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Coco.

Let me, I got a few things to say to you, Coco.

Could you join our show, please, if you can?

Hey, what's up, buddy?

For those of you listening, you don't know what just happened, but my life just is brighter when I get to see Coco

on the old split screen.

It means it's the last hour of the week.

And man, did you cover Mike took his yesterday, Coco?

Thank you very much.

How did it go yesterday?

It was, it was definitely, it was good.

You know, I, I feel more comfortable when I can just, you know, play the, the host.

But it was with Adnan and Jeremy.

And those guys can talk.

That's what I will say.

They can, they can love those guys.

Talk and talk and talk.

Well, it was one of those things about that.

Yeah, but it was, but it was one of those things where like Adnan gave the rundown for the day.

And I, and I don't like doing that because there's always conversations that pop up.

So like there's sometimes you don't get to something that you, you gave in that rundown.

So he had teased.

We're going to do NHL talk.

So there could be some poor souls who were just sitting there waiting for NHL talk.

And we didn't talk any NHL.

And so this is, you taught me this early on.

I don't know what episode we're at, but he said, I used to do that too.

And you said, be very careful what you teased about what's coming up in your show.

Because the way you do nothing personal, you go off on tangents.

You do side stories.

You think of a story to tell.

And then all of a sudden, you don't talk about what you say you're going to talk about.

And I used to do that a lot in the early days, Coco.

But I have broken that habit, thanks to you.

But did you give Adnan notes?

Because I'm so thankful to Adnan and Jeremy Tasha for coming on the show.

And for you guys for doing it yesterday was just an impossible emergency that I had to deal with.

And that's going to happen here from time to time.

Unfortunately, because of the situation with my daughter.

But thank you.

And did you let, did you give Adnan notes and Jeremy notes the way you give me notes after a show?

Are you in their ear saying, move on.

Hurry up.

Or are you giving them nuggets to say, how does that work?

Well, I was on air.

So it's like, I can't, I can't really give those notes as the, as the show is going on.

But you try and give like a time, right?

You say, hey, you know, we only got a couple minutes left.

We've got one minute left when we get a quick answer on this.

And sometimes you just blow right past it.

You can feel Dan's pain, right?

But can I, I need to tell you about what happens to me after the show yesterday.

So after the show, after the show, I had to go to the dentist.

And it was like, my life was like an action movie for the first time ever.

Like I felt like I was the main character in something.

And if there was like a camera following me, it was just incredible.

So I had to get to the dentist by 10 a.m.

So I left at 930 and I was like, I'm not going to be able to make it if I take the train.

Let me call an Uber.

And I walk outside and the street outside my apartment is shut down.

So no Uber would be able to get there.

So I was like, okay, there's a bus here.

Let me hop on the bus.

So I get on the bus and the bus is going.

We're like 10 minutes into the ride.

And the bus stops because there's a person on a wheelchair that they have to let off the bus.

So the bus is like lowering the ramp.

And it's taking time.

It's taking time.

And I'm sitting there.

My legs are starting to shake.

I have like 15 minutes until I have to get to this appointment.

So I call them up.

I'm like, listen, I'm going to be a couple minutes later.

If you're not here by 1015, the appointments canceled.

The bus starts going.

And more construction.

The bus says, hey, we're not going to be able to take the regular route.

If you can't, if you, if you have a stop on that route, you have to get off here.

So I get off.

I start sprinting down the road.

I have to take an elevator from like one from like a cliff down to like sea level.

I get down there.

I find a city bike.

And I just take off on the city bike.

And I'm just dripping sweat.

And I get in there at 1015.

I'm all out of breath.

And then it's time for the dentist.

So I'm getting legally water-borted.

They're scraping my teeth.

And that was my morning.

But I felt like, you know, like Keanu Reeves.

It felt good.

So many questions.

And I'll just stay with two of them.

Why if Uber at the front of your street is closed?

Why don't you just pin a different location for the Uber

and have the Uber pick you up on a different street like right next door to your apartment?

Because I live at the end of a one way.

So like you have to come up that one way to get to the corner.

How long would the walk be to get to another street?

That's the other thing is that the cross street is the main road.

So the main road is always fully backed up.

And at the end of the main road, it turns into another one way street.

And there's no way that you can maneuver around in a short amount of time

because then you're stuck at the back of the traffic.

So what you figured out is that Uber was not going to get you there in time.

And you put it in your ways or in your Apple Maps, whatever you did.

And it said that bus is the shortest because there's a walk option.

No, there was just a bus.

There was a bus right there.

It just happened to be a bus.

So I was like, let me just jump on this bus and then see what happens.

And it was it was a morning.

It was fun.

Well, let me see your teeth.

Wow.

It looked very clear.

They hurt.

Dude, they hurt.

You know, when they're like sitting there.

No, they're like sitting there with like the scraper and they're like scraping your teeth.

