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The Dan Bongino Show
Socialists Have a 100% Success Rate of Failing
"Plan more for more people in the future that was so bananas this weekend but something big did happen this weekend this election in Argentina Argentina of Javier Mele I spent a lot of time in Argentina know the country really well everywhere from Shaltan to Patagonia to Buenos Aires spent a ton of time months upon months upon months in Argentina on an on an operation let's say I don't mean to sound overly dramatic one like some Jason Bourne thing but some pretty good stuff we did some pretty cool stuff down there Argentina is a beautiful country and the thing about Argentina is back in around 1910 1914 Argentina was growing I don't know if you know this one of the quickest economically growing countries in the entire world you wear them why I because they had relatively free markets a relatively small government and when you allow people the benefits and fruits of their labor and entrepreneurship Jim this crazy thing happened people get richer it's nuts it's only when government and other jerkwads in the government get in the way that people manage to make themselves poor it's incredible the recipe for failure is it I always say about socialists they have a 100 % success rate of failing that's almost impossible to do I I mean even great major league hitters the greatest of the great would only succeed about 4 10 times if you batted if you bat 400 you're like a god in baseball small g god right but socialism has a remarkable 100 % success rate of failing so the socialists eventually moved their way into the argentinian government and what happened what happened every single time liberals who what suck that's right that's the motto of the damn bongino show liberals suck well damn we're not going to convince any of them I don't want to convince liberals I don't care I'm not running for office I'm trying to expose you to reality and sometimes it's the syrup of ipicac and it's not like we can get bored with honey we've tried that we're dealing with straight up commies they throw will you in jail they will censor you they'll charge you with terrorism they will do whatever they can do I'm not interested in playing
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Baseball" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Dan Bongino Show
There Was a Full-Blown Riot in Front of the DNC
"Of donuts i'm not like stephen hawking or anything like that but i covered it segment this this dnc pro this protest at the dnc democrat national headquarters last night by the pro -terrorist group and folks i gotta tell you i was shocked i was i was on a plane before i wasn't watching a lot of you know cable news stuff or whatever and like i said i get in the hotel and you know whatever brush the dientes i sit down in the bed getting ready to go sleep lily white's party right i hit the power button on the cable what the hell is this here's like a full in front of the dnc wait jim what was that statement you just read to me about that thing because folks i want you to listen to this do you have it i want you to listen jim you read it if you get it up if you get it up get your mind out of the gutter you read this statement and tell me how this this sounds like any different from the january sixth thing tell me about by they portrayed it and yet today there's no outrage in the media because they were pro -hamas people that were at the democrat headquarters there's no basis minimal coverage at best people got hurt last night the fbi from what know i is not engaged in a full -blown x uh uh investigation excuse me none of that but listen for a second jim's gonna read this and you're gonna say to yourself gosh that sounds like a lot of what they said after january sixth yet no spawning response to him dozens of people were kicked need and punched in the face by police officers u .s. capitol police say roughly a hundred and fifty demonstrators were illegally and violently protesting with at least six officers injured well some congressmen were evacuated from dnc headquarters during the protest while others were entered into the basement by law enforcement while sounds like an insurrection doesn't it folks sounds i'm right this is the same thing you were told about january sixth worse than pearl harbor it was worse than nine eleven thousand times worse and yet if you're not if you listen to the show today you pop on cable news last night like before i dropped into lily white's party and you didn't see what's going on you're like wait that happened last night because you got lives you got real job i don't have a real job it's a fake job you got real jobs you got you're getting your kids back from like baseball games and soccer games and preparing dinner and getting ready for work if you didn't see that story you have no idea mike queue up for me cut four this is just audio of the end and folks believe me if if the if the definition of insurrection is what the democrats want you to it believe is then what happened last night at the DNC headquarters is without a doubt an insurrection I just want you to listen seconds in this check this out back yeah the lookups got thrown thrown down the stairs so yeah two thumbs up he's such a radio guy he keeps in case you don't realize what's going on here Jim because he has to control the on and off button on the mic for me he keeps turning his mic off if they're just just leave the mic on okay don't worry about it don't worry about the mic
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Fresh "Baseball" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Executive Director of The Bush Tennis Center Tim Stallard Talks Bringing The Pros The Texas
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I'm your host Kamau Murray, and we are here with all things tennis. Mr. Tim Stoller, Tim is the general manager and director of the Bush tennis center down in San Antonio, Texas. And they are hosting a really cool tennis event this weekend. It is the, Tim, go ahead, give us the name. Yes, the San Antonio International Team Tennis Championships, and it's at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. However, the Bush tennis center is way out in West Texas, about 300 miles away in Midland, Texas. So that's kind of an interesting dynamic of this event. Yeah, we want to hear a lot about that because I'll be honest with you. You know, I built 27 tennis courts in the city and the Bush tennis center has the exact same mission as I do, and I'd never heard of it. So we want to dig into that. But first, let's dig into your background. You have put on more than 50, you know, ATP, USDA, Pro Circuit events, assistant coach at University of Texas, spent time on the court with Andy Roddick. Tell me about your pedigree, where you come from, how you got in the game, and how you were able to travel through so many different levers of the sport. Well, I actually, it started in Rockford, Illinois, way up north, and started playing tennis and just, it was one of those things after my parents got divorced a couple of times. I love baseball, but trying out for baseball teams was more problematic than just entering tennis tournaments. So I kind of fell into tennis through that and loved the sport. And you know, like you said, went on to coach at University of Texas and started, you know, just had some great players. And that's really how I got into starting to run events is I was trying to get wildcards and help out players that I was coaching. And way back in the day, I had two really great players in Texas. One was Julie Scott, who is an All -American at Stanford. And, you know, I couldn't get wildcards. And the other one was Elizabeth Schmidt, who played at UCLA and went on, now she's a head coach at Rice. And very deserving kids. And the USDA said, you know, if you start running tournaments, you get the wildcards. So at one point, I had 13 challengers across the U .S. And some of those challengers, like Champaign -Urbana, are still moving along. So it was an interesting process. So we've held calendars the last two years. And it is a tough business model. To have 13 of them, you know, they struggle to make money. They break even at best. To have 13 of them, you must have had a model that worked because no one would ask for it 13 times if you don't. So tell us about your experience with challengers because we see challengers in the U .S., you know, come on and off the calendar, right? And it hurts our U .S. players from, like you said, creating that vertical for where they're in, you know, the collegiate pathway, they want to try to hand it to Pro Tour, they can't get a wildcard, not enough events to spread the wildcards out. How did you make the challenger model work? Yeah, you know, I was able to get national sponsors. I mean, it covered everything. So I had great sponsors, AOL, Porsche Cars North America, Bear Stearns, HealthSouth. So I just went out. I had a great mentor, a big advertising company, GSD &M. The founders of that really kind of showed me how to put media value behind packages. And I found a kind of a good formula. So you know, I would have literally just, you know, Porsche would say, we need these markets and I would jump on a plane and go to Miami and find facilities. But it was a nice problem because I had all the financials together. You look at the challenger that was in Dallas for years, that was over 20 years that they had it at TbarM. So lots of great challenges throughout the years. Now when you would sell those packages, would the sponsor take all 13? Or like the major sponsors take all 13, then you add on locals? Or was it, you know, and the people would pick off whichever ones they wanted in the markets? Yeah, for the most part, you know, we'd have our major sponsors would take all the markets and then we'd sell kind of patron, local, because you always want the local community involved. So we'd have local patron packages. And we really did our best to make it a fun event, you know, pro -ams and music and access to the players. And, you know, for me, a big part of it was telling the story of the challengers. I mean, I love challengers because you have the veterans that are hanging on that come to get the points. You got the top juniors in the world and they clash at the challenger level. And you know, I'll never forget, I was in a drive -through at McDonals in Austin, Texas, and I got a call from Andre Agassi's brother asking for a wild card into Burbank. And at that time, I'd already, I'd committed, I had a player, Brandon Coop and Robert Abendroth, I committed my two wild cards, so I couldn't give him a wild card, but I was hoping the USTA would. And you know the story, I mean, he got a wild card, he played against Sarga Sargisian in the finals. They called it the Battle of Armenia. And it was a great tournament and it was great to see him come back a year later. He was already back to number four in the world. So it was really just an inspiration to see Andre. Yeah, so, you know, I think that one of the things we us to underestimate is like really the job of these challengers, right, especially in the US soil, is to help promote the next generation of player, right? So I always like to hear a famous story. So our challengers, our wild cards went to Ben Shelton last summer. That's awesome, man. I always hit the semis, obviously got to perform, got a wild card into, got to upgrade a wild card, got originally got a wild card in the Qualities of Cincy because he was in Chicago so long, upgraded to the main draw. And this year, Alex Mickelson wins our event, goes on and plays Newport, right, gets the final to Newport, loses to Manarino, I think. So tell me about another famous wild card story where you see, you gave a wild card to someone that has some potential. And then other than the story you told us where you're like, you know, we had a hand in that person's career. Well, a couple of them, one in Rockford, Illinois, back to Rockford, Illinois, I had a challenger there in February following the Midland, Michigan challenger that's still going. And I got a call from one of my idols, Nick Boletary, and said, I've got this girl, she's number one in the world. And she's not going to make the cut for the challenger. And we think she has a lot of potential. It was Anna Kournikova. So I gave her a wild card and she won it. And you know, I believe, you know, five months later, she was in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. And what's cool about Anna is Anna came back and we've done a lot of charity events. And following, we did an event in Beaumont with Pete Sampras. And she flew after that over to Horseshoe Bay to do a free clinic with my wife and kids. And it was the first kids courts, it was the Andy Roddick kids courts out at Horseshoe Bay. But she flew over, you know, did it absolutely for free to give back to the kids. And she's amazing. But it's really funny that, you know, that started when she was 13 years old in frigid Rockford, Illinois, in February. So you mentioned your wife and kids, do your daughters play at all? They did. They're older now. They're once graduated from A &M. She's an architect and my other daughter is about to start her master's in communications at A &M. Now, did you tie your hand at coaching them? You know, obviously, I'm trying to coach my kids. And I'm trying not to let what happens on the tennis court blend into the car ride home or blend into the dinner table. But sometimes that's really hard. Did you try your hand at coaching them? And how did that go? Yeah, I did. My wife was really their primary coach. And my wife was a great player, all American at Texas, coached at Texas. She's number one in the Southerns, finalist at the Easter Bowl, just a great player. And we are very different coaching styles. My wife is very, you know, very, very fired up with the girls. I was a lot more laid back. And you know, when I go to their matches, I'd have the newspaper, my Starbucks, and they go, Dad, you're not even watching my match. Of course, I'm watching every point. But when they look at me, I've got my newspaper up and my coffee is kind of downplaying it. But they were great, you know, we're really proud of our daughters. And we officially became grandparents about a little over a year ago. But, you know, tennis was just a great experience for their life. And it, you know, for me, it changed my life. You know, growing up in Rockford, Illinois, my dad was an automaker, tool and die maker, neither one of my parents even know how to keep score in tennis. And like I said, after a couple of divorces, I had a wonderful coach, Pat Wicks, that gave me a lot of free lessons and I just worked my butt off and it opened doors. And, you know, that's what we're really inspired to do with the Bush AIDS Outreach Program is create that opportunity. And I mean, we have 100%, any kid that comes, we provide full scholarships, partial scholarships, we turn down no one. That's our mission. So we're real proud of that and we've helped a lot of kids and we're expanding that throughout the state of Texas and then happy to really help, you know, great foundations like the Ryan Brothers Foundation, John Isner. My wife and I, we went out and helped Sloan. Sloan had over 300 kids bust in from Compton at USC. My wife and I went out and helped with clinics out there to help Sloan, but she does amazing work year -round. So there's a lot of great stories and a lot of great things that, you know, people see these great players on the court, but I'm really inspired for a lot of things they're doing off the court. So tell me about the Bush Tennis Center. I would say I didn't even know it existed. I didn't know that the Bushes were big tennis people. I knew the Koch Brothers were big tennis people down there in Texas, but didn't know the Bush Tennis Center existed. So tell me about how the Bush Tennis Center came along and how you ended up taking the job. Oh, it's, in 2015, I had John Isner, Sam Querrey, and the Bryans, and we did a four -day run where we did Atlanta, Nashville, Midland, and then Camarillo, California to do something for the Bryan Brothers for their foundation. So those four guys, 2015, went through just to do a one -day event and just started talking to the people that founded the Bush Tennis Center and they were having some challenges with the business model, asked me to, hired me as a consultant initially. And I just said, you know, here's all the things that need to be done. And they're like, well, we want to hire you. I'm like, well, I don't live here. I live in Austin. My wife's director of tennis at Horseshoe Bay Resort. My company's in Austin. They're like, well, we don't care if you live here, just come and check into the Double Tree Hilton downtown Midland and come and figure this thing out. And you know, it was really neat because at that point I was working, I was trying to build a similar facility next to Dell Diamond with Reed and Reece Ryan, Nolan Ryan's kids. They owned the Minor League Ballpark there and we were kind of going down that road to maybe buy the ATP event in Memphis, build a facility like this. And you know, we're going down that road, but there was a lot of politics and just dealing with governments and stuff. I go out to West Texas and they're like, you know, here's the keys to the place. How much money do you need? Let's get it going. I mean, it's just an amazing opportunity. And we're on 35 acres. We've already on the far west side, we just opened a $4 million park designed for special needs children. So we've got zip lines. Everything is set up where kids can play just despite, you know, physical challenges. They can play side by side with all kids. We have a $4 million park. We just broke ground on a new 90 ,000 square foot athletic center, which will have five indoor basketball courts, 15 volleyball courts, a 75 yard turf indoor field. And then Lance Hooton, who I actually met through Andy Roddick, who's traveled with Andy. It's going to be a sports performance training center. And Lance Hooton's coming in and using his expertise to develop that as well. So, you know, it's a big campus and it's all set up as a nonprofit. It's a legacy for the Bush presidents. And you know, I feel like to some degree I get to be Santa Claus because I get to really help a lot of kids. And that's super important to me. And we've got a staff that is just amazing, that just cares so much about helping kids and really developing a great event, a great product. Now you're also building indoor tennis courts. And what people don't know is like in these southern markets, right, places where you just say California, Texas, Atlanta, Florida, even, he's like, why do you need indoor courts in those markets? Sometimes it is so hot, right, that you just need the, you need the roof for the shade, right? Or sometimes like in Florida, it'll rain all day, right? And you need the roof for the rain. So tell us why you would need indoor courts in West Texas. Well, a lot of times it's just too windy. I mean, we're just out in the middle of nowhere. It's flat as can be. And, you know, as they say, there's not a lot out there, but there's a lot under there. I mean, we're on the biggest reserve of oil on planet Earth, the Permian Basin and the Delaware Basin, you know, come right out of right out of Midland, West Texas. And but it's flat, high winds. So we lose a lot of days where, you know, the wind gets up above 25 miles an hour. It's not playable. Dust is blowing. And then, you know, we have one hundred and one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen degree days in the summer, and then it drops to twenty five degrees. That's just all over the map. So indoor courts will definitely help us. We're looking at doing eight indoor hard and four indoor clay, and there's no way to do outdoor clay. It would just blow away. So it would be so dry and you'd be you know, every year we bring in twelve tons of clay to sort of re -top off our red hard shoe courts. I mean, I would only imagine how much money you spend on. Oh, yeah. It wouldn't last.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh "Baseball" from Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"Pitch results it was also meeting a all from deckland rice seven minutes into stoppage time to get past luton town four to three town actually led three to two until kai habert scored in the sixtieth minute for the gunners wolf rampton they uh... had a tough they one but knocked off firmly one -nil heat chance scoring in the forty second minute nba scoreboard it is is the in -season tournament quarterfinals in milwaukee six forty to go in the fourth quarter the bucks have opened opened up a one twenty two two one oh five lead over the new york nip mix ticket tipping off in twenty phoenix suns on the road at the los angeles lakers baseball news coming out of the winter meetings in bill dodgers manager gave robert says that they did meet with two -time american league nvp showing up dot on a few days back for about two to three hours the dodgers angels of times current club the cubs giant and blue jays are considered the favorite to land the two -way star i'm danny sportsman that's your bloomberg world sports sports update dot all right danny thank you let's take a closer look at what's happening in uh...
