December 2, 2021 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react as the clock strikes midnight and Major League Baseball enters a lockout. The guys discover the extent of MLB attempting to erase the players for the time being with a fascinating "rebranding" of MLB.com taking place. Plus, the guys discuss the new same hire at Notre Dame!
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listening to Fox Sports Radio and t J. Don't forget
me when I'm gone. Don't forget major League Baseball because
now they are in a lockout. Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself.
You are now meeting the Grandmaster. The lockout is beginning.
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Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself. We got to scream
in you asked for the scream like four times. I figured,
ty Shirt new, I gotta put the screaming. Well, I
I would have just done this dream as I did earlier.
That's like when we get in the car to go
pick up Zoe from school and in Pamela say, what
do you want to do? We go? You know, we
can go to Starbucks or something if you want to go. Okay,
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I was thinking maybe we can stop a target. Real
fastic yeah, or we gonna go to Starbucks too. You
know there's a Starbucks right near there. Yeah. Well, then
after tar we gotta go to the library return that book.
I go, yeah, there's a Starbucks right there. We could
probably go to Starbucks too. It's like, okay, then she
knows I want to go to Starbucks. Hey, what's the
number one rule and advertising repetition? Baby? Make people know
about the product and goods and services you are offering exactly.
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I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know this was
gonna be so fun. Uh, not that the lot know,
but not that the lockout is fun, but actually talking
about the lockout is fun, because yes, we are in
a Major League Baseball lockout. It is past midnight on
the East Coast, and neither side was able to come
to an agreement after a seven minute bargaining session earlier today.
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So now we're in a lockout. And as you heard
Ralph Evan say, there was one big trade made before
the deadline. Hunter Renfro gets Dealton Boy, he's having a
great PPR year. Uh, he gets traded in exchange for
Jackie Bradley Jr. Now everything is done. Marcus Stroman is
a cub or, so he tells us uh and Max
Scherzer is a met and he met the media today
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and it was glorious, it awesome. But now we're in
a lockout and you know, I just about this for
a couple of seconds, because did you really need to
meet for seven minutes? It? Was there anything? I mean,
what could possibly like? Did you really well, we'll sit down.
You never know, maybe the other side's gonna say, we
don't really want to lock out, but just put a
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piece of paper in front of me and we'll sign it.
I mean, seven minute ABS works. If you just do
that repeatedly, you'll get two great abs. So maybe they
thought they know that was the start point because somebody
could have come up with six minute ad could work
seven minutes in heaven was gonna be give him who
the completion of a deal another hour before we can
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talk about that. Okay, another for that, all right, just
just so you know, I mean, really I don't understand
what seven minutes worth of it was again, unless it's
just so each side can say, yeah, I was a
badass man. I walked in and I said blank you
and he said blank you two man, And I said
I liked the first episode of Hawkeye. That's what I
hated the first episode Hawkeye. Oh yeah, let's fight, let's go.
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And then they walked out and said, Okay, that was good.
That was good. Yeah, great. Oh I told him some Yeah,
you know what I told him. He said, Hey, we
want all kinds of stuff. I said, We're not gonna
give you anything. There's the deal is on the table,
and now both sides can save face. And now he
can get to the point of a lot of days
where there's potentially some small news that is always making
it look bleaker than it is, right, So just prepare
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for that, because that's gonna be what it is now
in Major League Baseball, every little bit of news that
is leaked as far as the negotiations are going, and
are you know we're counting down to the beginning of
spring training, because look, it's a long way to go now, right.
The lockout is here, so yes, it's newsworthy, it's right here.
But you have the rest of December, which everybody's gonna
be worried about the NFL. And you know how many
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points Buddy Beaheim's gonna store in his next game that
be worried about Christmas and the New Year. Then it's
gonna be all at the beginning of spring training is
in jeopardy, and then it's and then we're gonna say, well,
what is that really that big a deal? Is that
a real timetable? No, oh, there, there's gonna be no
time for any kind of ramp. We're gonna have to
play regular season games right away. Yeah, okay, okay, I
mean there's a long time between now and the end
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of March beginning of April. But every single bit of
news that comes out, none of it is going to
be good. Just understand that, right because I know, looking
at the news sometimes it's extremely depressing. You know, you
look at news today. It was just one of those
bad news days where so many depressing things were going on,
and and I get it. It's tough. So understand that
when this stuff comes out, this is not bad news.
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This is all posturing. You're gonna get something from Jeff
Passon or whoever else, you know, Ken Rosenthal, John Paul Morosey,
because they're gonna be talking to people in evolved in
the negotiations, what's going on, and you're gonna get from
people a doom and gloom picture, and they're gonna be
accurate quotes represented by by whatever message the owners or
the players union wants to get out because they want
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to make it seem like, hey, things are rough and
it's not our fault. You know, they'll play this game
in the media for a long time. There is a
long way to go. But everything that comes out, there's
nothing that's gonna be doom and gloom on December tenth
that's going to make it. Oh, we're not gonna have
a season. It's all about posturing. So just understand the
bad news is not bad news. All right, that's not
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going to be a part of it. Now. What I
will say is the is the difficult part for me, Mike,
is that the overall emergency break has always been we
can't miss games, right, we can't miss games, can't miss
games in the regular season. That that's an awful thing, right,
whether it was football or basketball, you're missing games and
suddenly the clock is ticking and then you've got both
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sides in a staring contest. This is the rough part
for me is that because of COVID, we had the
owners miss and lose a lot of revenue. And guess what,
Baseball is still going on right, Ratings are up, you know, playing,
the teams are making money again. Players missed a lot
of money and guess what they're all playing. They're all
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still doing well. They have experienced what a near entire
season without baseball has been. So once you've experienced that,
that's no longer an emergency break. Hey, hey, if we
want to miss the first month, players will say, I'll
sacrifice that first month to get what we want. I'll
sacrifice the first two months to get what we want.
I'll sacrifice to the all start break. And owners will
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say the same thing. I had to go with no
money for the entire season until some crazy as thirty
games at the end of August. I can go April
and May and into June with that if I I
want to get what I want. That's the one thing
to watch out for is is when once this thing
begins and you start ticking into this season, because neither
side has a bit of we have to get this going,
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so we all wind up making money and don't miss games.
They have seen what the realities have been liked by
missing games, and they've survived it. It's not their favorite thing.
It's not gonna be their first choice. But it's no
longer the deterrent to being able to solve things that
it used to be. But we can't miss games, we
can't miss salary, we can't miss it. No, we've seen that,
and the game is still going on and it jump
back pretty fast, and players made big money, and guys
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are signing big contracts already even in the face of
of a lockout. The Mets just gave Max Sure's a
hundred thirty million dollars for three years. So yeah, that's
not gonna stop things. That to me is the big
one is that we've gone through hey wherever we've had
no games and everything has been all right. So that's
clearly not going to be something that stops this from ending. Well,
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you're talking about the contracts that that go out, We're
we're looking at one point seven to one point eight
billion dollars uh, talking about the health of the game,
and and certainly there's always just that long term you know,
remaining viable, remaining uh that you're growing and trying to
be smart about the business moving forward. Right, you're going
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to all d H. There's some folks that are still
up upset about that. What are you doing with roster's
long term? I mean, there's there's a lot of issues
at stake in this current negotiation. Uh, and we won't
bog down things with the details. Will do that any
special podcast where we just read them line for line.
Uh as if we're right, just gonna do the entire
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cb A. That'll be fun, fun, fun listens, no questions
about it. But you know, to your point about, hey,
we've done this before, See, that was an externality that
they couldn't control because nobody wanted to give away that money.
