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That's the nothing person word of the day. It is Thursday,

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March 21st, 2024. And

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I'm coming to you live from

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State College, Pennsylvania. That is

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why you've got the background you've got manufactured

1:01

by me inside of a hotel room

1:03

on campus, here to talk to

1:05

a bunch of people at a sports business

1:07

conference. But of course the show goes

1:09

on. Because that's what we

1:12

do. When we're on the road doing a

1:14

tour, and there's information at davidsamsonpodcast.com,

1:16

coming to a city near

1:18

you, starting in Philadelphia on

1:21

April 2nd, going to

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Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, go to

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davidsamsonpodcast.com, hopefully you'll come

1:27

see us. But guess what? At

1:29

8am, we'll still be doing a

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show. Live, come

1:34

Monday, when we're on DraftKings

1:37

Network at 10am. We'll

1:39

still be doing a show here. Live at

1:41

8am. I have

1:44

not had the best of nights, not because

1:46

it's not a nice hotel, or I don't

1:48

love being back on college campuses. Although this

1:50

is not my favorite Big 10 school, or

1:52

the Big 15 school. Obviously you know I'm

1:54

a badger. But I've

1:57

been up watching the Dodgers play the

1:59

Padres, the Padres. are winning 10-6 right now,

2:01

but I've really been up trying to figure

2:03

out how to communicate to you a

2:06

story that will be all over

2:08

your feed all day today and

2:11

started yesterday about Shohei Otani and

2:13

his translator Ipe Mizuhara.

2:18

And I want to be super careful

2:20

because there are so many different stories

2:23

out there, so much

2:25

complexity, and people online

2:28

or people who are less than serious

2:30

people are poking fun at this and

2:32

trying to get you to laugh about it. And

2:35

it's not that I don't want to entertain you, I just

2:38

want you to be armed with

2:41

certain facts about this story, with what

2:43

baseball is doing behind the scenes at

2:45

the moment, with

2:48

what the Dodgers are doing,

2:50

and understanding that we don't

2:53

have answers to some very

2:55

serious questions. Let's

2:58

start at the beginning. Everything's

3:00

going great. Otani,

3:03

two knocks in this first game,

3:05

Dodgers win Game 1. No

3:08

indication there's an issue. They

3:11

panned the dug out there's Shohei with

3:13

Ipe doing what they do. Being

3:16

jocular, hanging out during the course of the game.

3:18

We saw them when they were angels, now we

3:20

see them when they're Dodgers. Translators

3:25

have become part of the fabric of

3:27

the dugout. It

3:30

used to be that there were only

3:32

translators for Asian players

3:34

in major league dugouts.

3:37

Now there are translators for every

3:40

player who doesn't speak English. There

3:43

is a Spanish translator. It

3:45

is now part of the CBA that

3:48

every team must have a translator in

3:50

the clubhouse. Rules

3:55

about what the translator does, where the

3:57

translator can go, all of

3:59

those clearly clearly delineated

4:01

by Major League Baseball, Ohtani's

4:04

translator was almost

4:08

like a coach. Very

4:10

different than other translators around the

4:12

game for other Japanese players. When

4:16

we hired a translator for Ichiro with

4:18

the Marlins, I want to explain

4:20

how that works. We were negotiating with

4:22

Ichiro and his agent and

4:25

we were told that when you

4:27

have Ichiro, if he is a Marlin,

4:29

you will hire Alan.

4:32

He will be an employee of your team and this

4:34

is what you will pay him. It

4:38

was not negotiable. When

4:41

you are negotiating with Ichiro or with

4:43

any player, you have to identify

4:45

things that are or are not negotiable. That's what

4:47

I've always talked to you about when it comes

4:50

to negotiation. What are the points where you can

4:52

get movement from the other side? What are the

4:54

points where you cannot? Translator,

4:56

not negotiable, this is my

4:58

guy. Do you know that

5:00

I never did a background check on him? We

5:03

never did a check at all? Ichiro wanted him

5:05

higher, we hired him. I'm pretty sure that Alan,

5:07

who is one of the great guys you'll ever

5:09

meet and I've gotten to know him so well

5:12

since I met him, which is now I guess

5:14

nine years ago, maybe more. I can't remember Ichiro's

5:16

first year with the Marlins. I want to say

5:18

it was 15. What

5:22

I can tell you is that he's incredible

5:24

but what I can also tell you is

5:26

that I don't know that any other employee's

5:28

ever been onboarded without a complete check because

5:31

it was just clear that this is what

5:33

was going to be and that's the way

5:35

it was with Otani. When he signed with

5:37

the Dodgers, you're getting Ipe Mizuhara, period. He

5:41

says that he makes between three and five

5:43

hundred thousand dollars a year. He should have

5:45

kept that to himself. There's a bunch of

5:47

translators on a bunch of teams who are

5:49

right now asking for a race but

5:51

Ipe can say, hey I do a bunch of

5:53

different stuff with Shohei. I'm like a scout. I'm

5:56

like his coach. It's

5:58

a bit of horse hockey and that all the translators

6:00

are very close to the players with whom they work.

6:04

So yesterday we're watching the game and everything's fine.

6:07

And then in the middle of the night, early

6:09

in the morning, some point yesterday, depending on what

6:11

time zone you're in, which brings me to an

6:13

issue that I was having reading all the articles

6:15

about Otani when the translator

6:18

met with ESPN on Tuesday. Was that

6:20

Tuesday in Korea? Was it Tuesday New

6:22

York time or Seoul time?

6:25

And then he went back and was with

6:27

ESPN on Wednesday. Was that Wednesday in Korea

6:29

or is today Wednesday in Korea? That was

6:31

yesterday, but that was tomorrow when we're today.

6:34

It can get very confusing with time differences.