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Begging for bubbles
"Hello and welcome to LectureCast, my name is Brian Crossguard, here with the one, the only Josh Olszowiec. Mr. Brian. Josh, how you doing, man? I'm fully engaged. Training goes on. Fully engaged. Fully engaged. That is a readiness state I wasn't prepared for. We have charts on my end that are - Yeah, you did preparation. I'm impressed. I did not. That's okay. But you encouraged me to look up some stuff that I want to talk about on the show. We're going to talk about bubbles today because I titled it Begging for Bubbles. Well, you mentioned my moving average video and clearly that just set off - Listen, I just need the price. I need the price to separate from the fast moving averages and the slow moving averages to the upside, of course. We need some bubblicious behavior. And listen, if you're feeling some FOMO, don't worry, you're not alone. You're just like Isaac Newton. We were talking about people who had gotten fleeced in bubbles and I really enjoyed this one. Even smart people struggle with FOMO. Isaac Newton invests in the South Sea stock, exits with the profit, then his friends get richer than him and then he re -enters with a lot of money at the top and then goes broke. I don't know. A year later. It's almost like the investor sentiment chart or Wall Street cheat sheet. It is except for the whole re -entry component and he's just like you. So if you're feeling FOMO, don't worry, there'll be other trades. There'll be trades. Take your time. I was going to ask you this too. What do you think is the most important thing about trading? Trade management. Discipline. I'd go even more basic. I'd say just make sure you have a seat at the table. There's always another trade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't go broke. So that's part of trade management, right? Don't blow up. Yeah, it is. Don't blow up. Like the Solana stuff, we can talk about Bitcoin in a second, but Solana with the 45 and all you had to do was wait, you know, all you had to do is be patient. And you had your entry. I think it was a great setup. Most of us paying attention caught that. Same thing with LINK, right? It was hard to mis -trade that, I think. I hope, but I don't know. We looked at LINK for... Everybody looked at LINK. I thought. I don't even like the token. Anyway, I don't like Solana either, but that's another conversation. Point is, there's always another trade. There's always a trade somewhere. Be patient. Pick your battles. Be super choosy and look for specific stuff, right? If you're looking for a fastball, don't swing at a curveball, you know? Oh, baby. Speaking of baseball, did you watch the World Series at all? I did. I didn't. I saw it was the lowest rated World Series in history. Dude, what happened to frickin' Twitter's pasting URLs on to TradingView? I used to be able to do that. Oh, I have my drawings turned off. There it is. Classic. Oh, yeah. You knew what I was looking for. Yeah. I mean, look at this. I've pasted it on here like 17 times now. There we go. Do it one more time. There we go. Look at this. I mean, beautiful. I mean, the divergent top. Arthur, what are you doing, man? Well, I woke up and saw that and I was like, what? I hope he's kidding. Like, I hope he's not just now buying all the way up here. Sometimes I wonder, like, did he really buy back here and then he's just, like, saying this stuff at the top? I don't know. He seems too smart for this. But has he a great success of calling tops when he does these types of tweets. Yeah. That was in the high 40s, wasn't it? Yeah. I mean, this is an hourly chart. It was literally, like, 45 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. That didn't make sense to me. So, I hope he... He's immediately down 20 % if that's where he bought. I hope he's a little joking around with that, but maybe not. I don't know. But long term, like, that entry is probably fine. If you're trapped, quote, unquote, trapped in a spot position, I think you're fine. But you're holding for a while. If you're in a leveraged position, I think you're sweating it a little bit. You're not good. Your entry is 45. Yeah. The thing is... Tell us what the thing is. How many days was this? Let's just say from the breakout. You entered the day after to today. Two weeks. For two weeks, Solana, like, traversed this range. I've had this range for a long time, this 25 to 50, basically, 25 to 47, 50. That was the old range before FTX blow up. And then it spent a long time below that on its way to eight. And so, it got back in the range and then floated right back to the top of it. Why would you buy it at the top of that range? I really hope that wasn't the case, but maybe he's got a different time horizon. A lot of people... I'm not just calling out Arthur. A lot of people were feeling FOMO. I haven't really seen anybody on Twitter talking about anything. I don't know if that's just because Twitter's broken or what, but... I feel like a lot of people have been talking about the move that we've had over the past week or so. I haven't seen anybody saying, like, Sol, the 500. I haven't seen any of that stuff. No, not Sol, the 500. It's more like just, I told you so type stuff. Maybe you don't follow Z. Who's that? He's... I don't know. Maybe all my friends are liquidated. I don't know. I just... Handsome. Handsome. I call him Z. No, I haven't. I don't know who that is. Sorry. You're missing out. He's got a good call. He's going off about Coinbase now. Coinbase is at 200. His handle is BlackNoise06, but with a different spelling. He's a good trader, and he's been early on some of these, like, loud beliefs of something's going to happen. I mean, what? We said... Maybe he's just been talking about Solana so much that I'm like, everybody's talking about Solana. It's really just Ansem retweeting it, like, 35 times. Okay. I mean, we said what? Bitcoin, 28k was the level. I don't know if we said it on here, but 25 was the level for Solana. These are just horizontal levels, right? They're not like anything crazy. Yeah. I talked about this, I guess, on Bankless. Just like... The benefit we have right now is we're neither at all -time lows nor all -time highs, so therefore there's horizontal levels that you can compare it to, and you can just trade level to level based on daily, weekly closes, whatever floats your boat, and play it that way. If you're trying to really risk off and take it one trade at a time or whatever, if you're not looking at things with a longer -term lens, you can do that. What I would say right now is goodbye. Buy the retest at 30k if you get it. That would feel rough for a lot of people, 15 % drawdown, but if that occurs, that would be a good entry, right? I don't know what people are waiting for. I guess you're waiting for a COVID -style drawdown, because what's next in the economy? What's it going to take to bring Bitcoin back down is the question. If you're waiting for an entry still... A little bit of bad news, some kind of regulatory thing. There's plenty of things that can pull you back 15%. We can go to 30. You mean we're going to all -time lows type stuff, or not all -time lows, but multi -year lows? No, I'm just asking, if you haven't allocated or whatever into Bitcoin yet, what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for a yearly low? Are you waiting for 15k? Is that what people are waiting for? I don't know, I can't get in the head of bears. It's hard for me. Because we've got halving in less than six months, ETF in less than six months. Unless you just assume those things are priced in and or are bearish. I don't know. I don't know what you're waiting for at this point. I'm not saying we won't go lower, I'm just saying like, what is it going to take, you know? Yeah. If you're trying to think of... It's hard when these are hypothetical people of who's not deployed or whatever. But what would you be waiting on? Wouldn't you be looking for re -entry opportunities where you appear to have value? I mean, I don't think there's that. You think there's a lot of people in our ecosystem of active participants that expect like new multi -year lows? Or do you think most people are looking to just accumulate a little cheaper, if they're not all the way in right now? I just haven't seen enough to even gauge what sentiment even is, on Twitter at least. There's this macro out the yin -yang on Twitter, but I haven't seen too many people discussing crypto targets. I just haven't. Maybe I'm just following the wrong people, but... Yeah. Well, thankfully, the legacy media is kind of avoiding us right now, at least in terms of price action. They're all focused on Sam getting convicted, which he did. People, I'm sure everyone's seen this, but SPF was found guilty on all seven counts of, I don't know, different types of fraud. Well, that's the thing. You have a legacy media saying, I told you so about Sam, some of them, and the other half of them... Meanwhile, Bitcoin's up 100%. Right. They're saying, I told you so, crypto's dead, it's all a Ponzi. And I'm like, what? Am I living in a parallel universe? Am I looking at the wrong chart? So by the time they wake up to the fact like, oh, Bitcoin's at 50K. What happened? I thought it died. You know? SafeMoon people were arrested. Yeah. Good point. Oh, yeah. Lying on a what? It said SafeMoon guy was arrested yesterday. I saw they brought charges. I didn't realize they arrested anybody, but Josh, I mean, who would have thought? You named something SafeMoon, and it turned out they didn't have the best intent. Well... Apparently, it was even quite egregious. So I've heard, I don't know anything about their charges, but it's more than, we created a coin and we want to sell it. It was sneakier. They have had more egregious levels of crime they wanted to commit, I guess. I don't know. Anytime someone, it's like hex, right? Anytime someone tells you they're going to lock up tokens for X number of years and give you yield and no. SafeMoon. Can we just remember what happened last cycle and not repeat that this cycle? We just all collectively say we're not going to do that shit again, please? Yeah. But it keeps not your coins. If yields are higher, then the risk -free rate in the United States is probably not real. Okay. And what else did we learn? You know what is on the up and up right now? You tell me. Crypto books are coming out left, right and center. Like real books? Yeah. Like people are interested in the crypto story, the crypto boom and bust. We talked about the... Well, I think if you're not in it and you don't have a podcast empire like yourself, it's fascinating. Like I have real friends who they've been reading them like the Michael Lewis book, for example. And I kind of roll my eyes at that one. But buddy of mine that owns a local bookstore was telling me he kind of liked the Number Go Up. I think it's what it's called. Number Go Up, I think is what that one was called. So that was pretty good. More of a skeptical lens. But I saw another book. I think it came out like at the same time as The Conviction. And yeah, the outside world is interested in the story, but they are disinterested in the price action. And I find that fascinating. That's a good sign, I feel like for crypto. Well, people are still telling them it's for criminals and going to blow up. And don't I know what I was going to say about Solana relative to SafeMoon. If Solana pops off, they got to dodge some regulatory heat from the SEC or settle or something. Yeah. And I think that kind of stuff could definitely affect, especially, the altcoin landscape for how aggressive do regulators want to be in terms of who they go after, how they go after them. What's the expectation? Even in light of Ripple winning a huge portion of its case, I don't mean it's a free for all. No. And it doesn't mean Solana gets a free pass either. Or DeFi. DeFi. The UK wants to destroy DeFi. So does the United States. We need to stay with Bitcoin legislation. We don't have that either. There's an Elizabeth Warren video going around about basically just self -custody should be illegal. That was the moral of the story of our video. And the SEC just went after PayPal for their stablecoin. Yeah. What's that about? Well, you got to wonder, didn't they see that coming? I don't know. I don't know if they launched that thinking we need to be a part of the conversation. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me, but good for them for fighting the good fight, I guess. Should we talk about the list I made? Yeah. I made this list. It's going to trigger people. Josh prepared a list. I just usurped it and started talking about random crap. Trigger warning. Okay. Okay. It's talking about politics, religion, and war. Let's go. I didn't even know those things were on the list. Let's hear it. I think you have to have some sort of opinion about this stuff because it's related to markets, you know? I think you have to have an opinion. So this week... Where are we starting? We'll start with macro because we had a ton of macro stuff. I don't know if we need to explain each little thing here, but the UJ, the Bank of Japan, they stopped their yield curve control mechanism and let UJ weaken further or strengthen further. And potentially that just means they're going to stop selling United States Treasuries potentially. There was also bullish news on the refunding announcement that they weren't adding a bunch of long -term debt. They're going to veer from their historic plans of like 22 % short -term and go above that. So that made yields really happy. That made TLT get excited. This was before unemployment. You mean it made bonds happy? Yeah. Like yields went down, bonds went up. Right. Yeah. Right. Because the narrative before that was, hey, they're going to issue all this debt. It's going to be long -term because it has to be, because that's what the historical percentages were, blah, blah, blah, whatever. They're deviating from that. Okay. So that's maybe good short -term, but long -term, maybe not so much. I don't know. It depends on your viewpoint there. But then we had the Fed come out and say they're not going to raise rates. Rates probably topped for now. Again, that's like reading tea leaves and Rorschach tests. There are people saying the Fed can't hike anymore, they're done, but that's going to go out of control. You keep reading the list while I show the charts. Sure. Yeah. So 30 -year came way down. 10 -year came way down. I haven't checked the yield curve. I'll pick it up in just a minute. Basically all this is relevant because of its relation to risk -on -risk -off sentiment. It's certainly relevant for TLT, but then today we had unemployment. And you got to remember bad news is good news for risk because risk wants rates to come down. I don't think risk wants a recession, but I think the quicker we get there, the better. If we get there, again, you hear people on both sides of that argument, whether or not this is actually headed for a recession or not. It certainly feels like we are, but unemployment ticked up to 3 .9%. Job numbers were 30 ,000 less than expected. But if you consider the striking numbers, that actually evens out to reaching expected 180K. Anyway, point is bad news was good news. Dollar's way down. Yields are way down. And non -crypto risk markets are up on the news. So kind of a shift in the very near term, it's a shift. Long -term I think we're still in trouble because of the debt spiral, but high long -term yields have come down. Go ahead. Lining this up, if people aren't familiar with what's happening on this chart, the yield curve is inverted when it's red, and then the area filled portion is essentially how wide is the spread between the two and the 10. So we could be facing a scenario where yields are starting to go down, and then you create the, you uninvert as yields go down and start to see the spread widen and yeah, kind of a steepener effect. Historically, we get a recession after the un -inversion, unemployment also goes up after the inversion. I mean, this looks, there's a few recessions on here. This chart doesn't go back before 1988, so it's not that useful. Well, I don't think with the recession stuff, like why are we afraid of that happening? You know? Of a recession happening? Yeah. Like it's part of the business cycle. It's part, it's like life and death. You know? I don't know. It's like, we're afraid of talking about death. It's okay. You have to choose recession versus, you know, like sustained 8 % inflation. Most people would choose recession, or not most people, but like the holistic body would choose recession because they'll say, I'll be fine. It'll be other people, but I don't want inflation to be that high. Well, you're either in the camp that we're too restrictive, inflation's already come way down, enough's enough, bring rates back down, or you're in the camp that, hey, we're not to our 2 % target yet, PCE is still elevated, CPI is still elevated. All these other metrics still elevated and unemployment is still quite low. That's the other side of that coin.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "baseball" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"Major League Baseball, the winter meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts acknowledging that his team met a couple days ago with two -way star Shohei Ohtani, the two -time AL MVP meeting with the Dodgers for two to three hours. the They, Angels, the Cubs, Giants, Blue Jays, considered to be the finalists for Ohtani, who could see a contract for half a billion dollars. NBA scoreboard in -season tournament quarterfinal action were at the half in Milwaukee. Bucks in a high -scoring affair, leading the Knicks 75 to 72. Julius Randall, 25 points in the first half. Coming up in an hour and 20 minutes, hip -hop in Los Angeles, some of the quarterfinal matchup Lakers are hosting. The Suns, NHL scoreboard in the second period, during the end of that period, the Senators of Ottawa, leading the Rangers 5 to 2. 1350 to go in the second period, the Islanders at home, with a 2 to 1 lead over the Sharks. Coming up in an hour and 20 minutes, the puck drops in Vancouver. It's the Rebels. I'm Dan Schwartzman. That's Time about 16 minutes before the top of the hour. Our next guest on the show is Lucia Liu, Bloomberg China government and economics reporter looking at an interesting phenomenon in China that a
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Persecuted Apostles, Prevailing Gospel