And then like you're sitting in the chair and they're like filling your mouth up with water.

And they have that like suction thing in there.

But sometimes it like doesn't work so you like can't breathe.

And then you can't talk to say like, hey, I can't breathe.

So you just sit in it.

And I don't like the dentist.

Well, I don't know.

My dentist is Robert Raymondi and Christie is my hygienist who cleans my teeth.

And I love them both dearly.

I see them four times a year because I love the dentist.

It's one of my favorite places to go actually.

And I can just tell you that mouth care matters.

But I want to mention something to you because yesterday when I don't do a show, I get sad.

And certainly for reasons that I can't do shows makes me even more sad.

But I was thinking about you specifically because for whatever reason your team seems to be in the news way more than other teams.

And that may be total bias of me not paying attention because every team's in the news.

But I just feel like the Ravens and the Matsu are your two favorites.

Quickly, is it Ravens?

Mats are Mats Ravens.

What's your order?

Well, I've seen two Ravens Super Bowls.

So I think I would put the Ravens above them because they've met more.

But you get more of a season with the Mets.

So I don't know.

They both make me angry.

Well, they both make you so that's a funny glass half empty thing.

They both make you happy.

But the Ravens have been in the news just significantly when they traded for Max Crosby.

And I called you up and said, wow, you got that guy who was playing basketball on the pickup court after he was injured.

To show he wasn't injured and the one who Tom Brady had to get rid of because he didn't want him anymore.

And then the Raiders had signed all these guys and traded Crosby for two first rounders.

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Those Ravens better not lose our starting center to the Raiders.

Because if they do, that means we will have traded that center whose name I forgot.

And then two first rounders for Crosby, and I don't want that.

That's a bad trade.

No sooner did Coco say it, then the Raiders had signed this center to the biggest deal I'd ever seen.

Coco, you've had like three different moments right now to tell me.

Tyler Linderbaum.

Tyler Linderbaum.

Tyler Linderbaum.

Wait, is he Jewish?

I don't know.

Tyler Linderbaum?

Linderbaum?

How much is Linderbaum getting paid?

Well, he set the record.

They set the record for the most amount of money given to a center.

So he's sort of reset the market.

I think it's around 28 million per year, but don't quote me on that.

Listen, to have someone standing right behind your buttocks for 50 to 70 plays per game,

and then getting the hands deep down in there, and you having to never miss,

because when there's a miss snap, everyone goes crazy and it's so hard.

And players are in the shotgun so much.

Snapping a ball in the shotgun, not easy.

But when you put it over the head or don't deliver it perfectly, all of a sudden you get crushed.

It's a thankless job.

And by the way, there's a 300 pound guy who can run a four or four who's like two inches

from your nose while you're doing it.

But anyway, so the Raiders did to the Ravens what you didn't want to have happen.

You were despondent about it.

And the next thing you know, the trade's over.

They have totally, I don't know if you got to it yesterday, but that was it.

No trade.

Max Crosby back with the Raiders.

The Ravens get their first run picks back because no, they didn't disclose why Coco,

but I can tell you what happened is they had an out.

When you sign an agreement with another club, you sign a letter of intent and LOI.

And it is pending two things always.

One is commissioners approval because every trade has to get approved by the commissioner.

And two, it is pending completion of physicals or sign off by teams.

You always have, like when you buy a house of financing out, you always have an injury out in these deals.

And so something happened and the Ravens said we've changed our mind.

And I was wondering when the Ravens backed out of the Crosby trade,

to me, you must have been happy.

Is that accurate?

Because you were upset that they traded two first run picks.

No, that's not accurate.

I was not upset that they traded two first round picks.

So that's just completely incorrect.

No, as a sector.

They didn't trade the center.

He was signed as a free agent.

They never traded him.

You said that.

Oh, you can do that.

Okay, just please just just listen.

Oh, it looks like in the optics of it.

Look like it was two first round picks and Tyler Linderbaum for Max Crosby,

which looks worse than it actually is because you're losing your starting center.

And there's not many as good as Tyler Linderbaum that would be on the market

or if you're going to draft a center.

That's why it looked like that.

He did want Max Crosby because he's an elite edge rusher.

So the way in my in my brain that it looked was like, okay,

the number 14 pick would be for Max Crosby.

So it really looks like it's just one first round pick for Max Crosby.

That's the way I worked it out.

But then there was the situation with the knee, right?

And towards the end of last season, you know,

Max Crosby didn't want to sit those games.

The readers came out and said, no, you have an issue.

We're going to sit you.

Crosby was upset about it.

Then it came out, hey, he's getting a full meniscus repair.

It wasn't just like a cleanup.

It was a full repair.

So when this news came out with the Ravens backing out of the trade,

the first thing I said to my friends was it had to have been something with the physical.

Like that's that's what it is.

