February 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington open this 'Best of' edition of The Odd Couple reacting to LeBron James' decision to pull out of NBA All-star festivities an hour before tipoff. Did he disrespect the game in doing so? MLB super agent Scott Boras joins the show to give his unique insight on some of the biggest storylines from around the major leagues. Plus, reacting to Ja Morant and other NBA stars teasing that they might enter the dunk contest next year!
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I know it's President's Day.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Somebody's spinning some presidents tonight. Presidents.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
That's right all the time. I'm coming up in about
twenty seven minutes. Hunter Patterson, who covers the Detroit Pistons
for the Athletic. I can't wait to talk to him.
We both know him pretty well who I'll be doing.
And we get him on the line, we're gonna ask him. Yes,
all right, and I taught him at USC, so you can't.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I got too wed after the math, hold on, we
might be closed. Let me do the maths. We'll ask him,
all right. Check o city. Not much going on in
that department. And guess what our number two?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Scott boris the bet Scott be Scott Bars the.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Biggest sports agent in the game, bigger than any other sport. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'm trying to think they know, well, he just signed
Jerry Maguire right.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Other than that, he's the one who got jan Soto
seven sixty five.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
That's all you can stop right there.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
The Scott Boris could have retired thirty times over. But
he's come. He'll be joining the couple. I can't wait
to talk to him. Yeah, you get the math on
all that stuff. Yeah, that's a coop.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But you go.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Back to let's do it now, Adam Kaplan NFL Insider
of course for Fox Sports Radio here that's an hour
number three and last call. So we do have a
lot to get to. Let me first welcome in my partner.
He is, that's right. Happy. What do we say?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Good President's Day? Happy for President's Day. Maybe not so
happy for some people half of the country. So you know,
I'm not doing the big gulp anymore. You haven't seen
a big prep have a freaking water during the show.
And this this is Look at this.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
This was a gift, okay, And the best part about
it is you think somebody gives your Okay, it's nice,
a stainless steel water thing. This is from I don't
know if you know Wale who's the anchorman down in No,
who's the anchorman down an ABJA member.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But I've seen him.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But anyway, you know I'm looking at it and I'm
not even paying it closer to yeah, and then I
turn around and look at that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It subscribed. Man, oh, because I'm just looking at it.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This is cool, destined to do great things. And it
says happy sixtieth birthday, Rob. All So it's been a
whole year and you didn't even notice it.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
No, because I know I just opened it up.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean, I'm just such a guy. You're such are
you go? I just that's why you need a woman,
right there? Women the little small things they're great at
I'm not. And they would have saw that and then
sent a little thank you note and all that you're
such a do area.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm sixty five now, but hey, thank you. Hey, I
just noticed. Thank you? Not the rapper.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, all right, let's welcome in the odd couple of
cool because you wouldn't be able to do this farm
radio program without them.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Alex is our engineer. Who's that guy with the hat
on the sir? Another USC student? You started to notice
something here.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You only bring on USC students or hire ex people
who have been your mentees.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What's up with that? I'm not I'm just going for
the quality of people.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So they meet you their quality school of course, Steve nepotism.
No nepotism, let's not get that starting scoopatism. Yeah, school patism, aditism.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I didn't get him hired. I didn't get him highed.
Chris got VJ hired.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
See Chris boards, you got VJ hired, You got USC,
you got Mark Martin Weiss, Shawn Sacramento, Sean and Sean
and Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
The lady we ran into in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He was like, I love him LB Bro okay, and
winked at you, as in, hey, I expect to check later.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Oh god, Steve sag tanker desk. He'll keep us updated
throughout the program and of.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Course find out if Steve at in class with you two.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He's actually going to speak to one of my classes
at USC. He did it before, so it was nice.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, he's not. I knew it was something. And Elijah's
our social he does a great job. There's some connection
there as well with Eliza. All right, let's do this well,
Elijah works from b BRO. Did you know? I knew it?
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
The craziest thing is're gonna have people thinking somehow we're
connected like that what like as I oh it was
was he Kelvin in one of your classes?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No, no, no, you were not.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
All right, let's do this, I used to baby, Oh god,
could you imagine that would be funny?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And now we're doing the radio, I know that would
be that that would be hilarious. That would we got
a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
NBA All Star Game weekend was in uh, of course
San Francisco, and a lot of stuff came out of
a lot of complaining from fans just it just was awful.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Like we thought it would be bad, it was worse.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
There's multiple right, and a lot of things across the board.
But let's let's center in on Lebron James first, because
we'll talk about our number two some of the changes,
whether people liked it, Hour three, I think, whether they
liked it or not, no hour two, Hour two or two,
and then Draymond hour three. But let's start here with
Lebron James. And I'll be the first person. I'm not
(07:13):
going to tell somebody whether they're hurt or not. I've
never been in that business. Okay, he says, the guys
ankles bothering him. I'm going to respect him. I'm not
a doctor. I don't have any X rays. Somebody says
they're not feeling right or whatever, it ain't for me
to tell them that they need to get out there
and that they're faking it or jaking it or whatever
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you want to use the term.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So I'm not that guy.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But he should have let him know earlier because somebody
else could have used that roster spot. But here's the
thing that bothered me even more. Taking the team picture
for the twenty twenty four to twenty five All Star team.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
In Street Close. I know that that's the nickname for
Anthony Davis, right.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Didn't Charles Barkley give him that Street Close from TNT?
How tacky is that? And I'm gonna say this, Either
you get dressed with your teammates take the picture, or
you step out and say, you know what, I'm just
gonna miss this picture. You want to put a little
picture of me in there or something. I don't feel
like you're dressed, but I don't want to ruin the picture.
(08:22):
And then the other thing, Shame on the other players
for allowing that to happen. Nobody's nobody can stand up
to him and say, yo, bro can can you put
your uniform on or if you're not, I'm not gonna
take that. I'm not gonna be in this picture. Have
you ever seen a team picture with somebody street clothes on?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
A coach? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Okay, So I mean that that was ultimate disrespect. It
was like, I don't care what's going on. Okay, I'm
not playing. I'm gonna let you know at the last minute.
All right, all right, fine, you're injured. You're too injured
to put on your shorts and basketball top tank top?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
What really, big, big, big, big miss by Lebron. This
was an opportunity for Lebron, for somebody who's been known
for what setting guys up for passing to me, this
was a missed opportunity for Lebron. Number one. He's been
one of the best statesmen of the league. Right, he's
been the face of the league, the statesman. He knows
(09:25):
when to say things with not to. But this was
just another me, me, me moment that didn't make sense.
