The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam July 29, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
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Daddy Experience.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news Radio eleven seventy. Let's
go live to Los Angeles. Alex Stone, ABC News Correspondent
Alex When it comes to college football, I mean there's
some big names out there and then there's the name
Dion Sanders. He's making news, but not for the reason
he wants. What's going on with Dion?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, Hey, bloom Daddy and no doubt about him. I
mean he's polarizing. There are those who don't like what
he's done to college football and the portal use and
then to see you football. There are others who love
it and say, look, he took the University of Colorado
a team nobody cared about and now has made the
school a lot of money and put a lot of
focus on them. Today, no matter what side you come

(01:01):
down on, people are coming behind and supporting him. Very
open and emotional today as he announced that he's been
battling bladder cancer and an aggressive invasive form of it,
and then he opted to have his bladder removed. And
even though his doctors say he is quote unquote cured
now that he has a long road to recovery. And

(01:22):
he did a lot of thinking of God today and
a lot of thinking of his doctors and the CEO
Athletic team. That he was detected during an annual exam
for other health problems he has and his primary care
doctor said, you know what, something doesn't look right, and
they began to investigate. And he said he wants that
to be the message that, especially for men, we hate
going to the doctor to get an annual exam and

(01:42):
if something doesn't look right, instead of dealing with it,
get it checked out and told it's no big deal,
rather than finding out too late and not to be
afraid of cancer. He put it like this today, please.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Get yourself checked out. Especially African American man, we don't
like going to the doctors.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
We don't like nothing to do with adopt that.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
So I'm not just up to the brothers that are
talking to my Cocasian brothers, my Hispanic brothers, my Agian
Brothers not that handles.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
System, and Sanders said over and over again, he thank
God for saving his life. That he says, this is real,
that there are going to be porta potties on the
sidelines now during the upcoming football season because he does
have to urinate constantly because they put in a replacement
bladder and his body's got to deal with it. That
he gives it a dead practice and on at game
day that there's going to be porter bodies there that

(02:28):
he's got to use. But he said, by the way bloomed,
he knew he had cancer and surgery coming up when
Shador had that rough time of the draft as he
fell on the picks, and that he was dealing with
that going on as well. So he says he's ready
to come back, he's ready to fight, ready to coach
the CU team. But he's been dealing with a lot
over the last couple of months.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's lost twenty five pounds in the process. And Alex,
this guy who made his name, made his money with
a body that was one of the you know, made
him one of the best athletes of all time. He's
really been under it. I think he had part of
his foot amputata and.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now this, Yeah, he had blood clot a couple of
years ago leading to these annual exams. More than just
a regular annual physical, but the exams that he's been
doing where they caught this. But yeah, I mean his
body is failing him. You see him on the sidelines
kind of hobbling around as he walks. He's used different
devices to get around to practice, you know, different wheelie

(03:24):
things so he can kind of scoot around to make
walking easier. Now he's got this going on. That or
somebody who over his career, it was all about the
amazing ways his body could play baseball and football that
in several ways. Now his body is failing him.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Alex, thank you as always.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
You got to thanks lou DDI.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
All right, that's Alex Stone, ABC News correspondent live from
Los Angeles.

Speaker 7 (03:51):
I can say this. I'll say this, Dion's one hundred
percent right. As a as a guy, as a man,
we are hard headed. I learned the hard way, you know,
in where I ended up. And don't you don't want

(04:11):
to go to the doctor. You don't think anything's wrong.
You think you can fight through it. That's what you've
been taught your whole life. Fight through it, you'll be okay,
fight through.

Speaker 8 (04:19):
It, don't show weakness.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
And so when you go to get checked and then
they tell you that there's something seriously wrong, then you're like, man,
if i'd just gone earlier, if i'd have done this,
if I'd have done that, maybe things would be different.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:34):
Unfortunately we're too hard headed. And it's not just Dion,
it's not just it's men in general.

Speaker 8 (04:44):
Well, I'm going to say, I'm going to say this, so,
first of all, cancer touches all of us. Sure does
it does. Bladder cancer in particular has touched me very
very closely. I'm not going to say who it is.
It's somebody very close to me.

Speaker 7 (05:01):
My bladder cancer.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Yeah, and it is more prevalent in men. So for
men out there, it is something to pay significant attention to.
Men are likely three to four times to be UH
diagnosed with bladder cancer than women. There are several UH

(05:27):
contributing factors, smoking, occupational exposure. What that means is the
type of occupations that a lot of men work in.
They are exposed to things like different carcinogens in paint, metal, petroleum,
rubber production. There's a lot of different elements that in
the jobs that a lot of men work in, they

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have different exposures than female. One of the main symptoms
to pay attention to to watch out for is any
blood in the urine or discoloration, frequent urination, painful, the

(06:10):
need to go urgently a lot of times, those are
the main symptoms. One thing I want to say, do
not make the mistake. Do not be afraid to question.
When you are told all blood in the urine is normal,

(06:33):
it is not. It is not that was told to
a person. The person that I'm referring to put off,
did not question. This person did not question what was
told to them. Question what is told to you If
it does not sound right, deepen your gut and you
hesitate with what you're told, get a second opinion, Get

(06:59):
a second opinion. It is not a death sentence. First
of all, it is not a death sentence. The person
I'm talking about that is very close to me completely
had their bladder removed, now lives a normal life, has
a stoma, which then also has the bag on the side.

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It's inconvenient, but having your life over a little bit
of inconvenience is worth it. You can enjoy your activities.
You can run, you can swim, you can do everything.
So my point to all of this is when you
don't feel right, don't be afraid to get the testing.

(07:47):
And I'm not saying women are out of the woods
at all. I mean it can affect any of us.
I have to be very diligent about it because it
is directly in my you know, genetics, so I have
to pay attention to a lot of different things. Because
now it's not necessarily that bladder cancer is inheritently genetic

(08:13):
running through your running in the family, but if it
is in your family, as any other cancer, you should
be diligent in pay attention and have the test, the
testing done. Nobody wants to have these tests, nobody wants
to go through all of this, but it's better than that.
And then when you see somebody like Dion Sanders, you know,

(08:38):
I think he's one of the first bigger names to
actually talk about this form of cancer and and bring
light to it. And a lot of the times it
takes a name like that to highlight a particular form
of cancer. And now unfortunately Deon Sanders is dealing with

(09:02):
this along with his family. But it does put a
spotlight on this form of cancer. And as I said,
the person who I am referring to had a fifteen
hour surgery at the James in Columbus, which was amazing facility.

