isaac Lohencron.
If you've noticed on our in show feed Mancy is
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not the only one here on staff. Look at that
double up Iowa Sam as well wearing the matching Iowa jerseys.
We're there's there's also a method behind the madness of
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season for the WNBA and The Fever based out of Indiana,
covering the team and the Pacers as well in about
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There is also a conversation that we're going to have,
because we are with you for the next four hours,
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So we are live streaming.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Yes, really a little late for a second, so my whole.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Bit about the Seahawks and ownership and the backdrop. None
of that got on the stream.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't think so, maybe not, but we.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Were able to get as a graphic of me owning
the Seahawks at least in that time.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Look at that. Look at that moment.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
There I am with the team as we want. Everybody's
gathered around me. I have a pullover that is somewhat
like that of the Seahawks. It doesn't have a Neon
green collar, but I will find the picture. It's me
and Duff McKagan, band member of Guns n' Roses, was
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in studio when the Seahawks were opening the season after
they won their first Super Bowl. He came in with
Jaymore Sports. He's a Seahawks fan. He's from Seattle. I'm
a Seahawks fan. So I have a picture that I
will show you with a similar polo and not a polo,
a half zip quarter zip that is in the picture
that spot has put.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
On the live stream that you can see right now
on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You're just so happy owning your team must be nice.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I don't think I'll ever be able to own the
Clippers because I have to outbid Steve Bohmer I just
don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Probably not.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, they're probably not going to be up for sale.
You missed your opportunity, I really did.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But as owner of.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The Seahawks, that would have been a Monday night game
because again, I am going back to the old uniforms
and having the current uniforms be our throwbacks.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah right, which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I like that it would attract attention immediately. If he
went back to that, it would bring the eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Speaking of bringing the eyeballs, the NBA ratings have been
great for the first round of the playoffs. I think
there's a reason for that. Major League Baseball's ratings are
also going up and up and up. Manzi has a theory.
Why we'll hear it after Isaac Lohenkron finishes a slice
of pizza and then gives us the latest of what's
happening on this Friday.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
What is going on, Isaac, Well, indeed, that's our top story.
Future Seattle Seahawks owner Dan Byer has demonstrated his financial
resources as well as his commitment to charitable causes by
procuring three enormous pizzas for his coworkers fought.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I want to say this, and I know that you
weren't in the last couple of days, but you were
in Monday and Tuesday. Sorry, Chris Purfetti was in for you.
But we've had a really good week. We've been in
for Stugatza company. We're in on Monday, we're in today,
We've been in for Comuno and rich all week long,
and so it was a great way to kind of
celebrate the end of the week, to go into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's why it's here.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
And Roger just an additional reason why Dan is deserving
to be the next Seahawks owner. Not only does he
spring for pizza, but he's thoughtful enough to include ranch
dressing containers, which you typically don't associate with pizza. But
oh man, does it hit the spot.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You don't associate branch with pizza.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
Not typically, but it takes a sophisticated culinary mind to
be thoughtful enough to order your ranch dressing along with
the pizza.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
So I Roger, we're telling you, don't worry about the money.
Don't worry about the money. Dan should be the next
owner of the Seahawks. Elsewhere in the NFL, New York
Jets running back Brace Hall has agreed to a three year,
forty five million dollar extension. Haul tweeting moments ago, quote
cried for the first time since I tore my ACL.
This day really hit different for me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Man. Did he end?
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Quote?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Did he cry because he's still a Jets?
Speaker 12 (23:18):
That's what I was wondering. That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Really unclear.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
There were tears of joy the NFL the NFL Referees
Association today reached a new seven year collective bargaining agreement
through twenty thirty two. The Broncos signed general manager George
Payton to a new five year contract through twenty thirty
The NFL announced the twenty twenty sixth schedule will be
released next Thursday, May the fourteenth. The Green Bay Packers
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released veteran placekicker Brandon McManus in college hoops IOWA, finalizing
a new six year contract with head coach Ben McCollum.
Coming up tonight at seven pm Eastern, It's Game three
of the NBA's Eastern Conference semi Finals from Philadelphia, with
the New York Nicks leading the Sixers two games to none.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Now back to Dan Bayer, don't pretend like.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You don't hear.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I thought you're going around the room. That was your
pre show video.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
That's my pre show video.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You never know what Monzy's gonna do video wise, And
so there are all of us hanging out here, and
that's where I thought you were going around.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You thought I would start with Iowa, Sam, because we're twining.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes you aren't. You aren't twinning today. Actually that was
the grand finale.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was the grand Sam added some pizzazz to it,
sure did. You can't spell pizzazz without pizza. That's true.
Uh so we're loading up here today. Yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Major League Baseball's loading up on viewers, and Monsey has
a theory on why that is the case. Just to
let you know, the league is averaging viewer two point
two eight million viewers per game across their broadcast partners
of ESPN, Fox, NBC, and Netflix. That's through the first weekend.
That's up forty four percent from a year ago and
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also the best mark that they've had in almost a decade.
You have a theory on why, and it has nothing
to do on where the games actually are broadcast.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
That maybe a factor, but I don't think that's the
main factor. You can say gambling maybe a part of it,
shortening the game.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All of that may be factors to it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But I just think that baseball tried for years to
push Bryce Harper Mike Trout and they just were not
people that were bringing eyeballs to the game the way
that Aaron Judge and show Heo Tawni do. And I
know there's a lot of people that hate that show
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Hao Tawny went and joined the super team that is
the Dodgers. I get all that, but Baseball must love
it because now they can have a graphic with Aaron
Judge representing the American League and show Heo Tani representing
the National League.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And I feel like those.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Two guys are huge factors as to why baseball is
so popular. You may not be a Dodger or a
Yankee fan, but just if you're interested in those guys,
and then you have your own personal team, whether it
be the Pirates because of Paul Skeen's another face that
I think is very well liked in baseball, you know, fandoms,
(26:15):
even if he's if you're not a Pirates fan, Paul
Sken's putting his face putting his mark in the game.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Those I think.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Are three stars that people really like, want to follow,
want to pay attention, want to see how they do,
their teams do, even if you're not fans of those teams.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I feel like that's what it is. I think Bryce
Harper was just not the guy, I think.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
And I think that there's something to that because there
was a point in the NFL when the league was
just carried by Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers,
Ben Roethlisberger, you know, all these quarterbacks, and then there
was kind of the next wave. But the next wave
didn't pan out like we thought it would. In the
next wave was the Andrew luck the Russell Wilson's, the
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Cam Newton's, that they didn't carry the torch like the
other quarterbacks didn't. Now you look at where the league is,
it's Josh Allen, Patrick, Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, like the these
are the quarterbacks that are now carrying the National Football League,
And you missed kind of a not a generation, but
there was there was the handing of the torch. I
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think skipped kind of a portion of your draft class.
