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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, welcome inside. Happy Wednesday Wednesday? Yeah, Wednesday, right, still
wed Wednesday? Wednesday? We were two days, right, two days?
This week is day three? Yeah okay, yeah, just making
sure now since college day four for me, but yeah,
day three. Sometimes the days just blend right into each other.
That that means life is going well. Yeah, Live from
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the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Except the Mets. Uh, you
know what. We we don't have time for the Mets
right now because the Valkyries are about to start and
we are on Bilbo Baggins watch for the WNBA game
tonight that's about to tip a But the Mets could
be getting no hit, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Instead, it was a Sammy so so like meaningless home
run in a way.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That was so much more Mets to actually here's the story.
It could be a no hitter, but they break it
up with one out in the ninth inning and lose.
Like that's so much more Mets than actually getting no hit.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I mean it's a better story that way, especially
when you got the broadcasters, you know, watching another game
but keeping an eye on a no hitter and kind
of commenting on that. And then the no hitter gets
broken up with the home run because it gets to
breathe otherwise, Yeah, they lost and they move on, right,
It doesn't matter when you get into.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
The ninth inning, you're basically no hit anyway, right, so
you go go all the way with it. Now, Soto
with a home run, they lose four to one. The
Mets lose again. All the now, the the losing Yankees
can't mask how bad the Mets have been. They can't
hide behind the Yankees anymore like they have.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You can still, Yes, I guess you move beyond that,
but you know, you do always have to celebrate, as
we want to do here in the evenings when we
come on and games have gone complete or as we
watch them. I gotta like Gavin Williams to have the
game that he did eight and two thirds. I give
him the the clapp forget about not getting the the
(02:29):
no hitter and giving up a danger. Uh, the fact
of the matter is the guy pitched past five innings.
That makes him an American hero.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You meant you what you okay? Okay? You want to
give him applause? Yeah, okay, very good. Want to make
sure that's what you mean. Laurel and Hardy handshake, all right,
I get, I give him a hand I give a
I give the U the giant applause. But here we
sit right now, and really, this is this is America
twenty twenty five. Uh, the biggest game of the night,
the only game in the w NBA tonight record ratings.
(02:58):
I'm sure the Valkyries hosting the aces, and of course
everybody will be watching to see if a certain sex
toy yeah gets thrown on the court for the fourth
time in the last week. Considering we saw it last
night in Los Angeles, we spent the last hour of
the show talking about it. Potentially it happened in a
couple of other games, but the Billbo Baggins did not
(03:18):
make it all the way onto the onto the court.
It was thrown on the they were thrown on the floor,
So I went, do we really think we're gonna get
that happening time? Do you really think do we see
another one thrown on the floor tonight between the Aces
and the Valkyrie. Oh well, you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Know the security on high alert, monitoring my words carefully.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, in terms of attempting to throw it, I
can't say that I've been involved in any kind of contest,
So I don't know throwing for distance, you know what
it does? What kind of torque and arm angle you got,
Because clearly there were a couple of attempts that failed
to reach the court, which is good. Some folks tried
to dismiss this categorically, and I think the sad state
of affairs is that that became the It's more a
(04:02):
hot topic than Caitlin Clark or any of these stars
missing time due to injury, the play on the court.
It's the Valkyries. So we have what at least two
incidences with Valkyrie's games. Yeah, well, look, I mean really
gets you really into a larger discussion about San Francisco,
which has its reputation anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I mean, look, everybody watching this game, it just tipped off,
like just watching the floor looking to see if something
gets the Is it gonna be time out? Is it
gonna be while someone shooting a free throw? Is it
not when they're shooting a free throw? Is someone gonna
tweet about it? Will they show it? Because I look,
we talked about this after it happened the second time,
as I guarantee you or if not, I should be
(04:41):
commissioned with the WNBA. Sorry Kathy Angeler, but I can
come in and take care of things and make people
love Caitlin Clark. Is that I I would be stunned
if there wasn't some court, some sort of meeting today,
some sort of conversation with the broadcast of the game
that says, if anything gets through it, if you see something,
they got to have a spotter that's watching, making sure
(05:03):
there's somebody who's job at this tonight is to see
if anything gets thrown on the court. And if something
gets thrown on the court, you direct the television to
not air it, so you do not say, now you
can't stop people on social media, people with cellful, but
you were stopping people from airing this because this is again,
I mean, I feel bad for the WNBA because this
is the biggest headline they've had outside of Caitlin Clark,
(05:25):
and everybody is jealous of her, right, I feel bad
that that no one get you know, that the people
can't respect the game enough to the point where, oh,
a guy got arrested and we saw that, and and
and and a player said, hey, don't throw stuff on
the floor. You I don't care. I'm still gonna throw
something on the floor and I'm gonna throw it at
the player that said don't throw things. And this is
where we're at now, Like that, that's where that's.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The thing, right, because a lot of the discussion as
it is filtered out into the late hours and morning
after we were done and gone.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Uh last night was the well.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, I don't think they're trying to send a
message like no, no, no, but the message which is
loudly received, it's diminishing and taking away from anything that's
happening on the court and in terms of the play
in between the white lines. Right, because the w NBA discussion,
for folks that aren't paying attention to the league at all,
(06:16):
it becomes a nice easy It's like, wow, this is
what the league is, right, We're talking about wigs and
sex toys. That's that's what it gets dismissed at well,
Caitlyn Clark and then Wiggs and then sex for the
next story was here and god like the Whig story
was here and then it left like this is like
this is like this is a TikTok. Hey, people are
doing this kind of trend that's stuck around for a
(06:38):
long time. And againa I feel bad that that people
don't have their The league doesn't have the respect that
fans can see again, somebody get arrested, a player just
say hey, don't throw stuff like that on the court.
You did somebody, And not only does fans say, yeah,
I don't care about the prison thing or going to jail,
and I'm gonna throw it at you, like, I mean,
just think about that for a second. Well, I think
we're using the term fan liberally because if you're in
(07:02):
the building, but if you're going there, I mean, look,
they paid for their ticket. But then there's obviously an
angle and since there's a betting market now on the
color of said toy that is the next to be thrown.
Now you can manipulate the markets because you have perfect information,
you decide to go in. I don't know what kind
of limit you can get on that, because that's going
to be a provider by provider. But if you can
(07:25):
go and make yourself a quick couple of hundred bucks
or a couple thousand bucks by importing said toy to
a game and firing onto a court, guess what people
have done a lot worse for a lot less.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now, I'm glad you brought up the color because I
was thinking about this coming in, like I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You were thinking about this, well, I had a million
other things.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I was just thinking about gains america favorite color. This
is where we're at. No, no, no, no, you know
I can't stand that that neo green. I think it's
what it looks awful for. Yeah, I bought a whole
bunch of.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How got surplus couldn't But it's the most popular in
terms of sales.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And here's here's what I would have done, right, Here's
what I would have said. Okay, I would have given
all the players tonight neon green sneakers to wear during
the game. That way, it would be really if one
got thrown onto the because you know they're gonna throw
a green one. I know you have the different colors
but really the green's become the calling.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, but the green, right, all of the betting markets
are if not green, here are the odds, like it's
just taken off the board as the presumptive this is
going to be the color. But if it isn't, here
are the odds alone. By the way, if something does
get on the court, Kelsey Plump's finding it and kicking it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So flying back in from Los Angeles to flying No.
But I mean if you had everybody in neon green sneakers,
it would be really tough. Then it's like, oh, well played, WNB.
I gotta put this away and try to come back
with a different color next time. Right, That's what I
because I think about it you're talking about You're talking
about twenty feet in one spot on the floor, and
(09:07):
if it gets thrown wait wait wait, I don't see it.
I don't see where is it? Where is it? I
don't see it. I don't say it. Now I realize
it doesn't get thrown. You're gonna get people on social
media going, oh now, there's twenty of them on the floor. No,
but you want to I think you should do that
and say, okay, you really want to try to we
can play dirty here too. Are the odds based on
the first one to hit the floor. You think there's
be more than one? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I mean there were multiple allegedly and a couple of
the spots yesterday. So if you're trying to make sure
you know, and you're you're running towards the court and
you're gonna throw, uh, maybe you distract all the security
so the person on the other side can get theirs
thrown in.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right, So we're about five minutes into the game,
nothing has been thrown onto the court and Vegas Leeds
go not yet. Yes, you're right, you have to say
yet a Vegas Leeds Golden State eight three.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One thing that was thrown out there today about this
because the way the story turned out there, Yeah not.
