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"Jorge mas says that there's a chance that they would play barcelona to allow lean on messy to have a farewell to his fans some believe it will happen in as in twenty five twenty six when they reopened cam no which is undergoing extensive reserve renovations major league baseball postseason is under way it's the wild card round earlier the texas rangers shutting out the tampa epa may raise for nothing in florida currently bottom seven twins a three -to -one lead over the blue jays coming up in twenty minutes steinman backs at the brewers after that is the phillies hosting the marlins all best of three series i'm dan sportsman that's your bloomberg world sports update back to brian all right thanks very much dan will have the jury selection in the trial of former f t x c e o sam bankman freed is facing fraud in a number of charges joining us now is ava benny morrison bloomberg legal reporter uh... to bring us the latest so let's talk a little bit about that process today was there anything unusual in the jury selection it was a really large jury pool that the judge drew and there was a all of uh... understanding questions they usually ask jurors do you know anyone and yes the uh... but there are also a few that were related to sam bankman trade and crypto in general and when people said that will reply that they had invested in lost money crypto in or they had a negative attitude about crypto they tend to tended to be the jurors that were so what are the next steps here as well and is there a jury not yet it was a really painstaking process today and we didn't finish selecting a jury so that will spill into tomorrow the judge did say that he wants to select twelve jurors and then six additional jurors who can step in if one of the permanent jurors is off sick or something happens to them as well and one of the things that really struck me today was the changes in some bankman phrase physical appearance it had been several weeks since we had seen him in person his bail was revoked in August and he's been in Brooklyn's detention center since then he looked considerably thinner he'd his messy black hair and his suit was almost hanging off him so it was really interesting to see the changes in his physical appearance in the late after this trial so he's pleaded not guilty and there's seven charges against him perhaps we can lay out a little bit some of these fraud and conspiracy charges for the audience sure so at the core of the allegations against sandbankman freed is that he used customer funds at Tx a crypto currency exchange that he founded and he used those customer funds for a affiliated hedge fund called Alameda research those funds were used for high risk trades to purchase real estate in the bahamas even to loan out billions of dollars to executives so the allegation here is that he lied to ftx customers about what he was doing with their money and he also lied to investors about the relationship between Alameda and ftx okay once we do get this trial underway how long is it expected to last and secondly what are the implications for confidence in currencies there was an indication that this trial could last up to six weeks although the judge joked today that a trial never lasts as long as the defense attorneys say it will so we are going to hear a lot of evidence I think about how ftx was being run behind the scenes and it's worth noting that ftx was one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world at the time and we will hear from some you know big institutional investors as well about the kind of due diligence they did what banks and free told them about the financial health of ftx and the relationship between ftx and alameda so I think it's going to be a really a bit of a reckoning the for crypto industry forcing them to have a look at what led to this massive collapse of ftx which was long seen as a very sort of stable platform you mentioned that it was an interesting process uh with reviewing possible members of the jury uh and they were asked about their attitudes around did we learn much about um what general people's attitudes are about crypto we did uh i found it to be a really interesting process you put a bunch of everyday new yorkers in one room and learn about their different experiences i think when we're looking at crypto some of the things we heard was i um uh invested in crypto and i lost a lot of money or my brother um was almost financially ruined from crypto so i don't think that could be fair and impartial in this case uh one woman actually said her company had invested in ftx and alameda and lost a lot of money another man said he you know doesn't properly understand crypto his son tried to explain it to him and all he can think about is bernie madoff so he was excused as you could understand so there wasn't you know a general understanding of crypto but there were a few mentions in there absolutely so you know uh potential jurors are one thing but it's the wider public which are going to be transfixed by this and it's you know the second part of my question earlier was essentially how does this affect generally the whole industry and they protecting themselves from the negative vibes which may well come out of this trial i think difficult the collapse of ftx and the revelations and allegations that have come out about sam bankman freed and losing billions of dollars have been really damaging for the cryptocurrency industry in terms of their reputation i think it's given that crypto a bit of a bad stigma and the public the publicity and the interest around this trial won't towards helping that at all i think that there are a few people who uh... really interested crypto's in putting best foot forward essentially so i that think they will keep trying to do that and drive some positive PR around it in the wake of this trial one of the issues for sam bankman freed will be uh... i mentioned earlier that he's pleaded to not guilty but a lot of the others attached or around him have pleaded guilty and uh... some of them will be testifying a brief roundup roundup of that yes there are three key witnesses who are really at the heart of the government's this year nashad singh gary wong and caroline ellison these three were sam men fried closest associate by gary nashad helped uh... form f t x caroline was the CEO of Alameda Research and she also had a personal relationship with sam bankman freed so so it could get very tricky uh... in the area thanks so much for joining save any morrison bloomberg legal reporter with his life here and we've got a lot more coming markets this is going well when you get your news from bloomberg you just get the story you get the story behind the story how your evee's battery may not be as green as it seems why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration you get context and context changes how you see things how you change things because context changes 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What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Orange Pilling Through Sport with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan
"The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is if it works with baseball, it works with anything. If you think about value for value, the model, it changes everything. Right. Hello. How are you all? Hello from Lebanon. What a cool country this place is. It's really strange. As I travel around the world, sometimes I go to these places where you worry about the economic situation, you end up meeting the most amazing, incredible people, most amazing resilient people, and Lebanon is exactly that. So I cannot wait to get this film out. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today we have Perth Heat on the show. We've got CEO Stephen and chief Bitcoin officer Patrick, Patrick O 'Sullivan. I was going to try and say Stephen's name. I think it's Nelkowski, Nelkowski, I think Stephen Nelkowski. Danny, what is it? Nelkowski. We've never had Danny on an intro before. Nelkowski. Yes. CEO Stephen Nelkowski. Now I've known Stephen for quite some time. When we announced Rael Bedford, he'd already announced his Perth Heat Bitcoin project, and then I met him out in Miami. He gave me a jersey, and we've kind of been knocking back DMs on Twitter for this whole time sharing ideas, talking about what they're up to, what we're up to. There is so much alignment between the Perth Heat baseball team and what they're doing in Australia and what we're doing with Rael Bedford over in the UK. And so yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their progress, been impressed with everything they're doing. They're definitely a little bit ahead of us, but there's so much alignment between us and them. And I know not everybody loves the football side of things, but this Bitcoin and sports thing, I'm telling you, it's so important. It's important on so many levels, there's so many chances to orange pill people by meeting them where they're at. And I'm telling you, Bitcoin and sports is going to be big. So give me your feedback. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy the show. Absolutely loved it. Steve is a legend. Patrick is absolutely beavering away like a legend trying to get all the Bitcoin stuff going for them. I'm going to be nicking some of their ideas. Hopefully, we will have some cool ideas. They can nick as well. But yes, let me know your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Welcome, brother. Good to be on. Who's your friend? This is the chief Bitcoin officer of the Perth Heat. You actually the chief Bitcoin officer? That's it. That's the title. Chief Bitcoin officer. That's all I do. That's what I'm trying to get Ben Ark to do for us. You know Ben Ark? Yes. He doesn't even like football. But he comes along. He gets the whole thing. Great role to have. Emerging role. Yeah. You saw that job ad for that Bulgarian team. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. We've got a call with them. Joe Hall's trying to get me to talk to them. But there's two upcoming Bitcoin football teams, young whippersnappers. The league is expanding quickly. We've had a couple of recent inquiries from teams in Europe wanting to speak about what we've done with the baseball team. But as we've said so many times on Twitter and in comments that the Bitcoin sports league is a lot closer than what most people think. There's a lot of interest. Yeah. You beat us to it. I think you beat us to it. We had a couple of weeks between us, I think. Was it that close? It was. There was a nose between, I think, the two announcements. We were early November. I think you were late November, early December, something like that. We're talking 21, aren't we? 21? 20 said? Yeah. It was 21. Because I think I announced - November 21? Yeah. I think I announced December 21. Yeah. And we took over the team in April 22. Yes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just beat us. Justin. So many things have changed since then as well in so many ways. What we thought we'd be doing in two years has just dramatically changed so quickly. It's awesome. There's loads we can get into and we're going to. But let's just do a bit of background stuff just for people listening so we can build the picture of what we're doing. So, like, introduce yourself, what you do, and yourself. I know we know you're the Bitcoin officer, but like, and then just tell people about Perth Heat, who they are, and then we'll build from there. Yeah, easy. So my name's Steven. I'm the chief executive of the Perth Heat, who are Australia's most successful baseball team. We've won 15 national titles. We've had 34 players who have played Major League Baseball. We've got an exceptional relationship with the Tampa Bay Rays, who send us out six to each eight players Australian summer. And these are top end draft picks. So one of the players they sent us last season, Junior Caminero, is on the verge of playing in the big leagues right now. So they send us the best of the best in terms of their young talent. And we build a squad and we play a season in the Australian summer. We've got a history of winning. We've got a history of producing great players. We're also the Bitcoin baseball team. And it's been, yeah, it's been an incredible ride. How big is baseball in Australia? It's big. It's look, it's obviously we've got the big sports in terms of Aussie rules. You've got rugby. You've got strong national teams with the Australian cricket team. You've got the Socceroos, you've got the Matildas. So it's not a tier one sport. But in terms of the quality of the competition, if you look at the fact that Perth Heat have had 34 players who have played for the Heat and then gone on to play Major League Baseball, there's no other team or competition that could produce that sort of statistics. So if you looked at one of the football teams like the Perth Glory, they haven't had 34 players who have played in the Premier League. So it's the competition is extremely tough and would be one of the best winter leagues in the world, especially with our association with Major League Baseball. So they send players out to you to get game time. And they also scout players that you have got of your own. There's a bit of scouting. There's international scouts in every city. But the idea of sending them out to us is they will see how the players will react in a foreign environment, a different style of baseball, different time of year. How do these players go in an environment over Christmas, New Year? Some of them are coming back from injury. Some of them have had interrupted seasons. That's a good chance for some of them to also build game time. But it's a program now with Tampa. Then in the last five years, we've had five players already play Major League Baseball. Jacob Lopez was the last just a couple of weeks ago. And as I said, Junior Caminero is knocking the house down, his 27 home runs this year. It's just a phenomenal generational athlete. And what kind of crowds do you get? Yeah, they vary across the weekend. We play a series. So we'll play Friday night. We'll play two games on a Saturday. Two? Two games on a Saturday. And then we'll play another one on a Sunday. So there's four games in the space of 72 hours. And the crowd's roughly between 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 over the weekend. OK, wow. So two in a day. What kind of demands are put on the players? Well, it's different. So baseball, if you're a pitcher, the demands are extreme. Every time you throw the ball, it is logged. It is monitored. It is counted. If you're an outfield player or an infielder, one of the batters, then that's what you're built for. You're built to play every game. So all the pressure's on the pitcher? Pitchers, yeah. Good pitching will win you championships. You need a really strong pitching lineup to bring in the different times of the game. And that's the part of your lineup which you really have to monitor so carefully. Because you could start a series with a pitcher. And if he doesn't perform well, when you bring him out of the game, when you introduce someone else. And then if they don't perform well, how quickly do you run through your rotation knowing that you've got four games to get through? So there's a lot of analytics that we look at, we monitor. And as we said, that pitch count is very, very closely watched. I've been to a few baseball games. I've been to see the A's. I've been to see the Dodgers a few times. I've been to see probably your team. Yes. We went to the Yankees. Yeah, we went to the Yankees. It was too hot, wasn't it? Yeah, it was so hot. It was so hot. Our knees were burning. There's not many roofs on the stadiums, yeah? So you're sitting out in the sun, yeah, baking. But there's heat, but it was too hot. Our legs were in shorts, our legs were burning, so we just went and stood at the back and drunk beer. Then the Yankees get absolutely back. I think they were 10 down within two innings. It was like insane. Yeah, but it's a crazy game. It can be 10 down, and you can still win. My wife has now accepted that no matter how far in front we are in a game, she won't relax until that last out. You can be 6 -0 up, 8 -0 up, and you can still lose a game just like that. It's very, very different of football. In football, if you're 3 -0 up, it's effectively game over, yeah? But in baseball, a three -run lead, a four -run lead, it can change with just one pitch if a batter walks, and then suddenly things just change. It's taken a while to understand and to even get comfortable with it. When I first started in the role five years ago, baseball traditionalists would say, well, that's baseball. It's like, no, it's not. It's bad game management. But yeah, it's baseball. It happens in the big leagues. It happens in Australia, and sometimes it happens with Perth Heat. And so your wife, is that because she's got into the baseball, or she's planning for what your move's going to be like? Bit of both. She has to be into it, but I'm not a good loser at all. Yeah, I'm not probably the best person to speak to if we lose a game for a good 24 hours. After we lost the championship series, that 24 hours was probably four months. Mate, honestly, I know exactly how you feel. We lost three games last season in the league. We lost one cup game, and then we got thrown out of a cup because we played an illegible player should have been suspended, administrative error. Every single one of those, I was not good for 24 hours. I spent the next 24 hours saying, what did I do wrong to contribute to that? Even though it's the team and the manager, it's like, what could I have done more? Could we have prepared the team better? Did we not provide the right resources, or did we not get the balance of the roster correct? There's so many things that go through your mind, but yeah, I'm certainly not a good loser. Were you a Perth Heat fan before? No, with a surname like Neil Kobski, you grew up with a round ball in my household. I was a football fan from an early age. This is a true story. Before I took the role with Heat, I had not watched a baseball game from start to finish. I had not watched a full nine innings. I'd watched parts of a game, but I hadn't watched a whole game. That first year in charge was challenging because you'd be with corporate partners, and I didn't know all the rules, and something would happen during a game, and they'd ask, why did that happen? I'd scratch my head and say, I'd have to find out for you. I'm obsessed with it now. My wife loves watching players steal bases, just running from base to base or trying to steal. Then I look at my family, Grey Caritage, and they're all into it and enjoy coming to the ballpark. Most people I introduce do enjoy it because, again, it's a different sport in terms of the pace of the game. You can relax a little bit more and then sit back and enjoy the menu of the hot dogs or the crackerjack and see some home runs in the background. Well, you don't understand the sport. It's a bit like cricket, right? Most Americans, almost every American does not understand cricket. Are you trying to explain test cricket, that it's five days, two innings each, it could rain and end in a draw? Nobody understands it, but when you understand the game, you understand what brilliant test cricket is. Like my son, he watched the Ashes with me, and I had the first two tests, I was explaining how this works, why they might declare, what the follower knows, which never got used. Trying to explain the strategy of it all. And then once he understood, he got into it, and I was mentioning going to watch baseball. I said to you before we started recording, I was dating that girl in LA, so we were going to watch the Dodgers. It was a playoff season, and I must have gone to maybe five games. I went to the game, I don't know if you know the one where Justin Turner hit a walk -off home run in the playoffs. I think it was against, it might have been the Cubs, but by the way, that itself was an unreal moment. The great finish there. Unbelievable. But I had a guy who was sat with me each game explaining it to me. And one of the things I'd never known about is the whole