August 13, 2026 • 45 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are finally reunited at the perfect time as the Lakers have been sold yet again! Russell Westbrook has also taken a bow retiring from the NBA but is he really going to stay away, and the great Jon Paul Morosi stops by to talk everything baseball with the guys!
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and ever. So welcome back after a couple of days
off and turn your microphone on. It says, oh, you know,
I've been going two days.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I was expecting you to filibuster for about ten minutes
before you got to me.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
What okay? David Bailey is the greatest defensive lineman in
the history of the NFL. Oh sorry what okay?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah yeah, and club nick say clumbnick, get those pre
order jerseys in for kids. But it's good to be
back a couple of days with the kid.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
She's getting ready to fly to New York and begin
the college experience at the end of the week. So
a lot of running around and tom foolery. So a
little bit of a pause and now back with you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Just just just tell me the truth. Yeah, she didn't
want to hang out with you at all. And you
spent the last two days buying cards and getting them graded.
I did buy a bunch of cars. They are going
to get graded.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Uh, couple that got chipped right away to grating from
the guy bought him from.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because you texted me today, you want to buy
some David Bailey rookie text me today.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It I mean, I have a couple that are are
ready to flip. There's no question about it. Quick, Hey man,
you got to strike when the iron's hot head to
headline news good bad or whatever. Wait, people talking about him,
get him out there, get him out there.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But today, speaking of money, money, maybe you could put
a couple of nickels together because I'm sure if after
what happened today, the Dodgers will be for sale soon.
The Lakers being sold today again a story that I
think took us all by surprise, all of a sudden light,
the Lakers go because when I first saw that, right, okay,
being in my fifties, now, when I get up, first
(02:23):
thing I do is turn on my phone and check
and see the world is there. So I get on
the phone again on and I see Lakers sale, Lakers
sale approved or whatever the headline was, and I go.
But the sale wasn't already approved. It was like a
year ago. They were sold again. Oh my, what are
you kidding me? The Lakers were sold again.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So me being the early riser that I am, insomniac,
it started coming through and it was another one of
those this can't be real. So you're immediately searching any
NBA insider, every LA reporter. It's like, this is legit.
And after about seven sources, I said, Okay, I guess
(03:02):
this is a legit thing, so let's try to break
it down crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The Lakers being sold for twelve point five billion dollars
to businessmen Josh Kushner and Bob Eiger. Bob Iger, Yes,
that name, the former ESPN Disney executive. We used to
get emails from Bob Iger all the time. Couple of
runs from the desk of Bob Iger. Oh and now
he owns the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You felt, Berry, Did you ever get like a couple
of you know, pins, Mickey mousse or.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It was just like, hey, to explain some things happening now,
or hey, good luck, here's what we've done just to
you know, Hey, things are things are great from the
desk of Bob Iyke, the corporate overlord. Yeah, we got
that from the desk of Bob Bike. Congratulations out of a
nice year. So not Jared Kushner. Josh Kushner is the
owner of the Lakers. Everybody did a double take as well.
This is Josh Kushner is the owner of This is
(03:52):
not Don Kirshner's rock concert from the late seventies. This
is Josh Kushner. This is not Kushman from Jerry McGuire.
I got cushlash slash, this is Josh.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Have a little cushlash because Joshish, business, sports and political
worlds all collide.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
People get a little upset. Now this story is so
much fun from so many perspectives, Because my favorite part
was after reading Okay, wait a minute, Mark Walter really
sold the team nine months after he got approved as owner,
and I'm reading all the quotes It's been such an
honor to own the Lakers. It's great, and you know
we bought them for ten billion, sells them now for
(04:31):
twelve point five billion, and I'm reading it going okay, okay,
I already know. I feel like I didn't go to
law school, but I know when my lawyer Spidey sense
starts taking my Peter Tingle, it's Peter Tingle, it starts going, okay,
so what is up here? And then you do a
little bit of digging and you find out just how
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much financially Mark Walter could be on the hook for
as he is being investigated for federal loan fraud, the
probe centering around billions of dollars in undisclosed related party
transactions between his insurance companies. So basically, here's a guy
that owns the Dodgers, owns the Lakers, and now being
investigated for federal loan fraud. So all of a sudden,
(05:12):
hey man gotta start liquid dating. Uh uh Okay, I
guess I gotta pick. All right, let's sell the Lakers.
We'll sell the Lakers instead. There is no I mean
just to hear people talk today and say things like
it was just a deal. This was the way it
was always meant. Yeah, because that's what you do. You
meant to buy the Lakers to flip them. The Lakers
are flip flip that basketball team, Flip that NBA team.
(05:34):
I took over a team that, oh the roof wasn't
was leaked, and we didn't have a garage. And look
what I've done in a year now. Well it's all
worth two points. Because a guy that's worth twenty five
billion dollars gets into buying the Lakers only to flip
them a year later, Right, that's how it goes.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, I mean, I can't fault the guy for taking
two point five billion profit off the table, but I mean,
are they subject Because you know, if you buy a house,
it's the two year rule right before you have a
lower capital gains off the earnings if the property goes up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Same thing here, I mean I said this under two years,
is he taxed at a higher rate?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But yes, just dismissing it as a financial transaction. I'm like, again,
not to sneeze a two point five billion, but to
think that it was a quick flip. But I gotta
ask you this. For Luka Doncic, it was quick to
get on Twitter and oh yeah, yeah yeah. Does he
now get like something from the Guinness people most owners
and fewest franchises?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh I maybe, yeah, maybe I got five and two?
Oh yeah, five, that's pretty good. Like do I do
I get it? Do I get a plaque and a
swell party? They common they popped some some of those
little streamer things. And I say this only with a
with a little bit of of of comedic timing on
this is that how long before the Dodgers are for sale?
(06:52):
I mean, because Mark Walter, this is this could be
a very expensive investigation all of a sudden. If you're
liquidating the Lakers. You are liquidating the Lakers, right, I
mean that does put twelve billion back in your book?
Does But you know one, look, no one buys a
sports team to sell it in the year. All of
this stuff, I think the average person is smart enough
to see it. And when you understand the financial stakes,
(07:15):
that could be okay, well maybe owning this, but might
need some cash on hand, a little bit here, now,
you a little bit of cash might have to pay
off remember billable hours the right. Wait a minute, we
lost a lot of cash on that whole Ponzi pyramid scheme.
And here comes Steve Cohen like that's how it goes.
But it's just watch billions, watch big You know, Damian
Lewis should be a guest on every show the next
(07:37):
twenty four hours, explaining just how things go in big business,
even though you know Bobby Bill and there's your bounty,
you know, there we go. Get that. Yeah, get Damian
Lewis on. Well, promise we'll only talk about Band of Brothers.
We'll only talk about Band of Brothers. That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I can't promise that guy's had a long illustrious he does,
but I really want to talk about Band was great,
great series, no question about it. If you haven't watched it,
you should go back and through that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What is a hold up, Captain Soble? That's major Horton
moved all right, but but you think about it right now.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Now we've got the Lakers distress property, yes, high profit, okay, cool,
but remember the Dodgers how they got sold to them?
In the first place, bankruptcy. So what a wicked web
we've got going on here, Almost as wicked as something
spun by Spider Man, that dastrac web slinger.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, it's it's it's crazy. But honestly, you don't know, Like,
if I want to buy the Dodgers, I'm getting some money.
People together go with Hey, so you just want to
just Doug double check here, because this is a sale
that came together in seventy two hours. Man, Like seventy
that's what. That's what I mean. Like, it's it's being
told some that's nonsense. Again, all the stuff we're being told.
(08:50):
You have to just just read past the head. It's
like the.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
School thing that nobody heard from anybody, and then Saturday
morning they got a wild hair up and they go
and swing a deal thing here, twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Billion dollar you know what.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, I'm on you know, I'm out on my little
putting green. I think, uh, I think it's to the
point where I've got to sell this squad. But what
it does do right, not only do you start doing
your due diligence about the Dodgers and making sure you've
got your ducks in a row and make sure all
your loans and business stuff high vetting processes are done properly.
Remember this also takes them out of the Vegas running.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So you've got it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You've got an availability there. So any of the would
be ownership groups there, they're back in play now then
maybe fortified.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, look, I mean just understand that no
one buys teams to do this. You buy properties, you
buy land to try to flip it. You buy a
house that's in that's in bad shape, and you put
money into it, you bring it. He walks up to
Now you think that happened? Was Ty Pennington outside of
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the crypto arena with a bullhorn going, let's go, let's
flip this team and sell it away. Let's do it.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Did I have a film crew out there for it?
Is this gonna be on the next Wonderful World of Disney?
You're gonna get back in on that?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't know. I mean the only place I've seen
Toddy Pennington lately is on late at night doing infomercials.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah he does one for one of those games on
your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh he does. Yeah, he's got one of those. Because
I want to default and everybody I see. I think
they do that turn your cash to gold thing like that,
you know, I mean, I don't know if he doesn't,
but that's kind of what I love.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Our time share is this, Eric Estrada, Oh yeah, timeshare
or get you out of a time share? It depends
on Wait what time you come in now? Obviously you
see you know why this story is going, why the
Lakers are sold in all these things.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now for a little bit different take on this, right,
take a little differently is that this is a Laker
team that is now was sold for ten billion dollars
a year ago, sold for twelve and a half billion dollars.
Now the person not getting nearly enough credit for this
valuation of the again, this has broke all kinds of
records in the NBA. Now twelve billion dollars. Remember when
(11:10):
the Clippers were bought for two billion? Now the only
one needs to defend that at the time. It's time.