(09:23):
Amazing facility, and thank you to all the doctors up
there that saved his life and continues to treat him.
So the moral of the story is be diligent about
your health and get the tests. Seven point fifteen. You're
listening to The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio
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Speaker 7 (11:34):
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Speaker 8 (11:35):
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Speaker 8 (11:41):
Ted?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
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Speaker 7 (11:45):
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Speaker 8 (11:47):
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(12:13):
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I'm not going to say we're begging, but we are.
Our competitive juices are flowing. We are we are ready
to uh take out some.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
Howk See, the nailers have an advantage. They have more
of them, they have more people, they have more people.
Plus you know they're out there and they're skating and they
have fans. Right, we don't. We won't any fans.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
We don't many fans.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
No.

Speaker 8 (12:48):
Oh, we just people.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
People just look at us and go oh at YouTube. Yeah,
we listened every once in a while.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
It's those two goobers. Okay, haven't heard Goober in a while.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
That's good. That was good. Yeah, just that was perfect
timing too, because I was looking for a word, but
Goober fits perfect. I had another word, but I don't
think we could have said it on that. There's a
couple of them we can't say. But yeah, Goober works.
We'll take it.

Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, oh okay, Well we got off track there
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
Not really, we're still talking about donating. Yeah, we just
don't have any fans. I mean, like it's a different
type of a fan.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
We have listeners.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
We have listeners, Yes they have for some reason. Yeah,
they have fans.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yeah, but it goes. But they're also a team. We're
a duo.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
So so like with the amount of we're like haul
of notes going up against led Zeppelin.

Speaker 8 (13:53):
Yeah, like they have more people, and with more people,
those plate people.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Are more like the carpenters.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
God will yeah right.

Speaker 7 (14:03):
Close to.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
I'm not that thin.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
Well that goodness, Well, yeah, eat a sandwich, Karen.

Speaker 8 (14:13):
I don't think she would be a she's not an
ice cream person.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
I doubt.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
Yeah, well she might have been. She just would have
thrown it up.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Jesus, let's not.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Look, she's been dead for a while. That's not too
early to do those. And I'm not making fun by
any means. No, it was just a cheap shot.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
Yeah, let's let's not go. Yeah, let's not go the
eating disorder route.

Speaker 7 (14:34):
No, No, I mean it is what it is.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
But you know, boy, she was skinny.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
Wow, Well that's what happens when you don't eat. Well yeah, yeah,
so normally you don't gain weight when you don't eat.
You have to eat to maintain weight or gain weight
or whatever.

Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well and muscle and everything else. Yeah, so anyway, we'll
move on. Let's let's turn the page on that.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
One.

Speaker 7 (15:00):
Could be Donnie Marie, Captain Antoniel, Sonny and Cheer. There
you go. So, if we're going to be a duo,
here are some other good.

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Duos, Mickey and Minnie.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
They're not just stop, you're done, You're done. You don't
even get Garfunkel. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
You could be Garfunkle. That's fine because that that's a
great word to say. What's your name, Garfunkle or guardfunk cool.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
Mhm mo. Names are Garfunkel fun Garkle. So okay, now
that really would left us out.

Speaker 8 (15:43):
Yes, somehow we've been able to fit in already this morning,
Goober and Garfunkle. So that gives you a heads up
of what it's really hard, so kind to come up
with those things. What kind of Tuesday this is?

Speaker 7 (15:56):
And we were just talking about donating money, so you know,
and why we don't have any fans. There's two reasons why, Carfuckle.
There's two reasons why.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Oh shoot, oh, when you step outside this morning or
if you were outside yesterday, I just want to put
a name in your head and just give thanks to
this pert Satan although it felt like Satan and where
he resides yesterday It was already seventy four when I
got in my car this morning. But here's a name

(16:28):
I want you to think of, Willis Carrier.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
You want to know why, because he invented the air conditioning.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Yes he did, Yes he did.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
You didn't think I was gonna get that.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
I didn't, but just think about it. In nineteen nineteen
oh two he designed and built the first electrical air
conditioning unit.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
So actually saw that on the History channel like three
days ago.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
Oh did you Okay, but the first person too, Yeah,
we're talking about refrigerators and then air conditioners and stuff
like that. Oh okay. The first person to do an
experiment was, yes, the founding father, Benjamin Franklin in seventeen
fifty eight. He did an experiment that dropped the temperature
from sixty four to seven degrees fahrenheit, and he said,

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from this experiment, one may see the possibility of freezing
a man to death on a warm summer's day. Sounds
like air conditioning. Seven twenty eight the bloom Daddy experienced
samon Otis News Radio eleven.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Seventy The Big Story The Guardians notified by Major League
Baseball that is part of their sports betting investigation. Emmanuel
Classe has been placed on non disciplinary paid leave per
an agreement with the Players Association's bring On. Scott Davidson
WTAM eleven hundred sports gambling expert Scott, we don't know

(17:45):
what exactly they're looking at. In the case of his
teammate Luis Ortiz, a betting integrity firm flag two of
his pitches that coincided with increased bets on a particular outcome.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
You're a betting man.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
If you had the place a bet, no pun inten
and make it a joke, here would you say? It
probably has something to do with you know, similar to
the Ortez situation.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
If I had to bet, I would because it's very
difficult for one pitcher to control fixed change the outcome
of a game. Micro Bets, which are betting on the
first pitch of an inning or props are where all
of these issues are cropping up, and that's where the
issue cropped up for Luis Ortiz. So yes, I would
predict it. It's a similar situation. And again I have

(18:31):
no insight info and I do not know what he
did or if he's guilty or not. The process will
have to play out.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
You brought up a good point when we talked earlier
though about stat cast some numbers.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
What did you find?