If you're that hurt, obviously, as you just said, don't play. However,
you aren't hurt enough. It's just a little ankle that
you don't want to bother throw on the outfit, take
the pictures, work up a little sweat during warmups, and
that'd be that. That's what participant. Go out there, do
(09:48):
the ceremonial, play a minute, call a time out, get
out the game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
If you're going to do that, he's earned that. I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Or Lebron is known for setting people up right, getting
people easy baskets, throwing nice ally to set up to me, Rob,
this was a chance to set up another guy, for
him to say, maybe a week ago, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I'm gonna sit out.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I'm honored for my twenty first, twenty second, you know,
All Star selection, but I'm gonna sit this one out.
Rest up with the family. I got a big push.
This is my last year or two. Let me make
this big push trying to do some things with Luca
and set up somebody else. This was a great chance
for him to say, you know what, here's a you
know another guy. Let's say it was Trey Young. Obviously
(10:29):
he would ended up being because someone else got injured,
but this was somebody else who couldn't didn't make the team.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
But here they are.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Here's an opportunity for this young guy to make the
All Star Game. I'm gonna sit this one out. To me,
those were the options. It was just odd for him
to just lastly say I'm not gonna play, not dress,
not participate. And here's the other part, Rob, We all
knew this All Star game was one that everybody was
watching because a the new rules, the new the winch gameplay,
(10:55):
and everybody's like, man, come on in the league, need
to pick it up, Guys need to play, Guys need
to play. So the literal face of the league to
kind of just be nonchalant about it when everybody's banking
on the league and the game to be what it
needed to be, that part was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You get what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
If Lebron is there, he is Lebron James Steele. He
shows up, he's geared up, he works up a sweat
during warm ups, He comes out, plays a minute or two,
but then says, hey, guys, you know, go out there
and finish it up.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Do your thing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That's great, right, that's like the face of the league,
the elder Stelzman getting the thing going. And he didn't
do that. He just showed up in a little hoodie
and the hat like, oh y'all, good, go do that. Oh,
but I make sure I'm in his picture though, so
that for the ever they will remember me that I
was here and I was a part of it in
some sort of way that just wasn't needed to me.
You either show up, dap guys up, throw tile support,
(11:44):
you know, but in your uniform so you look the part,
or five six days.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Of the game, yeah, or five six days ago.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Just let somebody else go, just like Trey Young got
in because Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Like, go put somebody else in. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Know this, dude, the idea when they handed you when
you made the basketball team in an arbor, when they
handed you that jersey, it's special. Man.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm still getting ready to get glassed as if I
was in NBA or something. But am I right? It's special.
It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I remember baseball teams I played on. When they give
you your jersey, your number, man, that's yours. And that's what
I'm saying, like like to to be like you you've
been around too long, like like maybe that this is
your side, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I mean, Like you've you've lost the understanding of how
magical this is to either put on the uniform and
play and just be a part of the team, or
to give it to someone else. You know what I
mean to say, Hey man, this is gonna mean so
much to you know, I'm trying to think of a
young guy in the Western Conference who people will let
you know the bonus, who didn't make this or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Somebody, Hey man, this is your I can't play. I'm heard,
but I didn't want to waste the roster spot. Here's
a magical moment for you, somebody. It could have been
a great story. I'm making it up or whatever exactly
for you, and it just didn't come out like that.
And I think he's lose. That's why I'm saying, sometimes
you stick around too long, will you take stuff for granted?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And that's what it's felt like to me.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
If you stay around, what's the world add ist? You
stay around be the hero too much, you see yourself
become the villain.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
And you know what I mean. He's been the face
of the league. He's been the statesman.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
He's been the governor, if you will, the one you
put in front of the cameras when there's big issues.
He's been that guy kind of leading the way and
now like this was just this was just a miss
by him. Now, it doesn't mean he's the worst guy
on This was just a myss, where's all right, bron
What were we doing? You ain't dressed, you ain't give
you didn't give up the spot to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Knowing how important this was, Knowing everybody's watching ready to
hate on the game because all the gameplay how is bad,
it's been you know what, everybody's watching for that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
And then and then one of the biggest stars ever
he ain't paid. He shows like, I don't even care whatever,
I'm not like, I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And that's a miss for him.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He usually understands the moment more like, not just this
is bigger than just me.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This is a mail moment. He would have been he
would have been better off not coming at all. Right,
I man, I'm propping it up. I'm just I can't
even come. I'm hurt. I'm not I don't want to
waste the spot. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm not in the mood to take pictures of be
involved in the other stuff. And and that's what should
have happened. Eight seven, seven ninety nine off foxes our
telephone number eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Let's just get to it.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Did Lebron come off as selfish or uh like like
he doesn't care anymore or doesn't doesn't cherish the game,
not the not not playing because if he's injured, I
respect that, I'm that serious. But he had to know
that that was hurting way before, like right before a game,
(14:49):
before the game to say I can't play really like
like that's the part and he could have right, Yeah,
got dressed and sat there, just been married by look
the part.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'm here. I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This is honor that I'm still getting selected at fifty
five years old.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
All right? Eight seven seven ninety Wow, eight seven seven
ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
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Speaker 3 (15:44):
It is the Odd Couple Robt Kelvin on the Magic
City Monday, and we're coming to you love from the
Tirack dot Com studios. And we're joined right now by
MLB super sports agent Scott Boris. You can Boris core
on Twitter. Scott, it is great to have you on.
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What's up Scott.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Afternoon?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yes, doing great.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Appreciate you taking some time out one hundred definitely, you
know I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Talk to you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And let's start with, of course, Ajan Soto and his
deal with the New York Metropolitan seven hundred and sixty
five million.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I just got two things Scott.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
First, when he turned down the four forty in Washington,
I thought he was absolutely crazy that someone gets offered
a half a billion dollars, fully guaranteed, not a fake
NFL contract, not a funny two way NBA contract.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But you know, all the way he bet on himself.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
How shocked or surprised that one show hate signed for
seven hundred I never thought anybody would be higher than that,
that he got more than.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Show well, going into this the element of you have
to give one a lot of credit because we had
I believe, since he was eighteen years old on. We've
had sixty eight meetings, and certainly after we finished with
(17:08):
the Mets, one looked at me and goes, can we
just tone that down a little bit and kind But
it's a lot of information, a lot of preliminary market data,
a lot of historical data. We have a thing in
baseball called surplus value, which is a value gradient that
we use, and we developed one that I did with
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based upon my representation of Bonds and a Rod and
their skill sets and what they did and why, so
that we could really get to him and say, these
are the valuative points we look at. And when a
player goes through that, particular an international player, you can
imagine the number of people, which is the vast, vast
(17:50):
majority that say to one, how could you turn down
four hundred and forty million dollars? And the answer is
he's getting all this information from US perspective values, marcus
franchise values, revenues, the sport, and really what his valuation
is going to be as he goes on in his career.
In year four, or five and six before he's a
(18:12):
free agent. And then when Otani signed, and his real
evaluation is at a four hundred and sixty million dollar valuation.