And I think it's similar to baseball. But what I
would say to the Mike Trout Bryce Harper deal specifically
with Trout the popular eight. The popular nature of Otani
and Judge allows Trout to kind of backdoor popularity because
I think Mike Trout is a little bit more popular
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this season, maybe for the reasons of Mike Trout's playing
great again and the Angel stink. But I do think
that when Judge and O'tani lift the game up, that
Trout has gotten a little more pub And it's kind
of weird because I don't think people gravitate to him
as the main guy and as the main character to
your point of Bryce Harper and now you have these
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other I don't know if Paul Skeens is organic.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All I know is that he has to pitch. Well.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh yeah, if he wasn't playing well, he wouldn't be
as much of a story. It wouldn't be about him
dating Livy Dunn and all of that. Like he has
been on top of his game. So I think that
there's a lot of different reasons. But I even think
that Mike Trout has gotten a little boost not having
to lead major League Baseball. And that's okay, Like there
are certain roles are designed for certain people, and I
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think Judge and o'tani have kind of that role.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I just find it so interesting because with like with
Mike Trout, Mike Trout was the best baseball player for years, right,
like everyone just agreed. There was no discussion. How we
have maybe today who's the best player? I don't know,
Aaron Judge, showhit Tony, it's like a discussion for years,
Mike Trout was just the best player. And Mike Trout's demeanor,
his attitude, it's all very calm, cool and collected, very similar.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
To Aaron and Judge to show hey Atani.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
So those those traits were always there, But could it
have been because he was an angel and it just
couldn't hit.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
And then you had a polarizing player like Bryce Harper
and it just never worked.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And so you have these two guys who I don't
think are polarizing, Aaron Judge and shoeo Donnie. They are
very again, like very they You don't hear anything about them.
I know there was a scandal with Joey, yeah, with
the gambling and as an interpreter, but they don't say much.
They don't go out and they don't You're never gonna
hear a sound bite that they said this. Some people
are going to dissect it, and yet everybody loves them.
(29:36):
So it's just to me, like, I feel like they
it failed with trying to maybe have Mike Trout and
the Bryce Harper to be the faces of It's honestly.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I think it's difficult to take over from an era
that had Derek Jeter, you know, like and Sure you
know and players of that caliber. I mean a rod
is popular again, but they were enormous names in baseball
at that time, and to be able to try to
carry that over wasn't wasn't feasible. I guess you could say,
(30:09):
or it's just a hard carry. But it's interesting that
Otani and it has something to do with what's across
your chest, you know, because I mean, Otani wore the
same jersey that trut did and didn't have the same effect.
And now you're winning titles and Otani's doing what he's doing.
Is there a close Is there a close third of
a player in Major League Baseball? Like if you were
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to say, who is the third most popular player? If
I threw that out to you, Bo Benson, would you
have an idea on who you think is the third
most popular player. I do so not to put you
guys on the spot. I could tell you I think, Okay,
I think it's Juan Soto.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I was I was thinking Juan Soto, but I was like,
but Juan Soto's perfect because it's like people. I don't
know if people like Huon Soto, like he maybe a star,
but I don't know if people like Quon Soto.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
Yeah, I would say for me, it's a tie between
two guys. Uh, Fernando j but the steroids have completely
derailed his career entirely.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
And then Ronald Lacuna junr with the bravest. He doesn't
play enough, but if he was still playing, I think
he would be close to the judged here.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I think it helps to have a cool name like PCA,
like if your Pete crow arm not saying that he's third.
Ellie de la Cruz is popular, but I don't think
he would rise to the level of third. Paul Skeins
is very popular, but I don't know if he rides.
So yeah, yeah, stuff was a picture. Yeah, I mean
it's tougher as a pitcher. So I think that those
(31:39):
are things that end up playing in But as I
look and I gather and you look at everybody, I'm
just I mean Roman Anthony, not yet for uh for
Boston that that could change. But I do think it's
Wan Soto. I think that he is number three right now,
but doesn't carry the load that that Judge and Otani do.
As being popular also helps that NB is carrying the games.
(32:01):
So now you have two national networks carrying I care, yes.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Don't just dismiss it and put it on their broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Right yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Netflix may be a bit more of a boost than
what Apple was doing for their broadcast, So I think
that helps as much. But I do think that people
are just enjoying baseball more and they're enjoying it more
in their markets. And when you have competitive teams the
NL Central right now, everybody's above five hundred, so everybody's
going to be carrying. Even if you're in last place,
you still feel that you're kind of in it at
that point, and that's that's good. But I think I
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think the broadcast of it, and to your point of
now you have these megastars on both coas on on
the two biggest teams in the sport, really does help.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah, it's it's and I don't think it's going to stop.
I think baseball is going to keep going up. I
don't think we've seen its peak right now.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The way it's I think it'll continue to rise. Yeah,
I'm just wondering if at the end of the season
the work stoppage and then which is very likely to happen.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Very likely, But man, they're going to try to not
have a stoppage. With how much success they have, Why
would you want to lose momentum?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah? What year is it? Isaac?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Does she sound like nineteen ninety four all over again? Sorry,
he's any pizza.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
I was just gonna say, Tony Gwen bidding to hit
four one hundred the Montreal expos in first place. It
reminds me a lot of the popularity of ninety four.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yes, you sound exactly like nineteen ninety four. Coming up next,
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Speaker 2 (33:45):
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That Philadelphia has gone to to prevent this Nick takeover
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that point two to zero lead for the Oklahoma City Thunder,
their fans and their T shirts never fails, never fails.
When I covered, I've been fortunately enough to cover it's been.
I counted it this year, nineteen super Bowls in my
tim here at Fox Sports Radio Offen. Yes, wow and
(35:04):
so very very fortunate. Now, the reason I bring it
up is not to say that it's that there are
certain matchups that stand out more than other for certain reasons.
