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All right, of course, because I'd like you to know who that is, I don't care what you

think.

I'll tell you some of the rugby rights.

You've felt you're in that ass.

I'm 985 this one time.

Nick and Boston on the C's, go ahead, Nick.

Yeah, hey guys, do you think Tatum and the offense since he's come back?

I can't get on board with the guy earlier who said he's walking around with no soul.

Their offense all year has been what, Jalen Brown, driving the ball, paid and printed

off the bench, and then guys like Hauser, like Hugo, like, what's the other guy, man,

Charlemann in the corner.

I think he's trying to fit that scheme, but all the other Eastern conference scenes that

we're seeing with the Nick's, the calves, even the rafters, they're ramping up, they've

been, they've had the same roster all year, the Nick's are ramping up, they're on a win

streak.

The Celtics just got an all-star back in the last ten games.

Okay, but they're trying to make him fit into their offense.

Okay, but are they really, or are they going back to, did you watch the Minnesota game?

Yeah.

Or they just going back to how they played last year against the Nick's and when they

had bad habits.

With Tatum bringing the ball before pounding it into the ground and getting late in the

shot clock and shooting bad three pointers.

I mean, that, the shot clock is really pissing me off, but like, they're going to have

to do the most growing pains of any team in the East right now in the last two games

of the season.

The big issue, Nick, because they, Nick, you're ignoring the most important issue.

How they played against Minnesota, how they played against the Nick's last year is losing

basketball and they're slipping back into it.

They're also making the, they're making it harder on themselves when he says they have

to integrate Tatum.

We all agree on that, but they're making it harder.

It was working the first five games or whatever you want to call it.

I, I think a big thing, it's subtle, but it's big is who brings the ball into the front

coin.

It's huge.

Tatum bringing the ball, the length of the floor, you're asking for stagnant offense.

You've seen it now for years and it killed you last year against the Nick's.

And that's exactly how they played against Minnesota when Tatum was out there.

That, what do you mean, integrate?

They're not integrating it into what they were doing.

They're lapsing back into the bad habits they had when he was leading the show last year.

Right.

But they were approaching it better at the beginning.

You agree with that?

100% this year.

Yeah.

No, no, whenever he's not on the floor, it's fine.

Brown doesn't insist on bringing the ball into the front court.

Now listen, sometimes they'll stick with Brown in the front court, but he is not the

one bringing the ball into the front court.

It's a very, I think, small, but important thing.

Yeah.

I liked it when Tatum was sort of running on the perimeter.

That to me was better.

They should really use them down by the basket more.

So they have completely the last couple of games.

It's been different.

The last one most notably.

And another concern, bigger concern, maybe for me is is with the identity.

What is there?

I forget about the schematic stuff.

What is the identity of the team is Tatum, the go-to guy he shouldn't be.

What is their identity?

They got to figure it out.

It's March 25th.

And they're, it's not like they're getting closer to figuring it out.

It almost feels like they're kind of getting further away from it.

Yeah, they're going the wrong way.

It's getting worse now to this point.

Can all sort of start going the other direction tonight.

Big one against OKC.

Here's Mark and Pennsylvania on MLB.

Yes, Mark.

Hey, Mike, have a solution to all of your listening and watching sports problems.

Have you say super box or VC box or fire stick matrix or some sort of nonsense like this

you are permanently banned from the show.

But give it a shot, Mark.

Go ahead.

OK, sorry.

I won't mention it then.

But no, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

What is it?

What is it?

Super box.

It's a VC box.

VC box.

Yes.

Do you know how many emails I've gotten on the F and VC box every time we do this?

I get like these VC box hurry Christians like these to hold the witnesses banging in my

door.

The VC police trying to sell me the hockey Christians, the VC Christian is trying to sell

me the VC box.

So it's like the old cable black box that you can do that would do the D screenable

the cable.

What?

It's like a cult.

The VC people.

I'm not going to steal cable.