They realized they could, but given the choice, I don't
know that we we don't have Like you could say
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this was the eleventh hour deal, right, like if something
had been struck tonight, Well, does it really affect anything
in December? No? Does it really affect anything the beginning
of January? No. Uh. Once we get to February and
we start talking about spring training and starting into the
business of baseball, then yeah, that then all of a sudden,
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it's like, all right, now this becomes real because in
the moment, it's not real money being lost. I mean,
I suppose folks that were potentially going to buy ticket packages,
right the eight game ticket plans or whatever. Maybe they
tell you to beat it because you're you're not giving
them assurances that any of those April games will be
available when some of the best giveaways are there. I mean,
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let's call it what it is. I mean, you're gonna
get the magnetic schedule, maybe a bobblehead or two. If
there were any milestones hit by members of your team
the year before, you're gonna get some commemorative chat sicky there.
I mean, you know, you might actually lose some short
term gain where you won't have the revenue off ticket
sales as the float. But I can't believe either side
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is gonna go when it actually matters and say, you
know what, we'll give up April in May. Now if
the the me means to the end is hey, we
should have a shorter season anyway, that's the antithesis of
everything they're fighting about. Like right now, it's about expanding games,
figuring out how to jam a few more playoff games
in so we can get some more TV revenue, uh
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and hike those charges back to our partners. So I
I think you'll eventually get the deal struck. It's just
the right now the minutia. The devil is in the
details to where nobody wanted to budge and look like
you know the NFL p A does each and every
time they go to the negotiating table. Uh. So we
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have some tweets from people who think this is what
could have gone on the seven minutes that could have
pushed the lack of negotiations moving past that, you're ready,
we have something, can't wait seven minutes? Uh This one
from Gabrielle says one side pineapple belongs on pizza side too.
That's it locked out. You know, I would say that
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would be that would be nonstarter for me. Pineapple on
pizza if the owners, if the player said we want
pineapple on pizza, you and I'll lockout lockouts coming. Yeah, no,
I mean pine pineapple is a very divisive topic. It is,
and how can you find it's it's so hard to
find something divisive on pizza? What what do you want?
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How many times when you order pizza with your friends,
your family? What do you want? Anything? All right? And
anything is cheese, extra cheese, pepperoni, sausage, meatballs, onions, peppers, mushrooms,
any anything, anything. I'll eat anything. And then it's what
if I could pineapple? Oh? Whoa what? What? What? What
do you mean? Pineapple? What is? What is that? You
could get almost anything else? Why it's really hard to
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be divisive on pizza, man, That's why pineapple is a
bad deal. It still sells, and you can keep it
in a can and then when that person comes through
and order it, orders it. It's there. Open up that
can of pineapples. Hey, it expired in two thousand and fourteen.
Open up. Somebody ordered been working in it's own juices.
It's fine, you know, they either if it was a
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zombie apocalypse and they'd be happy with it. Opened up
and put it on that pizza uh more pizza. The
upset pick says Union wanted Dominoes. MLB was like, now
you got red baron? Who the red baron? Now we're talking.
I haven't had a red baron pizza in a long time.
Isn't red baron? Like the pizza restaurant? They should call
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that red baron. When you're in the middle of nowhere,
there's always a red baron, Like there's anywhere close or
anybody lives now. But if you like you're out on
the road, like you're at a sports tournament. Or you're
on the way, So where are we gonna stop to eat?
We're halfway there. Oh there's a red baron Oh great,
we'll stop that like red barn where nobody else is see.
I always, I always knew it as the in the
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frozen section, and uh it was commonly referred to as
the cardboard pizza. And I grew up in Chicago. It
was very low on the depth chart. Nick says, Hey,
baseball just saw the Mets were signing. Everyone were like,
seasons canceled. That would be a very thing that happened
to the Mets. We got our best team ever. Owners
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just say to hell with its relevant again, So we're
not doing this. He still hang that banner at City Field.
The year we should have won, it would unfurl and
you would hear the trumpets blaring. Oh then that would
be so Mets, the year without a Santa Claus caused
by the Mets. But I'm bump bump bump. You want
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to learn how to play that? You got you go
see the heat Miser. That's Rob Manfred. I'll go see
the cold Miser. But bump bump bood. But uh, just
one last thing here. The parties hereby agree that hot
dogs shall be characterized as sandwiches, and all official communications
transmitted by the League and the Players Association players beat
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it owners. We approached you in good faith. That's a
pretty good one. Quarantine age wasteland with that one, that's
pretty good one. Because the hot I guess, not a sandwich.
I mean, I'll be honest, it's not a sandwich. I
can I can win this. I can win this easily.
It's not a sandwich. You know why? Because if I
handed you a hot dog without any bun on it,
what would you say that item is? If I handed
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it to you, what would you say? It is? Weird
tube shape? No? No No, no, no, what I would say?
No just no, no, no, no, not not no. I'm
just saying. If I had a hot dog in my
hand and I handed it to you, and I gave
it to you, what would you say it was? You
would say it was a hot dog? Right. If I
gave you a hot dog and a bun with mustard
on it, what would you say I gave you? I
gave you a hot dog. So if the bread is irrelevant,
because it's a hot dog, whether it's with no bread
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or with bread, So how is it a sandwich? It's
not a sandwich. That's tough to argue with, that, isn't it.
You really sit up late at night thinking about this, well,
you know, because what certain things that I'm really passionate about.
I will tell you. Hot dog is not a sandwich.
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. All of these things
it is that season for die Hard is a twitter
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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh,
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you know that gets me every time. I just I
just dig that. I want to start talking, but I
want to hear the end of it. No, it's a classic,
and it's it's hard to talk over that. That certainly
either there are things that stop you stop. The press
is right, sound bite stories. As we exchange information and
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try to figure out the direction of the show going forward,
I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the Major
League Baseball homepage right now, Jason. Oh yeah, I mean, look,
this is insane made now we this lockout is twenty
four minutes old. Right, this is twenty four minutes old
and Rob man for and you know, look, you know
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this is Manfred and the owners. They have replaced every
news story on the news like you go to MLB
dot com. It's like going to ESPN dot com and
Fox Sports dot com. You see the big columns in
the middle of the big spotlight articles and then you
have the roster on the side with all the developing
to all the big stories of the day. Where earlier
today it was Max Scherzer speaks on why he chose
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the Mets, um Marcus Stroman goes to the Cubs for
three years. All player stories and the rumor that Taylor
was going back to the Dodgers, and you know what
a bargain contract, all of these things great, yeah, yeah,
Renfron Renfro for Bradley trade, beats deadline for a lockout, everything.
