September 2, 2026 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon told you ten days ago to watch how many pro franchises are sold in the next three years in the major sports. Today, the Angels. Former Clippers PXP announcer said what on social media? What the heck is wrong with Paul Skenes? And the guys debated if the biggest story of the day was a great one or a disaster!
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the Angels and loosely the Clippers. Like, that's never going
to happen again. No. I mean, Ridd, it's a once
every 76 years. The two No. 2 teams in the
second biggest market have the biggest stories right now. Almost
the age of the second story when you talk about
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Haley's Comet coming around. Yeah, things we did not see
for a hundred. When does Halley's Comet come around again?
I came around when we were kids. So it's got
to be, we got to be like halfway to it
at least, right? 76 years for Halley's Comet. They came
down like in the late 70s, right? 2061. Oh, 2061. Oh,
that's a long time. That's a long time. Really? I
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want to say. I'm not going to make 90. 70? No, no, no, no, no, no,
no way. No way. Halley's Comet's every 76 years. Right?
Last time it came was 86. Oh, was that late? Yeah.
Some of you thought it was like in the 70s. No,
it was when the Mets won. It was celebrated. So
that's the next time the Mets are going to win.
That's probably right. I got to make it to 2061. See,
now forever those two will be fused in your brain.
(02:09):
Right there. That's also the year that the Mets will
finish paying Bobby Bonilla. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, today
I'm like, oh my God, we have, it's angels and... Yeah. Clippers.
By way of the Clippers. It's a crazy online story
that just keeps getting more and more attention. One of
those that you're looking for the headlines and you're like, wait,
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it's not there. It's like, no, no, you got to
look a little harder and you will find it all.
This is never going to happen again.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Never.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I mean, when are we ever going to start a show?
Angels and Clippers. We should put a plaque on. Oh, man.
We should put a plaque over in that corner of
the wall right here. Things we never thought we'd see
on the same day. And forever, when we have two
really random stories that coalesce, we celebrate it. So the
big story, we have two takes on, well, look, the Angels.
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The big story of the day is they were sold
to Stan Kroenke, who owns the Rams. He owns about
17 other teams. He buys the Angels today for $ 4 billion.
Artie Marino has been trying to sell the Angels off
and on for the better part of the last decade.
He was selling them. He wasn't selling them. I'm selling them.
Now they're off the market. What do you mean off
the market? It's like what websites do when they leave
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something that's on clearance for a while, but nobody buys it.
They put it back at a regular price. Why would
you do that? No one's buying it on clearance. You
got to make it go down if you want to
sell it. But he finally agrees to sell the Angels today.
Stan Kroenke going to buy it for an MLB record.
$ 4 billion. I know that this is the rub and
this is this the thing. The Angels have sold for
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an MLB record $ 4 billion. Not the Mets, not the Yankees,
not the Dodgers, not me, not Hermione, you. the angels
have set a record this is this is i'm going
back in time to when the clippers were sold for
two billion dollars and all of a sudden the nfl
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said well the number two team in la is worth
two billion dollars we have to get nfl teams to
los angeles right was right after that happened steve ballmer
bought the clippers after years and years of if we
don't get a new stadium we're gonna move to los
angeles nope la got two teams but you remember remember
that time you and i talking about it as it
transpired and everybody thought two billion was just out Outrageous
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and ridiculous. And I think we might have been the
only contrarians in a marketplace going, when do these properties
come up in major marketplaces like this? Distressed properties and
the opportunity. You come over the top and you build
from there. So the big thing to realize, like one
of the big takeaways from this is that about 10
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days we told you Lakers being sold, right? We've seen
teams being sold, you know, across the board now. The
next five years, wait till you see how many professional
teams in the big three. And outside of it, too.
But NFL, NBA, MLB, wait till you see how many
teams are sold. Why? Because this is a new time.
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Now with the government getting involved in business, it changes
every five minutes. Owning a sports team is no longer
for the old guard. It's no longer for the old money.
It's for the new money who are up on the
ever-changing rules and regulations and how to make tons of
money and how I can come in and buy a
team because I'm worth $ 20 billion. I'm not... worth a billion,
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so I need three other guys to come in with
me to buy a team. Those days are gone. Those
used to be how teams were. Hey, like with A-Rod
and his investors buying the T-Wolves. Yeah, okay. But that's
how it used to be done. Now, people are so rich.
They're coming, yeah, I can buy this team. And now
people are owning more than one team. They're owning two, three,
four teams. Until you get in trouble and potentially investigate
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it and you start selling the team. Well, yeah. But
this is just what you're going to see now. If
you think, wow, seeing the Lakers get sold. Lakers have
not been sold twice in the past year. The number
of teams that get sold in the next five years
are the three major sports. I'm going to say a
third of the teams in each of those leagues wind
up getting sold. Because the old guard that has owned
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the team for a while and also... maybe not quite
in tune with running a team in 2026 and what
it takes to win and to stay relevant and to
keep people involved, how to stay at the top. They
knew one way to do things, right? People knew one way.
Even people that bought teams in 2010 are looking to say,
how do I move on from this? Now, LaGuardia Marino
bought the team. He's not a guy that's on the
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team since the 70s. You bought the team just 25
years ago, and now things have changed so much, I
want to get out of this. I want to get
out and I want to move on. So a third
of the teams, I think, in each league will wind
up getting sold the next year because the old owners
are going to say, now's the time to cash out.
I can make so much more money on my investment,
and I don't have to worry about the value going down.
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I don't have to worry about staying... up with all
the business things how to how to navigate this new
business world because i'm in my 60s or 70s or
80s how i deal with staying competitive because now staying
competitive in 2026 is much different than it used to
be it's no longer my game i own the team
and my day has come and gone and now you're
going to see new money hedge fund people tech people
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all kinds of stuff Big conglomerates, one man, one woman
franchises come in and say, yes, I'll buy this team,
but I'm going to get approved. I'm worth $ 25 billion.
I can buy a team for $ 5 billion. Oh, okay.
And the approval process will go quickly. Again, you will
see a third of each of the leagues sold in
the next five years. Would not be surprised. There's a
lot of factors to it. Hopefully Kroenke tries to one-up
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the Padres' ownership with the We Want to Win song.
He's got to come stronger than that. I mean, because
if you're going over the top for the four billion dollars,
which gets you no land, which is a whole other
part of this process. And you also had a recent
edict from Governor Newsom that they're called the Anaheim Angels.
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That's it. Like there's no longer the Los Angeles Angels
of Anaheim. It's back to your roots. But you don't
get any of the land around you because immediately you
start thinking, well, it's a good land deal. talking about
$ 850 a square foot in Anaheim. Can you tell who
got his research hat on and was trying to figure
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out what's the proper valuation of the land around there
near the House of Mouses? But you look at all
of those factors that you laid out. Also look at
what happened with the Lakers when you talk about succession plans.
You got some owners that we've known that their kids
want nothing to do with the business, right? It's like
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trying to hand down a hardware store, a service shop, whatever. Like, nah,
I grew up in that. I don't want to do that.
Breaks the heart of mom and dad, the grandparents, whoever
started it. But it's the reality here. They like the money.
They like everything that goes with it. It's like, I
don't want to live that life. I don't want to
have to know that. And you see all the ancillary
stuff in terms of running a business. And the Rams
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are a good example of it. The Dodgers have been. Again,
the Mark Walter stuff notwithstanding. But of all the secondary
parts of the business that you have to operate, it's
not just putting a team on a field and owning
the building. Now we're talking about all the sports science
and adding... tens if not hundreds of people to your
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payroll to build out the businesses of keeping that machine going.
It's not the simple ways of rub some dirt on
it and get back out there. Give them the shot
like you're James Woods in any given Sunday. No, no,
there's a lot going on here. Matthew Modine wouldn't give
the shot. Then I learned to give the shot. I
like the attention. It's just the new way, the new
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big business tycoons The big billionaires, multi-billionaires, this is how
it's going to go. These are who are going to
own teams now, and sports is ever evolving the old way.
That's just not happening anymore, and these guys are all
going to cash out. Time to go. I'm going to
make so much money. I bought the team for $ 300 million.
