The Bernie Fratto Show Talks Bronny James, WNBA All Star Game & More!

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We'll look forward to your calls. You know, fifty nine
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it may be twelve midnight literally, but certainly twelve midnight figuratively.
And we'll look forward to your calls. The callers have
been just fantastic. I'll set that up a little bit later,
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on that as well. Many things to get to tonight,
Plenty of high jinks. But we begin with sort of
a simple axiom, as anybody in any in any walk
of life would embark on a quest for success. I
think it's fair. It's not a platitude, it's a reality.

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It's not what happens to you, it's it's how you react, right.
And for instance, in my athletic career, I came from
a sport where there were there was failure every fifteen seconds.
The pitcher fails to throw strike, the hitter fails to
make contact, the fielder fails to make a play, the

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hitter fails to reach base, and it repeats every fifteen
seconds for about three hours until someone wins the game,
which teaches you two things about failure. One, failure is
never final, and number two, failure is simply a natural
part of the progression on the way to finding success.
So where am I going with this? Well, tomorrow, at

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four o'clock Pacific time, it's likely that the bronni residency
in Las Vegas will most likely come to an end.
For now, did the Lakers play the Bulls and Bronni's
had about five to six Summer League games between here
in California, and people have formed their opinions that for mine,

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I will hold my final judgment for a year, but
you pretty much know how I feel. But Bronni was
obviously the son of a famous basketball player, and as
Yogi Berra might say, they have different similarities. They're both
coming in with a lot of hype. Whether you like
it or not. All right, people say, oh, it's a
big deal. Well, well, you're making a big deal about

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a fifty fifth draft pick for well, the fifty fifth
a track pick. This is not a big deal. Why
are you making it a big deal? Because his name
is Brownie James and they force fed this upon us,
and people want to know his name's not Isaiah Long.
Who's Isaiah Long? You don't know, do you? Well? Isaiah

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Wong was the fifty fifth overall pick last year. By
the way, if you're scoring home, and I hope you are,
he averaged eleven points per game in this summer league
and he was two for four from three point line. Yeah,
that's Isaia Wong. No one talked about it last year.
Do you wonder why? All right now I want to

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reference it really a really good, a really good summer
league performance this week. No, I'm not talking about Brownie
I mean, if you're gonna try to shove down my throat. Wow,
after starting out zero for fifteen he was he got
a thirteen point game. Oh my god, that's like Wilt
Chamberlain scoring one hundred. How about Carlo Metkovic, kid from Croatia.

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He had a very impressive performance for the Pelicans yestherday.
He actually had twenty five points, eleven to thirteen from
the floor, five rebound street blocks. And if you really
want to get nerdy about this, I cover with the
Summer League for ten of the last twelve years. I
didn't go this year. I just sort of lost interest.
Here's a guy named Devin Booker. You may have heard

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of Devin Booker. I think Breeze a big Phoenix Suns fans.
She knows who Devin Booker is. Devin Booker came through
town about ten years ago, and he was in the
rookie League or he was in the Summer League, just
like everybody else. And it only took about two games.
What are you doing here? This is like a varsity
player playing against the freshman team. He avers like twenty
eight points a game, only played like half the game,

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shot sixty percent from behind the arc and people said,
if his stretching the Summer League is any indication of
how to play, he's going to be a star. I
think he's been a star. I don't think anybody can
deny that you want to really rave about a performance
that one or if fifty fifth is no big deal,
then why are you making it a big deal because

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you didn't do it for Isaiah Loong last year? And
if you just want to pick out random performances and then
go nuts over thirteen points, well how about Carlo Mecovic
from Croatia. He was drafted fifty second overall? All right,
So where am I going with this? You know I've
already told you a thousand times on this show. In
two thousand and three, I drove down to Cleveland because
I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

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And lebron James Senior very much lived up to it.
He lived up to the hype. He looked like an
NBA player in high school, and six months later he
was in the Cavs starting lineup and he was contributing
right away. Well, there was the same kind of hype
on Bronnie James. I cannot believe how many people actually
bet that Bronnie would would win Rookie of the Year,
or check that he would be the number one pick overall.

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Are you kidding me? That is far beyond what I
call is shooting bebies at the moon bet or needle
in a Haystad bet. This is ridiculous. They're betting he
might be Rookie of the Year. Okay, you need to
lie down with a cold compress, get yourself some warm
milk and soft music. Maybe it'll go away, maybe it won't.
You better off lighten the money on fire. Least it

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will keep you warm, because why would you need to
do that. It's one hundred and fifteen degrees here. But
I digress. But there are expectations on Brownie, whether he
likes it or not, playing professional basketball now. And that's
where I really want to give him some props, because,
in one manner of speaking, I'm going to give Ronnie
some respect because he has lived up to the hype

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in one particular area, in his own way. He's lived
up to the hype to the responsibility of carrying himself
like a professional. And I mean that I look at people,
and you learn a lot by somebody by how they
react after they've experienced failure. Brownie miss shot after shot,
look bad doing it. He's not a point guard. He

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can't bring the ball up the floor. He's not a distributary.
He's not a playmaker. He rushes back on offense and
stand in the corner and he tries. But he's playing
a games very accomplished college players. I've heard lots of
people in the airwaves compare him to Pat. Maybe you
be Pap Beverley. Well, Pap Beverly averaged forty points a

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game in high school, lit it up in college, and
had to light it up in the Ukraine before he
got a sniff at the NBA. Bronnie hasn't lit it
up at any level. All he did to fifteen points
in the McDonald's All American Game. All right, but where
am I going with this again? For the third time. Bronnie,
in his own way, has carried himself like a professional,
and I think that deserves some recognition. He's lived up

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the responsibility of his height. After every misshot, turnover, whatever
the case may be. You look at his body language,
his countenance, his facial expressions, his demeanor, how he has
interacted with his teammates. He's very measured, he's very respectable.
Lebron James raised an elegant young man. We're gonna find

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out in the next year you can play basketball, which
I don't think really matters as long as Lebron gets
on the floor with his son and then they can
get on with their lives. But I said I would
hold withhold full judgment for one year. But in the meantime,
we're gonna have opinions. And since tomorrow Saturday, I believe
will be most likely the last time we'll see Bronni

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on the floor in the NBA for the summer this year.
Most likely this is the last time I'll be talking
about him, which will probably be music to the years
of my good buddy Doug Graveman. I get it. It
takes all kinds, but there's a buzz about him, whether
people think he's earned it or not, whether people think
it's because of his name, but forget it fill in

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All right back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports
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here in Las Vegas. Will take you up to two
am Pacific, five am Eastern, just getting started. It's welcome
and a gentleman. The future always has a way of
arriving ahead of schedule. They're getting ready to demolish the

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Tropicana and they're supposed to build a new stadium where
the Oakland A's will become the Las Vegas As if
everything goes according to OILS opening day twenty twenty eight.
But there was a meeting yesterday and from my advantage point,
some questions were answered, but many remain. Let's welcome and
a gentleman who's got the answer, say hello to alansnelllvsports

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biz dot com. How you doing, Allen?

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, I'm terrific, Bernie. Great to be with you again.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, looking forward to your report, Alan, because it's my understanding.
The agenda Thursday, the discuss they discussed public financing, debt financing,
and equity financing, but nothing is really resolved and the
clock is taking. What were your observations from the meeting Thursday, Alan, Well.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
You know, for the first time ever, we actually had
a live human being at a public forum the Stadium
Authority Board of Las Vegas. And it wasn't John Fisher,
the owner, it wasn't Dave Cavill, the team president of
the A's. We did get Sandy Dean Kam, who has
represented the Fisher family for more than a quarter century,

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and he laid out pretty much those three categories of
funding for the stadium. He had mentioned that the public subsidy,
which could be as high as three hundred and eighty
million dollars, would be probably closer to three hundred and
fifty million, and then he said that the Fisher family
will take out a loan of three hundred million dollars

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and then the balance that will be paid in equity
in the form of Fisher money. And also that they're
still trying to find some investors for this one point
five billion dollar dome thirty three thousand seat stadium on the.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Strip, and lies there lies the conundrum. Allen. Let's take
each cause you're very good with numbers. So let's start
with the public financing. The A's were supposed to put
forth three hundred and eighty million, but they say that
the public it was the public share the public five
excuse me, thank you, right, that's why we have you.

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But the debt financing, the club was supposed to borrow
three hundred million for the project, but there's no former lender.
There's no formal lender commitments, which is where we've been
for six months. So what's happening there.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Not yet, but they do plan to get three hundred billion.
You keep in mind, you know, something to kind of
use as a rough reference point would be the Raider Stadium,
since it's the same stadium board that is dealing with the.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
A's that dealt with the Raiders. And you know, when
the money.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
Fell through from Sheldon Adelson people here in Las Vegas Rebre,
you know, the late Sheldon Allison was going to be
a huge investor in the stadium. He bowed out and
the Raiders did go to via a Bank of America
and they did so that.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
You know, they that stock gap and did but that
was within about thirty days as well, it was done.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
It was quicker, and that's you know, for people who
are wondering where the money is coming from. The bottom
line is is that, you know, we still don't have
a document that has been filed with the stadium board
that that confirmed and validates the financing. So to your point, Burnie,

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that that's true. I mean, we have to keep in mind,
this is the first time that there was actually an
AGE representative at a public forum at least outlining and
sketching the plan for paying for this. I mean, so
you're right, there is no bank loan that's officially confirmed

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so at least we had a live body at a
stadium boards.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, you laid that out. Well, what measurable tangible progress
has there been since the last time we had you
on ninety days ago, because one of the things concerning
to me the equity financing part. We add up the money,
you know, the three eighty from the public the three
hundred million from the debt financing, that still leaves eight

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hundred and fifty million which the owner of the A's,
John Fisher, is supposed to be funding. But it's my
understanding there's been an ongoing effort. They hired a veteran
sports financing company called Galaateyoto Sports Partners, but they did
that ninety days ago. So what tangible progress has been
made in terms of, you know, theoretically getting the stadium

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finance to the trainers on the tracks.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
Not much, Bernie. I mean, right now we have the
same statement from the team and the Fisher family saying
there's still looking for investors, specifically local Las Vegas investors,
and you know that's that's a process. I mean, keep
in mind, the stadium is supposed to open, like you mentioned,
for the MLB season of twenty twenty eight and assuming

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they built the same they use the same timeline of
thirty one months for the Raiders stadium. You know, they
can get away with putting shovels to the ground in
maybe April or May of twenty twenty five. And honestly,
the only tangible sign of activity Bernie has been the
fact that the Tropicana Hotel casino facility has been pretty

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much reduced to simply a shell shell.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
It's a skeleton now. It's weird to drive.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
By it, guess yeah, And you know right now, there's
tentative demolition of the building set for October later this year,
with a groundbreaking in twenty.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Talking with Alan Snell, LV, sports Biz has very much
had his finger on the pulse for the A's to Vegas,
and although there appears to be progress, there are still
questions remaining, primarily having to do is financing this project?
So when is the next meeting? When is the next
point of demarcation? Will they meet before the scheduled raising

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of the building in October?

Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yeah, we did learn that the Stadium board in Las
Vegas will meet again in August. We don't have an
exact date on that yet, but it will be in
about a month. And one kind of interesting feature that
came out in the Development Agreement proposal that was attached
to the agenda really literally an hour before the meeting started, Bernie,

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was that the topic of personal seat licenses was actually
included in the Development Agreement proposal, which I thought was
very fascinating. As soon as I all the documents, I
went over to actually Sandy Dean of the A's and
I said, Hey, are you guys going to implement PFLs?

