The Richmond Weaver Show 2026-8-11 Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
Richmond Weavers Show on one oh four nine Fox Sports Substate,
presented by Ingles Low Prices, love the savings, Now for riches,
take on sports. Here's Richmond Weaver.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll this Tuesday right here on one O
four nine Fox Sports Upstate. It is the Tuesday edition,
of course, of the Richmond Weaver Show, presented by our
good friends at Ingles Markets. We are in full force
here in studio, mister Trey Falco joining behind the board
and behind the mic as usual, and of course we
appreciate all of the investors investing your time to listen. However,

(00:44):
you might be listening either through your radio or the
iHeartRadio app. And if you do not have the iHeartRadio app,
make sure you download that through the app store or
on Google Play. And once you have it, just search
Fox Sports one O four nine Fox Sports. It will
find it and you can put it right there in
your preset button. It's free, it's easy, you will enjoy it.

(01:05):
It's a great opportunity to be able to listen whenever
and wherever you want to. Oh yeah, and of course,
over the next two hours you can join the conversation.
We'll be moving one hundred miles per hour, as we
consistently do. I won't say always, because you've got to
be very careful saying always and never, because there's so

(01:25):
finite and that's typically not how life works.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
You can say consistently most of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
That's a better way to use the terminology there, at
least in my opinion, because too many times I think
we focus on the always and never and that's kind
of hard to say, and I think we say it
a lot in relationships.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh, you always do that? You never
do that?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right, You're like, no, consistently, I might not do that,
or consistently I might.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Do that, yeah, but always never. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm just saying consistently, we move one hundred miles per
hour here on the Richmond Weaver Show, presented by Ingles Market.
So make sure you jump in the conversation.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
When you can.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Come on join Weaver Reville right now. Eight six four
two four zero five four eight zero. Again, that number
is eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
Was one of the things that I do want to
talk about. I know it's football season in terms of
how close we are. But the NBA, they're trying to
make some headlines but their own schedule release yay, Oh

(02:42):
you're not giving any love to basketball in the NBA
and Lebron And it's how late we had to wait
for his decision, which ultimately was that delaying the schedule release.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't think it was delaying the.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Schedule release, yeah, but it definitely was having an impact
of what games would be impacted affected I should say,
but I can tell you're you're not buying into the
schedule release with the NBA.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I am not going to lie.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think the schedule release for the NFL is kind
of lame personally, Like it just it feels pretty unnecessary.
It's it's highly manufactured, and I just don't really care
for it, Like I don't get hype for that. And
so to me, for the NBA to kind of like,
of all the things you could model from the NFL,
like anything that you could take away, you took away

(03:36):
the schedule release.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's the one.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, and I've seen it in the SEC. Yes, they
have done that. They didn't acc do it acc It's
all about mimicking things that have worked the NFL. Is
just different though, right, And I agree with you that
even the NFL schedule release, it's a little manufactured now,

(04:00):
and I feel that it's somewhat the luster has worn
off to a certain degree. I mean, it was really
cool a few years ago, or at least intriguing, but.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
At one time, you do it twice maybe, yes.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
And of course now we see the teams where they
even come out with their own two minute video, three
minute videos, some of them now just completely over the top.
I mean they're like movies almost kind of. Yeah, and
it's almost to the equivalent where I feel the commercials

(04:37):
for the super Bowl are the same way.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's a good comp Yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Almost okay, has it run its course? I mean we
still enjoy commercials, don't get me wrong, but I think
we enjoyed the commercials when they were still I guess authentic. Yeah,
they had novelty, yes, And now you're trying to one up.
You're trying to be almost too creative, and sometimes it's

(05:04):
just the content is the content and that's what sells, right.
You don't have to over complicate it. But that's us
as human beings. We consistently over complicate things a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
we definitely do that. And so I agree with you.
As much as I love the NBA and of course basketball,
the schedule release again, throw it out there. Here's all