Because the whole cold feet thing doesn't make sense to me because it looks

I don't think that the Ravens or Eric DeCosta or Steve Beshotty or anybody in the league

would be so disrespectful to have a free agent lie to or having trade, sorry,

where they came to the city.

They announced the trade.

Like the player announced, hey, I'm leaving the Raiders.

They came to the city.

They hosted them for them to be like, oh, there's another free agent who's out there in Trey Hendrickson.

Let's go and sign him.

That doesn't make sense to me for it to be something where they got cold feet.

I think they really saw something that was in the physical where they said, hey,

we're going to give this guy $30 million a year.

In year three or year two, that knee could be an issue and he could miss more time.

So we don't feel confident with the price, right?

The price being those two first round picks.

We don't feel confident in that deal.

Maybe, maybe they renegotiate that deal and they say, hey, we'll give you a first round pick

and a fourth round pick or a first round pick and a fifth round pick.

And from when Eric the cost was talking about it, he said that did come up in conversation

was, you know, could we possibly renegotiate this,

but the way that the physical looked and the way that the need looked,

it wasn't good enough for them to even do that.

You get stuck very much during these negotiations when you're making a trade.

And this has happened to me several times where you go back to the team you're trading with and say, hey,

this guy's arms about to fall off.

Like his, his UCL is about to shred.

He's got an issue with his shoulder.

He's got a problem with the degenerative hip.

I mean, you can come up with all sorts of great stuff when you are exchanging physicals or doing MRIs

to players who are going to acquire.

And what you do is you go back to the team that you're trading with and say, hey,

FYI, you knew this.

I'm sorry.

This is not where two first rounders anymore.

And what DeCosta said is right.

You try for a renegotiation.

And if it doesn't happen, you've got to be willing to walk away.

The reason why I would never like to renegotiate when we were trading a player who we knew was hurt

is that I would never want to be in a position where in the market,

I'm taking back a trade like the Raiders position now.

They're screwed because there are 31 teams,

including, frankly, the Ravens, who now have downvalued Max Crosby.

So you don't end up getting more for Max when you start and turn him around to move into a different team

after he's failed the physical or the Ravens have basically reneged on the deal for whatever reason they're saying,

which they haven't said, but it is the physical.

But his value has gone down.

So we would just as soon if there's going to be that sort of renegotiation,

we would be more likely to have that renegotiation because we would measure to ourselves

that we're still getting more from this.

You did do this.

You did do this.

So let's talk about that in the situation that you had with the Padres.

Was there a point where you had the players come to you?

Or was this just the exchanging of the medical records?

Where did that trade that you did?

What point did you guys realize, hey, something is up because you did do this

where you did renegotiate a trade and you guys changed the parameters of it to me?

Yeah, we had the commissioners office get involved because there was fraud.

So that's totally different.

AJ Preller of the San Diego Padres, who is a fraudster, he kept two different sets of medical books,

which is unheard of.

It's absolutely illegal against the rules.

When you exchange medical, you have to show your log books.

You have to show what players went to the training room and why they were there.

And AJ Preller of the Padres somehow kept a different set of books about Colin Ray and about other players

and what their real ailments were and we got wind of it.

And we got wind of it only after.

Remember, he had, you're going to correct me because this is years ago.

I believe that he made an appearance for the Marlins as a Marlin.

The trade was done and then we got wind of this second set of medical books

because after one appearance with us, he had this strange injury and we said,

wow, that's just unlucky.

And then he's like, no, man, I had this all year and we were like,

what? It's not in the records.

And then we were like, hey, San Diego, how come there's nothing in the record about his elbow

or shoulder or knees or toes or head?

And they're like, oh, sorry.

And then the commissioners office got involved and it got unwound.

Now, please correct me if I'm wrong and you can't do it while you're on the show

but maybe for next week or maybe someone in the chat.

Am I wrong that Colin Ray made an appearance for the Marlins?

Do I have that memory wrong?

After so many years in baseball with so many transactions and so many things,

I could be conflating 2016.

The trade was in 2016.

Yeah, it says one appearance.

He did.

Do you know how rare that is?

He started, he started one game, 3.1 innings,

one hit or strikeouts and then he didn't play.

And he missed all of 2017.

God, that's funny.

That was a real problem for the commissioner because he didn't know what to do

because you can't, can you imagine unwinding a trade after the players have made appearances

for the team to which they were traded?

It's very, very uncommon.

But what they found with what Preller had done, you know, that absolute fraud.

It became a huge deal within the owner's meetings, within other teams thinking that they were dealing.

You know, you're competing against the other 30, 29 teams, there's 30 of you.

You compete your ass off.

But there's, you know, you can miss label your players for sure.

The Yankees are famous for that.

They'll say their prospects are great and the rest of us think they stink.

But you're just, it's good PR.

But to commit a fraud against your partner, that was bad.