When you have a Super Bowl crowd, Monziere, there are
more fans of the teams than you would expect. People
say it's a very corporate crowd. True, there is a
lot of corporate play at stake, but there are fan
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bases that do travel, and you know it. So this
past super Bowl that we had, obviously the Seahawks had
an easier time traveling. I also think just of the
drought that they had for ten years, it was a
pro Seahawks crowd in Santa Clara for Super Bowl sixty.
When Super Bowl forty five hit between the Packers and Steelers,
(35:49):
I wondered.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
What's going to look like who's going to have the edge?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I mean, these are two storied franchises with national fan bases,
fan bases everywhere. It's not just people from Pittsburgh and
Green Bay fan bases everywhere on who would have the edge?
And this may have unofficial feeling, but I left from there.
It may have been because of the terrible towels that
visual of it. It felt that there were just slightly
(36:14):
more Steelers fans, just that edge, but still great representation
by the Packer fans and Steeler fans. When you have
to give away tickets to prevent the opposing team from
taking over your arena in the postseason, that eliminates you
from any great fan base discussion. And by that note,
(36:35):
Philadelphia has been eliminated because they are giving away tickets
to youth groups to prevent them from ending up in
the hands of the New York Knicks in their playoff
series that now shifts to the City of Brotherly Love.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You are eliminated.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You can complain all you want, you can cuss at
the players all you want, you can boo injured players
whatever you want to do. When you have to give
away tickets to keep them out of their hands. After
your star player says, you know what, we need you
guys to be there. We can't have that New York
takeover and it happens again Philly out of the equation.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Ye, he literally said it was Madison Square East the
last time in Philly. So Joel Embiid, that's who said that,
you know you guys? Yeah, they they claim like they
and I thought they were though not just claim. I
thought Philly had a great fan base. And I'm not
against this idea of let's give the tickets to our fans.
I'm not against that idea. But there is the site
(37:34):
this perception portrayed by those Philly fans that they're they're
the ones that they're gonna be there, the way we
see fans outside of Madison Square Garden or the way
you see fans outside of I don't know where Toronto plays,
they're the name of the.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Area, Canada Center.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Who's that sounds about right?
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Whenever the Raptors are playing an important game, that place
outside is packed like they have a great fan base
as well, And so I always when they're the impression
on that Philly fans, the way they speak.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
I thought they were like that. Oh I was wrong.
It's all it's all a front. You're actually not that
great a fan.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
I thought that they were a rider die, but I
think they just kick their teams when they die. Like
let's just let's just pile on Jalen Hurts. Let's pile
on everybody in the Philadelphia Eagles when they lose, pileon
Joel Embii when they lose. We don't necessarily care. It's
it's when you read it, and you read the article
and you hear this being read. Two hundred and fifty
(38:26):
frontline a medical personnel from the children's hospital will get tickets.
That sounds awesome. Yeah, that shouldn't need to happen, Like
it's great. Like what you say is we are honoring
our doctors and frontline workers and emergency personnel and veterans
by you know, we think of them so much. They're
going to Game three and four not We need to
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keep these tickets out of the hands of New York fans,
and that's why we're actually giving them away. We don't
necessarily care what you do in the big picture, just
as long as they're not in the hands of a
Nick fan. Sorry, that's eliminates you. I mean it does.
I understand their backs are against the wall, but when
you've been called out as a fan base for not
showing up and you have an opportunity to redeem yourself.
(39:10):
Even if Joel Embiid's map skills aren't the greatest, because
I don't know if it's Madison Square Garden East, I
would say Madison Square Gardens South if I were him.
But the point is Philadelphia, for as great of a
sports town that we think it is, shouldn't need to
be giving away tickets so the other teams fans don't
come in there arena.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
You said it perfectly, because if the story was that
they were just giving these tickets because they're looking out
for them, not because they're worried about themselves and who's
going to be coming in through those doors, it would
be different.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
But another side of it, tickets are too expensive.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Tickets are really expensive, you know what I'm saying, Just
to go to any sporting event, and I don't know
what the tickets would be in Philadelphia, but things are
really expensive. So it's almost like Philadelphia, you should have
just sold your tickets a lot cheaper to Philly fans
and then just up the price.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
To anybody wanting to come from New York.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I do, maybe that'll help.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I kind of felt in a safe place, but I
realized we do have Philly Sam. Here are we being
fair to the Philadelphia fans by putting them on blast
because of this move to try to avoid the Knicks
fans from showing up?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yes? Are you being fair?
Speaker 10 (40:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
He agrees with us.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
All right, I think Philly Sam is now back to
being Iowa Sam. It's it's absurd for a playoff game.
I would get if it was a regular season game.
MONSI right, Like, all right, that's fine. We obviously know
that the Knicks want to will show up because of
the nature of this game, but that should also then
mean that the Sixers fans have just as much excitement over.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
It, especially after you beat Boston, Like, how are you
not so stoked to go in and cheer for your
team that just did something that they've been trying to
do for the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
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Welcome man, it is a Friday. We are so glad
to be with you. And if I bought the Seattle
Seahawks my favorite team, first course of action.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Throwbacks full time.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We are going back to the silver helmets, the royal blue,
the emerald green, and the uniforms that the Seahawks were
now would be our one off. It's like, oh, it's
Monday night football. They're wearing their Super Bowl winning uniforms.
That would be my number one deal. In fact, the
banner that if you're watching us right now on YouTube
(01:03):
that you see that says Fox Sports Radio behind us.