(05:28):
the games, right, and that's it. We don't need three
days of drip of the NBA. Okay, these are the
first nationally broadcast games that we're going to highlight, and
then okay, tomorrow we'll look at, you know, other specific
aspects of the schedule.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't I really don't need that. Just get it
all out there.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes, because we're in today's world, we're already so conditioned
that we want information boom right then, yep, right right now,
and we've got to have it. But I don't think
this is a oh, we've got to have it. It's
just hey, just go ahead and release it. We don't
need to sit here and wait.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
We just don't well and I mean, and that's not
to say that these.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Networks can't talk about it, like, of course, when it
comes out, you're going to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's natural, that's what you're gonna do. It's the whole
stretching it.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Out and intentionally withholding portions of the schedule to try
and manufacture content and drag it out into something more.
If all they did was just throw it out there
and then sat and talked about it for three days
because they had it in front of them, that's totally
different than this whole charade that they're doing with Well,
all right, tomorrow, come back.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
And we'll hit this part of the schedule. You won't
believe it, I bet you I will. I bet you
ill will.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yes, exactly, because there's also a situation where it typically
happens that somebody is going to leak some of the information.
Now and again, I get it that you have a
situation happening where you know you have these insiders and
you know they want to be involved in some of

(07:05):
the quote unquote breaking news things of that nature. But
according to the NBA communications and this is where it
just again, I don't think we need to have this
that we've already started seeing like the opening week the
National Games and then even over Christmas what games are
going to be played on Christmas?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
But the NBA is not going to announce the.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Full schedule until Thursday, August thirteenth at three pm. So
we go on, okay, Thursday, we're gonna have breaking news.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
We'll be part of it.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
We're going to do a full two hours of NBA
schedule release.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I talked to Adam Silver, had him wait until.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Three pm on Thursday. What a good guy, Yes exactly.
I mean, hello, what.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Are we doing right again?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
There's things that that we love about the NFL, and
I understand how these leagues see something that works, see
something that is successful. Yeah, but it's also you have
to factor in time, situation, context, and I'm sorry, the
NFL is just different. It's not eighty two game, right,

(08:22):
schedule that just doesn't mean as much as a seventeen
game NFL schedule because the schedule with the NFL, I mean,
it's so finite in terms of the numbers versus eighty
two games. We're already complaining about eighty two games. Yeah,
schedule with the NBA. So there's something about scarcity of

(08:43):
the NFL. So it lends itself even more so to
have a schedule release and you can drip some of
that versus here. There's no reason for the NBA to
try to manufacture a schedule release, but guess what, it
also allows them to do sponsor it because it's a

(09:05):
schedule release presented by a Ticketmaster. Is there another revenue opportunity,
And again, I think the NFL is probably the first
one to even capitalize on that because it's the NFL. Again,
that doesn't mean everybody else should be copying what the
NFL does because it just doesn't have the same weight.

(09:28):
It just doesn't carry the same type of pizazz, so
to speak, that the.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
NFL does with their schedule release.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, and now, as you mentioned, we're even at a
point where are we becoming a little bit more apathetic
about the NFL schedule release. I think to a certain
degree we are.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I would agree with that.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
And I think a lot of times these other leagues,
these other organizations, whatever you want to call them, gets
too caught up in the fact that something has worked
and they don't really look at why it worked. When
you're looking at the NFL, they're not looking at They
look at it and go, man, the NFL.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Did that, We could do that because I knew it.
Obviously it just works well.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
They didn't look at the fact that, to your point,
the scarcity of the schedule and the fact that the
information that you're withholding like one the NFL, it just
is more popular. It just has grown to the big
giant entity that the NFL is. But also because the
season is so condensed and because there's only so many games,
those games just naturally mean more to people that want

(10:26):
to know what's going on during the season. Whereas again,
when you look at the NBA, or could you imagine
the MLB, let's do a schedule release, like you look,
you look at those games that in half of them,
I just like, why do I care?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
You don't not for one hundred and sixty two games.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
So that's that's why it works to the NFL and
why they can get away with my point.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, and even going back to what I was talking
about time situation context, that's what you're describing in terms of, hey,
try to figure out why it has worked for the
NFL rather than just copying it. And even in the
NFL we talk about the copycat league. Yeah, I think
there's to a certain degree where some of these organizations

(11:11):
teams needed to also understand, well, why was the wildcat
successful for a certain team, And so let's truly understand
it because maybe our team is not built to be
able to run the wildcat right, but it doesn't matter.
It's like, oh, it worked there, So it's got to
work here. It's the NFL, and that's the way I

(11:33):
think these other leagues are looking at it. Well, it
worked for the NFL, so it's got to work for us.
And that's not the reality of it. And even to
a certain degree, how many times we've talked about, especially
in football, not all turnovers are the same. It's based
on time, situation, management of the clock, there's all of