So I don't think that that's what happened in football with Crosby.

And frankly, I'm not sure that they discovered anything on the physical

because they didn't know already because in the exchange of physical, they would see all of Crosby's knee issues.

They would see pictures.

They could do their own MRI of his knee and discover the meniscus, et cetera.

But I really thought, especially because they pivoted so quickly to Tray Hendrickson,

how did they do that if they weren't prepared immediately for the possibility

that they were embarrassed by the haul that they had given for Crosby?

That's a really quick pivot.

Well, Tray Hendrickson was always a free agent.

But he was always right.

But that's what the Ravens that fast.

Because from what the reporting listen, this is just reporting, right?

And this is all we can base this stuff on because we will never get the correct answer

was that the Ravens had already been negotiating with Tray Hendrickson and his agent

before Max Crosby even got to the Ravens, to Baltimore, to the facility,

that there could have been some world where they had both players,

where they signed Tray Hendrickson and teamed him up with Max Crosby.

That's just the way they have cap room for both.

Well, they restructured Lamar's contract, like they quietly did that.

So they opened up a ton of cap space this season to do that.

And you can do that when a player is signed.

So I think they opened up like $70 million in cap space

by restructuring Lamar's deal.

I'm laughing because you read that all the time.

Like I think Patch My Home says restructured is deal 69 times.

Since he signed it in order to open up cap space.

And you read about players doing this all the time.

And then how dumb do you have to begin football to get stuck with $99 of dead cap money?

Like that's $99 million.

It's $99 million of dead cap money.

It's just so funny to me that that people find a way around the cap.

There's groups of people who are hired by a football team to get around that,

which was negotiated to actually be helpful to them.

And everyone wants to get around it.

And all you do, it's such a joke.

You sign Lamar Jackson, and then you restructure, and then you need more cap rooms.

So you restructure again and restructure.

It seems like...

When you were in these situations, did you try and get ahead of the story?

Because you knew it would come out.

So when you're operating with a different team,

the thing that makes it look so ugly for the Ravens

is the fact that the Raiders were the ones who put out the statement, right?

Like they were the ones who put it out there.

Hey, the Ravens have backed out of this trade.

And then it was radio silence from the Ravens until Eric DeCosta spoke,

you know, almost 24 hours later, or more than 24 hours later,

is when he finally spoke.

So did you like getting ahead of these stories?

Or did you say anything about what we can do?

Just so you know, if your player is not in the computer as a member of your roster,

you're not allowed to talk about that player.

There are strict rules in baseball.

We could not have...

Now, Crosby, I do not believe ever switched from Raiders to Ravens.

I believe he was always on the Raiders roster during this process.

Well, there was no deals could become official until Wednesday at 4 p.m.

So the Ravens could not actually comment.

It's commenting on another player.

So it would have to be the Raiders who would do it.

The Ravens would not be able to.

But in terms of waiting, listen, if they waited and DeCosta the best he came up with is,

he understands how people might, maybe from afar,

would feel a certain way, but nobody's more upset than me.

He meant more upset than I.

I'm gutted by it, actually.

I don't understand.

They controlled it.

When you get a player, Coco, and their elbows come falling off,

you can still take the player.

You can still pass that guy and do the trade.

So why is he saying he's gutted?

I found that to be disingenuous.

I don't know where DeCosta is.

Does he have that reputation that he speaks in that level of hyperbole?

Yeah, I mean, he was just...

It was him and John Harbour were teamed up for that long, right?

And they sort of speak the same way where everything is, you know,

doom and gloom.

And they're so hurt when these things happen.

And it's just like, you know, like every conversation with John Harbour and Lamar Jackson

is like, oh, I love him so much.

I love him.

I have so much love for him.

And you're like, dude, just...

They're not asking that.

They're asking if you and Lamar have a good relationship, right?

Like, that's not the same thing.

But I want to...

Interesting.

I want to downgrade from Crosby.

They just do different things.

Like Max Crosby.

I thought they were rushers.

Yeah, but that's like quarterbacks, right?

Are quarterbacks all the same?

No.

They all have their own attributes.

Who would you rather have?

For what the Ravens need, I'd probably rather have Max Crosby because he is...

He's really good at getting to the quarterback,

but where he is best is like stopping the run, too.

Like, he's just that good at doing both.

Whereas Tray Hendrickson brings like a different dynamic,

where he's more of like a pure past rusher than he is a run stopper as well.

But let's talk about Steve Kerr.

Because I...

Shortening the season is one thing.

And I understand why teams would...

or teams and players would want that to happen.

But I want to talk more about the financial side of this.

Where what happens when a season is shortened with where the cap currently is.

So in the NBA where Steve Kerr is coming out and he says,

Listen, I know this will not be a popular opinion in the league office,

but I will continue to say it because it's obvious.

We need to play fewer games.