I'm not and I'm not.

I did that once as a young man in my 20s and I felt dirty.

I'm not doing it.

I bet you're the raw watching porn on it.

I don't need to do it.

I guess I can afford it.

It's insulting to get gouged like I'm getting gouged by say, for example, Nesson $30 a

month.

The Nesson 360, we figured out what that means.

You're getting pork for $360 if you go month to month, which I do.

Yep.

They spin me around and they pork you from every direction.

And they think you, we, me, are such idiots that they'll put that 360 in the title and

we won't even know.

And they're right.

That's how badly they're laughing at you people, us me.

That's how badly they're laughing at me.

I'm that guy.

Right.

When it was Nesson 360, no one knew that that's what it costs.

And I'm paying it.

Yeah.

I'm less concerned about all the streaming options because I don't think the younger, I

want younger people to get back or get into baseball.

I don't think they're going to be as affected by that.

I think they're more affected by the fact that it, it's cooler now.

I think it's come by the coolness of baseball has come back.

I think it's done well on social media.

Can I say, yeah, on the list of things I care, it's about time I address us on the things

I care less about your bracket and the fact you went to Yukon or the very, very bottom.

But right, right in that same neighborhood is growing the game for young people or that's

where it becomes big.

What do I care?

I don't care.

The conversation is about where is baseball?

I don't.

The baseball is largely predicated on the younger.

The health of baseball is defined as, do I like it?

Do you like it?

But you're talking about the health of the game?

I'm not.

I don't care if these guys have any business talking about, I care about isn't a good product

for me to consume.

I don't care if the 18 year old slappy can get the, it has the download or not.

What do I care if some 18 year old kid likes the game or not?

That's the first thing on this page of the game.

It goes without saying the state according to me.

What's the point of that?

It should say Felger state of it.

That's what it says.

It's the Felger and Mass show.

This is the world according to Felger and Mass.

In that order, you got a lot to learn too.

Do I like the game or not like the game?

That to me is defined as health.

There's Felger and then there's Mass.

No, but listen, it's like, well, do you have to do this because it grows the game among

young people?

Young people suck.

Young people don't get it.

I don't stop at young people.

I put them all in the same bucket.

People suck.

But young people.

It's like, oh, we got to get the young.

Why do we have to get the young people?

I mean, you do.

That's your problem.

That's not my problem.

People suck.

My issue is, is it a good game for me to consume?

Is it worth my time and money?

Can I talk about it on the radio?

Can I, that's what to me is?

That's the part.

Okay.

I misunderstood.

Do the kids, do the kids like it, do the, F the kids.

All the kids are doing is just finger bang in their phone.

I see the kids.

Work down stairs in this for cocktail office

with the ping pong tables and the video games and all the apps.

Who's, well, why do I care about those guys?

They were, they were on their Xbox yesterday.

They skateboard to work and then spend all day on the Xbox.

I almost went down there and left the Murray by himself.

I want to go in there and just say,

what do you kids do down here?

You and your beards and your hipster facial hair

and the ping pong table.

I might start doing the 320 segment from down there.

Is there any work happening down here?

What do I care about young people?

Speed up the show a little.

You got mini golf sounds.

Is the state of the game?

They suck.

They don't get it.

The state of the game for the people who care.

See, baseball, the problem with baseball and some of these sports

is they're trying to, quote, unquote, grow the game.

Okay.

And so in, quote, unquote, growing the game,

they abandon the people who actually care about the thing.

I want baseball back so it's a consumable product for me.

I don't need it for some 18 year old kid.

I know I want it for me.

I want us baseball needs to get baseball fans back.

I know, you'd be reading box scores

from the newspaper and your slippers.

That doesn't mean the game's in a good place.

Huh?

That's how you like to command.

I know that's how you like to consume baseball.

It is.

But that doesn't mean the game's in a good place

just because if it prioritized something like that again.

I'm just saying, I don't care about them

reaching 18 year old kids.