Imagine this with Seahawks logos as I'm being introduced as
the Seahawks owner, and it would be the old logo like.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You would like.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I would be in front of the backdrop with the
old throwback logo if I had eight and a half
billion dollars, Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
That's rule number one for you.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
And I think rule number two is you wouldn't make
a trade with anyone in your division.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Correct. I would not do that. That is about that
life not doing that. No, No, Jerry Jones, No not
at all.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sure, Hoby Roseman, trade up, get the guy that you want,
we get two fourths. Never, that wouldn't be done. Would
we steal all their coaches like the Seahawks? Do you
know first it was Shane waldron O, Brian Flurry, Like,
I don't know if we'd do that, but that would
be the first thing. That thing in the background, and
ours would be centered. Like here at Fox Sports Radio,
it's a little off center. I almost feel like any
(01:59):
need to go this way. Here we go, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Welcome in.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I know if you're listening on the radio, that is
all for the visual aspect of it. But last night,
speaking of visual aspects, you saw an NBA game where
for once Manci the Los Angeles Lakers just didn't get
their way and people are up in arms, specifically the
Los Angeles Lakers, as they are now down two to
zero in the series. To Oklahoma City because the whistle
(02:26):
did not go their way last evening in Game two.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, but I see the frustration, and I have a
little bit of sympathy.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Because the Lakers were honestly playing their best basketball without Luca.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It was what you wanted.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Austin Reeves came out there and was ready to score
after the dud that he had in Game one.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
But despite despite the nice.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Whistle that let's say the Oklahoma City Thunder ten to.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Get, you are never gonna win. The thunder are just
that much better.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
And so it's like, yeah, you're complaining about the foul,
the fowls are the whistle and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
How many more fowls did they take?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Five?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Five? When I saw this, I went and looked at it.
I was like, oh, they must have shot fifteen more
free throws. And I just didn't urt me. That's what
I thought that, And I was like, how did I
not notice that?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
But it was like you it was five, it was five,
and they made such a big deal out of it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
It's really frustrating when you feel like you are playing
good basketball and you're maybe getting on a run and
then you get a little excited, and then Cason Wallace
hits a three.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
You're like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Case you Cason Wallace, not SGA, not chet Holmgrid, not
j dub not Alex Caruso, but Cason Wallas.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
There's nothing, There's nothing to disrespect caseon Wallace. It's just
like that is how deep the thunder are. It's like
they're just good and annoying.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Sure, now we're gonna hear from Austin Reeves because there
was a visual at the end of the game that
had everyone talking, We're going to hear from Shay Gildess
Alexander in a little bit on why maybe they get
the calls and other teams don't. But JJ Reddick, the
Lakers head coach, took to the defense of Lebron James
(04:14):
in this case and talked about not necessarily the follows
that they were calling on SGA, but the follows that
they were calling on Lebron James last night, or not
calling on Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Lebron has the.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Worst whistle of any star player I've ever seen. I mean,
I've been with him two years now. Again, the smaller guys,
because they can be theatric they typically draw more fouls,
and the bigger players that are built like Lebron, it's
hard for them. But he gets clobbered, and he got
clobbered again to night a bunch And that's not like
a new thing, that's not specific to this crew or
(04:48):
you know this series.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He gets fouled a lot.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
That doesn't happen to me. Guy gets hit on the
head more than any player I've seen on drives and
it rarely gets called.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I get what JJ Redick is doing there. I'm
not gonna dissect his words. I think Shaquille O'Neil had
the worst whistle in all of NBA history because he
was just so massive, right.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You didn't know how to guard him.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
You didn't know what to call you like, is that
is that a foul?
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Right, he's just so I can't tell.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You could have maybe shot sixty three throws a night
if you wanted to at times.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And but that so moving that aside.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And JJ Raddick's got a pretty good, uh, pretty good
sample of watching basketball, but he's sticking up for his guy.
And then at the end that's why you hear him
say like this has happened for a long time. I
also think Manzi that this is the Laker's way of
trying to salvage a series that they very likely needed
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to win one of these two games, because just winning
four out of five against Oklahoma City isn't gonna happen,
and it sure doesn't look like Luka Doncic is coming back.
This may be JJ Reddick trying to set things up
for games three and four, being like we're gonna be
at home. Lebron gets a bad whistle, maybe it's our
opportunity to change things. I just think ultimately that the
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Lakers are just they're frustrated last night because they know
that they're not better to your point, and so now
if you're not getting the calls as you perceive to be,
it adds to the frustration. I just have absolutely no
sympathy for the Laker fans who are complaining about the
whistle last night, considering the whistles that this organization has
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gotten over the last thirty years in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I don't know if JJ Reddick knows this, but Adam Oslin,
who hosts a show here on Friday night's early Saturday mornings,
he tweeted, so thank you, Adam. The Lakers took one
hundred and fifty seven more free throw had one hundred
and fifty seven more free throw attempts than the next
closest team this year. In the last five years, they've
taken nine hundred and thirty eight more free throw attempts
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than the next closest team.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
So what are you talking about, JJ, What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I also feel like they did this for maybe a
little sympathy, right, and the Laker fan base, I think
is a little split. There are some that are like, you, right, coach,
we don't have a whistle and they get all the whistles.
And then there's the other side of the Laker fan base.
They're like, you're embarrassing us.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Can you not act like that? Can you walk away
with your head held high?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And a loss?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Can you stop it?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Like I feel like it's split on how they handled it,
because yes, we know whatever we've talked about the OKC
Thunder and how they maybe flop last year it was foul, Merchant, MVP,
shake Gil just Alexander like, we get all this, but again,
the Thunder are much better team.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
So it's like, go out with your head held high.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It is decision twenty twenty six Laker fan Bo Benson
on staff as our executive producer today.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Bo Benson, what side are you on? Are you embarrassed
or are you enraged at the calls that the Lakers
haven't gotten in these NBA playoffs?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Can I take both sides?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Non. Have the votes canceled? Now you decide decision twenty
twenty six?
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Yeah, No, there's no. They're not gonna get any sympathy.
You're the Lakers. That's just how it is. Yes, You're
not gonna forget anybody. Somebody, even though I think they're right.
It's it's infuriating to watch Oklahoma City play basketball because
they are so much better than everybody else. They don't
need to play like that, but they do, and it
sucks to watch.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That's part of the equation. Let's hear from Shay Gildess Alexander,
because there's more to this what SGA had to say
in defending on why his team ends up getting the
whistle and maybe why the Lakers didn't on Thursday night.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The way basketball works, usually the more physical team and
the more the team that impostes, there will more just wins.