We need to take 10 games off the schedule.

I think it would be a more competitive and healthier league if we had fewer games.

So we're talking about going from 82 to 72.

What happens to the money in a situation like this?

I want to get to this because it's such a great topic.

And I think about shortening MLB season all the time.

The thing is Steve Kerr has become a little cramugently in his old age.

Like he certainly whatever his politics are, it's fine.

But he certainly takes the opportunity to speak very often politically.

He is very much a member when he got involved talking about persingus.

And then he had to apologize for talking about it.

I didn't mean it or I didn't say it right.

And the Warriors just, it's what happens.

They're an aging dynasty.

Steve Kerr has been a part of two full dynasties as a player with the bulls, as a coach with the Warriors.

And what a run for Steve Kerr.

I think he may be out of fingers, though I don't know for sure.

Maybe not. Maybe he's got six or seven or eight championships.

I know Phil Jackson ran out of fingers.

But Steve Kerr has been this champion of certain points for so long.

This is not the first time he's talked about this shortening the season.

And there's really no particular reason to continue to bring it up.

The finances of it are really simple, but they're complicated in the way owners look at them.

But we've always tried to convince owners they're not looking at it right.

But here's what they say.

If you pay a player to play 82 games and you pay him 82 million dollars, a million dollars a game.

If they only play 72 games, then I only want to pay that player 72 million.

It's the same million a game.

It's just fewer games.

The players union has always maintained whether it's 82 or 72.

You gave me 82 million for an entire season.

Whether that season ends up being 81 games or 75 games or 65 games.

Sorry, if I end up getting hurt or I don't feel great or you don't think I slept well for load management purposes.

You sit me, I still get paid that amount.

So players have never been willing to take less money for working less.

So that's the first issue with the expense side of going down in games.

The second issue is the revenue side.

The revenue argument is that if a team sponsor pays you $1 million for every home game

to have a sign on the floor.

And you have 41 home games for $41 million.

We're just doing it so the math is easy.

If you end up with only 36 home games.

Query, will that company then only give you $36 million in which case your revenue has gone down $5 million?

My argument is no.

My argument is that these sponsors are getting a season's worth of blank of tickets of exposure of being in the news cycle.

Whatever the case may be.

I have spoken to sponsors about this very concept.

There is not one contract I ever signed with a sponsor that called for a decrease in the sponsorship if we didn't have 81 games.

If there's a rain out, if there's a cancellation, if there's an issue, there was no adjustment of the sponsorship revenue.

There are adjustments in the revenue if a season is lost to collective bargaining to a force measure like a storm.

There's a hurricane that means you have to move out of Miami for half year season.

There's a threshold where there is an option to terminate the deal or to adjust the amount of the deal.

But that threshold is not losing five games.

The way Steve Kerr is saying, hey, let's go down 10 games five on the road five at home.

There would be no deleterious impact on sponsorship revenue.

Let's talk ticket revenue.

The owners say, hey, man, I sell out every day.

You can't take away five home dates.

I make five million dollars every time I open my doors.

Give me that 25 million back.

That's a real issue for teams.

But the teams who were arguing that coca 10 years ago.

One of them, wait for it.

The St. Louis Cardinals.

The St. Louis Cardinals argued that they would not give up home revenue

by having a shortened season unless they got paid because they didn't have a ticket to spare.

Guess what?

We're only 10 years later.

The Cardinals are on their toes.

They've got seats everywhere.

You could take five home games away from St. Louis right now and no one would say boo.

So the up and down, the up and downs.

So when the revenue goes down in a salary cap league, coca, of course the salary cap goes down.

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Because I just I just want to know where Steve Kerr has been this entire time.

Right? He says.

He says Steve.

No, but it's just when the Warriors were winning championships, right?

When Steph Curry's running up and down the court, firing off trees, not missing games.

He probably does.

He's doing this season.

Yeah, but I don't think that he was as vocal as he is now.

Because Steph Curry has been hurt this whole season.

You know, it's towards the end of his, his reign, right?

It doesn't look like the Warriors are going to, are going to compete for a title anytime soon.

It looks like it's sort of the end of the line.

And that's what I'm saying is that now it's coming out more and more like this.

Like it's like, oh, you know, now I can, I can speak about these things.

But when I was doing it, right?

When I was running this fast paced offense before other teams caught up to the style of play that we were doing.

You know, everything was okay.

But now everybody is.

Just remember co-cast is strong.

If the NBA were doing a trial balloon, which is what leagues do through certain spokespeople, whether it's an owner or a player,

these trial balloons are something that they're looking to do.

Steve Curry is not the conduit that the NBA would use as a trial balloon for anything.

He just doesn't have the credibility anymore.

He's obviously a Hall of Fame coach.

He's obviously had an unbelievable career in the Warriors with a dynasty.

But not today.

There was a time when he'd be a great travel.