MLB dot Com has now replaced every single one of
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those stories on the front page with some kind of
baseball memorabilia story Hall of Fame. Uh. Only five of
the best baseball movies ever retired. Player news. I mean it,
it's insane. Ever, you can tell this was ready to
go because here's the front page of MLB dot Com. Right,
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here's every story I'm gonna tell you, and this is
how serious it is. Okay, So under Latest News, here
are the stories every player making their Hall of Fame
ballot debut. Okay, so a list each of oh shows
up at a high school blast dingers. Do you want
me to talk about physics? Or do you want to
see me hit a few dingers? The hitter marrass up
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for Hall of Fame consideration. Storylines to watch on twenty
two Hall of Fame ballot, The Hall of Fame case
for Mini Minoso. I mean, really, miss on there it
should be. Do you guys know? Come on, hey, hid
a seven strikeout no hitter is no big deal. Vince
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Scully My thoughts on Gil Hodges. Five of the best
base ball movies ever. Four players facing last chance on
Hall of Fame ballots. Right, that's just on the roster
on the side of Latest News. But down in the
middle of you got that picture of Bob Costas as
part of a video. Looks like he's gonna cry, Yeah,
because he's in the early Baseball Golden Day's Era announcement
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and he looks greatly affected by whatever's they're talking about
in head clip, New Stars Light Up ballot for the
twenty two Hall of Fame ballot, Bob costs Us on
the Hall of Fame Golden Era ballot, and then for
some reason, it's video links to the Buckner play, Joe
Carter's home run, Kirby Puckets home run, the two thousand
one All Star Game recap, the Mariners advancing to the
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nine A LCS, Pedro Martinez is seventeen strikeout games, Kerry
Woods twenty strikeout game, Frank Thomas winning the home run Derby,
and the Phillies Cubs game from us for no reason.
These aren't an anniversaries. This is we're gonna put up
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all We're gonna put up all time evergreen baseball content
on MLB dot com. Say hey, what do we have
video of the last twenty five years? Well, we got
the Carter home rod, great, the Buckler played great. Put
that up there, oh, sid Breve slide, Oh yeah, Francis's
go Cabrera. Yeah, let's get that up there. Carry Wood's
twenty strikeout game. Let's put that up there. So that's
all the middle, and then down the left hand side
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where it says great reads right. So everything they are promoting. Now, hey,
read this on the website Baseball road Trip Locations. We
found them the worst teams ever. They had one career
at bat and one career hit. Were these the best
or worst jerseys ever? Fernando Mania still resonates decades later? Well,
it kind of does, does she struck out Ted Williams
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and Hank Aaron, Miracle on Grass, the two thousand gold Winners.
Ted Simmons, a Hall of Fame renaissance man. Ted Simmons,
the remarkable story. You have Robin Youn's brother, not Robin
Robin Youn's brother. It makes makes MLB dot com the
crazy story behind MLB's last forfeit. Hall of Famer's son
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saved lives changed his own. That is every single bit
of content. Wait, I'll give you one better everything. I
just I brought up the White Sox team page, and again,
you know it's got some stuff as to what the
schedule is. One of the uh as the banner goes
through ticket packages, here's Tony Larussa's you know, animal rescue
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holiday packs, right, buy some tickets still get after that,
and then the last one is the schedule and in
the right navy as as you said, it's all historical things.
Top five White Sox players, not in the Hall of Fame,
everything else. But if you go to roster and you
just you know, right click that, Uh, it gives you
the dropdown of coaches, top thirty prospects, the front office,
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and broadcasters. Your are a team has been eraced from existence.
They have been fano snapped out of existence in the
current MLB dot com world. Wait a minute, wait, Can
I still buy gear though? Can I? Yeah? Yeah, you
can buy You can go buy another hat. They the
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team still exists, just if you want something with a
player on it. I mean, does this mean customized jerseys
can't be made for the holidays? Uh? Hey man, I
was really looking forward to getting myself a Copeck jersey. Nope,
can I Can I canna get one of the you
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know mnace Nope? You want to Tony Larusa, you can
get one of those. Oh every single bit of content,
every single bit, that's it. They have no current content. No,
it's all about it. I mean seriously, that's that's how
you're doing this. Are they showing old games on MLB
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Network right now? Or oh yeah, they probably take it
and everybody who's on Hi, I'm Kurt Goudy. Welcome to
the Los Angeles Angels season opener nineteen sixty three. We're
excited to bring this game to you. What is this accomplished?
Might be a lot of this week from seven though,
this is so laughable. Hey, y'all about this week in baseball?
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The Red Big Red Machine is the new nickname of
the Cincinnati Red. Look at the sideburns on Pete Rose.
There is no new content. There is no news content
at all. I mean, what do you expect to accomplish this?
Don't don't you want people to go to MLB dot
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com for news on the lockout? Right? Isn't that where
you want people to go to? Right? Don't you want
people to go there? It's like it's like if if
if you had a news because this probably could happen
at some point, if you had a news organization like
neatly banned from covering the White House or something like that,
do they suddenly take their website and take it all
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down and not gonna have stories on the White House
and they're gonna just we're covering other things. Now, We're
we're covering this shark that washed up on the beach,
in Florida, that a little girl nurse back to health
and let the sharks go back in and I'll look
at the sharks, and then here's the story of an
otter that made its way back on to land and
all the way back to its family. No, you're still
posting stuff about what's going on in politics and the
news and the White House. You don't just say we're
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not covering this anymore. This is so laughable. This is
so laughable. There's no content on MLB dot com. Well
I want to read. I want to read about the lockout.
Where can you go? Well, not MLB dot com. Can
I see the picture of the players? Note not on
there anymore. Either. You can buy gear, but that's about it.
That's where I mean. This is this is the first salvo.
This is laughable. Oh my god. That means but it
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means they took a bunch of people in man hours
over the last couple of weeks to say, you know what,
we'll show them and and they got paid to do this.
Good for them. But it's like, all right, we need
a mirror version of the website, taking away anything of
current players and find and call every story you could
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possibly have in our archives or anything that's been done
in conjunction with us out of our video archives and
anything having to do with a where are they now
for a former player or any Hall of Fame debates
because we like those anyways, so why not throw those
up while we're at it. But just absolutely absurd to
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to do this, and don't don't even if people aren't
trusting honor percent that the information that's going to come
out on this on MLB dot com. I guess to
some degree, right, wouldn't you say, Hey, they're only you
might only get one side of the discussion. You're still
getting some news and some reports and maybe some official
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proclamations along there. Hell, they don't even have h his
his letter that he he posted right the commissioner's letter
that went out uh five minutes ago over whatever whatever
that was that people are responding to, uh so angrily
in the social media. Didn't even post that on MLB
dot com. Dear baseball fan, we hope you like yesteryear
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because you don't get anything going forward. Wouldn't you like
to take place take part in a fantasy baseball league
that's from the years past? Would you like to draft
players who played Drata maatics. Hey, you know what I'm
gonna trade. I had a big trade. What you do?
I traded Mickey Mantle for four guys to say, oh
my god, it was such a tough deal, but I
had to trade Mickey Mantle. I mean, I Manford, what
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are we doing? I mean, I understand there's potentially legal situations, right,
there's legal situations like would I be surprised to learning
what we can't put the players pictures up on the website.
I mean, come on, really, but we can't put players
pictures up on the website for something E I wouldn't
be surprised at that. But you replaced the news, You
replaced the news with with with all of that, there's
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no way that's anything but being petty. There's no that said.
There's no there's no legal ramifications. No, Hey, we can't
put any news on the website. You all on the website.
It's your think about whatever you want on the website. Now,
I get it, couldn't there be, but you don't have
You couldn't keep up stories about Max Scherzer or about
Chris Taylor or anybody. You couldn't do that. You couldn't
do that. You had to take this tw I mean,
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this is the really, this is what you want your
first salvo to be in the lockout here? It is uh,
this is wow, major League Baseball, everybody. I mean those
contracts still got signed, right, It's so the way they've
presented this, I would take it to mean anybody that
was under contract, that's all null and void. It's like anarchy,
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free agency for all. It was all a sordid mess
of the last week of hey, you want a hundred
million dollars, sure, and knowing that as soon as it
get expired, it's like, what are you saying? Jokes on you?
I mean, that's kind of what you're doing with your
website and taking away all these news we talked about
the one point eight billion dollars spent like vanished, Jason vanished.
