October 22, 2025 • 27 mins
Rob and Kelvin applaud Roger Goodell for keeping international pop star Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer and refusing to cow-tow to President Donald J. Trump, take LeBron James to task for openly pouting on the sideline during last night’s Lakers game, and debate whether the San Francisco Giants hiring former University of Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello as their next manager.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
This has been a talking boy for a few weeks now.
As you know, the NFL announce their halftime perform for
the upcoming Super Bowl and they're calling it a controversial choice.
Bad money Puerto Rican international pop star Superstar, one of
the most popular acts on the planet. The problem is,
according to some, he is also very vocal about his
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distaste for President Donald Trump, specifically as it relates to
the ice rays that have happened throughout the country. So
President Trump has come out and said some stuff about it.
News pundent, social media pund it have all come out
and said, hey, you need to change this. This is
not a good look, this is not representative of America,
this is not good for the NFL. Well, Roger Goodell
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came out today and forcefully backed Jay Z and Bad
Bunny for the choice of the Jupowl halftime shows, thinking quote,
it's carefully thought through. I'm not sure we've ever selected
an artists where we didn't have some blowback of criticism.
It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds
of millions of people that are watching. He Bad Bunny
is one of the leading and most popular entertainers in
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the world. That's what we try to achieve. It's an
important stage for us. It's an important element to the
entertainment value.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
There you go and Bravo to the NFL, Bravo to
Roger Goodell. Okay because and this doesn't matter what political
side you're on.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Okay, cause who are you gonna pick?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You know, if you start doing this, then you're gonna
have real issues. Once you buckle in on this, you
won't be able to pick anybody, okay, because they'll feel
like anytime there's somebody that they don't like or there's
an issue. And here's my problem with NFL America and
a lot of the fans who you notice Kelvin cried
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from the mountaintops. I don't want to achieve black lives
matter at NFL games.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I'm just here for football.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I mentioned escape for me.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I don't want to see that, miss escapism.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I didn't hear those same people when they gave tributes
to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
There was none of that. Where was the outcry? Why
are we doing this out a football game? I'm not interested.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
People went to the mountaintops and said he deserves to
have a right to voice his opinion. I agree, everybody does,
and so does Bad Bunny. He's not down with Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That doesn't mean he can't perform at the super Bowl.
If you don't want to hear Bad Bunny, guess what.
Turn your damn station, change the channel, turn it down
if you don't like Bad Bunny's music or you don't
like him. That's what we've all done. You know many
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acts at the Super Bowl that a lot of black
people weren't interested in, And guess that what their choice was.
Their choice was to either watch it or turn it
off and turn it back on when the game came on.
How dare people now they want to remove Bad Bunny
because he doesn't fall in line with what they want
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to do the same thing. Oh, just dribble and play basketball, unless,
of course you're out kick, or you're some other organization
that has a different agenda and feels a different way,
then it's okay for them to talk about sports and politics,
but not for other people. Come on, dude, just be consistent.
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And I applaud the NFL for just saying we're not
gonna open this can of worms. He was selected. We
went through the process and just like Roger Goodell said,
whenever you have somebody like this, they're gonna be people
who like them who don't like them.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And we just we made a selection.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And I'm glad that Bad Bunny is going to perform
at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'm not even a fan of Bad Bunny. I just
think that it's true. You know what you're a fan of.
It's standing almost right standing on principle. And I gotta say,
teasing you a minute ago, I think your Tani takes crazy.
We disagree on so much. We have fun on this show.
But I got when you ain't wrong and you're right,
I gotta acknowledge that. And this is one of those things,
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because this is where sometimes the hypocrisy screams loud. Give
you an example. Blue lives matter, Blue lives matter. Get
that absolutely Okay, but then when you store them that
the capital and blues lives are harmed, Oh well that no,
it don't matter because you're trying to get your point
across that you believe the election was stolen, and so
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on and so forth.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And now we're gonna kill cops.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now cops can get beat up, get hit, and some
of them in the hurt took their own lives afterwards
because all the trauma, all of that. But I thought
it was blue lives matter. And so it's the same
thing here. Free speech, free speech, well except for bad
Bunny who has an opinion about ice. And by the way,
there are several lawsuits, this is the news me. Several lawsuits,
several controversies, several things that there are misconduct issues when
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it comes to ice. You have whether it be states
like Governor Gaven Newsom in California who are saying, well,
why if they're ice, which is fine, why can't they
show their face? What is so police officers have to
show their face? Other offers FBI right shows us what
is this about ICE agents? They don't have to show
their face. So there's practices that people are calling in
the controversy when it comes ice, meaning you can have
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an opinion on ice it's okay, and the idea that bad.
Bunny Well, I don't want them to perform. He does
speak American, first of all, speak English, doesn't speak American.
First of all, Puerto Rican is a Puerto Rico is
a territory of America, so that's connected to America. Let's
also start there, people, He's not even American. And then
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to your point of this, no matter who I pick,
if I'm jay Z, who's running in Rock Nation to
Roger Goodell, it's gonna be controversy someone And if I
picked the who who had it some twenty some years ago,
a lot of people black, white, Latino, I don't know who?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Who is the who?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And it's not about anything, it's just I don't know.
But a lot of people absolutely who is an iconic band,
but a lot of people I don't know them. It
was a different time, it was a different era, and
that's part of why they brought in jay Z in
the Rock Nation was to bring it hipper. They were
starting to lose people. They had performers who wouldn't perform,
who are huge, who are like, nah, this is too
still and old. So now here we are. Last year
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they chose Kendrick Lamar. Controversy surrounds that. People say, well,
I'm not watching it. It's gonna be this, it's gonna
be that. Guess what broke a record the Kendrick Lamar performance.