Speaker 5 (18:45):
So here's what I found in digging for a stat cast.
What's called waste pitches. And it's very important to understand
what a waste pitch is. A waste pitch is a
pitch that is not close to the strike zone, and
so they do percentage is on these. And last year,
the first pitch that Emmanuel Classe threw in all of

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the games that he pitched in, four and a half
percent of those were not close to the strike zone.
All of the other pitches that he threw last year
outside of the first pitch, four point four percent of
those were not close to the strike zone, a fairly
even distribution. Well, this year, in forty starts in the
ninth inning, forty times he's come in in the ninth

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his first pitch waste pitch percentage meaning not close to
the strike zone is seventeen and a half percent. All
other pitches are five point two percent, which is very
close to last year's four and a half. So something's
askew there. But the thing is it could also be
a coincidence. And I want to say this because it's
not a humongous sample size. Remember if you're talking about
forty appearances, bloom Daddy, and you're saying seventeen percent, what

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is that like seven or eight of the pitches of forty.
But it is a big difference from last year. So
when we're looking at everything.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
We can to try to dig into this, and that's
exactly exactly what these betting integrity firms are looking into
probably right now too. I mean, that's you're right, it's
a smaller sample size and we're just guessing here, But
a guy that's four point three percent on waist pitches
first pitch that goes from four point three percent to
seventeen percent, that's a large.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Jump, it really is. And again, you know, I see
a lot of people and you know, you read the
trolls on social media and they're saying, oh, maybe he
threw the Yankees series last year, or he's a blow
in that game in Kansas City the other day. Those
things are next to impossible to make wagers on and
make happen. These first pitch microbats, and that's what they're called,

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because they only involved one particular item, are the easiest
things to control. And they also don't really in the
long run, affect the outcome of a game. So even
though it's super super not it doesn't hold high integrity.
These guys feel like, Okay, if they're making that choice,
they're doing it on something that doesn't affect the integrity
of the outcome of the game, and it's still nefarius

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and you can't do.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
It well right.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
And I will say this, there's a big difference being
oh and wanted to play as opposed to one and oh.
So when you say it doesn't make a difference in
the game, I'm going to push back on that.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
It absolutely does.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
It changes in a bat if I'm ahead one to oh,
now all of a sudden, he's got to kind of
come to me as opposed to I'm oh one.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
It does change things.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I know there's a stat where if a pitcher goes
if a pitcher doesn't throw a strike within his first
two pitches to a batter, the opposing the batter's batting
average goes up like two hundred and eighty points. So well,
to your point, it's not changing a you know, he's
not grooving a pitch with two guys on, only up

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by a run.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
But it can have an effect.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well, yeh, and I think it's it's it's an afterthought.
What the effect is. Remember, if you're as good as
he is and able to throw strikes at will, for
the most part, everybody has struggles. You know, getting behind
one oh to him does not need and he's not
going to be able to save the game and get
out of the inning and get the batter that's batting.
So yeah, I'll agree with you if you look at
it like that. Okay, but I don't think that's where

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this issue lies.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, and I can't blame people for second guessing because
I've been doing it all day. I mean, it makes
you sit back and wonder, Okay, what about that Yankee series?
What about earlier this year? You just don't know when
somebody's leverage, Scott, I mean, you know they can be manipulated.
Now we're talking to Scott Davidson, Wtim eleven hundred sports
gambling expert. Look, you've been in the gambling business your

(22:33):
entire life. You've seen the good, the bad, the ugly.
When people say, well, why would he do it? He
already makes enough money, how would you respond to them?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Hey, there's two responses I have all the time, And
the first one is that even people with lots of
money get into financial problems. I mentioned earlier, people that
win the lottery for one hundred million dollars go belly
up a lot You've seen a lot of professional sports
figures get in financial trouble.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
So one of the reasons.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
People do things like this is because they have financial
issues and somebody's putting pressure on them to solve them.
The second way you reason that you do it is
to try to help a friend, try to help a buddy. Remember,
these guys are from the Dominican. They can have a
family there, they can have friends who can be, you know,
starving for ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars. To them, that's
like two million. So the way you help them, you

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do that for them and you get but it's still
so wrong. But those are the two things I come
up with. Is the only reason you would ever even
consider that.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, the third, the third one is I'm going to
use you, good buddy, as an example. I mean, you're
okay financially, but you love the energy of it, you
love the buzz of it, you love just the game
of it.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
And these guys could be just like you.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Well the reason, yes, they could be. Maybe they like
the game of it. But the thing is they are
strictly and prohibitably prohibit prohibited rather from betting on baseball.
I mean, so that is a different thing. I yes,
I like it. If I want to bet a first pitch,
I'm not a major League baseball player. But if he
does that, he knows right out of the gate that's
completely out of bounds, and you know it's it's on limits.

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So if he's going to go get a buzz on betting.
A lot of these leagues allow you to bet on
other sports. Go bet on the you know, the first
quarter of the Browns game in the preseason.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's okay, yeah, exactly, Scott is always thank you so much, man,
you gotta flim daddy.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Okay, I'm trying to think of how I want to
take this, but you go first.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
So here's the thing. And in the guy's right. I mean,
these guys come from the Dominican and you know, it's
the rumors that I've heard or the way that the is.
They're betting on the first pitch that they throw in
is it? Is it? You know you can bet? Is
it the fastball? Is it the slider? Is it? Whatever? Well,

(24:55):
you know that's an easy thing that you can fix.
Sure you know, is it going to be a ball
or a strike? Okay? Well I can. I can throw
one outside the zone and it's a ball.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
You see.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
I mean, it's a very easy thing to do.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
It's not the like outcome of the game. It's not.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
But look at look at shoeless Joe Jackson, look at
Pete Rose, look what happened. In every major league locker room,
there are signs that say, do not bet on baseball. Okay,
why is it baseball more than because it's the integrity

(25:33):
of the game. Look, they don't care if you bet
on football.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
No, what I mean is, why does it seem as
if it happens more in baseball by baseball players than
it does in other sports.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
Paul Horning did it and got suspended for a year
in the NFL for betting on football.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
But the most notorious happens in.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
Baseball because I think because of the history of the
Black Sox, and you know, I think that stands out
with people in nineteen nineteen. But you know, you know,
I'm looking at Emmanuel classe stats. I mean, going this year,
his his z ra's up a little bit, you know.
I mean, he's still five and three. He's got twenty
four saves. His the e ra's three point two three.

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Last year he had forty seven saves. His ERA was
a point six y one. But two years ago his
ZRA was a three twenty two. So I mean consistent.
You know, I'm looking at the numbers. I mean one
three six one two nine two three one, so I mean,
you know, there's there's years you have it and years

(26:34):
you don't. I mean a three two three e r
A is not like out of the ordinary, but you
know the rules state do not bet. But Major League
Baseball is also a hypocrite because who were they taking
money from that? That was going to be Draft Kings? Yep,
bet MGM any all the anytime you see a Major

(26:59):
League Baseball game, there's an ad for casinos someplace, there's
an ad for online betting, online betting, you know. I
mean they're they're in bed now with casinos and legalize gambling.