pitcher strategy. My from assumption the little I'd watched here or there, it was just one guy all game. And if somebody came on and it was injury, I didn't realize you're strategically placing different pitchers in the game, especially towards the end of the seventh, eighth, ninth innings. I didn't know any of that. And so once you understood that, you understood the strategy. And then there's huge strategy, whether you're bringing in a left -handed pitcher to pitch to a right -handed batter, left -handed batter, or someone that can face up to a curveball better than a slider, et cetera. Explaining the game to someone in baseball is a lot easier in the ballpark. If you're watching it off the screen, it's a bit harder to pick up. If you sit in the ballpark and you've got someone that can explain the rules, you will understand it a lot quicker than watching it at home. But the strategy behind pitching is nuts. The movie Moneyball and the strategy behind the analytics is spot on. There's so much you can gain out of the numbers. And that's a big part of our relationship, even with Tampa, is the Tampa front office and what they have in terms of identifying talent and how they use it is something that is a great benefit to an organization like the Perth Heat as well. There's a whole Moneyball thing that started coming to football as well. I know specifically teams like Brentford and Brighton have used it. But they're using it in a different way. They're trying to identify talent, which they sell out. I mean, Brighton. Can you look up their sales of players? I mean, Brighton. They have a profit of 130 million pounds, was it, this summer? I mean, historically, they weren't ever a Premier League team. No. It's only in the last, what, five, six years did they become Premier League? They're now established. But the volume of players they sell and the rates they sell their players for, have they got recent sales? Yeah. Let me pull it up. It was the same with Southampton. They kind of had that strategy as well. So there we go. Okay. Caicido, 160 million euros. McAllister, you went to Liverpool, 42 million. Sanchez, 23 million. But there's more in the previous. I mean, is that just this season? Yeah, that's this season. Did you have last season as well? I don't think it was on him. What was up at the top when you scrolled to the top? That was people who had come in. Right. Okay. But this is their whole strategy. I mean, they're now talking, this guy just got a hat -trick. The other Ferguson got the hat -trick against Newcastle the other day. People are starting to talk about him. And they've managed to have this rotation of players. Even though they're selling their best players, they've got these new ones coming through and they've got like an identity, which means it's a profitable business. Luton were the same. So Luton Town managed to get back in the Premier League from going into non -league, which itself is incredible. But they had a whole strategy of bringing players through and it's part of their revenue model. Does that perform part of your actual revenue model to develop players? For Perth Heat, it's a little bit different because if we have players that we continue to develop, they'll get drafted. And the draft system works a little bit differently to football where the club doesn't take the profit. The actual transfer fee goes direct to the player. Oh, wow. It's one of the first questions our board of management asked when they took the license over. How can we develop players and on -sell them? But it doesn't work like that in baseball, unfortunately. So, yeah, we've got a great farm system of producing young Aussie talent to go and pick up minor league contracts. But there's no return there to the club, unfortunately. Were you a baseball fan before you joined? I mean, I played when I was a kid. But not much of a fan. No. No, it was strictly because of the opportunity that came up that I joined. And when did you join? When? Same time. So about a year before, when the talks happened about, well, maybe this is something that we might be able to do. And then what the details look like for making it a possibility for a team to embrace Bitcoin as much as the team has. And then suddenly realizing that it's going to be significantly more work than what it first appeared to be. Because I didn't really have a role there to begin with. I didn't have a job. I wasn't working there at all. But then sort of trying to orange pill the board after Steve got it and to show them what we could do with it. It was very much, this is the idea. This is what we think we can do with it. And their attitude was, OK, go out and prove it and show them exactly what we could do to kick things off. And then from there, it was just small win after small win. And then realizing, well, if we're going to actually do it and announce things in November about just how far down the rabbit hole we were going to go, that we couldn't just, you know, Bitcoin is not at the point now where you can just launch and say, OK, everything worked perfectly. I mean, you know, it's so hit and miss with things that will work and things that won't work. And that's integration with systems that are already in place, especially when you're talking about a business of this size. You know, it's not your micro strategy. We don't have teams and teams of lawyers or people that can look after all of the various elements. And to go all in on Bitcoin means really restructuring how you do everything. And eventually that came back to me as my sort of ability to transition and see what will work, what's going to work now, what will work in 90 days from now and what it's going to look like in 180 days from now. All of that has changed and just somewhat to stay on top of that and to help integrate it into the systems that Steve is already looking after. Yeah. So I'm going to be interested to compare and contrast what you've done to what we've done, because like we're tiny. You know, our crowds are tiny. When we take, if you want to pay with Bitcoin on a match day, we're talking a handful of transactions. You got up to 7000 people there. So that's that's an entirely different beast. What were you, sorry Steve, what were you doing before you joined? My background is media marketing, so I used to be a sports reporter on one of the commercial networks here in Australia with Channel 7. I was there 14 years as a broadcaster, used to commentate to football games. But after being a reporter for the best part of 15 years and seeing how sports organisations run, that's where the real appetite for running a sports organisation came in and wanting to win championships. So I went and worked for a local football team, which is the Perth Glory, who play in the A -League. I was in a media marketing role there for a few years. Is that where Robbie Fowler played? He did the great man. God. Yeah. He used to come over to Mum's house every week for dinner. Shut up. Yeah. Are you serious? A gentleman. One of the most beautiful men. Yeah. We're always on the text to each other. He's a... You're friends with Robbie Fowler? Yeah. There we go. You're in. I want an interview with him. He's one of my childhood heroes. Oh wow. Yeah. And you know what? He's just a lad. He's just brilliant. He came and played for the organisation. And yeah, it was Monday night's dinner at Mum's house. He loved the Greek food, so we kept to a winning formula. That's unbelievable. Do you know the song the Liverpool fans sing about him? About we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Do you know about this? I don't know. So Robbie Fowler is one of the footballers who was very smart with his money. He just bought just properties all over Liverpool constantly. And see, he's got this huge property portfolio in Liverpool. And so the Liverpool fans sing, we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Yeah. He's a... He's God. He's God. He's just an awesome guy. Good fun to hang out with. And yeah, made so much time for the people of Perth. We had a great year together. And he's also very cheeky as well. There was a time where we weren't performing too well. We'd lost, I think, five games on the trot. And it was the time that Wayne Rooney was having a whole heap of issues with Manchester United. And we were about to do this live TV cross for Channel 7. And we knew the chairman wasn't too happy at the time. So I said, we've just got to try and deflect here. And Robbie had been in the UK for a week. And the presenter said, so Robbie, what was the trip to the UK all about? And he said, it was to chat to Wayne. And my phone had been, the media marketing guy just blew up, Fleet Street just went mad with this. It was just an off -the -cuff joke that we were trying to sign Wayne Rooney. And it was just everywhere within hours and we had to put out a press release and it was great because it deflected off the five losses that we'd had, but it was just a bit of a piss take. What was his scoring record like at Perth? Look, it wasn't as good as what it was at Liverpool. We would have been nice for him to score a few more goals, but the team struggled a little bit that year. And I think he ended up maybe with a dozen goals from memory somewhere around there. But it was a good year. And then again, I remember him taking out a little urn when England won the Ashes out before a game. And he put it up on his head and there was photos of it. He's just a great prankster in a lot of ways. He's an awesome person to have in your change room. And yeah, I'm really happy to call him a friend. So I went down the Robbie Fowler rabbit hole with my son the other week because, did you watch the Liverpool Newcastle game the other week? No, I missed it. Right. So I said to my son that there were two games when I was a kid when Liverpool played Newcastle. There were four, three consecutive years. The first one was a back and forth. I think Liverpool went 1 -0 up, then Newcastle went 2 -1 up, then Liverpool got it back to 2. Then they went 3 -2 up, then 3 -0. Liverpool went 4 -3. Stan Collimore in the 90th minute. It's an unreal game. And then a year later, Liverpool went 3 -0 up, Newcastle got it back to 3 -0. And then in the last minute, Robbie Fowler scores ahead of this flying header to go 4 -3. And so I then just had to explain Robbie Fowler to my son, why everyone said he was God. And we went down this kind of rabbit hole of Robbie Fowler goals. I was always really sad, though, because when he left Liverpool, I'm trying to remember, was it Leeds and Man City he went to? Did play both, yeah. Yeah, and I just couldn't accept him, not in a Liverpool shirt. Not in a Liverpool shirt, yeah. It didn't make sense to me. No, iconic to that club, and yeah. Absolute legend. Sorry, there's a bit of a tangent. OK, so going from commentator to chief exec, that's quite a jump. Did you have to kind of prove yourself you were capable? Did you have to pitch yourself for it? Look, I did the four years at Perth Glory in a media marketing role. I then stepped outside of sport for the first time in my career and just did some sales, what they called home and land packages here in Australia, selling some land in the house with it, and quickly went into a management role there with one of the companies. And then the opportunity came with the heat, and I was given the chance to run my first club, which was good because at the time I'd just started as president of a football club as well. So the management position was quite similar. I've run both roles now for the last five years, which has been brilliant. What is the mandate for the chief exec? How does it compare to, say, a chairman in a football team? Just look, every club's structure can be a little bit different, so yeah, a chairman for us is one of the shareholders, majority shareholder of our club, so he's who I report to. I've got the day -to -day running of the organisation, and I report to our chairman. What are the main things that you're responsible for the team in ensuring they've got the resources they need? Everything, yeah. Everything, yeah. I run the organisation. So it's basically probably almost identical to my role. Correct. Yeah, absolutely. Bigger numbers. Yeah, there's bigger numbers, but I don't think it really matters, and there's probably a good contrast with a football club. Whether you've got 10 members, 100 members, 1 ,000 members, a million members, the communication is still the same. You still treat your members the same way, regardless of how many zeros are involved. It's the same if you do a social media post, whether your club's only got 50 members or 50 ,000, you're still putting out information. So in some ways, don't get scared by the numbers. It's treat the position with respect and your members and partners, et cetera. Again, corporate partners, regardless of what the partnership value is, they're a corporate partner.
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podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
A highlight from LGM Podcast: Pennant Races Wind Down
"Well, let's go. Here you have your money. You want... $10 ,000? Yes, the services, hamburgers, salads, pasta, lamb, and when you buy a house, you're suspended from your car, and you have work to do. And that's all you need to do to have a DUI. Well, and what do you want? A propane? Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Also, all of the marketing possibilities with your home team. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. This is Eric Loomis, and I'm here with Rob Farley and Scott Lemieux to discuss the general state of sports right now, particularly baseball, probably a little bit of football. Gentlemen, how are you all doing? Very well. There's also an obscure politically relevant hockey topic I could bring up too. We could always talk hockey around here, which might be more of a monologue for you, but hey, that's... Hockey and racism. That's the game on ice. But it's been a lot since we talked about sports here. Right now, it's August 30th is when we're recording this, and baseball is reaching its pennant races, or playoff races I guess is more appropriate these days. They're very interesting this year. Particularly, I think we should start with the official or unofficial perhaps team of LGM, which is our Seattle Mariners. So, what a run for the Mariners, and I was wondering what thoughts you guys had about what's going on here and maybe talk about the ALS generally. Well, as Eric and I, I don't know how many times I had this conversation earlier this summer, I was just brimming with confidence about the Mariners, particularly that offense. Every time Dylan Moore came up in a big spot, it was just great. No, I was... I was kind of on the fence. I know on our major league preview, Dave was pretty optimistic, and then I think the rest of us were like, consciously optimistic, but perhaps a little more skeptical, and I think I might have been the most skeptical. And then really for the first half of the year, the team was actually worse than even I had anticipated. Good pitching, but just really desultory offense. Particularly with Julio being a little off, and there's not just much else going on. The Mariners having their annual second base disaster, the curse of Sean Figgins, showing up in Colton Wong. What was his final slashline? It was genuinely horrific. Yeah, like I just... And one thing to see, Jesse Winkers also on his way out of the league. You know, so it ended up being kind of a wash no trade, but boy what a disaster it was. I mean, it was not a bad move. I mean, yeah, so he had a 241 on base, 227 slugging. And one year ago, he slugged 430, and the year before that, 447. I don't know what it is that happens when the something about the Mariners and second base are not mixed. And Adam Frazier was awful for us last year, has been a perfectly competent member of the Orioles this year. So I don't know what's going on there. But anyway, and it's weird that the team almost turned around when they released Wong, not saying he was the only problem there. But you know, and what's interesting is that the pitching staff has been excellent all year. And I think that the Mariners rotation has been top three in ERA all season. And I believe they're now first in the majors in the ERA. I may be wrong, but it's close, if not so. Really, really strong rotation led by Castillo. Scott's surveys always has good bowl pens. And one thing is that they were able to use their annual pump and dump, sort of creating a closure out of Paul Siewald and trading that for a couple of useful depth pieces that they really needed, even though they've had a little bit of problem in the back end. So yeah, it's surprising, obviously led by Rodriguez. But obviously, it's been really encouraging how they've played over the last couple of months. And it would be nice if they could win the series against the A's as the rubber match is ongoing as they speak. But yeah, it's been pretty exciting over the last month. And I'm looking forward to going back to the park. I mean, it's interesting. I think that when they traded Siewald, it was sort of like, well, what really is Dominic Canzone and Josh Rojas? I mean, they seem like a couple of marginal players and they actually played pretty well, both of them in Seattle. But I mean, it seemed like what they did ultimately was just give him, give service a lot more platoon options and a lot more mix and match stuff that he's been using at the back end of the lineup so that if it makes sense to go more or Matt Ford or Caballero, then that's fine. But Cade Marlowe has been a pretty good call up. And then Canzone and Rojas, I mean, that's a lot of options, each of which is functional to slightly more than functional in the right circumstance against the right pitchers. And I think that makes a lot of sense. And then, you know, Telenik will get, you know, should be back here for whatever that's going to really be given that he was, after that good start with sort of sliding back into his usual suckiness as the season went on. But they should have a lot of options in September. So I think it'll be, you know, I like the way the team sort of made moves mid -year to change its construction, even though, as you say, is Munoz really a reliable closer? Well, it's been a couple of times where it doesn't seem to such so. But, you know, but you certainly have to like where the team is in a three -way tie for the West with cratering a Rangers team and an Astros team that, of course, is going to remain competitive, but has its own flaws. Yeah, I mean, this is this is such a remarkably interesting division, right? I mean, and, you know, one of these teams is not going to go to the playoffs, right? I mean, we're operating in the assumption we're going to have a division winner. We're going to have, you know, one of the teams is probably going to be the wild card, but one of them is not going to go to the playoffs. Well, no, no, because there's three wild card teams now. Is it three wild card teams now? Yeah, so Toronto, I mean, you know, somebody's going to be out, but it could be, it could be the Blue Jays. Oh, okay. You see, I was this was a rules update that I was unaware of. But, yeah, the season ended today. Seattle, Texas, and Houston would all be in and the Blue Jays are actually three and a half games behind the Astros. So that's they're actually have work to do. Yeah, that's that's actually quite interesting in terms of the National League as well. But I think the more critical point about this particular division is that, you know, you have you have one of the worst rosters in the history of baseball in this division. And I would I would hazard that the Oakland A's are not the biggest train wreck in this division, right? I mean, I think that the the Angels, you know, are having one of these catastrophic seasons that even though they're not going to end up the worst team in this division because of the A's, you know, this is this is a sort of great train wreck of a team in terms of its wasted potential, catastrophic its complete use of two of the biggest stars, two of the most talented players, not just in Major League Baseball, but in baseball around the world.