That's that's what the contract. There's a lot of it
makes two million a year for ten years and then
gets paid it much later. But the real evaluation was
(18:32):
around that. So everyone came to one and said, you
don't pitch Otani's an extraordinary player. In addition to that,
he generates, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of
revenue for his team. You don't do that. So your
chances of getting the four fifty or four sixty that
(18:55):
Otani got are you know, it's just not thing you're
going to be able to achieve. Will you get as
much as you got from Washington? He had to hear
that for almost a full year, you know, in and
of itself, and you know it's I give him a
lot of credit. He trusted our information, our advice and
(19:18):
ask a lot of questions, well, if Otani's why didn't
Otani get what he was worth? Or all these things
which are all the elements of how we look at
markets and evaluations. And essentially he trusted our data and
the information and as it worked out, to his credit,
(19:41):
he was able to focus on playing and played at
a very high level. And then we had a very
strategic negotiation to arrive at really a true expression of
his market.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Now, Scott, he's a great player. He could play anywhere.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
That transfers to anywhere when you're great and you're dynamic player.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But it looked like the Bronx was perfect.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Dominicans loved him there, you know, like what the right
field porch. He had a career high in home runs.
The Yankees made it to the World Series. There was
a lot to like there, the lineup and whatnot, And
I get it. The Yankees offered seven sixty the Mets
offered seven sixty five, and the Mets offered the Yankees
(20:31):
had offered what an extra year, Scott, Right, So it's
a different amount of money spread out over the years. Right,
the Yankees added one more year than the Mets did.
But how difficult does that when you know, take a
player who has excelled and seem to fit in a
in a circumstance or team. Because you know this, the
Mets and Yankees aren't the same, even though they're in
(20:51):
the same city.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
They're not what goes into that. Scott, Well, my.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Job is to provide information. In the end, you know,
it was providing one with the economic appraisal, not only
those two teams, but you know, many others, and in
each case one had to dismiss teams. I teased him
because he had uncles and his mother and everyone involved.
(21:17):
I called it supreme Court of Soda. I would give
him the information, he would go back, and what I
cared about was the baseball execution information. And he had
a you know, a near eleven hundred ops at City Field,
he played well at Yankee Stadium. We wanted to cover
(21:38):
the fact of execution, doing it in optimal places, and
he had choices there and as far as what works
best for him and his family, the ability of an
owner to support a winning roster was very important to
one because he wanted to win during the fifteen years
(21:58):
of this contract. So all those things were considered by him.
But in the end, roll when you go to make
these decisions, the key point what you do. I think
in being I think in being a former player, you
understand why how you play and what makes you comfortable.
I trust that one knows that and he certainly expressed
(22:20):
it and also being around his family and giving us direction.
I wanted them to make that decision. And he certainly
looked at all that information, and you know, we spent
a lot of time covering it. Called me on the
phone and said, look, go ahead and work the final
(22:41):
with the Mets, and we all think as a family
that it's best for us to do so. So I
certainly trusted that was very informed and has been very
methodical about his decision making, and so we went and
executed the contract to get done with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He is Scott Boris molb sports agent and really one
of the biggest, if not the biggest, in all the
sports Scott joining now a couple Robin Kelvin Scott.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You mentioned it earlier, the deferment money, and that's something
that Sho hail Tani's done. A lot of Dodgers in
the league would defend. The Dodgers are saying, hey, we'll
give you two three a year. On the back end,
there's just sixty eight seventy million a We've heard recently
where the commissioners started to kind of toss around the
idea of some type of salary cap because people are
saying this isn't fair. Other teams, including Yankees, saying this
(23:31):
isn't fair of all the teams. Scott, but how do
what are your thoughts on deferming? You think it's okay,
you think it's fine? Is it is it? Is it
level in the playing field? Is it not fair? And
then we will eventually lead to a salary cap.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Well, I think the point of it is is that
howard salary caps working well in the In the NFL
we had a a lockout in twenty eleven, In the
NBA they had a lockout. In the NHL, they had
one of their all cap elements. How is it working
in competition? Well, the NFL, even riggers are schedule and
they still have two of the last three years the
(24:06):
same super Bowl team. You have four or five one
team in the Super Bowl four to five times. Because,
if anything, sary caps are supposed to promote parody while
they're not working. So the only thing sary caps really
do is provide ownership with a greater economic purpose than
they would otherwise. So when you're talking about deferrals, deferrals
(24:27):
are a method of what is the appraisal of the
player's value, you know, and I realize that they give
some funny money as we call it later in the future.
But Otani's contract is worth four hundred and fifty million dollars.
Who said the league says that the players Union says
that because of the fact that there's a net present
value that you would use about how you appraise it.
(24:49):
And so deferral is something that is merely a mechanism
that helps flexibility or whatever. Because every team in baseball
use is it, Every team has the opportunity to use it.
There is no unfairness about it. And the point of
it is like when I did Blake Snell's contract with
Andrew and the Dodgers, you know, we got at the
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time a record signing bonus until we did once but
of like fifty something million dollars, and they also deferred
an equivalent amount for future years. And that made the
net present value of the contract for our purposes to
be fair for the player, because that, in the end
is the valuation it is. It is what is that
player's work. And when you look at the Dodgers, their
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contracts for Hernandez or our key Kay are for really
anyone they signed, they're not above market contracts. They're not
paying valuations for players that are in any way any
different than what any other team is paying. So they did.
(25:53):
If you had a situation where one team was paying
dramatically more for players than others, you would say, well,
then they have this decisive advantage. But keep in mind
that our game has gone up in revenues every year.
Record revenues last year, record revenues this year.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Last year was twelve point one billion dollars for baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Yes, and the issue is that we have a situation
where ownership is same, but what are we doing with salaries. Well,
this year in twenty five, the amount of money spent
on players is going to be the same as twenty four.
It didn't go up by ten percent like the revenues.
And so the idea of it is, we've had fifteen
(26:37):
teams that lowered their payroll from the prior year even
though they had record revenues. We have six teams that
aren't even spending a one hundred million even though they
have record revenues. So when you look at all this
and you're saying that there is some sort of element
in the game, the truth of the matter is is
that the NBA TV contract just illustrated something is that
(27:02):
the people that controlled streaming, which was the end to
cable because of the handhelds, well, Major League Baseball developed
that MLB band developed it. Instead of licensing it, they
sold it, and in doing so they kept dealing and
have long term contracts with cable companies knowing that the
(27:22):
form of doing business with them was changing, and that
preempted them from a market that they should have had
access two years before. The NBA, on the other hand,
who to give you an example, in Milwaukee have lower
ratings than the Brewers the Bucks do. The Bucks have
play only half the games of the Brewers, Yet the
(27:46):
media contract in Milwaukee, the amount of revenues that the
Brewers make is only half of what the Buck gets,
and the revenues in the NBA are nearly double over MLB,
which tells me that the issue with revenues it isn't
about a salary cap or labor costs. It is about
(28:06):
how we're negotiating for media rights. We need to have
effective negotiations to where it's obvious that we have double
the content that and we should have a greater media
rights valuation than the NBA which would bring a lot
more value both in franchise value and revenues to the owners.
