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I'll tell you some year bests in Major League Baseball
before we get into a big story out of the NFL. Tonight,
a couple of things happen. The Mets had their worst
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loss of the season that I can't even I can't
even six nothing lead, and they give up nine in
the fourth inning and David Peterson walks four and they
lose eleven to six. I can't worst loss. As bad
as things have been, this is the worst loss of
the season. Conversely, the biggest MLB series of the season
is just a couple of days away, because the Padres
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and the Dodgers with a new team in first place
all alone. With the Padres win today over the Giants
and the Dodgers lose to the Angels. They get swept
by the Angels, and all of a.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Sudden, we got swept by the Angel Man A happy
World series Angels.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All of a sudden, this becomes the biggest series of
the year. A Dodger sweep and okay, we get things
back going and things are maybe going better for the
Dodgers as they continue to try to get healthy and
figure things out. A sweep by the Padres, and all
of a sudden, you start thinking, is it gonna be
Wild Card for the Dodgers. They have to play in
that first round of the playoffs. This is the biggest
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series of the season. You're talking about? Yankees, Red Sox
for the better part of the last couple of decades.
Now this rivalry is even better, and it's burns hot,
and both teams within a game of each other. They
hate each other. They hate each other more than the
Yankees and the Red Sox do now. And that's saying
something like this is the biggest baseball series of the season,
and whatever else you want to talk about isn't even close.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, you've got six of the next ten games for
the Dodgers or against the Padres. You got this weekend,
then you get a four game set against the Rockies,
and then you get another series down in San Diego.
So yeah, the chaos factor is out there. Saw the
stat LA had at least a share of the lead
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in the NL West for the last one hundred and
eight straight games. Yeah, on July fourth and nine game
lead now evaporated. You look at the bullpen sequencing, pitch
sequencing at a bunch of guys that are hurt, but
you know, next man up, and last year Dave Roberts
was able to pull the strings and keep the line moving.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Again, They're not.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Terribly off the pace of where they were in terms
of season record at this point. A year ago, but
the expectations were so off the charts that every loss
feels like five.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The pitching matchups are set. It's Kershawn King on Friday,
Snell and Cease on Saturday, and glassnow and Darvish on Sunday,
all at Chavez Revine. I mean everything else there that
this is the biggest series of the year in Major
League Baseball. Frostburg, how do you feel about this going in?
How do you feel about what's gonna happen? Are you nervous,
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are you excited? Are you feeling both? Where are you?
How are you feeling about this series?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think he's gonna come.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, no, no, no. Would we want to play the
Taylor Swift stuff he's all about.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't like anything.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Now. I ask about the Dodgers and they losing it
swept by the Angels. Got nothing to say, Oh that's
how it goes.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But I mean, you go back to the seventh inning,
a play that will be magnified repeatedly. Tiodosio goes over
the wall and takes away a home run from paz
Uh that would have extended the lead, and Instead'll happy
with the big hit to Uh claim victory for the Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And again, you know, we talked about this last night
when the Padres joined the Dodgers in first place, and
and another game where the Dodgers' bullpen they're still trying
to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Jason, we have the Mets final call. I don't know
what the worst.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Night, the Mets of the Dodge, well, the Mets, the Mets,
the horse night.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Look, we talked about it last night, right with with
the with the bullpen. The Dodgers still trying to figure
out the back end of the bullpen, even though you
know the names and and the and the roster looks like, hey,
we're figuring thuff stuff out. But the Padres have absolutely
figured it out. And you know, look, you didn't need
to add a big time closer the deadline, but they did.
And you know how important that is in October and
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the Padres can just trot out all kinds of relievers
from the fourth inning on Nomula when when Adam can
come in now instead of hey you get to the
eighth inning, it's gonna be tough to They brought him
in the sixth inning last night. It's like he's what
good luck we got? Three guys were bringing it with
some two e ras, good luck beating us. Like the
Padres aer are almost October proof. Now you got to
get there. You got to figure out the rest of
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the season, obviously, but clearly they're good enough. But man,
I'll tell you that you look at the team with
more questions right now pitching. The Dodgers have all the questions.