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Fresh "Major League Baseball" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Describes her husband's passion project tales to astonish the only comic book store in West Seattle. It just kind of gives you that sick feeling in your gut to gone. see them all Security footage shows three people wearing hoods and masks enter the front door to the store. They grab then almost every single book from the shelves on the wall stealing the cash register while they're at it. the So many books of have so much meaning behind them. You know they're the books that people like save up to get to finish their collection. Hannah Knowles, Como News. Northwest News Time 1208. The Maple Leaf Hardware Store in North Seattle has dealt with attempted thefts every other week they say. That's according to the store manager and police believe a group of armed teenagers were responsible for the most recent incident Friday night. Three teens in what appears to be one gun. Seattle police tell me they have now identified all three suspects in this case is active and open. The latest hit came a few days ago at closing time. The teens have been charged with murder. They say this is a crime stopper's Jim Fuda insist a lack of cops leads to less arrests and less accountability. A vicious cycle. He says until that changes businesses and homeowners must take security precautions. Como force Michelle Last of on residents in Medical Lake and Elk Washington, northeast of Spokane, are still sifting through what's left of their homes after last month's wildfires. The loss of hundreds of homes and two lives was the worst of the wildfire season in our state. Commissioner of lands, public lands Hillary Franz. You know, one gentleman I talked to he was taking a nap. 2 30 in the afternoon on a Friday. He was just resting and he was woken up by the sheriff saying, You gotta go now. And he's like, Okay, I'll be a little. I was like, No, you gotta go now more with than 1800 brush and wildland fires this year counted by the State Department of Natural Resources. Less than 5 % were larger than 10 acres, with about 145 ,000 total acres burned, far less acreage burned than recent fire seasons. Northwest News time 12 10 sports and 40 at 10 past each hour from the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk. Here's Eric Heintz. The Seahawks have won three in a row following last night's 24 3 road victory over the New York Giants. A team record tying 11 sacks and two interceptions by Seattle's defense was too much for the home team. A strip sack by defensive end Mario Edwards set up a short TD drive and cornerback Devon Witherspoon scored another on a 97 yard interception return. The UW Oregon game on October 15th at Husky Stadium will be nationally televised. ABC will carry the game with a 12 30 kickoff. playoff. Until then the Huskies have a bye week and head coach Kalen DeBoris says it'll help with getting their injured players back. Guys I mean the bye week is definitely helpful for a few that you know right are kind of on home the stretch there or maybe even like a Thule who got dinged up the bye week is really critical for him because you know maybe this next week it might have been tough. The Ducks are also on a bye. Coming off a bye are the Washington State Cougars. The 4 -0 and 14th ranked Cougs visit UCLA. Georgia's hold on number one in the Associated Press college football poll loosened as the Bulldogs received a season -low of 35 first -place votes out of a possible 62. The rest were divided by four other teams and the Major League Baseball playoffs begin today with wild the -card round. Sports of 10 and 40 past the hour, Eric Heintz, Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Time 12 11. Our life expectancy in the United States continues to degrade. There's a new study from the Post Washington that found chronic diseases are the greatest threats people between the ages of 35 and 64. Akilah Johnson covering this for the Post and spoke with Northwest News Radio's Frank Lenzi. Akilah, what qualifies first of all as chronic disease. You know chronic illnesses are typically what we think of as chronic disease, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diseases that persist over years, sometimes decades. And these illnesses even outpace gun violence, opioid overdose, and the COVID -19 pandemic, is that right? Yeah, so we found that you know amongst people ages 35 to 64, chronic illnesses erase twice as many years of life as overdoses, homicides, suicides, and car accidents. How does the United States compare with other wealthy countries when it comes to fighting chronic disease? Not so well. So we have gone from the middle of the pack to the last to when we are comparing ourselves to pure nations in the life expectancy race. Well any reason for that? Why are we dropping like that? You know when you speak to experts, a lot of experts say a lot of it has to do with how we think of health in this country and that we quite often conflate health with medicine and health with health care. And it's different in different parts of the country, is that right? Most of the 35 to 6 year olds who are dying are in what parts of the US? So there is a regionality to this, right? And so you quite often will see people who are living now, because it has changed over the last 40 years, we looked at it 40 over years, people who live in urban areas tend to have better life expectancy and better lifespans and the last 40 years and folks who are living in more rural communities. And so also you will find that state politics plays a large role in who lives and dies and life expectancy and life spans. And so states that tend to have more Republican leaning red state kind of legislatures, they expectancies. That's Akilah Johnson from the Washington Post speaking with Northwest News Radio's Frank Lenzi. tend to have better life COVID vaccine. The White House is acknowledging there have been issues in the rollout of the new COVID vaccine. Press Secretary Jean -Pierre on Monday telling me, certainly we are aware of what consumers have experienced these unexpected issues of point of service. In the first few weeks since the shot was approved, Americans have reported problems with insurance covering the new shot and a lack of supply. This is the first shot to be distributed through the private market as opposed to the government. Jean -Pierre said the Department of Health and Human Services is quote, on it. They're going to work with work at the issues that we're currently seeing to resolve this quickly. Karen Southwest Tritan. news radio is your home for breaking news and traffic and weather every 10 minutes on the fours at 1214. 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A highlight from Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Now is the time to experience America's pastime in a whole new way Major League Baseball has teamed up with T -Mobile for business to advance the game with next -gen 5G solutions going deeper with real -time data visualization new camera angles that put fans on the field with their favorite players and Even testing an automated ball strike system in the minor leagues This is the 5G era of baseball see what we can do for your business at T -Mobile .com Major League Baseball trademarks used with permission officially licensed product of MLB players incorporated Welcome to stuff you should know a production of I heart radio Howdy and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant Jerry's here, too and We're just some homie folksy types ready to spin a good yarn for you about the old farmers That's right. You know why I commissioned this one. Why Chuck why because I thought it would be fun To put a old farmers almanac in the outhouse at my camp Okay, wait first you have an outhouse. I have an outhouse. Is it just a pit like a latrine with a log over it? No, it's a composting toilet. Okay with a little solar panel outside that runs a fan Okay, and the fan do the fan moves air through to provide aerobic Interaction exercise the with the with the with the poop and the composting Pete I just made a Compost tea like that, but I used a submerged little fountain pump. They create the air movement Yeah, pretty neat it is neat. So yeah, I got a composting toilet. It's good It helps I don't use it. I use it to go poopy if I'm there for more than a couple of days But largely I put it there. So You know some of some of the ladies in my life and and friends wives and things Don't like to squat in the woods. Some of them don't mind but I put that there So everyone would want to go camping at the camp and be like, yeah, you got a composting toilet I feel good about using it I can I can see the conversation between the couple in the kitchen back in Atlanta like one now He's got a composting toilet Well now I work now you can count me in Well, and now I gotta say is he's got a composting toilet and an old farmer's almanac in that outhouse Because I thought it would just be sort of a fun thing because I knew from growing up as a kid That an old in the south that an old farmer's almanac was quite a common thing to find in a bathroom or an outhouse To read while you're there on the john, so I have one there. It's from a couple years ago I need to get a new one. I should change it every year, you know, that's sort of the whole point of an almanac pretty slack and So I thought I was reading it the other day when I was up there cutting grass I was like, I don't really don't even know the history of these things and so let's find out So did you read them when you were a kid, too? I mean a little bit here and there is not very interesting for a kid. Sure But grandmother my Bryant my my dad's mom was a backyard farmer her whole life and you know, she was one of these people that Put a lot of stock in the farmer's almanac And so it was just something I knew about in my life as a kid probably didn't read it a ton though I was never exposed to it. I knew it existed you were from the north Yeah, it was Midwest but to Georgia Ohio was the north Yes, still but there was corn corn everywhere around where I lived Oh sure So it is a little surprising But the biggest surprise that I received since we started researching this is that you me Apparently used to read the farmer's almanac when she was a little kid Nothing you ever tell me about you me will surprise me. It's true. You just never know. No, you really don't that's great For those of you who've never met you me you wouldn't consider her a farmer's almanac type That's pretty safe to say yeah, so I was I thought that was neat she's very well -rounded but I In in like chia pet fashion went on and ordered this time myself a farmer's almanac I was gonna order you one and I was like, I'll bet he's already got one on. Oh, look at you very smart Also, I've made a joke about you're from the north as it turns out as we'll see the old farmer's almanac came from New England Originally, yeah, so I was you know people from the north There's plenty of farming that went on all over the country by God they even cover the weather forecast for the year in, California Exactly, they they don't discriminate. All right, so big thanks to Dave Ruse who helped us out with this one We're gonna talk mostly about the old farmer's almanac, but we will talk a little bit about its rival the farmer's almanac But we're talking about the old farmer's almanac the one that's that's looked the same Since its inception with that yellow cover the Four seasons. It's very Did you get yours in the mail yet? No, I pre -ordered it. I won't arrive until August 30th. Oh, this is for next year Yes, that's very smart Well, I mean what am I gonna do be like well what happened two weeks ago getting this year's, you know I mean like I want that you could from August to December you could surely gain some insight No, I don't like to waste money. I'd rather just wait But it's been the same well We'll talk a little bit more about the cover and its presentation and all that but it's very iconic looking if you've ever seen one It's been around since 1792. That's amazing Which means it's the oldest Continuously published periodical in North America. Yeah, and I looked it up. That's the the oldest Published anything that's been continuously printed in North America is the Hartford Courant We started as the Connecticut Courant in 1764 not too much sooner than the farmers almanac But then if you look for the world the the Swiss have us beat by a mile yeah, they have a What's called the post and domestic times the post ach in Rick? Tiden in Gar Okay, and again that means the post and domestic times which has been printed continuously since 1645 Amazing, but still that's nothing to sneeze at 1792 and they never missed an addition pretty good Yeah, totally in these these books basically, I mean those sort of an almanac craze at one point Lots of small family farms all over the country. Yeah pre industrialization There were hundreds of farmers almanacs all over the place a lot of regional ones Even local ones and what you would find in them if you were like, well guys what the heck? It's a farmer's almanac. Good. Good walk back. What it is is there are books that will say things like Here's when you should plant things. Here's some tips on cattle very importantly here are Astronomical Charts this is when the Sun is gonna rise and set in the spring and throughout the year These are the phases of the moon. Here are some recipes. Maybe here's some jokes. Here's some poetry So they would mix in some folksy fun stuff and entertaining stuff along with Sort of boots to the ground advice tips and raw data for farming Yeah, and but the big draw is the long -range weather forecasts like they essentially forecast the weather Generally for the entire United States and Canada a year in advance Yeah, we'll talk about that and they say that they're 80 % accurate, which is mind -boggling. It's it's almost unbelievable yeah, and it's things like I remember my grandmother referring to it for her crops later in the year to see like How rainy is it gonna be this fall? How rainy will it be six months from now exactly and people put a lot of stock in it And some people still do even yeah, so it's it's an unusual and unique combination of folksy folk wisdom and folklore even Things like if you want to have turnips in the winter and you there's no such thing as refrigeration Keep them in packed in sawdust during the summer or whatever stuff like that. It's useful, but then there's also like Astrology like horoscopes and that kind of thing So it but then it's alongside like actual legitimate astronomical data that is accurate It's a weird combination of really is and apparently it grew out of the medieval era And the word almanac itself seems to have been invented by medieval French astronomers in the 13th century although they said that it was an Arabic word almanac and That meant calendar of the heavens and apparently these astronomers just totally made that up Yeah, it was yeah, like you said invented by the French these medieval almanacs were they were just handwritten this before the printing press and They did some similar things though. They talked about like celestial bodies and Moon phases and stuff like that Eventually when the printing press comes along They were some of the first things to be printed like people live their lives by these a lot of times So they were some of the most popular early Books and periodicals that existed in the world essentially Yeah, because of their popularity and because even back then they were just kind of bizarre creatures their own thing They were also widely satirized too as early as 1532 There was a French satirist named Rabalais who created a parody almanac And he prognosticated Stuff that's quite obvious as a way to just kind of mock what almanacs do But he started a trend that lasted for hundreds of years and the most famous parody almanac was poor Richard's almanac Which was published by Benjamin Franklin from 1732 to 58 and what's neat is Even though it was a parody and they made stuff up and it was funny and satire of almanacs It also contained like actual helpful useful information, too Yeah, it did he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Saunders and It's famous for a lot of things one of which like you said it was around for What 20 something years 25 26 years? I'm guessing like 30 something Yeah, but it was like the best -selling for that long but it was very famous now for these a lot of turns of phrase that Franklin invented as Saunders such as We still use today Haste makes waste is one Fish and visitors smell after three days And of course the old standard early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise Very all came from poor Richard's almanac.