And that's probably why we went tonight. Probably why we
won last game. We did a good job, especially in
the second half, hopefully played our style of basketball, being physical,
pressure you though.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It is playoff basketball. Victor weman Yama talked about it
in Game two and when the Spurs won on why
they ended up having more success. Jared Allen talked about
it last night for the Cavaliers and why they haven't
been able to get past the Pistons in these first
two games and what's different. Why are things more of
a struggle for them offensively than they were in the
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regular season, and he says, this is playoff basketball, and
Monte I feel as the future owner of the Seahawks,
I feel like I'm qualified to use this example. The
Legion of Boom were the most physical secondary that maybe
we've seen in NFL history, and one of their defenses,
the referees cannot call a penalty on every single play. Now,
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I think that the Seahawks were really good, and I
thought that Earl Thomas was able to make plays that
other safeties couldn't make. Cam Chancellor was going to hit
you like other safeties wouldn't hit you. Richard Sherman was
going to lock you down. Their defensive line. Getting pressure
at the quarterback also made things easier on the legion
of Boom. But there were penalties. They were physical, they
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were bigger wide receive and the way that it makes
it look, and that's exactly what Shake Gildess Alexander is saying.
The tougher, the more physical team is going to get
it done and they're not going to get whistles every time.
I mean, there was a point last night in defense
of those who are saying that the Lakers aren't getting
any calls, where there was a review on a foul
on Austin Reeves and not only was it changed, it
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was changed to I believe a flagrant one on Shake
Gildis Alexander on a hook play on a grabbing of
the arm. So it goes from one side and then
you're looking at it the complete other way and saying, oh,
now that we looked at it, not only was it
not a foul on you, it was a foul on them,
and it was a more flagrant fowl. However, you're not
doing that every play, and I think that Oklahoma City
understands that, and it's frustrating because the Lakers aren't necessarily
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built that way to play that way. Even if they're
getting more of the free throws, to the point of
Adam's tweet, it's they're getting more of the whistle. Now
the whistle is maybe swallowed a little bit or changed
a little bit when it comes to in a playoff
road game. By the way, not surprising Thea's is part
of it.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Once it gets to the postseason, that whistle does tend
to slightly change a little bit and it tends to
favor the home team.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's not new information.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I will say that even though I like the comparison,
I think it's a little different because I feel like
in football, it's like we walked off like we want
you to, you know, knock someone out.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We want you to hit them, we want you to
be physical.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I feel like in the NBA that physicality is not
the same, and the physicality is like being in your
pocket the entire time. Is a physicality that you can
bring to the NBA because you're not supposed to hit anybody, right,
But it's literally breathing on your neck and okay, see
does it throughout the regular season?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Now, maybe they're just breathing in your neck with onion breath.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I don't know what it is, but they've definitely taken
it to the next level. But that physicality is not
exactly the same. And what people are more annoyed about
it's the the dramatic antics that the thunder tend to
do in a lot of their place.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, I think that that gets under people's skin.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But on the flip side of that, and you know this,
you hit seven threes.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
In a high school again, and sure did, and then
I got a technical.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Would keet my hand.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And when loud Dort is in your face right like
thirty five feet away from the basket, it's it's a
annoying but be he's also likely fouling you, and it's
just that they won't call it at that point. So
like if a player is up, as we would say
in your jock, ninety nine percent of the time they're
doing that, it is a foul, but it's you can't
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call it every single time. And so now as the
offensive player, you get frustrated, You got to adjust. Maybe
you do something that gets careless with the basketball and
then it gets in their heads. And I feel that
that was the case of the Lakers last night. To
your point that again they shot five fewer free throws
than Oklahoma City, and you know who.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Shot the most free throws, Austin.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Reeves there, and Austin Reeves had an issue with the
official that we saw after the game. We were wondering
what was actually going down where the Lakers giving the
refs the business because all of the officials stayed around.
Austin Reeves gave clarity to what happened last night. At
the end of that game two.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
Loss, he turned around just yelled at and yelled in
my face. I just thought it was disrespectful, But at
the end of the day, grown men and I just
didn't feel like he needed to yell in my face
like that. I told him that I wasn't disrespectful. I
told him and I did that to him first, I
would have got him TECH. I felt like the only
reason I didn't get a TECH is because he knew
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he was in the wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Just didn't felt disrespected.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
On a day where the NFL and the Referees Association
agreed on a deal and we and I say we
me you, Isaac Lowncron Bo Bentz and Iowa Sam want
more personality from NFL referees as part of this new deal.
You can't be yelling at players. You can't. You can't
be like this is, this is. It would borderline Major
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League Baseball umpires with that sort of stuff, and I
don't think that fans like that, and that's why they
don't side with them. I also get in in basketball
there is a much more closer relationship that you have
with players than you would in football than you would
in Major League Baseball, just by the nature of the game,
the number of players. There's not as many in the
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game flow that can fine the confined space all of that.
If I'm by you all the time for two hours,
you know, twenty nights out of the year, I'm gonna
actually get to kind of know you a little bit.
I actually think Austin Reeves was right in that factor.
He wasn't complaining about the officials, but NBA officials can
be you know what, and last night there was one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Sometimes they get in their feelings right and they're offended.
And so I agree with you that Austin Reeves was
not wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
But I want it quickly to go back to.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Why send someone out there to put loud dort on
his ass? Like I've just sent someone out there to
put him on his matter, because I feel like every once.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Like over here like oh they're too physical to do okay,
well go put him on his ass then and tell
them that you can be physical too. Get in there.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's not physical of knocking someone over on a play, No,
I mean, you.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Know that vicious physical, but I mean like get in
his pocket where you you know, bump in whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The Lakers don't have a player that's gonna sit there,
and that's why there's.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
They're Bronnie James get out there and knock loud door
on his desk.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That would that would not have They don't need to
knock someone on their butts. They need to someone to
be knocked on, you know, guard someone thirty five feet
away from the from the basket and just be that
annoying guard them full court. Do those sorts of things
be that pest? Be that all the pest.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
That's why the Thud they're all pests. There are teams
where it's like you have won two three pests.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
All the Thunder are pest.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I'll tell you this. In the Thunder made their run
last night without shake. Gilders Alexander on the court like
in the third quarter, Uh, it was aj Mitchell, it
was Jared McClain hitting shots. S SGA was the only
thing he was waving was a towel. Like he wasn't
flopping on the court at all. He was waving a
towel because that's when they ended up making their run.