"When I was a child there was a time in which trick birthday candles were all the rage. It was always somewhat interesting to watch someone's face as they tried and tried and tried again to blow out those candles but to no avail. Some of us tried with all of our might and no matter how hard we tried the light that we had thought that we had snuffed out came back. It's been like that throughout as history different leaders have tried to snuff out God's Word. Whether it's Antiochus or Diocletian, whether it's philosophers or false religious systems or communist regimes, many have tried throughout history either to chain or to cut off the Word of God. Some have tried to prohibit transmissions, others have tried to cut off translations, but they all have one thing in common. They have all ultimately failed and that long list of failure you might say in the New Testament Church begins right here in Acts chapter 4. As we make our way into the text first I want to briefly create some context. We have been studying Acts chapter 3. We just finished that. We're making our way into Acts chapter 4 but I want to remind you what happened in Acts 3. There was a man who had been crippled for over 40 years. He was lame from his mother's womb and he was miraculously healed. You'll remember that a crowd ensued as a result of marveling at the miracle and that a massed audience provided an occasion for Peter's evangelistic preaching. Those who played a part, some role or another, when you look at Peter's speech, Peter's preaching, some who had some role or another in Jesus's crucifixion were actually given an opportunity to have that sin and all of their other sins blotted out, wiped away. They could have left in that time. If they would have heard the gospel and repented they could have left being like those who would come to sing in later generations that hymn, my sins are blotted out I know. And there would be many that day that would respond to the gospel by God's grace but there would also be those who would add to their guilt. And I'm not simply referring to those who would hear Peter's message and then in an unwise and undiscerning way not respond to it with faith by God's grace. I'm talking about persons that we know. Familiar villains will reemerge on the scene in our study of Acts chapter four and they are going to try to snuff out what was to them a familiar name. We'll see all of that and more as we get into our text today. We begin in Acts chapter 4 verse 1 where we read, Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them. So in the beginning of verse 1 of chapter 4 you see it says now as they spoke to the people. Doubtless this refers to Peter and John. You're going to see that the lame man was with them. He was with them on this day and he's actually going to be with them when they appear before the Sanhedrin, before the Jewish Supreme Court if you will the next day. But right here you get the idea that Peter and John at least primarily are the ones who are doing the preaching and teaching because look at verse 2 they were teaching the people and they were also preaching in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now before we get to verse 2 just a little note here a couple of notes about these parties that were involved in coming upon Peter and John. If you look at verse 1 we have three groups mentioned. The first one is the priests. The priests. They were the ones who essentially functioned in different roles at the temple. They had different responsibilities in the service at the temple. They might burn incense, offer sacrifices, teach the people, do whatever tasks pertained to the sanctuary. Now there were in 1st And now interestingly it looks as though they would serve in kind of rotations. So it could have worked out in one of two ways people usually say. It could have been that they served for two weeks during the course of a year. They would go to the temple and officiate at the temple because remember these were priests and Levites and remember they were scattered throughout the land of Israel to teach the people the law and so on. But two weeks out of the year they would come to the temple and they would serve at the temple. You also have the possibility that they would go to serve at the temple once every two years and they'd stay there for a month. So that's the first group here. The priests. They officiated in the temple. They offered sacrifices, burned incense, taught the law. Then you have the second group or a second person. The captain of the temple. Now he was essentially the chief of security and if you look through commentaries you find over and over again this role was a highly regarded one. It is repeatedly said that his position was second to the high priest. That's how prominent this role was. He served over the temple guard. He was kind of over the Levitical police force if you will. So he's there. And then you have the last group, a group that many of you doubtless are familiar with, the Sadducees. They were a religious group in Israel. Power brokers if you will. They had a lot of political clout and they also had a lot of religious clout within the nation of Israel but I think they are best known for what they didn't believe. Remember the Sadducees are those who did not believe in a resurrection. They are not they are those who do not believe in angels or demons. They did not believe in an afterlife. They only believed in the first five books of Moses it is often said as being divinely inspired. They had a lot of sad beliefs and like my grandpa used to joke that is why they are sad you see. They had a lot of sad erroneous beliefs. They were also political opportunists. They were those who were in positions of power. It appears that they came to their power after the period of the Maccabees, that intertestamental period. They're like a group of priestly families that get connected with the power brokers in the land and they try to solidify their power. That's why they tried to keep things nice and calm with Rome because they had a nice set up for them and they didn't want anybody rocking the boat. They're also have said to have been a pretty cruel group. Josephus had noted and I saw this in the pulpit commentary that the Sadducees were more severe and cruel in their administration of justice than any other Jews. They went on to note their tenant of no life to come made them look to severe punishments in this life and doubtless they would have looked for severe punishments right away for Peter and John but you're going to see in God's Providence God set it up in such a way in which they weren't going to be able to do what they wanted to do. The Lord will and will see that in future studying. So that brings us to verse 2. They make haste these three groups the priests the captain of the temple in the Sadducees and the reasons for their haste are found in verse 2 where we read being greatly disturbed in other words they were greatly annoyed in the Greek here this verb annoyed or irritated or angered and it's compounded by the preposition dia so they were very upset very disturbed and we're told that they were disturbed because they Peter and John taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead so this is why they were angry reason number one Peter and John are teaching and they're like who are these guys well we didn't give them the green light to teach we are in control we are the Sadducees they did not go through the rabbinical teaching system who was their rabbi we don't know who these people are so they were bothered that these people were teaching and they didn't have the the right to it as it were the religious leadership of that day they hated anything that infringed upon their authority that's one of the reasons why they hated Jesus he infringed upon their authority and they thought he needed to be stopped well Peter and John were doing so and they thought they needed to be stopped as well second reason why they were upset is basically I think this was multifaceted because Peter and John were preaching in Jesus the resurrection from the dead I think there's a lot of aspects to why this made them upset first they were a part of the Sanhedrin many note a primary part of the Sanhedrin the majority part of the Jewish religious ruling council that wrongly sentenced Jesus to death and handed him over to Pilate so a lot of these Sadducees were the very people who looked at the Son of God the Messiah and said he deserves to die and now Peter and John are preaching no no no Jesus has risen from the dead so they were upset doubtless they were also upset because they didn't believe in a resurrection and now they're teaching people that Jesus has rose from the dead and that's going to undercut their erroneous message and if you undercut their erroneous message you're going to undercut their clout and they didn't want their clout to be undercut being right wasn't the priority as much as having power and wealth and influence being right was incidental if they were right along the way that was great but protecting their power was the priority think about this you see this even in Matthew 28 remember after the soldiers come back and they are telling to the religious leadership what happened and they're saying that the tomb is empty and so on what does the religious leadership tell them they create a lie for them Matthew 28 verse 12 they give them money they give them a large sum of money Matthew 28 verse 12 they tell them the lie Matthew 28 verse 13 and they assured them that if this ever got to Pilate that they would cover for them suffice it to say the Sadducees in this case did not have righteous indignation one other possibility as well and maybe they're all together these aren't mutually exclusive is that they thought if word got around to the Romans that a Messiah was being preached who rose from the dead the Romans could esteem this as being somewhat revolutionary and what would be the problem with that it could ruin the nice gig that the Sadducees had so maybe to one degree or another all of these things are what bothered them in Peter and John preaching in Christ the resurrection but you'll find in verse three their indignation didn't just stay mental they weren't just upset on the inside it manifested itself physically look at verse three and they laid hands on them please know this wasn't a good kind of laying on of hands you know they weren't praying for them they weren't like ordaining them to ministry they weren't doing any kind of a good laying on of hands or so on this was a laying on of hands that was a seizing interestingly the word that's used here in the Greek epi ballo that word ballo means to cast to throw epi you think typically of being a preposition that means upon it's like they threw their hands upon them they seized them so that's the picture that I think is meant to be painted here they come down they laid hands on them now I just want to tell you something that I would do if I was a filmmaker and if I were recreating this scene in the kind of movie where we're trying to depict acts chapter four what I would do is that the moment that acts for three happens the beginning of it and they laid hands on them at that moment I would all of a sudden insert a flashback to Jesus's teaching on the Mount of Olives where he said but before all of these things they will lay hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to synagogues and prisons you will be brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake here is the initial fulfillment of those very words and it would keep manifesting itself but I want to remind you here that this was a prophecy that Jesus made this was the initial fulfillment of it and his word always comes to pass you can believe it you can believe the words of scripture you could believe every word that Jesus said he has a perfect streak that will never be broken some of you might remember my favorite pitcher when I was younger oral her shizer he pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers believe he's a professing Christian brother in Christ and in 1998 he had an amazing year the Dodgers go on to win the World Series I believe he won the Cy Young Award that year and that year he pitched what I believe still is the record for number of innings pitched without giving up a run 59 innings pitched without a run being given up and if you were a baseball fan if you were oral her shizer fan then you were watching those games saying it's the street going to continue is it going to continue and when it did you were excited but eventually you were disappointed because that streak like other streaks in professional sports don't go on forever but with Jesus you will never be disappointed his perfect streak of having his words fulfilled will always stay it will never be broken and this is a witness to that right here in Acts chapter 4 verse 3 so they seized them and they put them in custody until the next day so the Sanhedrin had a rule they had a law that they essentially subscribe to that they would not try people at night before dawn didn't stop them when they wanted to kill Jesus that rule so they were okay with breaking their own rules probably they based this rule on Jeremiah 21 12 and ministered justice every morning and it didn't stop them from persecuting Jesus and having their kangaroo courts happen during the night but in this case they were going to wait they needed some sleep perhaps and they were going to wait until the next day Peter and John are put in custody until then and then we're told to get a it was late to use language from Matthew 14 15 notice a little bit of context here this event began at around 3 p .m. because remember that Peter and John were going up to the temple around the ninth hour that was 3 p .m. now that it's late now that it's evening you know that it's at least 6 p .m.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh update on "baseball" discussed on News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Clippers Land Harden & Grizzlies Injury Woes
"He's not having to go and You know d up CJ McCollum for example or somebody of that ilk so I think he's gonna be able to To do this pretty regularly And I it had to but I was watching between that first and second quarter like just seeing how calm Golden State was not having to like rush back in like Steph Curry or rush back in Draymond Green or one of their starters you can play Chris Paul and Four reserves and do what they did I think in that stretch They were like plus six between the minute Steph Curry went out and the minute Steph Curry went back on the floor came back on the floor so Rowan I just think this is a You know this has the potential to to me I didn't know if the wars were gonna be better with Chris Paul because Jordan Poole You know did have his moments, and he's an improving scorer and all that stuff But you know this version of Chris Paul if the Warriors stay healthy with their their starting lineup It's a better fit than Jordan Poole is for it's not just a moving one long -term contract for a shorter one It's a better fit than Jordan Poole was I Agree, and I just think it makes everyone's life easier Including Chris Paul. He's still averaging over eight assists a game, which is kind of crazy Right now right now. He's at around roughly 30 minutes a night Which would be a career low, and I'm willing to bet that gets even lower. Yeah, it's just It makes too much sense again. I'm interested to see if he's closing alongside Chris Paul In these closing lineups, I mean it could be moody moody has been fantastic long time in guys I mean yeah, yes as long as I curry could be moody could be comingo So I'm so interested to see who closes because I don't think they're gonna go the Draymond Looney look All the time, but It's a it's a good problem for them to have right now because the time by the way I love that you know even with clay out Steve Kerr put moody in the starting lineup like yeah This is now Chris Paul's role like he's yeah, I'm not gonna jerk him around in and on the lineup You know maybe there's a long -term injury you put him right, but just for short -term stuff You're gonna start somebody else and keep Chris Paul in that spot I think it's only the more time he spends in that role the more comfortable. He's going to be the better. He's gonna be Plus 1 ,300 then plus 1 ,300 that's crazy That's crazy. Who was the who the frontrunners for six man like a manual quickly like I mean It's like the problem is it just always goes to guys who score a lot But it you know, I think it'll be incumbent on they'll be like a hearing kind of touch. Yes They'll be like a nostalgia vote first Yeah They're like top three and Chris Paul's like up there giving you 13 I know seven and five and I think that the like the same way that it took a while for Cy Young winners where you were getting guys that you know, was it Felix? Hernandez one year that had Like he went like 13 and 12 and won the Cy Young and it was kind of threw everybody off That he did or it didn't throw everybody off There were a lot of the new wave kind of new age guys that you know baseball I've always thought was ahead of basketball as far as the way analytics are used and I feel like we're just starting to see that turn with Basketball guys where that have an element of defense to their game I don't know It'll probably still take a while but like the Lou Williams prototype May not win the award for the next 10 years the way it's been for the last 10 or 15 or like Jamal Crawford and god bless him Like I think we all have been fans of him over the course of his career and and stuff but I think that it's starting to shift and I think Brock didn't quickly were kind of of that ill to have like guys that play some defense They put up numbers, too That's where I'm saying and I think quite frankly Rohan pointed it out If Chris Paul at times is not out there as part of their ending five That's the sort of thing I'd see is potentially cutting into his argument of it's a team that is really loaded Also on the wing sometime, you know Just where if he's not part of that that closing five does that hurt his case if he's hurt Because he's Chris Paul and he's older and misses a couple weeks does that hurt his case if someone like quickly is playing 80 games and Scoring more than him and plays really good defense.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BIG RIPPLE XRP UPHOLD PARTNERSHIP! CRYPTO TWILIGHT ZONE WITH BLACKROCK BITCOIN ETF & HOUSE SPEAKER
"Welcome to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google please leave a 5 star rating and review, it supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well folks I want to start off by talking about the price of Bitcoin. After a couple days of parabolic moves by Bitcoin, the price is cooling down right now, the pump is cooling down, which makes sense right? Bitcoin right now at the time of recording is at $33 ,839, Ethereum is at $1 ,781, BNB at $225, XRP at 55 cents, Solana at 30 bucks, Cardano at near 28 cents. So Bitcoin we're waiting for the next move up. Right now Bitcoin is going to cool down, build some support levels before it keeps going higher. Right now it's an overbought zone, the RSI is way overextended. So you expect a cool down here, build some support levels and this is healthy, right? This is market cycles playing out. You can't have a straight lineup that's not sustainable. In fact, having a straight lineup means it's more likely we're going to dump sooner. But if you have strength being built after pumps, right, and you're building the support levels, then breaking through resistance, you are building a stronger foundation for higher prices. So it's important to know these principles so you know how to look at the charts and how to read the price movements and know how to form your strategy with your profit taking and much more or buying the dips and so forth. So right now the market's going to wait to see what Bitcoin is going to do next. Maybe we see a pump again in the next two to three days or maybe in another week, right? We just don't know. But my thoughts are I think sooner than later, we're going to start to see a move upwards as we build support levels here. Now, folks, it was like the Twilight Zone today because there was news of the Bitcoin Spot ETF or Bitcoin Trust IBTC being listed on the DTECC's website, but then it was removed and then some are saying it has been there since August. So it's been ridiculous. People are over speculating trying to find any type of breadcrumb as it relates to the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF. At this point, I'm kind of tired of hearing this and I just want to just look Bitcoin keep pumping. When the ETFs get approved, they get approved. I honestly don't care because I'm not going to be buying the ETF. I'm already positioned to take profits on Bitcoin and all coins because I hold the assets directly. But some people are over speculating sharing this and that and much more. It is so annoying. So just heads up, you know, people are reporting, oh, it's relisted, oh, it was removed. And it's like, oh, Jesus Christ, please stop. There's so much speculation and noise around this, but just heads up on that, guys. At this point, I don't care. But there was also news that Congressman Tom Emmer, who is, of course, the majority whip, you know, the GOP majority whip, he secured a GOP nomination to become the next speaker of the House. And of course, that's very bullish because he's pro crypto. We know he's been calling on Gary Gensler. He famously said on a digital online meeting when everybody was in lockdown that XRP is not a security. So we know where he stands. And unfortunately, he dropped out of the House speaker race because he was not receiving enough votes. And that in itself, you know, from a macro perspective, really sucks because the House got the GOP folks got to get their act together. I mean, this is just so messed up, man. Like pick a speaker of the House. Tom Emmer would have been a great candidate. But once again, a crazy day like the Twilight Zone, just a lot of back and forth and a lot of craziness. In fact, the House Financial Services Committee postponed their two hearings they had set for this week, one with regarding the SEC, the other about digital assets and much more. So it's just a mess right now. They got to figure out the speaker of the House stuff. Now, folks, the big news of the day, though, was Ripple partnering with crypto exchange Uphold. And as you all know, Uphold is a sponsor of this podcast. I've been using Uphold since twenty eighteen. You all know that even during the SEC lawsuit against Ripple, they never delisted XRP. They had the balls and and they had the legal write up to continue with their mission statement. So much respect to them. And that's why I've been using them. That's why I chose them as a sponsor. They're a great platform. They don't lend out crypto from from their users. And they have audits and much more. Well, they partnered with Ripple. Here's the headline. Ripple forges new partnership with Uphold to enhance underlying crypto liquidity infrastructure. The partnership will see Uphold provide Ripple with enhanced crypto liquidity capabilities to underpin and enhance its cross -border payments infrastructure. As you can imagine, on demand liquidity is going to be here, possibly XRP if you're talking about cross -border payments and much more. Very bullish. And it's great to see these two companies who have been very closely related due to XRP together. working And I think Uphold is getting the business here because of the stance they took during that lawsuit. So really great news. Two companies that obviously are pretty great. And I'll try to get an interview with the CEO of Uphold to get more details