That's their problem.

But if they could do that, that's good for the game.

What they should know, what's good for the game

is making it a good product for baseball fans again.

What about your audience?

They had lost their audience.

They had lost a lot of baseball.

How many times have we heard over the years, Miss?

Someone say the sentence began with the same thing.

I used to be the biggest baseball fan.

Oh, what happened to a lot?

I felt that way.

But I used to be the biggest baseball fan,

but and then dot, dot, dot.

Get those people back.

There's a lot of them.

We see it when the Red Sox pop

and they really come back, their box office

was just a ton of latent baseball fans out there.

Get us back.

What's up?

What about the effing kid on TikTok?

That guy.

Give me a break with that guy.

I'm not worried about him either.

I told you, but I put all the people in the same bucket.

I'm gonna start wearing a shirt that says people suck.

Young people, especially.

Here's an update.

No, that's not an update.

Why are you looking at me like that, Dundero?

I'm not.

I'm just reshaping my entire perspective of the show.

Is this according to Felger?

Yes.

This is the show is Felger and Mazz.

I get it.

So now we're not trying to save the world.

OK.

We're just, it's more like Felger and Mazz.

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Now, more of Felger and Man.

Now, I'm on the sports hub.

This drives me crazy.

And I don't want to make our old buddy Michael KESPN.

I mean, think about it here.

If you're the yes network, where if you're SNY,

yes network does all the Yankee games,

SNY does all the Mac games.

Think about the great games that you don't have a chance to do

because Major League Baseball in their,

in their ever-rending search to get the old-modded dollar,

they move the games around.

So tonight, yes, it's done the Yankees for 25 years.

They do basically every opening day.

Where is the game tonight?

It's on Netflix.

At 8 o'clock, the home opener or the season opener,

Yankee's giants.

I mean, G Wiz, it's bad if you got to find Netflix.

But if you're yes, that does 162 games, you know,

Yankees and the freaking Tampa Rays in August,

and they carry the ball game, this is the big game for them.

And they can't do it because Baseball realizes

that the marquee game takes it off, yes, it's played,

and gives it somewhere else.

That's not the right thing to do.

And then tomorrow, the match against Skins,

who the home world loved in the World Baseball class,

the Paris-Mets of City Field, the game isn't on S and Y.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The game isn't freaking NBC, and Peacock.

What?

That's not fair.

The match game being on NBC is a bigger audience.

Absolutely, yeah, I understand what his general point was.

He's an angry old man who I can't find the game.

Yeah, that's why I'm with him.

But the NBC one's easier, not harder,

and it reaches more people.

Understood.

Tonight, I left one off my list before.

Netflix.

Oh, that one's a pain in the ass.

You have to have Netflix.

Netflix, because nothing screams baseball more than Netflix.

Back to the phones.

Here's Ed in the car.

Go ahead and the red socks.

Go ahead, Ed.

Hey, so I have a question from Mads.

What are your expectations for will you

or a break of this season?

Cora used the Malia in a platoon role last year,

but I think he's a legit slugger.

Inescapable of 35 plus home runs and 100 RBIs, you know,

it play every day.

So just curious what your thoughts are in his role

and what his expectations are for this year.

So I think given the absence of a right handed hitter,

a brilliant or derand has to have a big year.

One of those two guys has to come through,

because I think if Anthony doesn't hit forget it.

Okay, so like I don't even want to get out on that road,

Anthony has to hit.

But if Anthony has one other lefty with him,

and then we all listen to Travis

is what he has been historically.

You should be okay.

So, but it's one of those other two guys

that has to hit and has to be better against lefties.

More of this coming up on the baseball hour with Mads,

the debut, 2026 premiere edition of the baseball hour

coming your way tonight.

It's right, it's our opening day to Russell

and Providence on this.

Go ahead, Russell.

And I hate it.

Yeah, guys.

I wanted to comment on this.

I just wanted to comment on the strike.