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It's like it's like the site is mirroring Rob Manfred, Right,
It's like, like, what what do we want to get
out here? We're gonna take MLB dot com, which one
of the biggest sports websites there are out there. We're
gonna replace all the news because we want to show
everybody we mean business. This is a rob And you
wonder why people hate Rob Manfred White. Why people can't
stand him? I tell you, this guy is a commissioner
that I don't I don't understand. He does nothing for
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long periods of time and then get stuck on on
one thing, and it's dude, you gotta let this go
and figure something else out. I mean, really, it's like
the entire site mirrors Rob Manford and his outlook on
the game, where he believes the players are a necessary evil. Right,
you just gotta go back to his statement from a
year ago, I can't wait to present the World Series
troll forre you to a deserving owner. Right, you know,
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he does not like the players. He doesn't care for them.
They play in order to keep the business of baseball moving.
And I get that baseball is a business, but wow, man,
you're investing in your future. These are playing These are
people who play the game and and and then they've
chosen to do this to make money at it. And
it helps keep you afloat and helps put money in
the owner's pockets and all of these things. And everybody
helps each other, and everybody works together. Right now, certain
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people get richer than others, and that that's that's part
of the game. Right, that's right. So hey, I'm it's
not my fault that I made more money than you
because I put more money in this stock or right.
I mean, I get it, But everybody's in this to
help each other. I don't get for a second that
Rob Manford is in this to help the players at
all or to help the game. That I really that
I like the players and that I want this to
be something where we continue to grow the game. It's
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so adversarial with him, and you can see the player
The players all know it, right, You can't bs them.
The players all know that this is Rob Manfred and
this is his act. And to see this right now,
players go do you can you believe this? You believe
this way? Do you see what tomorrow is gonna be like?
From what players are gonna say about Manford taking this down?
It it's just gonna be an avalanche against him, all right.
In the time we've been speaking, I refreshed the MLB
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dot com website a letter to baseball fans which shows
has been having been issued thirty two thirty four minutes ago.
Uh just appeared on their website, but they still time
stamp it like it went out at nine o'clock and
in the right navigation some of those links are now gone.
You have the letter to Baseball Fans, Baseball Enters first
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work stoppage in twenty six years, f a Q on
the CBA negotiations, and a note about our website content
more cb A updates and information. So those are five
links that have now come up. As far as the
website content, until a new agreement has reached, there will
be limitations on the type of content we display. As
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a result, you will see a lot more content that
focuses on the game's rich history. Once a new agreement
is reached, the up to the minute news and analysis
you come to expect will continue as usual. Ryan Burr
Singer just sent us a note saying the Dodgers page
UH is replete with stuff published by Ken Gernick. He
retired months ago. Hey who wrote that piece on the Mets,
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Jimmy Breslin. Boy, it's a great piece on the Mets. Man,
This is terrific. You know, Mike Royko had a really
satirical piece on the Cubs that I think we should rerun.
That's back, Jerome Holtzman. Let's bring them all back. All
the sports writers from the seventies and eighties in Chicago.
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See that's a great bygone erra though, because that's when
people used to wake up in the morning and go, oh,
I can't wait to read what's so and so wrote
today because he's such a great writer. I mean, that's
so that's still gone now. No one thinks that, but
that's where all really Rob Manford, this is his first act.
We're gonna limit stories on players on MLB dot com
because because I hate players. I wish you would just
(32:01):
say that we're gonna limit stories because I hate the players.
That would be more accurate for Rob Manfred. My goodness.
Uh wow, well listen, we had planned on talking about
Notre Dame. Will get to that, but just an incredible
first salvo fired by Rob Manfred. Let's be sure to
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More on the MLB Lockout coming up in about ten minutes.
Because already it's a clown show. Thank you, Rob man Ford.
This is your Major League Baseball. But we now know
who's going to be the next head coach for No
Trade Dame, replacing Brian Kelly who left for l s
U will be defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman. Now you've probably
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heard his name a lot in the last couple of days,
as he has been one of the favorites to take over.
Look he's in his first year as a d C,
but he's one of their big recruiters and there has
been a lot of support from both players and recruits
for him to get the gig. And not only is
this the right choice, but it makes sense right because
if you're No Trade Dame right now you are saying, Okay,
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what do we do? We just lost Brian Kelly and
he built our program up to a really good one.
Right Our our team is we win ten eleven games
a year. We're in the playoff off every couple of years.
Things are great right now. You don't need to go
get a big name to come in and tear it
up and start doing things there. We don't need to go.
We gotta go get Luke Fickle. We gotta get No.
When Brian Kelly took over, Yeah, that was a big
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nationwide search. You had to find someone because you needed
someone to save the programs and it had gone to disrepair.
Unto Charlie Weiss, No tre Dame football was terrible. So yeah,
you have to go out and do that. It's why
USC had to go out and get a Lincoln Riley
because USC football had fallen into disrepair. So we had
we gotta go out and get a big name to
jump start things. No tre Dame has things going pretty well.
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They got a lot of recruits coming in that are
pretty good. They're one or two losses this weekend away
from actually being in the playoff again. They don't need
to restart things. They don't need a new coach coming
in saying here's my way of doing things, and now
we got to talk to all new recruits and everybody
else and figure things out. We're doing things my way,
and now we're gonna tear it down to the studs
and we're gonna be six and six next year and
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maybe seven and five. No, things are going pretty good
for No Tre Dame, so you want to keep that
going as much as possible. And so the big things
they wanted to do was make Marcus Freeman their head
coach and keep Tommy rees is their offensive coordinator, which
is their next big plan. So yes, completely the right
thing for Notre Dame to do, because they got to
keep the good times going, not go find him again. Well,
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I love the fact that a day ago all the
reports where that Brian Kelly was doing everything he could
to bring growth Freeman and Reese with him, and it's
both no beat it. We're in charge now you left,
So that that's one of the pieces. It's all a
fun cluster I mean you look at Freeman, Ohio state
linebacker draft picked by the Bears back in two thousand nine. Uh,
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so I got the you know, the personal interest uh
in it there. Uh. And then a graduate assistant, uh,
Tommy Rees was at Northwestern, So it all ties back
to me. Uh is really what it comes down to you.
But you got a head coach that's thirty five, and
you've got an offensive coordinator who's twenty nine who played
it Notre Dame, so you have that built in you know,
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institutional memory. Uh. You had Freeman who had worked at
Cincinnati for four years. Right. One of the guys that
was rumored to potentially be replacing Kelly for a moment
was Luke Fickle. How weird would that be? As it
all is? Uh? And last year Freeman didn't go to
l s U comes to Notre Dame, and now he's
gonna be the top guy. It's really a strange set
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of circumstance. But you've got an energy and you've got
a squad that's set up to be really good, So
why would why would you go away from a formula
that's working. Look, Brian Kelly moves on. You've got young
guys that that can build and relate to players as
you navigate a whole different world of college athletics. I
love the move twitter at how about a fresca Mike
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at Swollen Dome, Notre Dame getting it right, keep the
good times rolling. Coming up next more on the MLB lockout.
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me when I'm gone. Don't forget major League Baseball because
now they are in a lockout. Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself.
You are now meeting the Grandmaster. The lockout is beginning.
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Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself. Prepare yourself. We got to scream
in you asked for the scream like four times. I figured,
ty Shirt new, I gotta put the screaming. Well, I
I would have just done this dream as I did earlier.