Popovich was a great trial balloon for stuff back in his heyday.

But not anymore, obviously.

So cursing this stuff does not indicate to me that the NBA is leading toward this in any way whatsoever.

Yeah, and I don't understand the whole.

They're going to compete more thing because I don't know if if that really changes anything just because of the way in which

teams and players operate, right?

Like the end goal is always going to be a championship.

I don't know if what you think they have like more rest days in between.

Like do you think that's the way that the NBA would want to?

Like let's say theoretically it goes to 72 games, right?

In a 72 game world.

Are they going to add more rest days?

Or are they just going to shorten the calendar up?

So the rest day is sort of stay the same.

You're still playing 72 games.

But now in a shorter time frame.

And then you're still going to get to the playoffs.

So I don't know if that curbs what these injuries would be because you're you're just shortening this.

You know, you're shortening the calendar altogether.

So it had to be just where it is.

There's the same.

Yeah, Coca just so you know, when you shorten the regular season, it comes with expanded postseason.

This would not be where the calendar would be short.

Well, they can't expand.

They can't expand any further than what they've already done.

Right?

They can't.

They can't.

The playing can be about a three.

The playing can be a two out of three.

The playing can be a two out of three.

Oh, you're saying you're saying that you're saying that just the play in itself would be expanded.

Not the game.

Not the not the the amount of teams that make that.

Okay, because I was going to say games in the game.

You're going to have teams with with 15 wins getting into the plane.

And that's like we're ready at the regular season.

Because I think that what you do is when we talk about MLB shortening its season,

what we talk about is you give more rest days during the course of the season.

But what you do with N is you also combine that with an expansion of the playoffs,

where there's a three out of five in the division series, you make that a four out of seven.

And so you're giving yourself the potential of eight more games of inventory.

So that would be the given take of short and regular season.

The other thing you do with a regular season and the NBA's MLB, every NFL, frankly, too,

which they don't need to, you're trying to make something more interesting.

So why you have the end season tournament, why you have the international games.

And so if the NBA can find a way to do something with the regular season

to make every game matter more, it just helps with the value of those games.

You didn't say who you thought was going to win the world baseball classic, did you?

No.

Well, I mean, this is my first opportunity to talk about it.

So you didn't talk about it yesterday at all.

Well, no, because the quarterfinals wasn't set.

So I couldn't, I couldn't really explain that, but I thought that's where you would go

with your pick of the day today or on Thursday would be to give us to give us.

Yeah, but you always do weekend picks the last show of the week.

So I think you kind of chickened out because I did you want USA to win.

And you're rooting for USA to win because of your relationship to team USA.

Do you believe that team USA will win?

And the reason I bring that up is, you know, I talked to Jeremy and Adnan about it on Wednesday

was that these other countries care that game with the Dominican Republic for a

Venezuelan on Wednesday was one of the most electric baseball games that I've ever seen.

You know, Fernando Tati's junior, he threw that bat that I think it went from Miami

to the Dominican Republic when he hit that three run home run.

So you see that passion.

You see the passion and you see the energy and you see the love that they're showing.

And then, you know, team USA, it's like you have all these questions about it.

You know, we have a pedalanzo saying, no, nobody asked me to play in this game.

Where pedalanzo is an energy guy.

And I feel like that's what team USA is, is before the information thing.

I feel like team USA is lacking that sort of energy that these other teams have.

So that's why it's tough for me to be like, hey, they squeaked into it.

You know, maybe they can run the table here.

And I hate doing that because Nolan McLean, who kind of gave it up against Italy,

is one of the guys who would be pitching again.

And he's a met guy.

So I want to see him succeed.

But I just think that if the Dominican Republic wins and they can get past Team USA,

I like their chances to take the tournament.

So I'm going with the Dominican Republic just because I want to see them play more.

That's the only reason that I'm taking that.

When would the Dominican, would the Dominican only play USA in the finals?

No, I believe it's the semifinals.

So USA Canada is a quarter final and Dominican Republic Korea is a quarter final.

And the winners of those two play each other.

That's the way that's the way the bracket look like on the World Baseball Classic website.

So I hope that my knowledge of reading a bracket is...

I hope I don't need the formula breakdown for how teams advance to the quarter finals.

I hope I don't need that to have to just read a bracket on who plays who next.

Well, I know that USA plays Canada. It's Canada's first time I love that fact.

I think USA will beat Canada.

I think that the Italy Puerto Rico game fascinates me because Italy undefeated in their pool.

They have not lost a game yet.

Everyone just says these are guys who eat, you know, pennear biata.

But no, they've got bona fide major leagueers on that team.

They are not shleppers at all.

It's not like the old days where Mike Piazza would come in as the coach or a player

to be the greatest team ever. He'd be a one-man band.

Italy is a pretty complete team.

So that's a tough game.

Japan Venezuela.