So that is how we correct. It's a revenue problem.
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It is not a salary cap or a labor cost problem.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Hey, Scott, last thing, we got a minute to go here.
Pete Alonso going back to the Mets. I thought he
got job a two year contract for just fifty four
million dollars. Very few players this guy plays every day.
He knows how to play in New York under the pressure.
It's some of the biggest home runs in the postseason.
(28:52):
And they didn't have that seven hundred and sixty five
million dollars for Juan Soto, but only fifty four million
for one of their own off was that for him
to go back to the Mets and for that contract.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Well, the truth of it is is that when you
are a thirty year old player in our game and
you have a qualifying offer, meaning that you have to
give up draft picks and international money, major league teams
do not want to do that. They'll do it for
a twenty six year old or a twenty seven year
old or other, but they won't do it for a
thirty year old. And I've had issues with Matt's with
(29:24):
Snell with Matt Chapman and now Pete Alonzo with Bregman.
They don't want to do the long term contracts for those,
but the next year when they're free agents, then they
get their true free agent value and the market because
they are truly free there's no draft picks given night,
and the clubs will then go out and pay their value.
So the system is working to where they have a
(29:48):
restricted free agency, which Pete was under because of the
qualifying offer. And you also see people talking to me,
why are these players signed so late? Because teams go
after players that are true free agents where they don't
have to give away the draft picks, and they approach
last in the mark at the teams where they have
to give away the draft picks to sign the players.
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So the Meths, obviously because he was his team of origin,
didn't have to give up draft picks, and all the
other teams involved did not bid for Pete because after all,
they all say, why would I ever give up draft
picks when the reward of that is getting anywhere from
thirty four to fifty home runs and having a player
with one thousand ops who has key home runs in
(30:30):
the postseason. I won't do that till next year. That's
kind of what they.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Said, Scott Man, it has been a pleasure learn so much.
Dot got bores the great agents. Thank you so much,
appreciate you, Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (31:04):
No, it was a great story though it was.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It was a not just because if I told you
to take your hat off, that's like.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Not because that would be crazy if you walk by
take your hat off, young man cat walking. No, we
chopped it up and I told him, I said, look, man,
it's not that you can't. I'm not telling you have to,
but I'm telling you you got to play the game.
Sometimes you got to do something that you gotta do.
Let me take these earrings off real quick, meet some
of these higher ups. Then I'll put it on later
where tonight you know, how we go party and how
we have a good time. That was the thing, and
he loved that. Don't we hate on me first. Sorry line,
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that's what that's gonna be. Our new segment which men
tet it Robert Kelly who knew first?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
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Hit me with.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It, Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob
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Speaker 4 (32:20):
And as you know, there are no games. Yeah, so
we're gonna get the rest. But I think the first
NBA game, Steve said, is Wednesday. You don't want to
do the Tiger? Would thingy live or whatever? That that
is the Tiger? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Where are you you in the Tiger?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Meet me in a parking lot of Denny's. Now, what
was the name of that.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Hurricans hurkin, it was percolating. All right, meet me at
the in the parking lot. Yeah, personally, thank you Tiger.
Yeah off the Tiger drops. You got them all, but
we will. We'll get back to get back to it
on Wednesday. Wednesday, I hit it's.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
So good today. It was fun. Yeah, man, that he
may have done all. We'll get back to that. So
what you yeah, so did you see that?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Uh so the first of all, they just start what
did you think of the dunk content?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Let's just start there. I'm done.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm tired of seeing they got was McClung clung from
the G League.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Every year coming up just to do that? Enough already?
Can we stop? Yep?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I love I'm still watching Perry Mason, but I don't
want to see McClung.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
How's that? So here's I think we're all mcclunked out.
But first off, congrats to him, because hey, y'all, you
know he's a G leaguer. They say showed he's made
more in his three dunk contest winnings than he's made
in his entire NBA career thus far. But really, like,
what is that three years? That's three years and first
time ever, and it's like terrible. It's great for him,
but it's that for us that he's the winner of
(33:44):
three times.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Michael Jordan, they don't want Lamar Jackson to win three
m VP.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
They want.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Where's the voter fatigue? Now there you go. That's what
I'm saying. They should have gave him fives just for that.
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
So here's what's interesting, and this is why I call
fake to this. John Moran tweets out, Mac might make
me decide to dunk. Remember in the beginning of the year,
the season, Josh said he don't want a dunk anymore.
He's done a couple of spectacular dunks because he's amazing.
We all want to see him in the dunkcout tests.
I've called him out. Anthony Edwards, Jahn Morant. If Zach
(34:18):
Levine want to get back, then Zach, He tweets out
Zach and ag what's up? As in Aaron Gordon. Zach tweeted,
thinking I might have to again. Yannis jumps in. If
you do it, I'll do it with you. So here's
my thing about this. Don't start none, won't be none,
(34:40):
meaning don't shoe all this say all this because they've
done this before, Rob Parker. The same thing happened the
first year of Mack, where guys jump Mack killing him.
I might have to get out there. I might have
to do that, and then they don't because it's fun
in the moment. Even Lebron's hinted at all Man and no.
Remember what Lebron went on that run? Ian You remember this, Sue, Well,
(35:00):
Lebron went on this run pre games doing stuff he's
never done before, literally throwing it off the scoreboard, wind Meal,
crazy stuff. It was like he was trolling us. This
is what I would do in the dunk contest. Nanaa na,
I'm not gonna do it, So to me, don't John,
don't do this now because you have three hundred and
sixty five days until the next dunk contest. So don't
(35:21):
do it now and then back out. Hey, Zach Levine,
don't now. Zach has done it so clearly. I believe
him because he's done it before. But Jannis, who like,
don't don't tease us up. Guys, this is what we want.
We want to see the best of the best. We
want to see some guys. We know, we know, we're
not gonna know every single one. There's always a young upstart.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We Bryan a young upstart and you know, we said
Jason Richardson, that happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
But we need two of the guys to be household days.
We need a job a Zion and Anthony Edwards. That's
the only way you're gonna get people to be excited.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And you gotta have We see this in baseball with
the home run derby.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
You got there's always something new or two, but the
rest of you know that you know, and they got
to be the sluggers.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
I was in Miami when Aaron Judge was down by
seventeen home runs going into the last round. Yeah, and
he went crazy but lost, like like I'll never forget
that moment in Miami. But he's one of those guys.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Need you.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Need Soto, you need Judge, you need all the sluggers
that you know, you need a big pop.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
We don't want to say in the minor leagues who
are coming up just to be in a home run derby.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Now, people would not buy that. I imagine all of them.
It'd be different if it was like we had one
we brought up because he was. He was slugging at Hey,
you guys aren't gonna believe this Mike trial kid or
something like that, You know what I mean. All Right,
we'll bring one up for just to do some little
novelty thing. Imagine if everybody in the Home Run dery
was somebody you didn't know. Oh no, terrible, that's how
bad it was.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
We're gonna talk about the All Star weekend format.