on this partnership or someone from Ripple's team. And we can learn more about how they're going to be working together. Now today, Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at Coinbase, tweeted out the SEC's opposition to our motion for judgment claims, roving authority over all investments with security and contract in the statutes, performing no limiting function at all. As our reply shows, that's never the law and it's not the law now. By arguing that any purchase which the buyer hopes for an increase in value constitutes an investment contract and therefore a security, the SEC is attempting a radical expansion of its own authority. Only Congress can do that as the major questions doctrine makes clear. The SEC is completely off base here. So if I go buy a baseball card from you guys, because I think it's going to go up in value, that's a security. Or I go buy a Pokemon card from you, what if I buy a digital Pokemon card, right? Or a digital baseball card, that's a security, that's ridiculous, right? It's utterly ridiculous. And the SEC, they need to be put into check here. Congress needs to act, but I'm glad Coinbase is fighting back. And as I said many times, I hope they mop the floor with that scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler. Now, we got some good news coming out here that U .S. senators set in motion bipartisan proof of reserves bill. This is great, folks. As I've been saying, we need guardrails. We need exchanges to be audited. We need them to show the proof of reserves. They're not lending out or gambling their clients' funds, right? Just like I highlighted with Uphold, they never lend out any of their customers' assets and they do audits. This is needed. Centralized exchanges, obviously serve a purpose, right? We want to get to a more decentralized future, but we need the centralized exchanges right now. They need to up their standards. We can't have the crazy bullshit crap that came out of FTX and Celsius. That cannot happen again. Alex Mashinsky and Sam Beck and Freeh need to be put into jail. Maybe they share our jail cell together, but this is great, folks. We need this accountability in this guardrail. So two U .S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that they say will establish safeguards against another FTX type collapse. The proof of reserves of other funds act is the brainchild of Senator Thom Tillis and John Hickenlooper. So Thom Tillis is a Republican out of North Carolina. John Hickenlooper is a Democrat out of Colorado who shared a draft of the legislation on Friday. The legislation intends to guard against unethical commingling of customer funds and require monthly proof of reserves report from a neutral third party auditing firm. Folks, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, I don't care if you've been in crypto forever or you just joined, we can all agree we need this, right? All of these platforms need to be audited. They need to be transparent and show it to their customers. We're audited. Here are your funds. We're not doing anything shady. That needs to happen, folks. And that's going to help take this market to the next level because we can't have another FTX in Celsius and all these other things, folks, it can't happen, right? Or Voyager as well. It's ridiculous what took place last year, but look, you live and you learn and we got to move forward. Now, speaking of scams, Ethereum co -founder Joseph Lubin robbed his earliest employees of value of stock awards that drew them to his blockchain firm, ex -workers allege. So the scandalous news about Joe Lubin continue to come out and things he's done and stolen and lied about. And we know the whole Bill Hinman Ethereum backroom deal, even though I don't put as much on him and Vitalik on Ethereum, folks, I put it more on the SEC because they opened that door to be bribed and all that stuff and to have conflicts of interest. But still, Joe Lubin is a shady dude and I think he needs to be exposed. And we're seeing mainstream media is covering this news. So we'll see what happens. It's a lawsuit that seeks to force Lubin to restore the value to the employees. There've been other accusations over the years as well. So we'll see where this goes. All right, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button, hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms, and I'll talk to you all later.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Left Openly Supports the Demon Savages on Social Media
"This morning and I mean it that the. I know you got a lot going on in your life. got You kids baseball games, you got your job. You got to feed your own kids. You got, you know, proposals that are backed up and an air conditioner that don't work and a car with busted up brakes. Their lives and get things done and they work for a living like my job working for a living means going out reading the news and everything that's going on every single day. So I kind of get to cheat a little bit. Having said that, I am seeing a an extremely dangerous development right here in the United States, it's something that I always knew was there and I always knew the potential for was there, but now seeing it and watching it up and nobody almost doing anything about it has me a little bit concerned that they'd be downplaying that. If you're on social media for any appreciable amount of time, I don't know if you've noticed this, but there is this just large swath of the leftist Democrat Party that is now openly supporting the demon savages open. There's nothing you can tell them to change their minds, you say to them like as they're going and ripping down, you know, missing posters of Israeli and American hostages, you say to them, well, you really want to be on the side of a bunch of demon savages and we're gouging out people's eyeballs and the accounts that are coming out out of Israel and the border with Gaza are just so horrifying it's hard to read. We're on a nine o 'clock over in the West Coast in the morning. It's obviously new and East Coast time. It's hard for me to talk about this early. I've actually been trying to limit some of my exposure to it to you. It's got to be because sporadic it's just I don't even want it to become mundane and happen that I just the more stories I hear I'm like am I becoming used to
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Lynn Public Library (Hodge Podge) Book Event
"What's happening everybody, it's Kira and Ben and we're at another live show to talk about Ben's book, HodgePodge. This time we are here in Lynn where Ben is from. So Ben, tell us a little bit about growing up and your experiences and your life here. So many of you probably heard of Lynn from the poem, Lynn, Lynn the city of Sydney, never grew up the way you went in and there's a bunch more to that but it's inappropriate so I won't say it. Growing up in Lynn was for me different because I grew up in a middle -class family. We weren't technically poor but we weren't technically rich. It's a very diverse city so I was lucky enough to grow up with black friends, Latino friends and that was something I've always thought was good because it made me appreciate other people's cultures more. The one thing I will say that I did have the unfortunate situation of growing up during the and 80s the 70s where they were like, the Russians are attacking, get under the desk and my name is Brunisław Wozniak so you can imagine what the kids were like to me. They're like, your people stink and I'm like, I'm Polish, I'm not Russian. So that was kind of rough but I mean, Lynn gets a bad rap. There's a lot of good things about Lynn and that's why I put them into the book. There's a lot of history here like we were one of the first night games for baseball. We had a lot of good stuff going on. Over time, hopefully people will realize that we're not a sin city and we do have some quality people in it. That's awesome. Thank you so much. That's so exciting. Alright and now we're here with Lindsay who's at the head of adult circulation here at the Lynn Library. Lindsay, thank you so much for hosting us and having us today. How did you get into library sciences and what makes you passionate about books? So I don't actually have a degree in library science. As the head of the adult department, the city of Lynn just designates I have to have a bachelor's degree to hold a librarian position here at the library. But it was back about, so I've been here for almost 11 years. Few years back, well 11 years ago, I was just looking for another job and I came across the city had the job for a library associate. So I started off as a library associate here and then worked my way up. I went back to school, got my bachelor's degree while I was here at the library and was able to be promoted to librarian as the head of the adult circulation department. That's very exciting. It sounds like it's something you're passionate about. Now are you from Lynn or Massachusetts originally? I'm from Lynn for the most part. When I was born, my parents lived in Revere but we moved here within four years of that. So I've been here since then. I did live in Florida for four years but I've been in Lynn the rest of the time. That's awesome. Do you have any favorite stories about Lynn or any monuments or places that really hold a special place in your heart around here? Well obviously the library. When we were little, we would come here often. I would walk around and pretend it was my castle because it's such an old, beautiful building and then when we got a personal computer, we honestly stopped coming to the library as often as we did when I was very young. So it had been some time but when I applied for the job, I think it had been the first time I had been back here in a long time but I had grown in appreciation for architecture over that time. So when I came in, it was like seeing it in a different light as an adult and just having an appreciation for the building. I really like Victorian architecture which Lynn has a lot of. Unfortunately, we haven't retained as much colonial architecture because fires and things like that over the years. So Salem is very fortunate they have that but Lynn does have a lot of Victorian and even more modern era type architecture. So the library is an excellent example. It was built in 1900 so it's been around for 123 years now. I would say out of anything that sticks out to me, obviously, here at the library because I work here. Obviously. And that's so cool. I had no idea the history of this library. So being around for 123, oh my goodness, that's such a long time. Looking around, it still looks very well restored. Do you work on it? No, you wouldn't be in charge of any of the restoration or things like that, right? No, there hasn't been a lot of restoration or anything while I've been here. Obviously, there's updates to the building. Electricity was added at some point in time. It was gas light fixtures previous to that. But you can also see things like we have limited electricity available like in this room we're in right now. There's literally one or two. We have one hanging down from an extension cord, electrical outlets. So the building itself was beautiful. Obviously, it wasn't built for modern time and we do run into some snags here and there when it comes to updating it to be more modern. We're lucky we're able to get Wi -Fi throughout the building but it was a challenge maneuvering that when it was first a thing just because you have to figure out the best placement in order to get the best signal throughout the entire building that's made out of limestone. So the building is beautiful and I love it and whatever they can do to preserve it, I'm all in favor of but it also has its limitations and challenges because of its age. Of course now is this considered a historical site or a historical building? So do you have to go through those channels like through this town? Yes, it is a designated historical site. The thing is that like you'll notice like the lighting that all stuff was things that was done in like probably the 70s, 80s, 90s. I don't know exactly when it was designated historical site off the top of my head but maybe those weren't things that might fall under what you might need to do like now as part of that. I also don't know like what the parameters of that are necessarily but they haven't been any major updates since I've been here so I haven't been through that process. Very cool. So what made you passionate about like books and reading and really like attracted you to the library besides the architecture? So I hate to say this, I'm not much of a reader. I do read. I actually facilitate the Movie Night Book Club. So it's a book club that compares books that were adapted into movies. So we talk about the book, we talk about the movie, we talk about the differences, the dislikes and likes between the two of them, changes that were necessary or completely unnecessary. So that's gotten me reading a lot more I will admit but what attracted me to library works I'm very organized and detail oriented which is definitely something you have to do in order to keep things in order. So that's more what drew me to library work I guess more my organizational side. That's awesome. So what is some of like the better books and movies that you've seen lately? That sounds like such a fun and interesting club. So I'll give you the best and the worst starting with the worst, Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is an excellent movie, it is a very strange book. It is nothing like the book and the movie are nothing alike. The entire club pretty much agreed on that. We had a lot to talk about because we all really disliked the book whereas you weren't expecting that because the movie is such like a classic timeless type movie. Probably the best is The Color Purple is an excellent adaptation from the book to the movie and we had a really great discussion and it's such a classic. It's definitely different but it was a great adaptation so best and worst. That's so exciting. Now are you guys going to travel like as a group to go see the new Color Purple that they are doing that's coming out in December? I don't have plans for that. At first when I heard it I was like how are you going to redo such a wonderful classic and then I'm like I've seen previous one and I'm like oh it doesn't look too bad. So I would definitely encourage the group to go and see it but we don't have any plans as of now to do it together as a group. That's awesome though. Well thank you so much for sitting down with us and talking to us and again thank you so much for having us today. Are you going to stay and listen for a little bit? I do have to do some work at my desk but I hope everybody else stays and has a wonderful time. Thank you, thank you. Well like we have said we are so happy to be here at the Lynn Library and back to our book Hodgepodge. Ben can you tell us about one of your favorite sites here and what inspired one of your favorite stories in the book? So one of the most beautiful sites here in Lynn is probably the view from High Rock Tower. If you go up there and you look out across you can see Boston and as a kid I mean in Lynn people don't think of beauty so like we grew up in the streets and we do what kids in the streets do. We run around we cause havoc and we just have a blast you know but you don't really think of beauty. So when you go up to the High Rock Tower and you look out and you actually get your breath taken away by just the awe -inspiring view I mean for a kid growing up like you know in this area it's something that really touches your heart cause you're like wow you know there's a whole new world out there besides you know being on the streets so that was kind of inspirational for me and then Egg Rock being at Egg Rock and like looking out at you know not Egg Rock Red Rock and looking out at Egg Rock and stuff like that I mean like I said there's so much beautiful things here in Lynn and it's just overlooked because of all the different poems and negativity that's thrown out about this city but if you actually look deep down inside there's a pearl in the oyster there is a pearl in the oyster and you know you just gotta really look. Absolutely and I think you could say that for like a lot of cities especially in Massachusetts but you found it and I think you really did highlight it in your stories off recording we were talking a little bit about the story of Steve into May and how you're doing a prequel to that do you want to speak on that or are we trying to keep it like a secret? No it's fine so there's two stories in the beginning of the book A Common Christmas and Cold Hard Truth and you know I threw them together and when I did I didn't think the response was going to be as good as it was to it when people read the stories they liked the banter between the two characters I didn't think that was going to be the stories that people would flock to so I was kind of like shocked at that it was kind of cool that they did so they were asking me like you know what we want more and I was like well I don't really have more but then like I was like all right well I'll try and come up with some stuff so I started thinking about stuff and I was like all right I can put this in there that in there I got a story I can put together so I was like I can do that and then I'm looking at different ideas for like the fantasy aspect of what I did I'm looking at that and then I have a book a story in there called The Weezer about this serial killer that has asthma and I'd like to finish her story I thought that was pretty funny it's a little comedy but there's a lot I want to do hopefully I have the time to do it I am kind of old but you know I'm hoping that I can get some stuff done. Awesome well there it sounds like we have a lot to look forward to in the future.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Philly Decade, Lamar On Fire, the Best Game Curse, NBA Awards, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