My first day was that a no bag policy was
institute by the WMBA. I mean, you can't bring a
bag in to games, and anybody that's gone to a
game you know that some some stadiums you can bring
it if it's clear clear you can't bring in any bag.
Well like they the Hello Kiddy guy yesterday one hundred
(10:12):
dollars bag. Yeah, on the secondary market about I'm telling
you that Monte Bolgias is selling like ten twelve of
them at a time right now, any bay. But uh,
I don't think that's true. That's not that's not been
verified by anybody. But a lot of people have picked
up all the no bag policy, no bag policy. But
I don't think that's come. I mean, and I don't
know why that's something that's made up, because it's like, okay,
(10:34):
it would kind of make sense to have some kind
of policy. Okay, we can't keep having this, yes, right, this,
we can't keep that. I think that was tied into
the story where they're getting rid of the dunk contest.
Oh is that what? Oh? Okay, all right, I didn't
know that it was on the you scrolled down and
clicked it was right there, all the way on the bottom,
in a real tiny print, right there, right right right
before the unsubscribe. Oh you gotta click out it. We're
all the way down unsubscribed there. Uh So, all right,
(10:56):
So I ask you this, I asked you that. Yeah,
four thirty in the first quarter. Does something get thrown
on the floor tonight? Bilbo does a Does Bilbo Baggins
get thrown on the floor tonight? Yeah? Really see. I'm
gonna say no. At any point at tonight, I'm gonna
say no. I'm gonna say no. Not because I think
(11:17):
suddenly people have had enough of this, but it's the
only game you would have had to you would have
had You would have to find a way to get
to this game. It's like one of those hard to smuggle. Yeah,
you know what it's like. It's like when in Logan
Lucky when they're like, Oh, we're gonna pull a big heights,
what are you gonna do? We're gonna rob Nascar. We're
gonna rob the track at one of the big races.
Oh whoa, that's a that's a tough race to get into. Yeah,
(11:39):
but we're gonna do it. Like the next tomorrow, there's
a bunch of w NBA games and I don't know
where the person or people are doing this. Maybe they're
going back and forth, flying around the country, going but
this is one game, one spotlight on it, and if
it happens and you get caught, wow, I'll tell you what, man,
that's gonna be really bad. So I think I think
they take tonight off from it, and we don't have
it happen tonight. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We had one to hit Sophie Cunningham yesterday right next
to Kelsey Plum. And we've seen jackasses running across fields
for as long as you and I have been doing
the show. In decades before that. Sure, we had a
couple of guys that decided they didn't like the dude
from the Royals at in Chicago and went out and
actually got hammered to hit him here.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean, what's the maximum fine? I mean, like a
night in jail, and you might have been able to
make a bunch of money on the secondary were also
something where if you're gonna do something, let's just try
to eat A psychology people who try to do things
like this is that to do it when it's expected.
People kind of zig where they zag on that right, like, Okay,
(12:42):
we're gonna take a night off. Now there's a bunch
of games tomorrow and whatever. Maybe it happens at one
of the games throbout when there's more games going on.
Maybe some places or less lax with bringing stuff in.
Whatever it is, but one game to get away with
it when the when everybody's eyes are on it, that's
a difficult thing, man. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'll go the other way, right, because tomorrow, what do
we get a bunch of NFL preseason Bilbo Baggins ain't
getting a lot of run. It would be a headline.
Nah no see competing with the NFL run. No see,
you're you're the only game in town tonight. Most baseball
has already been played on a getaway day white so Mariners.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Notwithstanding, now you get your run here.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
By the way, the other thing is, now you also
have the variations of said objects start coming in, because
we gotta have the non metal versions that come through. Okay,
you metal in terms of the rigidity and such. M
E T A L Yeah, okay, not metal like on
the metal stands.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I mean that's
if we're talking about three. I don't know what the
silver is, but you only get one of those if
you throw it really for no, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It right, And then here, I mean they're gonna have
halftime contests for throwing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No, I'm saying this.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
This becomes a minor league baseball promotion at some point
instead of throwing a ball through the you know, football
through the net. Like everybody keeps harping on quarterbacks in
their workouts. Now we start having other kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
All right, I'm good, I'm still I'm still gonna say no,
I'm gonna say no. We have a clean game tonight.
They have a clean game tonight, and nothing hits the
floor except sneakers, the ball, and players, sweat and blood.
That's it. The sweat and blood hit the floor too. Okay,
maybe not blood. Sweat hits the floor, okay, okay, So
but when the bodies hit the floor. So we have sweat,
we have bodies, we have the ball, we have sneakers.
(14:37):
That's what. That's all the isolated here's your opportunity. Too dangerous, man,
too dangerous, too dangerous. Everybody is looking waiting for it.
It's easy to police one game. How do you police
you know, six games going on at one time? How
do you do that? It's tougher, man, you've seen all
these crazy you're not adding. Did they add extra security
for the game. But the more attention on this you
(14:59):
get called the bigger penalty. It's going to wind up
being because you get caught with the whole world wide.
It's like we say about it when you blow chunks
on Sunday afternoon at one o'clock in the football season. Okay,
you blow chunks Monday night at nine o'clock in the
football season. That changes everything. One game tonight, everybody watching
waiting to see what happens. Yeah, you see, it's it's
too dangerous man to day. They take the night off from.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The get that man or woman can then put up
a go fund yourself and there'll be millionaires by the
end of the night.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, well see, one of us will be right, one
of us will be wrong. It'll be me. Jason Smith
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here we are again, near the end of the first quarter. Wnba.
Nothing is hit the floor again. We're gonna get a
(17:55):
clean game time my garment. I'm I'm a believer in
the best of people and good things. We're gonna get
a clean game to tame. Nothing hits the floor except
sneakers and sweat. No, it's good.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I appreciate you. Know you want to go skipping down
the road. You want me to give you a lolly
pop and you can dance as you do sixteen fourteen,
end of one. You know, to actually give the game
specificity as opposed to just whether someone committed a criminal act.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
As e were nearing the end of the first quarter.
We're here. We're good. So now so far one quarter down.
I'm feeling all right, I'm feeling okay about my produce.
I'm hoping I win. I'm hoping I win, and the
WNBA is hoping I win.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, they certainly are. Again, it's not a function of
whether someone's got some great plot as to why they're
doing it. They could simply just be jackasses. But it
does not help your league and the efforts of the
WNBA for this to be the reason that sports talk
(18:53):
and television in morning shows are talking about your league.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But this again, Welcome to America twenty twenty five. Yeah,
now you talked about helping and helping your league and
a helper. Yesterday we did a pretty big topic on
ESPN buying NFL Network and the Red Zone, and the
reaction after that happened was, to a man, fans say,
(19:18):
ESPN's just gonna screw it up, whether they feel that
ESPN is gonna be too woke or they're gonna force
feed personalities. I can't stand on me and Stephen A.
Smith is gonna host the red zone touch down Eagles
touns down here like whatever's gonna happen. Uh, they're gonna
find a way to ruin it. And you know, we
talked about this last night. We went viral for us
(19:39):
that if you're ESPN and the reaction to the Worldwide
Leader getting more football from the fans is we're gonna
ruin it. You need to look in the mirror and
figure out how to change the optics and reputation of
the Worldwide Leader, because that is I mean, this is
not ESPN is not some sort of fly by night
(20:00):
streaming service that has a lot of money saying hey,
we're gonna buy some NFL games. Oh okay, great, what
is it? Yeah, I know, we're gonna work and put
it on a paramount plus plus no paramount plus, no
paramount plus plus. It's the second paramount's paramount plus plus. Yeah,
don't worry about it, we'll find it. Shows top Gun, Maverick,
and then we show all the NFL stuff. So is
the this is the status of ESPN right now. It
(20:20):
is a look in the mirror moment of this is
the image of the company that has been leading the
sports world for the better part of the last fifty years,
right and then today somehow that story got worse because
today it was announced another big moment for ESPN. They
announced a big partnership with the WWE. Ww is bringing
a lot of events to ESPN that ESPN is going
(20:41):
to stream on different platforms. Is a lot of inside
baseball with this in business, but basically, WWE is going
to bring live premier events to ESPN. I'm sure some
of them will be part of the ESPN appen and
streaming service you have to buy. Some of them will
be on free ESPN as well. So this is going
to be a new world for the WWE. And does
(21:02):
it seem to be that different from what the WWE
has going on now? No, not really. Will there be
a little bit more pay per view probably, Will there
still be a lot of free events, probably, But the
general reaction from everybody it look the two most popular
and most vociferous I would say fan bases, most rabid
fan bases in the world. Well three you have English
(21:24):
Premier League Soccer, the NFL and WWE. Those are the
most rabid fan bases you could possibly imagine. You had
the NFL fan base thinking you're just gonna screw up
the NFL, and now all day today was ww They're
gonna fight. ESPN is gonna find a way to screw
it up. I'm not wind up paying so much money
for this because look, ww puts pay per view events
on all the time. You want to follow the storylines
(21:45):
and not miss anything. Whereas with the NFL. Okay, if
I missed the Jets losing twenty eight to three, I
missed the Jets losing twenty eight to three, But I
want to see all this. So you see how upset
that the fans are. And and even again with this,
it was even more rabbid than it was a day
of Oh, because you had fans upset knowing full well,
this is money coming out of my pocket at some point. Now,
(22:06):
is it gonna be as much as people want to
make it, believe? No, because ESPN is not gonna Look
they've been doing this for a while. Are they gonna
do some stuff to help themselves out? Yeah? Is the
future of sports streaming, Yes, we've talked about this, whether
it's ESPN or Fox or Paramount or Max whatever, it is.