Speaker 8 (27:13):
And that's for every professional sport. Yes, So like you
said that, that was exactly going to be. My point is,
you can't. You can't judge, accuse, prosecute, go after people,
even if they are players, for doing what you are

(27:38):
taking money for to promote.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
But here's what I can do too. So if I'm
a Manuel class A, I'm the picture, you're a friend
of mine, and I say, hey, bet this prop bet,
and you put down ten thousand dollars on a prop bet.
Most people don't do that. That's what sends the red flag.

Speaker 8 (27:57):
Well what about the pictures too, I mean the catchers also,
I mean the catchers are providing the signs.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
We have the pictures the one that controls it.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
But I understand that. But if it becomes a regular
occurrence where that picture is constantly changing the signs that
the catcher.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Is giving them, they're shaking them off.

Speaker 8 (28:15):
Yeah, that's got to give you.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
But normally they're gonna like, if he calls for a fastball,
he's gonna throw it outside. Yeah, it's normally a ball.

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lines of Baseball Baseball Hall of Fame, Second baseman. Ryan
Sandberg died yesterday at the age of sixty five. Played
fifteen of sixteen Big Leads Big League seasons with the
Chicago Chicago Cubs, for whom he made ten All Star games,
won nine Gold Glove Awards, seven Silver Sluggers, and was

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named the National League's MVP Player in nineteen eighty for
His number twenty three was retired by the Cubs, and
a statue of him was unveiled outside Wrigley Field last summer.
I am not familiar with Ryan Sandberg. I'm assuming, mister
Otis that you are very much so.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Yeah, Ryan Sandberg was. He started his first year, was
with the Phillies, played in like fifteen games, and then
get traded to the Cubs in eighty three. You know,
probably one of the best second basements of his generation,
one of the best second basement of all time. And

(30:11):
I heard I think Bob Costas said it yesterday. The
one thing about Ryan Samberg was he wasn't flashy. Ozzie
Smith would make the plays and you know, was called
the Wizard of Oz for a reason. Okay, Ryan Samberg
was fundamentally sound. He was a five tool player, you know,

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wasn't flashy with the glove, but would always be in
front of the ball. Would you know, it would just
he was. He was fundamentally sound when it came to defense.
And you don't win ten Gold Gloves. I think consecutive
Gold Gloves.

Speaker 8 (30:53):
Nine, nine, ten All Star Games.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Nine.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
There was a ten in there somewhere, nine All the
Star nine, nine Gold Gloves, ten Star Games. I think
seven Silver Sluggers. So you know he could hit the
ball if you look at he's not. I mean, he
really didn't play. He played sixteen seasons, realistically fifteen because
like I said, the first year he only had fifteen
and played in fifteen games. But one of my favorite

(31:19):
players growing up, you know, I mean he made his
debut I was in high school, but you know, still
kind of respected.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
You know.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
That's that's when I was, you know, a baseball junkie.
And you know, again, you didn't have baseball on TV
every day like you do now. You didn't. You don't
have access to every game and whether it be your
local team or on there's a game of the game
of the week every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, you know,

(31:50):
on depending on what channel you're on, or what network
you're on. But Ryan Samberg when NBC would carry the
game of the week and you got to see the
Cubs and the Cardinals or or the Dodgers and the
Giants or something, the teams that you wouldn't get to
see normally, the Red Sox Yankees. Ryan Samberg made a

(32:12):
name for himself on those you know, on those games
when when they would carry the Cubs and just a
great you know, never was flashy, never wanted to be
in the spotlight. You said, he played, never never got
in trouble.

Speaker 8 (32:25):
Who'd you say he played with U Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
No, No, I'm just on comparing.

Speaker 8 (32:30):
No, but but did they were they on the same team?

Speaker 7 (32:33):
No? No, okay, Oz Smith played for the Cardinals.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Okay, because I was going to say a lot of
the times in sports there's like the flashy player and
then they have a teammate that is kind of like
in the trenches and they're not flashy. No, I mean
like Jordan and Pippitt, you know.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
Ryan Samberg played with Andre Dawson, another Hall of Famer,
played with I think Ron Say was at third base
with the Cubs at the time. Played with Mark Grace
in the nineties. You know, I mean he played with
he played with some you know, good players, but he
was other than Andre Dawson, the Hawk. Hawk was an outfielder,

(33:15):
Rhino was, you know, second baseman. They were you know,
they were the Chicago Cubs, and the Cubs were basement
dwellers for a long time. And you know, in eighty
four they had a shot to go to the World
Series and they ended up losing, you know, a close
game to the San Diego Padres, who went to the
World Series that year. So Ryan Samberg was just a

(33:38):
you know, a class act.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
Sounds like a well rounded player, a five tool player.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
Five tool player, could could hit, could run, could field,
I mean, could throw, could do it. I mean he
was he was everything. Yeah, you know, I mean he was.
He was. He was one of the best. That's why
he's a Hall of Famer. You know, you play, you
only play fifteen years, technically fifteen years. You play fifteen
years and you become a Hall of Fame. I mean,
his number is career for a baseball first second, I

(34:03):
mean you probably look at I mean it's probably about
an average for good baseball player. But I mean a
lot of your Hall of Famers you know, they're you know,
they're twenty years you know, he's you know, could he
have you know, you just maybe got maybe he's a
little old coming in just depending on when he came up,
you know. So, I mean, you know, it's it's a
sad day for baseball, you know, because he was one
of the he was one of the good ones.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
That's a lot of trophies, that's a lot of baclage.

Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, I mean MVP in eighty four, So I mean,
I mean a lot of a lot of different things. Yeah,
just just a great ambassador for the game of baseball.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
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Speaker 2 (35:27):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy experience. Hey
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. Let's go
live to Los Angeles. Alex Stone, ABC News Correspondent Alex
When it comes to college football, I mean there's some
big names out there, and then there's the name Dion Sanders.
He's making news, but not for the reason he wants.

(35:48):
What's going on with Dion?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah, Hey, bloom Daddy, no doubt about it. I mean
he's polarizing. There those who don't like what he's done
to college football and the portal use and then to
see U football. There are others who love it and say, look,
he took the University of Colorado a team nobody cared
about and now has made the school a lot of
money and put a lot of focus on them. But today,
no matter what side you come down on, people are

(36:11):
coming behind and supporting him. Very open and emotional today
as he announced it that he's been battling bladder cancer
and an aggressive invasive form of it, and that he
opted to have his bladder removed, and even though his
doctors say he is quote unquote cured now that he
has a long road to recovery. And he did a

(36:31):
lot of thinking of God today and a lot of
thinking of his doctors and the CEO athletic team. That
he was detected during an annual exam for other health
problems he has and his primary care doctor said, you
know what, something doesn't look right and they began to investigate.
And he said he wants that to be the message that,
especially for men, we hate going to the doctor to
get an annual exam and if something doesn't look right,

(36:52):
instead of dealing with it, get it checked out and
told it's no big deal, rather than finding out too
late and not to be afraid of cancer.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
He put it like this today, please get yourself checked out.
Especially African American man, we don't like going to the doccause.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
We don't like nothing to do with the adopt You
know that.