(11:59):
those other things, and what the result of the turnover is. Yeah,
So again it just goes back to understanding much more
than just saying, oh, that's a turnover, but diving into okay,
exactly what was that right turnover and what was the outcome?
Just like this, why does the schedule release work for

(12:20):
the NFL? Why does other things work for the NFL?
Because the NFL is just a completely different sports model,
sports league that.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Not every other league can replicate, right, And I also
wonder too, and this is something that I feel is
more just unique to the NBA NBA in general. When
that schedule release hits, you know obviously, when the NFL
schedule release hits.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
And you're looking at it and you're going, man, I
can't you know, I can't wait for this game. I
can't wait for that matchup. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
The NBA is such a player driven league compared to
the compared to the NFL. I do wonder if, like you,
as a basketball fan, which what team? And now I
think about what team do you follow? Do you have
like a team in the NBA? I really don't have
a specific team.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I probably follow Steph Curry more than Okay, so I
guess Golden State more than anybody. But I'm intrigued by
San Antonio because of Wimby. Right, there's no doubt again,
star driven. Yeah, it is star driven, of course. I
mean that's the reason why I became a Chicago Bulls fan.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's right. Yeah, this is Michael Jordan.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
So, like, imagine you're a big Joe l embiid fan.
You see the schedule release and this is so unique
to the NBA. Do you start looking at the schedule
immediately at the jump once it's released?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
To start one?

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Is that a load management game? Is that a load
management game? Where's the star gonna play? Am I gonna
get to watch him in this game?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's Golden State versus LA Am I gonna get to
watch Steph versus Luca at this point in the season, Like,
is that something Obviously I don't follow the NBA, so
I'm not as in tune with it, But is that
something that you might possibly think of when you see
these schedules come out or are you just excited?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Going, man, I can't wait for that matchup?

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, I look at it from perspective, yes, the opening
week I like to look at that. Christmas Day I
like to look at that, and then I will look
Atlanta and Charlotte just from a perspective.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Of Okay, let's see.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I mean, of course, I know every NBA team is
going to come through Atlanta and Charlotte. They're going to
do that, and so maybe, oh, that would be a
good game to go to because it's not that far
to Charlotte or it's not that far to Atlanta, So
maybe that's a good game to go watch. Ye, and
depending on when it falls, you know, on the calendar.

(14:36):
But outside of that, that's it because I know load
management's coming, I just don't know when, so I don't
get too caught up with Oh, let me see, you know,
that's forty games in that's probably going to be and
that's a back to back game.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I don't go into that detail now.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
When I was in high school, I would go into
detail in terms of looking at the teams that were
coming through Atlanta and also Atlanta's schedule because it impacted.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
If I had the ability to get player shoes. Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
And the reason why is that players would give up
their shoes if it was the end of a series
or they were beginning to embark on a new series.
And what I mean by that is, say the Detroit
Pistons were coming to Atlanta. Yeah, well, I would look

(15:37):
at the schedule and if I knew this was their
last road game, so they might be on a three
or four game road trip and this was their last
one in Atlanta and then they were going home for
their next game. I had an opportunity to get shoes
at that game because they would they would be done,
like they want to have a new pair they have.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay, you just figured that out, or did you?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I did, And that was trial and air and I
realized as like, oh okay, now I'm seeing the pattern here.
And then the same way with the Atlanta Hawks is
if this was their last game of roads of a
home stand and they were getting ready to go on
the road.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
That would be a good game.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I could try to get Hawks shoes and it would work.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Not a lot, Oh yeah, it would work.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So I would dive into the schedule from that perspective
when I was in high school. But now I obviously
don't do that. But it's just part of the equation.
You got to learn these things. Would you still get
shoes now? Have you ever tried to get shoes here recently?
Is it more like I kind of have to be
a kid. Yeah, now because I've crossed over into the media, Yeah,

(16:49):
so that it is different. But I would say when
I was living in Savannah and I was still just
in med device sales, you know, my kids would see shoes,
you know, I had them up there in Alex my
true basketball guy as far as you know, one of
my children, he was always fascinated by it, and so

(17:13):
you know, we somewhat had that bond, you know, through basketball.
And so he always was asking, man, I would like
to get some Dad, And so I said, okay, let's
go to a Hawks game. And his favorite player was
Kyle Korver that played for the Hawks. So we went
up to a Hawks game, and I showed him the ropes.