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Is that what it was? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:58):
And guess what we didn't eat that three seven.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
They told us, Hey, the better foods on the other side,
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I know it's President's Day.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Somebody's spinning some presidents tonight. Presidents.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
That's right all the time. I'm coming up in about
twenty seven minutes. Hunter Patterson, who covers the Detroit Pistons
for the Athletic. I can't wait to talk to him.
We both know him pretty well who I'll be doing.
And we get him on the line, we're gonna ask him. Yes,
all right, and I taught him at USC, so you can't.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I got too wed after the math, hold on, we
might be closed. Let me do the maths. We'll ask him,
all right. Check o city. Not much going on in
that department. And guess what our number two?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Scott boris the bet Scott be Scott Bars the.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Biggest sports agent in the game, bigger than any other sport. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'm trying to think they know, well, he just signed
Jerry Maguire right.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Other than that, he's the one who got jan Soto
seven sixty five.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
That's all you can stop right there.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
The Scott Boris could have retired thirty times over. But
he's come. He'll be joining the couple. I can't wait
to talk to him. Yeah, you get the math on
all that stuff. Yeah, that's a coop.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But you go.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Back to let's do it now, Adam Kaplan NFL Insider
of course for Fox Sports Radio here that's an hour
number three and last call. So we do have a
lot to get to. Let me first welcome in my partner.
He is, that's right. Happy. What do we say?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Good President's Day? Happy for President's Day. Maybe not so
happy for some people half of the country. So you know,
I'm not doing the big gulp anymore. You haven't seen
a big prep have a freaking water during the show.
And this this is Look at this.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
This was a gift, okay, And the best part about
it is you think somebody gives your Okay, it's nice,
a stainless steel water thing. This is from I don't
know if you know Wale who's the anchorman down in No,
who's the anchorman down an ABJA member.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But I've seen him.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But anyway, you know I'm looking at it and I'm
not even paying it closer to yeah, and then I
turn around and look at that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It subscribed. Man, oh, because I'm just looking at it.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This is cool, destined to do great things. And it
says happy sixtieth birthday, Rob. All So it's been a
whole year and you didn't even notice it.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
No, because I know I just opened it up.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean, I'm just such a guy. You're such are
you go? I just that's why you need a woman,
right there? Women the little small things they're great at
I'm not. And they would have saw that and then
sent a little thank you note and all that you're
such a do area.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm sixty five now, but hey, thank you. Hey, I
just noticed. Thank you? Not the rapper.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, all right, let's welcome in the odd couple of
cool because you wouldn't be able to do this farm
radio program without them.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Alex is our engineer. Who's that guy with the hat
on the sir? Another USC student? You started to notice
something here.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You only bring on USC students or hire ex people
who have been your mentees.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What's up with that? I'm not I'm just going for
the quality of people.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So they meet you their quality school of course, Steve nepotism.
No nepotism, let's not get that starting scoopatism. Yeah, school patism, aditism.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I didn't get him hired. I didn't get him highed.
Chris got VJ hired.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
See Chris boards, you got VJ hired, You got USC,
you got Mark Martin Weiss, Shawn Sacramento, Sean and Sean
and Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
The lady we ran into in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He was like, I love him LB Bro okay, and
winked at you, as in, hey, I expect to check later.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Oh god, Steve sag tanker desk. He'll keep us updated
throughout the program and of.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Course find out if Steve at in class with you two.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He's actually going to speak to one of my classes
at USC. He did it before, so it was nice.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, he's not. I knew it was something. And Elijah's
our social he does a great job. There's some connection
there as well with Eliza. All right, let's do this well,
Elijah works from b BRO. Did you know? I knew it?
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
The craziest thing is're gonna have people thinking somehow we're
connected like that what like as I oh it was
was he Kelvin in one of your classes?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No, no, no, you were not.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
All right, let's do this, I used to baby, Oh god,
could you imagine that would be funny?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And now we're doing the radio, I know that would
be that that would be hilarious. That would we got
a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
NBA All Star Game weekend was in uh, of course
San Francisco, and a lot of stuff came out of
a lot of complaining from fans just it just was awful.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Like we thought it would be bad, it was worse.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
There's multiple right, and a lot of things across the board.
But let's let's center in on Lebron James first, because
we'll talk about our number two some of the changes,
whether people liked it, Hour three, I think, whether they
liked it or not, no hour two, Hour two or two,
and then Draymond hour three. But let's start here with
Lebron James. And I'll be the first person. I'm not
(07:13):
going to tell somebody whether they're hurt or not. I've
never been in that business. Okay, he says, the guys
ankles bothering him. I'm going to respect him. I'm not
a doctor. I don't have any X rays. Somebody says
they're not feeling right or whatever, it ain't for me
to tell them that they need to get out there
and that they're faking it or jaking it or whatever
(07:34):
you want to use the term.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So I'm not that guy.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But he should have let him know earlier because somebody
else could have used that roster spot. But here's the
thing that bothered me even more. Taking the team picture
for the twenty twenty four to twenty five All Star team.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
In Street Close. I know that that's the nickname for
Anthony Davis, right.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Didn't Charles Barkley give him that Street Close from TNT?
How tacky is that? And I'm gonna say this, Either
you get dressed with your teammates take the picture, or
you step out and say, you know what, I'm just
gonna miss this picture. You want to put a little
picture of me in there or something. I don't feel
like you're dressed, but I don't want to ruin the picture.
(08:22):
And then the other thing, Shame on the other players
for allowing that to happen. Nobody's nobody can stand up
to him and say, yo, bro can can you put
your uniform on or if you're not, I'm not gonna
take that. I'm not gonna be in this picture. Have
you ever seen a team picture with somebody street clothes on?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
A coach? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Okay, So I mean that that was ultimate disrespect. It
was like, I don't care what's going on. Okay, I'm
not playing. I'm gonna let you know at the last minute.
All right, all right, fine, you're injured. You're too injured
to put on your shorts and basketball top tank top?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
What really, big, big, big, big miss by Lebron. This
was an opportunity for Lebron, for somebody who's been known
for what setting guys up for passing to me, this
was a missed opportunity for Lebron. Number one. He's been
one of the best statesmen of the league. Right, he's
been the face of the league, the statesman. He knows
(09:25):
when to say things with not to. But this was
just another me, me, me moment that didn't make sense.
If you're that hurt, obviously, as you just said, don't play. However,
you aren't hurt enough. It's just a little ankle that
you don't want to bother throw on the outfit, take
the pictures, work up a little sweat during warmups, and
that'd be that. That's what participant. Go out there, do
(09:48):
the ceremonial, play a minute, call a time out, get
out the game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
If you're going to do that, he's earned that. I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Or Lebron is known for setting people up right, getting
people easy baskets, throwing nice ally to set up to me, Rob,
this was a chance to set up another guy, for
him to say, maybe a week ago, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I'm gonna sit out.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I'm honored for my twenty first, twenty second, you know,
All Star selection, but I'm gonna sit this one out.