Speaker 6 (37:10):
So I'm not just up to the brothers.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
I'm talking to my Caucasian brothers, my Hispanic brothers, my
Asian brothers, not that Hans.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
And Senter sit over and over again. He thank God
for saving his life. That he says, this is real,
that there are going to be porta potties on the
sidelines now during the upcoming football season because he does
have to urinate constantly because they put in a replacement
bladder and his body's got to deal with it. That
he gives it a d practice and on at game day,
that there's going to be porter bodies there that he's

(37:37):
got to use. But he said, by the way bloomed,
he knew he had cancer and surgery coming up when
Shador had that rough time of the draft as he
fell on the picks, and that he was dealing with
that going on as well. So he says he's ready
to come back, he's ready to fight, ready to coach
the CU team. But he's been dealing with a lot
over the last couple of months.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
He's lost twenty five pounds in the process. And Alex,
this guy who made his name, he made his money
with a body that was one of the you know,
made him one of the best athletes of all time.
He's really been under it late recently. I think he
had part of his foot AMPUTATD and now.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
This, Yeah, he had blood clot a couple of years
ago leading to these annual exams. More than just a
regular annual physical, but the exams that he's been doing
where they caught this. But yeah, I mean his body
is failing him. You see him on the sidelines kind
of hobbling around as he walks. He's used different devices
to get around to practice, you know, different wheelie things

(38:33):
so he can kind of scoot around to make walking easier.
Now he's got this going on that for somebody who
over his career it was all about the amazing ways
his body could play baseball and football that in several ways.
Now his body is failing him.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
Alex, thank you as always, you got it. Thanks lou
dni all right, that's.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Alex Stone, ABC News correspondent live from Los Angeles.

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Well, the one thing about this, you know, it's hard
to see those that you know, in their heyday we
were physical specimens. I mean I remember Dion playing and
he was he was an amazing athlete. So when you
see those that were gladiators on the field in their

(39:23):
weaknesses and their health starts to fail or you see
them touched by something like this. You know, it's it's
it's shocking, but it also brings awareness. And you know,
from from what I can remember, he's one of the

(39:44):
first names that I've heard speak about this particular type
of cancer in a public forum because it is sort of, uh,
you know, cancer is not touchy, but when you're talking
about bladder and you're talking about brooms, you know, sometimes
a lot of people don't want to talk about those

(40:04):
types of issues and the outcomes and what they have
to live with after being treated for this type of cancer. Now,
Dion having the replacement bladder is I would consider a
little bit more on the lucky side as opposed to
those that have gone through and have to have a

(40:24):
complete removal of the organ and then have to live
with the ongoing inconvenience we'll say, of what is called
a stoma, which is a new path for the removal
of the urine from the side that he goes into

(40:45):
a bag and there's all this, you know, all that
that entails. So it's an inconvenience either way, but it's
also you've survived. You have survived, So he has survived.
But again going back to it, he is he is
bringing awareness to this Now, one thing I wanted to

(41:05):
highlight is that bladder cancer is more prevalent in men
than women. Women do get it, don't you know. I'm
not saying that, but it tends to be more prevalent
in men. So pay attention to the signs, to the symptoms.
The main symptom, just to educate everybody, is blood in
the urine. That is not normal. It is not normal. Also,

(41:28):
pain when urinating, the feeling of needing to go urgently.
So if you have those types of signs, pain in
the lower back, pain in the pelvic area, if you
do have any of those symptoms, it doesn't hurt. It
doesn't hurt to go have a conversation and have the
tests run by your physician. By your physician, there's multiple

(41:54):
treatments of course, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, but early detection, of course,
with any cancer leads to a better result. So and
it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate to see this happen to of course,
a sports legend. Now I am not otis he played

(42:19):
baseball and football? Correct? Yes, like Bo Jackson.

Speaker 7 (42:22):
Yeah, so Bo did it first.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
Because Bo knows. Yeah, Bo did it first. But again,
it because it's hard to.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
And Bo was a better baseball player. Was okay, he
was fast, He was fast fast, he can steal bases,
he can play the outfield. Wasn't as great of a hitter.
He wasn't as good as a hitter as Bo.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
But you tend to always when you hear when you
hear a name, like you hear Dion, you think of
Dion in that Cowboys uniform. I do. Anyways, I go
back to that time period. That's how you tend to
remember these people, these folks.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. You know, when you
have somebody, an athlete that you know, you you know,
to put up good numbers and is a Hall of
Famer in whatever way, and and then you know, something
tragic happens to him.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
You know.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
Growing up for me, I mean, I remember Catfish Hunter
started with the A's, went through the Yankees, so on
and so forth. And then you know, as I got older,
you had Steve Mango McMichael that played for the Bears
and got into the w c W just got into
the Hall of Fame last year. Both of those guys
went through Luke Garry's disease als and so to watch

(43:42):
and you know, Mongo Michael they was with Facebook. They
were showing pictures of him and he's in a bed
and he's on a ventilator. I mean, he was this big,
powerful guy you know that played for the Chicago Bears
and he wrestled. He was one of the later four
Horsemen with you know, I mean Rick Flair and and ever,
and it just you know, you look at him and

(44:04):
they just waste a weight to nothing, and it's just
it's it's sad. I mean, especially with Mango because his
was on social media, whereas Jim Hunter just was you know,
kind of a you know, you know you heard it
in the news and you just knew what would happen.
You would see pictures and that you know, how frail
he became and so on. But yeah, I mean.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
It's just, uh, it's so hard to wrap your mind around.

Speaker 7 (44:25):
And you take you take Ryan Samberg, I mean we
just talked about him. I mean, here's a guy that
you know in Dion, you know, got his cancer and
and everything and hopefully that it's clear and stays away.
But you know, here's Ryan Sandberg that was told he
was clear and the next thing you know, it returns
and you know he passes away at the age of
sixty five, you know, and again another boyhood you know,
a childhood hero.