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"You know they might not make the plans this year is going to throw that out there monday night football saw seattle dump the new york giants twenty four three devin witherspoon returns an interception ninety seven yards for a touchdown while also rallying two of the seahawks eleven sacks giants are one and three on the season commanders are two and two with two straight losses although both two teams currently leading their respective divisions they do have a defense though that's allowing thirty points per game what is going on head coach ron rivera with this day well i think you know one of the things that we're most certainly working on is trying to eliminate some of the explosives we've allowed that's been unfortunate and untimely and then continue to work and continue to create takeaways you know we've had opportunities we just haven't we haven't gone through with and it and we've got to get takeaways it's a big part of uh you know what can help us win football games burgundy and gold battle on chicago thursday night football they're back on the practice field this afternoon wtops george allt wallace will be and on uh... posting on x or tweeting at g wallace w t l p college football maryland quarterback tolya of tongue our of lowest vote of the big ten offensive player of the week after throwing for five touchdowns in the win over indiana the kickoff time for a homecoming october fourteenth game with illinois has been set for three thirty i'm still bringing those hint of lime he does no salsa though cuz that doesn't travel nearly as well major league baseball los angeles angels part ways with manager phil nevin after the team's seventy three win season playoff baseball begins today with the wild card round four games on tap texas tampa bay is the one you want to watch because that series sends the winner to baltimore dave impressed in w t l p sports coming up after traffic and weather carjackers strike again in d c this time targeting uh... congressman nine twenty six terra durant mom to three former elementary teacher and marine life is fighting to restore high standards in virginia schools and to address learning loss she's
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1211.Fixing The Metaverse Problem | Improbable CEO Herman Narula Interview
"All right, so today we're going to dive into some Web3 content. I think you guys will like it. Really what we want to do is explore how many of these companies are starting to navigate these waters. There's a lot happening around this space, whether you think Metaverse or you think Web3 and kind of this conversion. All that we're going to talk about today. It's going to be a good one and we've got a special guest for you. My name is Paul Beryl. Welcome back into Tech Path. Joining me today is Herman Narula, who is the CEO of Improbable. We've had and talked about Improbable a lot, but thanks for stopping in today. We appreciate it. Well, thank you for having me on. All right. So, Herman, let's get into a few things here and I want to kind of first kind of get a framework around Improbable for some of our new audience, maybe people that have experimented with their first NFT, started to learn about Web3 a little bit. Give us a framework quickly on where Improbable is today. Sure. So, in order to make valuable virtual experiences that are differentiated from what people can already do, like play games or interact in the real world, you have to give people something really new and really valuable. And doing that means expanding the scope of what virtual experiences can be. So, what Improbable has spent years doing now, I mean, a decade of our lives with iteration after iteration of technology, is making it possible to support not just a hundred people in a space, but tens of thousands of people connecting from anywhere in the world on a mobile phone or PC or Mac, just by clicking a link to jump into a world which isn't just a game, but is an environment that can support all of those people talking, speaking, singing, in some cases, happy birthday in this example that you're showing me right now, also interacting with each other in incredibly rich and social ways. And to make that possible, we have to handle orders of magnitude more information on the backend. So, recently we did an event with Major League Baseball where we brought thousands of baseball fans into a virtual stadium all over the world. That type of thing takes billions of messages a second that all have to be delivered at low latency to hundreds of countries and have to be done in a way that can survive hackers or other problems. So building the infrastructure to build practical, useful, and valuable virtual worlds is fundamental to what we do and have done. Another aspect of what we do is we make it possible to have richer digital items. So an NFT is really great as a token of ownership, but it doesn't actually do anything, as I think a lot of people have said more loudly on Twitter recently than before. So we created a language called Metaverse Markup Language, and it's totally open source. It's MIT licensed, and it lets you build a complicated, rich object just using JavaScript and HTML that can describe something that can live in a game or it can live in a web browser or anywhere else, and it can link to an NFT if you want. And those objects exist inside all of the worlds that are part of the M -squared network, which in probable has been separate from the partners. All right. So a lot happening here, and of course just the technological achievements have been pretty significant here. When you look at where the Metaverse is today, and kind of, I guess to a certain extent, I think a lot of people saw Metaverse come onto the scene when Meta changed their name. That was kind of the iconic event that occurred. We saw a lot of projects start to open up in 2021, late 2021, and early 2022. When you look at the challenges inside Metaverse, because right now what we're seeing is quite a few people who look at it, whether it's brands or you look at even users and players, that are saying some Metaverses are absolute wastelands. There's nobody there. There's a challenge of interoperability. We've got all these big picture issues that have not really been addressed right now. Where do you feel maybe the short -term future, but more long -term future is for Metaverses in general? Well, let's start by saying there's more than 600 million monthly active people in Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite. Phil Rosedale, who created Second Life, is one of the founding advisors of M -squared. If those people interacting in virtual spaces, buying and selling things, moving them from place to place, creating things, kids coming home from school and having whole new experiences, brands showing up. If that isn't Metaverse or Metaverse -like, then I think we're stretching the definition to some extent. So there is already a massive, almost a significant percentage of young human beings on Earth with access to these technologies are interacting inside these spaces. The interesting question, to build on your question, is what's going wrong with crypto Metaverses, or Web3 Metaverses, or VR Metaverses? And I think what's going wrong with them doesn't require a lot of speculation. We know the answer because 30 years of psychology and engagement research in interactive entertainment tell us the answer. The experiences are bad. If the experiences are bad, it doesn't matter what fancy NFT they're linked to or what VR goggles I put on. If you're not providing me with fulfillment, and that fulfillment can only come in a few ways. It can come from a social experience that I couldn't otherwise have. It could come from competence, the feeling of getting better at something, or it could come from making meaningful choices, then there is no real future to it. And I think the other big challenge with a lot of these projects is they're swimming against economic reality. So if the entire ecosystem you've built is around a bunch of people who've bought assets with the expectation, whether or not you marketed it that way, that those assets will go up in value, definitionally, you can't make money that way. The only way you can make money is if people buy stuff that they don't necessarily want to sell on. I mean, if you think about your house, most of the items in your house, you probably don't want to sell on. You know, I bought a sandwich recently, I don't want to sell that on. I want to eat that. So if there's no function, there's nothing wrong with people owning assets that are memorabilia or artwork, et cetera, but that isn't the foundation of a diverse and valuable ecosystem of users. I think on the VR side, while I actually am a believer in the immersive value of things like VR and AR, I don't necessarily know that they are the answer for some of the problems that the metaverse can really solve. I mean, we've talked a lot about sport. I mentioned baseball and you've shown some stuff on screen. This isn't a gimmick. This is solving an economic problem that is at the heart of sport, right? If I told you there was a company that had 600 million active users right now, and those users joined it from birth and would kill you if you tried to make them buy a different product, and they taught their children until the day they died, how much money is that company worth, that brand worth? Well, Real Madrid is that, and you'd think it would be worth hundreds of billions. It's estimated at about five. Why? Because about every year they make less than a Euro per fan. And that's not because fans aren't passionate. It's because, well, if I can't come to the game, because I live in Southeast Asia, or if I can't meet a player or if I can't have a social experience or if I can't really engage and feel involved, well, what can I have? So some of the events would be the last couple of weeks, like meeting famous football players inside an environmental space where everyone can speak. These expand the scope of culture, of sport, of music, of these other areas. So I think the metaverse has to solve a problem, and the problem can't be that you want your token to be more valuable. If that's the problem the metaverse is solving, then it's not solving a problem. It's broken. Sure. Exactly. Well, you hit on a couple of really interesting points here, and I think this is something that a lot of people have to get over to understand kind of this little bit of this concept of what maybe the real future of metaverses are as opposed to what we'll see in the blockchain space. Two things you hit on there, of course, is this brand equity or brand properties that are being transcended into a place like what you had mentioned there with Real Madrid, biggest soccer club maybe on planet Earth when you think about that, expanding that out there. Lots of great opportunity there, and obviously that will be a big part of that. You also mentioned just the existing Fortnite Roblox kind of connection. Those are already kind of metaverses today. They're just not necessarily running on a blockchain. So there are some things like that. Now, in terms of this capacity, because Improbable, of course, is solving some challenges here, you look at the current player count record that has been achieved by you guys, and you look at ... You had even mentioned the size of Real Madrid alone, and think about that times a thousand if you look at all the entities of NFL, MLB, NBA, and then the World Soccer Leagues. There's a lot of fans out there. What are the capacities for blockchain metaverses in the future? So we're able to host entire stadiums full of people at this point, and you can have many of those events running in parallel. And so you could literally take the ticket revenue of a sports league, and if there was six years' events, experiences, and ticketed people who can come in ... I mean, assuming you wanted a ticket, you don't have to, because we can run it cheap enough. You could do it for free. If you could bring Call of Duty -style monetization, that's two to six percent of the audience spending most of the money, to things with a billion, two billion, three billion users and fans, and you could make that interoperable, and you could make that accessible, especially to people on a mobile phone. I mean, let's think beyond football, cricket. There's a billion cricket fans out there, and you look at a 4G map of India, and you see some pretty amazing things in terms of internet access. If you're able to do that, you're not just talking about improving, building a tech company, or improving the metaverse, or improving Web3. You're really making people's lives fundamentally better for things they really care about. One of the things we found is that that becomes a vast opportunity. In terms of capacity, the blockchain really is just a tool. In the demos that you've just shown on screen, there are AI -based bandwidth compression algorithms. There's new approaches we've taken to rendering that don't exist in existing game engines. In fact, we've actually built a new method to allow generative AI objects to appear dynamically inside worlds. We don't talk about any of this, because honestly, these are just tools. And that's how I look at the problem with the conversation these days. Like for me, blockchain, and this is going to sound really bad, but blockchain is like a sewage system. I'm very happy it's there, and if it wasn't there, we couldn't have great cities, and we couldn't build a lot of good stuff. But I don't want users walking through the sewage system. It needs to fade like open -source software, like infrastructure, into the background. It needs to be a powerful enabler for things that your grandma likes, for things that the average football fan or gamer likes, without having to think about, is this an NFT? Is this on the blockchain? Is this a wallet? Is this whatever? That's the key to really making something really valuable. So our philosophy, and this may be as a result of being at this 10 years, having the hopes and dreams, seeing things not work, seeing things work, and building and building and I think a lot of people in the NFT space are quite recent sometimes. It's just pragmatism. Let's just create the things that matter. So we use central services. We use decentralized services. Where it makes sense, we use one. Where it makes sense, we use the other. But we always ask, what is the value proposition? Because the event we've just shown you, you could not run that on a blockchain. No one can do 20 billion transactions a second that are nowhere near where blockchain is. Well, I think the point you are making, too, is this is a societal shift, and when you look at the capacity of where technology is going, there's going to be some great opportunity. You had mentioned a little bit there about AI. That in itself is going to really create some new experiences on its own, much less what we'll see in terms of fan engagement, things of that nature going forward. I want to jump over to the topic of M -squared. Improbable opens up the tech behind Bored Ape's, Ape Metaverse, obviously M -squared. The engine behind this, talk to me a little bit about what M -squared is, because I know it's a separate entity as opposed to a probable itself. Kind of go down that direction and what the plans are here. There's a lot of technology and a lot of separate pieces, so I'll talk a bit more about the economic framework and why that's important, and then I'll touch on technology. Yeah, these are some really cool demos here showing on screen the memorable events from our recent history. But what I will say is, I think what we've realized painfully over the last decade is that there is a fundamental economic problem with video games right now, and that problem is the cost of user acquisition is ridiculous. It costs $10 a person on average to make someone play a free game. Let's just do the maths of that, right? A free game. Not working. Not working, right? That's why a lot of games companies now are just paring back the franchises they know. Exactly. You see layoffs, you see problems in the industry. And the other challenge that people need to internalize is the probability of a team making a hit game, even if they've made many hit games before. And I've seen this firsthand, and we support some of the largest games companies in the world, and people don't know this, but we do a lot of services work for them as well. It's basically like roulette. There is no one with a magic formula to go make a hit game, unlike, interestingly, in music film, and where you see consistent successes created by the same people. Games are a lot more variable. So with that in mind, right, it really doesn't, to me, make a lot of sense that a bunch of projects try to hoard users, try to create their own platforms. And so what M Squared is trying to do is to say, look, it's hard enough as it is to create compelling experiences, and a lot of the industries that we want to work with have loads of users. Instead of a licensing model, which is what Fortnite and Roblox effectively are, they're traffic -based networks. They own the user, they earn the equity value, they own the multiple on that view. You're a guest there. And yeah, that can be really great for marketing, but you can't build a business like that. What is the IP -able value of a business wholly dependent on Roblox? What is the revenue multiple? 1x, 2x, if that, you're not going to get there. So the idea behind M Squared is a radical view. We don't take 20%. We don't even take, you know, we take, I think it's like 2 % is the current number. We don't own the user, you own the user, you own the asset, you own the metaverse. When you went to that baseball experience, you didn't even know it was running on M Squared. But behind the scenes, like the plumbing, like the sort of network that we are, we ensure that all the different metaverse operators on top have the option to do pretty incredibly interoperable things. So avatars can freely move from world to world, items can freely move from world to world. People can create commercial relationships across experiences that don't have to limit them to one metaverse or another. And crucially, because we are targeting companies with massive numbers of users, but very little engagement and monetization, they're actually happy to share users because there isn't always a game on. There isn't always a concert on. And so it makes a lot of sense to create value that way. Now that said, we also are interested in ordinary open source creators. We have a live world right now at construct .msquared .io, it's like a debug space. And we want to let those ordinary creators build content that these bigger brands can bring into their worlds as well. So it's a different model. Yeah, for sure. And I think it really does open up the opportunity here, I think, for a lot of creators and developers kind of going forward. I want to jump over to the demo. And we have a demo clip here of the Construct. And I want to play it for you and then kind of get your explanation of how this works, all that kind of stuff. All right. So we're showing the Construct now. And obviously, kind of walk us through what the framework here is, maybe what the mission is for the Construct. Sure. So the Constructs are completely free, always on Metaverse that is non -commercial. Its purpose is really to create an environment where any creator can walk up to a blimp and just use basically JavaScript and MML to create an object and instantiate it into the world. And it's a way of letting people develop, test, experiment, explore. We host weekly creator meetups in here, which are a lot of fun. I think we did a lecture for a Swiss school here randomly as well. So this is like, oh, there's a dinosaur right there, actually, hilariously enough. It's a completely raw, if you've ever seen The Matrix, this is like the back rooms, right? This is the non -branded, non -professional, non -polished, rough part of the Metaverse where crazy things happen. Someone threw a Daft Punk stage at me, that was strange. The people have made guessing games, hot air balloons, and this is all just made by ordinary creators using an open source language. So Constructs where we test the bleeding edge stuff, it can support about a thousand people off the bat, just as a test base. Interesting stuff. All right, so this is good. I mean, for advancing the technology, obviously, you get a lot of creators in here to really kind of change the game in terms of just the ideation that comes out of this. So very cool. It's just a debug space. It's not something that's intended to house or to be used for consumers. This is really just a place where in the middle of development, and you don't want to deploy it yourself, you might use Constructs. That's pretty much it. And what's interesting is this isn't provided for a lot of other services, which is in the pretty essential environment. Yeah, exactly. So I think that helps kind of go forward. You guys are doing things quite a bit differently. I was looking at this headline right here, obviously you guys are a Softbank -backed startup, but you have a partnership here that's started to roll out, and that is with Google and NVIDIA. So talk to me about what this partnership means for Improbable. So this is the really weird thing about M -squared. It isn't like a normal technology or platform play, in that Improbable is just one supplier of potentially many other suppliers of technology. Like if you want to use a particular streaming service, or if you are a networking provider that's in direct competition with Improbable, and you want to provide your services to companies on the network, you can. So the goal of M -squared is really to facilitate the development and investment in infrastructure by many companies that exceeds the appetite of any one business, and can benefit lots and lots of other companies. One of the main problems with content -based platforms is that they eat so much value that the value that could be created with businesses on top is not created, and this is a way of rectifying that. So you see partners like Google, Ubitus, NVIDIA for streaming, but you can basically plug in any component relevant, different game engines, you can build your own game engine, and the M -squared leadership team, board, and founding team of which I'm part, the goal there really is to, oh this is a very, very old demo that isn't even our current deck that's now on screen, but hilariously enough, still looks cool. But look, our goal really is to invite different providers to contribute value to the network, and it's not exclusive, it's not something where a provider only has to work with us. That's another big difference in view of M -squared. The goal is to create something additive, not to take away from other platforms.
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "major league baseball" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"To have my head on a swivel and be able to notify authorities as to what I see so that we can have some action coming What the problem is here in Seattle. Jackie Kent, come on in. It is 4 .40 and to time check the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk. The Seahawks defense overwhelms the New York Giants, 2nd quarterback Daniel Jones 11 times and a 24 -3 win on Monday Night Football. Rookie cornerback Devin Wetherspoon added 97 a -yard interception return for a touchdown and was one of four Seahawks to have sacks. We still play change in momentum. We go up another touchdown, so our mindset kind of changes. When we go back on different coverage and stuff, but it was a big play for sure. Linebacker Bobby Wagner paced the defense with 17 tackles. Quarterback Geno Smith threw for 110 yards and connected on a 6 -yard TD pass to as DK the Seahawks improve to 3 -1. The Giants fall to 1 -3. Seahawks safety Jamal Adams left the game after 9 plays because of a concussion. He's expected to be OK. The Seahawks now move into their bye week and return to play on October 15 when they visit the Cincinnati Bengals. The Seattle Kraken lose to the Edmonton Oilers 4 -1 at Climate Pledge last Arena night during the NHL's preseason. Kyler Yamamoto scored Seattle's lone goal in the first period and the Major League Baseball playoffs begin with the best of three wild card round. Sports at 10 and 40 past hour the coming up in three minutes another check on traffic it's now 441. Finally a vasectomy technique everyone for and people everywhere are thinking Dr. Snip and Laurelhurst. Thank you Dr. Snip for providing permanent birth control. Thank you Dr. Snip for no needle no scalpel and no stitches. Thank you Dr. Snip for no more worries. Appointments are quick easy and offered on Saturdays find out more at drsnip .com that's drsnip .com. One more time that's drsnip dot com. Thank you Dr. Snip. Do you need glasses or contacts and you're now at the age where you also need readers? K2 Vision RLE is the permanent solution to eliminate the need for all those. Hey it's doctors King and Kopstein from K2 Vision. Andy for those nearing age 50 or so refractive lens exchange can be a great alternative to LASIK. That's right Joe K2 Vision RLE is a terrific permanent solution for a lifetime of great vision. The older we get we experience the dysfunction of our natural lens which affects both distance vision and requires the use of reading glasses. Plus after K2 Vision RLE you will never develop a cataract. like And LASIK, K2 Vision RLE is quick and painless. The question is which procedure is right for you. After replacing more than a hundred thousand failing lenses we have the experience to tell you if it's your time right for RLE. Schedule your free zoom consultation with us about K2 Vision RLE to get your seeing eyes young again permanently. Go to K2VisionRLE .com K2VisionRLE If the most stressful part of your day is getting your kids or even just yourself out the door on time every morning, Tim and his team at Creative Closets can help. Look if you're organized, your family is organized. it's So if messy closets, a cluttered kitchen pantry, home office or a chaotic garage Creative Closets does it all and a for limited time they'll knock 30 % off your entire project too. Creative Closets will bring the showroom to you and will design your project on the spot complete with 3D renderings all in the comfort of your home. And when it comes to installation, Creative Closets can get your job done in just one day backed with lifetime work and product warranties. There's a reason why they have hundreds of five -star Google reviews. Creative Closets is the near closet designer in the Pacific Northwest. Now is the time to call too because Creative Closets is knocking 30 % off your entire project. Schedule your free in -home design consultation today. Go to creativeclosetorganizers .com. That's creativeclosetorganizers .com. For up -to -the -moment coverage on news, traffic
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Preserving Standards
"Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the daily Dennis Prager podcast to hear the entire three hours of my radio show Commercial free every single day become a member of Prager topia You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives as well as the daily show prep subscribe at Prager topia Hello my friends In the middle of summer they did they have the all -star game who won who won Sean? Wow the National League won does the National League now have the designated hitter Have they adopted it? Maybe that's the reason they got used to using that. I mean, it's just speculation. I Don't like the idea the whole point of baseball Was that the pitcher who almost never knows how to hit what was a Wednesday night was last night Okay, you're driving me crazy, but it was not intentional The whole point of baseball was that the manager and the team had to figure out a way To decide do we keep the pitcher in or not? since every player in baseball must bat as well as field and Then they knocked it out because they thought the fans want to see more home runs It was not love of baseball It was love of revenue that the Major League Major League Baseball changed one of the most important aspects of the game and It is just typical That there is It's hard to find an institution that asks what is best for the the larger Entity whether it's America or in this case baseball. What is best for it? They don't ask that See that's why I Saw some internet place that cited me Dennis Prager All his life has been asking has been saying that there is a question to be asked. It's the most important question How does society make good people? Because you you chip away at its foundations one by one by one by one and people Don't react a lot of a lot of fans even like the rule But oh good the pitcher could stay in and we just have a guy who does nothing but hit that's just great it's fun What's better there's an article today actually that sort of Represents exactly what I'm saying in the Telegraph in Britain Couples who decided dual income and no kids too good to give up Britain isn't having enough babies and now the state pension is under threat Yes, that's exactly right who's having who's having babies in the Western world It's disproportionately religious people religious Christians and Jews and for that matter Muslims Religious people are having babies But Hey religion religion doesn't make people do anything better Who needs religion I have me So people don't ask what's better for society. They were asked what's better for themselves It Every aspect of life But they're all as I said small so they don't they don't alarm people I Have I've spoken about the question of how people dress in public all of my life and By the way in this regard religious people are generally not any better God doesn't care what you wear to church you many wonderful people have called my show over the course of decades to tell me that God doesn't care. I don't even understand the notion. God doesn't care what you wear to church really I Well, maybe we should care People why did why did people dress up in the past because it was a way of honoring your fellow citizen and honoring your society But in other words it represented The larger question what's better for not me It's easier for me to to dress utterly casually but but what is better for society It's better for society if you marry and have children It is better for society if you dress nicely whether it's at school or a church or at the office or Even on an airplane Men walking on grown men in t -shirts and shorts Whenever I see that I ask myself can I imagine my father Going out in public in a t -shirt and shorts Not talking to the beach not talking about obviously at home Going on an airplane And Now it seems to almost not almost everybody but to I would say a majority of people including conservatives that I'm Sort of tilting at windmills here and it it doesn't really matter.