And and I think people forget this sometimes while you
love the NFL and you have your team's logo tattooed
on you, it's still a business. And Bad Bunny is
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the most streamed artist in the entire world period. And
what do we talk about every every rob g gives
us the uh, here's the news schedule of the season
coming season?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What are there?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A bunch of universal games games, global games, the NFL, the.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
NBA, nfbe trying to grow.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Who are stopping saying I'm not gonna watch the game
because it's in Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You're watching the game, people, some of you are buying
tickets in the NBA and NFL is trying to be
continued to grow it's audience and grow globally. And he
is a massive, massive, if not the most, the biggest
artists in the world globally. They're going to spread the
game spreading nowt So the idea again, if you don't
want to watch. You don't have to watch, but the
NFL knows it's gonna be controversy no matter who who
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they pick, and why not pick the most global, globally
streamed artist who has a massive fan base. By the way,
a large portion of our country speaks Spanish as well. Hello,
and let it be entertained, and for twelve minutes of
your life you'll be okay. I promise.
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Speaker 5 (09:00):
All right, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
NBA lay Night was last night. We had a doubleheader,
two very well one entertaining game and one two. The
early game was great, yeah, Houston and okse to Houston's disaster.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All did you say, Houston, we got a problem?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And the nightcap, Luca and the shorthanded Lakers got smacked
by Stephan the Warriors, despite Luca dropping forty three, twelve
and nine didn't was enough. Interestingly enough, though, coming out
of that game, one of the storylines that we're seeing
develop here trickle out over the last you know, eight
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hours or so, is what was going on with Lebron James.
Obviously he didn't play. He's not gonna play until mid
November at the earliest. And several people, mostly on social media,
pointed out, you know what Lebron seems off. You know,
it doesn't seem like himself right there on the side.
Jovan Buja, longtime Lakers insider friend of the show, Friend
(09:58):
of the Show, sometimes is on a podcast today a
less associated the show. He was in the building and
they asked him about it, and first he's like, you know,
I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's kind of a weird topic. But then he said
this quote.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The vibes with that situation talking about Lebron have not
been the best. I'll say so again, I don't really
want to go too much down that.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Road, but he did. I thought there were.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Times, just looking in the huddle or looking at the bench,
that he wasn't as engaged as he typically is when
he out. You don't want to project on the people
what you think they're feeling or acting like. But just
in the observations I made of his body language was
not great, and I do think it was a bit
different than what has been in the past and the
same situation where he's sitting.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Out Lebron the last part of what he said I
one of the parts towards me, and I agree within
that look, the camera wasn't on him quite as normally
as much as they are, And you don't want to
read too far into it, but Lebron is very very intentional,
very calculated, very aware. Knows this is a national game,
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knows this is the NBA is back, it's a big deal.
So on NBC, everybody's watching. It's you know what I mean, Like,
Lebron is fully aware of what's going on. This is
Lucas now first year as a full season with the team.
Everybody's watching. Luca's in the best shape of his life.
You got DeAndre A and you got Marcus Smarts, some
new players. People are watching It's versus Stephan the Warriors,
and for Lebron to look a bit disengaged, to look
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distracted at times, to not be in there, that is
intentional from Lebron to me. Now, I don't know what
he's trying to imply. I don't know what he's trying
to say, but Lebron was saying something with his attitude.
Because if you can say a lot of things about Lebron,
but one thing you can't say is historically Lebron's up
dapping up teammates got personal handshakes with every last one
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of them, talking in their ear, cracking jokes, having fun
with them. That's one of the great things about Lebron
is he's very ingratiating to teammates, whether you're a street
clothes on the bench or whether you're know to start
with me. And for him to not do that screams
louder than most people because he is usually that with
his teammates. So Rob I feel like there's something there.
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Is it the idea that you know didn't work out
the deal with the contract? Is it the idea that
you know maybe they've been kind of moving forward. It
feels like the franchise are starting to move forward without him,
saying you're here now, but we have to start thinking
of life without Lebron. I don't know, but something did
seem a little off for a big game, first game
of the season. Lebron totally knows those moments, totally owns
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those moments totally, even tho if he wasn't playing, I'm
gonna be a part of it. I'm dapping up, I'm
doing this, and he wasn't that. And for Lebron to
do something, it's intentional. We've seen him doing podcasts more
than ever lately. We've seen him golfing more than ever lately.
We see him do a lot of high or that's
what he's doing, and maybe he's acting like it. So
in last point two with the sciatica, just a strange
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like to be out weeks. That's kind of strange too,
in that normally ay day by day or they'll take
it a week at the time, but to just know, oh,
he's going to be out for weeks is a bit strange.
So I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Can't that be corrected if you wash your hair. Oh
that's Sebarrie.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I'm sorry when we need some head and shoulders or
something up in here. So yeah, that was someone else,
reals Russell Westbrook or something. He'd be like, all right whatever,
even Steph kind of all right, just in his own
Lebron is intentionally stand up during time. I was wapping
up everybody. Ah stand you know, got a certain personal
handshake for me that feel like, hmmm, something off.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
There's nothing off. This is Lebron who understands that his
time is coming gone in Los Angeles, that he's not
a main focal point. That they didn't even offer him
even offer him, hey, an extension and then let you
turn it down or what that know, that was no
contract offered on the table.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
This is it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You're playing it out, you're picking up your option and
then that's it. We're done. After that, players are coming in. Yeah,
Eighton came in and Lebron's haven't even talked to him.