Japan I assume is favored by our friends and draft kings in that game.

But let me tell you, it shouldn't be by much.

Because Venezuela, they're deep.

I don't view them as good as being as good as the Dominican.

I just think that the USA right now, along with Japan and Dominican,

are the three best teams.

And we've got three teams out of eight that are that good.

Italy is a toss up.

So Japan, Japan minus 180.

Venezuela plus 145.

Puerto Rico is minus 130.

Italy is plus 105.

USA is minus 800.

Canada is plus 500.

Dominican Republic is minus 750.

And Korea is plus 500 there.

Well, so the US is the biggest favorite in the quarter finals.

I'm a little surprised that Italy is not favored over Venezuela.

Again, that is...

Sorry, Puerto Rico.

They're playing Puerto Rico.

They're playing Puerto Rico.

That Italy is not favored over Puerto Rico, excuse me.

There was another issue again about insurance.

And that's one thing is Jose Barrios, the team Puerto Rico,

tried to bring him in and he couldn't get insurance.

This needs to be something that is figured out before the Olympics.

Because you cannot run into these problems and these issues again,

where countries can't get their MLB talent cleared in order to participate

in what this...

You know, this is supposed to be.

And Puerto Rico was running into this problem.

The entire pre-tournament about getting MLB players cleared to participate.

And it happened again.

And they just...

They can't have it happen in these tournaments like this.

Like this should be something that is figured out months and months and months before

the start of the tournament.

Because we all know when it starts, right?

So you can't just run into these issues.

And this year it feels as though it has happened more and more and more

to this Puerto Rican team.

How many times do we have to talk about this?

The insurance issue has been around since the beginning of time.

It is absolutely accurate that a team can decide that they don't care

about the insurance issue and that they can allow a player to play.

But the teams don't.

They don't want to be exposed and that's not going to change.

So I don't quite understand what you think is going to happen.

But that's the issue in the Olympics then.

Because the Olympics is...

You're not doing pre-season stuff.

You're in the middle of a season.

How many teams are going to want to clear their players through insurance in the middle of a season?

Why do you think it's still being negotiated?

But that's why I'm saying it needs to be cleared.

Like the Olympics one needs to be cleared up, right?

You have two years to figure this entire mess out.

But you also had, you know, three years or four years to figure it out,

this run of the World Baseball Classic.

And this is something...

The World Baseball Classic is something that Major League Baseball puts together, right?

Yes.

So why wasn't this something that was fully discussed before it happened?

Like, hey, we want our stars all in this.

But why does it feel like it's only happened more and more to international teams than it did to the American team?

Well, wait a minute.

Trial wasn't allowed to play this year because of insurance.

So for Team USA.

So it does happen.

And by the way, talk about your guy.

You're shortstop for the Metz Lindor.

It's not like the guy's the picture of health.

Yeah, but he wasn't going to play it in anyway because it got hurt.

So it was just a...

You know, it was a moot point because he did get hurt.

Korea.

You know him.

Okay.

Astro.

To hurt.

Like there's no reason for Jim Crane to take that risk.

They're never going to do it.

And believe me, I'd like to come out against Jim Crane for this and blame them.

But this came up when the WBC was developed.

When the Olympics, when you allow pros to play in the Olympics.

I don't know if you remember this.

But the Dream Team of 92.

That's back.

You were too young.

But that's the NBA.

That's Magic and Bird and Patrick Ewing and the one college player Christian Lightner.

That's the true Dream Team of all time period.

Hardstop.

There were huge debates about letting these players like that play in the Olympics.

And what it would do to their performance the following season because it's during the off season.

And is it too much, too tiring, et cetera, et cetera?

If it were during the season.

I do not imagine that you would have had Larry Bird who was already hurt his back hurt.

He barely played in that Dream Team as you may recall.

He's basically at a lie down.

I don't.

I was too.

You were too.

Sorry, man.

That was a hell of a team.

Hell of a team.

But in any case, that's never going to go away.

It's the concept of protecting your assets.

And the way I'd like you to think of it is that you have this...

You're going to laugh at me, but please don't.

You have equipment that you use for nothing personal.

How would you feel if that equipment was used 24 hours a day by other people once you were done with the show

that they would come into your apartment, use your equipment to do a show,

and then hand it off to the next guy?

How would you feel the next morning?

What would you have to do to do our show?

You'd have to clean it.

You'd be upset about people touching your stuff, things being out of order.

But if I permitted somebody to use the equipment, then it's on me.

If the thing breaks, I have nobody to blame but myself.

Exactly, which is why you're...

Yeah, but that's the difference between you and I if we were both team owners.

Is that I would allow it because it's somebody representing their country.

Or in this case, it's somebody needing something for work.

And I just think that that is the big difference between us.

Is that like...

Buddy, I did allow it.

I had played the WBC all the time.