The Padres have all the answers well.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And then this is where Roddy Piper comes in and
all of a sudden it all goes down. Tell you, ah,
because we thought we had the answers and now they
changed the questions.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So again, waiting for this Titanic series to begin on
Friday night. Meanwhile, a story out of Football Today that
I know you're thinking, Really, there's a story about these
guys every day. Yes, there's a story about the Browns
quarterbacks every single day. Chadoor Sanders, who had a great
first game, opening Day and opening game in the NFL
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through FO one hundred and forty yards and a couple
of touchdowns, looked really good in doing it. You think
maybe he's gonna move up the depth chart. Nope, Brown say,
you're still the fourth string quarterback. But as long as
you're healthy on Saturday, you're likely gonna start because Dylan
Gabriel is still dinged up, and so is Kenny Pickett.
Now they're all at practice, but Chadoor Sanders would start again.
Now it looks like he is out as Sander's suffering
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an oblique injury at practice and it doesn't look like
he's going to be able to play on Saturday. Now,
still all four quarterbacks remaining took reps at practice today,
which was Kenny Pickett taking some reps. And so is
Joe Flacco, and so is Dylan Gabriel, and so is
Tyler Huntley, former pro bowler who was signed last week.
So still you think, okay, well there's more rep Nope, No,
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still going to give reps to four guys. Doesn't matter
that shoudor Sanders is out now looking for a way.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Hey, maybe three guys.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, No, still gonna give reps to four guys, which
my goodness, come on, Browns. But I'm gonna have to
change my bold prediction from a week ago. I never
have to change a bold prediction so fast, but I
will because last week I said, Hey, the Browns are
going to start all four of their quarterbacks over the
course of the season. That's how it's gonna go. Forget
about choosing one. They're going to start all four of them.
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But now you have injury issues, right, You still Kenny
Pikett is still not able to get fully back at
price even though he's practicing, he's not taking part in
the big seven on seven, eleven on eleven drills. H Now,
shoulder Sanders has dinged up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You know, Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Flacco is forty years old, and so you had to
go sign Tyler Huntley instead of starting four guys. They
no longer will start four guys this season.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
They wantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
They will start five quarterbacks this year. Five for that Smith,
fantastic five Franklin. That's how it is and Franklin, or
you do fantastic four and Franklin. Uh, they will start
all five of these guys. Now, I firmly believe it,
because it's just such a clown show in Cleveland. But
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I can even do better than that. I can give
you the order that they're all gonna start in right.
I'm not just gonna be someone to.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Tell you can get a parlay on this somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well, you know, I would even go to the point
where I can almost get you to the games exactly.
But he's this prop bet is only I mean, the
only guy that would know this is Stefanski.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Okay, so unless he rats us out, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Mean that nobody else can really blow this up for
betters and betting institution.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, we'll have Todd Furman on tomorrow with us our
Vegas insider. We'll ask him, you know what, what kind
of money I can get to this, because I really
this is how it's gonna I'm gonna say it. You're
gonna go. Oh, that's exactly how the season is gonna go. Right, So,
Kenny Pickett is still injured. He hasn't been able to
get in and if he was able to practice, he
likely would be the starter, but he still is not.
You're getting into the second game and probably not gonna
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play this week. So okay, So here's how it's gonna go.
Joe Flacco starts the season and the Browns are not
gonna be very good. So after the first three four weeks,
who knows what Joe Flacco has left, it's gonna be. Well,
we have to see Kenny Pickett because we spent some
resources to get Kenny Pickett not expensive not, but they
went out to get him in the offseason. They physically
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went out and proactively said, we got to get a quarterback,
and they they thought he would be our bridge guy
to get to whoever, whether it's someone we're taking in
the draft or next year.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So you know they're gonna want to see Pickett. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
By by week four or so week five, Kenny Pickett
will be healthy. So then they're gonna go to Kenny Pickett,
and Joe Flacco will sit and they'll say, because you
could do that now, Joe, listen, we'll go back to
if we need to, but we got to see Kenny Pickett.