Speaker 8 (44:46):
Yeah, it's so hard to see these, you know, titans
on the field, gladiators. What do you want to refer
to him? As you know, I'm looking at this mango
you know, uh, Steve McMichael that you refer to. He
was a beast.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Yeah, he's a big dude.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Wow wow. And it's like you see them to tear nasty.
It is a nasty, nasty disease. Eight sixteen. You're listening
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it last week or the week before? They canceled on
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(46:51):
losing their minds. And people are losing their minds everybody, everybody,
not everybody, but you know, people are throwing timber tantras.
They don't understand why President Trump made this happen. Babe
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out that CBS has been losing or has is estimated

(47:11):
to lose forty to fifty million dollars on that show alone.
Forty to fifty million dollars that they're losing, let alone,
how the ratings are in the toilet. It has nothing
to do with the president, has nothing to do with Republicans.
It has to do with the fact that it's a

(47:33):
terrible program and nobody wants to watch it, plain and
symbol That's what it comes down to. If you don't
have ratings, you don't have a show. If you don't
have ratings, you don't have advertising dollars. If you don't
have advertising dollars, number one, you can't pay the high
contract of the host, and you lose forty to fifty
million dollars a year. That's it. Well, the funny thing

(47:57):
was on Sunday there to be this big protest.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Right.

Speaker 8 (48:03):
All these people were gonna come. It was called the
We're we We're with Colbert Protest. One of their voices
heard wanted to save this show, wanted to realize that,
you know, freedom of speech is being trampled. How many
people showed up? Just guess, just guess. An estimated twenty

(48:29):
folks showed up twenty to protest. That is so bad
that the NYPD left. They left because they weren't worried
about crowd size or any type of confrontations when it
comes to a protest. What does that tell you? What

(48:53):
does that tell you? It tells you that the ratings
are truthful, and that's why he got canceled. But now
former late late night name Jay Leno is speaking out.
He spoke out and said, you know, maybe you shouldn't
alienate half your audience with one sided political jokes or talk.

(49:22):
Jay Leno was incredibly successful as a late late show host.
Now I will say this, and I will say that
this is a contributing factor because it has to be
the way that we receive our television especially, but the
way we receive our media, our entertainment has drastically changed

(49:47):
over the past let's say five years. Drastically has it changed?
And I think the way of the late night shows there,
they're becoming irrelevant. They're not popular anymore, they're not musty TV.

(50:07):
But also again, the way that we receive our entertainment
has changed. People have cut the cord. And what do
I mean by that? That means people have they no
longer are willing to pay the high prices for cable
for things like direct TV broadcast television is not what
it used to be. It is not the only location

(50:31):
or the only go to when it comes to television viewing.
We stream everything. The days of locking in where you
must sit down at nine o'clock to watch Seinfeld, for example,
in the nineties must see TV. That's where that term
comes from, dating back to you know, Otis's favorite Cheers.

(50:53):
You had to be on your couch. You worked your
social social life around being on your couch at eight thirty,
nine o'clock, nine thirty to see Cheers, Seinfeld, friends er
if you remember that with George Clooney. That is not
the way we do things nowadays. Nowadays, our entertainment works

(51:17):
around our busy schedules, where you can sit down and
you flip on Netflix or you flip on Hulu Prime
to be however, whatever streaming service you use, you watch
what you want to watch, your at your entertainment, at
your convenience. That's a huge contributing factor to what happened

(51:37):
with Colbert and the change in the media of our
late night TV viewing. But this might be also another
contributing factor, and this goes back to what Jay Leno
said about alienating, I think what is more than half
the audience. Since twenty twenty two, Colbert had one hundred
and seventy six liberal guests. One hundred and seventy six.

(51:58):
You know how many conservatives slash Republicans in that timeframe,
one one one, and that was Liz Cheney and we
all know what she did last year. So at a
certain point in time, people turn into late tuned into

(52:19):
Late Night to laugh. They want to end their day
with a laugh. Stephen Colbert was not funny A twenty
eight you're listening to the bloom Daddy experience, samon Otis
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Speaker 2 (52:33):
The Big Story The Guardians notified by Major League Baseball
that is part of their sports betting investigation. Emmanuel Classe
has been placed on non disciplinary paid leave per an
agreement with the Players Association spring On. Scott Davidson WTAM
eleven hundred sports gambling expert Scott, we don't know what
exactly they're looking at. In the case of his teammate

(52:54):
Luis Ortiz, a betting integrity firm flag two of his
pitches that coincided with increased bets on a particular outcome.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
You're a betting man.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
If you had the place a bet, no pun intended,
and I'm not making a joke here, would you say
it probably has something to do with.

Speaker 6 (53:12):
You know, similar to the Ortez situation.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
If I had to bet, I would because it's very
difficult for one pitcher to control fixed change the outcome
of a game. Micro Bets, which are betting on the
first pitch of an inning or props are where all
of these issues are cropping up, and that's where the
issue cropped up for Luis Ortiz. So yes, I would
predict it. It's a similar situation. And again I have

(53:38):
no insight info and I do not know what he
did or if he's guilty or not. The process will
have to play out.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
You brought up a good point when we talked earlier
though about stat cast some numbers.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
What did you find?

Speaker 5 (53:51):
So here's what I found in digging for a stat cast.
What's called waste pitches. And it's very important to understand
what a waste pitch is. A waist pitch is a
pitch that is not close to the strike zone, and
so they do percentages on these, and last year, the
first pitch that Emmanuel Class threw in all of the

(54:13):
games that he pitched in four and a half percent
of those were not close to the strike zone. All
of the other pitches that he threw last year, outside
of the first pitch, four point four percent of those
were not close to the strike zone, a fairly even distribution. Well,
this year, in forty starts in the ninth inning, forty
times he's come in in the ninth his first pitch

(54:36):
waste pitch percentage meaning not close to the strike zone
is seventeen and a half percent. All other pitches are
five point two percent, which is very close to last
year's four and a half. So something's askew there. But
the thing is, it could also be a coincidence. And
I want to say this because it's not a humong
the sample size. Remember, if you're talking about forty appearances,
bloom Daddy, and you're saying seventeen percent, what is that

(54:58):
like seven or eight of the pitches of fourty. But
it is a big difference from last year. So when
we're looking at everything we can to try to dig
into this.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
And that's exactly what these betting integrity firms are looking
into probably right now too. I mean, that's you're right,
it's a smaller sample size and we're just guessing here.
But a guy that's four point three percent on waist
pitches first pitch that goes from four point three percent
to seventeen percent, that's a large jump.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
It really is. And again, you know, I see a
lot of people and you know, you read the trolls
on social media and they're saying, oh, maybe he threw
the Yankees series last year, or he's a blow in
that game in Kansas City the other day. Those things
are next to impossible to make wagers on and make happen.
These first pitch microbats, and that's what they're called, because
they only involved one particular item, are the easiest things