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And it's more it's something you see more in NFL
teams and stadiums and MLB. I think there's about a
half dozen teams in Major League Baseball that use personal
seat licenses, which is less than the NFL. But what's
interesting is that I was told by the A's that

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right now we have quote not made a decision yet,
so the door is still open for the personal seat
licenses to be implemented. And a really important point is
that it raised five hundred and forty dollars for the
Raiders stadium as a key component of their financing. So
that's kind of a wild card right there, because we

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just you know, right now, it's it's that's still up
in the air.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think you know, you're so knowledgeable on this Alan,
it's maybe reasonable to assume people have some of the
dollars you have. The Raiders were very much welcomed here
and it flowed as well as could be, with the
exception of some factions in the educate Department of Education

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or for the most part, it's been a huge success.
They as showed up uninvited, hat in hand, and it
even came up at the All Star Game Tuesday. Hordes
of players in the MLB think this is a bad idea.
We can discuss that another day. But the one thing
I do want to discuss I can tell you, and
I'd like you to address this last question, but take

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your time. There are conspiracy theories that the trap gets raised,
the A's go to Sacramento, live rent free for three years.
It becomes it becomes an audition, an address rehearsal for
Sacramento to get a major League Baseball team. They've got
people that would build one tomorrow. It's my understanding there

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are factions in the Bay Area that would buy the A's,
but they've told people, we can't buy something that's not
for sale. And this whole thing is a fagazy to
build something different at the Drop site, which they've tried,
one of the iconic properties in Las Vegas for sixty
five years. They've tried to, you know, rejuvenate it. But

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it's time finally came. So that's my very long winded
way of asking, what percentage chance do you give that
the A's never make it to Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
I think it's kind of low. I mean, I would
say twenty five to thirty percent. Keep in mind, I'm
aware of all those theories, and I'm aware that the
owner of the Sacramento Baseball Park is buddies with John Fisher,
the owner of the A's, and you know, Sacramento would
be not too far from the Oakland base But it

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seems as though this is the final year in the coliseum,
and even though they're playing three seasons and Sacramento, I
think they're committed to Las Vegas. And I'm probably in
the minority of people who think that it's not. This
has been a and you're right, this has been a
completely different dynamic from when the Raiders moved here. But

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to keep in mind that the Raiders are playing in
a stadium that metro Las Vegas needed, you know, whether
the Raiders were in it or not, Las Vegas needed
a major stadium to compete, you know, for the tourism
dollar across the country and internationally. They needed the stadium.
They don't necessarily need a baseball park on the strip,

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but I think the Eis are committed. They've committed a
lot of time and energy and money to developing and
designing the baseball park on the Strip, and it hasn't
been a pretty process. It has not been very smooth.
It's for the fans, it's been a terrible painful experience.
And it is bizarre, Bernie, that you have a team

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that that is working on its plan to say goodbye
to the coliseum. They're working on trying to play baseball
and Sacramento where it's like a hundred degrees plus for
three seasons and a ten to fourteen thousand, you know,
persons ballpark for minor leaguers, and then they're working on
the Vegas plan that they think they can be here

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in twenty twenty eight. So it's I think it's seventy
five to twenty five that they end up in Vegas
as probably high compared to a lot of other people
in the media. But well that's my ads right now.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, great stuff is always Allan, and we're going to
get you on sooner rather than later, because, as I said,
the future always has with arriving ahead of schedule. I
think though, that when I last asked you this sixty
nine months ago, you thought it was ninety to ninety
five percent. Some people in town think at sixty forty.
I don't know. I just there's an old saying, don't
tell me about the labor pain, show me the baby.

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Where's the money? John Fisher has got to come up
with this money, And to your point, there's got to
be public financing, debt, find nancying in equity financing, and
so far we're no closer than we were ninety days ago.

Speaker 7 (23:05):
Alan, Yeah, K, keep it yeah, Actually, I mean keep
in mind a lot of people have actually given him
a break already. I mean, like you mentioned, you know,
the nine acres that the stadium is supposed to be
built on is really coming free. I mean that's coming
free from the land owner, which is not mailing.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
You talked about that last ten yep. So, Alan, great stuff.
I appreciate your efforts. I know you've been up to
the Bay Area and tended all the public functions here.
We'll get you on soon. Thanks buddy.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
Hey great, always great talking with it, Bernie. Keep up
the great job, man.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Thanks, thank you all. It's Alan Snow LV sports Biz.
You can follow him on Twitter at LV sports Biz.
He's got a website he really does in a very
granular way to cover this story. We don't have enough
time in twelve minutes to do it justice. But this
is where they're at. They had a stadium authority meeting yesterday,
financing still up in the air. They get ready to

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take down the trap, and there are a lot of
moving parts here and so we're waiting and seeing what
is going to ultimately happen. And this is one deal
and I want to predict the future on so we'll see.
Coming up, we actually have an All Star Game Saturday
night that is gaining a lot of steam in terms

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of real attention. People are gonna watch this thing, including me,
and I'll explain why coming up. But first let's go
to our guy, Kevin Figures with the latest.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
All right, Bernie.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
In the late slate of Major League Baseball Friday night,
the Dodgers got a Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman in
the bottom of the eighth inning. They pick up a
four to one comeback victory over the Red Sox. LA
had lost six of its previous seven games headed into
the All Star Break, Hunter Brown pitched six scoreless innings
for Houston. They defeated Seattle three to nothing. Bobby Wood
Junior a home run for the Royals seven to one.

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The final there as they defeated the White Sox. Corbyn
Burns picked up his tenth winner of the season for Baltimore.
They defeated Sexist and nine to one. It was the
Guardian seven and the Padres nothing. Juan Soda with four
hits for the Yankees. They defeated Tampa Bay six to one,
who had victories for Arizona, Pittsburgh and Detroit. And golf
Shane Lowry a two stroke lead through the first couple
of rounds at the Open Championship, Scottie Scheffler five strokes

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back Tiger Woods and Roy McElroy missed the cut and
news out of the NFL, the Ravens signed a former
Pro Bowl safety Eddie Jackson, to a one year contract
back to Bernie Frido.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Thank you, Kevin so if you heard me on the
Ben Malors Show Sunday night. I spent a little bit
of time putting my boot to the nuts of all
the All Star games that are in existence. Okay, the
NBA's game is a glorified practice. The NFL Pro Bowl
is now non existent. I mean, I don't know what

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you call that. Now, the NHL, beyond the skills competition,
it's not much to watch either. Major League Baseball. Well,
this should tell you everything you needed to know. Paul
Schemes was terrific, But after he left the game, frankly
got boring. They know how much I love baseball? And
what was the story of the jerseys? Those weren't jerseys.
Those were Beer League Bowling jerseys that you can buy

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for one hundred and ninety four bucks. And if you
buy one of those for one hundred ninety four bucks,
maybe you're in first in line for a front of
the botomy or you really want to show somebody they
love them, And that's fine. If that's what you want
to do. You wear that thing around. Yeah, I don't know,
not so much, just saying, just saying, But Saturday night,
even though I have crapped all over All Star games,

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what they become even though he used to just really
look forward to them and anticipate them. We have sort
of this possible savior and this is gonna matter. This
game is actually going to matter to the players involved
because of the storylines. This is a potential doozy. You've

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got Team USA that'll be heading off to Paris next
week to play in the Olympics, and you all know
there was some controversy and selecting that roster. I think, frankly,
they put together a good roster and I didn't really
have that much of an almbridge with it. But I
understand all the storylines. I do. But they're gonna play
Team w NBA. Those are the all stars that quote

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didn't make the Olympic team. And this is a game
that's gonna be dripping with tension, dripping with angst, dripping
with personal agendas. You can bet the game. Bet MGM
has made TSA a slight favorite. They're laying five and
a half points, and I will say, though, that might

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be a light line because the team, the Olympic team stacked. Okay,
you got Asia Wilson, Brianna Stewart, Dana Tarossi, Britney Grant
or Kelsey plump. You've got a roster full of veterans
man that have won championships, but and they're a little
banged up. They're a little banged up. So I don't
know how cautious are going to be. But I think
once it tips off, it's gonna be hatfields of McCoy's.

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I really do. And of course you've got Caitlyn Clark
and Angel Reese on the same side, both playing for
Team WNBA, and apparently the fever coach Christie Size is intimated.
I don't know that I didn't hear this directly, that
the snub that Caitlyn Clark got from the Olympic team
woke up a monster. You see the season she's having.

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She leads the entire league and assists. I know people
have made a big deal about turnovers. Okay, that's like saying, well,
Lebron can't be in the Hall of Fame because he's
turned the ball over more than anybody Else's part of
the game. She gets blitzed every plays. She set too
many other records for me. You know, Reggie Jackson struck
out two thousand, five hundred and sixty eight times in
his career. He had five hundred and sixty three home
runs and won five World Series. He was mister October.

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But would you say, well, he can't, he can't be
an MVP. Struck out too much. A turnover is like
a strikeout. All right, No, don't go there. Caitlyn Clark
has lit it up and somebody's got a call out.
With all the respect to Gino Oriema who said she
was set up for failure, yeah not so much. Well
you got Kaitlyn Clark and injuries and several other good players,
including Arique ogging away. I'm sorry, folks, you know, I

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know I'm going to hell on a scholarship for not
being able to pronounce that name. But she won the
All Star Game MVP. The last time this matchup happened
in twenty twenty one. Three years ago, you had the
Olympic team play the All Stars, and the All Stars
beat them, and for some reason, Arique said, I'm taking
my name out of the Team USA pool this year
because I don't like the politics and a roster selection

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just to say that, that's tension right there. So this
is an All Star game, I think that'll be terrific
to watch. And the skills competition was pretty good Friday night.
You can bet the game there is going to be
real bragging rights. You can be you can be sure
that if the Team USA loses to the WNBA quote

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unquote All Stars with Caitlin and Angel, that's going to
be one hell of a storyline and we will be
talking about it O night. Do I think that's gonna happen?
Probably not, But I want to see what's going to
happen because I've been a watch, which is more than
you can say for the Major League Baseball All Star Game.
After Paul Scheme's left, he has, you know, a great start,

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Shohyotani hits a ball nine hundred feet, But what was
the story those goofy jerseys. It's just there's no there's
no teeth in these games. There's no tension in these games.
Right coming up, I'm going to set up the midnight
Hour topic. The calls have been just superb for the

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past several months, and I expect they will be tonight
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine to nine six six three six ' nine. I'll
set those topics up because, as I said, in twenty
two minutes from where I sit here in Las Vegas.
It will in fact be twelve midnight. Literally the clock

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will say twelve midnight. We have listeners and callers from
around the world. Gentlemen has been calling in every week
from Australia. We have callers from Ireland, Japan and all
around the country, so figuratively in those areas it'll be
twelve midnight and twelve minute hours. He kind of got
the last word. We'll have kind of a three part
topic and I look forward to getting folks thoughts tonight,

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and of course we'll bring the crew in as well.
With with Bree and Mark and Kevin. I'm Bernie Fraddle.
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From where you sit, it might be twelve midnight. Figuratively,
it'll be the midnight hour. Look to get your calls.

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Eight seven seven nine nine, six six ' three six ' nine.
All right, I'm already on record the w NBA All
Star Game five point thirty Pacific time on Saturday night, Bree,
will you be watching?

Speaker 10 (32:27):
I will be watching just to see Caitlin Clark and
Angel Reese like team up together. I think that's going
to be a really fun watch for sure.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Agree that alone, right there is ninety percent of the draw.
But it's not just that, because I also think that
this will be a hotly contested game, because some of
those young ladies that are not on the Olympic team
maybe believe they should have been, and here's their chance
to prove it. Kevin figures, will you be watching the

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All Star Game Saturday night?

Speaker 9 (32:58):
You know, Bernie, most likely not.

Speaker 11 (33:00):
It's not going to be appointment viewing for me.