We're one and four, we're gonna go to Kenny Pickett. Okay,
So then Kenny Pickett's gonna get three or four games,
and Kenny Pickett's gonna be Kenny Pickett because he's Kenny Pickett.
So now it'll be like one in eight or one
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in nine midway through the season, and they no longer
will be able to deny having to play the rookies.
The fan base will be screaming. They'll be screaming already
for Shador Sanders, but they're gonna say, no, we're gonna
start Flacco.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
We're gonna go to h.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Kenny Pickett because maybe we're trying for Arch Manning or
Drew Alller next year. Right, That's that's what we're doing.
So bye bye. By midway through the season, they'll go
to Shador Sanders because they have to.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You can't go to Dylan Gabriel over Shador. The fans
will revolt. So you'll get Shador Sanders for a few
weeks and then the Browns. This is where things are
gonna get interesting. Then the Browns are gonna say, well,
we have to see Gabriel because we got to be
able to know who to go forward with next year,
who we want to bring back, who not. We want
to see a rookie quarterback. We're two, and we're two
and twelve or two and thirteen, so let's go to
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Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Gabriel will play.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He'll start two or three weeks and because generally quarterbacks
get banged up there you know they're ineffective. Something weird
will occur over the course to see maybe I'm off
by a game or two here and there. Gabriel will
get his three starts sometime in early to mid December.
But then that week seventeen, final week of the year,
it's gonna be okay. You know, maybe Gabriel is nursing
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some sort of slight injury and maybe Sanders is too,
or we won't don't want to go back to one
of those guys, and Snoop Hunley gets that final start
of the year, right, they keep both all these guys around,
not on the active rocks. They'll probably keep four on
the active roster because that's how the Browns will do it.
But they'll keep all these guys around, and by the
end that week seventeen, Huntley's gonna start. So it's gonna
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go Flacco after fourish games to pick It, after another
four ish games to Sanders, after three ish games to Gabriel,
three more games in that last game of the season,
Snoop is gonna start, and they're gonna start five quarterbacks.
Five guys will start a quarterback for them this year.
I can see the picture with five guys of five
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guys is in Cleveland, all the guys eating a burger,
and the guy that's got it closest to his mouth,
that's the guy starting that week. I can see a
whole big thing for this, Mike Harmon, what you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Like have Easter eggs and your stuff like Taylor's swift Rmance's.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yeah during a new era.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The guy with the burger closest to his mouth is
the guy's going to pick the start this week?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
How about that? Hey? They put out the new poster
for the depth chart. Where's the burger? Where's the burger?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It looks like it's a it's a couple of millimeters
closer in Sanders hands and is in Gabriel's hands, But
it looks like it's a lot closer here. Oh snoo,
Poneley's got it all the way up near his mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, he'starting.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I mean he's got a burger. But but Shador's got
a cheeseburger, which once better.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
The layer of cheese gets it that much closer to
his mouth.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's it. It's a millimeter waffer thin.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Look, I like this this map that you've let out.
I think with chadur it becomes the question of, you know,
how quickly do you abandon the season right expectations in
terms of win totals. We've talked about it at nauseum
when it comes to Vegas. Now it's the larger question
for Andrew Berry and for Uh, for the coaching staff,
for Stefanski and the position coach coordinator and everything, and
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deciding all right, where are we at? Are we throwing
in the towel on this year and just wanting to
evaluate for future that way, I think you get to
Shador Sanders whenever that happens, and I don't think Kenny
Pickett getting any real playing time really matters in this equation.
If you're gonna break glass, you break glass, and then
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once Shad doors in, either play him long enough to
get proof of concept. He's picking things up or he's not,
or our offensive line is terrible, he's not reading things,
shades of what we saw with Caleb Williams a year ago.