That separated me. It was true, Like he wasn't on
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the floor. That's that's what he was.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Now, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
So kudos to the Thunder and Sam Presty for having
a team that deep that's able to do that.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
That's the part about the Thunder. You just named a
bunch of players that are not supposed to be their guys.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
That's how good the Thunder are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I feel like we don't talk about their role players
and how they're not afraid of the moment. The role players,
all of them are like, oh, you want to take
a shot. I'm happy to take the shot. When can
I take the shot? They are all and they make
the shots.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
They're all.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's it really like, I understand the dislike or the
annoyance with the Thunder I do, but at the same time,
I'm just like, but they's such a good basketball team,
and all they want to do is hoop all of them.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That's all they want to do. And like guy six
seven eight ninety ten, if you leave them open, he's
gonna make the shot. And that's how good they are.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The other Jalen Williams, had a four point play last
night as part of that run to continue it. So yeah,
there's another example.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
So the Lakers are down two oh and not happy
about it, as they shouldn't be. But I'll tell you what.
Sacramento Kings from two thousand and two are having a
good laugh from what happened last night. She's Monty Milanios,
I'm Dan Byer. We are in for Stugatzen Company Live
The Company today, Bo Benson, Iowa Sam and Isaac Lohencron.
If you've noticed on our in show feed Mancy is
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wearing her Caitlin Clark jersey shersey today, the Iowa one,
not the only one here on staff. Look at that
double up Iowa Sam as well wearing the matching Iowa jerseys.
We're there's there's also a method behind the madness of
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the two. We'll talk with Scott Agneses previewing the upcoming
season for the WNBA and The Fever based out of Indiana,
covering the team and the Pacers as well in about
an hour with the NBA at WNBA season tip this weekend.
There is also a conversation that we're going to have,
because we are with you for the next four hours,
about what you can wear with that jersey and Mancy
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Manzi played by the rules that coming up in forty minutes.
But next, Major League Baseball goes pop and by pop
we mean popular. That's next here on Stu Gotson Company
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So we are live streaming.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Yes, really a little late for a second, so my whole.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Bit about the Seahawks and ownership and the backdrop. None
of that got on the stream.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't think so, maybe not, but we.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Were able to get as a graphic of me owning
the Seahawks at least in that time.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Look at that. Look at that moment.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
There I am with the team as we want. Everybody's
gathered around me. I have a pullover that is somewhat
like that of the Seahawks. It doesn't have a Neon
green collar, but I will find the picture. It's me
and Duff McKagan, band member of Guns n' Roses, was
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in studio when the Seahawks were opening the season after
they won their first Super Bowl. He came in with
Jaymore Sports. He's a Seahawks fan. He's from Seattle. I'm
a Seahawks fan. So I have a picture that I
will show you with a similar polo and not a polo,
a half zip quarter zip that is in the picture
that spot has put.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
On the live stream that you can see right now
on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You're just so happy owning your team must be nice.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I don't think I'll ever be able to own the
Clippers because I have to outbid Steve Bohmer I just
don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Probably not.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, they're probably not going to be up for sale.
You missed your opportunity, I really did.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But as owner of.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The Seahawks, that would have been a Monday night game
because again, I am going back to the old uniforms
and having the current uniforms be our throwbacks.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah right, which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I like that it would attract attention immediately. If he
went back to that, it would bring the eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Speaking of bringing the eyeballs, the NBA ratings have been
great for the first round of the playoffs. I think
there's a reason for that. Major League Baseball's ratings are
also going up and up and up. Manzi has a theory.
Why we'll hear it after Isaac Lohenkron finishes a slice
of pizza and then gives us the latest of what's
happening on this Friday.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
What is going on, Isaac, Well, indeed, that's our top story.
Future Seattle Seahawks owner Dan Byer has demonstrated his financial
resources as well as his commitment to charitable causes by
procuring three enormous pizzas for his coworkers fought.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I want to say this, and I know that you
weren't in the last couple of days, but you were
in Monday and Tuesday. Sorry, Chris Purfetti was in for you.
But we've had a really good week. We've been in
for Stugatza company. We're in on Monday, we're in today,
We've been in for Comuno and rich all week long,
and so it was a great way to kind of
celebrate the end of the week, to go into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's why it's here.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
And Roger just an additional reason why Dan is deserving
to be the next Seahawks owner. Not only does he
spring for pizza, but he's thoughtful enough to include ranch
dressing containers, which you typically don't associate with pizza. But
oh man, does it hit the spot.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You don't associate branch with pizza.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
Not typically, but it takes a sophisticated culinary mind to
be thoughtful enough to order your ranch dressing along with
the pizza.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
So I Roger, we're telling you, don't worry about the money.
Don't worry about the money. Dan should be the next
owner of the Seahawks. Elsewhere in the NFL, New York
Jets running back Brace Hall has agreed to a three year,
forty five million dollar extension. Haul tweeting moments ago, quote
cried for the first time since I tore my ACL.
This day really hit different for me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Man. Did he end?
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Quote?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Did he cry because he's still a Jets?
Speaker 12 (23:18):
That's what I was wondering. That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Really unclear.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
There were tears of joy the NFL the NFL Referees
Association today reached a new seven year collective bargaining agreement
through twenty thirty two. The Broncos signed general manager George
Payton to a new five year contract through twenty thirty
The NFL announced the twenty twenty sixth schedule will be
released next Thursday, May the fourteenth. The Green Bay Packers
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released veteran placekicker Brandon McManus in college hoops IOWA, finalizing
a new six year contract with head coach Ben McCollum.
Coming up tonight at seven pm Eastern, It's Game three
of the NBA's Eastern Conference semi Finals from Philadelphia, with
the New York Nicks leading the Sixers two games to none.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Now back to Dan Bayer, don't pretend like.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You don't hear.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I thought you're going around the room. That was your
pre show video.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
That's my pre show video.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You never know what Monzy's gonna do video wise, And
so there are all of us hanging out here, and
that's where I thought you were going around.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You thought I would start with Iowa, Sam, because we're twining.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes you aren't. You aren't twinning today. Actually that was
the grand finale.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was the grand Sam added some pizzazz to it,
sure did. You can't spell pizzazz without pizza. That's true.
Uh so we're loading up here today. Yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Major League Baseball's loading up on viewers, and Monsey has
a theory on why that is the case. Just to
let you know, the league is averaging viewer two point
two eight million viewers per game across their broadcast partners
of ESPN, Fox, NBC, and Netflix. That's through the first weekend.