$ 182 million in 2013. Right, and now I'm turning it
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into whatever billion. Now I can go buy a different
team if I want to. I can go put my
money into something else. I can go do this, right?
Now is the time to cash out. It's going to
be a race. for teams to put their money out.
Because the approval process will be easy. Because it's not like, well,
we've got to wait. I'm bringing in this money guy. No,
I got it. No, I got it. Here you go.
I can write you a check right now. You can
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have the $ 5 billion. What's it going to take? Until
Tuesday to clear? Tuesday. It's not tied to any insurance
policies or any of those. I'm going to put it
on my special credit card here. It's a special credit card.
It just says buy a team. Going through. But, you know,
last night we had a big discussion after talking to
Jason Lock and Four about your New York football Jets.
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And I see that hope has really sprung into you
today because that is a shiny Jets hat. Talking about
Mike Tomlin, talking about, you know, Lamar Jackson, potential chaos
or whatever, enforcing the hand either for a sale or
just to operate properly of Woody Johnson. In the background
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of that, we'd mentioned the Angels because they came up
when we were having that discussion about USC. That is
now in day, what, five? All sorts of coaches try
to sideswipe the attendance from Saturday's game. But the idea
of you're still, even if a team is bad, there's
going to be a lot of times where you're still
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printing cash and tickets are sold, right? The Angels rank
in the middle of attendance this year and have... there
or better every year yeah once upon a time you
had otani sometimes you have mike trout now but you're
near disneyland you're in southern california it's a tourist like
it's another check the box if i saw another stadium
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so they draw over three million a year so people
will still go uh but i didn't think within 24
hours when we were talking about the forcing the invisible
hand on the coasts so that every big big market
team was competitive that arty moreno would be shown the
door yeah Oh, okay, I'll finally sign those papers. It's
like we put it into action. Yeah, thanks, thanks, appreciate it.
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And now you're gone, right? And look, and the other
part of this, too, is that, as we also mentioned
last night, that, hey, with the whole Jets story with
Mike Tomlin, Jason Lock and Fora telling us that, hey,
there's a lot of people in the NFL talking about this.
I know Park Avenue is definitely up on Mike Tomlin
becoming the Jets head coach because... After seeing the way
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that the leagues have gone the last years, they know
the top teams need to be relevant, the teams in
the biggest markets. We went through all the different teams
in New York and L.A. The last five years, the
huge changes that have come to everybody, and the last one...
That was kind of sitting out there has been the Jets, right?
Everybody else has gotten the new coaches, the players, gotten
funneled to them, whether it's Luca, whether it is John Harbaugh,
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whatever it is, you have seen all the teams in
New York and L.A. all get funneled towards being good.
The Knicks winning the title, Jalen Brunson going, wait a minute,
there was collusion, there was tampering. OK, we've seen it
all happen. The Jets were the only team. Hey, we
stink no matter what we can do. Now, maybe the
league is OK. We're going to help Woody Johnson because
a team that plays in New York can no longer
be bad. We can't just say, well, we got great
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teams in Green Bay. We got great. No, it doesn't
matter anymore. You got to get those teams in the
big markets good. And really, you know, yes, it's technically Anaheim,
but it's still Los Angeles. Now here come the Angels,
who are hopefully going to be bought into some sort
of relevancy where money is going to be spent smartly
and not badly like Artie Marino spent it. Maybe suddenly now, hey,
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the Angels are going to be really good. So now
we're really taking care of those teams, the big market
teams in New York and L.A. We're even getting outs.
We're getting the second teams in each of these markets
to make sure they're good. They get raised up. I'm
telling you, I'm not saying I know anything that each
league is in cahoots with. making sure that the teams
from New York and Los Angeles are good. But, I mean,
you look at what each team in every one of
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the major leagues has done in the last couple of years,
and you see, wow, okay, they've all been raised up.
They've all gotten better to some extent. And the last
holdout was the Jets. But now, hey, we'll get outside
of L.A. We'll help the Anaheim Angels.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Ah!
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh, great.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We're going to help the angels out.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Awesome. Yeah. 41 years later, a much different version of
the frozen envelope. But just two things really quick. One
that was circulating quite a bit about ownership, having a
baseball team and an NFL team in the same marketplace, whatever. Yeah,
that rule existed. A decade ago. It's been gone since 2018,
so you can forget about that. The fact that they're
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also called Anaheim might also have something to do with it.
But here's the question I have to ask you, though. Yeah,
go ahead. How quickly does Kroenke get a deal done
with Anaheim at maybe a premium over that 850 square foot?
of real estate land to where some of it reverts
to his company as opposed to being owned by the
city pretty quickly i think what he's going to do
(15:02):
is the old uh from there will be blood like
at the end when daniel day lewis says if i
have a straw and it reaches all the way over
to your yard and into your milkshake i drink your
milkshake if i own property here and it extends all
All the way to Los Angeles. Then I drink your milkshake.
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And he would win. Somewhere in the system is a
young Madeline Harmon doing that entire bit. Drainage, Eli. Drainage. Drainage, Eli.
I'm ready to sell to you. Eli, let me tell
you what happened, Eli. I'm going to take all these
parking lots and they're going to be beautiful. So we
got more on this story coming up in a bit. Again,
biggest story. The Angels are sold, right? But yeah, we
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got some football stuff. And we absolutely have to talk
about what's been happening on social media. Kind of about
the Clippers, but not really. But boy, is it something.
It is aspirational. Okay. You mean like you might choke
on something? Oh, I was thinking you're aspiring. Oh, okay.
(16:07):
I'm thinking, okay. Yeah. No, not asphyxiating. Well, you aspirate.
You aspirate. Two different words. That's coming up next right here.
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the biggest story. Yay. Right behind it, this developing craziness
kind of involving the Clippers. Kind of, but you'll see
what I mean. So I'm hanging out today. I'm at home,
and all of a sudden, Frostberg texts me, dude, Ralph Lawler.
I go, oh, my God, what? Because Ralph Lawler, 88
years old, longtime Clippers announcer, right? Retired a few years ago.
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What happened? He goes, no, no, no. Go check out
his social media. I go, okay. So I go check
out Ralph Lawler's social media. And oh me, oh my,
is there some stuff on it? Yeah. So I saw this.
I said, okay, now the first thing is I want
to make sure this is Ralph Lawler, right? Is this
Ralph Lawler's official Twitter account? It says, retired play-by-play announcer
for the Clippers, 60 years in broadcasting. He's been tweeting.
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It seems like it's his page. You know, it seems
like it's him. I actually called Monsi, who's the biggest,
you know, her and Ben Maller, the biggest Clipper fans.
I said, Monsi, is this Ralph Lawler's Twitter account? She goes, yeah,
I'm pretty sure it is. That's Ralph Lawler's Twitter account. Okay. Now,
whether this is Ralph Lawler or him getting hacked, however,
seeing the responses, I would think if Ralph Lawler was hacked,
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we would have known this by now. Uh, now again, and,
and oh me, oh my on Twitter, which is kind of, okay,
that's his call. Um, In the middle of a lot
of basketball posts, there was a post on social media
today that made a lot of ways, and I think
this is probably how it got found out. A woman,
or a post from a woman, said, And it's her
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in a bathing suit, smiling for the camera. And Ralph Lawler,
the Ralph Lawler Twitter account, quote tweeted it and just said, oh, yes. Yes. Okay. Also,
right before that, there was a post saying, hey, if
you could be honest, if you could only take one
of these women on a date, who are you picking?
And there's six really attractive women in a post. And
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that is quote tweeted by Ralph Lawler, three. Okay. The
third woman in is who he would be picking to
take on a date. Now, he's since been talking back
with people going, Ralph, what are you doing? What's going on?
on here, man? You're 88. He's like, what are you
talking about? I have grandchildren older than them and all
this stuff. And I'm going, oh, wow. This is wow.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh, man.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Again, it could be Ralph Lawler. It's Ralph Lawler. Is
he hacked? Okay. But when I saw this, my first thought,
you know, because my first thought wasn't Ralph Lawler. My
first thought was I'm sitting there going, okay, Ralph Lawler
is 88, right? And here he is. And he's tweeting.
And nothing, you know, inappropriate. Just a little weird. Yeah,
(20:21):
a little weird. Well, I mean, he's just responding. And
if you decide to take it weird, you certainly can
go down that path. And I started thinking, I'm going, hmm.