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I don't know. We're messing around. Just trying stuff. It's the end of 2023. You know? I don't know. You just start trying things. Why not? Who cares? Hey, new rewatchables come in Monday night. I'll just tell you what it is. It's a movie from 1993. Yeah, another one. Another one that did really well in the box office. So you'll find out Monday night. It's a good one though. I'm excited to drop it on you. So we did that true crime podcast, Wedding Scammer, hosted and created by Justin Sales. And it did really well. People liked it. And it makes me super happy because Justin Sales is a great guy. And he's been with The Ringer pretty much since the beginning. But it's nice when somebody works their ass off on something and it actually pays off. So I'm glad people like it. Check out the first episode. It's not that long. It's really well done. And you will definitely 100 % enjoy it. Okay. Let's bring in the cuz. Let's talk some football. Let's talk some wound licking with some bets, some Eagles, all kinds of things. It's all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam! All right. We are taping this. It is 830 Pacific time on Sunday night. Cousin Sal is here as always. He's wearing a nice, fresh Oregon hat that I think you probably bought probably this weekend. You went to visit your son? Smells very new. Yeah, I went to visit my son. I'm not happy with the way my hair looks. And I think the hat's an improvement. So what am I going to do? It looks great. We just watched Dolphins Eagles just now. And at the same time, Rangers Astros was happening. And it really felt like, I don't know, it felt like a great October sports night there. And then Texas blew it open in the end. But next week, we'll have basketball. There will be baseball going on. It'll really feel like October. The Eagles though. So right as I start sending texts to Eagles people in my life wondering what's going on with Hurts and what's going on with this team, and then they just turn it on and they win by 14. It's weird. Eye test wise versus the stats and just looking at the standings and stuff. It's a team that doesn't seem like they have all their shit together. And yet it doesn't matter because they have so much talent. They can just kind of pick and choose. And then all of a sudden they win anyway. I know don't what other team in the NFL is like this. Do you see that too? Yeah, absolutely. And it's a bummer because I think you agree. The Dolphins are, I don't know, favorite team to watch if you have to cut everything else out. Best offense, so much going on, like dynamic, Tyreek Hill, anything. Tua. But when they play a game like this, when they go to Buffalo, they're just going to get beat in the trenches. And like what you said is it doesn't really matter if you're so physical, Philadelphia, offensively or defensively. And like Tua's getting swallowed up in the pocket on third and ones. And where Philadelphia could just run that tush push like it or not, it's going to move the chains every time. So, yeah, it sucks. Yeah. The less flashy team wins. And they happen to be in my favorite team's division. But that's what's going to happen in January. Ten turnovers for Hertz. He had eight off last year. There's times where, you know, like sometimes, and I don't know whether he's protecting his body or what's going on, but he'll kind of duck away from taking hits, which is smart. And then he'll have weird throws. And I texted Solak today during third quarter. I'm like, are we going to find out that Hertz has had like torn rib cartilage since week two or, you know, he doesn't look right sometimes. And then in the fourth quarter, all of a sudden looks great. And I don't really know what to make of it. And I can't get a feel for it. But on top of it, they have this tush push thing that in the big drive of the game, they're able to get two straight fourth and ones on their own side of the field. I know we, you and I have talked about it. You've talked about it incessantly. And at the same time, it feels like it is the most important NFL invention in the last five years, this play that nobody can stop ever at any point. If he does, nobody else can do it. I know it's weird. And we likened it to the Tom Brady thing. There was no reason why Tom Brady should convert fourth and one and a half every single time, you know, physically and everything else. But except they had their shit together, the Eagles, they really do. And if he does have cracked ribs, I hope it's from his own teammate, smashing them over the line of scrimmage there. Yeah, it was just wear and tear on the back of his body from several guys. Yeah. So they're performing the Heimlich on him like every eight minutes. So I guess if you're taking the takeaway from the Eagles is nice when they needed to have it, they're also supposed to win. But the AJ Brown piece of it, the fact that they traded, you know, a first round pick basically, and then they paid him. And I don't know, he's one of the four best receivers in the league now. Is he one of the three? He's somewhere on the shortest possible list. I have him on multiple fantasy teams, and it's gotten to the point where I'm just expecting 100 yards in a TD every game. But that turned out to be one of the better trades, I think, of the last 10 years. Just kind of took him from Tennessee. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was ridiculous. And he is such a great possession receiver. And it's like, it's scary, too, because you'll forget about him, too. You probably put Justin Jefferson in the top three. And then every time Cousins drops back the pass or any snap, you're like, all right, this has to go to Jefferson. Otherwise, it's going to go for nothing out of this offense. And then eight tush pushes in a row. And then you see AJ Brown's like, oh, my God, I forgot about this guy. What? He's got 120 yards. It's nuts. So, yeah, dynamite. I like, yeah, there's like four different kind of catches he can make, too, which I think makes him stand out because they can throw those bubble screens. They can just put them right over the middle, like for seven, eight yards. It seems like whenever they want, they can send him deep down the sidelines, which he seems to love. And then that kind of deep over the middle with two guys on him and he can make plays anyway. But he he has, like, I think the biggest bag of any of the receivers right now. Yeah, personal. I don't know. I got these guys. Yeah. Yeah. I hate this team. I don't know. I don't even know what to say anymore. Like, you know, the Miami have what, 10 or 11 penalties? It's just like it's a it's like a mind fuck, too, when you play him, too, because you can't get out of a can't get out of your own way when you play against them. Kyle, don't turn on the tick tock camera for this. Has Philly replaced Boston for most interesting sports city? Like, look at all the shit they have going right now. Right. Right. They're they're about to make the World Series. They have this Eagles team that made the Super Bowl last year and it feels super relevant again, is definitely going to be a final 14 worst case scenario. And then they have this NBA team with this James Harden saga that God only knows how he's going to sabotage things over the next month. But and then you look at my team where my city where I have the the you know, we have a great NBA team, it looks like. And then other than that, completely forgettable across the board. I think Philly's kind of grabbed the mantle a little bit. I don't like it. I don't like it right now. That's not good. And it's not good for their fans because their fans are supposed to just hate the other team, not supposed to like their team. So it doesn't matter if their team is good. Right. Yeah, I don't know. It's a bummer. Although I'll say that they were in this position last year, too. Right. Phillies win the World Series. The Eagles win the Super Bowl. This has been this is the 2020s has kind of been the Philly decade. I don't like it. It's upsetting to me. And fortunately, the Sixers are it seems like they're going to go in the tank. But I got to say they have great crowds like the the Phillies playoff crowds are way up there. That's about as good of a baseball crowd as you're going to get. It really feels like if they can have like a do or die game or a must win game or a clincher at home, you feel like they're going to get it. And whatever happened with Bryce, you know, pretty special, like to sign that guy from another team and he becomes the signature athlete in your city. We had a little bit of that with Manny Ramirez, where we kind of took him from. We paid for it, but took him from Cleveland and he kind of became one of the symbols of that run. But pretty nuts that they just took him from another team and he became what he became. Yeah, it's a great crowd whenever they I mean, I thought the Rams crowd today was dynamite, too, against the Steelers. I thought they really showed up. It's really loud. Yeah, yeah, it's been proud to be from L .A. Yeah, I have a I know you don't want to talk about Phillies, so I'll move on. I have a Tyree question for you. What's your all time receiver list for receivers you've watched just where you're like, that guy's fucking amazing? Because for me, it was always Rice number one and Moss two and then a drop off. And then some people like Tio's three for me. I'm like, cool. Tio is like an absolute franchise murderer and was a huge head case and you couldn't trust him. And as the years pass, the stats will be great. All the fucking drama that he brought to every situation he's in, that stuff will kind of die off. But for me, I think Tyreek's unequivocally three now for me. Every single game, it just you just feel like he's going to have 250 yards as you're watching it, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Unstoppable, Tyreek over Calvin Johnson, that type. Yeah, I think like where you would put him. Yeah, I think for me, he's definitely over Calvin Johnson. Michael Gallup is three, four. I'm trying to see where I would put these people. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. I think he's got to be number three. Although if you look at like Antonio Brown, who's now a punch line, he had like six of the best seasons you'll ever see in a row. But but in terms of presence and being unstoppable, Rice, Moss, Tyreek Hill, it's a good three. That's how I feel. I think, you know, Sharp, I think, could have gotten there in the Packers way back when in the 90s. And then, you know, he hurt his neck and he basically only had like a six or seven year career. But I thought in the 90s, I thought other than Rice, he was the second best guy. Your guy, Irvin, was great. There's no question that team was loaded. We've had some good ones over the years, but Tyreek, the speed, how he just tilts the field over and over again, how scared the other team is of him. How much space he opens up for everybody else. I think he's three. I don't think he'll ever get over Moss or Rice for me, though. I'm trying to think who could pass him, though, now at three. I mean, we've put Justin Jefferson up there before. Now that we haven't seen him for a few weeks, we've kind of forgot about him in the right now. But Hill's done this now for, you know, six, what's it, six years since he's on the 18 Chiefs. I can't remember how many years he's been in the league, but yeah, he'll be stride for stride with two defenders. And then, like, if the ball hangs up there long enough, he's now seven, eight yards past them. Oh, I know who's number four. That's a nice little advantage. Pooka. He is? Guys, see that catch he made on the sideline today? It was pretty great. Before the Rams realized they were going against a force greater than any satanic force or anything, the Pittsburgh Steelers. You want to talk about that? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. So they're four and two. I've watched every play of all six games. I have no idea how they're four and two, but they've hit the point now where I feel like they're going to win when there's no signs. Like that guy missed the extra point today for the Rams and made it nine, three instead of 10, three. I'm like, oh, here we go. Steelers come down. All of a sudden it's 10, nine. They have five first downs because they get the TJ Watt, you know, the pick that sets up the touchdown. And you're just like, here we go. They're doing this. And we've seen this before because this was the Eli Manning. Danny Heifetz was the first person to point this out. This was the Eli Manning recipe for years and years that I can't believe that team's winning. What the fuck just happened? He only made two throws. How did he do it? They're four and two. I totally believe in them. And I feel like they're going to go 12 and five and have a negative point differential. Well, the good thing is we're making money off them, right? We've been and we saw them. Plus, I mean, I thought they'd be favored last Sunday night. I thought they'd be favored, but they're not. So we're doing that thing, but also just taking them because the Steelers. But I found the gem and I gave it out on ringer wise guys, Rams first half Steelers to win the game 10 to one. You know, I'm positive that their bullshit is going to pay dividends and 10 to one. I think it'll hit like three more times. Like you're right. That TJ Watt interception brings it down to the eight. We see some separation from Pickens on a receipt, like the little one drive you wait for all game and it happens. And then that terrible spot at the end, it didn't give him a chance. That that was beyond really big. McVeigh also probably should have had a timeout left. I know. But, you know, what is it important to be like, hey, listen, we could get this right, but we'd rather teach you a lesson, coach, to save your timeouts. Like, I don't, this, the spot thing bothers me more than missed pass interferences because it's an old man jogging eight yards and he has to see between 20 bodies. And then like, you know, he sticks his foot in the mud and says, here, this is like a surveyor from 1835. He's like, this is where your property in, sir. Like we got to put, there's a chip in the ball. Isn't there a chip in the ball? What's it for? It's funny that we figured out Wimbledon. We figured out we've in U .S. Open, we figured out how to measure serves immediately, whether they hit the line or not in football, which seems like it would be really easy to just have some sort of magnet that was attached to the chains. The other thing that was weird about that for the people who didn't see it, the Steelers did fourth and one, they had the lead. There's probably like a little more than two minutes left and they run the QB sneak play, kind of the Brady play where you, you kind of put your head down, but you go left. But he slipped and fell on his knee and his knee went down. And it wasn't one of those when you're watching it where you're like, oh, I wonder if he got it was like, you knew immediately, oh, he didn't get it. He slipped. And then they come in with the spot and then like, oh, he might have gotten it. And they did that. I couldn't believe it. And I'm rooting for the Steelers. But I was like, oh, my God, it's the worst spot of the year. I thought they deserved to win anyway. But but that was pretty tough for the Rams. We need some clarification. And I get it because McVeigh didn't have timeouts and it wasn't actually the two minute warning yet, even though it did wind to that after that. But is there a ref in the sky? Is there this guy in the sky or is this everything has to go back to New York? Like, I feel like we're told three different things. It's a bummer because that could have been overturned. But you're right. Ten to one we hit. Let's just keep doing it. You know, you know who else would have gotten that fourth one? Eli Manning. He would have fallen down a half foot in front and somehow would have gotten the spot. The Rams kicker was the MVP of this game for the Steelers. He missed two longer field goals. They were like 50 yard field goals, but he missed about them. Then he missed that extra point. And then Tomlin just, you know, he threw away the challenge. He screwed up a challenge, which is the Tomlin staple.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 407// Ordinary People With An Extraordinary God: A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 10:1-6
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. Need a new roof for your home? Or even just some repairs? That's a big investment, one that you should take very seriously. And you want the job done right, by professionals and at a great price. You need to call your hometown roofing contractor. Serving Northeast Ohio for over 65 years. Coats Bros Roofing, 440 -322 -1343. How have they been in the roofing business for so long? Quality work at a great price. They keep their promises and communicate with you, the homeowner. 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And if you're just joining us, we are working our way through an introduction to the gospels, where we're going little by little. And we're just talking about the history, the culture, we're gaining an understanding of how Matthew's original audience, which was a Jewish audience, how they would have heard this information. And the hope is that with this understanding, you will recognize the character and nature of God that is revealed through his word. If you are someone that wants to dive a little bit deeper, I just want to make you aware that we have additional resources. You can go to our Patreon page, which is linked in the show notes. And there we have journaling prompts every day. We do journaling prompts that help you process information. And then we also have family discussion guides. So if you have kids, and you're listening to the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast, it couples that information so that you guys can discuss it maybe at the dinner table or as part of your family devotions. Again, they're just extra resources to help you and your family grow together in your relationship with the Lord. If you have additional questions, you can always schedule some life coaching or spiritual direction with me. You go to she hears .org for more information on that. And so we're in Matthew chapter 10. Starting at verse one today, I'm reading from the New Living Translation. It says, Jesus called his 12 disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness. Here are the names of the 12 apostles. First, Simon, also called Peter, and then Andrew, Peter's brother, James, son of Zebedee, John, James' brother, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, the tax collector, James, son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed him. Jesus sent out the 12 apostles with these instructions. Don't go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, but only to the people of Israel, God's lost sheep. Now I'm actually going to stop right there. We're going to continue with this passage tomorrow, but I want to stop right there because there's a lot that's packed in here that I want to make sure that we don't miss. First, I don't know if you're like me, but I always had the question of why 12? Why was there only 12? Or why were there so many? Why not six? But I want to make sure that we understand that that number 12 was intentional on the part of Jesus. See, Jesus was creating more than this rabbi -disciple model that we saw so often in that timeframe. What he was doing is taking this number 12 as a representation of the restoration of Israel, and that was promised in this messianic age. I want to read for you Isaiah 11, verses 11 through 12 from the Old Testament. It says, In that day, the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Kush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath, and from the islands of the Mediterranean. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel. He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the fourth quarters of the earth. See, what Jesus was doing was representing the 12 tribes of Israel that had been scattered all over the world, and the representation of the 12 was this idea that the 12 are going to now bring these exiled nations, these exiled remnant of Israel back. And so with the arrival of the kingdom of heaven with Jesus, it is time to gather Israel's lost sheep. In verse 5, it says, Jesus sent out the 12 apostles with these instructions. Don't go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, but only to the people of Israel, God's lost sheep. Well, that might bring you questions like, hey, I thought this was a message for everybody. It is. But remember, it's first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. What he's doing is he is gathering these scattered people groups from all over the place and bringing them back. And so in Matthew, what we're learning is there is a universal scope of God's mission, and we're going to see that come to fruition after the resurrection. So in the closing words of this gospel, at the very end of the book of Matthew, what we'll learn is where he says, go and make disciples of all nations. And so it's a clear directive for Jesus's followers to go to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. But essentially, this is a message that starts with Jews, which are God's chosen people. And again, it reveals God's heart for his people. And so sending these 12 out, again, represents these 12 tribes. And, you know, there were other people groups that also had that same model, the Dead Sea Scroll people that that were in the wilderness there, they did that as well, because they believe that their group was the true obedient remnant of Israel. But it's really this representation of this sorrow that Israel has been carrying of their people groups being scattered everywhere, and now they're going to be unified and brought back because of Jesus. So the ancient sources that list the names of the disciples, I want to make sure that we recognize that sometimes there could be some discrepancies when you look across the other gospel writers. But the reason for that is because a lot of times people were called by more than one name, and sometimes they were called by their title or their job. So when we see it talks about like Simon the Zealot, for instance, well, sometimes he would be called a Canaanian because that's an Aramaic word for zealot. Or sometimes that word zealot is just translated as the zealot one. So sometimes that title might even be left off. But the reason for that is different writers have different interpretations of who that person is. And so if somebody were to talk about me, somebody might say, oh, Rachel, the host of the podcast, the Hearing Jesus podcast, and somebody else might say, oh, Rachel, the author of the She Hears Bible study. And then somebody else might say, oh, Rachel, the missionary. Those are all truth. Somebody might say, Rachel, the wife of Tim or the mother of Georgia. That's all the same thing. It's all describing me. But depending on the person that you're talking to, they might have a different description based on our relationship. And so if you see when we're going through these gospels and you see a slightly different name, that's typically what's happening there. The other thing I want to point out is that while we understand the incredible work that the disciples, the apostles did, we don't want to idealize them. We need to remember that these were men just like any other man or woman that is following Jesus and is used by Jesus. And we find that they're not much different from you or me. Now what the Bible does is it takes a look at ordinary people that were used by an extraordinary God to do extraordinary things, but very much in a similar way to what God calls you and me to do. It's the same thing for them. These were people that kind of came from regular jobs and regular lives and God transformed their lives, which means he can transform our lives as well. I want to go through real quick each of these disciples just to kind of show you that it's not like these people are from some extraordinary line or can't be measured up to because they're every day normal people.