(55:49):
to control. And they also don't really in the long run,
affect the outcome of a game. So even though it's
super super not it doesn't hold high integrity. These guys
feel like, Okay, if they're making that choice, they're doing
it on something that doesn't affect the integrity of the
outcome of the game, but it's still nefarious and you can't.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
Do it well right.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
And I will say this, there's a big difference being
Ohen wanted to play as opposed to one and oh.
So when you say it doesn't make a difference in
the game, I'm going to push back on that.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
It absolutely does.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
It changes in a bat if I'm ahead one to oh,
now all of a sudden, he's got to kind of
come to me as opposed to I'm oh one.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
It does change things.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I know there's a stat where if a pitcher goes
if a pitcher doesn't throw a strike within his first
two pitches to a batter, the opposing the batter's batting
average goes up like two hundred and eighty points.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
So, well, to your point.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
It's not changing a you know, he's not grooving a
pitch with two guys on, only up by a run.

Speaker 6 (56:50):
But it can have an effect.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
Well, yes, and I think it's it's it's an afterthought.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
What the effect is.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
Remember, if you're as good as he is and are
able to throw strikes at will, for the most part,
everybody has struggles. You know, getting behind one oho to
him does not mean he's not going to be able
to save the game and get out of the inning
and get the batter of this batting So, yeah, I'll
agree with you. If you look at it like that. Okay,
but I don't think that's where this issue lies.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Yeah, and I can't blame people for second guessing because
I've been doing it all day. I mean, it makes
you sit back and wonder. Okay, what about that Yankee series?
What about earlier this year? You just don't know when
somebody's leverage, Scott, I mean, you know they can be manipulated.
Now we're talking to Scott Davidson, Wtim eleven hundred sports
gambling expert. Look, you've been in the gambling business your

(57:40):
entire life. You've seen the good, the bad, the ugly.
When people say, well, why would he do it? He
already makes enough money, how would you respond to them?

Speaker 5 (57:48):
Hey, there's two responses I have all the time, and
the first one is that even people with lots of
money get into financial problems. I mentioned earlier, people that
win the lottery for one hundred million go belly up
a lot You've seen a lot of professional sports figures
get in financial trouble. So one of the reasons people
do things like this is because they have financial issues

(58:09):
and somebody's putting pressure on them to solve them. The
second way you reason that you do it is to
try to help a friend, try to help a buddy. Remember,
these guys are from the Dominican. They can have a
family there, they can have friends who can be, you know,
starving for ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars. To them, that's
like two million. So the way you help them, you
do that for them and you get but it's still

(58:30):
so wrong. But those are the two things I come
up with. Is the only reason you would ever even
consider that.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Well the third, the third one is I'm going to
use you, good buddy, as an example. I mean, you're
okay financially, but you love the energy of it, you
love the buzz of it, you love just the game
of it.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
And these guys could be just like you.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Well the reason, yes, they could be. Maybe they like
the game of it. But the thing is they are
strictly and prohibitably prohibit prohibited rather from betting on baseball.
I mean, so that is a different thing. I yes,
I like it. If I want to bet a first pitch,
I'm not a major League baseball player. But if he
does that, he knows right out of the gate that's
completely out of bounds, and you know it's off limits.

(59:14):
So if he's going to go get a buzz on betting.
A lot of these leagues allow you to bet on
other sports. Go bet on the you know, the first
quarter of the Browns game in the preseason.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
That's okay, yeah, exactly, Scott is always thank you so much, man,
you got a flum daddy.

Speaker 8 (59:30):
Okay. I want to point something out here, and I'm
not criticizing, I am not judging, but we're talking about
players that are being investigated, suspended for betting on baseball
or making things happen in baseball to a gentleman who,

(59:50):
by the way, is a very nice guy who has
made a career out of talking about sports gambling. So
it kind of goes back to what we meant a
little bit ago. Otis that now sports betting, online, betting,
through the apps, however you want to verbalize it. It
has now become its own industry. And we're talking to

(01:00:16):
a sports gambling expert about players who are gambling on
sports and they're in trouble for it. Is it just
me or is there is there is there like a
circle of a bit of I don't know if hypocrisy
is the right word, the right term to use, but listen,
I get it. The rules are the rules. If they

(01:00:38):
broke the rules, they broke the rules. But there's also
the side of it that you know, we've got the
the bet rivers, the ESPN bat bet espns in on it,
we've got bet MGM, DraftKings, all of that. So that
side of the conversation. Have the two has has the

(01:00:59):
sports themselves not caught up to where gambling has gone.

Speaker 7 (01:01:06):
Well, you can't have you can't have players and coaches
or anybody in management, no matter what the sport, gambling
on your sport. It's just it's not a good look.
It's and when it when it becomes controlled and you
can control the outcome or you can, like again, one
pitch may or may not control the outcome of the game,

(01:01:27):
it's just not it's not good for the game, it's
not good for the sport, it's not good for anything.
And it's just it just raises tons and tons of questions.

Speaker 8 (01:01:38):
Yeah, but there's just a little bit of.

Speaker 7 (01:01:42):
Well there's some hypocrisy.

Speaker 8 (01:01:44):
Yeah, there's just a bit of that where you know,
the leagues are making all kinds of money off of
these betting apps, websites, sponsorship money, everything else. But they're
going to lay down the law. I don't know, I

(01:02:04):
don't know. There's just there's just.

Speaker 7 (01:02:06):
It's been around forever. I mean, it's just I mean,
it's it's now legal. I mean back in the day
in the seventies, you had Jimmy the Greek on the
CBS Football Show and giving you the point spreads, who
the favorites were, and and everything else. I mean, it's
not it's not as detailed as it is today. But
you know, he'd come on there and he'd say, Okay,
you want to take the points in the rams and

(01:02:26):
you want to. You want to you want to give
the points and take the Steelers because you know, the
home road dog, the road dog, blah duah blah. You know,
they would give you all the reasons. It's been around
for you know, Brent Musburger is the one that brought it.
You know, that's why Jimmy the Greek was on the CBS,
you know, Sunday Football Show.

Speaker 8 (01:02:46):
So don't remember Jimmy, Jimmy the Greek.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
It's from Stupenville.

Speaker 8 (01:02:52):
Oh yeah, it doesn't ring a bell.