This is where the Lakers is where Mark Walter, this
is where Bob Iger, This is where Josh Kushner. This
is where Genie Buss needs to call Lebron James and
say thank you for raising the brand for the better
part of the last decade because people forget when Lebron came.
(11:34):
Before Lebron came to the Lakers, it was a bad time.
The Lakers were not winning, they were not competing. It
was Kobe Bryant was the only one left. He wanted
to stay with the franchise, which is incredibly admirable, but
he was nearing the end of his playing career. The
Lakers brand was at an all time low right because
it was it was after Doctor Buss died. He passes
over to his kids and the team doesn't win. They
(11:56):
get you know, Genie Busses firing every every brother that
she has. I mean, it's like a real life success.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We did a lot of stories on the infighting and
chaos for years.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Laker brand was in the toilet. But Lebron decides
to come to la because he wanted the Laker brand
and this is what I want. If I'm gonna go here,
I'm gonna leave Miami, to leave Cleveland, I'm gonna go
I wanna go try it in La as he started
his own production company and everything going on here. Yes,
Lebron coming to the Lakers was a big deal for him.
(12:27):
They want a championship, but it was such a big
deal because the Lakers turned back into the Lakers with
Lebron James. They're not getting sold for twelve billion dollars
if Lebron James doesn't show up eight years ago. Because
there was no plan, there was no there was no recruiting,
there was no We're gonna go out and get the
next best superstar. We're gonna go out and get three
guys compete for a championship. This was Lebron showing up
(12:49):
and telling Magic Johnson, yeah, I'm coming now, I'm getting
back on a plane. Oh great, Like I mean, that's
what Lebron has done over the court. There's no it's
just I decide I'm going to Miami, I'm going back
to Cleveland, going I'm going to la Lebron by himself,
took the Laker brand and put it back at the
top to the point where they were able to go
make a move and go get Luka Dantic and try
(13:11):
to restart the Laker dynasty. And now you have a
top three, top five player overall in the league again,
who's twenty six years old, who was very marketable. This
does not happen without Lebron James being a Laker for
eight years. So on the Jerry Jones, Hey, if I
don't win championships, I can at least look at money
and show you how I've won. This is one of
Lebron's biggest victories that doesn't come in the NBA finals.
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What he has done, he is single handedly brought that
Laker brand up to being worth twelve point five billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You remember as we started the show where the final
runs of Kobe Bryant's career again, they paid him a
lot of money. He went out and we were on
air when he had his sixty point performance. That was great,
but it was all about Kobe, right. It was the
finishing of his career. There were no expectations on that team,
and you couldn't walk into any conversation about the Laker
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without someone with the derisive tone referencing Smush Parker.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Who want a Smush Parker? Aft to get it and
you get it? Sideway was it. But he was the guy.
He was the guy that embodied right, Am I wrong?
It's like this is like Sam Mitchell. Every time someone
brings up Kobe's and I know I single guarded the guy.
I can't get away from it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Well sign this basketball. I let I single covered him
my decision. But anyway, the point being that we then
add a couple of years and in theory, you look
at some of the drafts. Those guys were interesting and
then they all went elsewhere and had to get good elsewhere.
Right when you look at Ingram, you look at LaMelo
or or Lonzo Ball before he got hurt whatever. But
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all of those things, those guys, it didn't work out.
And then it was the waiting game. You you could
trade on nostalgia and trade on history, and certainly they have,
there's no question about it. And that was there was
some novelty and excitement about and it was the double
ed sword, right like two face in the Batman chronicles,
(15:06):
of which were you getting all the mom and pop
thing is cool in a world that was changing, Steve
Balmer and others coming in the corporate moneies, uh and whatever.
But the competition changing. So if they weren't playing well,
you got the the hatred of that model. And then
Lebron comes in. They're relevant just by him showing up
(15:27):
back on all these TVs.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, hell, look at what he did with the
schedule this year. He decided what day where he wanted
to be for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I mean, look, honey, come on, he's still the face
of this league that people want to turn the page, call.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Him and say thank you, because this doesn't happen without
Lebron James, none of that. What do you think you
send him?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
What do you get a guy who's got you know,
two hundred million of his or a billion of his own.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Here's what the that liquid, here's what the new jersey
is gonna look like. We're changing the colors from purple
and gold. Wow, Okay, I like that. Yeah, No, bob
Byger's on. It's gonna be Disney colors. Now, it's gonna
be I mean, he had two stints there, so I mean,
you know that's not a bad thing. It's gonna be
the sky blue and the Stars and yeah, Mickey Mouse
and all that. That's gonna be the new logo for
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And an alternate Fridays there's a picture stitch on the back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
SO Today waking up to the news the Lakers had
been sold. Yeah for twelve and a half billion dollars,
say that again, need some cash on hands. Let's uh
what we get here? I have a structured settlement, but
you can be two and a half billion over of
let's go, so let's make that sale.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Hey man, if you could flip something for that kind
of return that fast, I mean, come on two point
five billion?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh yeah, gone? Uh Now, two different takes on this
right that we you know we did. We did the
lebron aspect of it last hour and talked about how
really do you think it was like that Mark Walter
bought the Lakers to flip them in a year, Like
it's a house and you got you know, people from
trading spaces are here and they're doing rooms any time.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
No, I thought, well, I mean there were a lot
of promises about these operational efficiencies and and the word
that I hated most that was used all the time
when I was getting my mba synergy between the Dodgers
and their organizational structure to what the Lakers could become.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Nah, forget it. I'm taking by two point five billion
and I'm going home. Listen. I can't put the wainscoting
on like you wanted. We're gonna have to do something
different with this room. If if we're gonna flip it,
we're gonna have.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
To do or the the tropes, like, look, we had
these plans for the extra development of a training facility,
but like the little old man and up Carl, he
I want to sell his house, so we're trying to
build around it. But it's not working quite so well.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Hello, my name is Russell. I mean, but the fact
that the Lakers sold for two point five billion dollars
over what they were sold for nine months ago when
Mark Walter bought the team tells you two things. Number
one is again you see all these sports say we
need a salary cap, We need a salary cap, we
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need a salary cap. Your valuations have gone through the
roof just in the last seven or eight years, the
geometric way in which values of franchises are up. If
you really need the money, sell the team. If you
really can't find a way to balance your budget, you
can't find a way to figure things out, then sell
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the team and sell the team and make a lot
of money on it and move out. But like when
you this is why you see all the owners they
want they want to cry that were so poor, we
don't have money. The concessions come in here and here
and here's the parking. No, when you see a team
like the Lakers, over the course of the past decade,
went from because when the Clippers were sold, right when
the Clippers were sold, they were sold for two billion dollars.
(18:57):
That was like, well, if the number two team in
LA is sold for two billion dollars, Lakers got to
be worth at least four billion. But that's what jump
started everything in sports that got professional football to LA
because finally Roger Goodell in the NFL said well, if
we could do that, that's gonna be a big trickle
down effect where other teams are gonna be worth even
more money. All the owners said, yes, let's move these teams. Right,
It's okay. The Rams want to go back, Yes, Chargers
(19:19):
want to go Yes, we're gonna do it. But just
think when the Lake, when the Clippers were sold two
billion dollars, the Lakers probably would have went. You would
have said a four billion, might have said ooh that
might be a little high. I mean three and a
half four billion short. Now, twelve billion, right, the value
is going up three hundred percent, which is correct, math
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it's gone up three hundred percent. When I could do
like that, you know, man, I could broke your deals.
Now me, I'm a businessman. I make moves. I'm at
I'm like Betty Murphy and I make mooves. I'm a businessman.
I make moos. You know I could do that, but
you and I.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I mean, some of the genesis of our work here
at Fox Sports Radio was the hold Donald Sterling viv
v Stiviano chaos, right, that happened on our watch, that
started to break, and in the ensuing months we get
the Balmber deal and to rewind it. People thought it
was insane. And it's like, how often does a franchise,
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even if it's the number two franchise, even if it's
the beleaguered Clippers franchise. How often do teams in giant
media markets become available? How many teams were spot and
sold in the decade prior at all in the four
major sports. It doesn't happen that often. So to say
I'm coming over the top with two billion dollars, like
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at the time, we said it made sense, and that
was not the industry consensus.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, it was like, wow, that was a gross overpas.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's like no, no, no, no, no again. Remember live entertainment.
A guy who has enough money to eventually build his
own spot to bring in concerts, siphon off all of
those other revenue pieces. It just made sense. Likewise, when
we talk about the buzz, right, my Chicago beloved Chicago Bears,
what do they keep looking now? How do we get
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an infusion of cash? How do we change the metrics
of what we've been doings?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
How do we get to Northwest Indiana as quietly as pops?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well that too, but just that idea of the mom
and pop business is great, and the nostalgia of it
is great, but recognizing how much was being left on
the table, and hear what you see that multiplier going through,
go back to when the Dodgers got sold and all
of that math, and you mentioned the NFL coming back in. Yeah,
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it's it's it's a much different world just in a decade.
I mean, we saw the Seattle Seahawks sell for nearly
ten billion dollars. Yeah, right, you realize where where the
cash flow goes and that number just keeps getting higher.
But yeah, crying poor. This is when your players' unions,
your associations have to be that much stronger, which is
(21:57):
why you'd be more fearful of the baseball pending lockout situation,
and that the players will have to stand strong to
make sure they get their share of those human moneies.
So the other part of this is the fun part, right,
fun bar this, this is the fun part of the
story because with the Lakers being sold for twelve point
five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right, whoaah? You think about some of the other teams sold,
what their valuations would be. Doing the mount Rushmore topics
is always kind of fun once in a great while.