He's gonna get killed. We can't do this anymore. Or
it's the positive. We've seen enough. He's ready, he'll be
ready with a full season as the guy that we
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build towards next year, et cetera. I don't know that
you necessarily need to see Dylan Gabriel to that point
as well. I think it's all if Shador Sanders is
that guy and is as they say him, then then
you'll make that decision and move on. But but I
do like your list of five and breaking it down
to the specificity of each game.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, no, I like that thing.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Pro Bowler. Yeah, yeah, start.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I mean, I'll sweat it out into week seventeen. But
I could just see one of those. Hey, you know what,
no reason to trot these guys out there. They're banged up.
It's been a long season. You know, we're we're two,
and we're two and fourteen. You really want that number
one pick? Yeah, Stoop's gonna go out and play. We
have Stup go out and play one week.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We know he we know he's go crush snoop.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, we know he's not very good at quarterback stuff.
So we're gonna put him out there. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
He's a former Pro Bowler.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I mean, come on, man, really, that's that's where that's
where you say, boy, the Pro Bowl really needs to end.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I mean really need to end.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
When that happened, now, well we talked about it when
it did happen. Go back find the podcast. I say,
find your wins.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Man.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're a pro Bowler. I don't care how you got there.
You're the ninth alternate. Damn it, I was a pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not gonna work, not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
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You know what, Smith, I'd also be inscribing that Pro
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So a big story today in.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The NBA that really this is one of those seismic
shifts where it changes something.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
In what you believe right now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Probably saw this today that the Blazers are getting sold.
The Portland Trail Blazer's gonna be sold. The agreement from
Paul Allen's estate Paul on and passed away in twenty eighteen,
bought by Tom Dundon, who owns the Carolina Hurricanes in
the NHL, buying the team for evaluation of four billion dollars.
Now the first take before we get to the second one.
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I am extremely happy for Portland because the good times
are coming back because Tom Dundan knows what the hell
he's doing right. It's not like he came in he
was a hockey savant. He came in when he bought
the carrol I'm telling you it's my team. I'll tell you.
When he bought the team in twenty eighteen, they were
coming off a decade of not making the playoffs. I mean,
like a new York Jets run of Hey, my entire
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forties of not making the playoffs, when, hey, how do
you not make the playoffs that long in the NHL. No,
it happens they were coming off a decade of not
making the playoffs. He buys a team in twenty eighteen,
and look where they are. The Hurricanes were a yearly
threat to make it to the Stanley Cup Final. They've
made it to three conference finals in the last seven years.
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Every time we play the bleeping Panthers, at least we
beat him in a game this year. But they've gone
to become a model small market franchise in the NHL.
They have the right head coach and Rod Brenda Moore.
They signed the right players. They're able to maneuver each
year to the next and have money left over. They
know when to move on from players like he knows
what he's doing. Right, Tom Dunnan's come in and figure
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this out. Now you have the Blazers, who are the
sixth smallest market in the NBA. Right, the Damian Lillard
is back yet a year ago before he comes back
and play Okay, fine, but you've I've seen him with
the blue print in Carolina, right, I've seen him bring
bring hockey back to Carolina and you know, they won
the Cup in the early two thousands, which was awesome,
been a long time since cam word was there. But
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then went into a decade of we don't know what
we're doing and you're never getting out of it. And
here they are since he bought the team. Look how
good they've been.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You see it with Steve Cohen, with the Mets, other
new owners when they come in, it's a fantastic a
quick jump in their fortunes. And that's gonna happen in Portland.
Right He's coming in, he gets it. Here's a small
market team in the NBA. He's going to figure things out.
He knows what he's doing. His business models have worked
out terrific. This is gonna be good times for the Blazers.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm telling you, I've seen I've seen it up close.