That's like when we get in the car to go
pick up Zoe from school and in Pamela say, what
do you want to do? We go? You know, we
can go to Starbucks or something if you want to go. Okay,
(01:08):
I was thinking maybe we can stop a target. Real
fastic yeah, or we gonna go to Starbucks too. You
know there's a Starbucks right near there. Yeah. Well, then
after tar we gotta go to the library return that book.
I go, yeah, there's a Starbucks right there. We could
probably go to Starbucks too. It's like, okay, then she
knows I want to go to Starbucks. Hey, what's the
number one rule and advertising repetition? Baby? Make people know
about the product and goods and services you are offering exactly.
(01:39):
I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know this was
gonna be so fun. Uh, not that the lot know,
but not that the lockout is fun, but actually talking
about the lockout is fun, because yes, we are in
a Major League Baseball lockout. It is past midnight on
the East Coast, and neither side was able to come
to an agreement after a seven minute bargaining session earlier today.
(02:02):
So now we're in a lockout. And as you heard
Ralph Evan say, there was one big trade made before
the deadline. Hunter Renfro gets Dealton Boy, he's having a
great PPR year. Uh, he gets traded in exchange for
Jackie Bradley Jr. Now everything is done. Marcus Stroman is
a cub or, so he tells us uh and Max
Scherzer is a met and he met the media today
(02:23):
and it was glorious, it awesome. But now we're in
a lockout and you know, I just about this for
a couple of seconds, because did you really need to
meet for seven minutes? It? Was there anything? I mean,
what could possibly like? Did you really well, we'll sit down.
You never know, maybe the other side's gonna say, we
don't really want to lock out, but just put a
(02:43):
piece of paper in front of me and we'll sign it.
I mean, seven minute ABS works. If you just do
that repeatedly, you'll get two great abs. So maybe they
thought they know that was the start point because somebody
could have come up with six minute ad could work
seven minutes in heaven was gonna be give him who
the completion of a deal another hour before we can
(03:05):
talk about that. Okay, another for that, all right, just
just so you know, I mean, really I don't understand
what seven minutes worth of it was again, unless it's
just so each side can say, yeah, I was a
badass man. I walked in and I said blank you
and he said blank you two man, And I said
I liked the first episode of Hawkeye. That's what I
hated the first episode Hawkeye. Oh yeah, let's fight, let's go.
(03:25):
And then they walked out and said, Okay, that was good.
That was good. Yeah, great. Oh I told him some Yeah,
you know what I told him. He said, Hey, we
want all kinds of stuff. I said, We're not gonna
give you anything. There's the deal is on the table,
and now both sides can save face. And now he
can get to the point of a lot of days
where there's potentially some small news that is always making
it look bleaker than it is, right, So just prepare
(03:47):
for that, because that's gonna be what it is now
in Major League Baseball, every little bit of news that
is leaked as far as the negotiations are going, and
are you know we're counting down to the beginning of
spring training, because look, it's a long way to go now, right.
The lockout is here, so yes, it's newsworthy, it's right here.
But you have the rest of December, which everybody's gonna
be worried about the NFL. And you know how many
(04:08):
points Buddy Beaheim's gonna store in his next game that
be worried about Christmas and the New Year. Then it's
gonna be all at the beginning of spring training is
in jeopardy, and then it's and then we're gonna say, well,
what is that really that big a deal? Is that
a real timetable? No, oh, there, there's gonna be no
time for any kind of ramp. We're gonna have to
play regular season games right away. Yeah, okay, okay, I
mean there's a long time between now and the end
(04:30):
of March beginning of April. But every single bit of
news that comes out, none of it is going to
be good. Just understand that, right because I know, looking
at the news sometimes it's extremely depressing. You know, you
look at news today. It was just one of those
bad news days where so many depressing things were going on,
and and I get it. It's tough. So understand that
when this stuff comes out, this is not bad news.
(04:51):
This is all posturing. You're gonna get something from Jeff
Passon or whoever else, you know, Ken Rosenthal, John Paul Morosey,
because they're gonna be talking to people in evolved in
the negotiations, what's going on, and you're gonna get from
people a doom and gloom picture, and they're gonna be
accurate quotes represented by by whatever message the owners or
the players union wants to get out because they want
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to make it seem like, hey, things are rough and
it's not our fault. You know, they'll play this game
in the media for a long time. There is a
long way to go. But everything that comes out, there's
nothing that's gonna be doom and gloom on December tenth
that's going to make it. Oh, we're not gonna have
a season. It's all about posturing. So just understand the
bad news is not bad news. All right, that's not
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going to be a part of it. Now. What I
will say is the is the difficult part for me, Mike,
is that the overall emergency break has always been we
can't miss games, right, we can't miss games, can't miss
games in the regular season. That that's an awful thing, right,
whether it was football or basketball, you're missing games and
suddenly the clock is ticking and then you've got both
(05:53):
sides in a staring contest. This is the rough part
for me is that because of COVID, we had the
owners miss and lose a lot of revenue. And guess what,
Baseball is still going on right, Ratings are up, you know, playing,
the teams are making money again. Players missed a lot
of money and guess what they're all playing. They're all
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still doing well. They have experienced what a near entire
season without baseball has been. So once you've experienced that,
that's no longer an emergency break. Hey, hey, if we
want to miss the first month, players will say, I'll
sacrifice that first month to get what we want. I'll
sacrifice the first two months to get what we want.
I'll sacrifice to the all start break. And owners will
(06:35):
say the same thing. I had to go with no
money for the entire season until some crazy as thirty
games at the end of August. I can go April
and May and into June with that if I I
want to get what I want. That's the one thing
to watch out for is is when once this thing
begins and you start ticking into this season, because neither
side has a bit of we have to get this going,
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so we all wind up making money and don't miss games.
They have seen what the realities have been liked by
missing games, and they've survived it. It's not their favorite thing.
It's not gonna be their first choice. But it's no
longer the deterrent to being able to solve things that
it used to be. But we can't miss games, we
can't miss salary, we can't miss it. No, we've seen that,
and the game is still going on and it jump
back pretty fast, and players made big money, and guys
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are signing big contracts already even in the face of
of a lockout. The Mets just gave Max Sure's a
hundred thirty million dollars for three years. So yeah, that's
not gonna stop things. That to me is the big
one is that we've gone through hey wherever we've had
no games and everything has been all right. So that's
clearly not going to be something that stops this from ending. Well,
(07:38):
you're talking about the contracts that that go out, We're
we're looking at one point seven to one point eight
billion dollars uh, talking about the health of the game,
and and certainly there's always just that long term you know,
remaining viable, remaining uh that you're growing and trying to
be smart about the business moving forward. Right, you're going
(07:59):
to all d H. There's some folks that are still
up upset about that. What are you doing with roster's
long term? I mean, there's there's a lot of issues
at stake in this current negotiation. Uh, and we won't
bog down things with the details. Will do that any
special podcast where we just read them line for line.
Uh as if we're right, just gonna do the entire
(08:21):
cb A. That'll be fun, fun, fun listens, no questions
about it. But you know, to your point about, hey,
we've done this before, See, that was an externality that
they couldn't control because nobody wanted to give away that money.