You know why they didn't call him and said, Lebron,
what do you think about? But no, that was a
Luca pit right, That was a Luca My Luca wanted
him or whatever. So Lebron's not dumb. He understands what's happening,
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and slowly but surely, the Lakers are moving forward without him.
This is what happens when you stick around too long
and you think you're gonna have the same cloud. You
never have the same cloud the whole time. Nobody, unless
you play a shorter period of time, gets to run
the roots, you know, the whole time, especially if you overstay.
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Most guys Lebron came through the league with they're long gone.
They're all long gone. Lebron's still playing five, seven, seven
years after other people, you know what I mean, Like,
that's a long time after the fact. So he knows
what's going on. That's why he's disengaged. Stop happenstance.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
No, that's why I said everything he does is intentional.
But I will say this is this is to me.
If this ends up being the last year, and if
there's gonna be this up and down roller coaster stuff
like this, this isn't how you want it to end.
Like you, Lebron has been a lot of things. He
could be that and and and you can love him
hate and whatever, but like he hasn't had a lot
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of blemishes in that type of attitudes. You might not
I should have took the last shot. He should have
passed the ball. I don't like that he changed teams,
and you know, but the idea of like how he's
conducted like you don't want to You wouldn't want it
to go out like that, especially with the career he's had,
like what he means to basketball, where he is in
the pantheons of basketball. But but you wouldn't want it
to go out like that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
That is way for a long time.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't disagree.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
And now when you all of.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A sudden pull back and be like, it's not going
to be your way. We're moving forward. We have our
star of the future. We gave him the big contract.
He's bringing in people who he thinks compliment his game.
When that happens, people pout.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He's used to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Getting his way and and and he doesn't want it
to be that way. He still want thinking as long
as I'm on a team, no matter who you bring in,
you should still come to me and I should be
signing off on stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
And I think that's a roote.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Awake that you took through for I was just getting
ready to say it's a rude awakening, when since probably.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Fourteen, IS's this whole life?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
No you you thirteen Probably you've been like, this is
your world and he's become this son, right that everything
else orbits around him. And this is the first time
somebody was like, nah, bro, you might have to just
be Mercury Mars or you know, you're a part of this.
But there's new orbit, there's new son. This thing that
everybody's orbiting is Luca, and I think that's that could
be a very foreign place to be for.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Hey, hey, Lebron, are you picking up your player option?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Or no? What? You ain't got no other table in.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
One in one you had another seventy five million on
there for me to pick up if I want.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
But you have to if you're at some point like
the Lakers loved Kobe Bryant and it got bad at
the end. He was their injured all the time. He
was their own at the end, right, and he was
their own and it got bad and it burned him
on the on the back end, and you got new ownership.
They're trying to progress and get back to you know, championships.
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Speaker 3 (17:30):
The San Francisco Giants have a new manager. It is
a groundbreaking higher that apparently one person at least is
not happy about. The Giants have hired Tennessee baseball coach
Tony Mattello as their next manager. Okay, he has never
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coached in the majors. He has never coached in the miners,
and as a result, he is the first manager in
MLB history to have ever managed at any level in
the pros.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Buster Posey, the former catcher who's an icon with the
San Francisco Giants, and I understand they won the three
World Series when he was there. He's beloved and for
a little bit last year, remember the Giants got off
to a good start and everybody's like, oh, Buster, he
made the trade to bolster their team. All that, But
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this move by Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Is total bush league. Would a capital b.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Ain't no way you're setting like trying to re establish
the market, changed the criteria to get somebody to be
a major league manager.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
This is a pipe dream.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And this is like like throwing a stone in the ocean,
hoping that it hits a whale out there somehow and
it's gonna work out.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
People, in order to become a major league managers put
in time and effort. Guys have set on the bench
for twenty years for an opportunity to be a major
league manager. Seriously, there are all kinds of people who
are looking for opportunities, who have worked in the minor leagues,
who have put in the work and all that. It
ain't fair. I don't care what he did in college.
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I don't care two of the players on the roster
now played for him in college or whatever.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I don't care. This is bad, bad for baseball. Had
nothing to do with what.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
He's done at Where was he Tennessee, Tennessee right, rob
g Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It's just like an opportunity that is way over his
skis that only looks like this is going to be
wind up being a disaster winning respect in the clubhouse
from players and all that.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
This is a tall order.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We saw this years ago, didn't They didn't know to
Dame hire a high school coach. Once Notre Dame hired
a high school coach from Cincinnati, didn't work out. All
I'm saying, Kelvin is that this is breaking all the
coach in Major League Baseball, that this is the first
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guy ever, ever, ever, ever to get a job without
at least being a coach somewhere I'm paying some other
dudes in a minor league.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, I disagree. And here's why someone always has to
be the first. Someone always has to break the mold,
something always has to be new. And also we see
this happen in the NBA, NFL all the time. You
can be Bobby Knight. We won Bobby Knight. They were
trying to get him for years, trying to get Tom
Mizzle as you know, you know, being in Michigan trying
to get.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Coach again, trying to get coach k w a championship.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And then you get the Rick Patinos, you get the
Billy Donovan's, you get guys who come into from college
into the pros. You get the Larry Browns. So my
point is we see this happen in NFL all the time.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
You say, guys, come NFL, what you would never coach anywhere?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
That this guy, this guy, he is at coach.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
He's a coach with college No, no, no, no, So I
understand to say, isn't in the pros.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But my point is we get people who are pulled.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
From the college ranks to be a coach in the
pros and then they whether they fail or to succeed,
there's the opportunity. But it happens all the time. Why
can't it happen to MLB? What happens to another major?