The Dan Bongino Show
MLB Athletes Are Speaking up Against Sexualizing Children
"Up and did the right thing. I hope it stays that way. I don't know much about Major League Baseball anymore. I know a little bit but not a lot. I haven't seen a full game in eons. But Outkick has an article up there are some other athletes finally starting to up speak against this agenda, sexualizing our kids, inserting sex and sexual identity into every single component of American life, even baseball. Why are you pushing sex into baseball? people Are humping on the field? Is there something I missed? I mean I thought they were playing baseball. Why are you? I don't understand why sex has to be associated with. I'm not talking about I mean any kind of sex. I'm a little bit unsure why that has to be in baseball. Is a guy walking down the first baseline like a puppet? Like what's going on? Is there like something going on in the outfield? Okay, there's the outfielder in the bullpen. Look at what they're. Why is sex in baseball at all? Why? Why? I don't understand. You're there to watch a baseball game. Is there something I'm missing? Really? No? Okay, thanks Jim. I'm looking for some help here because I'm trying to figure out why if I go to a baseball game I have to engage in this ritualistic celebration
AP News Radio
The Lates in Sports
"AP sports and Mike Reeves, Josef Newgarden won his first Indianapolis 500 passing defending champ Marcus Ericsson in a two and a half mile sprint to the finish. Major League Baseball, the rays defeated the Dodgers 1110, while the rockies beat the bets by that same score, Cleveland got a four three, walk off win over St. Louis, the Orioles were three to two winners over the rangers, Detroit down the White Sox 6 to 5 in ten innings, the royals were three two winners over the nationals, Toronto shut out Minnesota three zero, the brewers won 7 to 5 over San Francisco Cincinnati is an 8 5 winner over the cubs, Miami at two zero winner over the angels, the Diamondbacks defeated the Red Sox four two, Seattle gets a 6 three win in ten innings over Pittsburgh. The Yankees beat the Padres 10.7 and Houston beat Oakland ten to one with the braves downing the Phillies 11 to four emiliano grillo won the PGA's Charles Schwab challenge. You don't play off over Adam schick and Steve stricker was victorious in a playoff over podrick heritage in the PGA scene your championship at Mike Reeves AP sports.
AP News Radio
The Latest in Sports
"AP's sports and Mike Reeves, it was a frantic finish at the Indianapolis 500, our Tom McKay reports. Josef Newgarden used a one lap shootout to grab the lead from 2022 champ Marcus Ericsson to win the Indy 500. You know, I wasn't looking to take anyone else out of the race, but I was going to put my car on the line to win. And I was either going to win the race or I was going to end up in the wall. Newgarden driving for team owner Roger Penske survived a chaotic final 40 miles, which saw the race stop three times for Rex. Major League Baseball the rays win a wild one over the Dodgers in Tampa Bay, correspondent Steve Carney provides the details. The Tampa Bay Rays used a 7th inning RBI ground out by wander Franco to break a ten ten tie and defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 11 to ten. Both starters got hit around as Gavin stone allowed 7 runs in two innings of work, while Josh Fleming allowed ten runs in 6 innings, including 5 home runs, Tampa Bay finishes at ten game home stands 7 and three, while the Dodgers complete their longest road trip of 2023 with a four and 6 Mark. The Yankees used a 7 run third inning to defeat the Padres ten to 7, Aaron judge and Harrison Bader hit home runs to support winning pitcher Garrett Cole, who is now 6 and zero. This was a good team win today for sure. I mean, being able to kind of subdue them through the middle innings and keep the momentum. I thought played in our favor, but it's just such a luxury to have the offense. Other winners on the diamond were the guardians Orioles tigers royals, Blue Jays, brewers, reds, rockies, Astros, Marlins, Diamondbacks, Mariners, and braves on the PGA Tour emiliano grillo wins the Charles Schwab challenge in a playoff against Adam chic. It was his first PGA Tour victory. It over 7 and a half years. So it was great. The way it was definitely worth it, it was long, but it was worth it. Steve stricker won the senior PGA Championship in a playoff over podrick Harrington, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 was postponed due to wet weather. I'm Mike Reeves AP sports.
AP News Radio
MLB's new pitch clock may be leading to more blown saves
"The pitch clock has sped up baseball as hoped, and it might be leading to more exciting endings, too. A quarter of the way through Major League Baseball's first season with the pitch timer, relief pitchers seemed to be bearing most of the stress from it was saved conversions dropping to 61.4% from 67.8% at a similar point last season. The same percentages near the bottom range of the past decade, which averaged 65.1% MLB said Monday. The high was 70% in 2015 and the low 61% in the pandemic shortened 2020 season. I'm get cool ball.
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:21 a.m. EDT
"Four AP sports I'm geffen cool ball, the Seattle kraken aren't done yet after forcing a decisive game 7th correspondent Jim Bernard reports, the Seattle kraken, even their best of 7 playoff series with the Dallas stars at three games apiece with a 6 three victory. The kraken took control early and jumped to a four one lead minutes into the second period. Jordan Everly had two goals and one assist for the game. We played aggressive. I think that's what we had to do. I mean, you don't want to come out in these situations and sit back and go into the summer wondering why. In the NBA, the Phoenix Suns fired Monty Williams on Saturday two years after reaching the NBA Finals in a year after he was the overwhelming choice as the coach of the year. Phoenix was eliminated from the playoffs Thursday after a 25 point home loss against Denver in the Western Conference semifinals. Major League Baseball, a big day for Bo Bichette led the Blue Jays past the braves 5 to two correspondent John leatherbee reports the shet knocked in a pair of runs, including the go ahead in the 7th inning against the NL east leaders. A lot of really good teams we have to play. So yeah, I mean, it's good, but we've got another one tomorrow and we need to finish strong and get ready for the next one. Dylan cease taught 6 scoreless innings to help the White Sox top the Astros three to one. Really great. Finally, I think some of the work going into it paid off. So anytime you get a win and hold them scoreless, it's fantastic. Other American League winners, the Orioles rangers Yankees twins, Mariners and guardians. In the national league, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan feltner was struck in the head by a line drive in the second inning against the Philadelphia Phillies, but was able to walk off the field on his own. The Phillies were 7 to four winners. Other NL results, the Dodgers won their fourth in a row four to two over the Padres. The brewers diving backs, reds and cardinals were also victorious, Metz nationals was suspended by rain, and engulfed Austin and China's Marty Doe are seeking a first PGA Tour victory as they share the third Brown lead at 16 under with Ryan Palmer at the Byron Nelson in Texas. I'm geffen Koba for AP sports.
AP News Radio
Nuggets take Suns, NFL draft
"Or AP sports I'm get cool and emphatic start to the Western Conference semifinals in Denver correspondent Bruce Morton reports. The nuggets thumped Phoenix one 25 one O 7. Denver gained separation in the second quarter led 68 51 at the break and kept its distance. The nuggets Jamal Murray was game high with 34 points. We're gonna keep doing what we're doing, keep proving everybody wrong and just taking one game at a time. Other NBA news, 76ers center, Joel embiid is doubtful with a right knee sprain from Monday's series opener in Boston. Stanley Cup playoffs, John Tavares scored four 35 into overtime to give the Maple Leafs their first playoff series win in 19 years with a two one game 6 win over the lightning. But in saying that, I think we just did a good job of staying within finding ways to win. Also in the east, the rangers forced a game 7 with a 5 two win over the Devils in the west, the oilers eliminated the kings with a 5 four game 6 win. Day three of the NFL Draft, the LA rams drafted two time national title winning Georgia quarterback stetson Bennett in the fourth round. I love competing against the best and, you know, it helps when you got the best on your team. And I think we do. The rams also made Toledo defensive linemen, Dez Juan Johnson, mister irrelevant, with the 259th and final pick. Major League Baseball, the Padres slugged 6 home runs during a Mexico City series game that featured 11 total homers in a 1611 route of the Giants. San Diego manager bob Melvin across the board are bats were really good today. You know, you get the ball in the air and we have some guys that can do that. Other animal results, the pirates swept a double header and the brewers, D backs, Phillies, Dodgers, Marlins, and reds were winners. In the AL, the Orioles and tigers split a double header, while the rays Blue Jays rangers Red Sox and royals were also victorious. And finally, Yankees captain Aaron judges being evaluated for a mild hip strain and the rangers placed ace Jacob de Grom on the 15 day IL with Wright elbow inflammation. I'm geffen kuba for AP sports.
AP News Radio
Nuggest blow out Suns, Leafs win
"AP sports, I'm geffen cool bob Jamal Murray scored 34 points and the nugget sprinted past the sun's one 25 one O 7 in game one of their Western Conference second round series, reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokić had 24 points and 19 rebounds, while Kevin Durant scored 29 and Devin Booker added 27 for the sons. Other NBA news 76ers center Joel embiid is doubtful with a right knee sprain from Monday's series opener in Boston. Stanley Cup playoffs, the leafs earned their first playoff series win in 19 years after a two one game 6 OT win to eliminate the lightning. The range is forced to game 7 with a 5 two win over the Devils in the west, the oilers eliminated the kings with a 5 four game 6 win. Day three of the NFL Draft, the LA rams drafted two time national title winning Georgia quarterback stetson Bennett in the fourth round. The rams also made Toledo defensive linemen, Dez Juan Johnson, mister irrelevant with the 259th and final pick and Major League Baseball, the rangers placed ace Jacob de Grom on the 15 day IL with Wright elbow inflammation. AP sports
AP News Radio
New Big Ten commish: Integrating USC, UCLA is top priority
"New Big Ten commissioner Tony petiti said he's ready to lead a conference that's on solid footing, but insisted there are still hurdles to clear. The most immediate task he said is ensuring a smooth transition when Southern California and UCLA arrived next year. It's really important to integrate USC and UCLA properly. So while they are going to be members, there's a ton of work that has to be done to make sure that we organize it properly. The longtime Major League Baseball and TV executive was introduced as the Big Ten 7th commissioner on Friday just over two weeks after he was hired to replace Kevin Warren. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Country Star's Pregnant Sister Forced to Clean Up Popcorn on Flight
"Jump in here. The first one is, is the story that is developing developed early in the week, Jesse James decker, who is a country music star, fan, her sister in law's married to a Major League Baseball player. She's undoubtedly flying. United Airlines, she has two small children. She's pregnant. And united stewardesses and sewers on Dali gave her some popcorn for the kids to eat. I guess to keep them, you know, as you would, you know, try to keep them past 5. Anyway, as young kids will do, the child, you know, through the popcorn or drop the popcorn, however you want to say it. And this is the part that I don't understand from this. And maybe James, you can help me understand. The story goes that Anthony bass is the pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. And this is who it happened to. But it's also Jesse James decker's sister in law. And so anyway, they make her come back in the story goes. Is it the flight attendant came back and gave her some wipes and said, you have to clean this up per the captain? Right. So I read that to you where they gave her that trash bags or something. Whatever they gave her, yeah, to clean it up. But they blamed it on the captain. Yeah. She tried to pass it off on the cabin. Have you ever heard of a captain who gave one, you know, would have actually known unless it was somebody fighting in the back about somebody spilling something. I mean, I've been on planes before and people spill stuff all the time. I had so many scream on a plane, bloody murder in the captain didn't move. I don't think he cares about spilled popcorn. Listen, I have, all right, tell me how you feel. Tell me how you feel about this because I'm a little confused for a couple of reasons. First, I don't want to make it like the stewardess job is to clean up, but it kind of is. Right? Yeah. And this woman, it also depends on how the woman the mom treated the staff. Because if she was awful to them the whole trip, then I could see the maybe being a little bit iffy about it. But you gave a woman with who's pregnant with two kids popcorn. What did you think was going to happen?
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 2:20 a.m. EDT
"AP sports I'm time Miriam. It was a marathon day of sports on Monday, starting with a morning Major League Baseball game, and ending with two late night overtime games in the Stanley Cup playoffs. In between the NBA played two game twos in its opening round series in Philadelphia the 76ers maximized home court advantage defeating the next 96 84 as tyrese maxi led a defense that held the nest for just 35 second half points while scoring 33 himself. We were able to get started time we started when we needed them. Consecutive stops in a row, which led to fast breaks, led to easy buckets. Out west, the kings were beaming again, lighting up the warriors one 14 one O 6 as the air and Fox scored 24 to put Steve Kerr's defending champions in danger of becoming ex champions. We know we have to play better. But we will play better. We're these guys are champions. You saw what they did. It was a good playoff night for kings as the NHL's Los Angeles kings came from behind to stun the oilers four to three in game one on Alex I have follows overtime gold. It took two overtimes for the wild to beat the stars in Ryan Hartman's goal. The bruins said in NHL regular season record for victories and Boston started the postseason with a three one victory over the Panthers. Brad marchand scored what turned out to be the game winner. It's always good to start the first game with a win, but we have an accomplished anything yet. The hurricanes took advantage of home ice to stop the islands due to one in their game one. 25 stays for auntie ranta. Fun to play these games again. Just super excited and getting that home crowd going the baseball at the annual patriots day, morning game in Boston, former Red Sox hunter Renfro got the angels off early with a first inning three run Homer, then drove in another run in the second inning in a 5 four angels victory. I enjoy hitting here, I've been wearing it. I always love the crowd here. Obviously, being my time, even from before I'm being here. Later in the day, winners included the mets, braves, Astros, brewers, Diamondbacks, cubs, reds, pirates, and Marlins. Tom AP sports
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NBA Play-in, Mavs fined, Avalanche Again
"AP sports on Mike Reeves, the playoff field is set in the NBA in the Eastern Conference, Miami defeated Chicago to claim the 8 seed in a matchup against Milwaukee in the opening round in the west, the Timberwolves beat the thunder to secure the 8th seed at a meeting with Denver in the first round, saying in the NBA, the league find the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 Friday saying the team engaged in conduct detrimental to the league by sitting out most of its key players against the bulls on April 7th despite still having a chance to reach the postseason. The nuggets Nikola Jokić, 76ers Joel embiid and bucks Yanis Alta taco were named finalists for the league's MVP award. In the NHL, Colorado secured the central division title and the Pittsburgh penguins fired GM Ron hextall, director of hockey operations Brian Burke at assistant GM Chris prior after the club failed to reach the playoffs for the first time in 17 seasons, Major League Baseball, the raised 13 game season opening winning streak ended with a 6 three loss at Toronto. I'm Mike Reeves AP sports.