The future of sports is streaming. So it's not gonna
be that bad. But you see the reaction of the
(22:28):
fans being that they're just gonna ruin the WWE, and
now people are so pissed at ESPN forgetting They're pissed
at WWE. I mean that, I mean, that's amazing. They're
so pissed at ESPN. They're pissed at WWE for going
to ESPN. That's how bad. That's how bad an optic
this is that ESPN they got to take some of
this money and and and figure out a way to
(22:51):
change the network's reputation and optics. Because Wow, I can't
get over that. This is where it's out again, America
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well, we'd already seen it happening for years with your
different talent appearing on ESPN properties morning shows, whatever to
do announcements. Certainly has seen that part of NFL network
as well. Plenty of NFL players with big NFL fan
bases and ties. Seth Rollins the new champ. He's a
(23:19):
Bears guy. Bailey one of my favorites. She's a big
forty nine Ers fan, so there's always these ties. She
hangs out with George Kittle a bunch whatever else. But
the fine print was what got lost in all of this,
Like if you have a cable subscription that you get ESPN.
You will get access, Yes, you will get access. Right,
what you still have is this weird convergence or now
(23:45):
it's more disparate. Is that you've got the Netflix deal
has a couple more years for WWE, You've got the
Peacock deal that still has another couple of years, but
now you have the premium live events eventually going all
in to this ESPN deal again, if you have a
cable subscription, you have, and it had to enumerate them
(24:06):
as the day went on because everybody was mad. Is
it more expensive if you have to buy Yeah, it's
twenty nine bucks for what ESPN is putting out. But
if you already have ESPN as part of your cable package,
you're gonna be okay. It's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Then now the Peacock subscription depending on what you had,
what is it eleven bucks a month or seventeen bucks
a month or whatever, And you've got the archives of
the WWE so fans you know, wanting to go back
and watch the Mega Powers. You're still gonna have to
keep your Peacock subscription. You're not gonna be able to
get rid of it. But it's like all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It evolves, and again you don't want to pay for it.
Make a choice with your wallet. Nobody's forcing you and
holding you over a barrel. It's like when people go
to a theme park or whatever else. It's so expensive,
Like you do that going in and yes, now you
have to learn the new place on your cable system
or download a different app. You're going to get a code.
(25:01):
Does it mean that eventually they're not going to go
into your pocket deeper? No, that's exactly what it means.
Just right, You're not easy.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But it doesn't matter because no matter what the truth is,
fans don't want ESPN to have ww they don't want
ESPN to have the NFL, they don't want the worldwide
leader in sport. It almost makes me feel bad for
them again, like the Yankees. I almost felt bad for
the Yankees the last three nights. I almost feel bad
for them. But you're ready for it to get worse
for ESPN. I mean, because this is this is of
(25:30):
all the things that happen this today is what blew
me away. Now, this announcement goes on and we don't
talk about other people on other networks, the actual personalities,
but me being there in the nineties in production and
then being there for most of the two thousands hosting
All Night. I still am stunt. I know it's a
different world right now, but to see Pat McAfee part
(25:54):
of the part of WWE, right, part of everything, like
he and he and Stephen A. Smith are ESPN's biggest stars.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fact that Pat McAfee can, unprompted go on Twitter, right,
not that he's in the middle of a war with
somebody or you know, when it was a year ago
with Norby Williamson who I remember working for Norby back
in the nineties. Whereas all this guy's trying to sabotage
my show. Okay, they have beef, but he decided to
celebrate this thing, to go on social media and say, hey,
great to see these two powerhouses of sports and entertainment
(26:22):
come together. Then he says, quote, I assume all the
mid level powerless bum a suits at ESPN will attempt
to muddy this somehow, out of context, leaks, ignorant, anonymous opinions,
et cetera. But in the end, this agreement will outlive
the dinosaurs currently guarding desks in Bristol. And he gets
away with it, like he gets it. He can say
(26:44):
this about ESPN within the company, not somebody who's a
disgruntled employee that left. Let me tell you about how
bad what they tried to do to me at ESPN.
This is their second biggest starts at any any event,
their second biggest star. Who decides, unprompted, I'm gonna torch
the company that I work for And okay, like really,
(27:04):
I mean ESPN. You'll know if tomorrow there's no sort
of disciplinary action for Pat mcafefe for just taking on
ESPN with this, you will know that they are absolutely
toothless and and and they are just they're just lost.
Like I can't believe that we're talking about the status
of ESPN going from the company that embraced sports fans
(27:25):
that for the longest time were underserved, and they'll look
at ESPN. They do things so great, and they do
everything so awesome. And everybody that I knew growing up
wanted to work at ESPN. I wanted to work at ESPN.
Then they became the Evil Empire. But so boy, they
have everything, but what are you gonna do? We get
great college football, college basketball, NFL now here we are
where it is completely different and not only are the
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fans upset with what with what they see going on
with ESPN? Again, you have the second biggest star, unprompted,
not involved in a war with anybody, not just saying
just saying, powerless bum ass suits. The agreement will outlive
the dinosaurs. Like wow, man, I can't believe he said
that two things.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Change is inevitable, Change is hard, right, So if you
got used to where you were consuming your product and
then it goes to ESPN, which is not the same
ESPN you and I grew up with, by any by
any rational person's just watching what it's become.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It was Sports Center, it was Sports Reporters, It was
a couple shows like that, and then you had live events.
That was it, and then it became more personality, more debate,
more whatever. The radio shows moving in now with Pat mcavee,
we haven't had an outward battle. He's been on and
(28:45):
off WWE for some period.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
You can always use the hey, I got a young
family at home and all of that. I don't doubt
for a minute. There haven't been a bunch of battles
about his involvement with the WWE and taking time away
and whether it was affecting his product with ESPN by
some of these nameless middle managers. So the fact that
(29:10):
this deal now got signed, he's taken the baseball bat out.
I mean that he's going to town as if he's
Robert de Niro.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
This team, how how it got worse for ESPN? Two
big announcements and all all it does is just it's
it's boom, you got a one point six billion dollar deal.
But it's like this is bad. Body blow body blow,
And I'd be really and and and and really to
have the thing is to have McAfee say this on
a day in which is a big celebration day, and yes,
(29:41):
I'm happy for that, but all these bum ass suits,
all these diners, is all these bad people. It's almost
like he's like at w W villain, like I'm gonna
I'm gonna criticize it, but it's not part of a
script because you know that's how we feel well, but
owning it.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
To the fact that there might have been things in
the works for a long time that got buddied up,
and that's exactly who he's calling out. It's like it
got done in spite of you. And now he's doing
a victory.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But I don't know. I don't think people are trying
to they were trying to torpedo the deal with WWE,
like this is a it's a big business. No, but
sports sports center above. No, it gets above the middle,
the middle mach the people that in our offices. This
is at the highest level. But if some of those
people got into those meetings, he was dealing with that
torpedo a billion billion dollar deal. People aren't in those
(30:26):
kind of meetings. Trust me. I know who's in those
kind of meetings. Nobody. No, I don't know anything about it.
Nobody that he's taught. I was there. I was inside
the walls there for a long time. I talk to people,
all right, I know who's in these meetings.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The level of people that he's talking about are not
at the highest level of these meetings. They're not sitting
here saying, hey, we don't know, we want to get
in bed with the WWE. Wait what that's not happening?