You know what division you're in? Do the San Francisco
Giants know what division they're in? What they're familiar with? Okay,
what they're up again? But no, no, no, I'm just
leads me to my second point though. Okay, so are.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You throwing the towel in? Is that's what I'm asking?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What I'm glad you brought that up. And what this
move shows me is we talk about it all the
time here and I bring it up. The gone of
the days of having that manager who is the guy
he has the absolute pulse of the team. He is
the face. You know, he might not be the face
as far as the star of the team, but he
has the entire ethos of this team. We know now
this has run very corporately. Now you have all the
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analytics guys with the GM. That's connected with all the analytics,
and they're pioneering and they're making the things for the manager.
Here's what we're going to do. Here's our system of
how we want to run this thing. Can you be
okay with doing that? This isn't the days you're the manager.
Hands off, we're over here. Those days are gone. And
this shows me to me, he must have the same
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type of mindset, same type of approach to things. And
they're like, here's our guy who will run our system.
Not saying, hey, Rob Parker, we think you're a great skipper.
You've done your thing. Here are the keys. Do what
you want. Those days are gone. Give you the history of.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
The San Francisco Giants, who has some of the greatest
players who have ever played there. Without of doubt, Okay,
they have a storied history. Willie Mays played there, Willie McCovey,
Barry Bonds. This team won three championships in a six
year span. The greatest manager of Major League Baseball history,
Bruce Boche went to five World Series one four, went
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to five in his career, was a manager there. And
you're telling the people of Sam Francisco seriously that your
next skipper has no experience in the major leagues at all.
This ain't Charlotte or some offshot franchise. And I say
Charlotte NBA, but you know what I mean, like like
some franchise like that where they're willing to get to
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give it a shot because they've never won anything, They've
never had the greatest players who ever played the game
in those places.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I get it, I do. Can you imagine if the
Yankees said, Okay, we're gonna give it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
An Aaron Boone and hire a guy who's the baseball
coach at Fordham Are you are you kidding me? I'm serious.
It would not be taking. People would be like, what
to manage the New York Yanmes is the Giant.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Here's my counter to that. That could not how I
get what you're saying with the Yankees, but I do
think Silicon Valley. We see it with the Warriors, we
see it with the Giants. Now it's a different era,
different area, different mindset, very innovative guys are always ahead
of the cur that whole. I completely agree with the
Yankees because it's the ethos. We don't do this, we
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don't do mustache. They finally changing, but we you know,
a lot to have this. It's like a certain way
of culture in the Bay Area. It's different.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Being innovative, would not accept it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's why I said the Bay Area. I said specifically
the Bay Area, and I think they're willing to go
with this. And again, you brought up a guy who
was part of those three championships with Bust to Posey.
This isn't if he feels this is the guy. I'm
not saying it's gonna work Hack, we all don't know that,
but I'm saying he clearly feels this guy fits the
future of what we're doing, fits our system. And I
think you might start seeing more of that because, like
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I said, I don't right now. On our screen here
one of our twenty six TVs is the Big Ten Network,
and we see what iver Meyer College to the pros.
We see it all the time in NBA, we see
it all the time in the NFL. Why can't MLB
do it? Because I'm really asking you, like I'm the
real question.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Because the difference is just what you said is there
is no league between the two. There is no league
for you to go to if you were a college
basketball coach. There's no in between league to get you
to the next one. So that's the natural progression. The
difference between a high school baseball player going to the
major leagues, right is there's a minor league system.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And the same thing with the NFL.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
There's college football and there's NFL football, not the UFL
or whatever those other bogus leagues are. There's no intermediate league,
and that's the difference. Why, yes, you do go from
college basketball to the NBA. There is no other middle
league to learn from, So that's the natural progression. There
is a minor league, and it's a long standing minor
(25:35):
league where people have put in a lot of energy,
time and stuff. And I'm just saying for a franchise
like the San Francisco Giants, most fans.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I would be surprised.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
If they're not saying that this is bush League for
that franchise, you know what I mean, it's not. And
also ran some franchise. Do you know what kind of
attendance they get and what kind of quo. Yeah, I
love the Giants, so out of that, go every year
to a game there. I've never been to that place
(26:13):
where every seat is a film and that's.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Why I'm won. And Buster Posey knows that better than
me and you, So I feel like he has to
have a post where maybe he understands they're okay this
or the opposite. I don't care if they're not. This
is something they're gonna learn to love once we you know,
in his mind obviously, because he made the decision, we
become successful. But I just really wanted to ask you
that because you've been covering this, like we see this
all the time in the NBA. We see our time
(26:36):
in the NFL. They clamoring NBA with for twenty years,
was clamoring to get coach k literally pleading throwing them
aback Kobe Bryant like please come coach Flicker, like there's
no doubt that people want these college ranked you. The
Lakers wanted Dan Hurley, Like this happens in the NFL, NBA,
and I'm like why, I'm just like, why doesn't happen
in MLB's But and I get what you mean with
the that minor league. The only thing I would say
(26:58):
their version of that is top not schools in the NBA, NFL,
that would be your minor league. If you coach at Florida,
coach at Alabama, coach at u n C basketball and
duke basketball.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
This has been a talking boy for a few weeks now.