(17:36):
This is how I used.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Now it had changed a little bit because it was
sat Farm Arena now instead of the Omni, So I
had to navigate a little bit as far as figuring
out where the players made their entrance.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
But we did that in sure enough.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
We waited Kyle korver he drives up because we get
you to get there before the game, and he comes
out and we start talking to him. My son gets
his autogram, and you know, I'm sitting there and I'm
trying to encourage my son to ask. Yeah, because you
got to ask, because I wasn't going to ask for him.
I told him, I said, hey, you've got to do it.
And I could tell he was nervous, he didn't want

(18:12):
to do it. And I said, Alex, don't you have
something to ask him? At least I gave him a
little bit of ludg and so he asked, and I said, sure,
after the game, meet me right here, and.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
He came out signed him for Alex.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yes, And I mean, I don't know if that smile
came off of Alex's face for like a year. Yeah,
once he got those shoes yeah, it was. It was phenomenal.
So I did at least pass that on. But that
was the last time. Yeah, that was involved in getting
some player shoes.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
But we've got him right up here, and these are
from literally nineteen eighties.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
They look good, I mean from the eighties. They they
are old, they definitely are. But my prize possession is
the Scottie Pippen his rookie year. He's wearing a Villa
before he went to Nike. Yeah, this is the only
time you wore non Nike his rookie year of Via.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
So there you go. There's our story story time here.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Hey, it's also an opportunity for you to join the
conversation eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
Let's head out to the Ingles hotline right now, the
Richmond Weavers show.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Who's this, Hey, Richmond, this is Rocky.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
How are you guys doing fantastic? Rocky? How about yourself, sir, I'm.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
Doing well and I'm calling about the what your conversation
about the schedules and the length of but story time,
So you're talking about getting a players shoes for your son.
When I was and you mentioned the Omni Arena in Atlanta, right,
Omni and the hotel all that. So when I was

(19:50):
at Garden to winne it was my freshman year and
John Drew former was plaiting for the Atlanta Hawks. He
played at Garden and Webb, Andrew played college basketball Garden
and Webb, and he got him, i mean with him
his connections with the Hawks. And we went down there

(20:15):
for a weekend and stayed in the Omni hotel and
we're able to have our own section and attend one
of the Hawks games, and so we're all where well,
I mean, I don't want to divorce too much, but
there was a lot of fun times going on and

(20:38):
so forth. And we got to go into the Hawks
locker room and we woremer white Nikes with the red sluice,
just white shoes with it, and that's what the Hawks wore. Yes,
And I wore the same size shoe thirteen as John
Drew did, and he had a brand new pair. They

(21:03):
were low cut shoes. He had a brand new pair
in the box. Oh yes, and they were low cut.
And instead of you know on the back where your
achilles is, if it's a low cut shoe, it says Nike.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yes, it said true, Oh yes, there we go.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
And he gave him to me. Yes, he gave them
to me. Man, I wore those shoes. I tried to
wear him in a couple of games, but I just
needed to wear high tops, so I didn't. I said,
I'm not gonna So I just kept those in my
dorm rooms, wore them around and I wore those shoes

(21:43):
for freaking over. And there was just white of the
red swowge Nike shoes that ship threw on the back.
So you get him some day, I mean for nine
roll nineteen. I think it was nineteen. I'm freshman, actually

(22:04):
so and I got a pair of sneaks from a
dude playing in the NBA. You kidding me, yes, so anyway,
and they looked just like our shoes that we wore,
but it was just low cut. I had the ninety flues,
didn't have night get on the back of that through
on the back.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I had a unique, uh situation there with the with
the drew on the back to make it one of
a kind type of shooting.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Now, did you get him to autograph it or no?

Speaker 5 (22:34):
He did not autograph it. I didn't get shoes autographed.
I mean it was I mean it was kind of
an experience. I'm down there. I mean, I'm gonna tell
you something. Those dudes party like crazy. Man, I've never
seen that liaring that that stuff going around. Okay, I
don't even want to go. But nonetheless, but no, I

(22:56):
did not get him to autograph, and uh, I don't know.
I guess I will so mesmerize. I didn't think about it.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well, if you're wearing them like that, I mean, it's
almost even better that you didn't because you had.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
I didn't need. I didn't need the autograph. Names on
the back of the yah, yeah, his last name on
the back of the shoe. Now you were talking about that.
There's a couple of things as far as the schedule
coming out with the NFL. I'm not big into the