I mean, not like a lot of shows that do
it all the time. What's the mount Rushmore of candy?
The mount Rushmore of Halloween candy? What's the mount Rushmore
of Easter candy? I shouldn't keep going to candy. What's
the mount Rushmore of Scorsese movies? Mount Rushmore, mount Rushmore?
(22:41):
Luphrusha Hey, that's the next month of Fridays. What are
you doing giving it away? You're supposed to tease that, sure,
but if you did the mount Rushmore of money money,
it was like whoa whoa mount Rushmore rush More, I'm in.
You got four spots, you have four you have four franchises.
Who would be worth the most month?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
So we're doing this over over the major four sports?
Is that what we're doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, if you're putting you're putting the Lakers out there
because they're they're sold for twelve point five billion dollars. Okay,
so you know that's the money. You know that's the money.
If you did the biggest one from each sport, and
then you threw in a wild card, ok okay, biggest
one from each sport and a wild card. So in
the NBA, I got news for you. It ain't the Lakers, No,
(23:30):
it ain't. Okay, No, the Knicks would go for a
couple of billion more and and maybe three billion over that.
If MSG was included, three billion, all of a sudden,
you're getting closed now went up to three billions. The
Knicks would go for about fifteen billion easy. And if
Dolan included MSG, I mean twenty billion, right, that would
(23:51):
be so you have the Knicks are ahead of the
Lakers on that list. In Major League Baseball, the Yankees,
the Yankees would be worth the most. They would go
for about twelve billion, twelve to twelve to fourteen billion, Right,
The Dodgers worth a lot of money, we know what
they are. But the Yankees would go for a little
(24:12):
bit more Yankee Yank because the Yankees with all of
the agreements they have, the TV the Yankees would get,
there would be a bigger bidding war for the yank
mainly because there would be a bigger bidding war for
the Yankees then there would be for the Dodgers, because
if you're bidding on the Dodge, you're going, ah, I'm
on this team. Yeah, guess what you're gonna be paying
show hey tony tons of money when he's forty five
years old. So there would be a bigger rush because
(24:33):
the Dodgers, they've come up, They've been bought and sold
three times. Yeah, but if they come up again.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I mean Otani Hobert tonight trying to show off for
prospective new owners after the Lakers news earlier today.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
The Yankees would be the number one team in baseball,
the biggest team in the NFL. And this is where
you get to your big money. If Jerry Jones sold
the Dallas Cowboys, yeah, okay, which I want to think
eventually maybe Jerry Jones wants to do that just because
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again he can't count Super Bowls to win, He's got
to count money to win.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He started bringing up the Cuban thing about a week ago,
Mark Cuban and potentially some marriage there.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right exactly, So you got to think that at some
point maybe when he's done, Jerry Jones, I'm selling this team,
and I'm setting a record and it's not going to
be broken because this is the Dallas Cowboys. If the
Dallas Cowboys were sold because of the bidding war, and
again it's about how often these teams come open. Again,
That's why the Yankees would be more than the Dodgers,
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because the Yankees have not been opened for fifty years,
the Dodgers three times. They've been bought and sold in
the past in the past twenty years. If Jerry Jones
sold the Cowboys, there would be such a bidding war
for it. It would they would go for twenty billion
dollars easy they would get. They would get that first
number would be a two in front of it. If
Jerry Jones decided I'm selling the Cowboys, everything it went
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along with it. I'm gonna say everything I have all
my Jerry Bucks, go with it everything else. Cowboy Bees,
Cowboy Bees, go with it everything. Twenty billion dollars for
the Dallas County.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Would this take some of the oomph of the crusade?
By Jason Kohler, steam colleague and guest here he tried
on Fox Sports Trader?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Would it?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Would he would lessen his intensity towards d Enshrining? Yeah,
Cowboys players.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, we're gonna take you out. But I'm I was sold. Yeah,
I know you were sold. Okay, everybody we sold everything.
Hall of Fame has sold everything.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I mean, think about the events you hold there and
it's one hundred thousand people that party deck. You can
do massive things. I mean think about to all of
the monster truck rallies you can add on off days. Yeah,
it get really inventive as a new owner there. But yeah,
twenty twenty billion easy.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Cowboys would be that. Now you're looking for your wild card, right,
what would your wild card be on that? Wait? We
didn't get to the NHL yet. Well that's the thing. Yeah, Okay,
the Montreal Canadian is that it would start with a b,
it would start with a billion. But it's not gonna
be that it's not gonna be that much, is it?
Not Thengers. I don't think it's the Rangers. I would
think that the next best team that would come open
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that would be the most. Again, again, you're talking about
a bidding war for this in I think it's coming
from football, even though you know it's it's a like
the Bulls. I don't think are going for twelve to
fifteen billion dollars, but I think it's a it's a
fight between the Rams and the Giants, and I would
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say the Giants would get more money simply because again,
the Giants are never up for sale, and it's your
chance to own a team that you know, tried and true,
like the Dallas Cowboys is synonymous with the NFL. If
the Giants came up for sale, that would probably get
close to fifteen billion. So I would say they'd be
the wild card team on that Mount rushmore of teams
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that are worth the most money Cowboys, Knicks, Yankees, and
probably the Giants.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yeah, I'd ram it all day.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So far.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I mean yeah, I mean, now we're splitting hairs, right,
We're just talking about mega stadiums and megacities and media markets.
I would think what you have here at so far.
My trumpet just based on the extra dates that you
have for all the extra events and the fact that
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weather won't dissuade anybody or anything from coming to town
at any point during a year. But yeah, I think
you know again, we're we're splitting hairs over this one.
And maybe it's just the the SOFI bias of all
the different events that have rolled through here and I'm
thinking about the human monies that have been trafficked through.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I mean, so I feel pretty good about that list. Yeah,
I feel pretty good that that that's where we're at again.
Could you split hairs between the Giants and the Rams, Yeah,
but I feel like, boy, the chance to own the Giant,
it's about exclusivity. Well that's a club that has thirty
two people, and it's like, boy, would you rather own
the Giants or the ramp whoa, whoa, whoa Why I'd
rather own the Giants. But that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I mean, but you have the longevity and the fact
that you do you have location, location, location, right, It's
not just another NFL franchise coming up for sale.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So I I mean, there's your Mount rushmore of my
I love the Mount Rushmore. I like that we just
put nearly one hundred billion dollars of money on there
right there. That's that conversation right there.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
That that made the hair stand up on my arm
right there, talking about that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's go be.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
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Speaker 1 (29:45):
So how much trouble are the Yankees and Dodgers in.
Let's go to the phones and bring in someone who
it's been said, if you ask him to cover the game,
he will cover the game. When you say ease his pain,
it means he's got to tell his dad. Things with
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the Tigers will be okay without Schooble. It is Hew
Network insider extraordinaire John Paul Morosi from the Field of Dreams.
Tomorrow Night, Dyersville, Iowa, Phillies and the Twins going at it,
John Paul, Welcome, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I am doing great, my friends, and it is a
rare evening where we get to have this conversation where
I am in Iowa. I am Paul.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Wait wait wait, John Paul, are you in heaven?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
No, it's Iowa.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Very Earlier today, one of my colleagues from the Network,
we were working on some social.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Media content around around this amazing movie, and I showed
up to the ballpark today. If you're watching, it will
be Network in full doc gram attire was fantastically had
jaunty hat my vest. I was a tired head to
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toe and it was great because I was there for
the high school All American Game. And all of the
coaches now are our former players of my vintage, so
people that I know and covered, Luke Gregorson, Brian Schneider,
Tory Hunter, Jim tolemy Rick Eckstein, dougman, Kievitch, Brad Penny.
So all these guys are there and they're all like,
(31:35):
brosni like this is this is quite a get up man,
I mean like, like you wear this to work? Before
I said, well it's and granted, this is the other
thing that I brought with me that I never bring
with me to work, and I mean never, and that
is my gloves. My glove in the baseball I brought
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to work. So here I am wearing wearing my media credential.
Now on any other day of the baseball year, if
I showed up to work carrying my baseball glove in
a ball. Hey guys, I'm going to cover baseball and
I got my glove with me. It would be a
little bit, a little bit unique, I would say if
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I was doing that, But on this particular day, on
this particular setting, all things are welcome in terms of
your authentic love of the game. I also, it was
funny as I was referencing. My colleague asked me, said, John,
we're doing some social media, would you like to quote
your favorite line from the movie. And I said, I mean, basically,
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I've got half of the movie memorized. But I'm wearing
the doc Gram gear here, so I better I should
do the doc Gram quote. And so I just started
then doing the his speech to Ray in his office, which,
by the way, I visited his office yesterday, which is
in Galena, l So the Chisholm, Minnesota stand in. Now
(33:03):
I'm getting into the bit of dreams. I mean, you're
now like, if you watch the movie, you know what
I'm talking about the town of Chisholm, Minnesota, where a
Moonlight Graham is from. It's actually Galena, Illinois where the
scenes were filmed. So naturally, I am such a nerd
and aficionado of this movie that I actually visited the
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place where it was filmed, the other place, the one
that was in Illinois. And so I actually sat outside
of Doc Graham's office in Galina. And and so I
did the speech which was and I'll do the abridge
version here. I never got a chance to stare down
a big league picture and just when he goes into
his wind up, wink at him, make him think that
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you know something he doesn't. And so I did the
whole you know, the whole thing. So I don't know
how it turned out. We'll see how the old social
posed thing goes. But a little bit of a behind
the behind the scenes where basically the question came, John,
can you give us one of your favorite lines? And
I basically said, well, which of the Dot graham favorite
lines do you want me to give? The one about
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I better get home or Alicia's gonna think I've got
a girlfriend? All these different things. Right, it's this movie.