As you know, the NFL announce their halftime perform for
the upcoming Super Bowl and they're calling it a controversial choice.
Bad money Puerto Rican international pop star Superstar, one of
the most popular acts on the planet. The problem is,
according to some, he is also very vocal about his
(00:47):
distaste for President Donald Trump, specifically as it relates to
the ice rays that have happened throughout the country. So
President Trump has come out and said some stuff about it.
News pundent, social media pund it have all come out
and said, hey, you need to change this. This is
not a good look, this is not representative of America,
this is not good for the NFL. Well, Roger Goodell
(01:09):
came out today and forcefully backed Jay Z and Bad
Bunny for the choice of the Jupowl halftime shows, thinking quote,
it's carefully thought through. I'm not sure we've ever selected
an artists where we didn't have some blowback of criticism.
It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds
of millions of people that are watching. He Bad Bunny
is one of the leading and most popular entertainers in
(01:32):
the world. That's what we try to achieve. It's an
important stage for us. It's an important element to the
entertainment value.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
There you go and Bravo to the NFL, Bravo to
Roger Goodell. Okay because and this doesn't matter what political
side you're on.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Okay, cause who are you gonna pick?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You know, if you start doing this, then you're gonna
have real issues. Once you buckle in on this, you
won't be able to pick anybody, okay, because they'll feel
like anytime there's somebody that they don't like or there's
an issue. And here's my problem with NFL America and
a lot of the fans who you notice Kelvin cried
(02:15):
from the mountaintops. I don't want to achieve black lives
matter at NFL games.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I'm just here for football.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I mentioned escape for me.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I don't want to see that, miss escapism.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I didn't hear those same people when they gave tributes
to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
There was none of that. Where was the outcry? Why
are we doing this out a football game? I'm not interested.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
People went to the mountaintops and said he deserves to
have a right to voice his opinion. I agree, everybody does,
and so does Bad Bunny. He's not down with Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That doesn't mean he can't perform at the super Bowl.
If you don't want to hear Bad Bunny, guess what.
Turn your damn station, change the channel, turn it down
if you don't like Bad Bunny's music or you don't
like him. That's what we've all done. You know many
(03:22):
acts at the Super Bowl that a lot of black
people weren't interested in, And guess that what their choice was.
Their choice was to either watch it or turn it
off and turn it back on when the game came on.
How dare people now they want to remove Bad Bunny
because he doesn't fall in line with what they want
(03:44):
to do the same thing. Oh, just dribble and play basketball, unless,
of course you're out kick, or you're some other organization
that has a different agenda and feels a different way,
then it's okay for them to talk about sports and politics,
but not for other people. Come on, dude, just be consistent.
(04:06):
And I applaud the NFL for just saying we're not
gonna open this can of worms. He was selected. We
went through the process and just like Roger Goodell said,
whenever you have somebody like this, they're gonna be people
who like them who don't like them.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And we just we made a selection.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And I'm glad that Bad Bunny is going to perform
at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'm not even a fan of Bad Bunny. I just
think that it's true. You know what you're a fan of.
It's standing almost right standing on principle. And I gotta say,
teasing you a minute ago, I think your Tani takes crazy.
We disagree on so much. We have fun on this show.
But I got when you ain't wrong and you're right,
I gotta acknowledge that. And this is one of those things,
(04:48):
because this is where sometimes the hypocrisy screams loud. Give
you an example. Blue lives matter, Blue lives matter. Get
that absolutely Okay, but then when you store them that
the capital and blues lives are harmed, Oh well that no,
it don't matter because you're trying to get your point
across that you believe the election was stolen, and so
(05:09):
on and so forth.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And now we're gonna kill cops.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now cops can get beat up, get hit, and some
of them in the hurt took their own lives afterwards
because all the trauma, all of that. But I thought
it was blue lives matter. And so it's the same
thing here. Free speech, free speech, well except for bad
Bunny who has an opinion about ice. And by the way,
there are several lawsuits, this is the news me. Several lawsuits,
several controversies, several things that there are misconduct issues when
(05:33):
it comes to ice. You have whether it be states
like Governor Gaven Newsom in California who are saying, well,
why if they're ice, which is fine, why can't they
show their face? What is so police officers have to
show their face? Other offers FBI right shows us what
is this about ICE agents? They don't have to show
their face. So there's practices that people are calling in
the controversy when it comes ice, meaning you can have
(05:53):
an opinion on ice it's okay, and the idea that bad.
Bunny Well, I don't want them to perform. He does
speak American, first of all, speak English, doesn't speak American.
First of all, Puerto Rican is a Puerto Rico is
a territory of America, so that's connected to America. Let's
also start there, people, He's not even American. And then
(06:15):
to your point of this, no matter who I pick,
if I'm jay Z, who's running in Rock Nation to
Roger Goodell, it's gonna be controversy someone And if I
picked the who who had it some twenty some years ago,
a lot of people black, white, Latino, I don't know who?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Who is the who?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And it's not about anything, it's just I don't know.
But a lot of people absolutely who is an iconic band,
but a lot of people I don't know them. It
was a different time, it was a different era, and
that's part of why they brought in jay Z in
the Rock Nation was to bring it hipper. They were
starting to lose people. They had performers who wouldn't perform,
who are huge, who are like, nah, this is too
still and old. So now here we are. Last year
(06:55):
they chose Kendrick Lamar. Controversy surrounds that. People say, well,
I'm not watching it. It's gonna be this, it's gonna
be that. Guess what broke a record the Kendrick Lamar performance.