Rest up with the family. I got a big push.
This is my last year or two. Let me make
this big push trying to do some things with Luca
and set up somebody else. This was a great chance
for him to say, you know what, here's a you
know another guy. Let's say it was Trey Young. Obviously
(10:29):
he would ended up being because someone else got injured,
but this was somebody else who couldn't didn't make the team.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
But here they are.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Here's an opportunity for this young guy to make the
All Star Game. I'm gonna sit this one out. To me,
those were the options. It was just odd for him
to just lastly say I'm not gonna play, not dress,
not participate. And here's the other part, Rob, We all
knew this All Star game was one that everybody was
watching because a the new rules, the new the winch gameplay,
(10:55):
and everybody's like, man, come on in the league, need
to pick it up, Guys need to play, Guys need
to play. So the literal face of the league to
kind of just be nonchalant about it when everybody's banking
on the league and the game to be what it
needed to be, that part was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You get what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
If Lebron is there, he is Lebron James Steele. He
shows up, he's geared up, he works up a sweat
during warm ups, He comes out, plays a minute or two,
but then says, hey, guys, you know, go out there
and finish it up.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Do your thing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That's great, right, that's like the face of the league,
the elder Stelzman getting the thing going. And he didn't
do that. He just showed up in a little hoodie
and the hat like, oh y'all, good, go do that. Oh,
but I make sure I'm in his picture though, so
that for the ever they will remember me that I
was here and I was a part of it in
some sort of way that just wasn't needed to me.
You either show up, dap guys up, throw tile support,
(11:44):
you know, but in your uniform so you look the part,
or five six days.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Of the game, yeah, or five six days ago.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Just let somebody else go, just like Trey Young got
in because Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Like, go put somebody else in. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Know this, dude, the idea when they handed you when
you made the basketball team in an arbor, when they
handed you that jersey, it's special. Man.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm still getting ready to get glassed as if I
was in NBA or something. But am I right? It's special.
It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I remember baseball teams I played on. When they give
you your jersey, your number, man, that's yours. And that's what
I'm saying, like like to to be like you you've
been around too long, like like maybe that this is
your side, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I mean, Like you've you've lost the understanding of how
magical this is to either put on the uniform and
play and just be a part of the team, or
to give it to someone else. You know what I
mean to say, Hey man, this is gonna mean so
much to you know, I'm trying to think of a
young guy in the Western Conference who people will let
you know the bonus, who didn't make this or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Somebody, Hey man, this is your I can't play. I'm heard,
but I didn't want to waste the roster spot. Here's
a magical moment for you, somebody. It could have been
a great story. I'm making it up or whatever exactly
for you, and it just didn't come out like that.
And I think he's lose. That's why I'm saying, sometimes
you stick around too long, will you take stuff for granted?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And that's what it's felt like to me.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
If you stay around, what's the world add ist? You
stay around be the hero too much, you see yourself
become the villain.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
And you know what I mean. He's been the face
of the league. He's been the statesman.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
He's been the governor, if you will, the one you
put in front of the cameras when there's big issues.
He's been that guy kind of leading the way and
now like this was just this was just a miss
by him. Now, it doesn't mean he's the worst guy
on This was just a myss, where's all right, bron
What were we doing? You ain't dressed, you ain't give
you didn't give up the spot to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Knowing how important this was, Knowing everybody's watching ready to
hate on the game because all the gameplay how is bad,
it's been you know what, everybody's watching for that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
And then and then one of the biggest stars ever
he ain't paid. He shows like, I don't even care whatever,
I'm not like, I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And that's a miss for him.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He usually understands the moment more like, not just this
is bigger than just me.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This is a mail moment. He would have been he
would have been better off not coming at all. Right,
I man, I'm propping it up. I'm just I can't
even come. I'm hurt. I'm not I don't want to
waste the spot. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm not in the mood to take pictures of be
involved in the other stuff. And and that's what should
have happened. Eight seven, seven ninety nine off foxes our
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Let's just get to it.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Did Lebron come off as selfish or uh like like
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not the not not playing because if he's injured, I
respect that, I'm that serious. But he had to know
that that was hurting way before, like right before a game,
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before the game to say I can't play really like
like that's the part and he could have right, Yeah,
got dressed and sat there, just been married by look
the part.
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MLB super sports agent Scott Boris. You can Boris core
on Twitter. Scott, it is great to have you on.
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What's up Scott.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Afternoon?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yes, doing great.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Appreciate you taking some time out one hundred definitely, you
know I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Talk to you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And let's start with, of course, Ajan Soto and his
deal with the New York Metropolitan seven hundred and sixty
five million.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I just got two things Scott.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
First, when he turned down the four forty in Washington,
I thought he was absolutely crazy that someone gets offered
a half a billion dollars, fully guaranteed, not a fake
NFL contract, not a funny two way NBA contract.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But you know, all the way he bet on himself.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
How shocked or surprised that one show hate signed for
seven hundred I never thought anybody would be higher than that,
that he got more than.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Show well, going into this the element of you have
to give one a lot of credit because we had
I believe, since he was eighteen years old on. We've
had sixty eight meetings, and certainly after we finished with
(17:08):
the Mets, one looked at me and goes, can we
just tone that down a little bit and kind But
it's a lot of information, a lot of preliminary market data,
a lot of historical data. We have a thing in
baseball called surplus value, which is a value gradient that
we use, and we developed one that I did with
(17:30):
based upon my representation of Bonds and a Rod and
their skill sets and what they did and why, so
that we could really get to him and say, these
are the valuative points we look at. And when a
player goes through that, particular an international player, you can
imagine the number of people, which is the vast, vast
(17:50):
majority that say to one, how could you turn down
four hundred and forty million dollars? And the answer is
he's getting all this information from US perspective values, marcus
franchise values, revenues, the sport, and really what his valuation
is going to be as he goes on in his career.
In year four, or five and six before he's a
(18:12):
free agent. And then when Otani signed, and his real
evaluation is at a four hundred and sixty million dollar valuation.
That's that's what the contract. There's a lot of it
makes two million a year for ten years and then
gets paid it much later. But the real evaluation was
(18:32):
around that. So everyone came to one and said, you
don't pitch Otani's an extraordinary player. In addition to that,
he generates, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of
revenue for his team. You don't do that. So your
chances of getting the four fifty or four sixty that
(18:55):
Otani got are you know, it's just not thing you're
going to be able to achieve. Will you get as
much as you got from Washington? He had to hear
that for almost a full year, you know, in and
of itself, and you know it's I give him a
lot of credit. He trusted our information, our advice and
(19:18):
ask a lot of questions, well, if Otani's why didn't
Otani get what he was worth? Or all these things
which are all the elements of how we look at
markets and evaluations. And essentially he trusted our data and
the information and as it worked out, to his credit,
(19:41):
he was able to focus on playing and played at
a very high level. And then we had a very
strategic negotiation to arrive at really a true expression of
his market.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Now, Scott, he's a great player. He could play anywhere.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
That transfers to anywhere when you're great and you're dynamic player.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But it looked like the Bronx was perfect.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Dominicans loved him there, you know, like what the right
field porch. He had a career high in home runs.