That's up forty four percent from a year ago and
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also the best mark that they've had in almost a decade.
You have a theory on why, and it has nothing
to do on where the games actually are broadcast.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
That maybe a factor, but I don't think that's the
main factor. You can say gambling maybe a part of it,
shortening the game.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All of that may be factors to it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But I just think that baseball tried for years to
push Bryce Harper Mike Trout and they just were not
people that were bringing eyeballs to the game the way
that Aaron Judge and show Heo Tawni do. And I
know there's a lot of people that hate that show
(25:37):
Hao Tawny went and joined the super team that is
the Dodgers. I get all that, but Baseball must love
it because now they can have a graphic with Aaron
Judge representing the American League and show Heo Tani representing
the National League.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And I feel like those.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Two guys are huge factors as to why baseball is
so popular. You may not be a Dodger or a
Yankee fan, but just if you're interested in those guys,
and then you have your own personal team, whether it
be the Pirates because of Paul Skeen's another face that
I think is very well liked in baseball, you know, fandoms,
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even if he's if you're not a Pirates fan, Paul
Sken's putting his face putting his mark in the game.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Those I think.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Are three stars that people really like, want to follow,
want to pay attention, want to see how they do,
their teams do, even if you're not fans of those teams.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I feel like that's what it is. I think Bryce
Harper was just not the guy, I think.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
And I think that there's something to that because there
was a point in the NFL when the league was
just carried by Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers,
Ben Roethlisberger, you know, all these quarterbacks, and then there
was kind of the next wave. But the next wave
didn't pan out like we thought it would. In the
next wave was the Andrew luck the Russell Wilson's, the
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Cam Newton's, that they didn't carry the torch like the
other quarterbacks didn't. Now you look at where the league is,
it's Josh Allen, Patrick, Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, like the these
are the quarterbacks that are now carrying the National Football League,
And you missed kind of a not a generation, but
there was there was the handing of the torch. I
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think skipped kind of a portion of your draft class.
And I think it's similar to baseball. But what I
would say to the Mike Trout Bryce Harper deal specifically
with Trout the popular eight. The popular nature of Otani
and Judge allows Trout to kind of backdoor popularity because
I think Mike Trout is a little bit more popular
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this season, maybe for the reasons of Mike Trout's playing
great again and the Angel stink. But I do think
that when Judge and O'tani lift the game up, that
Trout has gotten a little more pub And it's kind
of weird because I don't think people gravitate to him
as the main guy and as the main character to
your point of Bryce Harper and now you have these
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other I don't know if Paul Skeens is organic.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All I know is that he has to pitch. Well.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh yeah, if he wasn't playing well, he wouldn't be
as much of a story. It wouldn't be about him
dating Livy Dunn and all of that. Like he has
been on top of his game. So I think that
there's a lot of different reasons. But I even think
that Mike Trout has gotten a little boost not having
to lead major League Baseball. And that's okay, Like there
are certain roles are designed for certain people, and I
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think Judge and o'tani have kind of that role.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I just find it so interesting because with like with
Mike Trout, Mike Trout was the best baseball player for years, right,
like everyone just agreed. There was no discussion. How we
have maybe today who's the best player? I don't know,
Aaron Judge, showhit Tony, it's like a discussion for years,
Mike Trout was just the best player. And Mike Trout's demeanor,
his attitude, it's all very calm, cool and collected, very similar.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
To Aaron and Judge to show hey Atani.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
So those those traits were always there, But could it
have been because he was an angel and it just
couldn't hit.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
And then you had a polarizing player like Bryce Harper
and it just never worked.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And so you have these two guys who I don't
think are polarizing, Aaron Judge and shoeo Donnie. They are
very again, like very they You don't hear anything about them.
I know there was a scandal with Joey, yeah, with
the gambling and as an interpreter, but they don't say much.
They don't go out and they don't You're never gonna
hear a sound bite that they said this. Some people
are going to dissect it, and yet everybody loves them.
(29:36):
So it's just to me, like, I feel like they
it failed with trying to maybe have Mike Trout and
the Bryce Harper to be the faces of It's honestly.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I think it's difficult to take over from an era
that had Derek Jeter, you know, like and Sure you
know and players of that caliber. I mean a rod
is popular again, but they were enormous names in baseball
at that time, and to be able to try to
carry that over wasn't wasn't feasible. I guess you could say,
(30:09):
or it's just a hard carry. But it's interesting that
Otani and it has something to do with what's across
your chest, you know, because I mean, Otani wore the
same jersey that trut did and didn't have the same effect.
And now you're winning titles and Otani's doing what he's doing.
Is there a close Is there a close third of
a player in Major League Baseball? Like if you were
(30:29):
to say, who is the third most popular player? If
I threw that out to you, Bo Benson, would you
have an idea on who you think is the third
most popular player. I do so not to put you
guys on the spot. I could tell you I think, Okay,
I think it's Juan Soto.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I was I was thinking Juan Soto, but I was like,
but Juan Soto's perfect because it's like people. I don't
know if people like Huon Soto, like he maybe a star,
but I don't know if people like Quon Soto.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
Yeah, I would say for me, it's a tie between
two guys. Uh, Fernando j but the steroids have completely
derailed his career entirely.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
And then Ronald Lacuna junr with the bravest. He doesn't
play enough, but if he was still playing, I think
he would be close to the judged here.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I think it helps to have a cool name like PCA,
like if your Pete crow arm not saying that he's third.
Ellie de la Cruz is popular, but I don't think
he would rise to the level of third. Paul Skeins
is very popular, but I don't know if he rides.
So yeah, yeah, stuff was a picture. Yeah, I mean
it's tougher as a pitcher. So I think that those
(31:39):
are things that end up playing in But as I
look and I gather and you look at everybody, I'm
just I mean Roman Anthony, not yet for uh for
Boston that that could change. But I do think it's
Wan Soto. I think that he is number three right now,
but doesn't carry the load that that Judge and Otani do.
As being popular also helps that NB is carrying the games.