Speaker 9 (33:01):
But I'll say this, I don't necessarily have a lot
in the pipeline schedule for Saturday. So if I'm around
and there's nothing else going on, I'll flip it on.
But I'll answer it by saying it's not necessarily appointment
viewing for.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Me, and that's fair. I appreciate that. I appreciate your candor,
But how about the outcome or any potential storylines might
be that Might that be something that will get your
curiosity after the game, you want to take a look
see you to find out what happened.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
For sure, Like I'd like to believe, or like to
hope that there is a competitive fire within Caitlin Clark
that you'd want to go out and try to drop
forty or something on the USA team just to say, hey,
you know, I should have made the team.

Speaker 11 (33:38):
I know she's not.

Speaker 9 (33:38):
She says all the right things, but you know there's
a competitor in there somewhere. So I like to believe,
or like to hope that she would try to come
and try to put an example out there and show
people I deserve as much as anybody to be on
the team. Whether she actually does or does, and we
can discuss that, but I would think I would love
to see that sort of aspect so that's a major
storyline that I would hope to come out of it.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
And I agree with everything you just said that and
I would even take it a step further. I think
she wants to be on the team that wins, as
does Angel Reese, and so that'll be I think the
prevailing line. But also, you know, Mike Angelies get another
double double my Caitlin Clark have one of those nights,
you know, where you get off the bus and the
hoop looks like the ocean and you're just, you know, drinking.
So again, these are all things will be anticipating, Mark Ramsey.

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Will you be watching the w NBA All Star Game?

Speaker 12 (34:24):
Kevin took my word. It's not appointment. Watching the game
is not fast enough for me. I will only worry
about watching highlights. I'm not gonna sit and watch the game.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Fair enough, but you will watch the highlights.

Speaker 12 (34:37):
I want to see what Caitlyn did.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Okay, this is exactly where I thought we'd be going
with this. And later in the show, obviously there was
big news involving the WNBA and the media write steel
that they're about to receive. I'll give you the details
at the one am hour Pacific four a m. Eastern.
There's a real storyline there. And look, this is a

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that's lost money twenty six years in a row. But
for the grace of God and the deep pockets of
the NBA, they exist. Let's just be honest. All of
a sudden, this year, there have been sixteen games where
north of one million viewers watched just a regular season game.
The game a couple of nights ago involving the Fever

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was one point seven million fans. All of those sixteen
games fifteen involved Indiana Fever fans or check that involved
Indiana Fever games. Well, guess who plays for the Indiana Fever.
She's in the All Star Game along with the Double
double Machine, Angw Reese. So they've been rivals. I don't
really don't think Adrian Reese likes her, but tomorrow they're
going to be teammates, and Injuries even said last week

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she says she thought it'd be really cool to play
with her, So those two decide. I don't think the
disparity is that big between the All Stars and the
USA team. I don't. And then a one game affair
and anything can happen. So the first question I'm going
to have for the callers midnight at eight, seven, seven,
nine to nine on Fox is will you be watching

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the All Star Game? And the reason I asked that
is because all Star games anymore are boring. They suck.
There just isn't any drama, There isn't any real competition.
No one cares. The NBA game is a glorified practice.
The NFL Pro Bowl is a complete fagazy it's an embarrassment.

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And the NHL is just a sort of the skills competition.
There's no goaltending, there's no checking, there's no fighting. And
as I mentioned, baseball my sport, I got a bit.
No one cares like they used to. The jerseys were brutal,
they used to be the novelty. See them line up.
So will you even be watching? That's number one? Number two,
This is an honest question because all Star Games were events,

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they were congregations. They were larger than life, you know,
sort of viewing opportunities to get the world's greatest on
one stage. That's how the Major League Baseball All Star Game,
which was the first of all the All Star Games,
started back in nineteen thirty three at the Chicago World's
Faring in the city of Chicago because a writer by
the name of Archward of the Chicago Tribune wrote a

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letter and said, let's host this All Star game. Let's
see if we can get the leagues together. It was
in the midst of the depression. We'll cheer people up.
It'll be a great event. It was only supposed to
be a one time deal. It evolved into the Midsummer Classic.
It was a huge I've covered one All Star game
and I've been to three. Now it's lost its luster tremendously.
Even the home run Derbies jumped the Shark. So the

(37:36):
one game where they play defense, even it's kind of boring.
I thought the game was kind of boring the other
night after Paul Schemes left. It just was and everybody's
kind of smiling and they're talking to guys. It's not
a major league competition. So the question is I have
The second part of the question is have all star
games jump the Shark? Are all Star games cooked? You

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may watch the WNBA All Star Game, but if Caitlin
Clark and Ajer Rees weren't in it, I bet you wouldn't.
So we will be watching Saturday night. Number one. Number
two are all Star games of all you know of
the four major sports? Are they cooked? Have they jumped
the shark? Are they even worth having anymore?

Speaker 13 (38:17):
You know?

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Is an appointment watching? Or do you even care? And
then The Athletic, which is a terrific publication, did a
survey about a week ago. Which league has the worst
All Star Game? I like to hear from you. Which
are the four leagues? I'm not counting the WNBA here, NFL, NBA,

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Major League Baseball, NHL? Which league has the worst All
Star Game?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
So?

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Will you be watching Saturday Night? Number two? Do all
Star games serve any fruitful purpose anymore? And do we
have a situation where they've simply jumped the shark and
lost their luster and you just don't care? Or two
gimmicky and three for your money, which of the four
games is the worst? Now? That was really interesting. What

(39:06):
I really caught my eye about this survey that the
Athletic did was two of the four sports compiled ninety
two percent of all votes, the other two wopping eight percent.
And I would have been wrong. I would have thought
the least worst of the All Star games was was different?

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And I'll share that with you. So will you be
watching the All Star Game WNBA All Star Games Saturday Night?
Have All Star Games jumped the shart? Are they cooked?
And which of the four is the worst? Eight seven, seven,
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Star Games Saturday? Have All Star Games jump the shark?

Speaker 7 (40:37):
In?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Which of the four major sports of those All Star
games is the worst in your opinion? You got it?
It's time. It's the midnight hour.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Start right now, the midnight hour.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
All right, the callers are what make this You've been
nothing short of sensational the seven and a half months
we've been doing this, and I expect nothing different tonight
eight seven seven nine six six three six nine. Please
be patient, nobody gets shut out. We go to Kansas
City to start things off. Steve, Welcome to the Bernie
Frittle Show. Get us started tonight.

Speaker 14 (41:15):
All right, vernon, Vernie, We're gonna get start a leadoff spot.
I'm trying to get a cooking here. You know, we've
truly reached a status of equality in the USA when
our overpaid female millionaires are just as lazy as our
overpaid male millionaires basketball players. I was watching Caitlin Clark

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eating popcorn while watching the three point contest, and Sabrina
iron Escu will not be playing was not playing as well,
So I will be certainly watching tomorrow night because of this.
This coach for our national team.

Speaker 15 (41:59):
Coach wanted to talk about Caitlin Clark, that she was
in the trenches with Caitlin Clark and then't like basically
said that she didn't like how she reacted. So I
would just I would just give the ball to kitl
and have her put up about forty or fifty. I
would have Caitlin shoot about twenty threes against these old girls,

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and they was had their jealous and they resent the
fact that they're not getting the money that Caitlyn and
Angel are getting right now, and then they need to
be put back and they're putting these old old brogs
need to be put back in their plays. It's a
simple circle of life. It's simple, as simple as that.
And the ratings are going to be through the roof.
That's great, that's fantastic. I think the worst the worst

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All Star games.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Boy, I tell you this is this is this is
a tough snifty to fifty.

Speaker 15 (42:50):
The NBA All Star Game and the NFL Flag Football Game.
I mean, there's no distinction between between the two. I
mean I really can't. I really can't tell you which
which is which is worse. But I'll give it to
the NBA just because there they don't play any defense
at all, and in the NFL at least try and

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do a.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Little Yeah yeah, before that, it's stunk.

Speaker 15 (43:19):
Well, what was the other question? What was Well?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Real quickly, because I want to get to all the call, Steve,
do you think you've reached a point where All Star
games have simply jumped the sharp or they cooked?

Speaker 15 (43:29):
Well, you know, I want to see I know this
may be controversial, and I you know, I want to
see the end the Major League Baseball go back to
the World Series format. I want to see home field advantage.
I want to see stakes. I would be okay with
the NBA Finals being a home game with the all

(43:51):
the or USA versus the World. You need to change
formats you need there you go.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
You're on some well, thank you, thank you, Steve. Good call.
That's something we're going to discuss in a future show.
There are formats a USA versus the World in both
baseball and basketball has been suggested, but for now, this
is what we got. Andre from Massachusetts, you're up next.
What are your thoughts on these questions?

Speaker 16 (44:17):
How are you doing? Bernie?

Speaker 17 (44:18):
Thanks so much for taking the call.

Speaker 18 (44:19):
Listen.

Speaker 17 (44:19):
I'm going to be locked in for the WNBA All
Star Game, first of all, because I do appreciate the
format team USA versus World. I'm interested to see Caitlin
Clarks kind of maybe show some of the veteran players
give them their come uppence because her statistics have been
really the equivalent of some of these veteran guards.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Right.

Speaker 17 (44:39):
Originally, I thought that, you know, leaving her off Team
USA only was appropriate because there is kind of a
pecking order and a lot of times players don't make
the team until they're in their mid twenties. But Kaitlan
clark statistics are really the equivalent and better and some
of the players on Team USA. So I like to
see that back and forth.

Speaker 13 (44:58):
I'm interested.

Speaker 17 (44:59):
I have in terms of the worst All Star Games,
the previous caller really laid it out, and the NBA
takes the crown simply because it's it's literally lay up lines.
They play absolutely no defense. There's more defense Bernie in
the Rico Hines UCLA runs that to take place in
the summer in California than there is in the NBA

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All Star Game, which is an absolute miscarriage of justice
because it's the All Star Game and such event. That's
what really brought the NBA back in the eighties under
the leadership of David Sterns, and the fact that the
players don't even have not only the common sense, but
the decency frankly to like compete and make it a
reasonably good game for the fans.

Speaker 15 (45:38):
It's out of this world.

Speaker 17 (45:39):
For football, it's not as bad because they're running from
you know, it's not running, but the fear of injury,
the CTE, you know, and the fact that they never play.
That's really the reason why they had to go to
flag football, just because the theory of contact forced them
to the NBA. They're just flat out insensitive, inconsiderate.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Real quickly, Andre, have All Star games in general outlive
their useful life.

Speaker 17 (46:05):
At this point, Bernie, I have to say no because
you know, I'm not young like I used to be.
But as a kid, an All Star Game it's like
sand lots. It's a really big deal. So for those
fans that are coming up that next generation, they're indispensable.
That's what really ties them in and forms those connections
so that they have to remain. It's just the NBA.

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You know, they've they've they've rested on their laurels.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Appreciated, Buddy, good call, Thank you, Andre, Mike from Modesto
return caller. What are your thoughts tonight?

Speaker 19 (46:40):
A great show is always Barnie. Women's basketball. I just
don't care. I'm sorry, I don't see.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Just so I know on the record, so you will
not be watching Saturday night, correct, I.

Speaker 19 (46:52):
Will not want Okay, okay, All Star games are crap now.
They really are what destroyed the baseball all the fact
of the bad uniforms. They trying to make it gimmicks,
like the problem is when they made Inner League play,
you took the novelty at it.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
The true, very true.