They realized they could, but given the choice, I don't
know that we we don't have Like you could say
(08:42):
this was the eleventh hour deal, right, like if something
had been struck tonight, Well, does it really affect anything
in December? No? Does it really affect anything the beginning
of January? No. Uh. Once we get to February and
we start talking about spring training and starting into the
business of baseball, then yeah, that then all of a sudden,
(09:06):
it's like, all right, now this becomes real because in
the moment, it's not real money being lost. I mean,
I suppose folks that were potentially going to buy ticket packages,
right the eight game ticket plans or whatever. Maybe they
tell you to beat it because you're you're not giving
them assurances that any of those April games will be
available when some of the best giveaways are there. I mean,
(09:29):
let's call it what it is. I mean, you're gonna
get the magnetic schedule, maybe a bobblehead or two. If
there were any milestones hit by members of your team
the year before, you're gonna get some commemorative chat sicky there.
I mean, you know, you might actually lose some short
term gain where you won't have the revenue off ticket
sales as the float. But I can't believe either side
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is gonna go when it actually matters and say, you
know what, we'll give up April in May. Now if
the the me means to the end is hey, we
should have a shorter season anyway, that's the antithesis of
everything they're fighting about. Like right now, it's about expanding games,
figuring out how to jam a few more playoff games
in so we can get some more TV revenue, uh
(10:14):
and hike those charges back to our partners. So I
I think you'll eventually get the deal struck. It's just
the right now the minutia. The devil is in the
details to where nobody wanted to budge and look like
you know the NFL p A does each and every
time they go to the negotiating table. Uh. So we
(10:36):
have some tweets from people who think this is what
could have gone on the seven minutes that could have
pushed the lack of negotiations moving past that, you're ready,
we have something, can't wait seven minutes? Uh This one
from Gabrielle says one side pineapple belongs on pizza side too.
That's it locked out. You know, I would say that
(10:59):
would be that would be nonstarter for me. Pineapple on
pizza if the owners, if the player said we want
pineapple on pizza, you and I'll lockout lockouts coming. Yeah, no,
I mean pine pineapple is a very divisive topic. It is,
and how can you find it's it's so hard to
find something divisive on pizza? What what do you want?
(11:19):
How many times when you order pizza with your friends,
your family? What do you want? Anything? All right? And
anything is cheese, extra cheese, pepperoni, sausage, meatballs, onions, peppers, mushrooms,
any anything, anything. I'll eat anything. And then it's what
if I could pineapple? Oh? Whoa what? What? What? What
do you mean? Pineapple? What is? What is that? You
could get almost anything else? Why it's really hard to
(11:41):
be divisive on pizza, man, That's why pineapple is a
bad deal. It still sells, and you can keep it
in a can and then when that person comes through
and order it, orders it. It's there. Open up that
can of pineapples. Hey, it expired in two thousand and fourteen.
Open up. Somebody ordered been working in it's own juices.
It's fine, you know, they either if it was a
(12:02):
zombie apocalypse and they'd be happy with it. Opened up
and put it on that pizza uh more pizza. The
upset pick says Union wanted Dominoes. MLB was like, now
you got red baron? Who the red baron? Now we're talking.
I haven't had a red baron pizza in a long time.
Isn't red baron? Like the pizza restaurant? They should call
(12:24):
that red baron. When you're in the middle of nowhere,
there's always a red baron, Like there's anywhere close or
anybody lives now. But if you like you're out on
the road, like you're at a sports tournament. Or you're
on the way, So where are we gonna stop to eat?
We're halfway there. Oh there's a red baron Oh great,
we'll stop that like red barn where nobody else is see.
I always, I always knew it as the in the
(12:44):
frozen section, and uh it was commonly referred to as
the cardboard pizza. And I grew up in Chicago. It
was very low on the depth chart. Nick says, Hey,
baseball just saw the Mets were signing. Everyone were like,
seasons canceled. That would be a very thing that happened
to the Mets. We got our best team ever. Owners
(13:07):
just say to hell with its relevant again, So we're
not doing this. He still hang that banner at City Field.
The year we should have won, it would unfurl and
you would hear the trumpets blaring. Oh then that would
be so Mets, the year without a Santa Claus caused
by the Mets. But I'm bump bump bump. You want
(13:28):
to learn how to play that? You got you go
see the heat Miser. That's Rob Manfred. I'll go see
the cold Miser. But bump bump bood. But uh, just
one last thing here. The parties hereby agree that hot
dogs shall be characterized as sandwiches, and all official communications
transmitted by the League and the Players Association players beat
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it owners. We approached you in good faith. That's a
pretty good one. Quarantine age wasteland with that one, that's
pretty good one. Because the hot I guess, not a sandwich.
I mean, I'll be honest, it's not a sandwich. I
can I can win this. I can win this easily.
It's not a sandwich. You know why? Because if I
handed you a hot dog without any bun on it,
what would you say that item is? If I handed
(14:12):
it to you, what would you say? It is? Weird
tube shape? No? No No, no, no, what I would say?
No just no, no, no, no, not not no. I'm
just saying. If I had a hot dog in my
hand and I handed it to you, and I gave
it to you, what would you say it was? You
would say it was a hot dog? Right. If I
gave you a hot dog and a bun with mustard
on it, what would you say I gave you? I
gave you a hot dog. So if the bread is irrelevant,
because it's a hot dog, whether it's with no bread
(14:35):
or with bread, So how is it a sandwich? It's
not a sandwich. That's tough to argue with, that, isn't it.
You really sit up late at night thinking about this, well,
you know, because what certain things that I'm really passionate about.
I will tell you. Hot dog is not a sandwich.
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. All of these things
it is that season for die Hard is a twitter
(14:56):
and out about a fresca. Mike gets swollen dome. So
we are now in the age of a lockout, the
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tre Dame. Not only will he tell you who he is,
will tell you exactly why he got the job and
nobody else did. That's next, right Fox. Be sure to
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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh,
(16:22):
you know that gets me every time. I just I
just dig that. I want to start talking, but I
want to hear the end of it. No, it's a classic,
and it's it's hard to talk over that. That certainly
either there are things that stop you stop. The press
is right, sound bite stories. As we exchange information and
(16:42):
try to figure out the direction of the show going forward,
I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the Major
League Baseball homepage right now, Jason. Oh yeah, I mean, look,
this is insane made now we this lockout is twenty
four minutes old. Right, this is twenty four minutes old
and Rob man for and you know, look, you know
(17:02):
this is Manfred and the owners. They have replaced every
news story on the news like you go to MLB
dot com. It's like going to ESPN dot com and
Fox Sports dot com. You see the big columns in
the middle of the big spotlight articles and then you
have the roster on the side with all the developing
to all the big stories of the day. Where earlier
today it was Max Scherzer speaks on why he chose
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the Mets, um Marcus Stroman goes to the Cubs for
three years. All player stories and the rumor that Taylor
was going back to the Dodgers, and you know what
a bargain contract, all of these things great, yeah, yeah,
Renfron Renfro for Bradley trade, beats deadline for a lockout, everything.