(23:27):
hype of the schedule they want. I mean, the NFL
prints their own money. But I do love it when
it comes out because you know, my team Washington and
now I'm looking at you know, I want to see
whether their schedule is going to be in it boo
will start. They got Philly, Dallas, and Seattle. That's their
first three games. But from the standpoint of the end

(23:50):
and putting it out and making a big deal of it.
It's all about gambling, Richmond. It's all about futures bets
Vegas and people seeing the schedules and now they're going
to put in their bets you know, over underwhen this
and that and the other. I just think, I mean,
gambling is taking over so much and come from a

(24:12):
sponsorship in all those sports. So that's kind of my
case on I love it when the schedule comes out,
but I mean I'm not like sitting on baited breath waiting,
oh it comes to schedule. No, I look forward to
it when they do it. You know, it's kind of
like the college football schedule Williamson Carolina. You look forward
to it because you want to know who they play

(24:33):
and when they're playing, what type, you know, that kind
of thing. So I really think SED bring it putting
the schedules out, but making the big deal over it
and announcing it. That's for other people that are beyond
my pay grade and just that's that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Now.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
A couple of things on the NBA. I think the
NBA season is too long. I I think, you know,
with all the load management and all of that stuff
about that, I think they could probably drop it down
twelve fourteen games or something from eighty two to seventy
or something, and that might help them. And because here

(25:16):
again you want to go to see your favorite NBA
team and your favorite NBA player, You go and you
spend the money for the tickets and low and bowl.
He's not playing on the NBA. I do not think
the Major League Baseball should change anything. It's been one
hundred and sixty two games for all of my sixty
five years on this earth, and it doesn't need to be,

(25:41):
I think the baseball So they're doing all kinds of
things right now to make it better, and it just is. Now.
The only problem major League Baseball is going to be
next year when they are not playing, which is going
to stink. But Major League Baseball doesn't need to change
the thing. They're probably having probably as much success and

(26:04):
and interest that they've had in quite some time. Uh,
and now all of a sudden it's gonna get screwed
up next year. But don't take one hundred and sixty
two games. Baseball is a great game. And they you
got the pitchers, and you give them five six days
rest and you get time to have your your your

(26:25):
You might be hot one time, and then you you're cold.
But now I mean MLP is fine. I don't think
you need to do anything unless they as long as
they can get their labor stripe figured out. But I
definitely think the NBA season is too long. Eighty two
game NBA season. They could they could cut that back,

(26:46):
get more players playing, keep them healthier, and they wouldn't
have to sit out as many games. I think you
would see that happen, but they're not going to do it.
But nonetheless, that's my take.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
There you go, Rocky, We appreciate it. Whether we got
to hit this break, you call anytime, all right, Thank you, Rocky. Yeah,
And I'd like to know whatever happened to those shoes.
And you said he wore them all the time, probably
wore them out. And at some point this makes us
way to the trash. I guess that's how shoes are.

(27:18):
And I look back when I got my first pair
of Air Jordan's, the very first version that came out.
I still think about. Of course, you don't know what
you don't know, of course, as far as the future,
but can you imagine if I would have kept those
in a box in pristine condition?

Speaker 3 (27:38):
But I can tell you.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I probably wore mine out in the first week because
it never took them off. And back then, I mean
that was like my shoes that I played in. I
went to school in, I played basketball and whatever. I mean,
you did everything and one pair of shoes and that
was it.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
It's different these days, where gotta.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Have your slides, you gotta have your shoes over here
for just walking around. You can't wear your basketball shoes
unless you're actually out on the court.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
And it's just it's just different. I just never grew up.
I guess that's it. I love it, all right, we
do have to hit this break.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
We've got much more of this Tuesday edition of the
Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this
here on one oh four nine Fox Sports Upstate live
from the Ingles Studios downtown Greenville, right here on North
Main Street. That since the Tuesday edition of the Richmond
Weavers Show presented by Ingles right here on one o

(28:41):
four nine Fox Sports Upstate, and again you can join
the conversation eight six four two four zero five four
eight zero. Again that numbers eight six four two four zero,
five four eight zero. As we were talking schedule releases,
and the uniqueness with the NFL versus some of the
other leagues and what they're trying to do at least there,

(29:02):
we knew there was going to be marquee games for
the NBA, and you knew that Lebron James is going
to be driving a lot of that, just based on
where he was gonna land, where he's going to end up,
and of course we know he's there in Philadelphia and
for certain, there was no way possible that Lebron James