The Yankees made it to the World Series. There was
a lot to like there, the lineup and whatnot, And
I get it. The Yankees offered seven sixty the Mets
offered seven sixty five, and the Mets offered the Yankees
(20:31):
had offered what an extra year, Scott, Right, So it's
a different amount of money spread out over the years. Right,
the Yankees added one more year than the Mets did.
But how difficult does that when you know, take a
player who has excelled and seem to fit in a
in a circumstance or team. Because you know this, the
Mets and Yankees aren't the same, even though they're in
(20:51):
the same city.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
They're not what goes into that. Scott, Well, my.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Job is to provide information. In the end, you know,
it was providing one with the economic appraisal, not only
those two teams, but you know, many others, and in
each case one had to dismiss teams. I teased him
because he had uncles and his mother and everyone involved.
(21:17):
I called it supreme Court of Soda. I would give
him the information, he would go back, and what I
cared about was the baseball execution information. And he had
a you know, a near eleven hundred ops at City Field,
he played well at Yankee Stadium. We wanted to cover
(21:38):
the fact of execution, doing it in optimal places, and
he had choices there and as far as what works
best for him and his family, the ability of an
owner to support a winning roster was very important to
one because he wanted to win during the fifteen years
(21:58):
of this contract. So all those things were considered by him.
But in the end, roll when you go to make
these decisions, the key point what you do. I think
in being I think in being a former player, you
understand why how you play and what makes you comfortable.
I trust that one knows that and he certainly expressed
(22:20):
it and also being around his family and giving us direction.
I wanted them to make that decision. And he certainly
looked at all that information, and you know, we spent
a lot of time covering it. Called me on the
phone and said, look, go ahead and work the final
(22:41):
with the Mets, and we all think as a family
that it's best for us to do so. So I
certainly trusted that was very informed and has been very
methodical about his decision making, and so we went and
executed the contract to get done with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He is Scott Boris molb sports agent and really one
of the biggest, if not the biggest, in all the
sports Scott joining now a couple Robin Kelvin Scott.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You mentioned it earlier, the deferment money, and that's something
that Sho hail Tani's done. A lot of Dodgers in
the league would defend. The Dodgers are saying, hey, we'll
give you two three a year. On the back end,
there's just sixty eight seventy million a We've heard recently
where the commissioners started to kind of toss around the
idea of some type of salary cap because people are
saying this isn't fair. Other teams, including Yankees, saying this
(23:31):
isn't fair of all the teams. Scott, but how do
what are your thoughts on deferming? You think it's okay,
you think it's fine? Is it is it? Is it
level in the playing field? Is it not fair? And
then we will eventually lead to a salary cap.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Well, I think the point of it is is that
howard salary caps working well in the In the NFL
we had a a lockout in twenty eleven, In the
NBA they had a lockout. In the NHL, they had
one of their all cap elements. How is it working
in competition? Well, the NFL, even riggers are schedule and
they still have two of the last three years the
(24:06):
same super Bowl team. You have four or five one
team in the Super Bowl four to five times. Because,
if anything, sary caps are supposed to promote parody while
they're not working. So the only thing sary caps really
do is provide ownership with a greater economic purpose than
they would otherwise. So when you're talking about deferrals, deferrals
(24:27):
are a method of what is the appraisal of the
player's value, you know, and I realize that they give
some funny money as we call it later in the future.
But Otani's contract is worth four hundred and fifty million dollars.
Who said the league says that the players Union says
that because of the fact that there's a net present
value that you would use about how you appraise it.
(24:49):
And so deferral is something that is merely a mechanism
that helps flexibility or whatever. Because every team in baseball
use is it, Every team has the opportunity to use it.
There is no unfairness about it. And the point of
it is like when I did Blake Snell's contract with
Andrew and the Dodgers, you know, we got at the
(25:11):
time a record signing bonus until we did once but
of like fifty something million dollars, and they also deferred
an equivalent amount for future years. And that made the
net present value of the contract for our purposes to
be fair for the player, because that, in the end
is the valuation it is. It is what is that
player's work. And when you look at the Dodgers, their
(25:32):
contracts for Hernandez or our key Kay are for really
anyone they signed, they're not above market contracts. They're not
paying valuations for players that are in any way any
different than what any other team is paying. So they did.
(25:53):
If you had a situation where one team was paying
dramatically more for players than others, you would say, well,
then they have this decisive advantage. But keep in mind
that our game has gone up in revenues every year.
Record revenues last year, record revenues this year.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Last year was twelve point one billion dollars for baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Yes, and the issue is that we have a situation
where ownership is same, but what are we doing with salaries. Well,
this year in twenty five, the amount of money spent
on players is going to be the same as twenty four.
It didn't go up by ten percent like the revenues.
And so the idea of it is, we've had fifteen
(26:37):
teams that lowered their payroll from the prior year even
though they had record revenues. We have six teams that
aren't even spending a one hundred million even though they
have record revenues. So when you look at all this
and you're saying that there is some sort of element
in the game, the truth of the matter is is
that the NBA TV contract just illustrated something is that
(27:02):
the people that controlled streaming, which was the end to
cable because of the handhelds, well, Major League Baseball developed
that MLB band developed it. Instead of licensing it, they
sold it, and in doing so they kept dealing and
have long term contracts with cable companies knowing that the
(27:22):
form of doing business with them was changing, and that
preempted them from a market that they should have had
access two years before. The NBA, on the other hand,
who to give you an example, in Milwaukee have lower
ratings than the Brewers the Bucks do. The Bucks have
play only half the games of the Brewers, Yet the
(27:46):
media contract in Milwaukee, the amount of revenues that the
Brewers make is only half of what the Buck gets,
and the revenues in the NBA are nearly double over MLB,
which tells me that the issue with revenues it isn't
about a salary cap or labor costs. It is about
(28:06):
how we're negotiating for media rights. We need to have
effective negotiations to where it's obvious that we have double
the content that and we should have a greater media
rights valuation than the NBA which would bring a lot
more value both in franchise value and revenues to the owners.
So that is how we correct. It's a revenue problem.
(28:28):
It is not a salary cap or a labor cost problem.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Hey, Scott, last thing, we got a minute to go here.
Pete Alonso going back to the Mets. I thought he
got job a two year contract for just fifty four
million dollars. Very few players this guy plays every day.
He knows how to play in New York under the pressure.