MLB dot Com has now replaced every single one of
(17:50):
those stories on the front page with some kind of
baseball memorabilia story Hall of Fame. Uh. Only five of
the best baseball movies ever retired. Player news. I mean it,
it's insane. Ever, you can tell this was ready to
go because here's the front page of MLB dot Com. Right,
(18:10):
here's every story I'm gonna tell you, and this is
how serious it is. Okay, So under Latest News, here
are the stories every player making their Hall of Fame
ballot debut. Okay, so a list each of oh shows
up at a high school blast dingers. Do you want
me to talk about physics? Or do you want to
see me hit a few dingers? The hitter marrass up
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for Hall of Fame consideration. Storylines to watch on twenty
two Hall of Fame ballot, The Hall of Fame case
for Mini Minoso. I mean, really, miss on there it
should be. Do you guys know? Come on, hey, hid
a seven strikeout no hitter is no big deal. Vince
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Scully My thoughts on Gil Hodges. Five of the best
base ball movies ever. Four players facing last chance on
Hall of Fame ballots. Right, that's just on the roster
on the side of Latest News. But down in the
middle of you got that picture of Bob Costas as
part of a video. Looks like he's gonna cry, Yeah,
because he's in the early Baseball Golden Day's Era announcement
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and he looks greatly affected by whatever's they're talking about
in head clip, New Stars Light Up ballot for the
twenty two Hall of Fame ballot, Bob costs Us on
the Hall of Fame Golden Era ballot, and then for
some reason, it's video links to the Buckner play, Joe
Carter's home run, Kirby Puckets home run, the two thousand
one All Star Game recap, the Mariners advancing to the
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nine A LCS, Pedro Martinez is seventeen strikeout games, Kerry
Woods twenty strikeout game, Frank Thomas winning the home run Derby,
and the Phillies Cubs game from us for no reason.
These aren't an anniversaries. This is we're gonna put up
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all We're gonna put up all time evergreen baseball content
on MLB dot com. Say hey, what do we have
video of the last twenty five years? Well, we got
the Carter home rod, great, the Buckler played great. Put
that up there, oh, sid Breve slide, Oh yeah, Francis's
go Cabrera. Yeah, let's get that up there. Carry Wood's
twenty strikeout game. Let's put that up there. So that's
all the middle, and then down the left hand side
(20:26):
where it says great reads right. So everything they are promoting. Now, hey,
read this on the website Baseball road Trip Locations. We
found them the worst teams ever. They had one career
at bat and one career hit. Were these the best
or worst jerseys ever? Fernando Mania still resonates decades later? Well,
it kind of does, does she struck out Ted Williams
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and Hank Aaron, Miracle on Grass, the two thousand gold Winners.
Ted Simmons, a Hall of Fame renaissance man. Ted Simmons,
the remarkable story. You have Robin Youn's brother, not Robin
Robin Youn's brother. It makes makes MLB dot com the
crazy story behind MLB's last forfeit. Hall of Famer's son
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saved lives changed his own. That is every single bit
of content. Wait, I'll give you one better everything. I
just I brought up the White Sox team page, and again,
you know it's got some stuff as to what the
schedule is. One of the uh as the banner goes
through ticket packages, here's Tony Larussa's you know, animal rescue
(21:32):
holiday packs, right, buy some tickets still get after that,
and then the last one is the schedule and in
the right navy as as you said, it's all historical things.
Top five White Sox players, not in the Hall of Fame,
everything else. But if you go to roster and you
just you know, right click that, Uh, it gives you
the dropdown of coaches, top thirty prospects, the front office,
(21:56):
and broadcasters. Your are a team has been eraced from existence.
They have been fano snapped out of existence in the
current MLB dot com world. Wait a minute, wait, Can
I still buy gear though? Can I? Yeah? Yeah, you
can buy You can go buy another hat. They the
(22:18):
team still exists, just if you want something with a
player on it. I mean, does this mean customized jerseys
can't be made for the holidays? Uh? Hey man, I
was really looking forward to getting myself a Copeck jersey. Nope,
can I Can I canna get one of the you
(22:40):
know mnace Nope? You want to Tony Larusa, you can
get one of those. Oh every single bit of content,
every single bit, that's it. They have no current content. No,
it's all about it. I mean seriously, that's that's how
you're doing this. Are they showing old games on MLB
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Network right now? Or oh yeah, they probably take it
and everybody who's on Hi, I'm Kurt Goudy. Welcome to
the Los Angeles Angels season opener nineteen sixty three. We're
excited to bring this game to you. What is this accomplished?
Might be a lot of this week from seven though,
this is so laughable. Hey, y'all about this week in baseball?
(23:24):
The Red Big Red Machine is the new nickname of
the Cincinnati Red. Look at the sideburns on Pete Rose.
There is no new content. There is no news content
at all. I mean, what do you expect to accomplish this?
Don't don't you want people to go to MLB dot
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com for news on the lockout? Right? Isn't that where
you want people to go to? Right? Don't you want
people to go there? It's like it's like if if
if you had a news because this probably could happen
at some point, if you had a news organization like
neatly banned from covering the White House or something like that,
do they suddenly take their website and take it all
(24:05):
down and not gonna have stories on the White House
and they're gonna just we're covering other things. Now, We're
we're covering this shark that washed up on the beach,
in Florida, that a little girl nurse back to health
and let the sharks go back in and I'll look
at the sharks, and then here's the story of an
otter that made its way back on to land and
all the way back to its family. No, you're still
posting stuff about what's going on in politics and the
news and the White House. You don't just say we're
(24:26):
not covering this anymore. This is so laughable. This is
so laughable. There's no content on MLB dot com. Well
I want to read. I want to read about the lockout.
Where can you go? Well, not MLB dot com. Can
I see the picture of the players? Note not on
there anymore. Either. You can buy gear, but that's about it.
That's where I mean. This is this is the first salvo.
This is laughable. Oh my god. That means but it
(24:50):
means they took a bunch of people in man hours
over the last couple of weeks to say, you know what,
we'll show them and and they got paid to do this.
Good for them. But it's like, all right, we need
a mirror version of the website, taking away anything of
current players and find and call every story you could
(25:10):
possibly have in our archives or anything that's been done
in conjunction with us out of our video archives and
anything having to do with a where are they now
for a former player or any Hall of Fame debates
because we like those anyways, so why not throw those
up while we're at it. But just absolutely absurd to
(25:32):
to do this, and don't don't even if people aren't
trusting honor percent that the information that's going to come
out on this on MLB dot com. I guess to
some degree, right, wouldn't you say, Hey, they're only you
might only get one side of the discussion. You're still
getting some news and some reports and maybe some official
(25:55):
proclamations along there. Hell, they don't even have h his
his letter that he he posted right the commissioner's letter
that went out uh five minutes ago over whatever whatever
that was that people are responding to, uh so angrily
in the social media. Didn't even post that on MLB
dot com. Dear baseball fan, we hope you like yesteryear
(26:25):
because you don't get anything going forward. Wouldn't you like
to take place take part in a fantasy baseball league
that's from the years past? Would you like to draft
players who played Drata maatics. Hey, you know what I'm
gonna trade. I had a big trade. What you do?
I traded Mickey Mantle for four guys to say, oh
my god, it was such a tough deal, but I
had to trade Mickey Mantle. I mean, I Manford, what
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are we doing? I mean, I understand there's potentially legal situations, right,
there's legal situations like would I be surprised to learning
what we can't put the players pictures up on the website.
I mean, come on, really, but we can't put players
pictures up on the website for something E I wouldn't
be surprised at that. But you replaced the news, You
replaced the news with with with all of that, there's
(27:08):
no way that's anything but being petty. There's no that said.
There's no there's no legal ramifications. No, Hey, we can't
put any news on the website. You all on the website.
It's your think about whatever you want on the website. Now,
I get it, couldn't there be, but you don't have
You couldn't keep up stories about Max Scherzer or about
Chris Taylor or anybody. You couldn't do that. You couldn't
do that. You had to take this tw I mean,
(27:29):
this is the really, this is what you want your
first salvo to be in the lockout here? It is uh,
this is wow, major League Baseball, everybody. I mean those
contracts still got signed, right, It's so the way they've
presented this, I would take it to mean anybody that
was under contract, that's all null and void. It's like anarchy,
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free agency for all. It was all a sordid mess
of the last week of hey, you want a hundred
million dollars, sure, and knowing that as soon as it
get expired, it's like, what are you saying? Jokes on you?