Trust me, trust me, trust me, just gonna let it go.
I want you to trust me. You're the smartest guy
in the room. Oh now you're upset. Now you're upset. Okay,
let's find out what's trending from someone who maybe the
(30:59):
smartest person in the it's Monty Bolanos. I think I am.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I would like to think.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So I'm good. You know I'm getting those bobbleheads, right yeah, okay,
good one.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Right now, you gotta work your way back to getting two.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, not only the smartest person the room, the smartest
person at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
All right, we're getting closer, getting closer to those two.
Speaking of two, that's how many runs the Diamondbacks have scored.
It started with a Gorbyn Carrol home run. So right
now they're up on the Padres two zero. Bottom of
the fourth inning. The Mariners have extended their lead over
the White Sox. Julio Rodriguez, big fan over here, three
run shot. They're up on the White Sox seven to one.
(31:34):
Top of the third inning. The Brewers have now won
six in a row. They topped the Braves five to
four and completed the sweep. The Royals snapped the Red
Sox seven game winning streak, coming out on top today
seven to three, Nationals edging the A's two to one.
Marlin's avoiding the sweep with the six to four win
over the Astros. The Cardinals held on five to three
against the Dodgers in LA. It was World Series show.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Hey o, tawny giveaway Shoeodannie pitched four innings, struck out eight,
hit home run number thirty nine on the season, which
also happened to be his one thousandth career hit, but
the Dodgers lose five to three to the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Boo, there was almost a no hitter today. Almost.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Guardians pitcher Gavin Williams had that no hitter going into
the ninth inning, was in the ninth inning, and then
of course to met Swan Soto hits a so low
home run, but Cleveland still won that game four to one.
Yankee snapped their five game losing streak by beating the
Rangers three to two in the NFL. Rams quarterback Matthew
Stafford received an epidural to deal with an aggravated disc,
(32:36):
but the team still thinks he'll be ready for Week one.
Dolphins tight end Darren Waller is one week away from practicing.
According to head coach Mike McDaniel, Titans quarterback Cam Warden,
the starters are going to play in every preseason game.
Head coach Brian Callahan said as when it comes to
Aaron Rodgers, Steelers quarterback, he said it's not likely that
he's gonna play Saturday against the Jaguars, but when he
(32:58):
was asked about his availability this preseason, Rogers said that
he will do whatever head coach Mike Tomlin asks him
to do. And lastly, guys, players will still be able
to whiff smelling salts during the games this season.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
That's yes.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
The NFLPA sent a message to the players Wednesday night
clarifying that the league's ban on smelling salts only applies
to clubs providing it to the players.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
So bring your own smelling salts.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I can still bring him in here and use them. Yes, okay,
very good, Right, Yeah, nothing's precluding.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Nothing nothing and nothing has gone flying at this WNBA game. Yes,
five minutes to go on the first half, Aces Valkyries
ted to twenty seven. Nothing flying yet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
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a couple of days, big announcement. That's next right here,
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Speaker 2 (34:19):
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Speaker 4 (34:34):
We are.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Now yet near halftime, Aces and Valkyries, clean game. So far,
nothing has hit the floor except for sneakers and the
basketball and sweat. We are all good. We are nearly
halfway home the only WNBA game of the night.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Nice clean battle forty thirty four game final minute.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, all good.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Thus far good clean American fund, so Fat Fitzgerald used
to say.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
And so far we're halfway the halfway there. We're halfway there, well,
I mean until I can bust out to Tiana almost
there with about a minute left in the fourth and
even then until it's all zeros of buzzer sounds and
people are shaking hands. Eh, We're not there yet. Time
now for the Play of the Day and the play
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Speaker 4 (35:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
When you get your thousandth hit in this fashion, despite
the fact your team ruined the day for you by
not winning, you get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Snacks in the air deep center field.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Scott's going forget about it.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's gone halfway up to pavilion. The Dodger picture launches
a massive home runs his thirty ninth this year.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So there was Dodgers TV on the call. Another home
run for show. Hey, Otani, he is the play of
the day, and you know last night Dodger with a
big win. Hey, that could be a big springboard win. Nope,
didn't happen, No, not quite.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I like the music in the background there though, it
sounded like, you know, an eight bit video game was
getting ready to commence. Yeah, all right, got my guy
out there with a Pickaggs or something. Great effort from
Otani on the mound as well. I hit one hundred
miles an hour a couple of times and came up
with some big efforts. But now it's that that question
(36:51):
that lingers of what's his long term prospects. We've talked
a lot about the closing role for him eventually, but
that would mean you have enough starting pictures that you
can shift him there. Uh, but we are going to
get a couple of ageless wonders on Friday. Yeah, kershawn.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, it's like the combined age ninety eight. It's gonna
really be that'd be great. But yeah show hey, uh,
another massive milestone for us. Now, speaking of milestone, we
are going to get something huge this weekend in Major
League Baseball when the first it's not no no, no baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball,
dot uh, we are going to get the first female
(37:31):
umpire in the history of Major League Baseball when Jen
Powell is going to umpire a game this weekend, Marlin's game.
And uh, this is the first time this will have
happened in baseball history. Not gonna believe you're gonna umpire
the bases, like basically the second base umpire for the
game not gonna be behind Home's gonna be played at
(37:53):
the end of the Yeah, the series. Yeah, she's gonna
she'll break She'll break the mark on Saturday. Of course,
obviously there's gonna be a lot of attention on this.
And you know, here's the thing is, it's a it's
an unbelievable story because you think about this, But I
swear to you, if you said to me, have we
had female umpires in Major League Baseball? I would have said, yeah, right,
because I would have said, yeah, we had, like we
(38:16):
we broke through that, right, that we broke through that,
that we broke through the glass ceiling, right, and we've
had it because we've seen it happen in the NFL,
We've seen it in college football, we've seen it in
the NBA. I would say, for sure, yeah, we've seen
it before in Major League Baseball at some point, but
we haven't. And I started thinking about that, and I
said to myself today, you know, I think that's actually
(38:36):
a really cool thing that I thought. I'm sure a
lot of people felt the same way that, Yeah, I
would have thought, for sure, yeah we had somebody, don't
somebody else do games here?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Do we have this?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Did we have this? Do we have this? Like we
would have had that at some point, uh in Major
League Baseball and and okay, so it didn't seem like
it was that big a deal until you think about it, go,
oh no, no, this is okay, this is gonna be
the first one.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
All right, Yeah, we haven't had it in ice hockey yet,
but it goes to Jen Walter right in coaching in
the National Football League and a number of women that
have coached that you bridge that again, I would have
thought we would have had a female umpire. Now she's
been in the minor leagues about a decade on was
(39:19):
high ranked official in the fast pitch leagues before that.
But yeah, long time coming and getting her shot this weekend.
So but to your point, yeah, I would have thought
we broke that a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Really, I said, oh, okay, this is the first thing,
because when I saw the headlines, say, I'm like, oh,
that's pretty cool first one since no first what wait?
Wait what? Wait what? And really I sat back for
a few minutes and actually said to my wife, he said, Okay,
if I said this to you, I said, have we
had we've had an umpire. If I asked you if
we had a female major league umpires before, she would
say yeah. I think the average person thinks that this
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was already broken through, and it's great that it's being
broken through. But I also, I really I think it's
great thing that when you think, oh, we've we've already
had this happen right, Like, it's not it's not a
headline anymore, that that we think this is that big
a deal and it is great and it's awesome for
the sport and it's all the way around. But just
the fact that I would say we would have had
it by now, all right, I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You can get to that next level. And it's Welter
Walter's a coach in college. So but either way, boyd,
being that you know, we we've broken that barrier a
number of times.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
So if I had a coach in college, I would
call it Welter Walters. Nice, Welter Walters. Where do you go?
I go to Welter Walter's hyphen ad Welter Walters. Uh, Welter. Well,
we high favor with the fee like Welter Walters, Welter Walter,
Welter Williams walters, you got the Williams in or and
they would be the waves. The Welter Walter Walter waves.
It's a lot of alliteration. The Welter Walter Williams waves,
(40:47):
I'm a wave. You're really making things difficult on your
play by play. Oh, the Welter Walter william waves win it.
It's a mouthful. They win it with the what the
windmill dunk? With the windmill walk off?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Who Walter win Joe Windmill walk Now we're getting donuts
involved and Joe DiMaggio, Richard Nixon stue to Baker Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe, and so it goes
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turns out to not be banned. Can you smell what
(41:26):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, welcome inside. Happy Wednesday Wednesday? Yeah, Wednesday, right, still
wed Wednesday? Wednesday? We were two days, right, two days?