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NBA Play-ins, Avalanche Advance
"AP's sports and Mike Reeves, the NBA play in tournament concluded with a pair of games on Friday in the Eastern Conference the heat defeated the bulls one O two 91 to secure the 8 seed in a first round matchup against the bucks, Miami sitter, bam adebayo. This is the moment, you know, a lot of guys dream of a lot of guys. You know, I want to be in the playoffs who don't get that luxury. You know, that's earned. You know, you don't take that for granted. In the west, the Timberwolves roll past the thunder one 20 to 95 to qualify as the 8 seed and set up an opening round series against the nuggets, Minnesota head coach Chris Finch. We did a good job of just kind of like never letting them really get into a rhythm other than in that third. And then I thought offensively, we also did a good job, played pretty intelligent offense. There was also news off the court. Here's our correspondent, getting cool ball. The NBA find the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 Friday, saying the team engaged in quote conduct detrimental to the league and quote by sitting out most of its key players against the Chicago Bulls on April 7th despite still having a chance to reach the postseason. The league's investigation said Dallas violated the league's policy on resting players and had a desire to lose the game to the bulls quote in order to improve the chances of keeping its first round pick in the 2023 NBA draft. On the ice, Colorado's win puts the final pieces of the NHL playoff puzzle together, Bruce Morton has more. For the third straight season the avalanche central division champs, Nathan McKinnon delivered a hat trick a night that included the go ahead goal as Colorado won at Nashville four three, with the victory, the abs meet Seattle in the opening round, the initial postseason appearance for the kraken franchise. The Pittsburgh penguins fired GM Ron hextall, director of hockey operations Brian Burke Ed assistant GM Chris Pryor after the club failed to make the playoffs for the first time in 17 seasons. Major League Baseball, the raised 13 game season opening winning streak ended with a 6 three loss at Toronto. I'm Mike Reeves AP sports.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"major league baseball" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The first second shot of winning the second and third paranoia busta leading 5 to three right now in that fourth set. Manchester United ending arsenal's perfect start to their season handing the Gunners a three to one loss at Old Trafford they snap arsenal's 5 match winning streak. Red devil's getting a second half race from Marcus Rashford along with a goal from newest edition Antony who made his club debut to extend their own winning streak now to four matches. Arsenal remains atop the Premier League table by a point over Manchester City in Tottenham, while Mandy moves up to 5th three points behind the Gunners. Major League Baseball scoreboard local teams in action all finals Oakland shutting up Baltimore 5 to nothing Boston, a home 5 to two win over Texas. He was Washington all over the mets 7 20 Yankees a two to one win at Tampa Bay air and judges 53rd home run of the season. Philadelphia losing at San Francisco 5 to three, I'm Dan schwarzman that your Bloomberg world sports update, Paul. Thanks very much, Dan. We 20 minutes away from the market open here in Sydney also Tokyo and Seoul. We are expecting to see a little bit of selling when we get underway. Futures here in Sydney weaker by about a quarter of 1%. Nikkei future's weaker as well by about a half of 1%. In a moment, we will discuss more the deepening energy crisis in Europe and the plan to do something about it, stay with us for that conversation. This is Bloomberg. One 40 progressive presents don't do it yourself. Okay, fixing the water heater. Easy peasy. Oh yeah? So you know how to secure this gift joint? Yeah. Detach the steam pump? Takes two seconds. And fasten the doable to the pressure tube. Yeah, I'm a dad Tommy how to do that. Oh, that's interesting because I made all those things up. Look, we should just bundle our
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"major league baseball" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is the 7th president in the history of the organization and has played a huge role in revamping the fan experience at a's games like adding amenities like Gourmet food trucks and all the access to the clubs, the Gourmet food trucks, creating new ticket programs, the Gourmet food trucks, and even hosting Major League Baseball's first completely free game. And Gourmet food trucks. So I guess my question to you is, how about those Gourmet food trucks? Because that sounds like a great idea. It is video for all the games we created this incredible environment called championship Plaza celebrates our 9 world championships and we get anywhere from 8 to ten food trucks at the games. You get everything from Creole food from Louisiana to barbecue. We get the crab shaft comes out. So it's just incredible different food offerings and it's just getting hungry just talking about it right now. And we get the Italian ice. I love the Italian ice one. It's just incredible. So all the food options are really fun and it's kind of a cool festival atmosphere and there's a big video board you can watch the game and we did this down when I ran the soccer team in San Jose, the earthquake and it's just a great environment for families to hang out and be at the game kind of in a different context. Yeah, I think about the times I go to what used to be PAC bell park and I can't even honestly recall what the name of it is now. AT&T park. AT&T Oracle. Okay, see? The change that all the time, man. It's like wherever the Giants play. And the food that they have there. I'm curious to get your take on what you think about how sharing a market the Bay Area with the Giants has changed over your time as president of the Oakland ace. I know that in the past there have been a lot of comments from a's management about the difficulties, the challenges of sharing that market with the Giants. I'd like you first to comment on how it's changed over your time and whether you see any parallels between sharing the Bay Area market between these two teams and what's happening say, for instance, in New York. Well, there's certainly challenges from a marketing perspective to have the two teams. You're competing over fans and things of that nature. I think long-term is good to have the rivalry of two teams. I think you could almost look to European soccer like in London or Tottenham is a big rival to arsenal and Chelsea. And it actually grows the interest in the sport. And I think one of the challenges we've had is we just don't have a facility to plan this at the same standards as Oracle park. And that puts us at a severe disadvantage. And so that's why if we can get this incredible crown jewel, a new waterfront stadium at Howard terminal, we're going to be able to compete as an equal or even at a higher level from a fan experience than the Giants because their stadium is 30 years old or 20 years old. And so I think that's really an important factor and our decisions as a franchise has to be made through the lens of, hey, this is a two team market. We're competing with the Giants and we have to create a product that's on the same level or higher. Well, the facility getting a new facility solved the issues when it comes to payroll and putting a competitive team on the field. Yes, I think it can because we're going to have several 100 million in additional revenue that we can then push back and reinvest in the players. We operate at almost a $250 million revenue disparity to the Giants. And they're able to funnel that back into both the fan experience and then most importantly, the player side. We competed at a very high level without those resources. So if we, I think, deploy that and give that to the Moneyball crew, Billy bean did enforce the whole team. I think we can be extremely competitive on a year to year basis than really compete head on. And so that's one of the reasons we're spending so much time on the ballpark effort and doing everything we can to kind of get a breakthrough and get it built because it is such a game changer for us. If you get a new ballpark on the waterfront in that area, how will you finance it? Will it go through trying to get some taxpayer dollars or will it be all privately financed? The stadium is all privately financed. It's part of a larger $12 billion, a real estate project that we are leading. And so there is tax increment financing, which is basically but for taxes, taxes that are only generated by the project that are used to pay back our upfront investment in infrastructure. So that is the contribution from the public side. At a public private partnership. And that's a typical way you'd see a big project like this done Hudson yards in New York and things of that nature. And it can be very effective at taking an area. This is an industrial area and really kind of reimagining it as a commercial and entertainment hub on the waterfront. How worried, therefore, are you about the state of the economy and rising interest rates on Oakland's appetite to fund something like that or contribute something like that? Or any other city for that matter is willingness to subsidize a new stadium in any way. Well, considering that the only dollars invested from the public side or dollars that are generated by the projects, there's very little risk for the municipality. It's very different than when the Raiders came from LA and they built the stadium or renovated the stadium for them and issued their own bonds. This is a very different deal and it's way more financially responsible for all parties. And more consistent with the ways these deals are put together in the Bay Area. So I don't think that the economy will have a noticeable impact on that. If anything, if the economy dips, there might be more of an initiative to say, we need a big project like this. Dave Cavill, thank you very much president of the Oakland a's. I'm the hope you had a good time and just to sit down with us and chew the fat about baseball. We really do appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Awesome. Thanks for having me guys. Dave Cavill. I always love talking baseball and obviously when you're the president of a Major League Baseball team, that's the guy to talk to about baseball. And I know Scarlett, the record is kind of low right now, but you know what? Not good. It's not good. But it's still baseball. And it still can be very good baseball. And like I was saying earlier, you don't have to have a big payroll to be competitive. Yeah, but the record overall leaves a lot to be desired. They have a three 29 winning percentage right now. The next worst team in the AL west has a four 61 winning percentage. So there are 22 and a half games back. They can make it up. From the Astros. Okay. I guess the question when it comes to the a's because they're so synonymous with money bald. I guess it works right now if you're going through the pain of refreshing the cycle and everything. And if you're going to be approved for a new stadium, now is the time or and you'll move potentially now's the time that refreshing that cycle could make sense. I don't know. It might create a lot of perhaps ill will among the fanbase too. I thought it was interesting that he said that they have more fans outside of the east bay than they do inside. And that's something that's why I wonder if that they're rooting to hit that waterfront stadium instead of moving the whole thing to Las Vegas. I think it would be much more beneficial for
Bloomberg Radio New York
"major league baseball" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Thank you for joining us on the Bloomberg business of sports show where we explore the big money issues in the world of sports on Michael Bryan I'm Scarlett coon And I'm Mike lynch Let's continue our conversation right now with Major League Baseball chief revenue officer Noah garden Noah I want to ask you what you have learned can learn from other sports leagues We certainly watch the excitement of the NFL playoffs the idea that any team can win on any given Sunday College basketball and the upsets and the fairytale Cinderella stories that come from that What impresses you about how the NFL or the NCAA monetizes their honor product do you think it's something that the MLB can adopt or alter or borrow from Yeah listen I think the technology is playing an increasingly important role in how you broadcast the game The other thing I think you have to take into consideration now is you talk about streaming and you talk about traditional it's called linear TV broadcast Each audience expects something different right And it's about broadcasting in a way to engage with that audience When you're streaming it offers you just a different ability There's other things you can bring in as other stats There's other overlays that technology can come become a bigger part of it when it becomes on the linear side On MLB network I've tried a number of different things last year we had sort of CC's Clubhouse which was CC Sabathia really just sitting with friends and interesting how that came about is CC said hey you know I love sitting around where it's former players and my Friends and watching the game and the conversation that happens during those times is something that the world should see And we said you know what Let's do broadcasts like that rather than have sort of a traditional boots and more of a structured scenario where from a broadcast standpoint let's try that And we've tried a lot of different things And I think all the leagues have been doing that You see that in the NFL with demanding tasks You see different technology coming into play And so that's on the forefront of making sure that on every device that we reach out to our fans that we're offering a product that's different So you won't see on the Apple games You won't see it the same way you see You would see that game on traditional TV And vice versa You just answered the question And I was thinking of it That's about why you would see it And Lindsey I was thinking of the same thing We're the older guys watching stuff And now the younger crowd is watching Apple Lynchi I'm sorry I was just popping That's perfect segue because speaking of the younger people is sports betting to talk about the demographics of sports betting in what the demographics of the fan that's being driven to watch the game are attend the game Yeah listen sports betting is interesting I think that for us I look at it as an engagement platform right We directly don't make any money from sports gambling Obviously there's sponsorship opportunities and partnership opportunities in the actual bets on the game We don't make money off of that part of the equation That said people that are hardcore and gamble on games and will engage with the game longer And I think that's one of the things where you look at these different platforms I don't think we'll ever my word really over gamify a broadcast of a game What I do think we will do is have alternative broadcasts for people that are specifically looking for that type of content And that way we can give that fan what they want and what they're looking for And so as that continues to evolve that space and you see more sort of in game betting and stuff like that my guess is they're going to gravitate to sort of these alternative broadcasts So I'm riding in the car with my dad I'm about ten And all of a sudden I said daddy the man on the radio is talking about the MLB Jersey patch program What's the Jersey patch program The Jersey patch program is a list of the tremendous opportunity for a partner at the local level to have an association that's really unprecedented with Major League Baseball teams Other sports have already climbed this mountain for us We wanted to be sort of methodical in our approach We saw what was going out and what was going on and what worked and what didn't work And we put together a program where on the one hand it provides a real opportunity of value for partners and another revenue stream for local clubs Talk about the revenue stream for local clubs How will that be split between the MLB and the team specifically So it won't be split I mean this is a local sale like every other sponsorship sale or partnership sale to have at the local level Obviously on an overall level we have a revenue share in program that all teams participate in And it will be subject to the same sort of revenue sharing conditions that any other piece of revenue at the local level would But when they sell it it's their revenue Up next on the show stay tuned for more.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"major league baseball" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"We're just one sport ESPN's multiple sports So we're sort of a victim of our own success on the digital side but if you see especially with the city connect and the jerseys that we've launched if you see the success of those you know that our younger fans are engaging with us in a huge way And there's been a tremendous amount of momentum that's going into the season And so more to come but you see it through the partnerships and ticket sales and all that stuff and our merchandise sales So all of them even merchandise sales We had a record year last year in merchandise sales So you can think about that You're in the middle of a pandemic right I'm in the middle of Manhattan Most stores were closed Somehow they were getting our product and they had to go out of their way to get that We sold more product last year by 50% more than we've ever sold in the history of our sport Again that just goes to show you that our fans are highly engaged and engaged to a point where they have to actually go out of their way to get what they're looking for in the middle of the pandemic So we're happy where things stand Excited about the new season and at least right now our teams are in first place basically It's always April's always a great time of year No a garden chief revenue officer for Major League Baseball Thank you I hope you had a lot of fun and thank you so much for laying your knowledge on us Thanks Thanks God to be here and always around So thanks for having me Take care of them Thank you Noah Thanks Noah Noah garten leads some knowledge of a lot of things about the way that baseball today is generating revenue It's a far cry Scarlett from the way it used to be where okay you could put some advertising out there in the outfield and make sure we got our beer sales and hot dog sales at the stadium And if we're really lucky we can sell the game of the week but it is totally changed It's totally changed It's all about monetizing And of course this patch program that they have that does not start this season It'll start the following season Is really interesting because of all the different rules that they have in place How they're not going to feature certain kinds of sponsors for instance no gambling companies no beer companies or alcohol companies But you go to a game you go to the stadium and it's all around you through the beer sales through I don't know Heineken or Budweiser billboards everywhere doesn't matter at any point whether the players have a patch on their Jersey that does or doesn't have a certain kind of company on there It's the entire atmosphere that you absorb that you take in Well I think when you're watching the game the close ups of the batter especially if it's on the sleeve you're going to notice it If there's a runner on base pitchers looking in for signs it goes into the stretch You'll notice the patch So you won't notice it as much when you're sitting at the ballpark but it's inescapable while watching it on television Maybe but then you're also going to get the bear commercial blasted at you right after that play ends And they throw the runner out at first And later on that day are you going to remember the difference You're just going to know that you are bombarded by beer ads I remember as a kid when we collected baseball cards I mean the kids we were all into it and of course you talk to our parents It's like what is this all around the house But now as we are older my generation yeah I collect baseball cards The younger generation is collecting baseball cards but more importantly my generation we have more money to spend on baseball cards and the way we invest.