(29:26):
was not going to be playing on Opening Day. Yeah,
there was just no way that was not going to happen.
Because this is could this be the last quote unquote
Dance the Swan Song for Lebron James And we already
know that, Yes, he has been in discussions about doing
his own version of the Last Dance as far as

(29:47):
embedding a film crew following him around. I can't imagine
in any world that that's not happening either.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Did you put in a bid for that?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
They they respectfully declined my opportunity to bid on that. Right,
It's like, hey, yeah, it's really good job there with Furman.
Yeah this might be a little bit different, Like, yeah,
I get it, but I did earn an Emmy for director,
so hey, I've got some a little bit of street

(30:21):
cred for it. But yeah, I think Lebron's got his own,
his own crew that time. Probably, yeah, exactly. Well, at
least Adam Silver was able to accommodate the schedule release,
as we talked about, until Thursday. This coming Thursday at
three pm, right when we start our show. So now
I'm just waiting for him to confirm that he'll come

(30:42):
on during the show and can talk about the schedule release.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, a little bit exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, So probably don't count on that, but you never know,
some hail Mary might happen. But some of the games
opening week here the National Games three pm on two Tuesday,
October twentieth, three pm, okay, okay, And we talked about
would any of these leagues start looking at earlier start

(31:10):
times based on what the World Cup did?

Speaker 3 (31:12):
So there you go, three pm.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Interesting, the Celtics versus Detroit at three o'clock there on NBC.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, I like it.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, a Tuesday, go ahead and get your season started
with a little bit of a different lineup, start early,
and then at seven pm, there you go.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
You've got your seventy six ers at the Knicks.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Okay there, yep, Lebron versus the defending champs, the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
You knew it was going to happen.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
And then at nine point thirty the night cap, the
rematch OKC and San Antonio of the Western Conference Finals.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
There, it's got a cool kind of an all day
thing there. That's a good way to open the season.
I like that. See, I like an all day situation.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Go ahead and bring some excitement, brings some a little
bit different energy, and not just waiting till the nighttime.
Make it somewhat of a spectacle opening day. Yeah, because
doesn't college football and the NFL, I mean you talking
about they lean into the first day, the first game.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
You only get one a year, yes, exactly, so take
advantage of it.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yes, and even you know major League Baseball, you know
opening Day all of that.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Now it has become.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Deluded just a little bit because they'll have an opening
Day and it's like one game. So it's a one
off where I like it when hey, here we go,
all the teams are playing. This is our opening day,
that's all. It is an all day type of event.
Then the next day you do have the Miami Heat

(32:57):
taking on Minnesota there and then also Golden State later
that night taking on the Lakers. Again Lakers without Lebron.
Luca should be back. Then on Thursday you got Cleveland
and the seventy six ers matched up. Yes, so Cleveland

(33:18):
at Philadelphia, and again don't sleep on Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Just do not sleep on Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
And so of course you knew there was going to
be some intrigue in terms of Lebron James not going
back to Cleveland. And then you have later that night
on Thursday, October twenty second, you've got Denver taking on OKC.
They're in Oklahoma City, so another good matchup there. And
then Friday, October twenty third, you've got the Knicks at

(33:47):
the Celtics and then you have the Rockets at San Antonio.
So I think there's some decent matchups. But I do
like the Tuesday starting at three pm, and I'm really
read to see what's going to happen in terms of
and I think some of these leagues should try to
do something different and have earlier games and bring some attention.

(34:12):
There's nothing else going on at three o'clock on a Tuesday.
Well wait a second, our show is going on, trying
to stand trying to take away from our audience.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Here, wait a second, but I do.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Think there's some validity to trying to do some things
outside of the box, but within reason. Again, when I
say that, it might sound like I'm talking out to
both sides of my mouth when you know, I'm looking
at the NBA and trying to do something different, like
with the schedule release. Well it's not that different because

(34:49):
the NFL has done the schedule release and it's just
completely different. But I'm saying just from a perspective of
getting attention just to your league when there's really not
much going on, Yeah, why not bring some excitement to
that particular moment in a time slot right where really
nothing is happening.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Well, I mean, isn't that most of the reason why
the NFL is what it is and why we love
it so much, because they are willing to a degree
to kind of go outside that box at times and go, Okay,
this seems like a good idea. Let's let's try this
and see if it works, or you know, they feed
it down. You can't convince me they don't go to
some of these feeder leagues like the XFL that you
had or the USFL, the UFL or whatever, and they're going, Hey,