This week is day three? Yeah okay, yeah, just making
sure now since college day four for me, but yeah,
day three. Sometimes the days just blend right into each other.
That that means life is going well. Yeah, Live from
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the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Except the Mets. Uh, you
know what. We we don't have time for the Mets
right now because the Valkyries are about to start and
we are on Bilbo Baggins watch for the WNBA game
tonight that's about to tip a But the Mets could
be getting no hit, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Instead, it was a Sammy so so like meaningless home
run in a way.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That was so much more Mets to actually here's the story.
It could be a no hitter, but they break it
up with one out in the ninth inning and lose.
Like that's so much more Mets than actually getting no hit.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I mean it's a better story that way, especially
when you got the broadcasters, you know, watching another game
but keeping an eye on a no hitter and kind
of commenting on that. And then the no hitter gets
broken up with the home run because it gets to
breathe otherwise, Yeah, they lost and they move on, right,
It doesn't matter when you get into.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
The ninth inning, you're basically no hit anyway, right, so
you go go all the way with it. Now, Soto
with a home run, they lose four to one. The
Mets lose again. All the now, the the losing Yankees
can't mask how bad the Mets have been. They can't
hide behind the Yankees anymore like they have.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You can still, Yes, I guess you move beyond that,
but you know, you do always have to celebrate, as
we want to do here in the evenings when we
come on and games have gone complete or as we
watch them. I gotta like Gavin Williams to have the
game that he did eight and two thirds. I give
him the the clapp forget about not getting the the
(02:29):
no hitter and giving up a danger. Uh, the fact
of the matter is the guy pitched past five innings.
That makes him an American hero.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You meant you what you okay? Okay? You want to
give him applause? Yeah, okay, very good. Want to make
sure that's what you mean. Laurel and Hardy handshake, all right,
I get, I give him a hand I give a
I give the U the giant applause. But here we
sit right now, and really, this is this is America
twenty twenty five. Uh, the biggest game of the night,
the only game in the w NBA tonight record ratings.
(02:58):
I'm sure the Valkyries hosting the aces, and of course
everybody will be watching to see if a certain sex
toy yeah gets thrown on the court for the fourth
time in the last week. Considering we saw it last
night in Los Angeles, we spent the last hour of
the show talking about it. Potentially it happened in a
couple of other games, but the Billbo Baggins did not
(03:18):
make it all the way onto the onto the court.
It was thrown on the they were thrown on the floor,
So I went, do we really think we're gonna get
that happening time? Do you really think do we see
another one thrown on the floor tonight between the Aces
and the Valkyrie. Oh well, you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Know the security on high alert, monitoring my words carefully.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, in terms of attempting to throw it, I
can't say that I've been involved in any kind of contest,
So I don't know throwing for distance, you know what
it does? What kind of torque and arm angle you got,
Because clearly there were a couple of attempts that failed
to reach the court, which is good. Some folks tried
to dismiss this categorically, and I think the sad state
of affairs is that that became the It's more a
(04:02):
hot topic than Caitlin Clark or any of these stars
missing time due to injury, the play on the court.
It's the Valkyries. So we have what at least two
incidences with Valkyrie's games. Yeah, well, look, I mean really
gets you really into a larger discussion about San Francisco,
which has its reputation anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I mean, look, everybody watching this game, it just tipped off,
like just watching the floor looking to see if something
gets the Is it gonna be time out? Is it
gonna be while someone shooting a free throw? Is it
not when they're shooting a free throw? Is someone gonna
tweet about it? Will they show it? Because I look,
we talked about this after it happened the second time,
as I guarantee you or if not, I should be
(04:41):
commissioned with the WNBA. Sorry Kathy Angeler, but I can
come in and take care of things and make people
love Caitlin Clark. Is that I I would be stunned
if there wasn't some court, some sort of meeting today,
some sort of conversation with the broadcast of the game
that says, if anything gets through it, if you see something,
they got to have a spotter that's watching, making sure
(05:03):
there's somebody who's job at this tonight is to see
if anything gets thrown on the court. And if something
gets thrown on the court, you direct the television to
not air it, so you do not say, now you
can't stop people on social media, people with cellful, but
you were stopping people from airing this because this is again,
I mean, I feel bad for the WNBA because this
is the biggest headline they've had outside of Caitlin Clark,
(05:25):
and everybody is jealous of her, right, I feel bad
that that no one get you know, that the people
can't respect the game enough to the point where, oh,
a guy got arrested and we saw that, and and
and and a player said, hey, don't throw stuff on
the floor. You I don't care. I'm still gonna throw
something on the floor and I'm gonna throw it at
the player that said don't throw things. And this is
where we're at now, Like that, that's where that's.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The thing, right, because a lot of the discussion as
it is filtered out into the late hours and morning
after we were done and gone.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Uh last night was the well.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, I don't think they're trying to send a
message like no, no, no, but the message which is
loudly received, it's diminishing and taking away from anything that's
happening on the court and in terms of the play
in between the white lines. Right, because the w NBA discussion,
for folks that aren't paying attention to the league at all,
(06:16):
it becomes a nice easy It's like, wow, this is
what the league is, right, We're talking about wigs and
sex toys. That's that's what it gets dismissed at well,
Caitlyn Clark and then Wiggs and then sex for the
next story was here and god like the Whig story
was here and then it left like this is like
this is like this is a TikTok. Hey, people are
doing this kind of trend that's stuck around for a
(06:38):
long time. And againa I feel bad that that people
don't have their The league doesn't have the respect that
fans can see again, somebody get arrested, a player just
say hey, don't throw stuff like that on the court.
You did somebody, And not only does fans say, yeah,
I don't care about the prison thing or going to jail,
and I'm gonna throw it at you, like, I mean,
just think about that for a second. Well, I think
we're using the term fan liberally because if you're in
(07:02):
the building, but if you're going there, I mean, look,
they paid for their ticket. But then there's obviously an
angle and since there's a betting market now on the
color of said toy that is the next to be thrown.
Now you can manipulate the markets because you have perfect information,
you decide to go in. I don't know what kind
of limit you can get on that, because that's going
to be a provider by provider. But if you can
(07:25):
go and make yourself a quick couple of hundred bucks
or a couple thousand bucks by importing said toy to
a game and firing onto a court, guess what people
have done a lot worse for a lot less.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now, I'm glad you brought up the color because I
was thinking about this coming in, like I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You were thinking about this, well, I had a million
other things.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I was just thinking about gains america favorite color. This
is where we're at. No, no, no, no, you know
I can't stand that that neo green. I think it's
what it looks awful for. Yeah, I bought a whole
bunch of.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How got surplus couldn't But it's the most popular in
terms of sales.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And here's here's what I would have done, right, Here's
what I would have said. Okay, I would have given
all the players tonight neon green sneakers to wear during
the game. That way, it would be really if one
got thrown onto the because you know they're gonna throw
a green one. I know you have the different colors
but really the green's become the calling.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, but the green, right, all of the betting markets
are if not green, here are the odds, like it's
just taken off the board as the presumptive this is
going to be the color. But if it isn't, here
are the odds alone. By the way, if something does
get on the court, Kelsey Plump's finding it and kicking it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So flying back in from Los Angeles to flying No.
But I mean if you had everybody in neon green sneakers,
it would be really tough. Then it's like, oh, well played, WNB.
I gotta put this away and try to come back
with a different color next time. Right, That's what I
because I think about it you're talking about You're talking
about twenty feet in one spot on the floor, and
(09:07):
if it gets thrown wait wait wait, I don't see it.
I don't see where is it? Where is it? I
don't see it. I don't say it. Now I realize
it doesn't get thrown. You're gonna get people on social
media going, oh now, there's twenty of them on the floor. No,
but you want to I think you should do that
and say, okay, you really want to try to we
can play dirty here too. Are the odds based on
the first one to hit the floor. You think there's
be more than one? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I mean there were multiple allegedly and a couple of
the spots yesterday. So if you're trying to make sure
you know, and you're you're running towards the court and
you're gonna throw, uh, maybe you distract all the security
so the person on the other side can get theirs
thrown in.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right, So we're about five minutes into the game,
nothing has been thrown onto the court and Vegas Leeds
go not yet. Yes, you're right, you have to say
yet a Vegas Leeds Golden State eight three.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One thing that was thrown out there today about this
because the way the story turned out there, Yeah not.