I don't shoot baseball.

Obviously we all hate it.

And the reason is is the players don't care if they strike out.

The front office doesn't have to strike out.

They need to be made to care.

So I think strike out should help more against the team.

If it pedal off as the team,

so you make it like an extra third of an out

for striking out.

So I don't know how you quite do that, Russell,

but I agree that the strikeouts have got to come down.

There's just too many strikeouts.

Yeah, and I don't know how you fix that.

So again, people have talked about rule changes.

I told you, I'd change the equipment.

Big fat or bats?

Yeah, it's pretty good.

It'd be easier.

I say lower the mound or maybe even move it back.

It's 60 feet, 60 feet, 60 inches, 61 feet,

60 inches.

I don't know.

It's a tinker with that.

But then every baseball diamond in America

would have to do that.

You got to think about that.

Of course.

Make that kind of change.

But that should be a relatively easy fix.

Ah, there's possibly a dirt out there and move the mound.

Move the rubber.

You had enough jack wagons working around the stadium

to dig a little bit.

Get your shovels out there.

Make the circle bigger around the mound and move the mound.

I think it's easier to have a bigger bat.

No, definitely easier.

It's definitely easier than mowing a different circle,

moving the mound back, resetting the,

it's more than nothing.

OK, but you know, adding a foot around the circle,

all it takes is a lawnmower and an edger.

Like some meathead should be able to figure that one out.

That's not that tough.

It's not that tough.

But you're not like moving the fences.

You're asking every baseball diamond in America to do that.

Yeah, so they got grounds keepers at every stadium.

As an experiment to get the strikeouts down

in Major League Baseball, that's not going to fly.

They're not going to do that.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's an experiment.

I'm saying permanently.

No, I think the more it about the health of the pitchers,

it's an experiment.

They've experimented with the, you know, 68

or what was Bob Gibson's year?

Yeah, yeah, they raised it.

The mound was higher and then they lowered it.

And I think these are all tinkering.

We're still in tinkering stages.

You can't have every high school baseball diamond in America

fots with their mound and then move it back two years later

because you realize it's not.

No, the bats.

I like the bats.

Fatter bats.

Fatter bats.

The problem is that Aaron Judges isn't going to hit 85 home runs.

That's right.

Oh, Tony's going to be right there with him.

Chris in the car.

Go ahead, Chris.

Next take my call, guys.

What dropped in my call was I was just driving home

and I came by two kids probably about 10 years old

throwing a baseball in the front yard.

You also never see that anymore.

And I fought baseball back as my grandfather got me into baseball.

And I love the red socks, but I love all baseball

and will watch all baseball.

But what suffering is cities and towns, they can't fill leaks.

Right.

And if they're playing, you know, four teams, you know,

four times in a season because they don't have enough teams.

I wish you had a big problem.

Kid who's just hammering his phone all day, scrolling

and hammering his phone.

He's going to stand out and right field for two hours.

Well, in this area, lacrosse has become huge.

And then there's more interesting sports to play on top of it

as a youth.

So yeah, that's an issue.

I mean, forget about.

You used to pick up baseball games in your neighborhood.

I mean, mine did.

Oh, sure, all the time.

Or stick ball, you know, we played in the school yard

of table strikes on up against the brick wall.

And, you know, you need 18 guys, but 10, you know,

that stuff exists anymore.

Who cares?

No, they just sit on the sofa and play the show MLB,

the show or whatever, a maddened one of those stupid,

like, why go out and play the sport when I can be mooky bets

on my TV and jack the ball all over the place.

So Dunderra just called me out.

Why do I care?

I mean, I guess I don't.

I don't want the sport to, you know, disappear

because I want to watch it.

So that the kids aren't playing it.

Then that's a problem.

Agreed.

So I don't care if they watch it.

I don't need to tailor my broadcast so they can get it

on their F and phone or whatever,

but they, I do need players for me to consume

now their product.