Speaker 19 (47:14):
The greatest thing about the All Star Game is it's
the only time, besides the World Series you saw those
great players face each other. Who could ever forget when
John Cruk saw Randy Johnson for the first time, And
now it's just no big deal. They play in their
league play, we see him play each other. So it's
just another game with bad uniforms now, not even there,

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not even their team uniforms. Okay, football, that's the worst.
I mean, it's down the flag football now. I quit
watching when they had that great idea to move the
Pro Bowl ahead of the Super Bowl so the top
four teams wouldn't participate anymore, that's correct, And now we're
playing flag football. It's all horrible.

Speaker 13 (47:59):
Burn.

Speaker 19 (48:00):
I think they should just stop, either fix it or
stop and they'll never stop fixed baseball because of the
novelty of airy play and the money they're making. So
no matter what they do the All Star Game, it
will never ever be the shame. Now that's a shame.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Thank you right, great stuff outstanding, Mike, see bringing it tonight,
Jim for Massachusetts. Always look forward to what you got
to say. You never pull punches and you've got the floor.

Speaker 20 (48:29):
First of all, Bernie, I am definitely gonna be watching
the the WNBA team USA an All Starde game because
you're gonna stop watching a basketball game and then a
hockey game is gonna break out. Those girls got something
to prove, and I believe Angel Reese and Kate wincolok
A're gonna put their well let's say animosity aside toward

(48:51):
each other and they're gonna do some pick and rolls
and blind pass. They're gonna make them girls look foolish,
and it's gonna get testy, and then it's gonna get ugly,
and I'm gonna love every minute of it, you know.
So that's what I think is going to happen there
as fire as all the All Star Games goes. After
watching that NBA All Star Game, they're the worst. Come on,

(49:11):
let's just scrap that and everything. And then the All
Star Game for baseball. Why would I want to watch
grown men playing in pajamas. I don't understand that.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Those jerseys are on sale for one hundred and ninety
four bucks. You too could be the proud ounner. Go ahead, Jim, Yeah,
I mean, come on, it's a bowling league, beer jerseys.
What it is?

Speaker 20 (49:35):
I know exactly so. But the thing is, you know
in the NFL game, you know they're doing flag football
now and stuff like that. I agree with your previous call.
When I was a kid, I used to like to
watch that stuff. But that's when they really cared and
they really put it into it because they know the
fans were watching and everything. But now they make so
much money and there's so much wary about getting a hurt.

(49:59):
I think you just should scrap all the stuff. But
I just can't wait for that WNBA All Star Game
that I'm telling you. I hope they have the best
rest in the league working now on because that one's
gonna be you know, Testy, and I think those girls
Caitlin Cock and Reese and that's crowd. They're gonna lay
down the hammer and say, hey, you know what, there's

(50:20):
a new generation in town.

Speaker 21 (50:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Yeah, Well, let me tell you all right, great stuff
is always Jim appreciated, appreciate the candor. I'm not gonna lie.
I'm rooting for the Clark Reese duo to upset this
Olympic team so they can head to Paris knowing that
they lost to the girls that were not picked. Do
I think that's gonna happen? Probably not, But that's why
I'm watching, because I believe it could. Eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

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six six, three sixty nine. We're gonna continue with the
midnight hour. No one gets shut out. We want to
hear your calls. Will you be watching the WNBA All
Star Game Saturday night? In general, have all Star games
jumped the shark? Not that they're going to cancel them,
but they're just blase. And of course, which of the
four is by far the worst? Trevor and Poppy, You're
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Midnight hour callers have been great eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six nine, eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Are you gonna watch the w NBA
All Star Game Saturday Night? Have all Star games in general?

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Jump to Shark and of the four major sports, which
All Star game do you believe is the worst? Back
out to the phones, Trevor from Sherwood. Now is that Sherwood, Oregon? Trevor?

Speaker 6 (52:41):
That is correct, Bernie is Northwest. You got the floor,
my friend, welcome in also known as spoxweeds.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Oh drinking on? What are you drinking to night? Man?
Real quickly? What are you drinking?

Speaker 15 (52:54):
Were having?

Speaker 6 (52:55):
We're having a large shot of bush mis Irish whiskey
and a Foster's back, a little boilermaker actions tonight.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
There you go, nicely done, summer day. Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
So the first thing I want to say is your
first caller from Kansas City definitely is wearing a wife beater.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
You're listening to Ben mallardson and night. Are you what
I invoked at with Adam Auslim? Okay, it's all good,
it's all We're all one big happy family.

Speaker 15 (53:26):
Here.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Are you going to watch the game Saturday night?

Speaker 6 (53:31):
I'm gonna, I might in a different way. What I'm
going to do is I'm going to record it because
I'm probably going to watch something else like the British Open.
I know you I supposed to say the British Open,
but that and then later on when there's not anything
like that might supersede the w n B A. I

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am interested in seeing how Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese
cooperate and if they're in frenemies too much to win,
or if they're really good competitors. So that's that's where
how I'm gonna work it.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Well fair enough so that counts as yes, you're gonna
because you're curious about the outcome, and I want to
see who wins the game. I want to see if
these All Stars can give the Olympic team and they're
come up. It's like Jim in Massachusetts said, all right,
so in general, have all All Star games jumped the shark?
And which of the four is the worst? Oh?

Speaker 6 (54:24):
Absolutely, they've jumped the shark. I mean they've done They've
dumbed it down to the point where it's it's it's
not what you're tuning in for. And now they have
a chance to experiment year by year though. I mean, imagine,
say the everybody's complaining about the uniforms for the email B,
what if they decided to make the uniforms the brat

(54:47):
you know, Speedo Onesie and imagine Alex poolholst In one
of them.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Just I just threw over my mouth. By the way,
for what it's worth, this got so much attention that
Rob manfred is uh is considering going back to just
game jerseys. I think that's gonna gather somnum. But that's
a conversation for a different day. Which are the four
is the worst? In your view?

Speaker 6 (55:10):
Which is it's it's basketball? I mean, it's just well,
it's just people chucking up threes. And what they need
to do is they need to change the rules to
make it more competitive. Take away the three?

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Take away something, Oh, that's you know what, that's not
a bad idea. Great stuff, my man, hold it down,
enjoy your beverages, and don't keep behind the wheel, which
I know you will not do. Poppy, what's happening at Poppy?

Speaker 22 (55:37):
Hey, Bernie's right here midnight? Ever, let's go great.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
You're gonna watch the game Saturday night, Poppy.

Speaker 22 (55:44):
Well, you know what, I was gonna do a lot
of comparison watching the game. When I was younger and
I would play basketball with my kids, with my friends,
we would play basketball in the street and we're like, hair,
he's gonna watch the All Star Game and I'm like, yeah,
I want to watch Michael Jordan's Oh what do you
think it's gonna do against Kobe the rookies? It's short, Quoby,
who do you think? Like we were talking it was
before the internet. We were interested in seeing the game,

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you know who's gonna win, and we would talk about
we were interested. And now the All Star game, you know,
like for the man's like not very interested, they don't
want to play the game. But for me and now
was a grown up. For the w NBA, I'm not
really interested. But on the betting wise, I am interested
in who was.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Okay, they're gonna cover the spread. The five and a
half is the live He's gonna cover the five and
a half.

Speaker 22 (56:27):
Yeah, I think they will because you know Clark and
Angel Rees and there's another All Star in the w NBA.
They didn't get selected for Team USA. They're angry, they're hungry,
and Team you say, is probably gonna be playing hard
the first half. In the second half, that's when Clark's
gonna blow off Angel Reves and it's gonna get banana.
So I think five and a half that will cover Bernie.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
You take the dog here, all right? Have all Star
Games jumped the shark.

Speaker 22 (56:51):
Yeah, they've done the time. Like I said earlier, you know,
they're really not not interesting. Doesn't doesn't catch myself. But
I think I have a suggest how this get better?
Which one's the worst? The NFL flag football. I used
to be a coach shot in San Diego black football,
and I think they should have the kids. I was
watching Bernie ESPN. I was watching these women play flag football,

(57:11):
which is the future for our youth, and maybe they
shouldn't have like the kids the man the boys and
you know the girls with the adults like Max Krogby
be a captain and some players playing with these kids.
I think they'll be more interesting, especially since the flag
football games in Las Vegas do a little bit change
and have the kids like the top nice and wide.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
All right, you enjoy your weekend. We will put that
in the suggestion box. My friend, you heard Poppy, He's
give some good bets on the show. He said, take
the points, take the five and a half points. We'll
see if Poppy is correct. The mundo The Midnight Hour
just simply would not be complete without the comedic stylings
of Manuel and Guardina. Manuel Capassa.

Speaker 16 (57:56):
Faction came in the chain we like. I love that song, Bernie,
and I know you can appreciate this because our favorite
PBA bowler, Roy Munson, walk like a super soart grabbing

(58:16):
a pizza off of somebody else's plate. Oh God, bless him.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Right, I gotta tell you that maybe Woody Harrelson's best.
You know, listen, I don't want to get too off
with a tangent here, but I've always said bowlers are
the best athletes. And because you know why, they can
drink a beer, eat a hot dog, and smoke a
cigarette while they're doing the sport. It doesn't affect him.
Give Lebron a beer while I was trying to drive

(58:41):
the lane, right you give give ay Rod? Give a
Rod a cigarette in his mouth while he's trying to
turn on a slider, right right. Give Wayne Gretzky a
hot dog when he's trying to beat the gold. He
ain't gonna happen, Roy Munson, Ioway stay champion in nineteen
seventy nine, my friend, go.

Speaker 16 (58:56):
Ahead, that's right, hey, and Lebron and he wouldn't take
a beer. He would take like one of those red
wines or something like it did on the bench back
in the day. Say so, as far as the All
Star Games, they have definitely jumped the shark to the
point that I think I saw Pinky Tusca, Daryl and.

Speaker 13 (59:15):
The Girl.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Reference get out here.

Speaker 22 (59:21):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 16 (59:22):
Are you gonna, by the.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Way, you're gonna watch the game before I forget I
got to know, man, you're gonna watch the gamest I.

Speaker 16 (59:27):
Mean, I don't know, he replied, Hey, nah, man not,
you couldn't pay me to watch that garbage. And you
know what, as far as like I think our guy
bring it Home to Rome from Tennessee said it best.
The problem is the money, Bernie. You know, none of
these guys give a ratsass about these exhibitions, albeit an

(59:50):
All Star game. The money's too good. These guys would
rather have their week in Cancun for their week or
just R and R, so it'll never be the same.
The one that is the biggest sham, he's just the
flags football. Are you skating to me?

Speaker 22 (01:00:10):
Flash football? I mean, if I.

Speaker 16 (01:00:13):
Wanted to watch flag football, go to the local junior
high you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
So that's all I got for Well, I gotta tell you, man, Well,
one last thing, and by the way, good good, good stuff.
Uh Manuel, as always. You know Roy Munson, he lost
his hand when they stuck it in the ball returned.
That's a fugazy you. I stuck my hand in the
ball return once and I didn't lose my hand.

Speaker 16 (01:00:34):
Hey, thank God for that, because I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Really didn't do that. But but I got to tell
you something, Manuel. Next time, we're gonna talk about ishmael Bord,
my favorite character played by Randy Quaid. Okay, dude, head game, dude,
head game. Man. If you folks don't know what we're
talking about, then get your ass over to watch Kingpin somewhere.
Renn it do something. Let's squeeze in one more bend

(01:00:57):
from Australia. Good to hear from you.

Speaker 13 (01:00:59):
Ben.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
How's that everything down there peeling well?

Speaker 23 (01:01:02):
Mate?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
How about yourself doing wonderful? I might even have some
Tim Tams Leader as a snack.

Speaker 19 (01:01:08):
Hey, treat yourself, made, treat yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
That's right. You only live once or maybe I don't know.
All right, my friend, are you going to watch the
game the WNBL I'm like, I'm like.