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 47 - Week 6 Recap
"Welcome to the Otz LaFlex Football Podcast. I'm your host Dracula. With me as always is Rob Green. What's up man? And Ryan Wheeler. Happy Halloween. I thought you were doing a Russian accent. It's a drunk, it's a drunk Dracula. Oh that was drunk Dracula. Yeah, I made up my own accent. Halloween's still a few weeks away you know. Yeah, you should do, now we gotta do it two more times. You have to do that two more times until you actually get to Halloween. Next time I'll actually get drunk and then try to do Dracula and see what happens. Are you gonna do a Santa Claus voice for Christmas? You gotta save it. Stop. Stop. You got time to practice that one I guess. You got time to practice, yeah. Alright guys, you guys ready to get our song titles into this episode? No. No, okay. Good response. Very energetic. Alright, we got Creed this week. We have Creed's album Human Clay back in 1999. Tony, why are we doing Creedian? For all the baseball fans out there, which is probably seven other of them other than myself, the Texas Rangers are using that as their pump up music prior to games and they have yet to lose a playoff game. So it's working for them, so it'll work for us. I thought you meant the New York Rangers when you said that. Nope. Texas Rangers. That's how much I think about baseball I guess. Creed can definitely get you higher, that's for sure. Alright, my song titles. Are You Ready? Yes. What If, Beautiful, and Say I. I figured one of you guys would be like yeah, ready. I am ready. What are your titles? Alright, those are it. Rob, what do you got? Wrong Way, Faceless Man, Never Die, and With Arms Wide Open. I've got Higher, Wash Away Those Years, Inside Us All, and also With Arms Wide Open because I guess there's another version of it at the end. So we'll see if we can get both of those in. But yeah, let's jump right into it. Let's go. Titans were the early game last week, so we'll start with them. Some significant news there with Tannehill getting hurt. They're on a buy this week, so we'll see what happens with the quarterback. Ryan, your initial thoughts from the game last week in London. Say I. What if I said it's a beautiful thing that Tannehill's gone because I hope, well, I hope he's gone. I hope he misses at least. Well, I definitely headed the wrong way with him leading the team, so that's true. Yeah, so I'm hoping that he's out at least like five weeks and then we get to see. I'm assuming Malik Willis for probably the first five and then whatever games are left. Unless he's bawling out, they'll probably throw Levis in there to see what they got with him and. Quite honestly, I mean, hopefully Levis is the answer or Willis is the answer or are the answer, but I don't believe they will be, so hopefully they just are bad enough. Um, to get us a really good early pick next year and we can go get one of those top QB's in the draft. What's the record right now? Two and four. Two and four baby for going into the buyout. You know it's gonna be tough though with Rabel that then they seem to never die every year. They're good. That's the unfortunate thing. Yeah. Um, but I think I think going back to last year, they're like, what did they win? They they lost seven in a row and now they're two and four. So they're two and 11 in their past 13 games. How did I not know that? Yeah, not good. Not good. I think, uh, no matter what you said out for five games, but I mean at this point you might as well just just be done with it, right? Just figure out. You might as well wash those years away with Tannehill and move on. Get with Willis or Levis or whoever it is and give him a shot. And then it's hard right for Rabel because of that defense is always going to keep you in the game, so you never want to just completely tank. But for the next decade, you need to have a quarterback, right? I mean, when was the last time Tennessee had a good quarterback like Jake Locker? Oh, he was so good. No quarterback since I thought Vince Young was going to be like something and then he seemed like it would be, but didn't last right. Steve McNair. Maybe Steve McNair is probably way back, but even like, uh, respect to McNair, but he wasn't even like that good. He was just the best of the Titans. I mean, you're obviously relating this to a Bills fan like you are approaching the.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep394: The Best Way To Niche Down Your Podcast
"If you're trying to talk to everybody, you're really talking to nobody. If only two thirds of your episodes is valuable to somebody, if only a third of them are, twenty five percent of your podcast episodes are truly for all of the people listening, then you lose listeners. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, Podcaster. I recently got home from sponsoring an event that was put on for four days just for podcasters, and I met a couple of people. I met one guy who had a sports podcast and I met another guy who had a sports podcast. One of them thought that they were niching and the other was actually niching. Let's dive in. The gentleman who just simply thought that he was niching, he had a sports podcast and he's like, well, that's niching, it's about sports. And I talked to him and I was like, OK, which sports, which teams are you covering? He said, well, I'm covering basketball, I'm covering football and I'm covering baseball. And I go, why those three sports? And he said it's because he played basketball, football and baseball. And he follows all three of them religiously and really understands the dynamic between the players. And then I asked him, so can you explain what you mean by that? You're niching. He said, well, here's the thing. I've got a totally different way of doing it than anybody else in my industry. Anyone else who has sports, they might talk about the head player, the Michael Jordan, the Kobe Bryant, you name it, the person who is the most well -known on the team. And they will talk about how that person is, how that person was feeling during the game, what injuries that person has and what it means for the team. And he's a little bit different. He's niching, he says, because he has a different approach. He comes with the approach of that. I look at the game holistically. I look at all the players. I know everything about all the players. I know where they came from. I know what they're good at and what they're bad at. And when I talk about the teams in football and baseball and basketball, when I talk about those teams, I do it a lot differently because I look at it as a holistic thing. Instead of just player by player, I look at it. How does the team collectively work? How does this person pass the ball to that person? And how does that person shoot the ball, et cetera? Depending, of course, nobody shoots the ball and football. I get it or baseball, but you know what I mean. He's got all three of these and he feels like it's niche. Why? Because, A, he's only got three of the sports. And, B, he feels like it's niche because he's different. He does it differently. But here's the biggest reason why it's not niched is because he hasn't been doing a good enough job. No offense to him. I'm not trying to make him mad or upset if he listens to this episode. That's not the goal. I just want to say that he doesn't do a good enough job at explaining that he's drawing his line in the sand. You might have heard me talk a little bit about that cave person named, you had to bang your chest when you say because that's how I guess cave people did it and so figures out fire and then he wants to do the fire. And then he draws his line in the sand because the chief says, hell, no, we're not doing fire. That could hurt us. It could burn us. We're not doing that. And so says, I'm not good with the status quo. I'm not good with what other the current chief wants to do. And so he draws a line in the sand and he says on that side of the line, these are the things that happens. Who wants to follow me? So he specifically points out that he is different. He purposefully points out that he is different. But the guy that I met at this podcast event, he doesn't do a good enough job, even drawing a line in the sand. So he might do it differently, but he doesn't even say that he does it differently. Second, the next point is he's got three whole sports that he's doing. He's got three different sports. And I'm sorry, very few people follow all three of those sports. So it's not niched at all. It's not niched at all. So the person who cares about maybe let's just pretend that they really like football and basketball, they couldn't give a darn about baseball. And so thirty three percent of the episodes that this guy is putting out, the person who loves football and loves basketball says, you know what, this podcast isn't actually for me. So what is the mistake that he's making? Think about it for a second. And I want this to sit in your head for a long, long time. If you're trying to talk to everybody, you're really talking to nobody, if only two thirds of your episodes is valuable to somebody or one third of your episodes is valuable to the person that you want to support and help, if only a third of them or only two thirds of your episodes or twenty five percent of your podcast episodes are truly for all of the people listening, then you lose listeners. And so I look at the statistics of this guy's social media and I look at the statistics of his podcast for the podcast. He is well below the 50 percentile, which means almost nobody's listening to him. He has way, way, way less than one hundred downloads per episode. And on his Instagram, he only has like one person that might like or comment. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled. And one of his things had twenty. One of them had twenty. A couple had ten, but many of them had one, two or three people liking or commenting. So this is because he's making a huge, horrible mistake by not understanding what it really means to niche. Yeah, I've got a podcast and it's only for sports fans and it's only for, I guess, people that like all three of these. And it's only if they want it to be different from other sports casts that share all three of these, but share it in a different way. But I'm not even going to tell them that it's different. So now let's go and look at the other guy. The other guy is a Buffalo Bills podcast. It's football, only football, but it's only one freaking team, one team. So instead of doing three different sports and all of the teams and all of the players and getting nobody listening to you, the other guy does one sport and only one team underneath that sport. And I looked and they actually have millions of downloads through their other mediums that they are on. Millions, millions, millions. Very interesting to think of. One guy wants it to be broad and open and he wants to serve everyone. The other guy only wants to serve just the teeniest, tiniest amount of people. But why does the second guy get such massively better results when he's not even talking about all of football? He's only talking about one team, one team. It's because if you're talking to everybody, if you're trying to talk to all of the people, none of them really are listening. You're not getting heard. So when you go and think about your own podcast, where is it now, if you've got one, what are you doing to niche? Are you trying to talk to everybody or are you trying to talk to one very finite individual, one avatar? I want you to leave this podcast episode today thinking about if you're niching enough and thinking about, do I have a friend? Think to this. Think right now. Do I have a friend who's got a podcast, but they're not actually niched and they barely have anyone following them? They're trying to talk to everybody. And that's why they're really talking to nobody. Share this episode with them. If it's you, awesome. Fix it. If it's your friend, awesome. Push, copy, paste and send to your friend so that they can learn what niching truly is, what niching really means, and so that they can understand that the smaller you go, the more listeners you have. I'm sure the one guy who talks about three different sports and all of the teams within that sports, I'm sure he talks a little bit about the Buffalo Bills, I'm sure he does. But when we talk about that other guy who only talks about the Buffalo Bills, you would think he's not helping the people that are like in baseball. He's not helping those people that like basketball. He's not helping all those other sports. No one's going to listen. But he actually has millions of downloads compared to one download or millions of downloads. Which one do you choose? I'll see you on the next episode. You're not alone if you're ready to either get your very first affordable microphone or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to some legit podcasting studio equipment, because on all of the forums over the last few months, I'm seeing this all the time, even my own personal clients that work with my team, they're ready to get that next microphone. They're asking us for it. Additionally, when I'm on discovery calls with potential clients, they're always asking for this stuff. Hey, what mic do you recommend? Hey, what lighting do you recommend? What webcam should I be using? So many questions. And so what we did, my whole team has put together a PDF so that if you're one of those people who is looking to either get your very first affordable microphone or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to more professional podcast studio equipment, whether it's soundproofing or whatever, we've got you covered by going to grow your show dot com board slash PDF. And you can download the PDF for free or right there on the Web page is everything that you would have. And you don't need to download the PDF either way. Just go to grow your show dot com forward slash PDF, which will put you to the podcasting equipment that me and my team have personally vetted. I'll see you on the next episode.
The Mason Minute
Cricket (MM #4591)
"Even though the Paris Olympics are a little less than one year away, International Olympic Committee people are already talking about the 2028 games when they come back to America and will be in Los Angeles. The other day they announced five new sports or five sports returning to the Olympics. Flag football, lacrosse, squash, cricket. The first time cricket's been played in the Olympics since 1900. And they're also bringing baseball for the men's softball for the women. What's interesting? Why do you bring back cricket? It's been gone for 120 plus years. Very simple. Because of its popularity in India, they can charge 100 million more dollars for advertising revenue. So Indian television makes more money, as does the IOC. I was surprised when they got rid of baseball a few years ago it was so popular. But flag football is the one that just leaves me with my head scratching. Now I realize American football, one of the most popular sports around the world. But flag football? Would you like to tell somebody you're an Olympian playing flag football? Just makes me shake my head sometimes. The things we do for money.
The Mason Minute
Cricket (MM #4591)
"Even though the Paris Olympics are a little less than one year away, International Olympic Committee people are already talking about the 2028 games when they come back to America and will be in Los Angeles. The other day they announced five new sports or five sports returning to the Olympics. Flag football, lacrosse, squash, cricket. The first time cricket's been played in the Olympics since 1900. And they're also bringing baseball for the men's softball for the women. What's interesting? Why do you bring back cricket? It's been gone for 120 plus years. Very simple. Because of its popularity in India, they can charge 100 million more dollars for advertising revenue. So Indian television makes more money, as does the IOC. I was surprised when they got rid of baseball a few years ago it was so popular. But flag football is the one that just leaves me with my head scratching. Now I realize American football, one of the most popular sports around the world. But flag football? Would you like to tell somebody you're an Olympian playing flag football? Just makes me shake my head sometimes. The things we do for money.
The Mason Minute
Cricket (MM #4591)
"Even though the Paris Olympics are a little less than one year away, International Olympic Committee people are already talking about the 2028 games when they come back to America and will be in Los Angeles. The other day they announced five new sports or five sports returning to the Olympics. Flag football, lacrosse, squash, cricket. The first time cricket's been played in the Olympics since 1900. And they're also bringing baseball for the men's softball for the women. What's interesting? Why do you bring back cricket? It's been gone for 120 plus years. Very simple. Because of its popularity in India, they can charge 100 million more dollars for advertising revenue. So Indian television makes more money, as does the IOC. I was surprised when they got rid of baseball a few years ago it was so popular. But flag football is the one that just leaves me with my head scratching. Now I realize American football, one of the most popular sports around the world. But flag football? Would you like to tell somebody you're an Olympian playing flag football? Just makes me shake my head sometimes. The things we do for money.
The Mason Minute
Cricket (MM #4591)
"Even though the Paris Olympics are a little less than one year away, International Olympic Committee people are already talking about the 2028 games when they come back to America and will be in Los Angeles. The other day they announced five new sports or five sports returning to the Olympics. Flag football, lacrosse, squash, cricket. The first time cricket's been played in the Olympics since 1900. And they're also bringing baseball for the men's softball for the women. What's interesting? Why do you bring back cricket? It's been gone for 120 plus years. Very simple. Because of its popularity in India, they can charge 100 million more dollars for advertising revenue. So Indian television makes more money, as does the IOC. I was surprised when they got rid of baseball a few years ago it was so popular. But flag football is the one that just leaves me with my head scratching. Now I realize American football, one of the most popular sports around the world. But flag football? Would you like to tell somebody you're an Olympian playing flag football? Just makes me shake my head sometimes. The things we do for money.
The Mason Minute
Cricket (MM #4591)
"Even though the Paris Olympics are a little less than one year away, International Olympic Committee people are already talking about the 2028 games when they come back to America and will be in Los Angeles. The other day they announced five new sports or five sports returning to the Olympics. Flag football, lacrosse, squash, cricket. The first time cricket's been played in the Olympics since 1900. And they're also bringing baseball for the men's softball for the women. What's interesting? Why do you bring back cricket? It's been gone for 120 plus years. Very simple. Because of its popularity in India, they can charge 100 million more dollars for advertising revenue. So Indian television makes more money, as does the IOC. I was surprised when they got rid of baseball a few years ago it was so popular. But flag football is the one that just leaves me with my head scratching. Now I realize American football, one of the most popular sports around the world. But flag football? Would you like to tell somebody you're an Olympian playing flag football? Just makes me shake my head sometimes. The things we do for money.
Big Time Baseball
"baseball" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"He said, you know, basically made it clear he's really not going to be revealing much. I think already. And you know, I just went up to the Met's GM Billy eppler and certainly apple has a history with him as he was the DM of the angels when they did get ohtani and he said to me, oh Tony is a member of the angels and that's all I'm going to say. Good answer. Very sensitive. You're not supposed to talk about players on other teams. I get it. I was kind of going up on an off the record basis, but since he said nothing, I can reveal that he said nothing off the record and, you know, it's going to be quite a situation here where we're talking about a guy getting probably a half a $1 billion, you know, I mean, he's one of a kind. There's no question about that. And he also brings in sponsorship and signage and all sorts of revenue. So, you know, it's a difference. I mean, every judge was a big free agent, those short stuff, big free agents, but this is another category entirely. Yeah, this runs completely. This runs deeper than just what he does on the field. This goes to butts in the seat, this goes to merchandise so there's so many layers to a guy like Shohei Ohtani. And he won't be alone in this free agency. News comes down to day via Dennis Lin of the athletic. He says that he tweeted out, it wasn't a secret, but Manny Machado publicly confirmed he's told the Padres he intends to opt out of his contract. He declined to get into negotiations or on a potential extension with the club, but did say he'd like to play as long as new teammate, Nelson Cruz has. So, I mean, that's a pretty firm, you know, I'm going to free agency. We're not going to have any more contract talks. And so that until that happens. And so now you have Shohei Ohtani and Manny Machado who will be available to the masses. Yeah, I'm a little surprised. I was at the owner's meeting last week and there was some hope there to get something done. They have clearly been talking about it. And suing the Padres are willing to spend, give them credit, Peter seidler, our groomer, they did a fantastic job, got borts and, you know, they keep going, extension for Darvish, so I understood their hope and even suggested they had opened now that hope to supersede the opt out is gone and we've got another big free agent. I thought he was the MVP last year, certainly Goldschmidt was a great candidate who won the award, but Machado, one of the best defenders I think of all time, even though somehow he was a nominated for a gold glove at his position last and just a terrific all around player and you know he's established in San Diego. So I'm not going to say this is not going to happen. I still think they have a chance. They're a team that has really shocked us. I mean, you were there years ago. I mean, from San Diego and they never could spend with the big boys. I mean, it's not a small market. It's a mid market, 12 market, but in terms of media market because they're kind of hemmed in there by Mexico and certainly Angeles to the north. The TV market, it does not provide what other TV markets do provide. And give them credit, they clearly must be losing money. They're not talking about it. I talked to one of them yesterday, but I give them credit for trying to do everything they can to win and they did make an effort here with Machado. We don't know exactly what that effort was, but you know, he's still very viable, excellent free agent with surprising lest she went on auto did not opt out, you know, similar type situation, similar age, similar pedigree, and that was a shock. And you know, it's probably shouldn't be a shock. It's only surprising that the Padres were not able to get it done because they've been able to get almost everything done that they've tried. They did try for trade Turner and they tried for Aaron judge but, you know, they did get one of the big fish in Bo gurts and they've done so much more than anyone. Any of us would have thought they could have done. Yeah, a few things because, you know, as you mentioned, I'm pretty close to this. The first salvo really was put down by AJ preller. He had mentioned, I can't remember. I've been at you Darvish just press conferences that the ball was at the ball was in Manny's court. Manny then responded by saying, no, actually the ball is in your court. You can go to the Padres looked at it as Manny was still under contract beyond his opt out. He man he looked at it as I have, I am a free agent after this. And so now by putting himself as a free agent. Now, maybe negotiations could start, but it sounds like Manny Machado is content on going to free agency and seeing where it goes. I will say this the difference in Arenado and Manny. I think was Arnold opted in. What was that last season he opted in, John? During the season. That was before this kind of money started to get funny here this off season. I mean, I think it would be, it wouldn't be smart business by Manny, not opting out after seeing the price tags that were handed out during this off season. So I think this was, this was coming no matter what the scenario was. Right, but I don't know. I had to know he was giving up some money. Oh, for sure. I mean, he's one of the best players in baseball and he had to know he was going to be able to top what he had left, even before seeing what judge and Correa and bogarts and Turner got, you know, so there are guys who are comfortable where they are. I mean, me, I'd be comfortable in San Diego. I think here you go. Indeed. Some guys, you know, Drake Turner was offered $42 million more to go to San Diego and he preferred Philadelphia to San Diego. Me, you know, I would go to San Diego for 42 million less. All right. But, you know, everybody's got their own taste. And we'd heard Machado, it's kind of set up things there, but you know, everybody's competitive in this game. That's how you get to be a great player and he's obviously competitive and wants to do better than he's got right now. Yeah, you know, the interesting, the other interesting element is you wonder how much are not all was jaded by taking the most money he could in Colorado. And then that completely not being worked out. Now getting the St. Louis, which from a market standpoint, I mean, they aren't one of the bigger spenders in baseball. I wonder if that played in his mind and taking the opt out as opposed to trying to get a little bit more so that he could have the pieces around him, certainly something you would think that he thought about. I want to move to another category. And that I don't know if you happen to see this Corbin burns, went to his arbitration hearing. And as a former player, I know, most agents will suggest that you don't go to these meetings, for the very reason that Corbett burns found out. And he says that this relationship between him and the brewers has changed in a way that I don't think can be can be mended.