Yeah, it's tough to watch a game without players.

Yeah, I'd say I think it starts there.

Well, how about even, how about this?

The world baseball classic, what was it?

The DR game was on at eight o'clock on a Sunday night.

My son couldn't stay up the whole time and watch.

That sucked.

Oh, so the start time, just that game.

I pissed me off.

That was just one.

I think time is that eight o'clock,

mad dogs to be believing.

No, it is eight o'clock.

Eight o'clock on Netflix.

I keep pointing that out.

Should be seven Netflix.

Be done by nine, 30, basically.

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We're back to the phones with a five o'clock hour mask

unless you have a fresh thought for us.

God knows.

Rob, tell us how did Major League Baseball

make a deal with Netflix?

How can you tell fans this is a good thing for Baseball

if some fans say, wait, I don't have Netflix.

So tell us the history here and why this is good for Baseball.

Well, I think that it's important to understand

that we are in a media situation

that's really disrupted the way that we've traditionally

delivered games, really challenged right now.

Netflix provides us an opportunity

to experiment with a new partner,

a partner that has great international reach,

a partner that's a platform where young people

go on a regular basis.

And we think that Netflix will be an important part

of Baseball's future.

Did you say challenged that there's a challenge

to get games broadcast, Zoe said?

No, the environment is challenged.

The traditional RSN model is certainly challenged.

Baseball has to do some different stuff, that I respect.

And in a couple of years, they might always just go to one service.

All games might be on, but they might sell

the whole national package.

That's what Manfred claims he can do

that he even has the backing of teams

like the Yankees and Dodgers who cleanse

on their local stuff.

So that'll be something to watch going for.

Let's zip through these calls if we can, please.

Calvin and Nate, go Calvin.

Hey guys, how you doing?

So I'm just calling about the fact that the MLB

can't really attain to the youth.

I was just curious.

Do you guys think that the MLB could benefit

from a shorter season?

Yes, yes, definitely, but they won't.

They all could all these leagues play way too many games.

You and the NHL's going to 84 games next year.

They are 84.

How do I miss that?

Because you're not paying attention to it?

Probably.

I mean, I don't know why you would, but it's, they're going to 84.

Oh, that blows 84.

Because what everyone says all the time

is that we need more hockey games.

More regular season games in every season.

It's preposterous.

I could, I am someone who says, I think the NFL can definitely

handle an 18th game.

That doesn't offend me.

But any other, any more inventory for any of these other leagues

is preposterous.

It is.

I told you what I would do with baseball is 281 game schedules.

And, you know, and then go with the playoffs from there.

Make this, make the playoff qualifying time shorter.

281 game schedules?

Yeah.

First half, second half.

It's a story for another day.

OK, too late in the show to get back in.

Absolutely.

Todd and Plymouth, go Todd.

Let that one go.

What's up, guys?

Real quick.

The reason why I make the suggestion

is because of this pitch clock.

So it is four balls for a walk.

Why not make it four strikes for a strikeout?

What that will do is hopefully alleviate all the strikeouts

in these studs that can strike everybody out

of the higher pitch count.

Four balls, four times.

I'm just going to cut you off.

Thank you.

That'll lengthen the game.

Wait, no, thank you.

God, no chance.

I'm sorry.

Three strikes in your out.

Jim in North, South Carolina.

Yes, Jim.

Yeah, former Rhode Islander.

I'll make it quick.

Bob Gibson changed the field dimensions

from 18 inches down to 11 and a half,

moving the mound back six to 10 inches,

giving these guys a chance to hit.

So we don't have to watch him back with Mazda's idea

of tennis rackets.

You know, that, to me, would improve the game.

It might.

I'm just telling you, that's a major change

across the sport, across every field.

Baybrooth High School College field in America.

I just think that's a last resort kind of thing.

Just like, when we used to talk about all the goals,

going problems in hockey, you know,

widen the nets and every rink in every country has to go

and you have to manufacture a million new nets.