Speaker 23 (01:01:20):
The other guys, mate, I watched the highlights of it. Okay,
see what happens because all Star games are all star games.
But at least this one has got something to play for. Yes,
so there'll be a little bit of a little bit
of bite in the contest, which will make it worth watching,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
But in general, do you think all Star games have
kind of outlived their life?

Speaker 23 (01:01:43):
Yeah, they're done. I mean you look at play with
the free player movement between conferences and divisions and everything else.
There's no no loyalty to your own division, so making
that once upon a time it would have been meant
something to play for the NFC or the AFC and
the Pro Bowls, but now everyone's jumping around between constances

(01:02:04):
and divisions and everything else. Yes, it just doesn't mean
as much. And they're all paid way too much and
nobody wants to risk an injury.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
That's all true, all true. Wait on one last thing, Ben,
one last thing, which of the four games do you
think is the worst?

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
Uh? To coin flip?

Speaker 23 (01:02:26):
The playing the NBA in the NFL? All right, thank
you crap each other in their damn hot to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Yep, I'm an agreement. All right, you take care down there, band,
appreciate you, Bud and uh and uh I think you
checked every box in terms of his description, Uh, Kurt,
you're going to be next. Uh, We're going to take
more calls eight seven, seven, nine nine sixty six three
six nine. I will reveal the results of this, uh

(01:02:54):
of this poll, that this survey that the Athletic did
as to which league has the worst All Star Game?
And we got to get the crew in as well,
get their thoughts. Are they're gonna watch Saturday night, which
they've already answered, but have all Star games? Are they cooked? Now?
They kind of jumped the sharp, Not that they're gonna
be canceled, but are they cooked? And which of the
four is the worst. But first, let's go to our guy,

(01:03:16):
Kevin Figure, who mollywops his updates.

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
Yes, sir, thank you, Bernie will toss starbarts in Major
League Baseball from Friday night. Dodgers certainly did not mollywop
the Red Sox, but they did pick up a four
to one victory, Freddy Freeman in the bottom of the
eighth inning, hitting the grand Slam that would end up
being the eventual game winner. LA had lost six of
its previous seven games headed into the All Star break.
Hunter Brown pitted six scoreless innings for Houston. They defeated

(01:03:42):
Seattle three and nothing and now have a half game
lead in the American League West. Bobby Witt Junior a
home run for the Royals in a seven to one
victory over the White Sox, Corbyn Burns getting his tenth
win of the season for Baltimore. They beat up Texas
nine to one. The Guardians with a seven to nothing
victory over the Padres. Jose were miras to RBI there
four hits for Juan Soto as the Yankees defeated Tampa

(01:04:02):
Bay six to one and Detroit Pittsburgh in Arizona also
picking up victory. Shane Lowry and Golf a two stroke
lead to the first couple of rounds of the Open Championship.
Third round action set to get underway in about thirty
minutes or so from now, with people at the bottom
of the standings beginning their rounds. Scotty Scheffler's five strokes
back Tiger Woods and Roy McElroy missed the cut. News
out of the NFL, the Ravens signed former Pro Bowl

(01:04:24):
safety Eddie Jackson.

Speaker 11 (01:04:25):
To a one year contract. All right back to Bernie Freddle.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
All Right, thanks Kevin eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine eight seven. Fox The Minnight Hour
rolls on. Will you be watching the WNBA All Star
Game Saturday night? Yes, there is a storyline, There are
actually multiple storylines. In general, have All Star games perhaps

(01:04:49):
jumped the shark no longer serve a fruitful purpose? I'm
not saying they're gonna cancel him or should they, but
just my thoughts and which of the four is the worst?
Back to the phones, Kurt in Southern California. Welcome in again, Kurt.
How are you.

Speaker 13 (01:05:03):
Hello, Barn?

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
How you doing?

Speaker 13 (01:05:08):
As for the four All Star Games.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
The different leagues?

Speaker 13 (01:05:12):
Yep, it would be to me, it would be like
being in an elevator with four people they all have
bad gas, and asking which one is worse?

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Take off from one of my analogies a couple of
weeks ago. Yeah, Look, they're not entertaining anymore, although they've
kind of they kind of hold us hostage because we
find ourselves watching them. Are you going to watch the
w NBA game Saturday night?

Speaker 20 (01:05:37):
Though?

Speaker 13 (01:05:38):
Yes, and hopefully yes if I have the opportunity. And
I think that Reee and Clark they should be laying
five and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Well, it's a pretty stack that. The USA team's pretty
stacked with a lot of championships. It's a it's a
four quarter game, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:05:59):
Sports should be played on merits and production, not on
politics and money. Anyway, getting back to the four all
star leagues, the NHL, I think should play with plastic
sticks and pucks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Which are the four is the worst.

Speaker 13 (01:06:19):
Probably the NBA, which should probably go back to half
court and play with a NERF ball and the nerf net.
I think we're now then. I think the NFL should
play with nerf balls and breakaway pajamas in bubble wrap.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
I think the NFL should play full contact with no pads.

Speaker 13 (01:06:39):
Yeah, and in Major League Baseball should play with whistle
balls and whistle bats belcral mixed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
That's right, all right. We know the commissioners are all listening,
so I wouldn't be surprised if they adopt some of
those ideas. Good stuff is always cood. Appreciated Man Glenn
from him California joins us. Good evening, glenho are you
I'm fine?

Speaker 21 (01:07:04):
Thank you for taking my call. I think the NFL
is probably the worst because they have no contact. They
should have contact in the in the All Star Game. Yeah,
just like to have contact in the Major League baseballers
should have contact in the All Star Game for NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Remember when Pete Rose crashed into Ray Fosse? Oh yeah,
can you imagine anything like that? Even Henck remotely happening today?
Different world than my friend. All right, will you be
watching Saturday night? That's really the key question. I believe
the WNBA has something to offer Saturday Night, replete with
lots of storylines. Will you be watching?

Speaker 18 (01:07:44):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:07:44):
I will.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
And what would be the primary draw? Is it Caitlin Clark?
That'll be the primary draw? Is that it?

Speaker 13 (01:07:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
All right? And which of the four do you think
is the worst?

Speaker 21 (01:08:00):
I think the NFL is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
All right, Thanks a lot, Glenn, appreciate your call to night, buddy.
All right, let's spill the beans eight seven, seven, nine, nine,
sixty six three sixty nine in a minute. I want
to get the crew in here. We've still got time
to get some more callers in. According to The Athletic,
the survey they conducted drum roll please, the NFL sixty

(01:08:23):
one percent checked in as the worst All Star game
from the respondents, The NBA second thirty one percent. So,
as I mentioned at the top of the hour, ninety
two percent of the votes were comprised between the NBA
and the NFL, and for obvious reasons, this surprised me,

(01:08:44):
though I would have thought that the least worst of
the four All Star Games would have been Major League
Baseball because they actually played defense. And if you can't
tell me digging in against Paul Schemes and that you
know he's facing you know, Aaron Judge and he's facing
a Gunner Henderson and he's facing Juan Soto, that was real.

(01:09:07):
They were trying. But in fact, the MLB, he got
five percent, is the worst All Star Game, and the
NHL only three percent. I would have had those backwards
I would have thought of before. The Major League Baseball
game is still watchable if you can not focus on
those Beer League Bowling jerseys. But look the Paul Skeins matchups,

(01:09:30):
the show heo tiny home run, there were some good
defensive plays. It's somewhat watchable, even though it's kind of
boring and it kind of flows the Pro Bowl, the
Schmo Bowl, that's what they call it in the Athletic Listen.
Sixty one percent of the respondent said it's by far
the worst. It's I understand the NFL his their hands
are kind of tied now. They've tried to tweak fourmats,

(01:09:52):
They've tried to introduce new features. Nothing sticks. There's no
way for a collision sport like the NFL in this
day age, with the money involved and the injuries and such,
to create a completely separate game and make players care
about it and play the way they would in a
real game. If they go to eighteen game season. Pro

(01:10:13):
Joe Burrow has suggested that they play the game in
mid season, right, I think you should do something involving
college all stars or something and do that. And maybe
if you're named to a Pro Bowl team, you have
in center to be named. You know, there's some financial incentive.
But and of course the NBA, they know their All
Star games sucks, so they wouldn't have created the n
season tournament that has actual stakes, has actual real money

(01:10:36):
and some pride. And how about those Lakers first ever
NBA team to hang a banner for the inn League
Tournament in season tournament which took place here in Vegas,
and hey, you can't can't knock it. It got tremendous
ratings and the players. I mean there was there was
kind of a playoff atmosphere to it. The thought is

(01:10:58):
the MLB is can considering implementing something like the n
Season Tournament. I don't know if they'll ever do it,
but you have some mid season stakes instead of like
an actual All Star game or a ron robin tournament
involving maybe a million dollars a player. They got to
do something right at a minute, we'll bring in the crew.
Is bringing the crew and get their thoughts on which

(01:11:21):
of the four is the worst of the All Star games?
And frankly, if we're being honest, has the concept of
an All Star Game and this year, in this man's
major league climate just simply gone the way to the
Dodo Bird. I mean, they're not going to cancel them.
I get it. They're profitable events, but from a fans standpoint,
it's not even a reasonable, in fact simile of what

(01:11:43):
the regular season games and certainly the playoff games are.
And it used to be, trust me, it actually really
used to be. There was a real pride factor. And
you know, one of the other callers brought up, there's
no more interleague play. There's a lot to be said
for that. There's a lot to be said for that.
When Bo Jackson gets in the bat the box against
that Lee Hammicker and hits a four er foot home
run to start the game in Anaheim, and those two

(01:12:04):
teams would never play unless it's the postseason. There was
real panache there. There was something there. By the way,
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Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, wrap it
up the midnight hour outstanding as always. Back out to
the phone lines. Paul from North Carolina. Paul, you're gonna
watch the w NBA All Star Game Saturday night.

Speaker 24 (01:13:12):
I'm sorry, Bernie here, I'm sorry, but my phone brought
up here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
You peta sure?

Speaker 13 (01:13:16):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
The first question? Will you be watching the w NBA
All Star Game on Saturday night?

Speaker 24 (01:13:22):
I will, Bernie. I run a restaurant, so I'll have
it on in my restaurant. I will think of my
undivided attention, but I'll certainly have it on in the restaurant,
which I would never have done prior to the season.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Great point. Great point, but there's broad based appeal now,
so it all starts. So did you have the Major
League Baseball All Star Game on Tuesday night in the restaurant?

Speaker 13 (01:13:40):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Absolutely.

Speaker 24 (01:13:41):
There wasn't many choices, so it was definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
And I would expect you to. But what's interesting is,
of the four major leagues, have all Star games jump
the Shark.

Speaker 24 (01:13:54):
Yeah, I think so, Bernie. I mean, you know, I
think that all the Major League Baseball All Star Game
is the only one that really has any Phenostionrially because
you know, a heavy NBA it doesn't compete against anything.
So it's really the only game in talent. So if
you're a sports fan, you watch the MLB All Star Game,
you don't watch anything, and I don't think that's necessarily
true for the other sports.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Paul sounds good. Appreciate you checking in. We do this
every Friday night at twelve midnight Pacific. Thank you for
your time. Doug in San Diego, will you be watching
the w NBA All Star Game on Saturday night?

Speaker 18 (01:14:29):
I wouldn't miss it for the world, Bernie.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Do take sarcasm? Do I have to take sarcasm?

Speaker 15 (01:14:36):
There's nothing else on.

Speaker 13 (01:14:39):
I'll give it a watch, no question about it.