I've seen it up close for the for the better
part of the last seven eight years. It's gonna happen
again in Portland.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well, you know, there's the old philosophy, uh way back
in the day was just stick to what you know, right,
keep it simple, and folks will cite the in and.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Out model well.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
As technology changes, as your ability to grow your marketplace exists,
what do you do?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You expand?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So while they haven't changed the menu, Yeah, you've got
a secret menu items, right, you know you have the
flying Dutchmen and all those kind of fun things that
the four x fours and challenges that you can do.
They were a California company. Where are they now all
over the damn place? So you keep some of those
principles and you can apply it and grow for others.
It's say, all right, let's take these same basic fundamentals
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and see if we can't expand into other things. Amazon
and delivery systems, right, that's what they are, delivery systems
and applying it to each discipline along the way. And
that's what we look at here is you know your
proof of concept from the hockey side, you go and
strip down whatever you need to do organizationally and build
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it back up to where it's a replicant of the
Carolina success as best you can add your basketball purists
and analysts and statisticians and coaching, and boom, here we
go and you can apply it because we know in
a salary cap system, people got to get paid and
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not everybody can be a Laker, not everybody can be
a Celtic. So you know, you apply the business side
the basketball, so id will follow in short order. So
four billion dollars, we're in a new territory when you
start looking at valuations team to team.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, look, that is the biggest takeaway from this where
you saw them being bought for four billion dollars right
when the suddenly the Clippers going for two billion a
couple of years ago. A few years ago, it seems like, boy,
you got off light, Steve Balmer, how did you do that?
The Lakers getting sold for ten billion seems light like
now going in retrospect, like, but Lakers should have probably
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went for fifteen billion. Like these franchises all worth way
more than we expect that then you think they are
like this is one of those this changes everything, like
all of a sudden with the Cowboys and Yankees, would
would it be twenty billion for these teams for the
two biggest brands in all of sports in the United States, Like,
hey went from a the cow a few years ago,
the Cowboys are they'd be the most expensive team. They'd
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go for four or five billion. All that they go
for eight to nine billion. They go for twelve thirteen billion.
Now if the Portland Trailblazers are valued at four billion
dollars and that's what they're getting sold for, Like, really,
what does this mean for all the other teams?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Again?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Six smallest market in the NBA, right, Like the you're
telling me this is a franchise that the Lakers, it's
worth half as much as a Lakers.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, there's no way, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
This changes everything we knew about about how much franchise
is are worth and how much they.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Would go for everything we thought we knew you cross
out right.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's it's like when you when you're buying memorabilia and
you think, okay, this card is gonna get sold for
X amount of dollars and you go into to a
bidding war. You think, and okay, I want to buy
this Ted Williams card. I want to buy this Rogers
hornsby card, and it's gonna it should go for around
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, not something. But someone
decides they got to have the Rogers hornsby card and
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they bid six hundred thousand dollars. Well, I wasn't expecting
that well, that card is now worth six hundred thousand
dollars because that's someone's gonna bid for it right now.
Like the same thing for teams in different sports. Now,
the Portland Trailblazers, they're now worth four billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Whether you think.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
They're worth four billion or not, they're worth four billion,
and twenty five other teams or twenty three other teams
in the NBA are sitting here saying we're worth more
than four billion dollars now, including the Clippers, right, Bomber's
got to be saying, wow, man, like I can sell it,
I can make four Like if the Blazers are worth
four billion, are what are the Clippers worth eight billion?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
At least done eight billion?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I mean really, And that's where we still get into
the fuzzy math on the valuations that get estimated, right,
because we had the latest NFL wanted it only had
the Cowboys at twelve point seven, which based on the
fact I forget it was the fuzzy math, right, because
we got the numbers from the packers because they have
to disclose it. They got four or thirty two million
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dollars you know, from the national cut of revenue that
takes it to twenty three now twenty one point six
billion right there, and that's before you add everything else
that comes flowing in locally, ticket sales and everything else.