Do I want to know or do I not want
to know what my dad's online profiles are like on
social media? Fair. Because he's on Facebook, so I see
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all his Facebook posts. But do I want to see–
what's my dad's late 70s? And I want to think
that everything he's searching is– Yankees, MLB Network, PGA Tour,
you know, who to pick in the MLB streak that
we do.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh, sure.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But is that really what his... Might have something to
do with streaking. What his computer activity is like. That's
the first thought is, oh, Ralph Waller. What is my
dad doing? Like, that's really my thought was, what is
he doing? Like, if I went to his house and
I went through his social media activity or his search activity,
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what would I find? Is that something a son should
find for his father? Well, eventually you might have to,
whether you want to or not. Yeah, I would say...
It's a dark path, right? I mean, the reality, and
you want to keep everything sunshine, rainbows, and lollipop, but
recognizing the humanity of it all. Because as I'm reading
(21:42):
back through it again, because this goes back over a week, actually,
where this started, right? To be clear, it began with
a thing with Sophie Cunningham, and he replied with a...
Stop with the Ralph is flirting nonsense. I like the
way Sophie shoots the three and I admire her outreach
and social media. I only flirt with my sweet Joe.
For a second while I was seeing all these pictures,
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I'm going, does he think that woman is Sophie Cunningham?
It seemed like maybe, oh, there's a picture of Sophie.
I like a picture of Sophie Cunningham. But just the,
Oh me, Oh my, for what, you know, what woman,
you know, because we can have the woman tattoos, no
tattoos conversation. It's a legit conversation for, you know, whatever
you like. Uh, Ralph Lawler, what is my, uh, Oh me,
(22:24):
Oh my, uh, let's put it that way. Uh, what
is my being 88 have to do with anything happening online?
And it just goes all the way. And then there's
a bunch of things about the Clippers and he hasn't
been around because he doesn't like Kawhi. Like there's a
lot going on. Should they fire this guy or hire
that guy? And it's quick responses, but yeah, this has
been going on a little while here. Um, Yeah, it's
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some next level stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I like it. And, of course, the internet just makes
him a creep. Oh, sure. As opposed to, he's just
a guy. Yeah, I mean, it's just. Stating a preference.
It's a little weird. It's just a little weird. Well,
you just didn't see it coming. It just made me
think about my family. Maybe I got to find a
way to go over my dad's apartment in the next
couple of days and just find a way to hit
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his search bar on his computer. Go, dad, what are
you searching for, dad? Dad, I want to show you
something I found on YouTube. Yeah, let me look, Dad.
Let me just see. You know what? Don't you? Oh, hey,
could you grab me something out of the fridge? Like
people do in the movies when it's like they want
to get on their computer and they stick in the
thumb drive. I got the thumb drive now. Come on,
(23:30):
come on. Copy, copy, copy. Go. I need eight more
seconds to get it all. And of course, it goes,
you know, filling up 77%, 78, 85, 93, 100%. Let's
pull the thumb drive out. I got it. I got
all my dad searching for. But now you got me thinking.
I'd be like, horse racing, conspiracy theories and news stuff,
whatever nonsense you and I were yelling about. Yeah. And
(23:54):
then my mom, computer games and deals. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
All right. Where to find a deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because everything's got to be on sale. Yeah. Even if
it's really not. Oh, yeah, no. But if they can
convince you that it's a deal. It can make up
any price. Normally $ 78. Now $ 34. Oh, well, it's $ 45 off.
I got to go buy it. Got to have it. Yeah.
I got to buy two because they're not really. But,
you know. Because I know my dad, like a lot
(24:21):
of his searches would be Yankees. PGA Tour, online crossword puzzles.
My dad's a huge crossword guy. He passed that down
to me. All this stuff. But I'm just going, well,
what's everything? Is he raiding people? Is he doing this?
Is he raiding people online? But this also got people
to start looking up the word goon.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's not just a hockey enforcer anymore. It's tough. Dad,
what are you doing? You raided somebody. You said number six. Yes,
which of these Yankees is the greatest of all time?
One through six. Oh, so you picked Mickey Mantle. Okay,
got it. Got it, Dad. You're all good, Dad. I'm leaving.
I'm leaving. It's all good. It's all good, Dad. I'm going.
I'm going. He'd just put a halo on St. Walt
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right there. He'd be searching, Red Sox announcer Will Fleming, right?
Like all the things like that. He'd be very, very upset.
How many message boards did he get involved with with that?
How many times did he start flaming the Red Sox announcers?
I can't wait. Red Sox fans. No, no, no. I
can't do that. You don't want to go down and
open that door. I can't do that. I can't. Now, so, okay,
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so hopefully, you know, this Ralph Law, again, it's a
little weird, but, you know, hey, okay. It's all good. Well,
good for Ralph. Yeah, it makes me, you know, think about,
you know, okay. Well, what are you going to be
doing when you're 79? What do people do? I don't know, man.
Probably soon. Why do the Mets still stink? All right,
here we go. Now, you won't actually have to type
anything at that point. It's going to be all just
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voice actualized. No, again, I know what it'll be. It'll be,
who did the Jets let go in their final round
of cuts? Who did they pick up that I think
is going to be any good? Here's year 76 of
being fruitless because they stink. That's what's going to happen.
Whatever happened to insert dot, insert name dot, dot, dot. Meanwhile,
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speaking of baseball, okay, one of the biggest stories tonight,
the absolute pounding that Paul Skeens took on the mound
again for the Pirates. Right now, one of the most
entertaining games. The Pirates win in a walk-off 13-12, but Skeens,
a rough day. He goes just over four innings. He
gives up eight runs. His ERA is up at four
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right now. And what is wrong with Paul Skeens? What
is wrong with Paul Skeens, right? His line tonight... Four
and two-thirds, eight hits, five runs, three walks. Again, ERA
is 3.97. 95 pitches, 56 for strikes. Yeah, reminder that
they played the Giants. Yeah, that's the thing. They played
the Yankees. No, no, no. They played the Phillies. No,
they played the Giants. Ooh. The good news is, is
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that This is not something, because everybody is all doom
and gloom in the fall off for Paul Skeens this year.
I've never seen a fall off so bad. This guy
was the rock star in Major League Baseball. Him and
Livvy Dunn, and every five days was an event for him.
But this year, he's been bad. It's been a bad year.
I know how to solve this, and it's going to
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be easy. It's just going to take until next April.
You're taking Livvy Dunn out of the equation. Hey, listen,
you're ruining the team. Hey, take off that shirt before
you break up the band, you psycho. What's going on
with Paul Skeens? He's shown you enough over the course
of his first two years. You know how great he is.
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This is not a guy that had a meteoric eight-start
run one year, but then a bunch of years come back,
and he's come back down to earth. Two full years,
he has been the best pitcher in baseball. His stuff
is electric. He's that good. What's happened to him this year? Generally,
pitchers like that who are that good, when they have
a down year, there's a reason, and it's always one
of the following. It's always physical. They're injured, they're dinged up,
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and they just can't throw like they used to. It's mechanics,
and their mechanics are off a little bit. Jacob deGrom
was famous for that. If he had a start, we
gave up three runs in six innings, which is like
the worst we ever had. He would go back and say,
my mechanics were off. I went back and looked at
the film, this, this. He was so particular about his mechanics,
he would never let it go off more than a
game or two. or it's something, like I said, or
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something physical, and a lot has been made the fact
that since he's come into the major leagues now, he's
put on 25 pounds at least. So this is for
Paul Skeens. Yes, it's one or all of those things.
It's putting on weight. It's your mechanics are off a
little bit. It's physical. It's a tired arm. This is
nothing that an off-season away from baseball isn't going to fix,
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where you get back into workout mode physically, You get
back into focus mode. You rest your arm. You take
a look and see what you're doing, why your mechanic's
falling off. Whatever that is, this will absolutely be fixed
from the beginning of next year. Now, the bad news
is they want to fight for a wild card over
the course of the last month, and Skeens is killing
them every time he goes out there. I said three
weeks ago, hey, Skeens... Give him some time off. Let
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him rest that arm. They rest him an extra three days.