Speaker 18 (01:14:41):
And I'll tell you what though, the All Star games,
whatever sport, have degenerated into a joke. I remember when
the Pro Bowl was cool in the early nineties. Why
there was one game Pro Bowl. I was in Buffalo.
Steve Casker got the MVP, blocked the field goal, returned

(01:15:02):
to puntford touchdown. The guy was a god and he
was going full boar. Everyone in that game was going
full boar and admitted something to these guys. Now it
doesn't mean anything, and that's a problem. Frankly, I don't
even know if they should have them anymore. Frankly, the
Baseball All Star Game most bored me to death.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Uh, like he says every year kind of it was
kind of boring, you know.

Speaker 21 (01:15:25):
And I don't know which is the worst of.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
The four the final question, which is the worst of
the four?

Speaker 21 (01:15:33):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (01:15:33):
Oh uh, I wouldn't say the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
That's that's the one.

Speaker 18 (01:15:40):
You know, at least they score a lot of points.
But it's just so it's just frank I just can't
even watch the NBA All Star Game. I won't even
bother watching.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
All right, thanks for checking in, appreciate it, and uh,
you know, look over the people can google this. But
over the years, uh, there have been players hurt in
the uh in the Pro Bowl. I think Miles Garrett
got hurt a few years ago and it's till injury

(01:16:10):
bothered him for the remainder of the year. And there
was a wide receiver where I think hurt both knees
because is his uh feet got caught in the turf. Whatever.
But anyway, all right, let's let's get the crew involved here,
all right, Brie. Let's start with you, I know, you
mentioned you will watch the game Saturday night, But in general,
have All Star games jumped the shark? And which of

(01:16:30):
the in your view is the worst of the four.

Speaker 10 (01:16:33):
I definitely think they've jumped this shark. I also think
just because like the increase of social media, we see
these athletes all the time just doing their random podcasts
on the side and posting all these things and these
little clips, and I don't know, I felt like the
All Star Game was like a cool way to kind
of see what, you know, different players' personalities and how
they interacted with each other. And now it's just not

(01:16:55):
really like a big deal, Like you just see them
interact all the time, like on you know, just during
like the off season and different things like that. So
I think that's kind of why they're just not as
like a big deal. I think the NFL is the
worst one, probably because I have a soft spot for
the NBA, so I'll always be like a little bit
more interested. But the NFL is the worst one for
sure because flag football, I think is just an embarrassment.

(01:17:18):
There's just no point, like just cancel the whole thing
at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
And that's the one that got the most vote. Sixty
one percent. Kevin figures your thoughts on this matter.

Speaker 9 (01:17:28):
Yeah, all star games have jumped to shark, I think majorly,
really for the same reason why a lot of regular
season ratings in mini sports. I said the NFL, I
guess in college football are kind of monolists to a
certain degree. Everybody attaches meaning to to everything in these days,
and if you don't win championships, or if you're not
working towards winning a championship, then nothing else that you
do matters. So the antithesis of competing for a championship

(01:17:50):
is any sort of all star game or exhibition. So
the game doesn't matter to the players, the game is
certainly not going to matter to the fans. So I
think that is as big of a reason as any
as to why there's a lack of effort and even
lack of participation for some of these A lot of
the guys just just bow out of the games that
don't participate to begin with, So I think that's part
of it. As far as which one is the worst,
a man, I can't tie the NFL and the NBA,

(01:18:13):
so I guess if I had to edge one over
the other, I would say the NFL because even when
the NFL did play tackle football, they really didn't play
tackle football. It was a great bastardization of what the
sport actually was. And you could say the same thing
about the NBA. It's a giant dunk fest, but it's
just not the way that football is played, where you
have defensive lineman who just stand up and don't even
rush the quarterback, and nobody really puts in half of

(01:18:34):
an effort to do anything. So the NBA and NFL
are equally bad, but I will give the nudge to
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
Yeah, and that bears that aligns with the survey in
the athletic Okay, Mark Rams, so you got the frontal ward.
I know you mentioned you it's not an appointment to watch.
Same with Kevin for the WNB All Star Game, but
you'll you'll take a peek. It's the final result.

Speaker 12 (01:18:55):
Maybe look at the highlights, maybe the highlights for the
most part, just to see what happened, just to see
what Caitlin Clark is that. But for them, I will
not watch because the women's game is a little bit
too slow for me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Okay, how about all Star games in general? The four majors,
you know, they've just gone the way to the Dodo
Birdie and they're not going to cancel them. But is
it forget it is they've jumped the shark.

Speaker 12 (01:19:17):
They've jumped the shark. They've jumped you know, they just
jumped the shark. Everything they're they're not good anymore because
the amount of competition has dropped. It seems like every
player in almost every you know game, they all know
each other. They maybe went to college together, they were
on the same teams together, so there's no sense of competition.

(01:19:37):
The competition is way down. Everybody so friendly. Nobody wants
to get the better of their friend and show their
friends up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
So that's a lot part of it.

Speaker 12 (01:19:45):
The competition is gone, which is.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
The exact opposite of the WNBA game Saturday, Which is why
I think it's got a chance to be very interesting
with a storyline that will bring with you Saturday night
real quickly. Mark, which of the four majors of all
Star games is the worst?

Speaker 12 (01:20:02):
Basketball is the worst?

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Okay? Interesting? So everybody, pretty much everybody was in agreement
that it was either in the NFL or the NBA,
But of the Athletic survey, the NFL got sixty one
percent of the vote. I think I know why they
don't even suit up in pads. And the NBA got
the other thirty one percent because well, come on, it's
just a I don't know what it is. It's a
it's an end season, it's a layup line. As someone

(01:20:27):
said earlier, one of the earlier callers, Well, the good
news is the TV money is flowing for the NBA
and the w NBA. Yeah, you're gonna want to hear this.
You listen to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
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the All Star Game Saturday night. One thing is sure,
the TV networks are coming with a bag man. Just
this last week, the NBA finalized TV deals with ESPN, NBC, Amazon,
And even though you didn't hear me mentioned TN T
TN T is still talking about matching. They have the

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right to match one of these deals. They're on the
outside looking at the moment. Look in the current agreement,
the one that just ended ESPN and TNT, they paid
a combined two point six billion and i'm basically a
nine year deal. This new deal that was ratified or

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I don't know if it's official yet, but it's an
eleven year deal worth up to seventy six billion dollars.
That's billion with a B. Now, we hear numbers banned
about sports, But let me just give you a little
perspective on the difference between say one million and one billion.

(01:22:35):
If you started to count to a million, one second
at a time, would take you twelve days. But if
you wanted to count to one billion with a B
one second at a time, that twelve days jumps to
thirty three years, twelve days, thirty three years. That's a
difference between one billion and one million. Well, the NBA

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and their network executives finalizing contracts that will make NBC
and Prime Video partners ABC ESPN the home of the
NBA Finals eleven years, seventy six billion dollars. Not elite
governors have to approve the agreements. Blah blah blah, and

(01:23:19):
T and T may still match. I don't know those details.
And in course everybody wants to know that because of
TNT Sports does not jump in. If they stand down,
the upcoming season will be the final season of you know,
Charles Barkley and all that stuff, and he said it
will retire. And even though all three networks will presume,

(01:23:39):
but that TNT Sports platform they had seem to get
a lot of viewers, you know, with Ernie Johnson and
Kenny the Jet Smith in shack. But I digress. Well,
guess what, guess what? Looky here. It was reported on
July sixteenth that the WNBA got a very nice media
rights deal of their own two point two billion over

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the next eleven years. Now, if that doesn't sound like
a lot to that's two hundred million a year their
prior TV contract was maybe fifty million, and that doesn't
begin to pay the bills. The WNBA has lost money
twenty six straight years to the tune of about ten
million a year, although this year, since they started to
fly charter thanks to the Kitlin Clark effect, they're poised

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to lose about fifty million this year. As long as
Santa Claus wants to keep writing checks, the league can
stay in business. But the WNBA's next national media rights
deal is coming into shape. They're set to receive two
point two billion over the next eleven years. Again, that's
two hundred million a year, and there's an there's actually

(01:24:49):
an opportunity to earn even more than that during that period,
according to some sources who were briefed on the specificity
of the contract. Now, the NBA negotiated those WNBA deals.
They just completed their rights talks which I just mentioned,
and they reached an agreement with Disney, NBC, Amazon. Again,

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the NBA did eleven years seventy six billion, But the
WNBA's national media rights agreement are also with those companies.
So you'll be seeing games over the next eleven years
on the WNBA. Regarding the WNBA, on ESPN, NBC, and Amazon.
They're all going to have their own WNBA packages. They

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better hope Kitlin Clark doesn't retire. But be that as
it may, I think the product's pretty good actually, as
long as we have something in this country that I
call the Canadian Football League syndrome. If people don't know
who's playing, and they don't understand their rivalry and who
to root for and who to hate, they don't watch.
But you're starting to get some a lot more name
recognition in the WNBA. The Kelsey Plumbs, the Asia Wilson certainly,

(01:25:54):
the Angel Reeses, and the Caitlin Clarks, and there are
many more too. So I guess it's my understanding that
the NBA's Board of governors did approve the media rights
deal the other day, but they're not official because Discovery,
who's the parent company of TNT, maintains that it has
matching rights for the NBA rights, but they haven't decided

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rather to exercise them yet. Now the NBA the adult
check that the WNBA's current media deal, as I just said,
is valued at only fifty million annually, so this new
one will be four times larger, but it doesn't kick
in until twenty twenty six. So if the WNBA gets
certain ratings, so I think the new media rights fees

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could have as much as a six times multiple. It
could grow even more than the fifty to two hundred
million that it is right now. And apparently they're not done.
They believe the WNBA believes it might be able to
sell to other rights packages in addition to the ones
they've already made agreements for that could bring in another
sixty million annually. Now you're cooking. That would really helped

(01:27:00):
the WNBA ride this wave because there has been increased interest,
there has been increased media spending across women's sports. The
NWSL they got a new media rights deal this year
that's supposed to pay two hundred and forty million over
four years, So that's sixty million a year. That's a

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big jump for them. And so look, the WNBA, this
is something that they needed very much, but I think
it's probably well earned considering how the game is marketed.
Now now they're starting to call it the w right
and people understand what that means. Listen, there's no way
I've been doing this long time. In sports talk radio,

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we ever talked about the WNBA but sports are a
microcossa for life. We don't have royalty in this country.
Our athletes and our entertainers are our royalty. And if
you witness the battles between LSU and IOWA the last
two years and the natural rivalry that was formed between
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark that is now graduated to

(01:28:04):
the w NBA strong comparisons to bird Magic. Don't want
to go that far, but I do think the comparative
analysis is apt, all right. So if you look at
the NWSL soccer, I think in this country by and
large has been more popular than women's basketball. They got
themselves a nice bag for them. The WNBA is going

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to exceed that, and I think it has a measure
of protection for the sovereignty in the league. Right So,
and here's the kicker. There's a belief that the WNBA
can continue to grow because if they do, there's a
clause in the contract that has that allows both sides,

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the media partners and the WNBA to revisit the deals
with good faith talks after three years if the league's
growth is such that those those TV deals need to
be repriced. So give it up to the NBA give
it up to the w n b A. They both
pulled in nice bags this week. And listen, let's face it,

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the NFL wasn't always this crazy, stupid popular. I think
you know, gambling has had a lot to do with that,
and fantasy football's had a lot to do with that,
and the product has always been sensational, and then league
markets and stars quite well. But I'll give you a
quick example just as a comparative. Okay, you said, you know,
things have changed so much now there are seven different
modalities that you'll be able to If you want to

(01:29:35):
watch all the games, you'll have to get you know,
you'll have to watch on ESPN, ESPN Plus, the NFL, Netflix,
Prime Video, Peacock, YouTube TV, as well as the three
major networks. Now not all theirs are free. As a
matter of fact, YouTube TV. If you say, I can't