Dear Baseball Gods
"baseball" Discussed on Dear Baseball Gods
"At the MLB level, the difference in work ethic and preparation is minimal. Everyone wants to stay there and everyone puts in the work. Yet, some don't suffer a single major injury in ten plus seasons, and others can't stay off the injured list. Remember Carrie wood, the 20 strikeout man? Or mark prior, who seemed to have been sculpted out of marble, born to pitch a baseball? They were both cubs phenoms who just couldn't catch a break, devoured hole by the injury bug. At the very top, there's seemingly no correlation between work ethic, training, and preparation. In my years as a coach, harder working players weren't necessarily healthier or more resistant to injury than lazier ones. They maximized their talents and wouldn't have any regrets to look back on. But they still got hurt at seemingly the same rate as anyone else. You don't control when your ankle rolls when your shoulder hurts. When you're back decides it wants to tweak and shoot pain down your left hip. The best insurance policy against physical breakdown is certainly diligence in training and preparation. But insurance is just insurance. It doesn't change the future, and you just don't know. Will your body come through for you? Injuries derail many promising careers purely on rotten luck and a body that wore out too soon. It's also about opportunity. Will the right scout see you on the right day in the right light? Maybe he just so happens to need a second baseman on the night you, a middle infielder, hit two doubles, steal two bases and play out of your mind defense against the best team in the league. Or maybe you play the best game of your life in front of no one and a week later go over for with an error when that scout shows up. You can't just choose when to have your best game and defer the worst one for when it doesn't count. Opportunities are lost like this all the time, and it was no one's fault. This is why baseball is so hard. Sometimes the game just seems to toy with you, like a cruel child, pulling the wings off.
Dear Baseball Gods
"baseball" Discussed on Dear Baseball Gods
"Called clean your cleats. So I'm really excited. This is the proof copy to be releasing this on February 15th of 2022. And this is just one of a couple of sample chapters that I want to put out there so that people can listen to it, see if it's right for you. Obviously, if you're listening here on YouTube or on my podcast, you can listen to the audio version right now. And you can also jump on my website, which I'll link to in the description or the show notes below. And you can read it if you'd like. So either way, so quick preface to this chapter, chapter two is called baseball as a trap. And it's about the ups and downs of the game. It's about the probabilities that are involved. It's about the luck that's involved. And for all these reasons, baseball is uniquely difficult compared to other sports. So I hope you enjoy it. This is chapter two of my new book, clean your cleats. Chapter two baseball is a trap. They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball, and then they tell you to hit it square. Willie Stargell. The year after I retired, I decided I needed some sort of outlet, something that would allow me to make competitive decisions like those I made on the mound. I didn't, however, care to take up a new sport because I was still worn out from 22 years of baseball. I thought about the World Series of poker, which I had watched on TV back in the day. I thought it might be a good fit, so I read 8 poker books and shipped off to Las Vegas, feeling ready enough to try my luck. I absorbed the intellectual aspects of the game. I learned a lot by playing disciplined, tight, by the book, poker. I observed and analyzed the players around me, much as I did reading hitters from the mound. Even as a Newbie, I held my own because I was good at keeping a level head regardless of the outcome. I later realized that baseball had prepared me for this. When you lose a $150 in one hand to someone who made a very dumb play, but got lucky to win, it's easy to get upset. Many players lose their head when they suffer a bad beat and make a string of poor emotional decisions thereafter. This compounds the one bad beat and ruins the rest of their session. In this way, poker is a lot like baseball, especially pitching. Even when you make the right pitch call and nail your spot, you still sometimes give up hits..
Big Time Baseball
"baseball" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"Pay attention to his major league. Baseball hasn't had a problem with having star young stars. They've had a problem with sustaining those stars for the longevity of the career whether it be injury are different. You know things that have come up. You have to be able to promote your guys right. And that's why i think does next collective bargain. Green is going to be huge because if they can get on the same page and really worked together a both players and owners they can make this thing in terms of getting viewership getting people. New fan base getting Your stars out there. They can really make some headway in that if they worked together. They just haven't been doing it. But you certainly have the young stars. I don't think this game has been as major league. Baseball has made the move to get younger. This is the first time That you can actually see a a a lot of young stars across baseball and you see how talented they are so The owners is on them a to keep playing at the level that they're playing at and if not becoming better as they keep growing. Because that's the thing about star starpower like you can't remain the same. The thing about griffey you think about bonds a thing about the they kept getting better and better and better and better and better and that will be on the players to do so now as they do so major league baseball has got to be able to get these guys out there. You going you gotta get back to like the game of the week type style. Where you're being able to feature these superstars going against one another We just it. It just seems like the same message we've had for years and years and years and that doesn't that doesn't reach this new base. That just doesn't it's amazing. We just talked about those things. Wander franco did fernando. Says he's doing and not to mention. Obviously what beat alonzo did vladimir guerrero junior. His fortieth home run. This is only the second time major league history. That father son duo have hit. Forty home runs in a season. Oh and by the way vladi. Junior is only twenty two years old. Listen i i got to see. Prince do that in milwaukee when he became part of that duo with with his father sessile. And now you see and Vlad junior do it in a major win an mvp type season. Unfortunately there's this guy shohei ohtani that's in the league that kinda poured cold water on the year that he's had although it's been it's been a tremendous year And you know. Do you feel like glad juniors getting the pub that he deserves right now. Like there's enough media platform for shohei to get his n vlad junior to get his in both be blowing up at the same time and so we're in we're right in the thick of it right now and we're seeing revive time that it will at least from our standpoint that he's not getting that they're not doing a good enough job getting that out there. We're not talking enough and listen. Shohei is the story i get. He's the i have. I have no doubt he wins. The mvp maybe unanimously right. But it doesn't mean that you don't blow up vlad junior or are we wrong. I mean i don't feel like he is getting the notoriety that he should. I really don't feel like he's getting into notoriety. This guy. that's right in the top of every major category major league baseball on a surging team that he's about to help make the playoffs right now. Man i hope they can do something better with this. And like you mentioned the cba is going to be huge in this and it's also whether or not can they get on the same page because right major league baseball going forward is going to make more money than it ever has by far especially getting in kind of into the gambling sphere that all major sports are doing so this is a real opportunity for both players and ownerships to get on the same page and understand what's good for one is good for the other and what's good for the game itself and i truly truly hope i don't know if it's going to be the cpa. But i hope in the next couple we can finally finally put the past behind us and get to a better place where this game could be where it really truly could and should be look at I mean it's not you look at the nba. And how well. Both sides work together At least as far as i can remember including my time in league. It's never felt like they were in partnership with one another. You know it. I think that's the that is the key in. Listen we can argue all night about why that is you know. As as as a former player. I had miro reasons of reasons why that is however You gotta find a way to get through that part and and because the game itself will only benefit from the two sides. Viewing each other as partners. And once you do that. I think the sky's limit for the game. Honestly i completely agree. And i truly and it almost sounds like we're talking about peace and love throughout all of humanity in a way we kind of are but it is possible and i hope we can eventually get their guys. This has been an incredibly fun. Big time baseball. Thank you so much for joining us here on odyssey. Sports makes you like sharing. Subscribe the big time baseball. Wherever you get your favorite podcasts apple..
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"baseball" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"But that's just amazing because none of the teams are technically all that good. It's just crazy thing that we're watching in baseball right now and on paper each team is great but they've just underperformed all season and you know it's like parody in the worst way like who wants it. The least in the east is like the question. I'm basically asking myself every day but you know looking at the same but looking at who's at the top of that wildcard spot is the san diego padres a team. That means a lot to both you. And i the question is you mentioned earlier. Record upcoming schedules. The red scott a pretty easy schedule going forward where the padres have one of the hardest. They got another series against the dodgers. Coming up here. They got another series against the giants. Coming up here this is. This is the teams got a hell of a road to make this playoff and they have to beat these teams to get in. The question is what can this team due to not lose any more ground. They've had so many injuries on the mound both on the bullpen side and the starting staff side. They've haven't really hit well as of late It seems like the entire city of san diego's completely turned on eric hosmer. It's just it. It seems like a really interesting time for the padres right now. All of that is true. At although i think lately starting pitching starting to come around the health has has returned. You've seen quality starts. I think in Four out of the last by may in five of the last five were guys have given innings. They have necessarily won. I mean blake. Snell had a perfect game through seven. Padres ended up losing that game four So Offense has been inconsistent But they do seem to be at least in my for my viewpoint playing a better brand of baseball. Here's what we've learned about this. 'cause we've been schedule started like this at the beginning of this month and we'll learn here early is that you still got a platies. Games has the the reds. Have an easy schedule. They lost two three to the marlins they lost two or three to detroit Who by the way is is not having a portable. You're like everybody thought. But there's certainly a team to read should be beating There are three and seven in last ten. And so the pie. They've had a chance to kinda put some separation between them in the padres. They weren't able to do so. Padres ended up getting a victory last night. They lose on the walk off so the padres are are one game up but they are going into the no. They don't play a team from this point on net isn't above. Five hundred isn't in playoff contention. They have the the giants are excuse. Me got the dodgers in this order. Dodgers giants Cardinals braves dodgers giants. That's how they ended the season right there so They've they've now. They've shown play their best baseball against those types of teams. They're going to have to do it in order to win this second wildcard spot and i'm excited for it. I think the city of san diego deserves it. And i man you just got understand fans out there. Petco park when that place is packed and the padres are good. That is the most electric place on planet earth. It is just so loud so loud and so much fun. I'm really really hoping the padres can hold onto this going to be staying. Well informed about the wildcard probably all the way to the final game of the season can't wait to see where this baseball season's gonna take us but one more we gotta talk about where we wrap it up. Let's talk a little bit about player spotlights because we've always talked about for years and i think about the ninety s growing up the first player. That immediately comes to mind for me without question. Not even a second place. Is ken griffey junior. I just think of baseball as a kid. I think about backwards hat with a bill. Hitting home runs off of off of the warehouse in baltimore. I just think of that first. Kim was the qin was the let the kids play version in the nineties and it was cool. Like yet is on video games at his own shoes. It was like he was a real star in major league baseball. And i feel like we haven't had that really since him and you know there's been a lot of finger pointing at major league baseball organizations the players themselves. I think there's a fair amount of blame kind of be spread a decent amount all over the place but looking at what major league baseball the players that are in the game right now not to mention the young stars that are playing right now pita lonzo a guy you know. He hit his first. His has hundred home. Run the other day and it took kim the second fewest amount of games major league baseball history to do that like fernando tat junior twenty two years old having a monster. Your piece playing out of position in the outfield. He threw ninety seven miles per hour and outfield assists yesterday. He's the front runner for the nfl. Mvp wonder franco tied mickey mantle for the longest streak and a l. history. The guy's twenty like is baseball actually finally going to turn turn a corner and create stars because they have them. You're right there. There's a lot of kind of that. Blame to go around i We didn't really have that early. I think griffey was that guy. Griffey maintain that and i think what you have to really.
GSMC Baseball Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on GSMC Baseball Podcast
"In everyone. If you haven't checked out on social media yet do myself a favor head over to facebook. Follow s. mc baseball. We got ourselves a facebook page. Just click that button. click follow. I forget which one it is on facebook. I think it's a like button that way. You guys will stay up to date with everything we post on facebook. Everything we post will head to your news feed. You can comment on there. You can message us on there. You can interact with the podcast very easily through the facebook page when you're done with facebook then head over to twitter g. m. c. underscore baseball. We put out polls. We put out tweets every day. You guys need to let us know we want your opinion. You can direct message us on there as well myself patrick. We both have access the twitter feed their way. If you guys have something to say about one of our episodes let us know. Send us a message. Leave us a comment. Definitely fill out our polls we certainly appreciate it on there. And then when you're finished with dad finally head over to linked in check out the podcast network. Now it's much more general within the podcast network but still some quality information there. If you guys want to stay up today could you get involved. How could you become a sponsor. How could you guys get a commercial run. You want me to talk about a product every time to talk to thousands of listeners. Here at once let me know. Let us know. Message us on social media. We certainly appreciate you guys but here in segment number two. We're talking about news notes across major league baseball and the big news. That broke here on wednesday night. Is that the tampa bay. Rays have agreed to a multi. Year extension with eric neander. They named him president of baseball operations promoting him from his previous title of general manager slash senior vice president and this obviously ensures that their top baseball operations official will remain in tampa bay and eric end are arguably the smartest guy in all of baseball. The top executive in all of baseball. I mean just looking at his resume. He's currently thirty eight years old but began his tenure with the raise as baseball operations in. Turn all the way back in two thousand and seven. He was hired full time later that year. And it's worked with tampa bay ever since so this guy's been there for going on fifteen years now. This is his fourth season as the organization's top ranking baseball official and during that time he's overseeing the creation of a roster that once again is the best in the american league i mean. They made it to the world series. Last year. They turned over quite a few people on the roster and here they are once again looking to get right back to the world series at home field when it comes to the american league so neander obviously said it's a blessing and dream opportunity for him. There's been plenty of mistakes. Misfires along the way but also a lot of wins and just looking at him. Once again the race had four straight losing seasons from two thousand fourteen to two thousand seventeen then promoted eric. Neander to general manager baseball operations. And what's happened since then. Well they won ninety games in two thousand eighteen in two thousand and nineteen. They reached the american league division series and then in two thousand twenty obviously made it to the world series and right back in twenty twenty one looking at their third straight postseason appearance with an american league. Best eight hundred and fifty one record and the top run differential. So they've also done this while losing executive after executive under eric neander. I mean who did they lose. Well they lost andrew friedman to the dodgers and the dodgers now have one of the best run organizations at the major league and minor league level. They lost higham bloom to the red sox. The red sox right back into under higham bloom go from a team under five hundred. Bring alex score back now. Once again at the top of the american league east right there in the wild card they also lost james. Click to the astros. The astros ben very good for the last five years. So anybody who works under eric neander now goes elsewhere and those teams are fantastic. So people have been trying to get neander outta tampa bay for years. Now here in philadelphia. All you do is hear his name with ownership with general manager being open before dave dombrowski came in. Can we get neander. We should've hired. I am bloom if we can't get neander. Hire whoever's working for neander because it's worked everywhere else. Friedman dell a bloom red sox i it's just it's a factory down there have had to efficiently run a roster because not only is is the major league level team excellent they keep calling up these kids and the minor league system still ranked. Sixth neander was named executive the year in two thousand nine hundred. He's gotta be in the running here again in. Twenty twenty one. I mean recently calling up. Shortstop wander franko and other several top prospects instill having the best system here in all of baseball so it is just absolutely fascinating. What he's been able to do down there in tampa bay. I mean throughout the course of his career as tenure. He's traded away guys like evan longoria. Chris archer blake. Snell willie adamas and anytime it seems. Oh well they're going to finally sign this guy to long-term in big money he just flips them out for more prospects. Chris archer going to pittsburgh for shane. Baz tyler glass. Now and austin meadows de looks completely one sided he. He acquired mike zeno for the mariners..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"That's great. that's awesome. I kid you not man. That is the best baseball game. I've ever seen in my whole life and you know i. I don't think i've watched it since like. I don't think i've a chance to see it because that night. I was actually covering college basketball game. Yeah you were. And and so. I remember driving home from the game. And we're like oh let's check the score and it was a rain delay. I got home just in time. I want to say to catch literally the last out where kris bryant slips as he throws you know. Yeah but yeah. I got no time to watch stuff during the day. So you should just sit down. Get wilson sit him and have him watch this one game just this one game because my goodness you know he might just do it. He's been better watch baseball with me lately. Which has made me very happy. Yeah well there's really want to break it up. It's fine yeah true. And he's getting the attention span. And i think part of it is. He's actually understanding it because he'll see the bitch and dad. Was that a ball like it was good job. Was that a strike swing. It sure was good job. May i love that so proud. Dad moments let me tell you. Yeah maybe we'll maybe we'll watch that one this weekend or something. I don't know anyway right. Yeah that's a solid choice though. That's a really good one absolutely such historical significance. Very good. all right. I too have a perfect game. not david cone's but king felix perfect game. We're going to august fifteen two thousand twelve. Which i believe is per game those thrown. There hasn't been one since then. I mean there's a whole slew of no hitters but no perfect game since then and this was the tampa bay rays at the seattle mariners. This is not a game. I got to watch live. Because at the time i was not living somewhere rugged to watch much baseball live but have since watched it because i had to.