It's some of the biggest home runs in the postseason.
(28:52):
And they didn't have that seven hundred and sixty five
million dollars for Juan Soto, but only fifty four million
for one of their own off was that for him
to go back to the Mets and for that contract.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Well, the truth of it is is that when you
are a thirty year old player in our game and
you have a qualifying offer, meaning that you have to
give up draft picks and international money, major league teams
do not want to do that. They'll do it for
a twenty six year old or a twenty seven year
old or other, but they won't do it for a
thirty year old. And I've had issues with Matt's with
(29:24):
Snell with Matt Chapman and now Pete Alonzo with Bregman.
They don't want to do the long term contracts for those,
but the next year when they're free agents, then they
get their true free agent value and the market because
they are truly free there's no draft picks given night,
and the clubs will then go out and pay their value.
So the system is working to where they have a
(29:48):
restricted free agency, which Pete was under because of the
qualifying offer. And you also see people talking to me,
why are these players signed so late? Because teams go
after players that are true free agents where they don't
have to give away the draft picks, and they approach
last in the mark at the teams where they have
to give away the draft picks to sign the players.
(30:09):
So the Meths, obviously because he was his team of origin,
didn't have to give up draft picks, and all the
other teams involved did not bid for Pete because after all,
they all say, why would I ever give up draft
picks when the reward of that is getting anywhere from
thirty four to fifty home runs and having a player
with one thousand ops who has key home runs in
(30:30):
the postseason. I won't do that till next year. That's
kind of what they.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Said, Scott Man, it has been a pleasure learn so much.
Dot got bores the great agents. Thank you so much,
appreciate you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
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Speaker 5 (30:56):
Fox Sports Radio and the couple turned down their earrings
does not constitute bonding meeting somehow.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
No, it was a great story though it was.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It was a not just because if I told you
to take your hat off, that's like.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Not because that would be crazy if you walk by
take your hat off, young man cat walking. No, we
chopped it up and I told him, I said, look, man,
it's not that you can't. I'm not telling you have to,
but I'm telling you you got to play the game.
Sometimes you got to do something that you gotta do.
Let me take these earrings off real quick, meet some
of these higher ups. Then I'll put it on later
where tonight you know, how we go party and how
we have a good time. That was the thing, and
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Speaker 4 (32:07):
Hit me with.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It, Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob
Parker's Day, Dicks against the spread.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And as you know, there are no games. Yeah, so
we're gonna get the rest. But I think the first
NBA game, Steve said, is Wednesday. You don't want to
do the Tiger? Would thingy live or whatever? That that
is the Tiger? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Where are you you in the Tiger?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Meet me in a parking lot of Denny's. Now, what
was the name of that.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Hurricans hurkin, it was percolating. All right, meet me at
the in the parking lot. Yeah, personally, thank you Tiger.
Yeah off the Tiger drops. You got them all, but
we will. We'll get back to get back to it
on Wednesday. Wednesday, I hit it's.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
So good today. It was fun. Yeah, man, that he
may have done all. We'll get back to that. So
what you yeah, so did you see that?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Uh so the first of all, they just start what
did you think of the dunk content?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Let's just start there. I'm done.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm tired of seeing they got was McClung clung from
the G League.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Every year coming up just to do that? Enough already?
Can we stop? Yep?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I love I'm still watching Perry Mason, but I don't
want to see McClung.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
How's that? So here's I think we're all mcclunked out.
But first off, congrats to him, because hey, y'all, you
know he's a G leaguer. They say showed he's made
more in his three dunk contest winnings than he's made
in his entire NBA career thus far. But really, like,
what is that three years? That's three years and first
time ever, and it's like terrible. It's great for him,
but it's that for us that he's the winner of
(33:44):
three times.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Michael Jordan, they don't want Lamar Jackson to win three
m VP.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
They want.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Where's the voter fatigue? Now there you go. That's what
I'm saying. They should have gave him fives just for that.
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
So here's what's interesting, and this is why I call
fake to this. John Moran tweets out, Mac might make
me decide to dunk. Remember in the beginning of the year,
the season, Josh said he don't want a dunk anymore.
He's done a couple of spectacular dunks because he's amazing.
We all want to see him in the dunkcout tests.
I've called him out. Anthony Edwards, Jahn Morant. If Zach
(34:18):
Levine want to get back, then Zach, He tweets out
Zach and ag what's up? As in Aaron Gordon. Zach tweeted,
thinking I might have to again. Yannis jumps in. If
you do it, I'll do it with you. So here's
my thing about this. Don't start none, won't be none,
(34:40):
meaning don't shoe all this say all this because they've
done this before, Rob Parker. The same thing happened the
first year of Mack, where guys jump Mack killing him.
I might have to get out there. I might have
to do that, and then they don't because it's fun
in the moment. Even Lebron's hinted at all Man and no.
Remember what Lebron went on that run? Ian You remember this, Sue, Well,
(35:00):
Lebron went on this run pre games doing stuff he's
never done before, literally throwing it off the scoreboard, wind Meal,
crazy stuff. It was like he was trolling us. This
is what I would do in the dunk contest. Nanaa na,
I'm not gonna do it, So to me, don't John,
don't do this now because you have three hundred and
sixty five days until the next dunk contest. So don't
(35:21):
do it now and then back out. Hey, Zach Levine,
don't now. Zach has done it so clearly. I believe
him because he's done it before. But Jannis, who like,
don't don't tease us up. Guys, this is what we want.
We want to see the best of the best. We
want to see some guys. We know, we know, we're
not gonna know every single one. There's always a young upstart.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We Bryan a young upstart and you know, we said
Jason Richardson, that happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
But we need two of the guys to be household days.
We need a job a Zion and Anthony Edwards. That's
the only way you're gonna get people to be excited.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And you gotta have We see this in baseball with
the home run derby.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
You got there's always something new or two, but the
rest of you know that you know, and they got
to be the sluggers.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
I was in Miami when Aaron Judge was down by
seventeen home runs going into the last round. Yeah, and
he went crazy but lost, like like I'll never forget
that moment in Miami. But he's one of those guys.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Need you.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Need Soto, you need Judge, you need all the sluggers
that you know, you need a big pop.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
We don't want to say in the minor leagues who
are coming up just to be in a home run derby.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Now, people would not buy that. I imagine all of them.
It'd be different if it was like we had one
we brought up because he was. He was slugging at Hey,
you guys aren't gonna believe this Mike trial kid or
something like that, You know what I mean. All Right,
we'll bring one up for just to do some little
novelty thing. Imagine if everybody in the Home Run dery
was somebody you didn't know. Oh no, terrible, that's how
bad it was.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
We're gonna talk about the All Star weekend format.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Whether it was Bolognia.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
For love I think for you, I think it was
Emerald's three hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Is that what it was? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:58):
And guess what we didn't eat that three seven.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
They told us, Hey, the better foods on the other side,
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