Then you've got to go into every ice sheet in America

and drill new holes and new lines

and like, it's just you're asking a lot.

Okay, but again, the new holes thing we've been over.

If you do that whole boat net thing,

the boat net thing I'm into,

you can keep the holes in the ice.

So that, that, that I liked.

But because you know, it would be so hard

to drill new holes into the ice.

You're, you're underestimating Mazda.

You're handy and you like doing this kind of crap.

But most municipalities, people don't want to get in there

and move a mound of dirt.

They just don't want to make the adjustment though.

At one time, and I'm telling you, after they determine

that it doesn't work, they're going to have to move it back.

Yeah.

And then, and then, and then every Carl Spackler,

know who that is.

And every, and every park and wreck department

is going to be like, we just moved this F and thing last year.

Now I'm moving it back F you.

I'm telling you, it's just more trouble than it's worth.

Could be, Carl Spackler.

I mean, there are a lot of landscapers out there.

We can make it work.

Catty Shack.

Oh, I think that was Carl Spackler.

It was, yeah.

Scott and Kent and two questions.

Or what, what do we got?

Just one today.

Let me hear it.

Two questions.

Good.

Number one, how do you think the red socks

are going to do this year?

And number two, what do you think is going

to happen to the red socks tomorrow

against Terry Frank Kohn and Cincinnati Reds?

I, tomorrow they're going to get wet.

It feels that way.

I was just trying to check the forecast.

You don't have to give me a minute on that.

They might get rained out, Scott.

And if we're going to project the season,

what you really want to do is listen to the baseball hour

at six o'clock, Jaron Carrabus will give you the answer.

What's Oh Carrabus?

What's the over under in wins?

86 and a half maybe?

Oh, if it was 89, I'm tempted to play the under this year.

I mean, I'm 89, you definitely go under.

I'm tempted to play under this year.

That's an official stance, but like I said,

there's a little more, it's a little more tenuous

than people are giving a credit for.

I don't think it's a lot more tenuous.

Last time, sunny grade played in this kind of market.

He crapped himself a big time.

Ranger Suarez has sucked this spring.

It's just signed a big contract and maybe he's let himself go.

There's no way a role this Chapman duplicates

what he did last year, no F and way.

And so I don't know, I don't know if the pitching

is as locked down as people think.

I'm curious about that.

Let's do some email, shall we play Jimmy?

I'm pleased, let's do this.

It's the Coleman Electric email of the day.

This Elga, I really hate 87 and a half.

And I think, man, it's like a boom.

Hey, it's electric.

The Coleman Electric email of the day.

It's electric.

Send yours to Felger at 985-the-sportsup.com.

Email the day brought you by our friends at Coleman Electric.

A bunch of really good electricians helping homeowners

like you when you need electrician, you want to call Coleman?

Yeah, that's electric.

Yes, it is, man.

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old wiring got to come out.

I get the same email when you do the streaming thing.

I get the same emails every time.

Matthew writes, and Felger, I see you pitching

about finding where to watch your game.

So I thought I'd help you out a bit.

There's this cable box thing called the VC box.

There's different versions of it.

You can look it up.

That is great.

But it's a simple, easy way to access

all out of market and in market sports get access

to all movies, live TV, and whatnot.

No login required.

The box costs about 200 bucks.

It's quite simple to set up and very easy to learn.

Hope this helps, Gramps.

Why don't you do it?

You do that.

It sounds too good to be true.

And I'm not going to pirate stuff.

Because they'll take it away at any moment.

I don't feel like doing it anyway.

Like I'm not going to, I don't need to, I did.

I stole cable for like,

Yeah, but if you're two months,

I'm like, I still pay for all your services.

And then you use that.

That way you can pay, you can feel good

and then just use that.

Huh?

You're still going to pay for all your cable services.

But then you would use the box, right?

Is that what he means?

I don't know.

Okay, forget it.

No, no, the box is like a J writes in.