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Had it knocked the hustle. You can't because for me. I would show an alien that because of griffey's colonus you know how in the world who does that and gets away with it and especially guy who the league knew. He was quick but not fast right right because he is purposely kept in his back pocket for six seven years at this point bro. I i do in spite of all the pain and i have to admit both sides but i legitimately think it's one of the best plays ever i love it. I agree i mean for me. It's going to go down honestly in my lifetime is the greatest play i've ever seen forever. No because of the who was and having seen it live like i did in the moment. Yeah that's going to be the greatest player i've ever seen. It happens when the mariners go to the playoffs again. Whenever that happens to be right well. And i yeah i i have similar memories. Okay all right moving on. Let me do one more so i'll go. I'll go back in history again. Because i think it's important april eighth. Nineteen seventy four and i interview the paid attention to the show at all. You know. i love this game right hank. Aaron hits number seven. Fifteen i again. I don't think you can tell the story of baseball without this moment. And it's all the intangibles. It's all the subtext. It's all the extra cultural stuff that go with it. Here we have my first pick was in nineteen forty seven when jackie robinson broke the color barrier. And then here. We go thirty almost thirty years later. We got a guy a black man in the deep south breaking the home run record. The head held for years decades. And he's getting a standing ovation in atlanta. No okay i know i real- on this time is one of my favorite moments in all of baseball history though he does it anyway. Real quick like you talk about breaking the home run record. It wasn't just the home run record that had been held for you know however many thirty forty fifty years whatever. It's yeah that record was held by babe. Ruth yes is to this day considered i mean the only thing i can think of is not even the king of baseball. But like the caesar the emperor like he's the god of base base crown prince for yes and and at that time to have hank aaron break. That record was a really really big deal fact. He did it and just i agree..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"And brig let you to shop so we can get too wrapped up all right baseball fan. We don't forget to jump on the shop at nine plus dot com it's nine p. l. us us dot com. I'm wearing my Summer series right. Now it's our. I speak fluent baseball's with his t shirt says it's in all those neon kind of eighties throwback colors and i'm actually wearing a salt lake. Bees hat right now. This is their copa hat. I thought it matched nicely and went with the theme of this week. And it's their behalf the salt lake city. A betas hat and is fabulous. Back here my shelf. You can see the top. I don't know if you can see it. But i've got my greenville drive copa hat as well featured and we love it so brad what you said. You have your hat on today. I do. And i also have my seattle foul line shirt on the three twenty six down the right field..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Of raise energy back baseball family so we have something kind of interesting. That went down. I guess is currently going down at this time The major league baseball players association with the mlb pa is seeking five hundred million dollar grievance against mlb against the league now brig. You remember how. The negotiations went last year with the sixty game season. Do remember that whole mess yet. I do big gas. Yeah and did it seem like it went well at all was ernie kind of good back and forth anything like that between the sides toxic maybe even billiton. That's right now. What what the players association is saying is they're claiming. Mlb did not act in good faith to play as many games as possible during the two thousand twenty season. I think they have something there. Because especially good argument for that. Because didn't rob manfred come out at one point. Sixty was always the number he did. And i think i recall players were willing to play doubleheaders. Like nobody's business to get in as many games as possible. Which is you know you understand. They wanna they wanna maximize their pay right because they get paid per game and so if they go out there and they play you know fifteen doubleheaders and they end up playing. In this case ninety games they get paid for thirty more games well mlb was not having. It felt the entire time that they were just stalling. Not willing to not willing to move him in on it and like i said when they did reach sixty games rob manfred said sixty was always the number but he was not He was not transparent about that during the negotiations. It was it was ugly so this this is what's going on right now and this is the big question i have for you brig. What kind of effect do you think this will have on collective bargaining agreement negotiations. That were that are coming up the end of this year. Well brad. i'm going to be honest with you. I think everything is an implication for the cba honestly I don't think that any tiny seemingly insignificant or on the other hand blustering. You know false claims or whatever. I don't think any of its insignificant. At this point. I believe every single thing is a piece on the chessboard. It's being moved around manipulated in order to have some some implication for the cpa..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Wanna see you know what the overall i think. That's what major league baseball is saying. I wanna see what the overall results of this are when i was talking to Their office saga commissioner. He said we're in startup mode right now. And he has cherry picked some key people who are in charge of innovating and and kind of revamping. What they're doing to make it more appealing to the audience. More appealing as a product. Because they're they're kind of cut off for a major baseball. I mean they're affiliated and it's not a complete severing of that tie but at the same time they are off on their own and so the pioneer league gets to kinda do whatever they want. And i think they're taking full advantage of that opportunity and i applaud them for that. I think it's so cool. This is a great example of of some of the you know license. They're able to take some of the liberties that they've never been afforded and they can be creative. They can think outside the box and they can do radical things and we can kind of get a taste for it and see how we feel yet. It's i think it's really cool. That's one thing that's gonna independently. Because they can experiment with stuff like this can change the game. A little bit Because the first thing. I thought i was like this is baseball. Version of as penalty kicks in soccer or shootout. Right hockey hockey. Yeah exactly and i think it's awesome. I think i think the ten like going straight in after the ninth inning is a little early out rather see it. Act like the twelfth. Get a couple of innings of extras in. You know because like like in soccer. They'll go like a full extra period right. I think i think it. Is it a full forty five minutes or maybe fifteen three. I don't know somebody who's like. Maybe let me know. But they play some they play some extra time and same thing in haughey's play some extra time to play couple extra innings and if you know after the twelfth inning if the game so going then try them out there and do homerun derby Stick around for three extra ammunition. I'd stick around for ten extra innings. Let's be honest but me to. I would keep my kids at least my son. Who's six going to be seven soon. I keep him a game. Three extra innings for a chance to see Like a shootout format with with homerun run derby totally. You know i wouldn't. I wouldn't be trying to get out of there at the tenth. If it didn't look like this game was gonna get over anytime soon totally. No yeah. And that's how i feel too so good for them jim. We love it. We're going to have you on the show and talk about it but we wanna know baseball family. What do you think. Are you appalled by this radical. Is this exciting as you like. What do you think we and again. This is come up in the past member weeks and weeks ago we did Proposed rules and different things like that. But ultimately this net it's now coming into fruition and somebody's decided to take a gamble on this and we're excited about that so More to follow. We will watch this closely for you. Okay definitely last thing and then. Let's take a break brad. We're gonna do..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Nineteen ninety in pittsburgh san diego. Padres off andy benes incas. He's to be manner there. We run home. Run to right. Field was Yeah that's that's supposed to sell a home run. That's what i was a solo. Home knows three. Run homer you're right. Oh my gosh anyway. This awesome so three run homer to right field and then to put that in perspective. This is what i stumbled me. I stumbled over. I don't know. I stumbled me as great as what i stumbled up over. It was his first. Homer was hit. June fourth nineteen eighty six right so to put that in perspective that is. That's about five seasons to reach one hundred which actually parading normal. Well you'll come to find out where he lands in his progression. Yeah you know. And that's that's something that is funny. Though right was pretty normal at the beginning of career amen. He became abnormal. Yes he did now all right the next saving new better than i did. Well get thank you know. No pressure right. We've only done this over one hundred times beach. People do better give vigor now all right so hank aaron holds the number two spot in the all time home run hitting list and he hit his hundredth home run august fifteenth nineteen fifty seven so that was his second homer of the game and so hank aaron hit his first homer in nine hundred fifty four. So april twenty third and nineteen fifty four. It took him his fourth season to reach. One hundred home runs his fourth season. And that is the normal pace for somebody to set a record. You'd think you would think that would be the pace five seasons. Yeah not five. Yeah yeah anyhow. Unless you're if you're doing it right exactly right. That's what i'm saying. okay. Let's go onto babe. Ruth currently number three on the home run list the colossus of the colossus of clout that wimpy deer so babe. Ruth hit his one hundredth home run on september twenty fourth nineteen twenty. One was in new york against the washington senators correct versus jim. Shaw visit was a solo shot. The bottom of the first inning. This was the second game of a doubleheader kind of fun fact and the first game..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"But it warrants a discussion. So we're lead just a little bit of context. Roberto alamar brother. Sandy alamar helped the toronto blue jays went back to back world series in ninety two ninety three and he has now been placed on. Mlb's ineligible list for sexual misconduct charges. Dating back to twenty fourteen. At least and The punishments have been severe so what we know is that the woman who has made the allegations has not has made it very clear through her attorney that she's not seeking any sort of notoriety or financial compensation. That's not what this is about. She just trying to do the right thing. And she's being lauded as as brave and we agree with that Downdisney good for her for coming forward. That's that's gotta be super hard right. I mean we're talking about hero here right especially in toronto. Speaking of which toronto has cut ties with roberto alamar all the way around. And i mean they. They swung the hammer heart. And i'll tell you what they've done but to to add some context to it. Major league baseball hired a private legal firm to come in and do a completely nonbiased third party view Investigation into these allegations. And what has taken place and since then toronto blue jays have. They're no longer employing him as a contractor consultant They've been he's been removed from toronto's level of excellence at the rogers centre there that list and his number twelve banner retiring his number has been removed or will be In in the very very near future will be removed so Mars comments were that. He's disappointed surprised and upset but quote with the current social climate unquote. He says he understands. Why the league took the position but he hopes that his allegations quote can be heard at a venue unquote allowing him to quote address. The accusations directly end quote. So the interesting thing for me brad. And then all the way in on this is that the hall of fame still has not made any public statements concerning what they will be doing about. Roberto alamar is in the class of two thousand eleven Hall of fame inductee. So there you go actually a word on that Just as you're coming on. I was reading and it's and i saw the he has resigned from the committee but plaque lorraine up for now. I think that's going to depend on how things play out. And and the result of any any legal should there be but as of right now his plaque will remain up. And i think that's An innocent until proven guilty. Kind of thing But we'll see we'll see what happens. That's going to be interesting to follow going forward. Do you think that's brad. Do you think that's because hall of fame has remained aloof and don't know what. Mlb has discovered in that toronto is either aware of or has knowledge..
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Yeah everything's upside down. I see i don't understand it. I actually saw terrific tiktok from a guy today or was it yesterday. Who said that moment. You realize that. The kansas city royals. He's wearing casey hat. This is the moment you realized. Kansas city royals are in first place. he says. stop it right now. Do not get your hopes up. That's my life right. Now is a mariners fan second place. Yeah just wait. It's gonna come just always does come holda well and the rest of us were just confused like all the way around the world right now. So cnn used anyway. Kansas city's got a six fifteen records. Emphasis is six or seven there. The best all around major league baseball right now. Dodgers are in second place we and then we did not see that coming. So let's move on really quick brad. We have some inconsistent punishments. Coming out from mlb. And i feel like let me set this up for everybody this out. I feel it's going. And then i want you to add some legitimacy to this. When you do that for me i can do that. Yeah so i feel like that. Mlb punishing by committee right. They're letting it be voted upon. How much suspense. How many games players are being suspended for an and whatever but the problem is i think the committee has varying in size day by day because some are maybe out sick or their parents took them on vacation or whatever. It may be. The other thing i think is going on is that the teachers are going to read them books before naptime and then they i. I don't know if they're voting before naptime or after nap time. Maybe it's right before lunch. And they haven't had their snack yet and they're all upset but i feel like the questions come through from rob manfred. He says how many games should we suspend this player and see all hands shooting up and they say you know. He picks one he says. Billy and billy says ferdie rob says that's too many we can suspend that and more hands shoot up in the air and sally's hand goes up rob says sally and she says five and he looks over at joe. Taurean says five. We do five right. Joe says yeah yeah okay. So we're going to be five is good job. Sally you get a gold star. And i feel like that's how robin efforts making his suspension decisions. Yeah i don't think you're wrong. And i think you're sometimes people are out sick. Sometimes people are on vacation because not the same group of people. Doing these suspensions as go. They're making up the rules as they go with these like yell. Let's give them this many or or the other thing they could be doing is a drawing numbers out of a hat. They have numbers one through ten and then they just pick so he gets three. Okay like maybe they're playing. No i don't know you know with the button in the middle. We go shoots a matter your face. I don't think you're wrong. I don't think you fire off on that but let's give some context of this why this comes up in the first place so we have. We have several instantly crazy weekend. A baseball first off. Let's just let's just throw that out there So in philly. We had jose overall. He struck out I believe outfielder. Dom smith and then taunted him You know like. I'm okay with and here's the thing i say. Okay we're talking but don't cross the line with it right like celebrate and taunt but don't make it personal and i feel like that's where the line is and i think that's where guys end up coming out of the dugout Because.
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Excited to invite you to our one hundred episode of the baseball together. Podcast today we are going to get into some current events including joey votto cryptocurrency and mlb punishments. And then we're gonna get you into some trivia as well and then we have a special segment with user call ins right now. Nine plus us presents the baseball together. Podcast with your hosts blackjack brad and kansas city. Little big blue eyes and now baseball together. Welcome back baseball family as we said. This is our one hundred episode. I am kansas city. Brighi blue eyes as always. I am joined here by blackjack. Brad brad hello there. Hello there sir. Our you out standing. We have got a ton to talk about not only because it's our one hundred episode. Were really excited about some of the special things. We're bringing you later in the show but there's also a ton of current events. We have to get into like price harper's face brad. We have to talk about bryce harper's face we do have to talk about bryce harper. Face now i think we can all agree that his beard is magnificent. It is and you know it's short or long. It just looks fantastic. And as same thing with his hair. Like i was always really upset when he cuts it because green with jealous rage all the time look so good but then he goes and cuts it. And i'm like dude why from somebody who doesn't have any just keep it enjoy. Yeah can but i'll tell you what though were jelly of his face. Because he took a fastball of the face and luckily no permanent damage was done. I mean really lucky. This huge stuff. legitimate just enough. He legitimately it. Looks like it didn't even like he didn't even get hit. You would think somebody because he turned into getting ready to swing. He turned into it. As a mid. ninety s fastball. Hit him square in the cheek. He tried to get his hand up but didn't really do a very good job. Deflecting it like. He has an ice still to be honest with you. Yeah the yeah that whole lobe should be more damage than it is what it is though.
The Strategic Baseball Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on The Strategic Baseball Podcast
"We can look at it from the mindset that you and i always do is like we want these guys to be the. Ceo's of their careers. We don't want them to work for us. We don't want them to be an employee of the strategic vantage baseball process. We want them to own their careers and to build the do that. The we gotta be able to help them create a baseball plan. And then what we call the business plan. They gotta understand that piece of it if they want to be next level player. Welcome back to baseball. Podcasts are think we're lutheran again. We bent the last couple.
Baseball Together Podcast
"baseball" Discussed on Baseball Together Podcast
"Average ticket price for la is one hundred eight dollars coming in at number three and then Stubhub excuse me wallet hub. Puts them at number two ranked number two nice just like you all right number one. What doing something right. Yeah yeah that's right my quick. I bet your number one is the same. I'll bet you're absolutely right about. We have the same one. Okay go ahead say in on three. Yeah ready to one saint louis. Yes why brad. Well there's a number of reasons Saint louis we've talked about just the consistency of the organization. They've they've treated their fans well with consistency and those fans are smart. Yeah oil and smart. Saint louis is known as one of the smartest baseball cities in the country. The fans know what's going on in the field. They know what's going on with your team though what's going on with their opponents and that goes a long way for me with being the best baseball the baseball city like you know the rams were there the reason they laughed because i mean there was lots of reasons but the cardinals are never gonna leave ever ever no no they. It helps being the only show in town. That's right but they've been able to be steadfast and stable because they draw if they didn't draw you know owners could easily pull them out and say you know what we're going to go somewhere else and go somewhere where we can get more fans but but oil fan base and knowledgeable. Fan base to me makes the top the top team or the city. I've also heard that there among the kindest and most accommodating baseball fans in america like people who i've talked to that visit saint louis and go to bush. They're like naw man. they're so nice. They just glad you're there there really. I mean you. They want you to know what you're talking about. Otherwise you're you know you're not as hip as they are but right but they're they're really. I hear very kind very accommodating. It's a family oriented atmosphere a. It's a big deal for me but moso and in addition to it being the only show in town except for the The blues blues are there. But that's relatively new comparatively saint. Louis cardinals have been around for ever. Yeah and they have a rich history. But the next thing for me the stadiums gorgeous but also it's walkable. Right you can go to the arch you can go to the breweries. All up and down you can get to the Anheuser busch brewery originally is within walking distance as well. I mean it's a really walkable metro area downtown. The heart of downtown and for me. That's that's a huge deal right being able to to get out and walk around experience and that's why things like the battery in in The the braves built in. Marietta is a big deal. Wrigleville things like that because you can stand up economic development and rich culture and stuff like that all in concert with baseball and not competing which is something like the battery kind of struggles with in the atlanta braves market is because it's it it is kind of often away in marietta. It's almost an hour away from like atlanta's downtown proper which is kind of weird but apparently they draw tons a money. I talked to a guy who does tours down there at the at the park. Suntrust or whatever. They're calling it today..