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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the show, my main man, Rob Dibble ninety
seven nine, The Rob Dibble Show. You should all be
listening to it. How are you this morning, my man?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm good. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I appreciate getting up, although what you're probably up and
out and running at like four thirty, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm not running at four thirty, but yeah, I'm up early.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You're an early riser. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're living a
good life. Though. I caught a little social media action
of yours this weekend, which I don't often do, and
you were with your caption was my favorite ladies.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's just you look like you were over Rhode Island.
You do that shopping thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, you're a happy school. You're a happy man. I
envy it. You're a happy man. But you earned it too.
I wanted to get your thoughts. You know, Rob, I've
been doing radio for a long time. I don't know
when you decided to segue from being the sports legend
that you are to broadcasting. Was probably farther back then
than I even know.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Twenty eight years well, is it?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? That is, that's that's what far more would even
twenty years I would have thought was more so then
you you were covering all the same as I. Like,
I did big stuff with the Beast of New Haven.
They lasted, they lasted what a year the Ravens. I remember,
we gave the Ravens a lot of lot. I still
got all the shirts, Rob, because you know, I had
(01:19):
high hopes for these teams and they all came and
went right.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I mean, listen, the Sun they wanted to redo
the facilities and all kinds of stuff, and I don't
think that the people that run them up, Vegan Sun
wanted to do all that. So the people that just
bought them, he's part ownership group of the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I saw and he he.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Said he's gonna throw a hundred million dollars into a
new facility, to a new practice facility. So that's actually
an upgrade for them. They can play with the Celtics play.
They're going to have more people that can go to
these games. You know that right now the WNBA is
a hot ticket and a lot of people want to
get revolved, and so yeah, you know, it's it's a
(02:03):
good investment.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's where I was heading too, Rob, is you know
what was it? You know, is baseball harder to launch,
you know, much love to the yard goats, they're doing it.
But you know, and what I think the beast wasn't
that was that indoor football. Remember, you know, the minute
that we were all going for that, John bon Jovi owned,
you know, his own indoor football league and try so
I wondered if it was the sport. And at the
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end of the day, it's women's basketball, man, And that's
you can't even say that's hot right now. It's been
hot for a good long time, but it's it's boiling
hot right now.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah. I mean, listen with with Kayln Clark and Page
Becker's and a lot of these new young stars. You know,
they're they're getting more fan recognition from the you know,
passive fans that are going to games, that are actually
buying tickets, and so, you know, I don't know if
they need expansion though they they lost forty million dollars
last year. They've they've yet to turn a profit in
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twenty five years, and I think that's an issue that
they have to address. The NBA they put sixty percent
of the financial bill right now for the w NBA,
so they got to start making money, you know, and
I think that this is a step in the right direction.
When you get NBA teams that invest in you and
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going to give you new facilities and stuff like that,
and you know the product's always been great, that's that's
not the situation I think. You know, you know, on
on my show with Ben Darnell, we address the officiating.
It's terrible. You know, they don't control these games. They
sometimes they get out of the get out of control physically,
and so it's it's still great basketball. But for some
(03:40):
people they're turned off by that, right. I think they
need to, you know, get people in there that like
run the run the NBA or run MLB or run
the NHL, and and they got to start turning a profit.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Hearing you say stuff like that sounds to me like
the team in many ways, like literally a figuratively just
outgrew their home. If there's poor calls going down, just
bad ones all the way around, they're just playing too well.
The popularity there, they just outgrew where they were. I
wonder what the governor will say about the He loves
to talk about sports and pizza. I'm sure he's going
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to comment.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh my god, so I'm coming back over the border,
Ben and we're now. My brother was in the military,
in the Navy, and he was on a submarine. He
would love this. We're the world capital of submarines. Yeah,
you come back into Rhode Island. Are you serious? Well,
it been going on with our state best real capital
of basketball and pizza, submarines.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I was just gonna say, that's so trevendous you bring
it up. It's true. The new sides I went up
were submarines, pizza, and women's basketball. And then he loses
the Connecticut sud. I don't even want to get into
the pizza thing because I take such potshots about that,
and as a Vinnie, I guess I'm not allowed to
get a lot of I get a lot of flack
(05:04):
for that. They're calling it a record breaking sale too,
and who better to ask than Rob Dibble? What's the
record breaking about it?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The price time, I don't know what the record was before,
but yeah, for like three hundred and twenty five million dollars.
I mean you're talking like NBA teams are selling for
like six to ten billion. Baseball teams are worth about
ten billion, some of them. Football is worth more than that.
I mean, it's it's whatever your sport, what the profit is. Yeah,
(05:32):
you know, I mean even Rob Manners. Let me give
you an example of MLB. So nineteen ninety four we
had to strike when I was still playing, and the
sport was worth two billion dollars annually. That's what we
brought in. Now it's making fifteen billion, and you got
a commissioner saying we don't have enough money, you know,
to pay our bills and stuff like that. They always
cry poverty at the major levels. So the WNBA, like
(05:54):
I said, you know, it's going in the right direction.