So I mean we're talking major ass money out there
for the NBA. You know, people get caught up in
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the day to day of television ratings. Well, this shows
you on a larger scale. No, no, no, there's still money,
there's still growth, there's still the global Yeah, would you
love to see higher ratings. But this is where Adam Silver,
even if you don't believe a lot of what he
has to say, you give him a little bit of
love here because clearly there's money flowing and everybody sees it.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Because they went through.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
The prospectuses and everything for the league, all the questions
they had to get answered from the league offices, and
then start going into the bare bones of operating a
franchise that you see the growth opportunity because you're not
plunking down a four billion dollar of valuation without seeing profitability,
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you know, even if it's a couple of years out
to where this thing balloons. So yeah, it's and everybody
wants to have their toys, So you take a little
bit of that, and you know to your memorabilia point.
You know, the next point in time that card sells,
that guy might not be at auction. That's fever feverish
to get it in his collection. Uh, that's that's where
the similarities end, because these don't come up that often, right, I.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Mean, look at it.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It took seven years to get to market. Yeah, right,
from the time he died to get to this point that.
You know, you look at the growth of the valuations
of the league and the football ones all just seem
paltry right now, you know, and I think they got
to go back and make sure they carried the one properly.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, who do you think feels worse the the Bus
family because they sold the Lakers for ten billion when
clearly they probably could have got more.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Or that total valuation of ten billion, whatever whatever math was,
because right they would we had some shares.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But yeah, the Lakers being selling for just ten billion,
or the Celtics, who's Neil got unanimously approved today they
were sold for six billion. You're telling you're honestly telling
me the Celtics are only worth two billion dollars more
than the Portland Trail Blazers.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Come on, man, I.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Mean, come, come, well, I have to go through the
all the particulars of what comes in the package and
what debts you're servicing and whatever else. But yeah, it's
it certainly does make you scratch your head a little bit.
Is it because you're already on the hook for those
two big contracts to Tatum and Brown that maybe it
got a lesser valuation because you're already You're already four
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four hundred million dollars in debt.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hey, that's that's why they're waiting on a couple of
big contracts elsewhere. Yeah, we don't want to saddle the
new owners with a new contract here.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
We're gonna do that, except speculation about that in the past,
right when Artie Moreno was potentially going to sell the Angels.
M because I've heard the lamentation again the last couple
couple weeks about wow, if they would have just traded
O'tani again, he pocketed tens of millions of dollars by
not trading him. And I don't think he cares whether
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he wins people.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swallen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. Tim how to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. So someone who brought in
two Dodgers' bobblehead so she can stare at them while
she does her updates.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Tonight definitely did not do that. I brought them because
I didn't want to stare at them at home. That's
why I brought him in so I could give him away.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
You brought in the Lebron James Dodger one, the Dodger yes,
and I gave that to Shay. Okay, what's the other one?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Then I gave Bree these their mini ones. But it
was rookie James Outman and Miguel Vargas together.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Wow, trying to just clear out all the James out
in one nume. No, it's funny.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I've had that one. But when she said last week
that she really liked James Outman, I was like, Oh,
then I'm gonna give you this bobble head that I
really don't want.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I got. I got one hundred of them if you want, do.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
You want, Bree?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
We probably still have them at Dodgers Stadium. Speaking of
the Doyers, they they suck. The Angels completed a three
game sweep of the Dodgers logan o'hoppy wait. They go
ahead to RBI single on the eighth inning.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
They held on six to five.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
There was a nice robbing of Andy Pajes's two run
home running the seventh inning by Bryce.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Teodol Coo show Hey.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
O Tani struck out Mike Trout three times, but he
only pitched into the fifth inning, was taken out after
the first out. He gave up five hits, four Arnounts
had seven strikeouts. San Diego defeated the Giants earlier today
eleven to one, so now they have a one game
lead on the Dodgers in the NL West. The Orioles
snapped the Mariners a game winning streak, walking it off.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Forty three on a Jackson Holiday RBI double.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
The Astros top the Red Sox for to one, so
Houston now has a one game lead on Seattle in
the AL West. Michael Harris at a grand slam and
the Braves eras tost six run deficit to defeat the
Mets in New York eleven to six. The Twins top
the Yankees four to one. The Marlins outscored the Guardians
thirteen to four. Jacob Marcy had seven RBI for Our
Miami in that one, and the Cubs beat the Blue
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Jays four to one. Reds shut out the Phillies eight
to zero. In the WNBA, the Liberty defeated the Aces
defeated the Liberty eighty three to seventy seven. Asia Wilson
with a double double, seventeen points and sixteen rebounds also
just found this story last time I'm.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Gonna wrap up.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Here goes back to baseball today.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
The Brewers of one twelve.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
In a row, and there is a local chain restaurant,
George Webb, that has been promising free burgers if the
team won seventeen consecutive games for decades, they keep going
back like okay, they pushed it back to thirteen games.