He came back. He had a pretty good outing. Okay,
now you see he's still not throwing like he used to.
But this is not the doom and gloom, and this
is the death of Paul Skeens is a great pitcher,
and now he's done. No, this is simply he's a
great pitcher, and things have happened both physically to him.
Things have happened physically to him this year that he
just has to straighten out in the offseason. And sometimes
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that's what you need, and there's nothing you can rush
on it. It's just... a way to get away from
the day-to-day and refocus on getting yourself back to where
you are. By the time we get to next spring,
they'll manage his workload better. He'll be throwing 98, 100
miles an hour like he used to. Everything's going to
be fine. The bad news is the rest of this year, yeah,
every fifth day you might get what's wrong with Paul Skeens.
But you think Paul Skeens is terrible? No, no, no.
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This is by the beginning of next year. He'll be
back to being Paul Skeen. Walk to strikeout ratio. K
to walk still 4.3. Still pretty good. Careers 4.9. So
a dip from last year as it is with everything.
He's been more hittable staying in the zone. Might be
one of those guys that we wonder about where the
margins were in terms of pitches that he got last
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year versus this year, where he's got to stay a
little more on the plate, and he's been more hittable
for that, right, and hasn't adapted there as well over
the course of the season. Putting on the extra pounds,
this might be the first time that we've ever had
an athlete have more of the dad bod that he
(30:36):
didn't get chided for because he was in frame with
Libby Dunn. Like, normally guys put on a couple of pounds, like, ah,
you know, it's the girlfriend, it's the wife, and it
becomes the derision. Like, no, I mean, if he thought
that it was going to help in terms of his
push and whatever he's doing, cool. Maybe it backfired. All
of those things. Could be pitching hurt to the point
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you made off the jump. They've got a team that's
still competing. Would he have been shut down if they
were three games worse? Maybe. But it's a con... conversation
worth having because you're looking at the long-term effects too
because you've got this valuable pitching prospect we've seen this
go south for so many guys in the path in
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the past i mean look at de grom ended up
uh having a couple of lost years before now he's
back on his Hall of Fame path, right? I mean,
we watch him every fifth day, and like him and
PCA every day, you grimace a little when we've got
to read the stat line aloud. But some guys don't
find their way back. But more often than not, we do.
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Those elite guys have a down year. and come back.
Once upon a time, that was not the case because
they didn't get the grace and didn't get to clear
the mechanism and all of that stuff. Uh, and it
just spiraled down from there because you're also looking at
the long-term effect also for the pirates very much in their, uh,
purview to uh sit down with him his team and
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figure out what the hell's going wrong because eventually either
they have to pay him or they want to get
some kind of big return for him because that's been
the the promise that's been there the last two plus
years which suddenly is dwindling by the start yeah he'll
be fine it just isn't going to be in the
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All the big news from baseball today. More on the
Angels sale and Paul Skeens. But the Angels being sold today,
you've seen one message all the way through. What a
great day for Angels fans. Artie Marino selling the team,
and now they have a chance. Mike Trout even put
out a statement saying, hey, it's a fresh start. It's
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the strongest thing he's ever said. All of a sudden,
Mike Trout is saying, like, wow, you know the Angels
had to be sold if Mike Trout is saying, hey,
we needed this. Like, whoa, thank you for saying something
other than what the weather is like in Philadelphia. Like, whoa,
look at Mike Trout. I got to say, I'm quite
disappointed in him. Why is that? That this was what
it took for him to finally open his mouth? Well.
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It's like five years ago, you had clout. Yeah. Right? Obviously,
we had the— burgeoning you know records and and craziness
going on with shohei otani but mike trout was the
guy yeah long ago you could have opened your mouth
and maybe affected some sort of change not that you
were going to get him i don't i don't know
that you can i don't know that a star can
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get a guy to sell a team no no i'm
not saying to get but to actually do something with
said team uh well you have to be on the
field and you have to be someone who year in
and year out as a superstar that's why i said
five years ago maybe seven you go back and look
i think he had trouble that time too all right
Either way, I'm just trying to say, in the Wayback Machine,
when he was that guy. But look, obviously, yes, it's
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a great day for the Angels in that Artie Marino,
they won the World Series in 2002, and they've not
been able to make the right decisions, whether it's the
right manager, whether it's the right players. They gave contracts
to all the wrong players, developing players, any sort of winning.
They've been a AAA team for the past few years, right?
So it's time that, hey, somebody new is coming in
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and maybe they will spend better. Maybe Stan Kroenke will
be able to get the right people in place. All
of these things could happen because clearly most of his
teams do pretty well. So, okay, great day. Great day, right?
Great day, great day. Congratulations, Mike Trout. It's also a disaster.
It's a disaster. It's a disaster because as someone who
goes to Angels games, that loves the experience of Angels games. Yeah,
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you get that sandwich in no time flat. That's going
to be gone now, man. Like, okay, driving to an
Angels game, you can pull up and park right outside
of whatever gate you want to walk into. It's $ 20.
Remember Bill Plasky when he joined us that time and
he was laughing? He goes, look, I can see my car.
Parking is going to be $ 150 a game now. Easy.
And you're not going to be able to park in
the stadium. You're going to have to park in some
ancillary lot. Like, that's not going to happen. all the
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different food trucks that are out there. Now, wait until
you see how much that's going to be. I bet
you there's going to be a tax. They bring you
food to your seat in Angel Stadium. It's clean. It's
a wonderful place. You order right off a QR code,
and they bring you the food. It's there in five minutes.
Watch there be like, oh, there's going to be a
tax now on bringing this food to you. at your table.
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Like all of the things that I love about angels games,
that's going to go by the wayside now. Cause now
he's going to spend money on players and it's going
to be the thing. And the one thing Artie Marino
did was, Hey, it's a fun fan experience. It's the
ballpark is great. There's fireworks every night. Is there still
going to be fireworks every night? We're going to save money.
We're not going to fire. Like it's a great experience now.
And I think now, now all the stuff that I
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love about going to see the angels is No, that's
all that's going to change, man. It's weird. The last
two weeks, I've been getting pretty much daily, are you
sure you don't want to bring a group to an
angel game email from their marketing folks? Because they've had
some great promotions. They had that SpongeBob jersey day. They
just had that Joe Adele jersey giveaway. A little late,
(36:29):
but okay. But, I mean, they still did it. Wait, wait, wait.
On September 16th, you had the Adele home run robbery bobblehead.
But that was actually the singer Adele. They changed that.
There's an angels and ducks blanket night. I mean, come on.
The angels now, the angels are gone. This is where
they are. The angels went from being the local independent
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amusement park to That wasn't really affiliated anything. Prices were low.
You didn't quite get all the stuff you would get
at a Six Flags park or one of the big
parks or Disneyland or Disney World. But it was fun.
You would go and it would be easy, right? The
lines wouldn't be too long.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
The convenience of going, right? You would go and it
would still be a water ride. Get in and out
of the roller coaster. Parking lot. You would stay at
all that. You're not in a line ride necessarily there yet. Okay.
You know, you're going to see the Angels. You're not
going to see the Dodgers. You're going to an independent park.
amusement park, not one of the big ones, but you
still were going to have a pretty good experience and
it wasn't going to be a lot of money. Now
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it's like, oh, Six Flags, we're bulldozing this and building
a whole new park and now it's going to be
$ 175 a ticket to get in. I fear that's what's
going to happen to the Angels now. It's going to
take a while, though. You've got to build infrastructure. You've
got to have the full change in the plan put
into motion because that's the one thing with Stan Kroenke
and the squad, right? We've talked about that. It's all
about the infrastructure and building from the ground up. You
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can buy players. It's everything else. They had a niche
and not a lot of fans. You don't have to worry.
You can spread out at the stadium. Great concessions. You
had your own section to go shag, fly balls. It's
going to be a disaster now. From one disaster to another,
that's what's going to happen. There'll be no more Rendons, though. Well,
that's true. Exit out, Bout of Fresca. Exit Swallow Dome.
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the Angels and loosely the Clippers. Like, that's never going
to happen again. No. I mean, Ridd, it's a once
every 76 years. The two No. 2 teams in the
second biggest market have the biggest stories right now. Almost
the age of the second story when you talk about
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Haley's Comet coming around. Yeah, things we did not see
for a hundred. When does Halley's Comet come around again?