(01:29:56):
miss any games, so you're gonna pony f seventy three
bucks for YouTube TV. That's seventy three a month, six
dollars a month for Peacock, fifteen for Prime Video, seven
for Netflix, eleven for ESPN Plus, and twenty two dollars
for NFL Plus' one hundred and thirty five dollars a month.
Multiply that times five months. If you want to watch

(01:30:18):
every NFL game this year and not miss any of
them for any reason, that's six hundred and seventy bucks.
You'll tender if you want to miss not miss any
NFL game. That's where we're at. And people will pay
it and people will watch it. And I you know,
I did a midnight hour last year during the playoff
game Kansas City and Miami. They put the thing on
a pay per view only well and I believe it

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was buppabob was a named Netflix or Amazon one of
the one of them paid for the rights. You had
to have it Amazon Prime, I think, and or maybe
just for that one game. I should have had my
notes in front of me, but I described this, but
use only six ninety nine and the network paid I
tink one hundred and ten million dollars for the rights
for that one game, that one playoff game, a playoff

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game between Kansas and Miami. And guess what they had,
like thirty million sales, So they spent one hundred and
ten million to get it, and they brought back one
hundred and eighty million. You do that a few times.
You have a pretty good day. Yeah, so this is
a real thing. The WNBA helps to satisfy our thirst
for competition and our attraction to royalty in this country

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because many of these WNBA players, the Asia Wilson's, the
Kelsey Plumbs, the Caitlin Clarks, the Angel Reeses, right on
down the line, and I'm leaving some names out but
you can't name them. All have become royalty. And look
the Indi Nfever. We're just here in Las Vegas at
Tmobile Arena. They do twenty thousand, three hundred and sixty

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six fans. That arena has been opened since twenty seventeen,
the home of a national NHL Stanley Cup champion team.
Multiple college basketball tournaments during March Madness have been played here.
Conference tournaments, the PAC twelve Tournament, et cetera. They played
the NBA's Final Four in the nd season tournament. No

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sporting event in seven years drew as much as the
Fever and Caitlin Clark come into town two weeks ago
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true story, the minif covered in official capacity, and many
I was just there as a fan, which means I
have sat through three thousand national anthems? Did you happen
to hear what happened to the national anthem the other night?
And Ingrid Andres became a household name. We'll chop it up.

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All right back in the Bernie Fottle Show, Fox Sports
Radio come to you live from me TAK dot com
studios here in Las Vegas. You know file this under
the headline. Perhaps there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Let's say you sang the national anthem didn't go so well.

(01:35:00):
Turned out, you might have had a few cream dements
in you. You apologized the Major League Baseball, the fans,
the whole nation. Young lady checked herself into a facility
to get the help she said she needs, but not
without benefiting somewhat. She picked up fifteen thousand Instagram followers
in one day, and SoundCloud told TMC that her plays

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on music have increased by fifty percent. Fortunately, we have
someone and our crew tonight that saw Ingrid Andres actually
perform in person opening up for why don't you tell
the story? Brie? Okay, call a story, Brie.

Speaker 10 (01:35:38):
So I went to go see Keith Urban at the
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, probably about four years four
years ago, right before COVID, so maybe like four and
a half years ago, and she actually opened up for Keith,
and I really liked her. She actually sang really good.
I actually almost thought she sounded better than Keith Urban,

(01:35:59):
which is kind of crazy. I was a little bit
more entertained, and I was obviously there to see him,
and so I was a kind of a fan of
her for a little while, Like I had like two
of her songs so on during the Hormun derby, I
didn't know it was her. So I'm like running, I'm
at work, running down the hallway, like.

Speaker 14 (01:36:21):
Who is that?

Speaker 10 (01:36:22):
Like I had no idea, Like I had no clue.
And then I was like that that sounds like a
TikToker or some kind of like social media chick. Like
I had no idea with her. And then when I
saw it on the TV, I like screamed, I'm like,
no way, Like so it surprised me a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
So I can imagine. No, I can imagine. And and
here's the thing. One of the reasons I wanted to
I wanted to reference this tonight because look, first of all,
I think she we're gonna throw her a hall pass
here right, as I said at the top of my shoulder,
and I it's not what happens. So how I react.
She's really kind of owned up to it. And it's

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not a funny matter and just one of those deals
you can't unring the bell. It's there in perpetuity. But
she's not the only one who didn't exactly uh light
it up. While doing the national anthem. One that comes
to mind, and this happened back in nineteen ninety three
and an an NBA game between the Bulls and the
New Jersey Nets before they were the Brooklyn Nets Olympic champion.

(01:37:25):
Carl Lewis gave it a whorl let's give it a.

Speaker 22 (01:37:27):
Listen for the rent.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
But we was with god it please street me.

Speaker 4 (01:37:40):
The locked threw the ballopylag was still.

Speaker 5 (01:38:01):
I'll make a pard down.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
She does that stars fan.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
Fan yet way.

Speaker 5 (01:38:17):
All the land.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
For the land up for free.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
And oh so the funny thing about that and the

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always gets me. Of course he was Carl Lewis, he
was Olympic champion and he kind of bailed himself out
sort of kind of right uh that night. Is Charlie
Steiner still doing play by play for the Dodgers. He's
still part of the Dodgers bro broadcast team.

Speaker 20 (01:39:08):
He is.

Speaker 9 (01:39:09):
He's had some health issues this year, so he has
not called any games as of yet. But the hope
is who returns to the booth. But technically, yes, he
is still the radio voice of the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Yes, thank you appreciate that. And the reason I asked
that is because that night on the ESPN Sports Center,
they replayed it a couple of times, and the funny
part was the camera panned to Charlie Steiner watching it,
and he's got his face in his hands. He is
laughing so hard. And if you ever met Charlie Steiner,

(01:39:37):
I don't say this something to draw a derogatory way,
because he's a pro. He's what maybe five to five,
and you know he's he likes us, he's likes he
likes his noth Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with that.
And I thought he was gonna fall off the chair
that night. And if it's out there on YouTube at all,

(01:39:57):
it's worth watching the Charlie stein ESPN Sports Center replay
of the Carl Lewis debacle. And Charlie Steiner had a
great line that night. He called him Francis Scott off key.
Of course, Grant's Scott. He broke the Star Spangled banner again,
Ingrid Andrews not the only one. Fergie had a bad

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All Star game in the NBA. She's sang the All
Star Game or she's saying the national anthem of the
All Star Game six seven years ago and it did
not go well. This is something you can YouTube, and
people have turned it into a mashup and made some remixes.
To me, the all time worst and it's not even funny.
It was Roseanne Barr, the Potterys and the Reds back

(01:40:40):
in nineteen ninety and again you can easily YouTube this.

Speaker 18 (01:40:45):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
It was kind of a disgrace. Carl Lewis was trying.
He just brutalized it, right, and Fergie, I think, you know,
try to add a little too much of her own
panache to it and it didn't work. And I think
Ingram Anders was trying, but Roseanne Barr kind of made
it into a kind of a parody joke and it

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wasn't real funny. And finally, another one of the all timers,
Steven Tyler. He's saying the national anthem at the Indianapolis
five hundred, many many many years ago, and this is
worth watching, not so much because he was terribly off
key or brutally off key. He was a rock star.
He had to add his own, you know, style to it.

(01:41:31):
But he changed the words. He kind of that kind
of breaks the rules, right, changing the words the national anthem.
If you're there to sing the national anthem, I think
kind of you change the word. I mean, you don't
change the words, do you? So again? You know, you
throw a little bit of a bone and throw a
lot a bit of a bone because she kind of
came clean. And the truth of the matter is, you know.

(01:41:53):
And by the way, how do I forget? I was
talking to Breoff Flavor Flav. He just did the Star
Spangled banner recently at an NBA game. I love Flavor Flave.
You're gonna You're gonna have to watch it. You're gonna
have to watch it. He's not known for his singing ability,
so he gave the national anthem a try, of course,
the greatest anthem of all time. No one can debate this.

(01:42:14):
Whitney Houston during Super Bowl twenty five, nineteen ninety one,
right after the Gulf Wars started. And you talk about
a soulful Marvin Gay. Look the reason I do Motown music.
I spent seventeen years there. I was born there, spent
many years in the media there. Look, motown music is

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is soulful, it's feel good, it's timeless. Everybody likes it.
Marvin Gay a legendary, you know, motown star. He gave
too much of a soulful version of the anthem at
the NBA All Star Game, and it's it didn't It
didn't go over. It didn't go over. Even Jimmy Hendricks
pulled one off, you know, a star spangle banner or

(01:43:00):
what do you call it, you know, national anthem. So
there's been there's been a lot of people that have
that have done this right. So you gotta give You
got to give Ingrid Andres some you know, some love.
If she was good enough to open up for Keith Urban,
then she's got some junk junking her trunk and she'll
be okay, she'll be I like the way she handed

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herself afterward. We're for giving country. We're a country second chances,
unless it comes to our soccer team coming out christophets
World of Soccer. But first we go back to our guy,
Kevin Figures with the latest.

Speaker 11 (01:43:33):
All right, Bernie.

Speaker 9 (01:43:33):
We had a full slate of baseball on Friday night,
the first day of the regular season since the All
Star break. The final game of the night saw All
Star Freddie Freeman lead the Dodgers to a four to
one win over the Red Sox with an eighth inning
grand slam. Houston shut out the Mariners three nothing behind
six innings from Hunter Brown. Cleveland as the best home
record in the majors at thirty one and eleven. They

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blanked the Padre seven nothing. Baltimore scored all nine of
its runs via the law ball. It was a nine
to one final against the Rangers. In Texas, it was
the Marlins six and the Mets four. Garrett col and
the Yankees defeated the Ray six to one. You had
wins for Colorado, Washington and Kansas City. Pittsburgh back over
five hundred for the first time since late April. They
walked off the Phillies eight to seven. And horse racing

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Churchill Downs has lifted the three year suspension of Hall
of Fame trainer Bob Bafford and golf Shane Lowry. A
two stroke lead to the first couple of rounds of
the Open Championship. Brown three is just under way. Tiger Woods,
Roy McRoy and Bryson Deshamba all missed the cut back
to Bernie Frido.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Thank you, Kevin, appreciate it, Bud. At this time every week,
listen whether it's in season, out of season, on the pitch,
off the pitch, and of course a week from Friday
week from yesterday. Well, when I signed on, it was
eleven pm Friday night here in La Vegas, Friday, June

(01:44:54):
July twenty sixth, the opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics
will commence, and yeah, soccer will be a big part
of it. Our men's team has been really a disappointment.
They fire the coach. We'll see what happens next. And
by the way, Paris is looking pretty spiffed up. I
was just in Paris and late Maine. They're ready to
go for the Olympics. And that's something I think we

(01:45:15):
will most of us be at least sampling. Will you
be watching soccer? I don't know, but at this time
every week we bring you Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum. It's
all here in this report from the world of soccer.

Speaker 8 (01:45:45):
Well, Bernie we it Man, even years are very very
busy here in the world of soccer. We are finally
at what I could possibly call an off season for
men's top level soccer. Copa America came to its thrilling
conclusion Argentina over Columbia and euro Championship with Spain over

(01:46:08):
England being the crowning moments where we finally finally put
to arrest the seasons that were. Now obviously it's not
completely true. We'll talk about Olympics in a second. You know,
we've got you know, MLS, Major League Soccer and Liga
MX here in North America, so it's not like it's
completely stopped. For one Lionel Messi, I'm sure he wishes

(01:46:30):
he could get a little bit of a break, especially
with yet another injury plaguing him, But for most of
the top flights of the world, for Europe and for
everywhere else in the clubs and nations, it is finally
a pause.