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
It's because you're you weren't even born.

Speaker 8 (01:02:55):
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Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
That's just the rape music to bring him in too,
a beat, good theme.

Speaker 8 (01:03:24):
Music for him. I can see him strutt int to this.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
I don't know if I don't know if he struts anymore. Wow,
I mean in a nice way.

Speaker 8 (01:03:34):
I mean, you know, well it's Kevin Cook's draw automotive,
you know the voice. Good morning, what guys, how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
You don't think I got any strut?

Speaker 7 (01:03:44):
I just said, I don't know if you strutt anymore.
I just I don't know if you do or you don't.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
That's you feel, right.

Speaker 8 (01:03:53):
I bet he struts when he closes a deal.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (01:03:57):
Or I bet you st when you get a JT
JD Power Award.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Yep, very good JD Power Award. This is just I mean,
this is incredible, you know, and this is something that
you really don't know you're in the running for. Okay,
it's not like it's you know, it's not like a
contest or you know, it's not like something you tell
your customers about. You know, hey, this is what we're
trying to do. Now, this is something that you know,
JD powers, you know, just arbitrarily and independently go out

(01:04:24):
and survey your customer base and everyone in your market.
And what they do is they provide an award for
the dealer of excellence for the experience that the customer
has at the dealerships. There's over twenty thousand franchise dealers
in the United States and Canada. Only two percent of

(01:04:44):
the four hundred receive this award all right, and out
of the Stribe organization seven dealerships, two of them, which
is incredible, won the award. Hyundai right here at the
Highlands and Nissan. There's going to be an award presentation
tomorrow and I think it's right around four o'clock and
it's going to be absolutely insane. We are so proud

(01:05:05):
of our you know, our team for just going above
and beyond every day for everyone, and we're grateful for
our customers to share that information with JD. Powers.

Speaker 7 (01:05:16):
It couldn't have one without the customers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
No, it couldn't. And here's the thing. You know, you
get a survey and you know, you kind of go
down and we'll do that, you know, and you don't realize,
you know, how important these surveys are. You know, whether
it's a restaurant, you know, whether it's you know, phone service.
You know, everybody looks at your information. Everybody looks at
that feedback, okay, and we try to make adjustments based

(01:05:39):
on that feedback to ensure that our customers are getting
absolute best experienced possible. Now we perfect, no, do we
make mistakes. Absolutely absolutely make mistakes. But what we're trying
to do here every day is to make that customer
experience better and better. And it looks like we're doing okay, at.

Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
It sounds like it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:05:59):
Well and and Kevin, doesn't it even mean more when
it's the feedback from the customers.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Yeah, it really is. You know, it really does make
a difference when again, and it's unsolicted from us. Okay,
you know, this isn't anything like I said when we go, Hey,
you knows just bought that book. I may make sure
you give me a good survey. No, this is totally unsolicited.
It's uh, it's JD. Pyrus. It's independent, and that's what
makes it even better.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
Do they tell you they're doing the surveys.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
We know that they're being done. We don't know what
customers are getting them. We don't know across the board
how many of them they are sending out. You know,
we just you know, we do. We do our best
every day to just again provide that experience. And it shows,
whether it's sales service, you know, parts body, used cars,
you know, everybody's doing the best they can every day

(01:06:48):
and you know, just trying to give that great experience.

Speaker 7 (01:06:51):
No, there you have it. That's one great experience. See
how much?

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Yeah, see how much you can say?

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
See how great?

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
You know your experience is some trip.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
What's the big celebration when they present the award tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
I don't know. I think we're having cookies. I think
it's the fat Apple, So it's not just cookies.

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:07:13):
I mean like I was I was expecting, like you
were going to say, hey, come up for some barbecue
or talking a shrimp boil or.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
No, okay, that would be fun we still have time
to put that, put that together. I get. So we've
got media coming up, so it's gonna be a pretty
good day.

Speaker 8 (01:07:33):
Okay, Well, congratulations, that's that's that's wonderful.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
I'll let you know how it goes on, and you'll
let us know how good the cookies are.

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
Right now, you got fat apple cookies. Man, if you
haven't had them, they're off.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
All right, body, all right, there you have JD. Power.
I don't know, I don't think I've ever known anybody
that's won a JD Power Awards.

Speaker 8 (01:07:54):
Well, and you see him on the commercials for like
the brand themselves, but not on a local level like this.

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
I've never seen a local level one now.

Speaker 8 (01:08:02):
And like I said, you know, it's one thing to
win an award, you know, be recognized by like a
media outlet or something like that. It's another thing when
it's your actual customers that have been through your business,
like they've had your food, they've bought something from you,
that's a first hand. I would take more pride in

(01:08:24):
that than anything.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:08:26):
Yeah, you know, I get speaking of food, you know,
usually Tuesday's Taco Tuesday, but today is actually National Chicken
Wing Day Okay, Chicken Wing Day.

Speaker 7 (01:08:39):
Do you have a favorite flavor of wings?

Speaker 8 (01:08:41):
I don't eat wings. I knew you would know. That's
why I didn't even know. It's also National Lasagna Day.
Do you I do eat lasagna? Yeah, but there's all
kinds of places doing deals. Buffalo Wild Wings, Wings Stop, Hooters, Hooters.
I thought Hooters went out of business.

Speaker 7 (01:09:00):
They're still around in someplace.

Speaker 8 (01:09:02):
Oh, I thought they were shutting down. And Applebee's.

Speaker 7 (01:09:04):
So today I think Quaker Steak and Loop has one
going on too.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
Yeah, so today's the day for the day four wings.
What's your favorite flavor?

Speaker 7 (01:09:13):
I go to a place that has a what they
call a sassy ranch. So it's got it's like a
ranch with some a little bit of spices in it
to give it a little little kick.

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
Do that again.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
It all depends on where. It all depends on where
you go, because every place has different flavors. Yeah, I
mean there's you can go there's I also like, there's
a black and blue, there's a Cajun. If you just
you know, sometimes you just go hot.

Speaker 8 (01:09:41):
My husband's favorites garlic palm. It is not my favorite
because it is not pleasant afterwards.

Speaker 7 (01:09:46):
Well you know, I like garlic palm. There's a lot
of after taste too.

Speaker 8 (01:09:51):
Yeah, what was your flavor?

Speaker 7 (01:09:53):
Sassy ranch sase?

Speaker 8 (01:09:55):
I just wanted to hear you say sassay one more time, I.

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
Could say moist please.

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Speaker 7 (01:10:14):
Nice that you get to it.

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