They changed the promotion to twelve games when the Brewers
moved to Seattle in eighteen seventy. So in eighteen nineteen
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eighty seven they did hit thirteen wins in a row.
More than one hundred and seventy thousand burgers were given away,
and now they're doing that again this time, so they're
gonna give free burgers to the entire city of Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Now, the thing is like, are these folk because I
don't know this change, neither do I. I've never George Webb.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Is it like white half there where they're tinier burgers?
As Harmon said, you can look up and get like
seven burgers for twenty bucks.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, seven burgers twenty dollars and thirteen cents, get it said?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Thirteen cents?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Yeah, they've got to be smaller, right, that's what they
have to do.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, because they say them by the sacks. Is it
just known if you go into this place that if
you sit down and you ask for a burger, you
get a regular, you know, big beefy burger. And then
if you're doing the sack to go, and then suddenly
it's hey, it's just snack size.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
I mean that's a question.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, no, legit question.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
There is a story by the Milwaukee Journal that I'm
looking at, and there's a gentleman, a picture of a
gentleman eating the burger. It looks like a like a
like a normal cheeseburger like McDonald's, like not too big,
but not too a normal.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
So I can get seven burgers.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
For that big Like you're yeah, McDonald's aren't like a
regular cheeseburger McDonald's is not that big.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Doesn't matter. It's like three dollars, like three and a
half dollars.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Remember this guy might also have tiny baby.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's so many things we can dissect.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Listen, we want to make sure the guy in the
commercial as small hand, so the burger looks really good. Like,
had you never seen someone eating and eating a burger
with one hand in a burger commercial?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
No, it's gotta be twos?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, answer, Yes, I saw David Hasselhoff do it on
the floor. There were a lot of downloads for that.
This is a mess, most of them from you. And
that was that was a big Mac. That's I felt
sad for that. They watched that video on repeat while
you ate a burger.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's kind of fun to do. I'm have another burger
ready for the big Mac. I'll watch it fun fun
Eating big Macs are fun.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I don't know if I've ever had a big life,
but that was my.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Mom's stavorite big I still remember my first Big magazine
because I used to go to McDonald's all the time
when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Obviously, when they were.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Like thirty nine cent cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I was always got cheeseburgers or quarter packs, but I
never got a Big Mac. I remember seeing the commercial
on TV because it was Big Max's birthday, and they
showed all the stuff that went in, and all of
a sudden, I looked at I said, I gotta have.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
That looks amazing. And now that Big Max my burger.
Like that's what it is, Big Mac. Yeah, extra cheese
and extra sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I tell you, can't go wrong, can't go wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's the best burger in the world right there, Extra cheese,
extra sauce, can't go wrong.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
The sauce is like normal, like like Thousand Island, right
like something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's special Big Mac sauce. This special bit.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You don't know what that means, which a special sauce
in all American burger catching a mayonnaise?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh you knew it, all right, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Coming up next, we get into what is without a doubt,
the emotion. I'm gonna tell you something is gonna be
the most shocking sports story you've heard in a week.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
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