(32:01):
So now you have two national networks carrying I care, yes.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Don't just dismiss it and put it on their broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Right yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Netflix may be a bit more of a boost than
what Apple was doing for their broadcast, So I think
that helps as much. But I do think that people
are just enjoying baseball more and they're enjoying it more
in their markets. And when you have competitive teams the
NL Central right now, everybody's above five hundred, so everybody's
going to be carrying. Even if you're in last place,
you still feel that you're kind of in it at
that point, and that's that's good. But I think I
(32:32):
think the broadcast of it, and to your point of
now you have these megastars on both coas on on
the two biggest teams in the sport, really does help.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah, it's it's and I don't think it's going to stop.
I think baseball is going to keep going up. I
don't think we've seen its peak right now.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The way it's I think it'll continue to rise. Yeah,
I'm just wondering if at the end of the season
the work stoppage and then which is very likely to happen.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Very likely, But man, they're going to try to not
have a stoppage. With how much success they have, Why
would you want to lose momentum?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah? What year is it? Isaac?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Does she sound like nineteen ninety four all over again? Sorry,
he's any pizza.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
I was just gonna say, Tony Gwen bidding to hit
four one hundred the Montreal expos in first place. It
reminds me a lot of the popularity of ninety four.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
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When I covered, I've been fortunately enough to cover it's been.
I counted it this year, nineteen super Bowls in my
tim here at Fox Sports Radio Offen. Yes, wow and
(35:04):
so very very fortunate. Now, the reason I bring it
up is not to say that it's that there are
certain matchups that stand out more than other for certain reasons.
When you have a Super Bowl crowd, Monziere, there are
more fans of the teams than you would expect. People
say it's a very corporate crowd. True, there is a
lot of corporate play at stake, but there are fan
(35:27):
bases that do travel, and you know it. So this
past super Bowl that we had, obviously the Seahawks had
an easier time traveling. I also think just of the
drought that they had for ten years, it was a
pro Seahawks crowd in Santa Clara for Super Bowl sixty.
When Super Bowl forty five hit between the Packers and Steelers,
(35:49):
I wondered.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
What's going to look like who's going to have the edge?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I mean, these are two storied franchises with national fan bases,
fan bases everywhere. It's not just people from Pittsburgh and
Green Bay fan bases everywhere on who would have the edge?
And this may have unofficial feeling, but I left from there.
It may have been because of the terrible towels that
visual of it. It felt that there were just slightly
(36:14):
more Steelers fans, just that edge, but still great representation
by the Packer fans and Steeler fans. When you have
to give away tickets to prevent the opposing team from
taking over your arena in the postseason, that eliminates you
from any great fan base discussion. And by that note,
(36:35):
Philadelphia has been eliminated because they are giving away tickets
to youth groups to prevent them from ending up in
the hands of the New York Knicks in their playoff
series that now shifts to the City of Brotherly Love.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You are eliminated.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You can complain all you want, you can cuss at
the players all you want, you can boo injured players
whatever you want to do. When you have to give
away tickets to keep them out of their hands. After
your star player says, you know what, we need you
guys to be there. We can't have that New York
takeover and it happens again Philly out of the equation.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Ye, he literally said it was Madison Square East the
last time in Philly. So Joel Embiid, that's who said that,
you know you guys? Yeah, they they claim like they
and I thought they were though not just claim. I
thought Philly had a great fan base. And I'm not
against this idea of let's give the tickets to our fans.
I'm not against that idea. But there is the site
(37:34):
this perception portrayed by those Philly fans that they're they're
the ones that they're gonna be there, the way we
see fans outside of Madison Square Garden or the way
you see fans outside of I don't know where Toronto plays,
they're the name of the.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Area, Canada Center.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Who's that sounds about right?
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Whenever the Raptors are playing an important game, that place
outside is packed like they have a great fan base
as well, And so I always when they're the impression
on that Philly fans, the way they speak.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
I thought they were like that. Oh I was wrong.
It's all it's all a front. You're actually not that
great a fan.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
I thought that they were a rider die, but I
think they just kick their teams when they die. Like
let's just let's just pile on Jalen Hurts. Let's pile
on everybody in the Philadelphia Eagles when they lose, pileon
Joel Embii when they lose. We don't necessarily care. It's
it's when you read it, and you read the article
and you hear this being read. Two hundred and fifty
(38:26):
frontline a medical personnel from the children's hospital will get tickets.
That sounds awesome. Yeah, that shouldn't need to happen, Like
it's great. Like what you say is we are honoring
our doctors and frontline workers and emergency personnel and veterans
by you know, we think of them so much. They're
going to Game three and four not We need to
(38:48):
keep these tickets out of the hands of New York fans,
and that's why we're actually giving them away. We don't
necessarily care what you do in the big picture, just
as long as they're not in the hands of a
Nick fan. Sorry, that's eliminates you. I mean it does.
I understand their backs are against the wall, but when
you've been called out as a fan base for not
showing up and you have an opportunity to redeem yourself.
(39:10):
Even if Joel Embiid's map skills aren't the greatest, because
I don't know if it's Madison Square Garden East, I
would say Madison Square Gardens South if I were him.
But the point is Philadelphia, for as great of a
sports town that we think it is, shouldn't need to
be giving away tickets so the other teams fans don't
come in there arena.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
You said it perfectly, because if the story was that
they were just giving these tickets because they're looking out
for them, not because they're worried about themselves and who's
going to be coming in through those doors, it would
be different.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
But another side of it, tickets are too expensive.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Tickets are really expensive, you know what I'm saying, Just
to go to any sporting event, and I don't know
what the tickets would be in Philadelphia, but things are
really expensive. So it's almost like Philadelphia, you should have
just sold your tickets a lot cheaper to Philly fans
and then just up the price.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
To anybody wanting to come from New York.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I do, maybe that'll help.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I kind of felt in a safe place, but I
realized we do have Philly Sam. Here are we being
fair to the Philadelphia fans by putting them on blast
because of this move to try to avoid the Knicks
fans from showing up?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yes? Are you being fair?
Speaker 10 (40:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
He agrees with us.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
All right, I think Philly Sam is now back to
being Iowa Sam. It's it's absurd for a playoff game.
I would get if it was a regular season game.
MONSI right, Like, all right, that's fine. We obviously know
that the Knicks want to will show up because of
the nature of this game, but that should also then
mean that the Sixers fans have just as much excitement over.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
It, especially after you beat Boston, Like, how are you
not so stoked to go in and cheer for your
team that just did something that they've been trying to
do for the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
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