And and I think people forget this sometimes while you
love the NFL and you have your team's logo tattooed
on you, it's still a business. And Bad Bunny is
(07:15):
the most streamed artist in the entire world period. And
what do we talk about every every rob g gives
us the uh, here's the news schedule of the season
coming season?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What are there?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A bunch of universal games games, global games, the NFL, the.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
NBA, nfbe trying to grow.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Who are stopping saying I'm not gonna watch the game
because it's in Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You're watching the game, people, some of you are buying
tickets in the NBA and NFL is trying to be
continued to grow it's audience and grow globally. And he
is a massive, massive, if not the most, the biggest
artists in the world globally. They're going to spread the
game spreading nowt So the idea again, if you don't
want to watch. You don't have to watch, but the
NFL knows it's gonna be controversy no matter who who
(08:00):
they pick, and why not pick the most global, globally
streamed artist who has a massive fan base. By the way,
a large portion of our country speaks Spanish as well. Hello,
and let it be entertained, and for twelve minutes of
your life you'll be okay. I promise.
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All right, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
NBA lay Night was last night. We had a doubleheader,
two very well one entertaining game and one two. The
early game was great, yeah, Houston and okse to Houston's disaster.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All did you say, Houston, we got a problem?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And the nightcap, Luca and the shorthanded Lakers got smacked
by Stephan the Warriors, despite Luca dropping forty three, twelve
and nine didn't was enough. Interestingly enough, though, coming out
of that game, one of the storylines that we're seeing
develop here trickle out over the last you know, eight
(09:36):
hours or so, is what was going on with Lebron James.
Obviously he didn't play. He's not gonna play until mid
November at the earliest. And several people, mostly on social media,
pointed out, you know what Lebron seems off. You know,
it doesn't seem like himself right there on the side.
Jovan Buja, longtime Lakers insider friend of the show, Friend
(09:58):
of the Show, sometimes is on a podcast today a
less associated the show. He was in the building and
they asked him about it, and first he's like, you know,
I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's kind of a weird topic. But then he said
this quote.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The vibes with that situation talking about Lebron have not
been the best. I'll say so again, I don't really
want to go too much down that.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Road, but he did. I thought there were.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Times, just looking in the huddle or looking at the bench,
that he wasn't as engaged as he typically is when
he out. You don't want to project on the people
what you think they're feeling or acting like. But just
in the observations I made of his body language was
not great, and I do think it was a bit
different than what has been in the past and the
same situation where he's sitting.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Out Lebron the last part of what he said I
one of the parts towards me, and I agree within
that look, the camera wasn't on him quite as normally
as much as they are, And you don't want to
read too far into it, but Lebron is very very intentional,
very calculated, very aware. Knows this is a national game,
(11:06):
knows this is the NBA is back, it's a big deal.
So on NBC, everybody's watching. It's you know what I mean, Like,
Lebron is fully aware of what's going on. This is
Lucas now first year as a full season with the team.
Everybody's watching. Luca's in the best shape of his life.
You got DeAndre A and you got Marcus Smarts, some
new players. People are watching It's versus Stephan the Warriors,
and for Lebron to look a bit disengaged, to look
(11:30):
distracted at times, to not be in there, that is
intentional from Lebron to me. Now, I don't know what
he's trying to imply. I don't know what he's trying
to say, but Lebron was saying something with his attitude.
Because if you can say a lot of things about Lebron,
but one thing you can't say is historically Lebron's up
dapping up teammates got personal handshakes with every last one
(11:50):
of them, talking in their ear, cracking jokes, having fun
with them. That's one of the great things about Lebron
is he's very ingratiating to teammates, whether you're a street
clothes on the bench or whether you're know to start
with me. And for him to not do that screams
louder than most people because he is usually that with
his teammates. So Rob I feel like there's something there.
(12:10):
Is it the idea that you know didn't work out
the deal with the contract? Is it the idea that
you know maybe they've been kind of moving forward. It
feels like the franchise are starting to move forward without him,
saying you're here now, but we have to start thinking
of life without Lebron. I don't know, but something did
seem a little off for a big game, first game
of the season. Lebron totally knows those moments, totally owns
(12:33):
those moments totally, even tho if he wasn't playing, I'm
gonna be a part of it. I'm dapping up, I'm
doing this, and he wasn't that. And for Lebron to
do something, it's intentional. We've seen him doing podcasts more
than ever lately. We've seen him golfing more than ever lately.
We see him do a lot of high or that's
what he's doing, and maybe he's acting like it. So
in last point two with the sciatica, just a strange
(12:56):
like to be out weeks. That's kind of strange too,
in that normally ay day by day or they'll take
it a week at the time, but to just know, oh,
he's going to be out for weeks is a bit strange.
So I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Can't that be corrected if you wash your hair. Oh
that's Sebarrie.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I'm sorry when we need some head and shoulders or
something up in here. So yeah, that was someone else,
reals Russell Westbrook or something. He'd be like, all right whatever,
even Steph kind of all right, just in his own
Lebron is intentionally stand up during time. I was wapping
up everybody. Ah stand you know, got a certain personal
handshake for me that feel like, hmmm, something off.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
There's nothing off. This is Lebron who understands that his
time is coming gone in Los Angeles, that he's not
a main focal point. That they didn't even offer him
even offer him, hey, an extension and then let you
turn it down or what that know, that was no
contract offered on the table.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
This is it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You're playing it out, you're picking up your option and
then that's it. We're done. After that, players are coming in. Yeah,
Eighton came in and Lebron's haven't even talked to him.