I could talk about it all day. And so I
am full of nostalgia and passion right now here in
the great state of Iowa.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
All Right, So I give you a challenge for tomorrow
night's game great. I want you to get in my
favorite line from Field of Dreams. Oh tell me, okay,
my favorite, because no matter how many times you have
seen this movie, whether it is the twelfth time or
the first time or the fiftieth time, you bust out
belly laughing, I want you to I want you to
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say so we told him to stick it.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I want you to get.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The line in get the ty Kalbin. None of us
can stand in the SLB when he was alive, so
he told him to stick it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Ha. That is such and that that Ralio to laugh.
You could see that it's similar, of course to the
I believe, to the good fellow's laugh as well. I
would say, very very similar, Ralio to what an amazing,
amazing actor. I mean, all the lines I mean. And
by the way, this is the other thing act. And
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I did not know this, and this might be part
of my field.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Trip tomorrow, but there is a a a few blocks
of Dubuque where they didn't actually and this like completely
locked my mind when.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I learned this. Is that the like the whole scene
where he's trying to find where Terrence Man lives, that
was actually all shot in Dubuque. And not Boston where
where he finally finds someone. He pays the guy cash
to say, yeah, it's the it's his door is the
first one without the chicken in the window, remember that.
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So that was actually a couple of blocks that were
that were blocked off in Dubuque, So that that might
be my my road trip tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All right.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
So since we're talking chicken, we're talking bones, we're talking structure,
all of that stuff. Bryce Harper, how concerned are they
about his knee?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Tell you what? The Phillies do not need this news
right now on Harper, and I think it is concerning.
Still tbd exactly how concerning it is, but I think
they're a little worried. And obviously we'll see how things
play out tomorrow with the game here in Iowa, if
you might potentially be in the lineup still, but this
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is the time of year where we really thought the
Phillies were going to get going and really maybe catch fire.
They got Luisa Ryce, but part of the issue is
how many different players had to move around as a result,
including now Bryce Harper. So this is obviously a concern
for the Phillies. On the flip side, the Twins newly
optimistic that Byron Buxton could be back tomorrow. So wouldn't
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it be sort of an interesting dynamic there if Harper
is not available, But Buxton is so staying tuned on that.
But that is certainly one of them many stories we're
watching carefully here as we get ready for the Field
of Dreams game tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
All right, So now two teams that since the deadline
have gotten all sorts of attention for reasons they'd rather not.
We'll start with the Yankees, who, hey, I thought they
had a pretty good deadline. I thought they added what
they needed to add. Obviously it's a big deal waiting
for Aaron Judge to come back. But here they are
now even further back of the Rays, who have been
red hot, winning nine in a row. How much trouble
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are the Yankees in right now?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Well, they're to me, I will say that now, I
would never concede it. We're still at a fairly early
stage of the season, at least in terms of deciding races.
But I don't see them winning the American League East.
I mean they are so they're a wild card team,
and that means that they're going to be in a
(37:48):
pretty stressful situation, especially when you consider how well the
Red Sox have played. So they're pitching. I think when
you look at Cam Schlitzer, he might win the cy Young.
They've obviously got freed back, they've got coal, But it
seems to me that their offense still obviously accepting the win.
Tonight a nice ten run out burst for the Yankees.
(38:09):
I just don't think that we're seeing enough top to
bottom consistency. And the reasons are pretty clear the Beliger
injury and most importantly the Judge injury. So yes, they
had a pretty productive deadline, But I just I look
at this lineup and I don't see the same depth
as what the Red Sox have, and I don't even
see the same depth of what the Rays have. So
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if the Rays have the deepest lineup in the division
and the Red Sox are probably going to be second,
I put the Yankees third. So they might not only
just be a wild card team, but they might be
a wild card team that opens on the road and
has to deal with either their division rival Red Sox
or one of the hot teams that's coming up now
behind them in the American League wild card standings. These
(38:53):
are very very concerning times. Indeed for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Still a lot of handwringing here in Los Angeles, even
though twenty four games over five hundred, best run differential
in all a Major League Baseball But we know the
offense has added struggles for the Dodgers JP. But they
get Blake Snell back last night, pitches a Jem Lawer
currently winning against Casey Long. In the short of it,
(39:19):
is it just ride it out and wait till October?
Or should the Dodgers be concerned about what's waiting for
them come playoff time.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'm a little less worried about the Dodgers than I
am worried about the Yankees. And part of this has
to do with the way that I agree Blake snell
coming back is huge, gives the Dodgers a boost. Scooble
will eventually pick it up to where you start winning,
you know, I'll start winning games every time he's going
out there, or something close to it. Obviously, it hasn't
necessarily been the most auspicious beginning for scoobl in a
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Dodger uniform. They they don't need they I really believe this.
They don't need Otani to be a starting pitcher for
them to win, for them to win the World Series.
They I believe they have got enough right now with
that group. When you think about Yamamoto, when you think
about school Well, I am a little bit worried about Robleski,
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but again, these things are mitigated because the rest of
the rotation is getting a little bit healthier and in
the lineup I am. I suppose I have a little
bit worried about Kyle Tucker because although he has been
a bit better of late in the last week or so,
but there will be enough run scoring by this lineup,
I believe down the stretch to hold off the competitors
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right now in the National League West, although I do
look at the overall n L playoff pictures and the
team that concerns me the most from their standpoint is Chicago.
I think the Cubs with that lineup depth. I also
look at the Braves as being a formidable opponent. All
that is all that's true. The Dodgers, though, I believe
when you talk about that group and the way that
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they get smell back and who knows how Otani will
do it, so that there's still some optimism that he'll
be able to get back on the mount of pitch,
even if it's not in the full starting capacity, even
if he's just an opener, I do think he gives
them value in that role. So less worried right now
about the Dodgers than I am worried about the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Getting set for the field of dream Games tomorrow. It
is John Paul MOROSEI now I do have because I
spent the last week's thinking maybe it's unfair to just
give you one option of favorite lines to get in okay, right,
to tell you know, to stick it. So I want
to give you another option, John Paul, all right, if
you want to do okay? So who's doing that? Who
else is on the call with you tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
So I am?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
I am here in my MLB central role. So it's
Mark DeRosa, Robert Flores, Laurence Shahati. So it is I'm
here for the the Morning pregame show, and then I'm
hosting a co hosting a show on Twitter with Ben Verlander.
Justin your How how about that? That's that's my my midday.
So I've got We've got choices there. Durosa, Flora, Shahati,
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Verlander are all my teammates. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Okay, So here, here's the thing is that you can
you also do this like this is another one of
my favorite lines. Maybe this works. You can bring in
Lauren Shahati or somebody else all right when you finish
and you throw it back to them and say, hey,
you know, just for a second, I want you guys
to know. Throughout this entire day, I've never once asked
what's in it for me? And then if someone is
smart enough, they will say, well, so what do you
want to know? And then you will say, of course,
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I want to know what's in it for me? Ex
it for me.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
That's one of the all time best ones. I I
we could do an entire podcast just about that movie
and why I will say this. I encourage all of
you out there watch the movie again. It's actually on
Netflix this week. Watch it again, because every time you
watch it, it hits you differently. You're in a different
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phase of your life, your relationships are different, They've changed.
I get emotional thinking about this and talking about it,
like like I love this movie so much and I
share it with my family too. Man, Just this this
is These are the nights. These are times where you
really realize that we are part of one family that
loves this game, and just share it with a sibling.
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Go play catch with the people in your life tomorrow
in honor of this movie, in this game. This is
why we do what we do. My friends, so so
grateful to be here.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Hey, what's the model of glove? You got? What's the
signature in there?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Wilson? So it's it's actually not I don't have a
signature in it. It wasn't. It wasn't. Let me. I
got the model here. It is a Rawlings, it's a Rallings,
and it's an infielder's glove because I've got you know,
it's the open webbing right. So I this is the
same one that I've had, by the way, since my
I think it was my junior year in high school.
(43:40):
That was just a couple of years ago, by the way,
uh so Pro two O six G for the professional
player deep Pocket. It's called the Gold Glove series by
Rawlings and it is man here here, listen, listen, here
we go. That's me just popping the ball.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
We're popping there.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Now, come on, now, I'm probably waking up the people
next to me in the hotel.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Here he's going down to the lobby to throw at
the person on duty. Hey, you know, I want to
have a catch right now. His second bag was a
pitch back so he could.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
I played catch with Jeremy Guthrie today. He was there
in an MLB capacity and Jeremy I had my love
with me. He's like, John, you want to have a
catch up? Yes, Jeremy, I do.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So did he say it just like that to you?
Do you want to have a catch?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
That's that's pretty He did, like he could tell that
that I was in need of a catch all right.
And it was just it was awesome. I love, loved
every minute.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Enjoy the game tomorrow, my friend. Again, I will look
for one of those lines to hit social media so
we can play it back on the show.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm going to try to sneak in as many of
the best lines as I possibly came, very much as
I get tomorrow fantastic, and we'll see how many people
can really pick up on it. So I trust that
you will and I want you to hold me to this.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
I love this from Dyers of Iowa getting set for
a big game in Cornfield tomorrow. It's MLB Networks, John
Paul Morosi, John Paul and Joy get some.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Sleepeaking of friendship. Guys, thank you for all you do.