I came around when we were kids. So it's got
to be, we got to be like halfway to it
at least, right? 76 years for Halley's Comet. They came
down like in the late 70s, right? 2061. Oh, 2061. Oh,
that's a long time. That's a long time. Really? I
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want to say. I'm not going to make 90. 70? No, no, no, no, no, no,
no way. No way. Halley's Comet's every 76 years. Right?
Last time it came was 86. Oh, was that late? Yeah.
Some of you thought it was like in the 70s. No,
it was when the Mets won. It was celebrated. So
that's the next time the Mets are going to win.
That's probably right. I got to make it to 2061. See,
now forever those two will be fused in your brain.
(02:09):
Right there. That's also the year that the Mets will
finish paying Bobby Bonilla. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, today
I'm like, oh my God, we have, it's angels and... Yeah. Clippers.
By way of the Clippers. It's a crazy online story
that just keeps getting more and more attention. One of
those that you're looking for the headlines and you're like, wait,
(02:29):
it's not there. It's like, no, no, you got to
look a little harder and you will find it all.
This is never going to happen again.
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Never.
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I mean, when are we ever going to start a show?
Angels and Clippers. We should put a plaque on. Oh, man.
We should put a plaque over in that corner of
the wall right here. Things we never thought we'd see
on the same day. And forever, when we have two
really random stories that coalesce, we celebrate it. So the
big story, we have two takes on, well, look, the Angels.
(02:57):
The big story of the day is they were sold
to Stan Kroenke, who owns the Rams. He owns about
17 other teams. He buys the Angels today for $ 4 billion.
Artie Marino has been trying to sell the Angels off
and on for the better part of the last decade.
He was selling them. He wasn't selling them. I'm selling them.
Now they're off the market. What do you mean off
the market? It's like what websites do when they leave
(03:18):
something that's on clearance for a while, but nobody buys it.
They put it back at a regular price. Why would
you do that? No one's buying it on clearance. You
got to make it go down if you want to
sell it. But he finally agrees to sell the Angels today.
Stan Kroenke going to buy it for an MLB record.
$ 4 billion. I know that this is the rub and
this is this the thing. The Angels have sold for
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an MLB record $ 4 billion. Not the Mets, not the Yankees,
not the Dodgers, not me, not Hermione, you. the angels
have set a record this is this is i'm going
back in time to when the clippers were sold for
two billion dollars and all of a sudden the nfl
(04:00):
said well the number two team in la is worth
two billion dollars we have to get nfl teams to
los angeles right was right after that happened steve ballmer
bought the clippers after years and years of if we
don't get a new stadium we're gonna move to los
angeles nope la got two teams but you remember remember
that time you and i talking about it as it
transpired and everybody thought two billion was just out Outrageous
(04:20):
and ridiculous. And I think we might have been the
only contrarians in a marketplace going, when do these properties
come up in major marketplaces like this? Distressed properties and
the opportunity. You come over the top and you build
from there. So the big thing to realize, like one
of the big takeaways from this is that about 10
(04:42):
days we told you Lakers being sold, right? We've seen
teams being sold, you know, across the board now. The
next five years, wait till you see how many professional
teams in the big three. And outside of it, too.
But NFL, NBA, MLB, wait till you see how many
teams are sold. Why? Because this is a new time.
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Now with the government getting involved in business, it changes
every five minutes. Owning a sports team is no longer
for the old guard. It's no longer for the old money.
It's for the new money who are up on the
ever-changing rules and regulations and how to make tons of
money and how I can come in and buy a
team because I'm worth $ 20 billion. I'm not... worth a billion,
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so I need three other guys to come in with
me to buy a team. Those days are gone. Those
used to be how teams were. Hey, like with A-Rod
and his investors buying the T-Wolves. Yeah, okay. But that's
how it used to be done. Now, people are so rich.
They're coming, yeah, I can buy this team. And now
people are owning more than one team. They're owning two, three,
four teams. Until you get in trouble and potentially investigate
(05:52):
it and you start selling the team. Well, yeah. But
this is just what you're going to see now. If
you think, wow, seeing the Lakers get sold. Lakers have
not been sold twice in the past year. The number
of teams that get sold in the next five years
are the three major sports. I'm going to say a
third of the teams in each of those leagues wind
up getting sold. Because the old guard that has owned
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the team for a while and also... maybe not quite
in tune with running a team in 2026 and what
it takes to win and to stay relevant and to
keep people involved, how to stay at the top. They
knew one way to do things, right? People knew one way.
Even people that bought teams in 2010 are looking to say,
how do I move on from this? Now, LaGuardia Marino
bought the team. He's not a guy that's on the
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team since the 70s. You bought the team just 25
years ago, and now things have changed so much, I
want to get out of this. I want to get
out and I want to move on. So a third
of the teams, I think, in each league will wind
up getting sold the next year because the old owners
are going to say, now's the time to cash out.
I can make so much more money on my investment,
and I don't have to worry about the value going down.
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I don't have to worry about staying... up with all
the business things how to how to navigate this new
business world because i'm in my 60s or 70s or
80s how i deal with staying competitive because now staying
competitive in 2026 is much different than it used to
be it's no longer my game i own the team
and my day has come and gone and now you're
going to see new money hedge fund people tech people
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all kinds of stuff Big conglomerates, one man, one woman
franchises come in and say, yes, I'll buy this team,
but I'm going to get approved. I'm worth $ 25 billion.
I can buy a team for $ 5 billion. Oh, okay.
And the approval process will go quickly. Again, you will
see a third of each of the leagues sold in
the next five years. Would not be surprised. There's a
lot of factors to it. Hopefully Kroenke tries to one-up
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the Padres' ownership with the We Want to Win song.
He's got to come stronger than that. I mean, because
if you're going over the top for the four billion dollars,
which gets you no land, which is a whole other
part of this process. And you also had a recent
edict from Governor Newsom that they're called the Anaheim Angels.
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That's it. Like there's no longer the Los Angeles Angels
of Anaheim. It's back to your roots. But you don't
get any of the land around you because immediately you
start thinking, well, it's a good land deal. talking about
$ 850 a square foot in Anaheim. Can you tell who
got his research hat on and was trying to figure
(08:21):
out what's the proper valuation of the land around there
near the House of Mouses? But you look at all
of those factors that you laid out. Also look at
what happened with the Lakers when you talk about succession plans.
You got some owners that we've known that their kids
want nothing to do with the business, right? It's like
(08:42):
trying to hand down a hardware store, a service shop, whatever. Like, nah,
I grew up in that. I don't want to do that.
Breaks the heart of mom and dad, the grandparents, whoever
started it. But it's the reality here. They like the money.
They like everything that goes with it. It's like, I
don't want to live that life. I don't want to
have to know that. And you see all the ancillary
stuff in terms of running a business. And the Rams
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are a good example of it. The Dodgers have been. Again,
the Mark Walter stuff notwithstanding. But of all the secondary
parts of the business that you have to operate, it's
not just putting a team on a field and owning
the building. Now we're talking about all the sports science
and adding... tens if not hundreds of people to your
(09:26):
payroll to build out the businesses of keeping that machine going.
It's not the simple ways of rub some dirt on
it and get back out there. Give them the shot
like you're James Woods in any given Sunday. No, no,
there's a lot going on here. Matthew Modine wouldn't give
the shot. Then I learned to give the shot. I
like the attention. It's just the new way, the new
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big business tycoons The big billionaires, multi-billionaires, this is how
it's going to go. These are who are going to
own teams now, and sports is ever evolving the old way.
That's just not happening anymore, and these guys are all
going to cash out. Time to go. I'm going to
make so much money. I bought the team for $ 300 million.
$ 182 million in 2013. Right, and now I'm turning it
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into whatever billion. Now I can go buy a different
team if I want to. I can go put my
money into something else. I can go do this, right?
Now is the time to cash out. It's going to
be a race. for teams to put their money out.
Because the approval process will be easy. Because it's not like, well,
we've got to wait. I'm bringing in this money guy. No,
I got it. No, I got it. Here you go.