My first day was that a no bag policy was
institute by the WMBA. I mean, you can't bring a
bag in to games, and anybody that's gone to a
game you know that some some stadiums you can bring
it if it's clear clear you can't bring in any bag.
Well like they the Hello Kiddy guy yesterday one hundred
(10:12):
dollars bag. Yeah, on the secondary market about I'm telling
you that Monte Bolgias is selling like ten twelve of
them at a time right now, any bay. But uh,
I don't think that's true. That's not that's not been
verified by anybody. But a lot of people have picked
up all the no bag policy, no bag policy. But
I don't think that's come. I mean, and I don't
know why that's something that's made up, because it's like, okay,
(10:34):
it would kind of make sense to have some kind
of policy. Okay, we can't keep having this, yes, right, this,
we can't keep that. I think that was tied into
the story where they're getting rid of the dunk contest.
Oh is that what? Oh? Okay, all right, I didn't
know that it was on the you scrolled down and
clicked it was right there, all the way on the bottom,
in a real tiny print, right there, right right right
before the unsubscribe. Oh you gotta click out it. We're
all the way down unsubscribed there. Uh So, all right,
(10:56):
So I ask you this, I asked you that. Yeah,
four thirty in the first quarter. Does something get thrown
on the floor tonight? Bilbo does a Does Bilbo Baggins
get thrown on the floor tonight? Yeah? Really see. I'm
gonna say no. At any point at tonight, I'm gonna
say no. I'm gonna say no. Not because I think
(11:17):
suddenly people have had enough of this, but it's the
only game you would have had to you would have
had You would have to find a way to get
to this game. It's like one of those hard to smuggle. Yeah,
you know what it's like. It's like when in Logan
Lucky when they're like, Oh, we're gonna pull a big heights,
what are you gonna do? We're gonna rob Nascar. We're
gonna rob the track at one of the big races.
Oh whoa, that's a that's a tough race to get into. Yeah,
(11:39):
but we're gonna do it. Like the next tomorrow, there's
a bunch of w NBA games and I don't know
where the person or people are doing this. Maybe they're
going back and forth, flying around the country, going but
this is one game, one spotlight on it, and if
it happens and you get caught, wow, I'll tell you what, man,
that's gonna be really bad. So I think I think
they take tonight off from it, and we don't have
it happen tonight. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We had one to hit Sophie Cunningham yesterday right next
to Kelsey Plum. And we've seen jackasses running across fields
for as long as you and I have been doing
the show. In decades before that. Sure, we had a
couple of guys that decided they didn't like the dude
from the Royals at in Chicago and went out and
actually got hammered to hit him here.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean, what's the maximum fine? I mean, like a
night in jail, and you might have been able to
make a bunch of money on the secondary were also
something where if you're gonna do something, let's just try
to eat A psychology people who try to do things
like this is that to do it when it's expected.
People kind of zig where they zag on that right, like, Okay,
(12:42):
we're gonna take a night off. Now there's a bunch
of games tomorrow and whatever. Maybe it happens at one
of the games throbout when there's more games going on.
Maybe some places or less lax with bringing stuff in.
Whatever it is, but one game to get away with
it when the when everybody's eyes are on it, that's
a difficult thing, man. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'll go the other way, right, because tomorrow, what do
we get a bunch of NFL preseason Bilbo Baggins ain't
getting a lot of run. It would be a headline.
Nah no see competing with the NFL run. No see,
you're you're the only game in town tonight. Most baseball
has already been played on a getaway day white so Mariners.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Notwithstanding, now you get your run here.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
By the way, the other thing is, now you also
have the variations of said objects start coming in, because
we gotta have the non metal versions that come through. Okay,
you metal in terms of the rigidity and such. M
E T A L Yeah, okay, not metal like on
the metal stands.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I mean that's
if we're talking about three. I don't know what the
silver is, but you only get one of those if
you throw it really for no, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It right, And then here, I mean they're gonna have
halftime contests for throwing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No, I'm saying this.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
This becomes a minor league baseball promotion at some point
instead of throwing a ball through the you know, football
through the net. Like everybody keeps harping on quarterbacks in
their workouts. Now we start having other kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
All right, I'm good, I'm still I'm still gonna say no,
I'm gonna say no. We have a clean game tonight.
They have a clean game tonight, and nothing hits the
floor except sneakers, the ball, and players, sweat and blood.
That's it. The sweat and blood hit the floor too. Okay,
maybe not blood. Sweat hits the floor, okay, okay, So
but when the bodies hit the floor. So we have sweat,
we have bodies, we have the ball, we have sneakers.
(14:37):
That's what. That's all the isolated here's your opportunity. Too dangerous, man,
too dangerous, too dangerous. Everybody is looking waiting for it.
It's easy to police one game. How do you police
you know, six games going on at one time? How
do you do that? It's tougher, man, you've seen all
these crazy you're not adding. Did they add extra security
for the game. But the more attention on this you
(14:59):
get called the bigger penalty. It's going to wind up
being because you get caught with the whole world wide.
It's like we say about it when you blow chunks
on Sunday afternoon at one o'clock in the football season. Okay,
you blow chunks Monday night at nine o'clock in the
football season. That changes everything. One game tonight, everybody watching
waiting to see what happens. Yeah, you see, it's it's
too dangerous man to day. They take the night off from.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The get that man or woman can then put up
a go fund yourself and there'll be millionaires by the
end of the night.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, well see, one of us will be right, one
of us will be wrong. It'll be me. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radios. This is
what ends my run. I had a good one. What
do you mean, what run? You're not gonna get fired.
If you're wrong, you're out. Harmon is out. But coming
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here we are again, near the end of the first quarter. Wnba.
Nothing is hit the floor again. We're gonna get a
(17:55):
clean game time my garment. I'm I'm a believer in
the best of people and good things. We're gonna get
a clean game to tame. Nothing hits the floor except
sneakers and sweat. No, it's good.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I appreciate you. Know you want to go skipping down
the road. You want me to give you a lolly
pop and you can dance as you do sixteen fourteen,
end of one. You know, to actually give the game
specificity as opposed to just whether someone committed a criminal act.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
As e were nearing the end of the first quarter.
We're here. We're good. So now so far one quarter down.
I'm feeling all right, I'm feeling okay about my produce.
I'm hoping I win. I'm hoping I win, and the
WNBA is hoping I win.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, they certainly are. Again, it's not a function of
whether someone's got some great plot as to why they're
doing it. They could simply just be jackasses. But it
does not help your league and the efforts of the
WNBA for this to be the reason that sports talk
(18:53):
and television in morning shows are talking about your league.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But this again, Welcome to America twenty twenty five. Yeah,
now you talked about helping and helping your league and
a helper. Yesterday we did a pretty big topic on
ESPN buying NFL Network and the Red Zone, and the
reaction after that happened was, to a man, fans say,
(19:18):
ESPN's just gonna screw it up, whether they feel that
ESPN is gonna be too woke or they're gonna force
feed personalities. I can't stand on me and Stephen A.
Smith is gonna host the red zone touch down Eagles
touns down here like whatever's gonna happen. Uh, they're gonna
find a way to ruin it. And you know, we
talked about this last night. We went viral for us
(19:39):
that if you're ESPN and the reaction to the Worldwide
Leader getting more football from the fans is we're gonna
ruin it. You need to look in the mirror and
figure out how to change the optics and reputation of
the Worldwide Leader, because that is I mean, this is
not ESPN is not some sort of fly by night
(20:00):
streaming service that has a lot of money saying hey,
we're gonna buy some NFL games. Oh okay, great, what
is it? Yeah, I know, we're gonna work and put
it on a paramount plus plus no paramount plus, no
paramount plus plus. It's the second paramount's paramount plus plus. Yeah,
don't worry about it, we'll find it. Shows top Gun, Maverick,
and then we show all the NFL stuff. So is
the this is the status of ESPN right now. It
(20:20):
is a look in the mirror moment of this is
the image of the company that has been leading the
sports world for the better part of the last fifty years,
right and then today somehow that story got worse because
today it was announced another big moment for ESPN. They
announced a big partnership with the WWE. Ww is bringing
a lot of events to ESPN that ESPN is going
(20:41):
to stream on different platforms. Is a lot of inside
baseball with this in business, but basically, WWE is going
to bring live premier events to ESPN. I'm sure some
of them will be part of the ESPN appen and
streaming service you have to buy. Some of them will
be on free ESPN as well. So this is going
to be a new world for the WWE. And does
(21:02):
it seem to be that different from what the WWE
has going on now? No, not really. Will there be
a little bit more pay per view probably, Will there
still be a lot of free events, probably, But the
general reaction from everybody it look the two most popular
and most vociferous I would say fan bases, most rabid
fan bases in the world. Well three you have English
(21:24):
Premier League Soccer, the NFL and WWE. Those are the
most rabid fan bases you could possibly imagine. You had
the NFL fan base thinking you're just gonna screw up
the NFL, and now all day today was ww They're
gonna fight. ESPN is gonna find a way to screw
it up. I'm not wind up paying so much money
for this because look, ww puts pay per view events
on all the time. You want to follow the storylines
(21:45):
and not miss anything. Whereas with the NFL. Okay, if
I missed the Jets losing twenty eight to three, I
missed the Jets losing twenty eight to three, But I
want to see all this. So you see how upset
that the fans are. And and even again with this,
it was even more rabbid than it was a day
of Oh, because you had fans upset knowing full well,
this is money coming out of my pocket at some point. Now,
(22:06):
is it gonna be as much as people want to
make it, believe? No, because ESPN is not gonna Look
they've been doing this for a while. Are they gonna
do some stuff to help themselves out? Yeah? Is the
future of sports streaming, Yes, we've talked about this, whether
it's ESPN or Fox or Paramount or Max whatever, it is.