You know why they didn't call him and said, Lebron,
what do you think about? But no, that was a
Luca pit right, That was a Luca My Luca wanted
him or whatever. So Lebron's not dumb. He understands what's happening,
(14:15):
and slowly but surely, the Lakers are moving forward without him.
This is what happens when you stick around too long
and you think you're gonna have the same cloud. You
never have the same cloud the whole time. Nobody, unless
you play a shorter period of time, gets to run
the roots, you know, the whole time, especially if you overstay.
(14:38):
Most guys Lebron came through the league with they're long gone.
They're all long gone. Lebron's still playing five, seven, seven
years after other people, you know what I mean, Like,
that's a long time after the fact. So he knows
what's going on. That's why he's disengaged. Stop happenstance.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
No, that's why I said everything he does is intentional.
But I will say this is this is to me.
If this ends up being the last year, and if
there's gonna be this up and down roller coaster stuff
like this, this isn't how you want it to end.
Like you, Lebron has been a lot of things. He
could be that and and and you can love him
hate and whatever, but like he hasn't had a lot
(15:16):
of blemishes in that type of attitudes. You might not
I should have took the last shot. He should have
passed the ball. I don't like that he changed teams,
and you know, but the idea of like how he's
conducted like you don't want to You wouldn't want it
to go out like that, especially with the career he's had,
like what he means to basketball, where he is in
the pantheons of basketball. But but you wouldn't want it
to go out like that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
That is way for a long time.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't disagree.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
And now when you all of.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A sudden pull back and be like, it's not going
to be your way. We're moving forward. We have our
star of the future. We gave him the big contract.
He's bringing in people who he thinks compliment his game.
When that happens, people pout.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He's used to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Getting his way and and and he doesn't want it
to be that way. He still want thinking as long
as I'm on a team, no matter who you bring in,
you should still come to me and I should be
signing off on stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
And I think that's a roote.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Awake that you took through for I was just getting
ready to say it's a rude awakening, when since probably.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Fourteen, IS's this whole life?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
No you you thirteen Probably you've been like, this is
your world and he's become this son, right that everything
else orbits around him. And this is the first time
somebody was like, nah, bro, you might have to just
be Mercury Mars or you know, you're a part of this.
But there's new orbit, there's new son. This thing that
everybody's orbiting is Luca, and I think that's that could
be a very foreign place to be for.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Hey, hey, Lebron, are you picking up your player option?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Or no? What? You ain't got no other table in.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
One in one you had another seventy five million on
there for me to pick up if I want.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
But you have to if you're at some point like
the Lakers loved Kobe Bryant and it got bad at
the end. He was their injured all the time. He
was their own at the end, right, and he was
their own and it got bad and it burned him
on the on the back end, and you got new ownership.
They're trying to progress and get back to you know, championships.
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Speaker 3 (17:30):
The San Francisco Giants have a new manager. It is
a groundbreaking higher that apparently one person at least is
not happy about. The Giants have hired Tennessee baseball coach
Tony Mattello as their next manager. Okay, he has never
(17:51):
coached in the majors. He has never coached in the miners,
and as a result, he is the first manager in
MLB history to have ever managed at any level in
the pros.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Buster Posey, the former catcher who's an icon with the
San Francisco Giants, and I understand they won the three
World Series when he was there. He's beloved and for
a little bit last year, remember the Giants got off
to a good start and everybody's like, oh, Buster, he
made the trade to bolster their team. All that, But
(18:25):
this move by Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Is total bush league. Would a capital b.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Ain't no way you're setting like trying to re establish
the market, changed the criteria to get somebody to be
a major league manager.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
This is a pipe dream.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And this is like like throwing a stone in the ocean,
hoping that it hits a whale out there somehow and
it's gonna work out.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
People, in order to become a major league managers put
in time and effort. Guys have set on the bench
for twenty years for an opportunity to be a major
league manager. Seriously, there are all kinds of people who
are looking for opportunities, who have worked in the minor leagues,
who have put in the work and all that. It
ain't fair. I don't care what he did in college.
(19:23):
I don't care two of the players on the roster
now played for him in college or whatever.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I don't care. This is bad, bad for baseball. Had
nothing to do with what.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
He's done at Where was he Tennessee, Tennessee right, rob
g Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It's just like an opportunity that is way over his
skis that only looks like this is going to be
wind up being a disaster winning respect in the clubhouse
from players and all that.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
This is a tall order.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We saw this years ago, didn't They didn't know to
Dame hire a high school coach. Once Notre Dame hired
a high school coach from Cincinnati, didn't work out. All
I'm saying, Kelvin is that this is breaking all the
coach in Major League Baseball, that this is the first
(20:19):
guy ever, ever, ever, ever to get a job without
at least being a coach somewhere I'm paying some other
dudes in a minor league.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, I disagree. And here's why someone always has to
be the first. Someone always has to break the mold,
something always has to be new. And also we see
this happen in the NBA, NFL all the time. You
can be Bobby Knight. We won Bobby Knight. They were
trying to get him for years, trying to get Tom
Mizzle as you know, you know, being in Michigan trying
to get.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Coach again, trying to get coach k w a championship.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And then you get the Rick Patinos, you get the
Billy Donovan's, you get guys who come into from college
into the pros. You get the Larry Browns. So my
point is we see this happen in NFL all the time.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
You say, guys, come NFL, what you would never coach anywhere?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
That this guy, this guy, he is at coach.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
He's a coach with college No, no, no, no, So I
understand to say, isn't in the pros.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But my point is we get people who are pulled.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
From the college ranks to be a coach in the
pros and then they whether they fail or to succeed,
there's the opportunity. But it happens all the time. Why
can't it happen to MLB? What happens to another major?