I can write you a check right now. You can
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have the $ 5 billion. What's it going to take? Until
Tuesday to clear? Tuesday. It's not tied to any insurance
policies or any of those. I'm going to put it
on my special credit card here. It's a special credit card.
It just says buy a team. Going through. But, you know,
last night we had a big discussion after talking to
Jason Lock and Four about your New York football Jets.
(10:52):
And I see that hope has really sprung into you
today because that is a shiny Jets hat. Talking about
Mike Tomlin, talking about, you know, Lamar Jackson, potential chaos
or whatever, enforcing the hand either for a sale or
just to operate properly of Woody Johnson. In the background
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of that, we'd mentioned the Angels because they came up
when we were having that discussion about USC. That is
now in day, what, five? All sorts of coaches try
to sideswipe the attendance from Saturday's game. But the idea
of you're still, even if a team is bad, there's
going to be a lot of times where you're still
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printing cash and tickets are sold, right? The Angels rank
in the middle of attendance this year and have... there
or better every year yeah once upon a time you
had otani sometimes you have mike trout now but you're
near disneyland you're in southern california it's a tourist like
it's another check the box if i saw another stadium
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so they draw over three million a year so people
will still go uh but i didn't think within 24
hours when we were talking about the forcing the invisible
hand on the coasts so that every big big market
team was competitive that arty moreno would be shown the
door yeah Oh, okay, I'll finally sign those papers. It's
like we put it into action. Yeah, thanks, thanks, appreciate it.
(12:14):
And now you're gone, right? And look, and the other
part of this, too, is that, as we also mentioned
last night, that, hey, with the whole Jets story with
Mike Tomlin, Jason Lock and Fora telling us that, hey,
there's a lot of people in the NFL talking about this.
I know Park Avenue is definitely up on Mike Tomlin
becoming the Jets head coach because... After seeing the way
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that the leagues have gone the last years, they know
the top teams need to be relevant, the teams in
the biggest markets. We went through all the different teams
in New York and L.A. The last five years, the
huge changes that have come to everybody, and the last one...
That was kind of sitting out there has been the Jets, right?
Everybody else has gotten the new coaches, the players, gotten
funneled to them, whether it's Luca, whether it is John Harbaugh,
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whatever it is, you have seen all the teams in
New York and L.A. all get funneled towards being good.
The Knicks winning the title, Jalen Brunson going, wait a minute,
there was collusion, there was tampering. OK, we've seen it
all happen. The Jets were the only team. Hey, we
stink no matter what we can do. Now, maybe the
league is OK. We're going to help Woody Johnson because
a team that plays in New York can no longer
be bad. We can't just say, well, we got great
(13:21):
teams in Green Bay. We got great. No, it doesn't
matter anymore. You got to get those teams in the
big markets good. And really, you know, yes, it's technically Anaheim,
but it's still Los Angeles. Now here come the Angels,
who are hopefully going to be bought into some sort
of relevancy where money is going to be spent smartly
and not badly like Artie Marino spent it. Maybe suddenly now, hey,
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the Angels are going to be really good. So now
we're really taking care of those teams, the big market
teams in New York and L.A. We're even getting outs.
We're getting the second teams in each of these markets
to make sure they're good. They get raised up. I'm
telling you, I'm not saying I know anything that each
league is in cahoots with. making sure that the teams
from New York and Los Angeles are good. But, I mean,
you look at what each team in every one of
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the major leagues has done in the last couple of years,
and you see, wow, okay, they've all been raised up.
They've all gotten better to some extent. And the last
holdout was the Jets. But now, hey, we'll get outside
of L.A. We'll help the Anaheim Angels.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Ah!
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh, great.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We're going to help the angels out.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Awesome. Yeah. 41 years later, a much different version of
the frozen envelope. But just two things really quick. One
that was circulating quite a bit about ownership, having a
baseball team and an NFL team in the same marketplace, whatever. Yeah,
that rule existed. A decade ago. It's been gone since 2018,
so you can forget about that. The fact that they're
(14:40):
also called Anaheim might also have something to do with it.
But here's the question I have to ask you, though. Yeah,
go ahead. How quickly does Kroenke get a deal done
with Anaheim at maybe a premium over that 850 square foot?
of real estate land to where some of it reverts
to his company as opposed to being owned by the
city pretty quickly i think what he's going to do
(15:02):
is the old uh from there will be blood like
at the end when daniel day lewis says if i
have a straw and it reaches all the way over
to your yard and into your milkshake i drink your
milkshake if i own property here and it extends all
All the way to Los Angeles. Then I drink your milkshake.
(15:24):
And he would win. Somewhere in the system is a
young Madeline Harmon doing that entire bit. Drainage, Eli. Drainage. Drainage, Eli.
I'm ready to sell to you. Eli, let me tell
you what happened, Eli. I'm going to take all these
parking lots and they're going to be beautiful. So we
got more on this story coming up in a bit. Again,
biggest story. The Angels are sold, right? But yeah, we
(15:47):
got some football stuff. And we absolutely have to talk
about what's been happening on social media. Kind of about
the Clippers, but not really. But boy, is it something.
It is aspirational. Okay. You mean like you might choke
on something? Oh, I was thinking you're aspiring. Oh, okay.
(16:07):
I'm thinking, okay. Yeah. No, not asphyxiating. Well, you aspirate.
You aspirate. Two different words. That's coming up next right here.
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the biggest story. Yay. Right behind it, this developing craziness
kind of involving the Clippers. Kind of, but you'll see
what I mean. So I'm hanging out today. I'm at home,
and all of a sudden, Frostberg texts me, dude, Ralph Lawler.
I go, oh, my God, what? Because Ralph Lawler, 88
years old, longtime Clippers announcer, right? Retired a few years ago.
(18:06):
What happened? He goes, no, no, no. Go check out
his social media. I go, okay. So I go check
out Ralph Lawler's social media. And oh me, oh my,
is there some stuff on it? Yeah. So I saw this.
I said, okay, now the first thing is I want
to make sure this is Ralph Lawler, right? Is this
Ralph Lawler's official Twitter account? It says, retired play-by-play announcer
for the Clippers, 60 years in broadcasting. He's been tweeting.
(18:29):
It seems like it's his page. You know, it seems
like it's him. I actually called Monsi, who's the biggest,
you know, her and Ben Maller, the biggest Clipper fans.
I said, Monsi, is this Ralph Lawler's Twitter account? She goes, yeah,
I'm pretty sure it is. That's Ralph Lawler's Twitter account. Okay. Now,
whether this is Ralph Lawler or him getting hacked, however,
seeing the responses, I would think if Ralph Lawler was hacked,
(18:49):
we would have known this by now. Uh, now again, and,
and oh me, oh my on Twitter, which is kind of, okay,
that's his call. Um, In the middle of a lot
of basketball posts, there was a post on social media
today that made a lot of ways, and I think
this is probably how it got found out. A woman,
or a post from a woman, said, And it's her
(19:14):
in a bathing suit, smiling for the camera. And Ralph Lawler,
the Ralph Lawler Twitter account, quote tweeted it and just said, oh, yes. Yes. Okay. Also,
right before that, there was a post saying, hey, if
you could be honest, if you could only take one
of these women on a date, who are you picking?
And there's six really attractive women in a post. And
(19:38):
that is quote tweeted by Ralph Lawler, three. Okay. The
third woman in is who he would be picking to
take on a date. Now, he's since been talking back
with people going, Ralph, what are you doing? What's going on?
on here, man? You're 88. He's like, what are you
talking about? I have grandchildren older than them and all
this stuff. And I'm going, oh, wow. This is wow.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh, man.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Again, it could be Ralph Lawler. It's Ralph Lawler. Is
he hacked? Okay. But when I saw this, my first thought,
you know, because my first thought wasn't Ralph Lawler. My
first thought was I'm sitting there going, okay, Ralph Lawler
is 88, right? And here he is. And he's tweeting.
And nothing, you know, inappropriate. Just a little weird. Yeah,
(20:21):
a little weird. Well, I mean, he's just responding. And
if you decide to take it weird, you certainly can
go down that path. And I started thinking, I'm going, hmm.