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"Dot com while playing for the Hiroshima carp last year. Suzuki hit three 17 with 38 homers, 88 RBIs. 132 games and we mentioned the tremendous OPS that he had. Look, I think the Red Sox have been linked to him pretty much since the braves won the World Series last year and ever since the postseason the off season began and was obviously interrupted in December by the lockout. He's been a name that's been tossed around by those close to the Red Sox as somebody who would likely be a great fit in Boston. Yeah, and I mean, there has been a lot of smoke, the Japanese media, I believe, have said it's more or less a done deal. He's going on Koji Harris podcast and I think he's been pictured wearing Red Sox hats. Like you feels like they just got to dot the I's and cross the T's with him, but yeah, no, again, he'd be exactly what they need. You know, kind of their way of doing business. The only really the only hold up is a lot of times the Japanese players want to be on the West Coast, so they're closer to home. That would probably be the biggest roadblock I would guess at this point with him. Besides that, he feels that he feels like a definite fit in somebody they seem to be strongly in on. I think they should sign Jose Iglesias. I've always liked them. I think he's a solid fit. And he's low risk. And I want to see him come back as a guy that can really play great defense at second base. And you can move around the infield as well. Yeah, I mean, he's probably not at the top of the free agency list. He's a guy to assume they can get back for value later in the process before opening day. It hurt them not having him in the playoffs last year. He was signed beyond the deadline and he was an eligible, but he makes a ton of sense to bring back. They still have that whole and second base. I don't think they want to plug it with the long-term deal because they have Jeter downs on the way, right? They don't want to give somebody a 5 year deal when downs will probably, I don't think it will be up this year, but probably 2023 at the latest 2024. So yeah, Iglesias and Arroyo may be KK Hernandez factors in in a platoon there. That feels like the best way to handle it. All right, let's Jen McCaffrey of the athletic also has a great piece. Kind of did what you did, Alex 9 creations that the Red Sox might target with the lockout lifted. Something Jen did before she got into her list of 9 free agents was recapping what heim bloom did before the lockout began. He traded hunter renfrow to Milwaukee in exchange for JBJ and prospects Alex benus and David Hamilton. Both of whom I might add have already been down at Fort Myers in minor league training camp, which began last week. Ian Brown and who I'm going to have on this podcast next week does a tremendous job of really going over what those two prospects can expect to do in terms of contributing to the Red Sox down the road. The Red Sox and heim bloom also signed left handed picture 42 year old Rick hill to a one year deal signed right hander, Michael walker to a one year deal..
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"So gray is great. I'm not gonna say Cray is not the best player on the board, but if I could pick one of these free agents or at least offensively, we'll get to another guy, I like. But at the top of my offensive board for the Red Sox, Nick Castellanos. First of all, put him either in between or after Bogart's endeavors. That's it. There's few teams offending the league that are matching that three, four, 5. He gives them a right handed bat, like you said, the outfield. And he's just so much fun to watch. He enjoys the game. He has one play in the game. He brings that energy. I think he'd be a really, really good fit in this Clubhouse. Like one of my wherever he goes unless it's the Yankees, I'll be a fan of his. I just personally a player I really enjoy. He checks so many boxes for them. Like you said, Craig is probably a pipe dream. Cassiano's probably is too, but man, would he be just such a perfect fit for the team for the city? Like Boston would eat up a guy like this. They would be all in on the cassia. If I could choose anybody off this list, it might be him. All right, the guy that I think you were going to refer to was outfielders, say a Suzuki, correct. I assume he's the one you would really like to see in Boston. No, it was actually, it was actually Carlos rodon. Ron Don. Ronda, yeah, Carlos rondo. But. Very unlikely. I know. Yes. But that addresses a different piece of starting picture. I'm going to stick to just the bats for now. The Red Sox, as we mentioned, need a right handed hitting outfielder. Suzuki certainly is that he's only 27, he hit three 17 with a one .069 OPS tremendous OPS and a 134 games in Japan last year. He projects to be a strong addition to any lineup in Major League Baseball. MLB trade rumors projects Suzuki would draw a 5 year $55 million deal and that's not including the negotiating fee that would go along with that, obviously. Chris Bryan has been in the mix, but again, MLB trade rumors project 6 years, a $160 million for Brian. The Red Sox are still conscious cost conscience, and they want value for what they're signing. Say is Suzuki checks that box, I think, for me. He certainly does, because $11 million a year for a starting outfielder is a really good deal, you're paying more, but posting fees not against the tax. So you're paying more, but you're not taxed on it. It really is the value signing. That's the one I, you know, the players I listed 11 players of those I listed, I think he's far and away the most likely. The one other name I'd put out there if we're talking about right handed out field bats, right? And you're talking about value as Jorge soler. It's going to be 30 years old. He really struggled early in the year last year, got dealt at the deadline, finished strong with the braves. He had two 69 and 55 games for Atlanta, gives them some pop. So he's the one other name I'd say, you know, right handed bat in the outfield, I wonder, 'cause, you know, with Chris Bryant Castellanos, his price is going to come down a little bit because there are so many good right handed bats that they could maybe get him a little below market. And do you do mention in your story on 98, 5, the sports sub.
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"All right, taking care of some business here is we're back with Alex barth on this episode of a Red Sox beat on the CL and S media network. The Red Sox home opener. We mentioned when I thought it would be and I want to get this correct here it is. Home opener will be Friday. April 15th against the Minnesota Twins, of course, that is patriots day weekend that four game series against the twinks will finish with the Patriots day Monday morning, April 18th game at 1110. That will conclude that four game series and the Red Sox play three against the Toronto Blue Jays. At Fenway Park and then they head on down to Tampa Bay. To open the season, the Red Sox open on April 7th, the Thursday at one O 5 against the New York Yankees they have the scheduled Friday day off in case of inclement weather on the 7th, then they have two games on Saturday and Sunday. They have the game four O 5 on Saturday the 9th day of the game on the tenth at Yankee Stadium on a Sunday Night game so that game will be on ESPN. Shocking. And then they have three games in Detroit against the tigers Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the day off on Thursday, and then the home opener on April 15th. So that's taken care of that business. Alex, you had a terrific piece and I want to get to this right now. Now that the lockout is over after a 99 day work stoppage on 98.5, the sports hub dot com, ten free agents for the Red Sox as the MLB off season resume. So you start with the number one free agent out there. And this could change in the matter of the next couple of hours, next couple of days. Carlos Correa. I think it's a pipe dream for the Red Sox. I don't think they're going to go after him. I don't think they're going to want to spend that kind of money. Even though, as you have pointed out, they do have a decent amount of room under the new CBT threshold as we mentioned earlier. $230 million of Red Sox payroll right now with 20 7 players under contract stands at $206 million. Carlos Correa, pipe dream, don't you think? Yeah, so just to clarify, this was if the Red Sox want to make a splash signing. This wasn't necessarily the most obvious ones, but they were linked to them. A lot of teams are linked to them, but they were one of them before the lockout and maybe things changed. Maybe things changed during the lockout and obviously the financial outlook of the league is new. Maybe they got some clarity on Xander Bogart situation. He has the out at the end of this year, shortstop is going to be a need. Marcelo May or great draft pick. He's not going to be ready for a couple of years. And who knows who knows if you're going to get another short opportunity to add a shortstop like this. And Trevor story is not on my list. He could qualify for this too, but short stop is going to be a need for this team and between Bogart's and nomar. I mean, that position was a revolving door for almost ten years in Boston. That's a very important position. I don't think you want to go into the unknown at shortstop, especially when you have all the southern young.
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"Maximum. If you want to do a minor league draft after that, do that on your own time. I don't care. You cut the draft down to kind of like they do the minor league rule 5 draft, right? Right. Cut the draft down to ten rounds, maximum. Again, let teams trade picks because then it's, in addition to being about the players, right? You could trade a first round pick for a second and a third, people will get really into that regardless of who the players are that are involved. It'll also hype up the trade deadline, by the way, which is an added bonus to this. And I think in, I don't know how the union would feel about this, and this is probably an extreme jump. You'd make players play at least one year in college. And then the MLB could do which the NFL is great at, the NBA is great at the NHL's getting better at. Major League Baseball does nothing for college baseball. They have zero interest in it. They don't promote it. They don't talk about it. Nothing. Major League Baseball needs to take an active interest in college baseball because they're talking about it. So again, it's not just saying like, oh yeah, move the draft to January, and it'll be great. No, there's multiple steps that need to be taken here, but if baseball wants to compete with the NFL NBA, you need an active off season. Part of that is free agents not waiting until spring training to sign. But I don't know how you solve that issue. NFL NBA NHL, the second that deadline begins deals, deals, deals. Baseball, that was supposed to be last night. We still don't have anything. The other thing has moved the draft to the off season and make it an event. And that takes numerous steps. But I think that that would be, I think that would be an underrated investment for the league. If they could figure out a way to turn the draft into a real event. I am speaking with the one and only Alex barth of 98 5, the sports shop does a great job of following all things Boston sports follow him on Twitter at real Alex.
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"Your thoughts and then the other big one there just to add is the international draft and not having international free agency anymore. Correct. You looked like you're going to say something. Yes, because there's an asterisk involved in that because I want to go over my notes here. So I get this. That doesn't kick in right away, right? The parties will keep talking about the international amateur system and direct draft compensation until July 25th. At that point, if the players want to get rid of the qualifying offer, they have to take the international draft. Otherwise, there's no change to the qualifying offer and the owners don't get the international draft. If you're asking me, it depends on how much the players want to avoid the international draft really hurting a lot of the players overseas that would be impacted by that. I think they're going to elect to keep the qualifying offer and the owners will not get an international draft. That's what I think, but we'll see how that pans out. So I think and I was on a radio show last night talking about this. Baseball would baseball needs to do what at least the NBA and the NFL have done so well. The NHL is kind of something. Right. Well, the NBA and NFL have done so well as it's 365 day leak, right? We're sitting here march 11th. I wrote two NFL pieces before I came on the podcast. I'm going to write four more after I get off this show. Season I didn't play in a month they're not going to play for months. The best way to do that would get people most excited about the off season is the draft. People love the draft. People love the draft. You know, it's promise. It's only positives, et cetera. Baseball's draft could not be more of a turn off. It's in the middle of the season. It's too long. Nobody knows any of the players. There's no trades. So I think if baseball wants to get that off season hype, they need to move the draft to the off season. Shorten it, which they did, they went from 40 to 20. Now, take off another ten picks and we're in business. I think having the I think if they combine it, which to me, if they get an international draft, eventually it would probably.
Red Sox Beat
"major league baseball" Discussed on Red Sox Beat
"Hey everybody, it is drags back with you for Red Sox beat and hallelujah. We have good news to report. I'm joined by Alex barth doing a wonderful job as always on 98.5 the sports hub follow Alex barth on Twitter at real Alex barth. The reason I say hallelujah, we have baseball back owners and players reaching an agreement on Thursday afternoon. Ending the 99 day lockout, the first work stopping since the 94 95 strike that wiped out, of course, the 1994 World Series. That means owners and players are going to agree to have a season in 2022. Players will report this Sunday and that means players will come in for their physicals and get ready for the season. We'll have a shortened spring training for the last two weeks in March, of course, and then two and a half weeks of March. And then we will have a spring training week of grapefruit and cactus league games. The first week in April, opening day is April 7th for Major League Baseball, really terrific news, Alex, and I really thought all along that the players and owners. Essentially, this is the kind of the timetable I laid out to you and our audience a couple of weeks ago, even a couple of months ago. I thought we'd see the seasons start right around patriots day, April 15th, and they beat it by a week. And I think that will end up being the Red Sox home opener, I believe, is the plan. So yeah, and kind of like I said last time we were on, right? And yeah, how great is it that I don't have to sit here and pretend to understand how labor negotiations work. That's painful. That was painful, but I think the key to this all along was we knew those deadlines deadlines, air quotes, were BS. Right? And they were just more negotiating chips because they're going to play, it sounds like they're going to play 462. They're going to make up the first 6 games, whatever it was that was officially canceled..
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"A message from AARP StoryCorps and the ad council Three hosts who know the markets and the economy Lisa you're not embarrassed I mean Abraham was not embarrassed right Like I carried away Almost as well as they know each other Tom's a little tired He slept on my couch I was just kidding Thanks Joe Got a few asleep Bloomberg surveillance with Tom Keene Jonathan farrow and Lisa Abramovich You think the bank is one high race Lisa Do you think this guy occasionally is blue We've seen mornings at 7 eastern on Bloomberg radio and Bloomberg television Interactive brokers global analyst helps you find new global investment opportunities to diversify your portfolio and discover undervalued companies that may have greater growth potential IBKR global analyst lets you easily compare the relative value of global stocks by region country or industry Find out why smart investors choose interactive brokers try IBKR global analysts today at IBKR dot com slash GA This is Bloomberg daybreak Asia It's a quarter past the hour now time for a check of sport from around the world Here's Dan schwarzman Thanks Brian Manchester City extends back to a 6 point lead in the Premier League table over Liverpool with a four to one winner from Manchester United as both Kevin de pointer and Riyad Mahrez score a brace The Red Devils fall to 5th place in the table as arsenal leapfrog's man you with a three to two win over Watford as Gabrielle Martinelli scores a winner in the 52nd minute In La Liga Barcelona remains in third place in the league table at the come from behind two to one win over elche as Memphis depay scores a winner in the 84th minute on a penalty Also in La Liga Atlético Madrid stays in fourth place with a three to one win at rail batiste Juventus in the United States men's national team midfielder western mckenney will miss the rest of this season due to broken foot suffered in last month's Champions League round of 16 match against Villarreal The 23 year old will miss the U.S.'s final World Cup qualifying matches as well against Mexico Panama and Costa Rica The Major League Baseball Players Association has delivered a counter proposal to owners that includes minimal changes to their current position as a lockout has extended into its 95th day More regular season games are expected to be canceled early this week after baseball canceled the first two series of the regular season last Tuesday Julius Randle the New York Knicks has been fined $50,000 by the NBA after shoving Cameron Johnson to the Phoenix Suns on Friday as well as bumping a referee during the altercation Randall also refused to participate in the league's investigation into the incident On the Schwartzman that your Bloomberg world sports op day Markets headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day At Bloomberg dot com the Bloomberg business out and at Bloomberg quick tape This is a Bloomberg business flash We're looking forward to the first trading day of the week in Asia and the reopened certainly going to be marked by a flight to quality frenzied some would put it the war in Ukraine overshadowing the stronger than expected jobs report that we had on Friday We got oil simply roaring ahead training on the moment on their Brent crude that is a 129 bucks at the barrel We've got the United States and its European allies discuss the 8 possible ban of Russian oil imports and Secretary of State Anthony blinken saying over the weekend that there's also certainly out there feeling that there could be some cohesion on this matter There's a report also that Joe Biden's advisers are considering a trip to some of the Arabia to talk about further oil exports and further oil production from that country Well certainly equity trading or resuming after we saw that tumble in U.S. stocks with a NASDAQ could golden dragon China index time by more than block 10% over the two days We've got dollar golden treasuries all surging at the end of last week and certainly the dollar also much stronger particularly against the Euro All right just taking a look at what else is going on because I'm trying to set a higher than expected growth target for this year at about 5 and a half percent the figure does open the way for quick substantial room for stimulus according to Bloomberg economics China reporting that it plans to continue its crackdown on speculation in cryptocurrencies We want to go trade figures from the country likely to be the main economic news coming out of this part of the world at least for today Right well with all that in mind let's just check in with some of those global news headlines And it is a straight over to Ed back state in San Francisco All right thank you rich NATO's green light of the sending of more military aircraft than Ukraine U.S. indirectly as well as directly trying to provide weapons to Ukraine It is working with Poland.