Like you said, it's a total upgrade when you can
play it for facility that has fifteen thousand, you know,
and it's going to pack that every time. That's Mohican
does great. I mean I think they're drawing like eight
thousand a game. I just think it's more like a
destination when the Fever come in and when you know,
(06:18):
Page Beckers and the Dallas Wings come in, you know,
you want to sell out every time because you don't
have as many games. You have as many games as
the NBA. You know, Major League Baseball has eighty one
home games to play in Boston and New York. So
I just think that this ownership group that has billions
of dollars to spend said, you know, for three hundred
and twenty five million dollars, we'll buy the Sun move them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, it's funny you should say that, And again round
with baseball legend and broadcaster extraordinariy Rob Dibble from The
Rod Debble Show. My main man, because I think they
got to that point. I watched TV cameras last night.
They were getting fan reaction as they were leaving the game,
and I'm like, damn, that's a well attended game. That
one always the case it was. It was a long,
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a long road to get to these kinds of crowds.
I remember taking my kids when they were small, to
them it's just a fun thing to do, right and
feeling like, ah, this is is a good game. This
is kind of ill attended. Wishing attendance was a little
bit better. But I guess they got there along the way.
I know all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, but Ben, the Sun's always drawn really well. But
here's the thing. The Sun lost their coach to the fever.
They traded a lot of their best players, and they're
still a good team. But I think they have four
wins this year, So I think a lot of this
was done with the intention of listen, you know what,
(07:39):
we're going to sell the team. Uh, We're gonna sell
our best pieces. And you know then whoever buys them
is going to start over. And and that's the whole thing,
because you know, your your highest paid players are making
three hundred thousand dollars. That's that's it's you know that.
So in order to upgrade, they're gonna have to start
paying the women more or they're gonna have to get
(08:01):
more big time TV slots and you know, and I'm
sure that this is going to be put on. I
think it's Comcast that does the Celtic games that I watch. Yeah,
you know, you're probably it's good content.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
That's so you're you're doing all of that kind.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Of stuff to upgrade. Not just the WNBA, but these
people are all about what's in their portfolio. I mean
it's like the FAU the Fenway group owns like Rousse Raising,
they own, they own Liverpool Soccer, and they own and
some other stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, do you know peg Luca rob on your show.
I was just I was genuinely curious. I mean, he's
the the Celtics, the minority owner Steve peg Luca. It
just seemed like a guy you might know. You haven't
anyone on your show later today to talk about this.
I know Ben Ben to.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Memory from the Herford Current Don Memourray.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
There you go. What time? Can people check that out?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Moment three twenty five?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
There you call the exact time? And Rob, I want
to leave you with one last thing. What about when
we started with the pizza at the you know, at
Mohegan Sun and the governor would be like, he can
get a nice slice of Pepe's. I can't. I can't
take what he calls.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It pepe It's Peppies.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I can't take it, Rob, I can't. I go crazy.
That's fine, you can get a slice of pizza at
the at the game, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's Peppies and our concert whenever I go to concerts
down there, Vin, or if I'm just down there maybe
playing some slot machines, you can always go over to
Peppies and get a slice of pizza.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I gotta tell you the truth too, And this is
me wanting to have it both ways. But a lot
of people say it doesn't taste like those are good
slices in my book, a lot of people are like,
those aren't peppees Pies. That's not that's it's a huge slice.
It's worth the few bucks you spend there.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And no Peppies is right down the corner so where
we sometimes do the show by the Wolf Dad, Yeah,
which is right outside the arena. If you take a left,
there's a whole restaurant there. There's a Peppies down there.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah. And when Ben wanders away and comes back twenty
minutes later, and he's just lost eight hundred dollars and
he won't cop to why he's in such a foul mood,
and it's because, dude, he just lost eight hundred dollars.
I'm black tacked. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's going to be very sad. He went to a
lot of Sun games.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I said that earlier.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah that was his team, man, Yeah, that was his team.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It's one thing I give up to. There's a lot
that I give up to Ben. But he all of
yard Goats too, and he's just a big fan of,
you know, the local teams. To connect. He's at a
lot of the games. I'm always seeing content from him there.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He's always he's always at the Harford Athletics. He loves the.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Soccer loves it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I mean he he loves the Hartford area.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, and he's got the good relationship. He nurtures those
relationships too.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes he does. He has them on a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah. Well, Rob, I appreciate you responding to my tex
so early in the morning. You're my favorite coworker, Rob Dibble.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I appreciate you, Vinny.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, And there should be a sign. It's the capitol,
it's and there should be a sign about Rob Dibble.
Maybe a pewter statue should be erected somewhere by the.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Gay There was a sign in Southington until somebody kept
shooting it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, is that a true story?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yep, that's a true story.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Why wouldn't that worry you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I can't worry, not at all't my boys?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Man, they're shooting it. I don't even get that. But
that's a great story. That's not a rough and tumble town.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's Southington's always always been blue collar man.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Really all right. If that's how you justify your statue
being shot at, great stuff, my men, devil. I appreciate
it again. Make sure you're check it out His show
later on This afternoon Dom Moore from the Hartford Current
to talk about the sale the Rob Dibble Show, which
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