Do I want to know or do I not want
to know what my dad's online profiles are like on
social media? Fair. Because he's on Facebook, so I see
(20:43):
all his Facebook posts. But do I want to see–
what's my dad's late 70s? And I want to think
that everything he's searching is– Yankees, MLB Network, PGA Tour,
you know, who to pick in the MLB streak that
we do.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh, sure.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But is that really what his... Might have something to
do with streaking. What his computer activity is like. That's
the first thought is, oh, Ralph Waller. What is my
dad doing? Like, that's really my thought was, what is
he doing? Like, if I went to his house and
I went through his social media activity or his search activity,
(21:18):
what would I find? Is that something a son should
find for his father? Well, eventually you might have to,
whether you want to or not. Yeah, I would say...
It's a dark path, right? I mean, the reality, and
you want to keep everything sunshine, rainbows, and lollipop, but
recognizing the humanity of it all. Because as I'm reading
(21:42):
back through it again, because this goes back over a week, actually,
where this started, right? To be clear, it began with
a thing with Sophie Cunningham, and he replied with a...
Stop with the Ralph is flirting nonsense. I like the
way Sophie shoots the three and I admire her outreach
and social media. I only flirt with my sweet Joe.
For a second while I was seeing all these pictures,
(22:03):
I'm going, does he think that woman is Sophie Cunningham?
It seemed like maybe, oh, there's a picture of Sophie.
I like a picture of Sophie Cunningham. But just the,
Oh me, Oh my, for what, you know, what woman,
you know, because we can have the woman tattoos, no
tattoos conversation. It's a legit conversation for, you know, whatever
you like. Uh, Ralph Lawler, what is my, uh, Oh me,
(22:24):
Oh my, uh, let's put it that way. Uh, what
is my being 88 have to do with anything happening online?
And it just goes all the way. And then there's
a bunch of things about the Clippers and he hasn't
been around because he doesn't like Kawhi. Like there's a
lot going on. Should they fire this guy or hire
that guy? And it's quick responses, but yeah, this has
been going on a little while here. Um, Yeah, it's
(22:48):
some next level stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I like it. And, of course, the internet just makes
him a creep. Oh, sure. As opposed to, he's just
a guy. Yeah, I mean, it's just. Stating a preference.
It's a little weird. It's just a little weird. Well,
you just didn't see it coming. It just made me
think about my family. Maybe I got to find a
way to go over my dad's apartment in the next
couple of days and just find a way to hit
(23:10):
his search bar on his computer. Go, dad, what are
you searching for, dad? Dad, I want to show you
something I found on YouTube. Yeah, let me look, Dad.
Let me just see. You know what? Don't you? Oh, hey,
could you grab me something out of the fridge? Like
people do in the movies when it's like they want
to get on their computer and they stick in the
thumb drive. I got the thumb drive now. Come on,
(23:30):
come on. Copy, copy, copy. Go. I need eight more
seconds to get it all. And of course, it goes,
you know, filling up 77%, 78, 85, 93, 100%. Let's
pull the thumb drive out. I got it. I got
all my dad searching for. But now you got me thinking.
I'd be like, horse racing, conspiracy theories and news stuff,
whatever nonsense you and I were yelling about. Yeah. And
(23:54):
then my mom, computer games and deals. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
All right. Where to find a deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because everything's got to be on sale. Yeah. Even if
it's really not. Oh, yeah, no. But if they can
convince you that it's a deal. It can make up
any price. Normally $ 78. Now $ 34. Oh, well, it's $ 45 off.
I got to go buy it. Got to have it. Yeah.
I got to buy two because they're not really. But,
you know. Because I know my dad, like a lot
(24:21):
of his searches would be Yankees. PGA Tour, online crossword puzzles.
My dad's a huge crossword guy. He passed that down
to me. All this stuff. But I'm just going, well,
what's everything? Is he raiding people? Is he doing this?
Is he raiding people online? But this also got people
to start looking up the word goon.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's not just a hockey enforcer anymore. It's tough. Dad,
what are you doing? You raided somebody. You said number six. Yes,
which of these Yankees is the greatest of all time?
One through six. Oh, so you picked Mickey Mantle. Okay,
got it. Got it, Dad. You're all good, Dad. I'm leaving.
I'm leaving. It's all good. It's all good, Dad. I'm going.
I'm going. He'd just put a halo on St. Walt
(25:03):
right there. He'd be searching, Red Sox announcer Will Fleming, right?
Like all the things like that. He'd be very, very upset.
How many message boards did he get involved with with that?
How many times did he start flaming the Red Sox announcers?
I can't wait. Red Sox fans. No, no, no. I
can't do that. You don't want to go down and
open that door. I can't do that. I can't. Now, so, okay,
(25:26):
so hopefully, you know, this Ralph Law, again, it's a
little weird, but, you know, hey, okay. It's all good. Well,
good for Ralph. Yeah, it makes me, you know, think about,
you know, okay. Well, what are you going to be
doing when you're 79? What do people do? I don't know, man.
Probably soon. Why do the Mets still stink? All right,
here we go. Now, you won't actually have to type
anything at that point. It's going to be all just
(25:47):
voice actualized. No, again, I know what it'll be. It'll be,
who did the Jets let go in their final round
of cuts? Who did they pick up that I think
is going to be any good? Here's year 76 of
being fruitless because they stink. That's what's going to happen.
Whatever happened to insert dot, insert name dot, dot, dot. Meanwhile,
(26:10):
speaking of baseball, okay, one of the biggest stories tonight,
the absolute pounding that Paul Skeens took on the mound
again for the Pirates. Right now, one of the most
entertaining games. The Pirates win in a walk-off 13-12, but Skeens,
a rough day. He goes just over four innings. He
gives up eight runs. His ERA is up at four
(26:31):
right now. And what is wrong with Paul Skeens? What
is wrong with Paul Skeens, right? His line tonight... Four
and two-thirds, eight hits, five runs, three walks. Again, ERA
is 3.97. 95 pitches, 56 for strikes. Yeah, reminder that
they played the Giants. Yeah, that's the thing. They played
the Yankees. No, no, no. They played the Phillies. No,
they played the Giants. Ooh. The good news is, is
(26:56):
that This is not something, because everybody is all doom
and gloom in the fall off for Paul Skeens this year.
I've never seen a fall off so bad. This guy
was the rock star in Major League Baseball. Him and
Livvy Dunn, and every five days was an event for him.
But this year, he's been bad. It's been a bad year.
I know how to solve this, and it's going to
(27:18):
be easy. It's just going to take until next April.
You're taking Livvy Dunn out of the equation. Hey, listen,
you're ruining the team. Hey, take off that shirt before
you break up the band, you psycho. What's going on
with Paul Skeens? He's shown you enough over the course
of his first two years. You know how great he is.
(27:38):
This is not a guy that had a meteoric eight-start
run one year, but then a bunch of years come back,
and he's come back down to earth. Two full years,
he has been the best pitcher in baseball. His stuff
is electric. He's that good. What's happened to him this year? Generally,
pitchers like that who are that good, when they have
a down year, there's a reason, and it's always one
of the following. It's always physical. They're injured, they're dinged up,
(28:02):
and they just can't throw like they used to. It's mechanics,
and their mechanics are off a little bit. Jacob deGrom
was famous for that. If he had a start, we
gave up three runs in six innings, which is like
the worst we ever had. He would go back and say,
my mechanics were off. I went back and looked at
the film, this, this. He was so particular about his mechanics,
he would never let it go off more than a
game or two. or it's something, like I said, or
(28:25):
something physical, and a lot has been made the fact
that since he's come into the major leagues now, he's
put on 25 pounds at least. So this is for
Paul Skeens. Yes, it's one or all of those things.
It's putting on weight. It's your mechanics are off a
little bit. It's physical. It's a tired arm. This is
nothing that an off-season away from baseball isn't going to fix,
(28:48):
where you get back into workout mode physically, You get
back into focus mode. You rest your arm. You take
a look and see what you're doing, why your mechanic's
falling off. Whatever that is, this will absolutely be fixed
from the beginning of next year. Now, the bad news
is they want to fight for a wild card over
the course of the last month, and Skeens is killing
them every time he goes out there. I said three
weeks ago, hey, Skeens... Give him some time off. Let
(29:09):
him rest that arm. They rest him an extra three days.