I look forward to this conversation every week.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Have a good night. If you go to sleep, you
will have energy tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Since go the distance.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Have a great call, buddy. Thank you,
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and subscribe on YouTube. We'll love you forever and ever
and ever. So welcome back after a couple of days
off and turn your microphone on. It says, oh, you know,
I've been going two days.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I was expecting you to filibuster for about ten minutes
before you got to me.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
What okay? David Bailey is the greatest defensive lineman in
the history of the NFL. Oh sorry what okay?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah yeah, and club nick say clumbnick, get those pre
order jerseys in for kids. But it's good to be
back a couple of days with the kid.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
She's getting ready to fly to New York and begin
the college experience at the end of the week. So
a lot of running around and tom foolery. So a
little bit of a pause and now back with you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Just just just tell me the truth. Yeah, she didn't
want to hang out with you at all. And you
spent the last two days buying cards and getting them graded.
I did buy a bunch of cars. They are going
to get graded.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Uh, couple that got chipped right away to grating from
the guy bought him from.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, because you texted me today, you want to buy
some David Bailey rookie text me today.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It I mean, I have a couple that are are
ready to flip. There's no question about it. Quick, Hey man,
you got to strike when the iron's hot head to
headline news good bad or whatever. Wait, people talking about him,
get him out there, get him out there.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But today, speaking of money, money, maybe you could put
a couple of nickels together because I'm sure if after
what happened today, the Dodgers will be for sale soon.
The Lakers being sold today again a story that I
think took us all by surprise, all of a sudden light,
the Lakers go because when I first saw that, right, okay,
being in my fifties, now, when I get up, first
(02:23):
thing I do is turn on my phone and check
and see the world is there. So I get on
the phone again on and I see Lakers sale, Lakers
sale approved or whatever the headline was, and I go.
But the sale wasn't already approved. It was like a
year ago. They were sold again. Oh my, what are
you kidding me? The Lakers were sold again.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So me being the early riser that I am, insomniac,
it started coming through and it was another one of
those this can't be real. So you're immediately searching any
NBA insider, every LA reporter. It's like, this is legit.
And after about seven sources, I said, Okay, I guess
(03:02):
this is a legit thing, so let's try to break
it down crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The Lakers being sold for twelve point five billion dollars
to businessmen Josh Kushner and Bob Eiger. Bob Iger, Yes,
that name, the former ESPN Disney executive. We used to
get emails from Bob Iger all the time. Couple of
runs from the desk of Bob Iger. Oh and now
he owns the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You felt, Berry, Did you ever get like a couple
of you know, pins, Mickey mousse or.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It was just like, hey, to explain some things happening now,
or hey, good luck, here's what we've done just to
you know, Hey, things are things are great from the
desk of Bob Iyke, the corporate overlord. Yeah, we got
that from the desk of Bob Bike. Congratulations out of a
nice year. So not Jared Kushner. Josh Kushner is the
owner of the Lakers. Everybody did a double take as well.
This is Josh Kushner is the owner of This is
(03:52):
not Don Kirshner's rock concert from the late seventies. This
is Josh Kushner. This is not Kushman from Jerry McGuire.
I got cushlash slash, this is Josh.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Have a little cushlash because Joshish, business, sports and political
worlds all collide.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
People get a little upset. Now this story is so
much fun from so many perspectives, Because my favorite part
was after reading Okay, wait a minute, Mark Walter really
sold the team nine months after he got approved as owner,
and I'm reading all the quotes It's been such an
honor to own the Lakers. It's great, and you know
we bought them for ten billion, sells them now for
(04:31):
twelve point five billion, and I'm reading it going okay, okay,
I already know. I feel like I didn't go to
law school, but I know when my lawyer Spidey sense
starts taking my Peter Tingle, it's Peter Tingle, it starts going, okay,
so what is up here? And then you do a
little bit of digging and you find out just how
(04:51):
much financially Mark Walter could be on the hook for
as he is being investigated for federal loan fraud, the
probe centering around billions of dollars in undisclosed related party
transactions between his insurance companies. So basically, here's a guy
that owns the Dodgers, owns the Lakers, and now being
investigated for federal loan fraud. So all of a sudden,
(05:12):
hey man gotta start liquid dating. Uh uh Okay, I
guess I gotta pick. All right, let's sell the Lakers.
We'll sell the Lakers instead. There is no I mean
just to hear people talk today and say things like
it was just a deal. This was the way it
was always meant. Yeah, because that's what you do. You
meant to buy the Lakers to flip them. The Lakers
are flip flip that basketball team, Flip that NBA team.
(05:34):
I took over a team that, oh the roof wasn't
was leaked, and we didn't have a garage. And look
what I've done in a year now. Well it's all
worth two points. Because a guy that's worth twenty five
billion dollars gets into buying the Lakers only to flip
them a year later, Right, that's how it goes.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, I mean, I can't fault the guy for taking
two point five billion profit off the table, but I mean,
are they subject Because you know, if you buy a house,
it's the two year rule right before you have a
lower capital gains off the earnings if the property goes up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Same thing here, I mean I said this under two years,
is he taxed at a higher rate?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But yes, just dismissing it as a financial transaction. I'm like, again,
not to sneeze a two point five billion, but to
think that it was a quick flip. But I gotta
ask you this. For Luka Doncic, it was quick to
get on Twitter and oh yeah, yeah yeah. Does he
now get like something from the Guinness people most owners
and fewest franchises?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh I maybe, yeah, maybe I got five and two?
Oh yeah, five, that's pretty good. Like do I do
I get it? Do I get a plaque and a
swell party? They common they popped some some of those
little streamer things. And I say this only with a
with a little bit of of of comedic timing on
this is that how long before the Dodgers are for sale?
(06:52):
I mean, because Mark Walter, this is this could be
a very expensive investigation all of a sudden. If you're
liquidating the Lakers. You are liquidating the Lakers, right, I
mean that does put twelve billion back in your book?
Does But you know one, look, no one buys a
sports team to sell it in the year. All of
this stuff, I think the average person is smart enough
to see it. And when you understand the financial stakes,
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that could be okay, well maybe owning this, but might
need some cash on hand, a little bit here, now,
you a little bit of cash might have to pay
off remember billable hours the right. Wait a minute, we
lost a lot of cash on that whole Ponzi pyramid scheme.
And here comes Steve Cohen like that's how it goes.
But it's just watch billions, watch big You know, Damian
Lewis should be a guest on every show the next
(07:37):
twenty four hours, explaining just how things go in big business,
even though you know Bobby Bill and there's your bounty,
you know, there we go. Get that. Yeah, get Damian
Lewis on. Well, promise we'll only talk about Band of Brothers.
We'll only talk about Band of Brothers. That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I can't promise that guy's had a long illustrious he does,
but I really want to talk about Band was great,
great series, no question about it. If you haven't watched it,
you should go back and through that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What is a hold up, Captain Soble? That's major Horton
moved all right, but but you think about it right now.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Now we've got the Lakers distress property, yes, high profit, okay, cool,
but remember the Dodgers how they got sold to them?
In the first place, bankruptcy. So what a wicked web
we've got going on here, Almost as wicked as something
spun by Spider Man, that dastrac web slinger.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, it's it's it's crazy. But honestly, you don't know, Like,
if I want to buy the Dodgers, I'm getting some money.
People together go with Hey, so you just want to
just Doug double check here, because this is a sale
that came together in seventy two hours. Man, Like seventy
that's what. That's what I mean. Like, it's it's being
told some that's nonsense. Again, all the stuff we're being told.
(08:50):
You have to just just read past the head. It's
like the.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
School thing that nobody heard from anybody, and then Saturday
morning they got a wild hair up and they go
and swing a deal thing here, twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Billion dollar you know what.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, I'm on you know, I'm out on my little
putting green. I think, uh, I think it's to the
point where I've got to sell this squad. But what
it does do right, not only do you start doing
your due diligence about the Dodgers and making sure you've
got your ducks in a row and make sure all
your loans and business stuff high vetting processes are done properly.
Remember this also takes them out of the Vegas running.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So you've got it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You've got an availability there. So any of the would
be ownership groups there, they're back in play now then
maybe fortified.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, look, I mean just understand that no
one buys teams to do this. You buy properties, you
buy land to try to flip it. You buy a
house that's in that's in bad shape, and you put
money into it, you bring it. He walks up to
Now you think that happened? Was Ty Pennington outside of
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the crypto arena with a bullhorn going, let's go, let's
flip this team and sell it away. Let's do it.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Did I have a film crew out there for it?
Is this gonna be on the next Wonderful World of Disney?
You're gonna get back in on that?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't know. I mean the only place I've seen
Toddy Pennington lately is on late at night doing infomercials.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah he does one for one of those games on
your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh he does. Yeah, he's got one of those. Because
I want to default and everybody I see. I think
they do that turn your cash to gold thing like that,
you know, I mean, I don't know if he doesn't,
but that's kind of what I love.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Our time share is this, Eric Estrada, Oh yeah, timeshare
or get you out of a time share? It depends
on Wait what time you come in now? Obviously you
see you know why this story is going, why the
Lakers are sold in all these things.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now for a little bit different take on this, right,
take a little differently is that this is a Laker
team that is now was sold for ten billion dollars
a year ago, sold for twelve and a half billion dollars.
Now the person not getting nearly enough credit for this
valuation of the again, this has broke all kinds of
records in the NBA. Now twelve billion dollars. Remember when
(11:10):
the Clippers were bought for two billion? Now the only
one needs to defend that at the time. It's time.