The future of sports is streaming. So it's not gonna
be that bad. But you see the reaction of the
(22:28):
fans being that they're just gonna ruin the WWE, and
now people are so pissed at ESPN forgetting They're pissed
at WWE. I mean that, I mean, that's amazing. They're
so pissed at ESPN. They're pissed at WWE for going
to ESPN. That's how bad. That's how bad an optic
this is that ESPN they got to take some of
this money and and and figure out a way to
(22:51):
change the network's reputation and optics. Because Wow, I can't
get over that. This is where it's out again, America
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well, we'd already seen it happening for years with your
different talent appearing on ESPN properties morning shows, whatever to
do announcements. Certainly has seen that part of NFL network
as well. Plenty of NFL players with big NFL fan
bases and ties. Seth Rollins the new champ. He's a
(23:19):
Bears guy. Bailey one of my favorites. She's a big
forty nine Ers fan, so there's always these ties. She
hangs out with George Kittle a bunch whatever else. But
the fine print was what got lost in all of this,
Like if you have a cable subscription that you get ESPN.
You will get access, Yes, you will get access. Right,
what you still have is this weird convergence or now
(23:45):
it's more disparate. Is that you've got the Netflix deal
has a couple more years for WWE, You've got the
Peacock deal that still has another couple of years, but
now you have the premium live events eventually going all
in to this ESPN deal again, if you have a
cable subscription, you have, and it had to enumerate them
(24:06):
as the day went on because everybody was mad. Is
it more expensive if you have to buy Yeah, it's
twenty nine bucks for what ESPN is putting out. But
if you already have ESPN as part of your cable package,
you're gonna be okay. It's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Then now the Peacock subscription depending on what you had,
what is it eleven bucks a month or seventeen bucks
a month or whatever, And you've got the archives of
the WWE so fans you know, wanting to go back
and watch the Mega Powers. You're still gonna have to
keep your Peacock subscription. You're not gonna be able to
get rid of it. But it's like all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It evolves, and again you don't want to pay for it.
Make a choice with your wallet. Nobody's forcing you and
holding you over a barrel. It's like when people go
to a theme park or whatever else. It's so expensive,
Like you do that going in and yes, now you
have to learn the new place on your cable system
or download a different app. You're going to get a code.
(25:01):
Does it mean that eventually they're not going to go
into your pocket deeper? No, that's exactly what it means.
Just right, You're not easy.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But it doesn't matter because no matter what the truth is,
fans don't want ESPN to have ww they don't want
ESPN to have the NFL, they don't want the worldwide
leader in sport. It almost makes me feel bad for
them again, like the Yankees. I almost felt bad for
the Yankees the last three nights. I almost feel bad
for them. But you're ready for it to get worse
for ESPN. I mean, because this is this is of
(25:30):
all the things that happen this today is what blew
me away. Now, this announcement goes on and we don't
talk about other people on other networks, the actual personalities,
but me being there in the nineties in production and
then being there for most of the two thousands hosting
All Night. I still am stunt. I know it's a
different world right now, but to see Pat McAfee part
(25:54):
of the part of WWE, right, part of everything, like
he and he and Stephen A. Smith are ESPN's biggest stars.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fact that Pat McAfee can, unprompted go on Twitter, right,
not that he's in the middle of a war with
somebody or you know, when it was a year ago
with Norby Williamson who I remember working for Norby back
in the nineties. Whereas all this guy's trying to sabotage
my show. Okay, they have beef, but he decided to
celebrate this thing, to go on social media and say, hey,
great to see these two powerhouses of sports and entertainment
(26:22):
come together. Then he says, quote, I assume all the
mid level powerless bum a suits at ESPN will attempt
to muddy this somehow, out of context, leaks, ignorant, anonymous opinions,
et cetera. But in the end, this agreement will outlive
the dinosaurs currently guarding desks in Bristol. And he gets
away with it, like he gets it. He can say
(26:44):
this about ESPN within the company, not somebody who's a
disgruntled employee that left. Let me tell you about how
bad what they tried to do to me at ESPN.
This is their second biggest starts at any any event,
their second biggest star. Who decides, unprompted, I'm gonna torch
the company that I work for And okay, like really,
(27:04):
I mean ESPN. You'll know if tomorrow there's no sort
of disciplinary action for Pat mcafefe for just taking on
ESPN with this, you will know that they are absolutely
toothless and and and they are just they're just lost.
Like I can't believe that we're talking about the status
of ESPN going from the company that embraced sports fans
(27:25):
that for the longest time were underserved, and they'll look
at ESPN. They do things so great, and they do
everything so awesome. And everybody that I knew growing up
wanted to work at ESPN. I wanted to work at ESPN.
Then they became the Evil Empire. But so boy, they
have everything, but what are you gonna do? We get
great college football, college basketball, NFL now here we are
where it is completely different and not only are the
(27:46):
fans upset with what with what they see going on
with ESPN? Again, you have the second biggest star, unprompted,
not involved in a war with anybody, not just saying
just saying, powerless bum ass suits. The agreement will outlive
the dinosaurs. Like wow, man, I can't believe he said
that two things.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Change is inevitable, Change is hard, right, So if you
got used to where you were consuming your product and
then it goes to ESPN, which is not the same
ESPN you and I grew up with, by any by
any rational person's just watching what it's become.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It was Sports Center, it was Sports Reporters, It was
a couple shows like that, and then you had live events.
That was it, and then it became more personality, more debate,
more whatever. The radio shows moving in now with Pat mcavee,
we haven't had an outward battle. He's been on and
(28:45):
off WWE for some period.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
You can always use the hey, I got a young
family at home and all of that. I don't doubt
for a minute. There haven't been a bunch of battles
about his involvement with the WWE and taking time away
and whether it was affecting his product with ESPN by
some of these nameless middle managers. So the fact that
(29:10):
this deal now got signed, he's taken the baseball bat out.
I mean that he's going to town as if he's
Robert de Niro.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
This team, how how it got worse for ESPN? Two
big announcements and all all it does is just it's
it's boom, you got a one point six billion dollar deal.
But it's like this is bad. Body blow body blow,
And I'd be really and and and and really to
have the thing is to have McAfee say this on
a day in which is a big celebration day, and yes,
(29:41):
I'm happy for that, but all these bum ass suits,
all these diners, is all these bad people. It's almost
like he's like at w W villain, like I'm gonna
I'm gonna criticize it, but it's not part of a
script because you know that's how we feel well, but
owning it.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
To the fact that there might have been things in
the works for a long time that got buddied up,
and that's exactly who he's calling out. It's like it
got done in spite of you. And now he's doing
a victory.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But I don't know. I don't think people are trying
to they were trying to torpedo the deal with WWE,
like this is a it's a big business. No, but
sports sports center above. No, it gets above the middle,
the middle mach the people that in our offices. This
is at the highest level. But if some of those
people got into those meetings, he was dealing with that
torpedo a billion billion dollar deal. People aren't in those
(30:26):
kind of meetings. Trust me. I know who's in those
kind of meetings. Nobody. No, I don't know anything about it.