I mean, that's kind of what you're doing with your
website and taking away all these news we talked about
the one point eight billion dollars spent like vanished, Jason vanished.
(28:16):
It's like it's like the site is mirroring Rob Manfred, Right,
It's like, like, what what do we want to get
out here? We're gonna take MLB dot com, which one
of the biggest sports websites there are out there. We're
gonna replace all the news because we want to show
everybody we mean business. This is a rob And you
wonder why people hate Rob Manfred White. Why people can't
stand him? I tell you, this guy is a commissioner
that I don't I don't understand. He does nothing for
(28:38):
long periods of time and then get stuck on on
one thing, and it's dude, you gotta let this go
and figure something else out. I mean, really, it's like
the entire site mirrors Rob Manford and his outlook on
the game, where he believes the players are a necessary evil. Right,
you just gotta go back to his statement from a
year ago, I can't wait to present the World Series
troll forre you to a deserving owner. Right, you know,
(29:00):
he does not like the players. He doesn't care for them.
They play in order to keep the business of baseball moving.
And I get that baseball is a business, but wow, man,
you're investing in your future. These are playing These are
people who play the game and and and then they've
chosen to do this to make money at it. And
it helps keep you afloat and helps put money in
the owner's pockets and all of these things. And everybody
helps each other, and everybody works together. Right now, certain
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people get richer than others, and that that's that's part
of the game. Right, that's right. So hey, I'm it's
not my fault that I made more money than you
because I put more money in this stock or right.
I mean, I get it, But everybody's in this to
help each other. I don't get for a second that
Rob Manford is in this to help the players at
all or to help the game. That I really that
I like the players and that I want this to
be something where we continue to grow the game. It's
(29:45):
so adversarial with him, and you can see the player
The players all know it, right, You can't bs them.
The players all know that this is Rob Manfred and
this is his act. And to see this right now,
players go do you can you believe this? You believe
this way? Do you see what tomorrow is gonna be like?
From what players are gonna say about Manford taking this down?
It it's just gonna be an avalanche against him, all right.
In the time we've been speaking, I refreshed the MLB
(30:08):
dot com website a letter to baseball fans which shows
has been having been issued thirty two thirty four minutes ago.
Uh just appeared on their website, but they still time
stamp it like it went out at nine o'clock and
in the right navigation some of those links are now gone.
You have the letter to Baseball Fans, Baseball Enters first
(30:30):
work stoppage in twenty six years, f a Q on
the CBA negotiations, and a note about our website content
more cb A updates and information. So those are five
links that have now come up. As far as the
website content, until a new agreement has reached, there will
be limitations on the type of content we display. As
(30:51):
a result, you will see a lot more content that
focuses on the game's rich history. Once a new agreement
is reached, the up to the minute news and analysis
you come to expect will continue as usual. Ryan Burr
Singer just sent us a note saying the Dodgers page
UH is replete with stuff published by Ken Gernick. He
retired months ago. Hey who wrote that piece on the Mets,
(31:20):
Jimmy Breslin. Boy, it's a great piece on the Mets. Man,
This is terrific. You know, Mike Royko had a really
satirical piece on the Cubs that I think we should rerun.
That's back, Jerome Holtzman. Let's bring them all back. All
the sports writers from the seventies and eighties in Chicago.
(31:40):
See that's a great bygone erra though, because that's when
people used to wake up in the morning and go, oh,
I can't wait to read what's so and so wrote
today because he's such a great writer. I mean, that's
so that's still gone now. No one thinks that, but
that's where all really Rob Manford, this is his first act.
We're gonna limit stories on players on MLB dot com
because because I hate players. I wish you would just
(32:01):
say that we're gonna limit stories because I hate the players.
That would be more accurate for Rob Manfred. My goodness.
Uh wow, well listen, we had planned on talking about
Notre Dame. Will get to that, but just an incredible
first salvo fired by Rob Manfred. Let's be sure to
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(32:24):
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(33:07):
More on the MLB Lockout coming up in about ten minutes.
Because already it's a clown show. Thank you, Rob man Ford.
This is your Major League Baseball. But we now know
who's going to be the next head coach for No
Trade Dame, replacing Brian Kelly who left for l s
U will be defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman. Now you've probably
(33:27):
heard his name a lot in the last couple of days,
as he has been one of the favorites to take over.
Look he's in his first year as a d C,
but he's one of their big recruiters and there has
been a lot of support from both players and recruits
for him to get the gig. And not only is
this the right choice, but it makes sense right because
if you're No Trade Dame right now you are saying, Okay,
(33:51):
what do we do? We just lost Brian Kelly and
he built our program up to a really good one.
Right Our our team is we win ten eleven games
a year. We're in the playoff off every couple of years.
Things are great right now. You don't need to go
get a big name to come in and tear it
up and start doing things there. We don't need to go.
We gotta go get Luke Fickle. We gotta get No.
When Brian Kelly took over, Yeah, that was a big
(34:14):
nationwide search. You had to find someone because you needed
someone to save the programs and it had gone to disrepair.
Unto Charlie Weiss, No tre Dame football was terrible. So yeah,
you have to go out and do that. It's why
USC had to go out and get a Lincoln Riley
because USC football had fallen into disrepair. So we had
we gotta go out and get a big name to
jump start things. No tre Dame has things going pretty well.
(34:35):
They got a lot of recruits coming in that are
pretty good. They're one or two losses this weekend away
from actually being in the playoff again. They don't need
to restart things. They don't need a new coach coming
in saying here's my way of doing things, and now
we got to talk to all new recruits and everybody
else and figure things out. We're doing things my way,
and now we're gonna tear it down to the studs
and we're gonna be six and six next year and
(34:55):
maybe seven and five. No, things are going pretty good
for No Tre Dame, so you want to keep that
going as much as possible. And so the big things
they wanted to do was make Marcus Freeman their head
coach and keep Tommy rees is their offensive coordinator, which
is their next big plan. So yes, completely the right
thing for Notre Dame to do, because they got to
keep the good times going, not go find him again. Well,
(35:16):
I love the fact that a day ago all the
reports where that Brian Kelly was doing everything he could
to bring growth Freeman and Reese with him, and it's
both no beat it. We're in charge now you left,
So that that's one of the pieces. It's all a
fun cluster I mean you look at Freeman, Ohio state
linebacker draft picked by the Bears back in two thousand nine. Uh,
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so I got the you know, the personal interest uh
in it there. Uh. And then a graduate assistant, uh,
Tommy Rees was at Northwestern, So it all ties back
to me. Uh is really what it comes down to you.
But you got a head coach that's thirty five, and
you've got an offensive coordinator who's twenty nine who played
it Notre Dame, so you have that built in you know,
(36:01):
institutional memory. Uh. You had Freeman who had worked at
Cincinnati for four years. Right. One of the guys that
was rumored to potentially be replacing Kelly for a moment
was Luke Fickle. How weird would that be? As it
all is? Uh? And last year Freeman didn't go to
l s U comes to Notre Dame, and now he's
gonna be the top guy. It's really a strange set
(36:23):
of circumstance. But you've got an energy and you've got
a squad that's set up to be really good, So
why would why would you go away from a formula
that's working. Look, Brian Kelly moves on. You've got young
guys that that can build and relate to players as
you navigate a whole different world of college athletics. I
love the move twitter at how about a fresca Mike
(36:44):
at Swollen Dome, Notre Dame getting it right, keep the
good times rolling. Coming up next more on the MLB lockout.
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