You know what division you're in? Do the San Francisco
Giants know what division they're in? What they're familiar with? Okay,
what they're up again? But no, no, no, I'm just
leads me to my second point though. Okay, so are.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You throwing the towel in? Is that's what I'm asking?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What I'm glad you brought that up. And what this
move shows me is we talk about it all the
time here and I bring it up. The gone of
the days of having that manager who is the guy
he has the absolute pulse of the team. He is
the face. You know, he might not be the face
as far as the star of the team, but he
has the entire ethos of this team. We know now
this has run very corporately. Now you have all the
(22:01):
analytics guys with the GM. That's connected with all the analytics,
and they're pioneering and they're making the things for the manager.
Here's what we're going to do. Here's our system of
how we want to run this thing. Can you be
okay with doing that? This isn't the days you're the manager.
Hands off, we're over here. Those days are gone. And
this shows me to me, he must have the same
(22:21):
type of mindset, same type of approach to things. And
they're like, here's our guy who will run our system.
Not saying, hey, Rob Parker, we think you're a great skipper.
You've done your thing. Here are the keys. Do what
you want. Those days are gone. Give you the history of.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
The San Francisco Giants, who has some of the greatest
players who have ever played there. Without of doubt, Okay,
they have a storied history. Willie Mays played there, Willie McCovey,
Barry Bonds. This team won three championships in a six
year span. The greatest manager of Major League Baseball history,
Bruce Boche went to five World Series one four, went
(22:55):
to five in his career, was a manager there. And
you're telling the people of Sam Francisco seriously that your
next skipper has no experience in the major leagues at all.
This ain't Charlotte or some offshot franchise. And I say
Charlotte NBA, but you know what I mean, like like
some franchise like that where they're willing to get to
(23:16):
give it a shot because they've never won anything, They've
never had the greatest players who ever played the game
in those places.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I get it, I do. Can you imagine if the
Yankees said, Okay, we're gonna give it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
An Aaron Boone and hire a guy who's the baseball
coach at Fordham Are you are you kidding me? I'm serious.
It would not be taking. People would be like, what
to manage the New York Yanmes is the Giant.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Here's my counter to that. That could not how I
get what you're saying with the Yankees, but I do
think Silicon Valley. We see it with the Warriors, we
see it with the Giants. Now it's a different era,
different area, different mindset, very innovative guys are always ahead
of the cur that whole. I completely agree with the
Yankees because it's the ethos. We don't do this, we
(24:04):
don't do mustache. They finally changing, but we you know,
a lot to have this. It's like a certain way
of culture in the Bay Area. It's different.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Being innovative, would not accept it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's why I said the Bay Area. I said specifically
the Bay Area, and I think they're willing to go
with this. And again, you brought up a guy who
was part of those three championships with Bust to Posey.
This isn't if he feels this is the guy. I'm
not saying it's gonna work Hack, we all don't know that,
but I'm saying he clearly feels this guy fits the
future of what we're doing, fits our system. And I
think you might start seeing more of that because, like
(24:34):
I said, I don't right now. On our screen here
one of our twenty six TVs is the Big Ten Network,
and we see what iver Meyer College to the pros.
We see it all the time in NBA, we see
it all the time in the NFL. Why can't MLB
do it? Because I'm really asking you, like I'm the
real question.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Because the difference is just what you said is there
is no league between the two. There is no league
for you to go to if you were a college
basketball coach. There's no in between league to get you
to the next one. So that's the natural progression. The
difference between a high school baseball player going to the
major leagues, right is there's a minor league system.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And the same thing with the NFL.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
There's college football and there's NFL football, not the UFL
or whatever those other bogus leagues are. There's no intermediate league,
and that's the difference. Why, yes, you do go from
college basketball to the NBA. There is no other middle
league to learn from, So that's the natural progression. There
is a minor league, and it's a long standing minor
(25:35):
league where people have put in a lot of energy,
time and stuff. And I'm just saying for a franchise
like the San Francisco Giants, most fans.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I would be surprised.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
If they're not saying that this is bush League for
that franchise, you know what I mean, it's not. And
also ran some franchise. Do you know what kind of
attendance they get and what kind of quo. Yeah, I
love the Giants, so out of that, go every year
to a game there. I've never been to that place
(26:13):
where every seat is a film and that's.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Why I'm won. And Buster Posey knows that better than
me and you, So I feel like he has to
have a post where maybe he understands they're okay this
or the opposite. I don't care if they're not. This
is something they're gonna learn to love once we you know,
in his mind obviously, because he made the decision, we
become successful. But I just really wanted to ask you
that because you've been covering this, like we see this
all the time in the NBA. We see our time
(26:36):
in the NFL. They clamoring NBA with for twenty years,
was clamoring to get coach k literally pleading throwing them
aback Kobe Bryant like please come coach Flicker, like there's
no doubt that people want these college ranked you. The
Lakers wanted Dan Hurley, Like this happens in the NFL, NBA,
and I'm like why, I'm just like, why doesn't happen
in MLB's But and I get what you mean with
the that minor league. The only thing I would say
(26:58):
their version of that is top not schools in the NBA, NFL,
that would be your minor league. If you coach at Florida,
coach at Alabama, coach at u n C basketball and
duke basketball.
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