He came back. He had a pretty good outing. Okay,
now you see he's still not throwing like he used to.
But this is not the doom and gloom, and this
is the death of Paul Skeens is a great pitcher,
and now he's done. No, this is simply he's a
great pitcher, and things have happened both physically to him.
Things have happened physically to him this year that he
just has to straighten out in the offseason. And sometimes
(29:31):
that's what you need, and there's nothing you can rush
on it. It's just... a way to get away from
the day-to-day and refocus on getting yourself back to where
you are. By the time we get to next spring,
they'll manage his workload better. He'll be throwing 98, 100
miles an hour like he used to. Everything's going to
be fine. The bad news is the rest of this year, yeah,
every fifth day you might get what's wrong with Paul Skeens.
But you think Paul Skeens is terrible? No, no, no.
(29:53):
This is by the beginning of next year. He'll be
back to being Paul Skeen. Walk to strikeout ratio. K
to walk still 4.3. Still pretty good. Careers 4.9. So
a dip from last year as it is with everything.
He's been more hittable staying in the zone. Might be
one of those guys that we wonder about where the
margins were in terms of pitches that he got last
(30:16):
year versus this year, where he's got to stay a
little more on the plate, and he's been more hittable
for that, right, and hasn't adapted there as well over
the course of the season. Putting on the extra pounds,
this might be the first time that we've ever had
an athlete have more of the dad bod that he
(30:36):
didn't get chided for because he was in frame with
Libby Dunn. Like, normally guys put on a couple of pounds, like, ah,
you know, it's the girlfriend, it's the wife, and it
becomes the derision. Like, no, I mean, if he thought
that it was going to help in terms of his
push and whatever he's doing, cool. Maybe it backfired. All
of those things. Could be pitching hurt to the point
(30:58):
you made off the jump. They've got a team that's
still competing. Would he have been shut down if they
were three games worse? Maybe. But it's a con... conversation
worth having because you're looking at the long-term effects too
because you've got this valuable pitching prospect we've seen this
go south for so many guys in the path in
(31:21):
the past i mean look at de grom ended up
uh having a couple of lost years before now he's
back on his Hall of Fame path, right? I mean,
we watch him every fifth day, and like him and
PCA every day, you grimace a little when we've got
to read the stat line aloud. But some guys don't
find their way back. But more often than not, we do.
(31:43):
Those elite guys have a down year. and come back.
Once upon a time, that was not the case because
they didn't get the grace and didn't get to clear
the mechanism and all of that stuff. Uh, and it
just spiraled down from there because you're also looking at
the long-term effect also for the pirates very much in their, uh,
purview to uh sit down with him his team and
(32:04):
figure out what the hell's going wrong because eventually either
they have to pay him or they want to get
some kind of big return for him because that's been
the the promise that's been there the last two plus
years which suddenly is dwindling by the start yeah he'll
be fine it just isn't going to be in the
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we got John Palmarosi stopping by in about a half hour.
All the big news from baseball today. More on the
Angels sale and Paul Skeens. But the Angels being sold today,
you've seen one message all the way through. What a
great day for Angels fans. Artie Marino selling the team,
and now they have a chance. Mike Trout even put
out a statement saying, hey, it's a fresh start. It's
(33:17):
the strongest thing he's ever said. All of a sudden,
Mike Trout is saying, like, wow, you know the Angels
had to be sold if Mike Trout is saying, hey,
we needed this. Like, whoa, thank you for saying something
other than what the weather is like in Philadelphia. Like, whoa,
look at Mike Trout. I got to say, I'm quite
disappointed in him. Why is that? That this was what
it took for him to finally open his mouth? Well.
(33:37):
It's like five years ago, you had clout. Yeah. Right? Obviously,
we had the— burgeoning you know records and and craziness
going on with shohei otani but mike trout was the
guy yeah long ago you could have opened your mouth
and maybe affected some sort of change not that you
were going to get him i don't i don't know
that you can i don't know that a star can
(33:58):
get a guy to sell a team no no i'm
not saying to get but to actually do something with
said team uh well you have to be on the
field and you have to be someone who year in
and year out as a superstar that's why i said
five years ago maybe seven you go back and look
i think he had trouble that time too all right
Either way, I'm just trying to say, in the Wayback Machine,
when he was that guy. But look, obviously, yes, it's
(34:22):
a great day for the Angels in that Artie Marino,
they won the World Series in 2002, and they've not
been able to make the right decisions, whether it's the
right manager, whether it's the right players. They gave contracts
to all the wrong players, developing players, any sort of winning.
They've been a AAA team for the past few years, right?
So it's time that, hey, somebody new is coming in
(34:43):
and maybe they will spend better. Maybe Stan Kroenke will
be able to get the right people in place. All
of these things could happen because clearly most of his
teams do pretty well. So, okay, great day. Great day, right?
Great day, great day. Congratulations, Mike Trout. It's also a disaster.
It's a disaster. It's a disaster because as someone who
goes to Angels games, that loves the experience of Angels games. Yeah,
(35:06):
you get that sandwich in no time flat. That's going
to be gone now, man. Like, okay, driving to an
Angels game, you can pull up and park right outside
of whatever gate you want to walk into. It's $ 20.
Remember Bill Plasky when he joined us that time and
he was laughing? He goes, look, I can see my car.
Parking is going to be $ 150 a game now. Easy.
And you're not going to be able to park in
the stadium. You're going to have to park in some
ancillary lot. Like, that's not going to happen. all the
(35:27):
different food trucks that are out there. Now, wait until
you see how much that's going to be. I bet
you there's going to be a tax. They bring you
food to your seat in Angel Stadium. It's clean. It's
a wonderful place. You order right off a QR code,
and they bring you the food. It's there in five minutes.
Watch there be like, oh, there's going to be a
tax now on bringing this food to you. at your table.
(35:48):
Like all of the things that I love about angels games,
that's going to go by the wayside now. Cause now
he's going to spend money on players and it's going
to be the thing. And the one thing Artie Marino
did was, Hey, it's a fun fan experience. It's the
ballpark is great. There's fireworks every night. Is there still
going to be fireworks every night? We're going to save money.
We're not going to fire. Like it's a great experience now.
And I think now, now all the stuff that I
(36:08):
love about going to see the angels is No, that's
all that's going to change, man. It's weird. The last
two weeks, I've been getting pretty much daily, are you
sure you don't want to bring a group to an
angel game email from their marketing folks? Because they've had
some great promotions. They had that SpongeBob jersey day. They
just had that Joe Adele jersey giveaway. A little late,
(36:29):
but okay. But, I mean, they still did it. Wait, wait, wait.
On September 16th, you had the Adele home run robbery bobblehead.
But that was actually the singer Adele. They changed that.
There's an angels and ducks blanket night. I mean, come on.
The angels now, the angels are gone. This is where
they are. The angels went from being the local independent
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amusement park to That wasn't really affiliated anything. Prices were low.
You didn't quite get all the stuff you would get
at a Six Flags park or one of the big
parks or Disneyland or Disney World. But it was fun.
You would go and it would be easy, right? The
lines wouldn't be too long.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
The convenience of going, right? You would go and it
would still be a water ride. Get in and out
of the roller coaster. Parking lot. You would stay at
all that. You're not in a line ride necessarily there yet. Okay.
You know, you're going to see the Angels. You're not
going to see the Dodgers. You're going to an independent park.
amusement park, not one of the big ones, but you
still were going to have a pretty good experience and
it wasn't going to be a lot of money. Now
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it's like, oh, Six Flags, we're bulldozing this and building
a whole new park and now it's going to be
$ 175 a ticket to get in. I fear that's what's
going to happen to the Angels now. It's going to
take a while, though. You've got to build infrastructure. You've
got to have the full change in the plan put
into motion because that's the one thing with Stan Kroenke
and the squad, right? We've talked about that. It's all
about the infrastructure and building from the ground up. You
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can buy players. It's everything else. They had a niche
and not a lot of fans. You don't have to worry.
You can spread out at the stadium. Great concessions. You
had your own section to go shag, fly balls. It's
going to be a disaster now. From one disaster to another,
that's what's going to happen. There'll be no more Rendons, though. Well,
that's true. Exit out, Bout of Fresca. Exit Swallow Dome.
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