It's like what?

It's like a pirate device.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, I'm not pirating.

Okay.

Subtlion, watch any sporting event here.

Not spam J writes in.

HTTPS colon slash slash the TV app.to.

I've heard of this too.

Except it doesn't work all the time.

Subtlion, just pay for cable, Mike.

Jeff writes that I've never cut the core completely.

I have cable which solves 98.5% of your problem.

When I'm away from home, I can often use my cable credentials

to often, keyword here often.

I can often use my cable credentials to log in

and stream for free on another TV.

All you need to know is your cable login.

That said, your streaming ran stream mind me of my dad,

RIP 2017.

Often, I can often, I can keyword often.

What about those times that you can't?

And now I have a show to do the next day

and I can't watch the game.

Correct.

And I'm out of town or whatever.

Read YouTube, huh?

You can read about it.

You can watch the highlights on YouTube

about 10 minutes, get you what you need to know.

I usually watch in the game if I can.

Chris writes in easy streaming solution, Mike.

I know you don't want to hear this,

but get a VC box, $300 to $400 at Walmart.

Everything is free, everything period.

Plug one end into the wall.

The other end into the other end, up your ass.

The other end into your TV with an HDMI.

I'll give you an HDMI cable.

It's easy enough.

Got a lot of these.

MLB app free option.

Mike signed up yesterday free.

If you are a T-Mobile customer, $149 savings.

That's why I...

Mike, if you have T-Mobile,

M-M-L-B-T-V is free.

If you go to the T-Life app, do you have T-Mobile?

No.

And add it to your account if you don't have T-Mobile, sorry.

So get T-Mobile on top of my existing cell service

and then get the T-Life app, T-Life,

and then sync up with MLB-T-V.

And then maybe it'll be free.

Piece of cake, oh yeah.

I kept asking, the NBC Sports Networks Back, NBCSN,

because this keeps showing up on the TV grids,

where the game can be.

Justin from Works says NBCSN is a channel

for people who have both Xfinity and Peacock.

If you have Xfinity cable,

there's a special channel among the sports channels

called NBCSN.

That channel has whatever the top sporting event

is on Peacock.

That way you don't have to go into Peacock app.

Every time on your TV, every time you want to watch a game.

So I get to avoid getting Peacocked.

Little great.

I get to a traditional channel.

Still going to get paramounted.

Chris writes in,

I've ever once called in or emailed,

but the streaming service app rant

made me shut the TV off.

Lire, you're still listening and watching as we speak, Chris.

Lire, you're watching.

Everyone under the age of 30 has all these apps.

The leagues don't care about the older generation.

They will watch the games no matter what.

The leagues accomplish two things by streaming.

That you're just so wrong.

You're so, so wrong about that.

So very wrong.

It's the kids who you're saying have the apps

and can navigate all this stuff

and know this landscape that can go no problem.

It's the old guy like me that tries to find the game can't

and then says, F this,

I'm gonna watch something else

but I'm gonna do something else.

I'm out, I'm out.

Cause I'm not like you, kid, Chris.

I'm not gonna sit there all day just fingering my phone.

I'm not you.

I'm actually an adult who has other things to do

other than just jacking my phone all day.

You are someone that can do this

cause all you do all day is slump your head

and finger farts with your phone.

So you're the guy.

Us, the rest of us with the lives

are gonna try to watch it.

We can't get it.

Then we're gonna shut it off and get out and do something

cause we have other things to do

than fudzing with our phone all day.

We're busy people.

The league accomplishes two things by streaming.

One, they make a crap ton of money, two,

they grow the game more with the younger generation

which is where they are losing the most fans.

Disagreed.

Baseball lost real baseball fans.

That's where they were hurt.

Real fans, they're existing fans.

All right, I'm done.

The Off-Air show returns tonight with Dundero.

Dundero is nice enough to send along questions beforehand

cause I don't think on the fly very well.

So he sent some questions.