This is where the Lakers is where Mark Walter, this
is where Bob Iger, This is where Josh Kushner. This
is where Genie Buss needs to call Lebron James and
say thank you for raising the brand for the better
part of the last decade because people forget when Lebron came.
(11:34):
Before Lebron came to the Lakers, it was a bad time.
The Lakers were not winning, they were not competing. It
was Kobe Bryant was the only one left. He wanted
to stay with the franchise, which is incredibly admirable, but
he was nearing the end of his playing career. The
Lakers brand was at an all time low right because
it was it was after Doctor Buss died. He passes
over to his kids and the team doesn't win. They
(11:56):
get you know, Genie Busses firing every every brother that
she has. I mean, it's like a real life success.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We did a lot of stories on the infighting and
chaos for years.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Laker brand was in the toilet. But Lebron decides
to come to la because he wanted the Laker brand
and this is what I want. If I'm gonna go here,
I'm gonna leave Miami, to leave Cleveland, I'm gonna go
I wanna go try it in La as he started
his own production company and everything going on here. Yes,
Lebron coming to the Lakers was a big deal for him.
(12:27):
They want a championship, but it was such a big
deal because the Lakers turned back into the Lakers with
Lebron James. They're not getting sold for twelve billion dollars
if Lebron James doesn't show up eight years ago. Because
there was no plan, there was no there was no recruiting,
there was no We're gonna go out and get the
next best superstar. We're gonna go out and get three
guys compete for a championship. This was Lebron showing up
(12:49):
and telling Magic Johnson, yeah, I'm coming now, I'm getting
back on a plane. Oh great, Like I mean, that's
what Lebron has done over the court. There's no it's
just I decide I'm going to Miami, I'm going back
to Cleveland, going I'm going to la Lebron by himself,
took the Laker brand and put it back at the
top to the point where they were able to go
make a move and go get Luka Dantic and try
(13:11):
to restart the Laker dynasty. And now you have a
top three, top five player overall in the league again,
who's twenty six years old, who was very marketable. This
does not happen without Lebron James being a Laker for
eight years. So on the Jerry Jones, Hey, if I
don't win championships, I can at least look at money
and show you how I've won. This is one of
Lebron's biggest victories that doesn't come in the NBA finals.
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What he has done, he is single handedly brought that
Laker brand up to being worth twelve point five billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You remember as we started the show where the final
runs of Kobe Bryant's career again, they paid him a
lot of money. He went out and we were on
air when he had his sixty point performance. That was great,
but it was all about Kobe, right. It was the
finishing of his career. There were no expectations on that team,
and you couldn't walk into any conversation about the Laker
(14:00):
without someone with the derisive tone referencing Smush Parker.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Who want a Smush Parker? Aft to get it and
you get it? Sideway was it. But he was the guy.
He was the guy that embodied right, Am I wrong?
It's like this is like Sam Mitchell. Every time someone
brings up Kobe's and I know I single guarded the guy.
I can't get away from it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Well sign this basketball. I let I single covered him
my decision. But anyway, the point being that we then
add a couple of years and in theory, you look
at some of the drafts. Those guys were interesting and
then they all went elsewhere and had to get good elsewhere.
Right when you look at Ingram, you look at LaMelo
or or Lonzo Ball before he got hurt whatever. But
(14:43):
all of those things, those guys, it didn't work out.
And then it was the waiting game. You you could
trade on nostalgia and trade on history, and certainly they have,
there's no question about it. And that was there was
some novelty and excitement about and it was the double
ed sword, right like two face in the Batman chronicles,
(15:06):
of which were you getting all the mom and pop
thing is cool in a world that was changing, Steve
Balmer and others coming in the corporate moneies, uh and whatever.
But the competition changing. So if they weren't playing well,
you got the the hatred of that model. And then
Lebron comes in. They're relevant just by him showing up
(15:27):
back on all these TVs.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, hell, look at what he did with the
schedule this year. He decided what day where he wanted
to be for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I mean, look, honey, come on, he's still the face
of this league that people want to turn the page, call.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Him and say thank you, because this doesn't happen without
Lebron James, none of that. What do you think you
send him?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
What do you get a guy who's got you know,
two hundred million of his or a billion of his own.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Here's what the that liquid, here's what the new jersey
is gonna look like. We're changing the colors from purple
and gold. Wow, Okay, I like that. Yeah, No, bob
Byger's on. It's gonna be Disney colors. Now, it's gonna
be I mean, he had two stints there, so I mean,
you know that's not a bad thing. It's gonna be
the sky blue and the Stars and yeah, Mickey Mouse
and all that. That's gonna be the new logo for
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And an alternate Fridays there's a picture stitch on the back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
SO Today waking up to the news the Lakers had
been sold. Yeah for twelve and a half billion dollars,
say that again, need some cash on hands. Let's uh
what we get here? I have a structured settlement, but
you can be two and a half billion over of
let's go, so let's make that sale.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Hey man, if you could flip something for that kind
of return that fast, I mean, come on two point
five billion?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh yeah, gone? Uh Now, two different takes on this
right that we you know we did. We did the
lebron aspect of it last hour and talked about how
really do you think it was like that Mark Walter
bought the Lakers to flip them in a year, Like
it's a house and you got you know, people from
trading spaces are here and they're doing rooms any time.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
No, I thought, well, I mean there were a lot
of promises about these operational efficiencies and and the word
that I hated most that was used all the time
when I was getting my mba synergy between the Dodgers
and their organizational structure to what the Lakers could become.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Nah, forget it. I'm taking by two point five billion
and I'm going home. Listen. I can't put the wainscoting
on like you wanted. We're gonna have to do something
different with this room. If if we're gonna flip it,
we're gonna have.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
To do or the the tropes, like, look, we had
these plans for the extra development of a training facility,
but like the little old man and up Carl, he
I want to sell his house, so we're trying to
build around it. But it's not working quite so well.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Hello, my name is Russell. I mean, but the fact
that the Lakers sold for two point five billion dollars
over what they were sold for nine months ago when
Mark Walter bought the team tells you two things. Number
one is again you see all these sports say we
need a salary cap, We need a salary cap, we
(18:17):
need a salary cap. Your valuations have gone through the
roof just in the last seven or eight years, the
geometric way in which values of franchises are up. If
you really need the money, sell the team. If you
really can't find a way to balance your budget, you
can't find a way to figure things out, then sell
(18:37):
the team and sell the team and make a lot
of money on it and move out. But like when
you this is why you see all the owners they
want they want to cry that were so poor, we
don't have money. The concessions come in here and here
and here's the parking. No, when you see a team
like the Lakers, over the course of the past decade,
went from because when the Clippers were sold, right when
the Clippers were sold, they were sold for two billion dollars.
(18:57):
That was like, well, if the number two team in
LA is sold for two billion dollars, Lakers got to
be worth at least four billion. But that's what jump
started everything in sports that got professional football to LA
because finally Roger Goodell in the NFL said well, if
we could do that, that's gonna be a big trickle
down effect where other teams are gonna be worth even
more money. All the owners said, yes, let's move these teams. Right,
It's okay. The Rams want to go back, Yes, Chargers
(19:19):
want to go Yes, we're gonna do it. But just
think when the Lake, when the Clippers were sold two
billion dollars, the Lakers probably would have went. You would
have said a four billion, might have said ooh that
might be a little high. I mean three and a
half four billion short. Now, twelve billion, right, the value
is going up three hundred percent, which is correct, math
(19:40):
it's gone up three hundred percent. When I could do
like that, you know, man, I could broke your deals.
Now me, I'm a businessman. I make moves. I'm at
I'm like Betty Murphy and I make mooves. I'm a businessman.
I make moos. You know I could do that, but
you and I.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I mean, some of the genesis of our work here
at Fox Sports Radio was the hold Donald Sterling viv
v Stiviano chaos, right, that happened on our watch, that
started to break, and in the ensuing months we get
the Balmber deal and to rewind it. People thought it
was insane. And it's like, how often does a franchise,
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even if it's the number two franchise, even if it's
the beleaguered Clippers franchise. How often do teams in giant
media markets become available? How many teams were spot and
sold in the decade prior at all in the four
major sports. It doesn't happen that often. So to say
I'm coming over the top with two billion dollars, like
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at the time, we said it made sense, and that
was not the industry consensus.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, it was like, wow, that was a gross overpas.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's like no, no, no, no, no again. Remember live entertainment.
A guy who has enough money to eventually build his
own spot to bring in concerts, siphon off all of
those other revenue pieces. It just made sense. Likewise, when
we talk about the buzz, right, my Chicago beloved Chicago Bears,
what do they keep looking now? How do we get
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an infusion of cash? How do we change the metrics
of what we've been doings?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
How do we get to Northwest Indiana as quietly as pops?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well that too, but just that idea of the mom
and pop business is great, and the nostalgia of it
is great, but recognizing how much was being left on
the table, and hear what you see that multiplier going through,
go back to when the Dodgers got sold and all
of that math, and you mentioned the NFL coming back in. Yeah,
(21:36):
it's it's it's a much different world just in a decade.
I mean, we saw the Seattle Seahawks sell for nearly
ten billion dollars. Yeah, right, you realize where where the
cash flow goes and that number just keeps getting higher.
But yeah, crying poor. This is when your players' unions,
your associations have to be that much stronger, which is
(21:57):
why you'd be more fearful of the baseball pending lockout situation,
and that the players will have to stand strong to
make sure they get their share of those human moneies.