But it doesn't mean that I wanted it to.

Number one, it doesn't mean that I didn't worry about it every single time.

Number two, of course I did.

Because there are a ton of Marlon's prospects who are playing in the WBC.

They're playing great.

Did you see Marxi play for Italy?

And Otto Lopez for Canada has been just crushing.

It's fun.

I mean, I want our players to do well.

If I've got young players and I'm trying to build a reputation,

if I'm Bruce Sherman right now or Peter Bendix of the Marlins, I'm so happy.

Because we're just coming out of this looking great.

So then why would you...

But then why would you guess that Tarek's school will would pitch again?

Like if this is your feel...

If this is your feel for the situation.

Because I would say...

This is your feel for it.

Why would you ever think that school will would pitch?

Because I thought that you would take care of it.

Because I thought that you would take care of it.

Because I thought that you would take care of it.

And Boris being his agent.

That to me was like...

I didn't think from your weight to see that you waited correctly.

Because I didn't think that there was a way...

But I got it wrong.

Yeah.

I thought...

I'll answer it for you, Coco.

Because I know exactly what I was thinking.

He's going to overrule Boris.

He feels such pressure and excitement to play for the USA.

He knows that he can play another game and win it.

And win the gold, win the cup, etc. etc.

I totally underestimated it.

I don't know why I did that.

There was no way Boris was going to let him play.

By the way, I'm looking at a signed poster from the franchise in my background.

And we did a memorabilia Monday.

Did you release the Giancarlo Stanton signed memorabilia Monday ball that you're aware of?

Yeah, I believe that was on Monday.

I believe that was on Monday.

I'm looking at Giancarlo Stanton signature on this poster.

There's no 27 in the G.

It's a mass signed poster.

I mean, mass.

He signed about 24 me.

But anyway, I'm just smiling.

Sorry.

What were we talking about?

The Oscars.

We'll finish with the Oscars.

Are you going to watch?

I feel like I'm going to have to watch.

I think you should.

There's going to perform.

The guy is going to perform from centers.

That amazing song that's nominated.

K-pop, your niece and nephew's favorite song is going to be performed.

Yeah, K-pop demon hunters.

That's the lock.

I said during the show recently that Jesse Buckley was the lock for Best Actress.

Yeah.

Biggest lock ever.

There's actually a bigger lock than she is.

K-pop demon hunters is going to win Best Diamond Mated feature.

Yeah.

I mean, as it should, the movie is terrific.

I just, I still can't get over the way in which the Oscars operates.

Because you had said it yourself that Paul Thomas Anderson,

that this is going to be a lifetime achievement award as much as it is going to just be an award.

Like, why should that be a thing?

Like, I just don't, I don't like that.

Because then you're just taking away from other people.

Because sinners has the most nominations of all time.

It has 16 nominations, which is the most ever.

So if you have a movie that is nominated for the most ever,

how does the director of said movie who got all those nominations because of his movie

not deserve, you know, the Best Director Award for getting his movie nominated 16 times?

Well, I got nominated for it.

Yeah, but nominated, you've already said nominated isn't winning.

That's what you told me for the duckies.

So if I came home without a duckie, you know, this, I don't even know.

Yeah, I don't even know if I'd be on the show right now.

No, you would.

I just would call you a award nominee instead of, remember, they have that in movies.

When they preview movies, Oscar Academy Award nominee starring, they'll do that

or Academy Award winning.

But when you win a Golden Globe, they'll say Golden Globe winner if you've never

nominated for an Oscar.

But if you win a Golden Globe and get nominated for an Oscar and lose,

you're still promoted as an Academy Award nominee.

You're not as a Golden Globe winner.

So the Academy Awards are the top.

The nomination matters.

But Paul Thomas Anderson, he directed a great film in one bad afternoon.

That's why it's going to win Best at it.

I mean, it's a tough film to have directed and put together the way he did.

That's why I think he wins.

All right.

So we have one minute left, one minute left.

Draft Kings has two props for you.

So I'm going to put you on the spot here.

Go.

They have one battle after another total Oscar wins.

Over five and a half is minus 250 under five and a half is plus 175.

They have 13 nominations.

They're going to win six.

Okay.

Seniors total Oscar wins.

They have under four and a half at minus 135.

Over four and a half at plus 100.

They have 16 nominations.

Over.

I think they go over.

Okay.

Well, I've got one battle at six.

I've got centers at five.

Those are those are great market.

Who's doing those markets and draft kings?

I mean, those are ten seconds.

Those are unbelievable markets.

They're playing you off.

The music has started.

They need you off stage.

Thanks for the week.

Thanks for yesterday again.

We'll be back Monday.

We will talk Oscars.

Make sure you are watching the Oscars.

Watching Dan Levitard and his show.

It's just business, Coco.

Thank you again for yesterday.

Be safe, everyone.

This is nothing personal.

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