Takeline
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Takeline
"major league baseball" Discussed on Takeline
"Pretty surprising threads aren't out there and do you know what they were trying to gather like. I'm going to go. Pros do like under the seats like that. I do not know and no one was able to answer that. Because the astros deny it but the mariners like no really those were there we cover them up and we played the game so i would say there's just an unlimited supply of weird stuff and allegations things that i tried to get to the bottom of as many as i could. I followed every thread. That i could. But there's so many and some of them just don't still don't quite add up the astros faced some there is five million dollar fine draft picks forfeited front office suspensions. But i think a lot of people. And i think the general consensus is that the punishments were not strong enough. Do you get that sense. Is that the consensus. And two were the penalties be harsher if not for the pandemic. That's interesting question on the one of where they strong enough. This is one where the commissioner's office is actually in a tricky spot. Because it's the players association in this case would fight every suspension and then it was the players who were saying you know the opponents who were saying. You didn't punish the astros players enough or at all really. So if you're the commissioner on that one you like your union wouldn't have let me so if you get how from a bargaining standpoint. That was a tricky one. It wasn't great optics because there was a crime. Committed to the sport and the players weren't punished. I mean manfred. Is there primarily to be aggressively khun confrontational with the union. Like so it is a weird to be like i. I don't know. I don't know if that's an interesting point. I think in that one. He knew he's also been negotiating with them for like thirty years and he knew i can either put out this report on one day in january. Try to put this behind where we can fight these one. By one and battle suspensions for players In his things going to drag on forever says a pr standpoint. There may have been a pr miscalculation because it was seen to be not harsh enough. But i think that was the calculation and also because they don't have subpoena power They felt like they had to in order to conduct an investigation. They had to offer immunity. Tried anyone coming in and testifying basically so that's all it why it happened. And then when other players said it wasn't harsh enough That was a gut check. Didn't feel harsh enough. But i'm not sure what can do you know. It's interesting because you talked about the players union and when the players are involved in an fraction it makes it a little interesting because the players union is supposed to be fighting for the players so now that you talked about the position the commissioners in. I'm curious then. The executive committee members of the players union like what was their stance on it. Then if the commissioner can't really come down as hard as he would want to because of the protection of the committee like what was their stance in it. He's are great questions and there are the right ones for the commission the sense because like would it really have been impossible or you're saying it was impossible. Did you pull the executive committee. These are great questions. I can tell you that The executive board which of course changes year to year. And i'm thinking of the players who even right there. It would have been complicated for example garrett cole was on the executive board. He wasn't damned. I'm just is like an intellectual exercise. Will call was an astro in the final. Two years of the astros cheating. He wasn't a hitter but he was a teammate. With these guys who did it. Now he's a yankee. The yankees are mad about this He answers the works for yankee management but he also works on behalf of as a member of the executive board. He works on behalf of the astros players. So he's job in the executive board would be to advocate for l. To date and not be punished so where that almost makes your head spin although complicated dynamics like how would he come down on that would astros players In dodger players on the executive board be opposed to one another. Could the commissioner have gathered that information and dealt with with the union before making his decision. Now that is a. I think you're hitting on where there might be some room to question the process. Because i can tell you from reporting the decision to offer. Immunity happened really quickly. There was like a day or so after that athletic report came out. The commissioner's office was thinking. Okay what do we do. How do we deal with this. Then they were thinking. Is there any way we can get this information without meeting the players. Can we talk to the managers who aren't represented by the union. Can we get all the full story from an ex coach or something like that and they eventually just like nap. Forget it. we're just gonna do what we usually do. Which is awesome unity to talk. And and that's what we're going to. So that's what they did but that decision was made quickly enough with that diligence. That you guys are talking about yeah Those are fair questions for melby. We recently saw some attention. That mets yankees subway series francisco endure whistling signs benches cleared in the course of your reporting in the course of you covering what are the rumors about the state of sign stealing right now. Who's doing it. is it happening. And how greg question. I actually strongly believe that the astros scandal had a chilling effect on the most serious kinds of science dealing because it was a gut check and how many players thought it was wrong. Now they think about it more and also now. A lot of this came from the new technology from high speed cameras to instant replay on the past decade. And it was like all. These new toys did skill scientists for a couple of years and now players have had the chance to reflect on it so i would be surprised if was going on in two thousand seventeen eighteen and nineteen around the league and and to be clear the astros were the worst but other teams are playing in the gray area of this stuff including the yankees and dodgers mmediately. Their themselves admitted there in the grey areas. Now what we saw the yankees mets gandhi. You mentioned was Taiwan walker Tipping his pitches meaning. He's doing something with his actual body chose to throw right and Someone yankee dugout either whistled show was tipping or didn't depending on who you believe but so that's if he was doing that that's actually illegal against the rules and as part of the poll package with the astros redoing but because it didn't involve technology It wouldn't be the kind of violation that would rice level sandal. And it's often the kind of thing that one player can do on his own. Doesn't require a systemic organizational culture. Right it can just be juan de to the yankee relievers. Who it was. He might have seen some like yo fastball. And it's not like the gm and the manager were involved right so that that obviously again it's hard to prove a negative and i'd hate to you know sit here and say that something's not happening and we just discovered it yet but talking to players interacting with offices. I really don't think there's serious electronic signs thing going on right now. The pandemic put a chilling effect on a little. Because you literally couldn't use the clubhouse in the same way because of the code protocols but also just the morality the players now cnn after the astros the book is cheated the inside story of the astros colorful history of signs. Stealing is available now. Where.
WBAP 820AM
"major league baseball" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"They'll forget about that for a while because they've got the Astros coming up Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday down in Houston before returning home to face the New York Yankees. Tough stretch coming up. For the Rangers. The other team that plays in the Bay Area, the Oakland A's who lead the ale, Wes. They might be on the move so because of the timing and the delays and the roadblocks It's just prudent to start looking at some other options because we're running out of time. That's Dave Cabal, the president of the ace, who said Yes, they they'll start exploring the possibility. Of relocating with the blessing to Major league baseball, a move that could put pressure on the local government to green light. A new stadium project that has spent years in limbo. So have you looked at the city's yes that they could potentially move to. Yes, Number one. Yeah. Vegas. Hmm. Get on. Yeah, I could see. I could see Vegas where they got a hockey team. Got an NFL team. Sacramento, Portland, Sacramento. Okay, so on the list, Yeah. But this comes down to you miss your missing three big ones who didn't leave Nashville. Nashville is in their national has a Nashville and Charlotte. Both have stadiums that were built for expansion and damn town. Yeah, Here's the other one. Is a question that was raised in a column or at least on social media yesterday that I found quite interesting. Central Texas. Round rock. What? Yes. What now Central Texas for Yes, your own and how Central Texas. Don't see it. You know what I mean? They turn out for round right baseball. You got Austin? That's just blowing up. Yeah. Mm hmm. And Round rock is becoming a suburb. It is a suburb yet and you've got the Ryans carry little carry little weight in Major League baseball. I didn't even throw that one into the equation. But think about that. Could you? Could you have another team here now? What is San Antonio say to that. Nokko San Antonio would would love to have a major league baseball team. I think San Antonio is the largest city without one. But Major League Baseball would go well in San Antonio. I think it would. I think they worry that the Um, economic base. There isn't strong enough. Oh, is that right? Yeah, I think that's I think that's why leagues haven't moved in there. Yeah, but have been keeping an eye on that They'll see that Be interesting, though, wouldn't it? If if the Ryan's got back involved, they put it in round rock. It seems like Vegas is becoming the hot. Yeah, spot all of a sudden, with And the football teams. They're the the former Oakland Raiders, and you got the hockey team and I don't know if that city with their government. They have the cash to make it happen. You have to build a stadium. I don't know that they do. And then in the Vegas baseball state, he was not there one at it somewhere in the shipping yards on the water, and I'm sure would be a great complex if they could make it happen, But Who's going to pay for it the we'll find out soon enough of the AIDS or out of there. Yes, 6 38 w B A P This afternoon at five. A true patriot Mark Love Ian. Now the morning use with Al J and Brian s Trick or news, talk a 20 w b A P W v a doc calm How joining us Right now is Jay Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Foundation Commissioner with the United States Commission for Civil Rights..
Scott H Silverman's Happy Hour
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"Welcome back to the show. This is scott aged. Silverman's happy hour. And i'm michael glenn more scots sometimes whatever co host. That doesn't talk too much but introduces the show. So you have now Scott today is another wonderful day in louisiana. It's seventy three degrees on shining and Which is just such a a market different from two weeks ago when we had three degree weather. And i know i said this last week it was just something that was so surprising for us because we never really have whether that bad and when we do. It's it's a it's a big one. We had a hurricane and Last year that effect at home and then we had the snowstorm in the ice storm that affected my home. So we've had quite a quite a time with it. How's it going to san diego. What's good it's nice and clear we'll We'll ask a minute. Because he was on the golf course today what it felt like. But it's in the sixties right now and you know we had a little rain here the other day you know. They almost decided to close schools but nobody was in them so they didn't have to. You know we're gonna gets wet here. We kinda shut things down. So it's good to see michael and you get to say things whenever you to. We might bring you in the middle today just to shake things up a little bit so anyway. Welcome to scottie. Silver tap yard. We've put the there by the way because a colleague of mine at japan doesn't have an agent his name but whatever people send stuff to scott silverman. He gets it in japan. He gets upset with me. So that's what the ages four. Welcome to our happy are today. We have a very special and we say that because we have no idea what he's gonna say today. Which is very exciting. We tried to plan it out. But he was compliance resistant. Which is okay. That's part of the theme of today's world to compliant. So a lot of you will recognize him. He is a. I'm gonna read his bio because it's brief but it's it's very colorful but anyway guess. Today is bret boone and bret. Boone is a former major league baseball. Second baseman during his career brett was a three time. All star four time gold glove winner two time silver slugger award winner. He's a third generation professional athlete. His brother aaron. Boone is manager of the new york yankees. Red has a couple of kids. And i'm sure he'll share that story and he has had a I like to say colorful life..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"major league baseball" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"After the Major League Baseball Players Association rejected a proposal by Major League Baseball to delay the start of the season and then play 154 games. League said it will start spring straining as spring training and the regular season as scheduled Reds pitchers and catchers to report about two weeks from tomorrow. I do believe first spring training game February 27th opening day, April, the first USA today says no major league teams will be permitting fans to attend their spring training workouts. But most will have limited fans at their games and Arizona and Florida about 25% capacity. According to the NFL. The official attendance at Raymond James Stadium for Super Bowl 55 will be around 25,000 fans and 30,000 cutouts for the Bucks and Chiefs. We've got the game Sunday here on 700 WLW. The college basketball scene includes the Xavier at Villanova game scheduled for Sunday being postponed. What a covert issues within the savior program. Xavier returned action over the weekend after 20 days off beat. Butler then had a covert 19 positive test within the program. Had tomorrow's game versus to Paul canceled And now Sundays versus Villanova scratched as well on the hardwood tonight. Miami is a Kent State in Mac play Dayton is that do cane in a 10 action? Big 10 finds the Indiana Hoosiers at number 12, Illinois number 24. Purdue plays at Maryland Big one in the Big 12 Tonight Number two. Baylor and number six Texas A by the way Dayton will host George Mason on Friday. That game replaces the game against Richmond, scheduled for Friday that was postponed this week. Louisville Garden Taken product Curly Jones has been named to the late season top 20 Watch list for the John R Wooden award. He's averaging 17 points, a game, nearly six rebounds and almost five assists in 14 games. This season on the ice that Columbus Blue Jackets skate at Dallas coverage at 6 30, You'll find it down the dialogue, Fox Sports 13 60. All right, I see Reds early on tonight. I want to deal with the Bengals in the seven o'clock hour on a piece of Paul dinner, Junior wrote from the athletic That'll make your head explode. That will lead us into a topic around 7 20 I saw and read it yesterday and I've saved and I think we can present tonight to have some fun with it. SB Nation wrote something today about Tom Brady. I think we can make a Cincinnati topic tonight in the eight o'clock hour is about Tom Brady being one of the most one of America's most polarizing athletes Today in You know me, I'm always looking to localize it tied in and I thought, well, then who would be the most polarizing Cincinnati sports figures through the years? Round here will do that and more. Let's get to it. We begin with the Reds. Couple of different things developing. We'll see what we make out of it. I was I was struck by a tweet I got last night after the show. I want to say it was who moves from a Rob Mueller. Who said the Reds have created absolutely zero Or even negative interest in their product since a team that's sorely underperformed most of last year. It was his tweet. The redhead created absolutely zero or even negative interest in the product since the team that sorely under performed most of last year, and my response to him was it's striking. That's one word. Another might be frustrating, but I'm going to go back to this well again because of where they were for six years of losing. What they did last offseason at this time. What? We were talking about it This time I go back and look, I keep the show sheets of every show. I do. I go back and look at what we were talking about it in like this week a year ago. And I looked at all the stuff we were talking about involving Mike Moose, Takis and show Go Akiyama and Nick Castano's and figuring out the batting order and figuring out how this team fit in comparison to the rest of the National League Central. We were talking about the starting rotation and how good it would be. And I think now of what I've spent time Topic wise on this offseason. And it hasn't added up. Much at all. There's been very little reaction to the whole shortstop conversation. I think, in some cases because either some don't even know who the names are or have reached the point of Disappointment. And I was talking about this lunch today. They ended last season closer to Winning the division being a winning team than being closer to a rebuilding team. Yet how have they approached this off season? The end of the year on the scale of Ready tow win versus rebuild it. They ended it closer to ready to win, but not good enough. They got in because of it expanded playoffs, and then they were quickly dismissed. And I think the frustrating thing is, I used the analogy over the weekend. It has been a fence straddle this offseason. Straddled the fence. They've really done nothing of significance. Either way in the in the last place you wanna be in sports is fence straddling. You're either going forward or you're rebuilding because staying in the middle, does you? No good. None whatsoever. And this team has tried to fence straddle and just kind of piecemeal it together and then cross their fingers and then hope things are okay. That's frustrating. And I would imagine that indecisiveness has frustrated Reds specifically Dick Williams in years past when he was the general manager of this team. What do you want? Which direction do you want to go? Pick one and go there. A year ago. At this time, they had picked one and they had gone there. Remember how we were feeling and what you were what we were thinking what we were discussing. And one year later. Consider where we are. Up next we'll get into Sean do little what it means for this team and what it means for their payroll. It is hashtagged tight based on the numbers I ran this afternoon. 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Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Stash our has a Bloomberg Sports Update. John. All right, Nathan Nixon Nets both lost Nicks and lead the N B A and defense but had a season high in points allowed and the Clippers won at the Garden. 1 29 21 15. Clippers won 10 of the last 11. The Knicks have lost four in a row in the Lost three Knicks combined for 75 points, Julius Randle, RJ Barrett and Emanuel quickly the rookie continues to impress the Nets. Don't play much defense. They let Washington shoot 52% of scores. 48 points in the fourth quarter. The Wizards with a furious rally, beat Brooklyn 1 49 1, 46. Russell Westbrook scored 41 points. Bradley Beal at 37. They both hit three pointers in the last eight seconds. Kevin Durant had 37 for the Nets. Joe Harris, a career high 30 and eight threes, but Arizona costly turnover at the end Nestor without James Harden to do an injured five straight loss to the Islanders. They scored twice in the third period. Tie it but lost 43 and over time in Philadelphia. The Devils won 53 in Buffalo. The Rangers lost Saturday in Pittsburgh. It was said to have been an altercation afterwards between goalie Alex scored. You have and defenseman Tony D'Angelo the Rangers yesterday. With D'Angelo on waivers. He was their best defenseman last season and just three months ago got a two year contract extension has not played well this season College of ST John's one at Marquette, 75 73 Rutgers over Northwestern 64. 56 Patrick Reed won the farmers Insurance Golf with San Diego by five shots. Major League Baseball announced that their plan is the start spring training in late March and the season in late April and play 154 games but has always seems to be the case the union said to be not in favor, John stashed Bloomberg sports making All right, John. Thanks 5 37 on.