Nobody that he's taught. I was there. I was inside
the walls there for a long time. I talk to people,
all right, I know who's in these meetings.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The level of people that he's talking about are not
at the highest level of these meetings. They're not sitting
here saying, hey, we don't know, we want to get
in bed with the WWE. Wait what that's not happening?
Trust me, trust me, trust me, just gonna let it go.
I want you to trust me. You're the smartest guy
in the room. Oh now you're upset. Now you're upset. Okay,
let's find out what's trending from someone who maybe the
(30:59):
smartest person in the it's Monty Bolanos. I think I am.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I would like to think.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So I'm good. You know I'm getting those bobbleheads, right yeah, okay,
good one.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Right now, you gotta work your way back to getting two.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, not only the smartest person the room, the smartest
person at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
All right, we're getting closer, getting closer to those two.
Speaking of two, that's how many runs the Diamondbacks have scored.
It started with a Gorbyn Carrol home run. So right
now they're up on the Padres two zero. Bottom of
the fourth inning. The Mariners have extended their lead over
the White Sox. Julio Rodriguez, big fan over here, three
run shot. They're up on the White Sox seven to one.
(31:34):
Top of the third inning. The Brewers have now won
six in a row. They topped the Braves five to
four and completed the sweep. The Royals snapped the Red
Sox seven game winning streak, coming out on top today
seven to three, Nationals edging the A's two to one.
Marlin's avoiding the sweep with the six to four win
over the Astros. The Cardinals held on five to three
against the Dodgers in LA. It was World Series show.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Hey o, tawny giveaway Shoeodannie pitched four innings, struck out eight,
hit home run number thirty nine on the season, which
also happened to be his one thousandth career hit, but
the Dodgers lose five to three to the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Boo, there was almost a no hitter today. Almost.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Guardians pitcher Gavin Williams had that no hitter going into
the ninth inning, was in the ninth inning, and then
of course to met Swan Soto hits a so low
home run, but Cleveland still won that game four to one.
Yankee snapped their five game losing streak by beating the
Rangers three to two in the NFL. Rams quarterback Matthew
Stafford received an epidural to deal with an aggravated disc,
(32:36):
but the team still thinks he'll be ready for Week one.
Dolphins tight end Darren Waller is one week away from practicing.
According to head coach Mike McDaniel, Titans quarterback Cam Warden,
the starters are going to play in every preseason game.
Head coach Brian Callahan said as when it comes to
Aaron Rodgers, Steelers quarterback, he said it's not likely that
he's gonna play Saturday against the Jaguars, but when he
(32:58):
was asked about his availability this preseason, Rogers said that
he will do whatever head coach Mike Tomlin asks him
to do. And lastly, guys, players will still be able
to whiff smelling salts during the games this season.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
That's yes.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
The NFLPA sent a message to the players Wednesday night
clarifying that the league's ban on smelling salts only applies
to clubs providing it to the players.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
So bring your own smelling salts.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I can still bring him in here and use them. Yes, okay,
very good, Right, Yeah, nothing's precluding.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Nothing nothing and nothing has gone flying at this WNBA game. Yes,
five minutes to go on the first half, Aces Valkyries
ted to twenty seven. Nothing flying yet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch. Yes, The Jason
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dot edu. Well, coming up next, a very special Play
of the day and absolute history we're gonna see in
a couple of days, big announcement. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
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We are.
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Now yet near halftime, Aces and Valkyries, clean game. So far,
nothing has hit the floor except for sneakers and the
basketball and sweat. We are all good. We are nearly
halfway home the only WNBA game of the night.
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Nice clean battle forty thirty four game final minute.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, all good.
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Thus far good clean American fund, so Fat Fitzgerald used
to say.
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And so far we're halfway the halfway there. We're halfway there, well,
I mean until I can bust out to Tiana almost
there with about a minute left in the fourth and
even then until it's all zeros of buzzer sounds and
people are shaking hands. Eh, We're not there yet. Time
now for the Play of the Day and the play
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Well.
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When you get your thousandth hit in this fashion, despite
the fact your team ruined the day for you by
not winning, you get to be the play of the day.
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Snacks in the air deep center field.
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Scott's going forget about it.
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It's gone halfway up to pavilion. The Dodger picture launches
a massive home runs his thirty ninth this year.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So there was Dodgers TV on the call. Another home
run for show. Hey, Otani, he is the play of
the day, and you know last night Dodger with a
big win. Hey, that could be a big springboard win. Nope,
didn't happen, No, not quite.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I like the music in the background there though, it
sounded like, you know, an eight bit video game was
getting ready to commence. Yeah, all right, got my guy
out there with a Pickaggs or something. Great effort from
Otani on the mound as well. I hit one hundred
miles an hour a couple of times and came up
with some big efforts. But now it's that that question
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that lingers of what's his long term prospects. We've talked
a lot about the closing role for him eventually, but
that would mean you have enough starting pictures that you
can shift him there. Uh, but we are going to
get a couple of ageless wonders on Friday. Yeah, kershawn.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, it's like the combined age ninety eight. It's gonna
really be that'd be great. But yeah show hey, uh,
another massive milestone for us. Now, speaking of milestone, we
are going to get something huge this weekend in Major
League Baseball when the first it's not no no, no baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball,
dot uh, we are going to get the first female
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umpire in the history of Major League Baseball when Jen
Powell is going to umpire a game this weekend, Marlin's game.
And uh, this is the first time this will have
happened in baseball history. Not gonna believe you're gonna umpire
the bases, like basically the second base umpire for the
game not gonna be behind Home's gonna be played at
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the end of the Yeah, the series. Yeah, she's gonna
she'll break She'll break the mark on Saturday. Of course,
obviously there's gonna be a lot of attention on this.
And you know, here's the thing is, it's a it's
an unbelievable story because you think about this, But I
swear to you, if you said to me, have we
had female umpires in Major League Baseball? I would have said, yeah, right,
because I would have said, yeah, we had, like we
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we broke through that, right, that we broke through that,
that we broke through the glass ceiling, right, and we've
had it because we've seen it happen in the NFL,
We've seen it in college football, we've seen it in
the NBA. I would say, for sure, yeah, we've seen
it before in Major League Baseball at some point, but
we haven't. And I started thinking about that, and I
said to myself today, you know, I think that's actually
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a really cool thing that I thought. I'm sure a
lot of people felt the same way that, Yeah, I
would have thought, for sure, yeah we had somebody, don't
somebody else do games here?
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Do we have this?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Did we have this? Do we have this? Like we
would have had that at some point, uh in Major
League Baseball and and okay, so it didn't seem like
it was that big a deal until you think about it, go,
oh no, no, this is okay, this is gonna be
the first one.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
All right, Yeah, we haven't had it in ice hockey yet,
but it goes to Jen Walter right in coaching in
the National Football League and a number of women that
have coached that you bridge that again, I would have
thought we would have had a female umpire. Now she's
been in the minor leagues about a decade on was
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high ranked official in the fast pitch leagues before that.
But yeah, long time coming and getting her shot this weekend.
So but to your point, yeah, I would have thought
we broke that a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah.
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Really, I said, oh, okay, this is the first thing,
because when I saw the headlines, say, I'm like, oh,
that's pretty cool first one since no first what wait?
Wait what? Wait what? And really I sat back for
a few minutes and actually said to my wife, he said, Okay,
if I said this to you, I said, have we
had we've had an umpire. If I asked you if
we had a female major league umpires before, she would
say yeah. I think the average person thinks that this
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was already broken through, and it's great that it's being
broken through. But I also, I really I think it's
great thing that when you think, oh, we've we've already
had this happen right, Like, it's not it's not a
headline anymore, that that we think this is that big
a deal and it is great and it's awesome for
the sport and it's all the way around. But just
the fact that I would say we would have had
it by now, all right, I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You can get to that next level. And it's Welter
Walter's a coach in college. So but either way, boyd,
being that you know, we we've broken that barrier a
number of times.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
So if I had a coach in college, I would
call it Welter Walters. Nice, Welter Walters. Where do you go?
I go to Welter Walter's hyphen ad Welter Walters. Uh, Welter. Well,
we high favor with the fee like Welter Walters, Welter Walter,
Welter Williams walters, you got the Williams in or and
they would be the waves. The Welter Walter Walter waves.
It's a lot of alliteration. The Welter Walter Williams waves,
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I'm a wave. You're really making things difficult on your
play by play. Oh, the Welter Walter william waves win it.
It's a mouthful. They win it with the what the
windmill dunk? With the windmill walk off?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh?
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Who Walter win Joe Windmill walk Now we're getting donuts
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