(35:33):
what's that rule change you're looking at. Let's get the
data on that. What's going on with that, how's it working,
what's your viewership looking like? Are people liking it and
then adopting that there in the NFL? And to that end,
why not for the NBA start to innovate a little bit,
try something different.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
To your point, yeah, try it at three o'clock. If
it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I get that. But
the only way you're ever going.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
To compete with the NFL is if you stop copying
and start innovating.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yes, because how is it going to hurt them if
they have game at three o'clock on a Tuesday, right,
because they're.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Still going to have their night games.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, and they still have their marquee matchup at night
with Philly and the Knicks. So you've got it, So
play around with it and see how it plays out.
And to your point, there is no doubt that the NFL,
as much as they are, the big behemoth.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
The one of the reasons why they are is because
I think they do so much research, They do so
much behind the scenes and have such a good I
guess grasp of Hey, what are some things that are
working that maybe we can incorporate or maybe a minimum

(36:56):
creating a database of situations and events techniques, whatever it
is that Okay, maybe we need to massage it a
little bit, and maybe we need to do it a
little bit different, but we like the concept.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Put our own spin on it, put our own spin
on it.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yes, there's no doubt that I think that happens quite
a bit and so shall be interesting to see. But
I'm curious to see what else the NBA can can
try to do.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Let me know your thoughts. Though.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
The text line is open eight six four triple seven
ninety five ninety three. Again that text line eight six
four triple seven ninety five ninety three, And we did
have Sean texting in saying, hey, guys, quick question, what
are the chances of Lebron James playing in the w
NBA next year? And he does give a laughing emoji

(37:54):
with that text, and I get it.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
It's all the talk right now trans gender playing in
the WNBA. I get it.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
It's funny, but yeah, probably zero. We know that's not happening.
I know Sean is being funny there. But I do
have some thoughts on the WNBA because it is beginning
to be a little bit of comedy hour and in

(38:26):
a bad way for the WNBA, and I will share
some thoughts on that coming up in hour two. But
we also have a Texter eighty six ninety four chiming
in saying, how awesome would major League Baseball Opening Day
B if every team played with start time as early

(38:48):
as noon, then has every then have every team staggering
series throughout the first week. That's what I'm talking about
right there. Yeah, one of the things that does work
for baseball is day baseball. Yeah, we know that, and
so I think it would be incredible that, yes, for

(39:08):
Opening Day, you start at noon and you just keep
going and based on time zones, you know, So it
just is like a rolling type of situation. Why wouldn't
we do something like that if you're Major League Baseball?

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yeah, I feel like if you're Major League Baseball, And
again I'm not a baseball guy, Like I'm not a
baseball purist or anything like that, so this maybe way
out of the ballpark, but uh like, if I'm the MLB, Like,
why wouldn't you try to take up as much TV
time as possible, because MLB, to me, is one of
those that's so easy to.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Just kind of have on in the background and to
passively keep up with.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yes, especially like you're in the office, like we got
we got a big TV down there in the in
the sales area, Like you could have MLB up on
that and like you don't have to really be as
engaged with it, pay attention. You're doing some work and
then maybe look up and go, oh, okay, somebody somebody
got to hit yeh hit home run.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's cool. Like it's one of those
that you could do.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
So why wouldn't you take the take advantage, especially when
there's not really a whole lot else going on, take
up as much TV inventory as you.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Can and be on all day long where they'll have.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
You, Well you've got one hundred and sixty two games, right,
so you do have the inventory. Yeah, so spread it
out a little bit throughout the course.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Of the day.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
And again in these areas where there's really nothing going on. Yeah,
Fiel the time, yes and day baseball is already there.
And I do think even Rocky was talking about that
with Major League Baseball is that with one hundred and
sixty two games, I still think it's too long. Yeah,

(40:38):
but what Rocky had mentioned is that at least Baseball
is understanding that they do need to make some adjustments
and evolve with the pitch clock, you know, those trying
to speed the game up a little bit, trying to
do things a little bit different. Yeah, the automatic balls
and strikes, those type of situations. But I think ultimately

(41:01):
you can have some of that. But I do think
there could be a lot more bang for your buck
if you do reduce the schedule right where it's not
as long. Of course, the caveat to that is that
would any of the owners ever agree to that? And