So the other part of this is the fun part, right,
fun bar this, this is the fun part of the
story because with the Lakers being sold for twelve point
five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right, whoaah? You think about some of the other teams sold,
what their valuations would be. Doing the mount Rushmore topics
is always kind of fun once in a great while.
I mean, not like a lot of shows that do
it all the time. What's the mount Rushmore of candy?
The mount Rushmore of Halloween candy? What's the mount Rushmore
of Easter candy? I shouldn't keep going to candy. What's
the mount Rushmore of Scorsese movies? Mount Rushmore, mount Rushmore?
(22:41):
Luphrusha Hey, that's the next month of Fridays. What are
you doing giving it away? You're supposed to tease that, sure,
but if you did the mount Rushmore of money money,
it was like whoa whoa mount Rushmore rush More, I'm in.
You got four spots, you have four you have four franchises.
Who would be worth the most month?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
So we're doing this over over the major four sports?
Is that what we're doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, if you're putting you're putting the Lakers out there
because they're they're sold for twelve point five billion dollars. Okay,
so you know that's the money. You know that's the money.
If you did the biggest one from each sport, and
then you threw in a wild card, ok okay, biggest
one from each sport and a wild card. So in
the NBA, I got news for you. It ain't the Lakers, No,
(23:30):
it ain't. Okay, No, the Knicks would go for a
couple of billion more and and maybe three billion over that.
If MSG was included, three billion, all of a sudden,
you're getting closed now went up to three billions. The
Knicks would go for about fifteen billion easy. And if
Dolan included MSG, I mean twenty billion, right, that would
(23:51):
be so you have the Knicks are ahead of the
Lakers on that list. In Major League Baseball, the Yankees,
the Yankees would be worth the most. They would go
for about twelve billion, twelve to twelve to fourteen billion, Right,
The Dodgers worth a lot of money, we know what
they are. But the Yankees would go for a little
(24:12):
bit more Yankee Yank because the Yankees with all of
the agreements they have, the TV the Yankees would get,
there would be a bigger bidding war for the yank
mainly because there would be a bigger bidding war for
the Yankees then there would be for the Dodgers, because
if you're bidding on the Dodge, you're going, ah, I'm
on this team. Yeah, guess what you're gonna be paying
show hey tony tons of money when he's forty five
years old. So there would be a bigger rush because
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the Dodgers, they've come up, They've been bought and sold
three times. Yeah, but if they come up again.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I mean Otani Hobert tonight trying to show off for
prospective new owners after the Lakers news earlier today.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
The Yankees would be the number one team in baseball,
the biggest team in the NFL. And this is where
you get to your big money. If Jerry Jones sold
the Dallas Cowboys, yeah, okay, which I want to think
eventually maybe Jerry Jones wants to do that just because
(25:05):
again he can't count Super Bowls to win, He's got
to count money to win.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He started bringing up the Cuban thing about a week ago,
Mark Cuban and potentially some marriage there.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right exactly, So you got to think that at some
point maybe when he's done, Jerry Jones, I'm selling this team,
and I'm setting a record and it's not going to
be broken because this is the Dallas Cowboys. If the
Dallas Cowboys were sold because of the bidding war, and
again it's about how often these teams come open. Again,
That's why the Yankees would be more than the Dodgers,
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because the Yankees have not been opened for fifty years,
the Dodgers three times. They've been bought and sold in
the past in the past twenty years. If Jerry Jones
sold the Cowboys, there would be such a bidding war
for it. It would they would go for twenty billion
dollars easy they would get. They would get that first
number would be a two in front of it. If
Jerry Jones decided I'm selling the Cowboys, everything it went
(25:58):
along with it. I'm gonna say everything I have all
my Jerry Bucks, go with it everything else. Cowboy Bees,
Cowboy Bees, go with it everything. Twenty billion dollars for
the Dallas County.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Would this take some of the oomph of the crusade?
By Jason Kohler, steam colleague and guest here he tried
on Fox Sports Trader?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Would it?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Would he would lessen his intensity towards d Enshrining? Yeah,
Cowboys players.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, we're gonna take you out. But I'm I was sold. Yeah,
I know you were sold. Okay, everybody we sold everything.
Hall of Fame has sold everything.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I mean, think about the events you hold there and
it's one hundred thousand people that party deck. You can
do massive things. I mean think about to all of
the monster truck rallies you can add on off days. Yeah,
it get really inventive as a new owner there. But yeah,
twenty twenty billion easy.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Cowboys would be that. Now you're looking for your wild card, right,
what would your wild card be on that? Wait? We
didn't get to the NHL yet. Well that's the thing. Yeah, Okay,
the Montreal Canadian is that it would start with a b,
it would start with a billion. But it's not gonna
be that it's not gonna be that much, is it?
Not Thengers. I don't think it's the Rangers. I would
think that the next best team that would come open
(27:14):
that would be the most. Again, again, you're talking about
a bidding war for this in I think it's coming
from football, even though you know it's it's a like
the Bulls. I don't think are going for twelve to
fifteen billion dollars, but I think it's a it's a
fight between the Rams and the Giants, and I would
(27:36):
say the Giants would get more money simply because again,
the Giants are never up for sale, and it's your
chance to own a team that you know, tried and true,
like the Dallas Cowboys is synonymous with the NFL. If
the Giants came up for sale, that would probably get
close to fifteen billion. So I would say they'd be
the wild card team on that Mount rushmore of teams
(27:56):
that are worth the most money Cowboys, Knicks, Yankees, and
probably the Giants.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yeah, I'd ram it all day.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So far.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I mean yeah, I mean, now we're splitting hairs, right,
We're just talking about mega stadiums and megacities and media markets.
I would think what you have here at so far.
My trumpet just based on the extra dates that you
have for all the extra events and the fact that
(28:27):
weather won't dissuade anybody or anything from coming to town
at any point during a year. But yeah, I think
you know again, we're we're splitting hairs over this one.
And maybe it's just the the SOFI bias of all
the different events that have rolled through here and I'm
thinking about the human monies that have been trafficked through.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I mean, so I feel pretty good about that list. Yeah,
I feel pretty good that that that's where we're at again.
Could you split hairs between the Giants and the Rams, Yeah,
but I feel like, boy, the chance to own the Giant,
it's about exclusivity. Well that's a club that has thirty
two people, and it's like, boy, would you rather own
the Giants or the ramp whoa, whoa, whoa Why I'd
rather own the Giants. But that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I mean, but you have the longevity and the fact
that you do you have location, location, location, right, It's
not just another NFL franchise coming up for sale.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So I I mean, there's your Mount rushmore of my
I love the Mount Rushmore. I like that we just
put nearly one hundred billion dollars of money on there
right there. That's that conversation right there.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
That that made the hair stand up on my arm
right there, talking about that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's go be.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
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Speaker 1 (29:45):
So how much trouble are the Yankees and Dodgers in.
Let's go to the phones and bring in someone who
it's been said, if you ask him to cover the game,
he will cover the game. When you say ease his pain,
it means he's got to tell his dad. Things with
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Network insider extraordinaire John Paul Morosi from the Field of Dreams.
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John Paul, Welcome, what's happening?
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Wait wait wait, John Paul, are you in heaven?
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Speaker 5 (30:40):
Very Earlier today, one of my colleagues from the Network,
we were working on some social.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Media content around around this amazing movie, and I showed
up to the ballpark today. If you're watching, it will
be Network in full doc gram attire was fantastically had
jaunty hat my vest. I was a tired head to
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toe and it was great because I was there for
the high school All American Game. And all of the
coaches now are our former players of my vintage, so
people that I know and covered, Luke Gregorson, Brian Schneider,
Tory Hunter, Jim tolemy Rick Eckstein, dougman, Kievitch, Brad Penny.
So all these guys are there and they're all like,
(31:35):
brosni like this is this is quite a get up man,
I mean like, like you wear this to work? Before
I said, well it's and granted, this is the other
thing that I brought with me that I never bring
with me to work, and I mean never, and that
is my gloves. My glove in the baseball I brought
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to work. So here I am wearing wearing my media credential.
Now on any other day of the baseball year, if
I showed up to work carrying my baseball glove in
a ball. Hey guys, I'm going to cover baseball and
I got my glove with me. It would be a
little bit, a little bit unique, I would say if
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I was doing that, But on this particular day, on
this particular setting, all things are welcome in terms of
your authentic love of the game. I also, it was
funny as I was referencing. My colleague asked me, said, John,
we're doing some social media, would you like to quote
your favorite line from the movie. And I said, I mean, basically,
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I've got half of the movie memorized. But I'm wearing
the doc Gram gear here, so I better I should
do the doc Gram quote. And so I just started
then doing the his speech to Ray in his office, which,
by the way, I visited his office yesterday, which is
in Galena, l So the Chisholm, Minnesota stand in. Now
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I'm getting into the bit of dreams. I mean, you're
now like, if you watch the movie, you know what
I'm talking about the town of Chisholm, Minnesota, where a
Moonlight Graham is from. It's actually Galena, Illinois where the
scenes were filmed. So naturally, I am such a nerd
and aficionado of this movie that I actually visited the
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place where it was filmed, the other place, the one
that was in Illinois. And so I actually sat outside
of Doc Graham's office in Galina. And and so I
did the speech which was and I'll do the abridge
version here. I never got a chance to stare down
a big league picture and just when he goes into
his wind up, wink at him, make him think that
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you know something he doesn't. And so I did the
whole you know, the whole thing. So I don't know
how it turned out. We'll see how the old social
posed thing goes. But a little bit of a behind
the behind the scenes where basically the question came, John,
can you give us one of your favorite lines? And
I basically said, well, which of the Dot graham favorite
lines do you want me to give? The one about
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I better get home or Alicia's gonna think I've got
a girlfriend? All these different things. Right, it's this movie.