Speaker 13 (01:46:43):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:46:43):
I did mention the Olympics. They are coming up here.

Speaker 8 (01:46:46):
We're getting our first matches here in the twenty twenty
four Olympics in France, in Paris here on Wednesday, Thursday,
kicking off. I do get asked quite a bit by
people asking me about men soccer at the Olympics. To
reiterate and in case you don't know anything about men's
soccer at the Olympics because of these European Championship tournament

(01:47:09):
and Copa America, that sucks up all of the greatest
players out there, and because of the massive demands put
upon them with the schedule and everything else. Again, we've
been playing almost NonStop soccer since last August. The men's
side of the Olympics is actually a under twenty three
format that means any players born on or after the

(01:47:31):
first of January two thousand and one a will be
allowed to play, with a cavea that every nation is
allowed three overage players on those rosters. However, usually those
top players are playing again over in euros or Copa
America or one of the other things, or just needing

(01:47:51):
the break.

Speaker 11 (01:47:52):
It's fascinating. This is actually the first year we.

Speaker 8 (01:47:55):
Have all players born on or after the twenty first
century has begun, which is a little bit of a
jarring thing to really consider.

Speaker 11 (01:48:05):
The United States is qualified.

Speaker 8 (01:48:07):
They were through on the CONKA CAF Under twenty Championship.
They will be taking parts, so will Spain, France, Egypt, Argentina, Japan,
some of the ones names you've kind of come to expect.
It's still a fascinating tournament, but it's a lot more
of but with only sixteen teams in it, and on

(01:48:27):
the under twenty three format, it's a lot more of
a look into the future, into prospects that might be
coming up might join the full men's roster, especially as
we look to the future of the US Federation and
the US men's team post Greg Berholter. It should be
something interesting to keep an eye on there. And as

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much as I know that in the past, Killian Embape
did express his wish to play in the Olympics being
held in Paris, and he would be one of those
overage players at age twenty five, But he, of course,
through all of this and with the new signing.

Speaker 11 (01:49:03):
At Real Madrid, will not be in the Olympics.

Speaker 8 (01:49:06):
Honestly, well earned rest for him, especially with a very
big season coming up with him with Real Madrid. But
what about the women's side of the game, Well, the
women's side is a full tournament at the Olympics. One
of the benefits of the women's game not having these
giant tournaments I like the men's euro or the men's
Copa that takes so much importance on the senior side,

(01:49:27):
it has allowed for the Olympics to be a sort
of secondary tournament past the Women's World Cup, not probably
of the same importance, certainly not with the same number
of teams, but certainly one that people will tune into,
one where the top players will be going there. And
for the United States women's team, they are unfortunately in
the group of death. They have drawn a group with themselves, Zombia, Germany,

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and Australia.

Speaker 11 (01:49:54):
Group B.

Speaker 8 (01:49:56):
Germany is I don't know how else to say it.
They were the twenty sixteen gold medalists. They missed. They
missed last time on some Double Jeopardy qualifying systems that
was all based around World Cup placements.

Speaker 11 (01:50:10):
It's very confusing to really talk about.

Speaker 8 (01:50:12):
And Australia is going to be without their without their
star striker Sam Kerr. She tore her acl back in January.
But Zombia might be a very tough out in this group.
Germany certainly probably favored to be at the top of
Group B, not the United States. Germany favored to come
out number one in this group. So the US really
cannot really stumble at any point here, certainly certainly not

(01:50:36):
after their last World Cup. And to be clear, I
do not think this United States women's team is as
dominant as they have been. That age of dominance is over.
What about the World Cup champions what about the women's
team from Spain. They are in a similarly just stacked group,
Group C. Keeping your eye on this with Spain, Japan,

(01:50:57):
Nigeria and Brascila.

Speaker 11 (01:50:59):
This is a phenomenal group there.

Speaker 8 (01:51:02):
And we round it out with Group A that will
have France, Columbia, Canada and New Zealand. Very good tournament
here for the women's side of things, certainly a lot
to dive into there and certainly a lot of attention
given to them. Probably not as much attention right now
as is being given to the men's basketball team for
Team USA, but the women's Team USA for soccer definitely

(01:51:26):
someone to keep an eye on and certainly in the
mix to try to get back to their old winning
ways and bring home a gold medal and get back
to that age where the United States was that dominant
force in the women's game. As for the men's under
twenty three, I believe France right now is the favorite,
the home nation and one who has always had some phenomenal,

(01:51:46):
phenomenal young talent coming up through the years here. Argentina
is not far behind them. Spain obviously should be a
very interesting one to keep an eye on, although Spain
will not be with their phenomenon. Lamin Ya Mal, who
was their star in Euros, a very young player, only

(01:52:07):
about seventeen years old right now. He actually just turned
seventeen a single day before the finals, so he played
most of that tournament at age sixteen. He would qualify
and his club Barcelona did give the approval to allow
him to go to the Olympics. Clubs actually get the
final say on Olympics because it's not really a FIFA thing,
but Jamal absolutely deserves some well earned rest. Once again,

(01:52:32):
many of these players have been playing a soccer non
stop for over ten months. Right now, It's time for
some breaks for a lot of people, even a young
star like lamin Ya Mal. So it's time for some
other people to shine here. Great time at the Olympics.
I love the Olympics, Burnie. I've been to Atlanta and
Sydney in my life. I really wanted to go to
Tokyo when it happened before the pandemic. My dad and

(01:52:53):
I are making plans to go to Brisbane one of
these years, and now obviously coming here to la I
love the Olympics, love of all the sports in them.
I'm certainly going to be watching a lot of judo
this summer and Olympic wrestling, and yes there will be
soccer in the mix as well. Enjoy the summer, Burnie,
We'll see you next time on the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
I like the Olympics too, and soccer just won the
many sports. A quick side note, Chris mentioned a seventeen
year old did you see Thursday Night? A young man
fourteen years old, fourteen years, two hundred ninety three days
made histories from Chester, Pennsylvania. His name is Cavin Sullivan,

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the youngest player to ever appear in a Major League
soccer game. He checked in at the eighty fourth minute.
This dude belongs. He blew me away. He dribbled the
ball up the field, great speed, launched a rocket off
his left foot, shot on goal. Legit shot on goal,
and he didn't score a goal. And then he was

(01:53:55):
interviewed on Live TV and Sports Center and he took
over the intervieween years old. He was funny, glib, quick
on his feet, and his hair. He's got like a
buzz cut and his hair is like silver gray, and
I forget he was interviewing him, but he said, is

(01:54:17):
that your natural color? And he joked around and says yeah,
he go no, my mom does his shout out to
my mom. And this guy has got nothing but good
times ahead. He is going to be quite the media darling.
And he's a terrific soccer player. Look, you can see
it right away, usually in the great ones. Now he's
got to follow up. We don't know you know where

(01:54:38):
it goes, but I do know this where it goes.
He's fourteen years old and he already signed a record
breaking homegrown player deal. He'll learn more than five hundred
thousand per season. And after signing that deal, you know,
he's been playing for the Philadelphia Union, that's the MLS
pro team there. He's performed very well. He's expected to
join Man City when he turns eighteen. They want him

(01:55:00):
years from now. His name is Cavin Sullivan. What an
incredible debut. Unreal coming up, we wrap up the show,
give you a glimpse of the Saturday night show. And
also you know it will be it'll be weird for
me not to see Nick Saban on the sidelines this
year for Alabama games, but you will see Nick Saban.

(01:55:23):
As a matter of fact, you already are seeing Nick Saban.
He made a prediction over his former team and how
he thinks they'll do in the SEC and it didn't
exactly go over well with his players. We'll chop that up.
Coming up, I'm Bernie Frattle or Company live from Las Vegas,
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Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
All right, we are wrapping it up on the Bernie
Frattle Show. We are comingy live from the Tyrek dot
com studios here in Las Vegas. Before I go any further,
I want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.
They've been with me since eleven pm Pacific time on
Friday night. Kevin figures on all the updates, Good Input

(01:56:36):
two as well as the All Star Games, the current state,
the WNBA All Star Game Saturday night, and the poll
in which was the worst. Mark Ramsey, our technical producer,
turning all the dials, keeping us clued together, honoring my
penchant for motown music, and of course Bri the great
Bri taking all your calls tonight, offering her scouting. He

(01:57:00):
actually saw Ingrid Andres in concert open up for Keith Urban.
So see we span the globe here what we do.
Great job by the crew tonight, really appreciate it, and
of course great job by all the callers in the
midnight hour. Got some real characters and that's why we
do this every Friday night at midnight Pacific. From where

(01:57:21):
I sit, it is the midnight hour, literally, and from
where our listeners sit, for many, it's the mid eight
hour literally. So I'm figuratively. We've had calls from Australia tonight.
By the way, coming up on Saturday Show, we're going
to start to dive heavily into college football and the NFL.
What if I told you a week from next Thursday
is the Hall of Fame game. Yep, week from next Thursday, Thursday,

(01:57:45):
August first, We're we're thirteen days away, now, twelve days away.
It's coming down the pike for us. But so is
college football. You know it starts August twenty fourth, and
no more Nick Saban, no more, Jim Harber, I have
a College Football Experts Saturday Night Brad Power is a
great guy, the most knowledgeable you know, Brad power sports.

(01:58:08):
He's been there, done that. You don't want to miss
what he's got to say. And of course plenty of
NBA stuff. Will have Medina Magic at midnight where we
will cover all all the storylines happening. I'm gonna talk.
I'm going to tell you why I believe Saturday night
that Calin de Boor will have success at Alabama taking
over for a legend. The guy's a lifetime winner. His

(01:58:30):
career record as a coach is one oh four and twelve.
That's almost a nine hundred winning percentage to give them
some perspective. And I know Sabans coached a lot more games.
He's winning percentage as a college head coach is eight
oh two and Saban has seven national titles, but Dubor
actually has three and played for two more. I get it.
He started out at the ANI level, but no matter

(01:58:50):
where he's been, he coached in sux Falls, he was
sixty seven and three, he was twelve and six at
Fresno State, he was twenty five and three at Washington.
Look what that program did before and watch what they'll
do after. Here's why I think Bama's going to score
do well. He's got an offense that moves the ball
and scores points. And they're not just efficient, they're very entertaining.
We'll get into that Saturday night. Speaking of Nick Saban,

(01:59:13):
a guy have tremendous respect for looking forward to seeing
his commentary as he'll be working as an analyst for ESPN.
He's done the college football world by retiring in January
seven national titles. He was covering SEC media days this
past week. He's already delivered a noteworthy take that really
pissed some people off. On Tuesday, Nick Saban predicted that

(01:59:35):
Georgia and SEC newcomer would at Texas. The Texas Longhorns
would be the two teams competing in the SEC Championship
game this season. Now, one of Bama's players, an offensive lineman,
Tyler Booker, was asked on Wednesday about Saban's comments, and
his response was epic. He said, quote Coach Saban used

(01:59:57):
to always say, don't let some guy that lives in
their mom's basement determine how you feel. So I'm not
gonna let some guy who plays golf all day determine
how I feel. That broke the people up a little bit,
they laughed, and you know they will ignore the external factors.
Saban's no longer there, He no longer has his imprint

(02:00:17):
on that program. Well, he probably has the impact, but
he's long gone right basically, and Saban was not offended
by that. He's proud of the way the team he
left behind. The truth of the matter is is that
they don't have Nick Saban anymore. So there'll be a
target on Kalin Debor's back. But I think he's gonna
have a good season. We're gonna talk about all that

(02:00:38):
stuff coming up Saturday night, among many other things. We're
gonna preview the NFC West. We're gonna get into a
lot of football stuff because it's right around the corner.
So we'll see on these airwaves Saturday night, eleven pm.
It's gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show. In
the meantime, keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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