(41:22):
even in the NBA, there has to be some type
of offset financially that they're okay. Now, the question is
going to be though with Major League Baseball, and if
you haven't been keeping up, is that I mean, it
could be a ticking time bomb in terms of how
it's teetering right now in terms of this labor dispute

(41:43):
and coming up on the latest collective bargaining agreement. And
of course the owners are really pushing hard for a
salary cap. Yeah, and guess what the players don't want
a salary cap.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I get it. Yeah, So are we.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Going to have some type of stalemate there and you're
going to have to come to In my opinion, I
think the players are going to have to come to
some type of compromise that there's going to be some
version of a salary cap there just is going to

(42:19):
have to be Now what they get in return for that,
That's my point. I don't know, And that's what I'm
talking about to even like with Major League Baseball and
reducing their schedule or the NBA, what could be done
to help offset what they would view as lost revenue
from ticket sales, etc. But I do think if you

(42:40):
have the opportunity to frame it correctly, it's one of
those things where you might not see the return immediately,
but it could be one of those things where it's
a bigger picture type of return. So down the road,
it strengthens your organization, it strengthens your lead league, rather

(43:00):
than you're just continuing to maybe lose some of your viewership.
Now Baseball can say, hey, but right now our viewership
is doing really well. Yeah, because some of the changes
that we've made, and I do agree with them. That's
at least you are trying to make some changes. But
I would still continue to walk down that road to
see if there's an opportunity as far as actually reducing

(43:23):
the number of games, because I think you could even
increase your viewership more by reducing the number of games.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
I mean, and of course two totally different, three totally
different leagues, I guess if you're taking an MLB. But
you know, that's one of the NFL's greatest strengths is
the scarcity of the schedule. And that's why it does
worry me a little bit that you know, there seems
to be a push of like.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Any number of NFL games is.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Good, Like I just want more and more and more,
and like, to an extent, I do agree, like I
would like more NFL games, But there does come a
point where, especially with the NFL, you start to lose
your greatest strength, which is your scarcity of your schedule. Yes,
to me, that's the biggest strength of the NFL that
it only lasts for finite little period of time, and
so you get as soon as you start really getting
into it, it's pretty much, oh well, we're done now,

(44:09):
So now you're wanting so much more, and that just keeps.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
It's a cycle that builds and drives and drives.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
And that's why they can own so much of the
year because you want the NFL so bad because you
only get so much of it. Yes, and eighteen games, sure,
nineteen games, Sure, twenty games. You're probably not diluting it
too much. But the more you want to start building
into that scheduling, going, man, give me more, NFL, give
me more, give me more, you run the risk of
diluting that and making it mean less.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yes, no, you definitely do.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
That's a big part of how they're going to have
to decide this. All right, We got to hit this
brake though, as we are blowing through this other segment
here in our one much more of this Tuesday edition
of the Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Here on one O four nine.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Fix Sports Upstate eight six four triple seven ninety five
at ninety three. That is the text line again, eight
six' four triple seven ninety five ninety. Three you can
join the conversation right here on This tuesday edition of
The Richmond Weavers, show presented by our good friends At
Ingles markets and we do Have texter texting in in

(45:17):
terms of THE nfl and, Rematches texter fifty five eleven, says, hey,
guys thoughts on the idea of THE nfl making the
Previous Super bowl contenders the season opening.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Match thought the concept was. COOL i like.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
It, Yes i've always been a proponent THAT nfl really
doesn't do this that. OFTEN i think they've only done
it a few. Times but isn't this YEAR i think it?

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Is don't we?

Speaker 5 (45:46):
HAVE i?

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Might, yeah the patriotsmost?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Positive, Yeah patriots and The seahawks that first. WEEK i
think that is, accurate Like september, NINTH i do think.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
THAT i think that sounds.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Right but, YEAH i, mean, yeah there's already built in
drama just from a rematch. Perspective, NOW i do think
there's something, About, hey if you're having you, know the
banner unveiling or whatever for your Super bowl champion and
to have the the opposing team sitting there and have

(46:22):
to go through all of that to try to seek their,
REVENGE i don't know that does add some more drama
though you've had about, it yes you, have and, hey
and if you're, frustrated if you're mad because you know
The seahawks are getting to unveil their. Banner, yeah go
out there and beat them.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Right, well that's.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
It that's all you had to, Do, Patriots and it
could have been your opportunity to have that banner. Unveiled,
well we'll see how that plays, out all, Right hour
two of This tuesday edition Of The Richmond Weaver, show
presented By Engles.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Markets right after this