I could talk about it all day. And so I
am full of nostalgia and passion right now here in
the great state of Iowa.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
All Right, So I give you a challenge for tomorrow
night's game great. I want you to get in my
favorite line from Field of Dreams. Oh tell me, okay,
my favorite, because no matter how many times you have
seen this movie, whether it is the twelfth time or
the first time or the fiftieth time, you bust out
belly laughing, I want you to I want you to
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say so we told him to stick it.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I want you to get.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The line in get the ty Kalbin. None of us
can stand in the SLB when he was alive, so
he told him to stick it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Ha. That is such and that that Ralio to laugh.
You could see that it's similar, of course to the
I believe, to the good fellow's laugh as well. I
would say, very very similar, Ralio to what an amazing,
amazing actor. I mean, all the lines I mean. And
by the way, this is the other thing act. And
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I did not know this, and this might be part
of my field.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Trip tomorrow, but there is a a a few blocks
of Dubuque where they didn't actually and this like completely
locked my mind when.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I learned this. Is that the like the whole scene
where he's trying to find where Terrence Man lives, that
was actually all shot in Dubuque. And not Boston where
where he finally finds someone. He pays the guy cash
to say, yeah, it's the it's his door is the
first one without the chicken in the window, remember that.
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So that was actually a couple of blocks that were
that were blocked off in Dubuque, So that that might
be my my road trip tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All right.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
So since we're talking chicken, we're talking bones, we're talking structure,
all of that stuff. Bryce Harper, how concerned are they
about his knee?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Tell you what? The Phillies do not need this news
right now on Harper, and I think it is concerning.
Still tbd exactly how concerning it is, but I think
they're a little worried. And obviously we'll see how things
play out tomorrow with the game here in Iowa, if
you might potentially be in the lineup still, but this
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is the time of year where we really thought the
Phillies were going to get going and really maybe catch fire.
They got Luisa Ryce, but part of the issue is
how many different players had to move around as a result,
including now Bryce Harper. So this is obviously a concern
for the Phillies. On the flip side, the Twins newly
optimistic that Byron Buxton could be back tomorrow. So wouldn't
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it be sort of an interesting dynamic there if Harper
is not available, But Buxton is so staying tuned on that.
But that is certainly one of them many stories we're
watching carefully here as we get ready for the Field
of Dreams game tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
All right, So now two teams that since the deadline
have gotten all sorts of attention for reasons they'd rather not.
We'll start with the Yankees, who, hey, I thought they
had a pretty good deadline. I thought they added what
they needed to add. Obviously it's a big deal waiting
for Aaron Judge to come back. But here they are
now even further back of the Rays, who have been
red hot, winning nine in a row. How much trouble
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are the Yankees in right now?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Well, they're to me, I will say that now, I
would never concede it. We're still at a fairly early
stage of the season, at least in terms of deciding races.
But I don't see them winning the American League East.
I mean they are so they're a wild card team,
and that means that they're going to be in a
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pretty stressful situation, especially when you consider how well the
Red Sox have played. So they're pitching. I think when
you look at Cam Schlitzer, he might win the cy Young.
They've obviously got freed back, they've got coal, But it
seems to me that their offense still obviously accepting the win.
Tonight a nice ten run out burst for the Yankees.
(38:09):
I just don't think that we're seeing enough top to
bottom consistency. And the reasons are pretty clear the Beliger
injury and most importantly the Judge injury. So yes, they
had a pretty productive deadline, But I just I look
at this lineup and I don't see the same depth
as what the Red Sox have, and I don't even
see the same depth of what the Rays have. So
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if the Rays have the deepest lineup in the division
and the Red Sox are probably going to be second,
I put the Yankees third. So they might not only
just be a wild card team, but they might be
a wild card team that opens on the road and
has to deal with either their division rival Red Sox
or one of the hot teams that's coming up now
behind them in the American League wild card standings. These
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are very very concerning times. Indeed for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Still a lot of handwringing here in Los Angeles, even
though twenty four games over five hundred, best run differential
in all a Major League Baseball But we know the
offense has added struggles for the Dodgers JP. But they
get Blake Snell back last night, pitches a Jem Lawer
currently winning against Casey Long. In the short of it,
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is it just ride it out and wait till October?
Or should the Dodgers be concerned about what's waiting for
them come playoff time.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'm a little less worried about the Dodgers than I
am worried about the Yankees. And part of this has
to do with the way that I agree Blake snell
coming back is huge, gives the Dodgers a boost. Scooble
will eventually pick it up to where you start winning,
you know, I'll start winning games every time he's going
out there, or something close to it. Obviously, it hasn't
necessarily been the most auspicious beginning for scoobl in a
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Dodger uniform. They they don't need they I really believe this.
They don't need Otani to be a starting pitcher for
them to win, for them to win the World Series.
They I believe they have got enough right now with
that group. When you think about Yamamoto, when you think
about school Well, I am a little bit worried about Robleski,
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but again, these things are mitigated because the rest of
the rotation is getting a little bit healthier and in
the lineup I am. I suppose I have a little
bit worried about Kyle Tucker because although he has been
a bit better of late in the last week or so,
but there will be enough run scoring by this lineup,
I believe down the stretch to hold off the competitors
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right now in the National League West, although I do
look at the overall n L playoff pictures and the
team that concerns me the most from their standpoint is Chicago.
I think the Cubs with that lineup depth. I also
look at the Braves as being a formidable opponent. All
that is all that's true. The Dodgers, though, I believe
when you talk about that group and the way that
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they get smell back and who knows how Otani will
do it, so that there's still some optimism that he'll
be able to get back on the mount of pitch,
even if it's not in the full starting capacity, even
if he's just an opener, I do think he gives
them value in that role. So less worried right now
about the Dodgers than I am worried about the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Getting set for the field of dream Games tomorrow. It
is John Paul MOROSEI now I do have because I
spent the last week's thinking maybe it's unfair to just
give you one option of favorite lines to get in okay, right,
to tell you know, to stick it. So I want
to give you another option, John Paul, all right, if
you want to do okay? So who's doing that? Who
else is on the call with you tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
So I am?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
I am here in my MLB central role. So it's
Mark DeRosa, Robert Flores, Laurence Shahati. So it is I'm
here for the the Morning pregame show, and then I'm
hosting a co hosting a show on Twitter with Ben Verlander.
Justin your How how about that? That's that's my my midday.
So I've got We've got choices there. Durosa, Flora, Shahati,
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Verlander are all my teammates. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Okay, So here, here's the thing is that you can
you also do this like this is another one of
my favorite lines. Maybe this works. You can bring in
Lauren Shahati or somebody else all right when you finish
and you throw it back to them and say, hey,
you know, just for a second, I want you guys
to know. Throughout this entire day, I've never once asked
what's in it for me? And then if someone is
smart enough, they will say, well, so what do you
want to know? And then you will say, of course,
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I want to know what's in it for me? Ex
it for me.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
That's one of the all time best ones. I I
we could do an entire podcast just about that movie
and why I will say this. I encourage all of
you out there watch the movie again. It's actually on
Netflix this week. Watch it again, because every time you
watch it, it hits you differently. You're in a different
(42:45):
phase of your life, your relationships are different, They've changed.
I get emotional thinking about this and talking about it,
like like I love this movie so much and I
share it with my family too. Man, Just this this
is These are the nights. These are times where you
really realize that we are part of one family that
loves this game, and just share it with a sibling.
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Go play catch with the people in your life tomorrow
in honor of this movie, in this game. This is
why we do what we do. My friends, so so
grateful to be here.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Hey, what's the model of glove? You got? What's the
signature in there?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Wilson? So it's it's actually not I don't have a
signature in it. It wasn't. It wasn't. Let me. I
got the model here. It is a Rawlings, it's a Rallings,
and it's an infielder's glove because I've got you know,
it's the open webbing right. So I this is the
same one that I've had, by the way, since my
I think it was my junior year in high school.
(43:40):
That was just a couple of years ago, by the way,
uh so Pro two O six G for the professional
player deep Pocket. It's called the Gold Glove series by
Rawlings and it is man here here, listen, listen, here
we go. That's me just popping the ball.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
We're popping there.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Now, come on, now, I'm probably waking up the people
next to me in the hotel.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Here he's going down to the lobby to throw at
the person on duty. Hey, you know, I want to
have a catch right now. His second bag was a
pitch back so he could.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
I played catch with Jeremy Guthrie today. He was there
in an MLB capacity and Jeremy I had my love
with me. He's like, John, you want to have a
catch up? Yes, Jeremy, I do.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So did he say it just like that to you?
Do you want to have a catch?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
That's that's pretty He did, like he could tell that
that I was in need of a catch all right.
And it was just it was awesome. I love, loved
every minute.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Enjoy the game tomorrow, my friend. Again, I will look
for one of those lines to hit social media so
we can play it back on the show.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm going to try to sneak in as many of
the best lines as I possibly came, very much as
I get tomorrow fantastic, and we'll see how many people
can really pick up on it. So I trust that
you will and I want you to hold me to this.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
I love this from Dyers of Iowa getting set for
a big game in Cornfield tomorrow. It's MLB Networks, John
Paul Morosi, John Paul and Joy get some.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Sleepeaking of friendship. Guys, thank you for all you do.
I look forward to this conversation every week.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Have a good night. If you go to sleep, you
will have energy tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Since go the distance.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Have a great call, buddy. Thank you,
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