I just wanna tease what we're gonna be talking about.

Sure, yeah, no, I mean,

how would you describe the bulk of your social life?

I can answer that one.

What's your favorite author or book not sports related?

I'll answer that one.

What's the most uncomfortable moment

you've ever had on the air?

I'll give you one.

What's the perfect day for you with zero obligations?

I got an answer for that.

Have you ever faked liking someone

because it benefited you and it is easy for you to do?

Like, who hasn't done that?

Well, I guess it's, is it easy for you to do?

Let me, well, answer it in the Off-Air show.

I'm just gonna say every day.

Yeah, that's, is it easy though?

What's it take you believe 100%

but you'd never say on the air a million?

So how am I gonna,

saying it on the Off-Air show does not mean

it's gonna be off the air.

People listen to that,

that's get aggregated in the herald,

like I can't, if I'm not gonna say it here,

you can't say the game a little.

Everyone tattles on me, on the Off-Air show.

It'd be one thing if it were our little safe space

and I could say stuff in the Off-Air show

that I can't say here and get away with it, but I can't.

If I say anything wrong over there

or set someone, I'm gonna get just the same amount

of trouble over there as I am in here.

Maybe more.

It just feels that way.

I said you could reject any of them.

On the internet, you get into more trouble.

Like this one, you think I'm gonna answer this one?

Who's someone in your industry that everyone praises

but you don't get at all?

Oh, come on.

I can't name 100 people.

I'm gonna answer that one.

It's my question.

I can name 100 people on that one

because I don't do radio wars.

I'm not gonna like bag on eight.

What's something you pretend to enjoy

because everyone else does.

I'll have an answer for you on that.

I have to think about that one.

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Okay, the final word today is,

Mass trying to make some sort of connection

and now with the royals.

This was awkward.

No, I agree.

And the other thing, Mike, is if you look at the lineage

of your coaches, they have independent of,

you can turn my headphones off.

Okay, Roy Williams, Dean Smith.

Like, you aren't talking about royalty in college basketball

and serious royalty.

Not some S-Bum prints who was freaking selling secrets

to somebody.

But you get the idea not to turn it into that.

I actually have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh, Prince Andrew.

With what does Prince Andrew have to do with this?

He gave Epstein some information.

Yeah, he was Prince Andrew and Brad.

I know all about Prince Andrew and Epstein.

I don't understand what that has to do with UNC basketball.

He really doesn't know.

I'm talking about serious royalty.

Like, what was that?

Like the, I don't really even know.

The most famous kings in history,

so I'm saying like, you can call me.

I see you're playing that royalty analogy.

I got it.

I got it.

But he's a, you're talking about the top

of the freaking food chain with the North Carolina guys

and he doesn't want to do it.

I can't, I don't think he's ever going back.

So I think you're lucky to have a boy.

That was really, that was round about.

I didn't get it at first, but now I get it.

You're the bottom line.

You're lucky to have Stevens.

Let's see if he can get Tatum to stop pounding the ball

into the floor for 12 seconds at a time.

I've gone along as I have all day long.

I'm sorry.

The Royal Epstein thing blew way off.

Back to your calls on sports right after this.

Me too.

I feel like Joe Murray.

I don't know how we got from Brad Stevens

to Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.

Yeah, that was, yeah.

But I get it now.

Maaz, welcome back, baby.

Yeah, baseball hour.

Yep, can't get out of here fast enough.

Hasn't even started yet.

Jarrant Krabbs will be joining us via Zoom.

We'll get into the Red Sox.

Jimmy Stewart has put together an off season montage

that pretty much, what's the word?

I'm looking for recaps.

Everything that happened to the Red Sox during the off season,

Jared and I will give you our thoughts on the year.

And we'll touch on a number of things along the way.

Awesome.

Here comes Maaz and the debut of the 2026 edition

of the baseball hour.

We're back at it tomorrow too.

We'll talk to everybody then.

See you.