6:38

What we do know for sure is that

6:41

the Los Angeles Dodgers fired

6:45

Shohei Otani's interpreter. They

6:47

fired him. He's not in the

6:49

dugout today for game two in

6:51

Korea. He lasted one game. He's

6:53

the Aaron Rodgers of

6:56

the Los Angeles Dodgers. One

6:58

game, gone. So

7:01

when you read that he was fired, the

7:03

thought is obviously he did

7:05

something acute that the

7:08

Dodgers didn't know about that only

7:10

found out about and had to

7:12

act immediately. When

7:14

I read about a player or being

7:16

released like that, or an employee being

7:18

fired like that, you're thinking

7:20

some sort of crime committed, a violent

7:23

crime, a nonviolent crime. You're thinking some

7:25

sort of action that took place relating

7:28

to sexual harassment. These are the things

7:30

that go into my head. Here's

7:33

what I didn't have on the bingo card, that

7:36

Ipe Mizuhara was a gambling

7:38

addict who owed four and

7:40

a half million dollars in

7:43

theory to a bookie and

7:45

Shohei Otani paid

7:47

that off for Ipe. Except

7:51

the first thing I read

7:53

is Ipe stole the money from

7:55

Shohei Otani to pay off his bookie.

7:58

Then I read that Otani knew

8:00

about it and gave the money

8:02

to E-Pay, and then I read

8:05

that Otani didn't actually know about

8:07

it. And

8:09

that was all from a source

8:11

named E-Pay. The

8:14

craziest part of the story that's only

8:16

going to get crazier and scarier for

8:18

baseball is that the

8:20

fired employee has two

8:22

different stories on two different days.

8:26

His first story is that

8:28

he didn't bet on baseball, he only bet

8:30

on soccer, NFL, NBA, Freudian

8:33

slip. His first story is

8:35

that Otani was aware and helped him pay off

8:37

the debts because he asked Otani to help him.

8:40

And that Otani directly paid the bookie because

8:42

Otani didn't want to give him money for

8:44

fear that he would gamble it away without

8:46

paying his debts. But

8:50

then the next day, or the next that

8:53

day in Korea, who can tell? He

8:55

said no, no, Otani had no

8:57

involvement at all. Otani didn't know

8:59

I was betting. What

9:02

changed in between those two

9:04

stories? Baseball,

9:06

Major League Baseball, did

9:10

they or did they not have wind

9:12

that the Los Angeles Times was doing

9:14

an investigation into an illegal gambling ring

9:16

in California? Did they or

9:18

did they not know that ESPN

9:20

was getting a 90 minute interview

9:23

with the translator? Did

9:26

Major League Baseball, once they found

9:28

out that the translator gave the

9:30

interview and implicated Otani, did Major

9:32

League Baseball get involved and say,

9:34

hold on, Dodgers,

9:37

you're firing him, ESPN, you

9:39

can't run that. Nez,

9:42

the agent slash spokesman, who's unnamed

9:44

so far, but my

9:46

bet is it's the agent, but we

9:49

don't know, the spokesman is disavowing the

9:52

original interview to ESPN where Otani

9:54

gets implicated, saying, I have no

9:56

idea what Mizuhar is even talking

9:58

about. an

10:00

adjacent born movie. I

10:02

am or Mission Impossible. You

10:05

are disavowed. Maybe it

10:07

is like that. I

10:09

wonder what Wesley Snipes and Sean

10:11

Connery would have to say about this situation.

10:15

Where Ipe people are saying he's

10:17

taking the fall for Otani. He

10:20

is standing up like any respectful

10:22

proud Japanese man would do and

10:25

he will take the fall

10:27

for his boss, his superior.

10:29

That's one hell of an act to

10:31

take. Is it unheard of in

10:33

Japan? Maybe, maybe not. Is

10:36

that really what's happening here? Can

10:38

baseball really believe that in this day and

10:41

age we are all going to let it

10:43

go? That Ipe

10:45

acted on his own in the

10:47

single bookie theory where Otani

10:49

had nothing to do with this, no knowledge of

10:51

it of any kind. Why

10:54

does that matter? Because

10:56

it is against the rules for

10:59

Otani to give money to a

11:01

bookie under any scenario period because

11:03

that's illegal gambling. It's against

11:06

the law in California. Let's

11:08

start with that. The

11:13

other thing that the translator said, Ipe

11:15

Mizuhara, which I have been

11:17

struggling with for hours today, is

11:19

he claims he doesn't know the difference

11:21

between DraftKings FanDuel and a bookie.

11:26

We do a lot of reads for

11:28

DraftKings, Metalarc, nothing personal. DraftKings is a

11:30

sponsor. DraftKings may

11:32

be the best company I've ever seen

11:34

including any of the commercials that I

11:36

watch for Eczema where you could end

11:38

up with kidney cancer. I'm

11:40

making that up. Remember the commercials where now there's 30

11:43

seconds of all the bad things that can happen to side

11:45

effects? How

11:47

many times have I read to you all

11:50

the things that can happen if you gamble too

11:52

much, what the rules are, how to gamble responsibly?

11:56

It is DraftKings job under

11:58

the law. law and

12:00

they do it morally, ethically, and

12:02

it's good for business. Shockingly,

12:05

I don't know if you know this. It's

12:08

not good for alcohol companies for there to

12:10

be alcoholics that may seem counterintuitive. They don't

12:13

want there to be alcoholics because alcoholics either

12:15

die or quit. That's

12:17

bad for business. Rehab and

12:19

death, bad for business. Gambling

12:22

companies don't want gambling addicts. They don't want

12:24

people losing their jobs in their homes. They

12:27

don't want people getting divorced or committing

12:29

crimes. They want people gambling.

12:33

Same with casinos. They get

12:35

no thrill when they have to collect

12:37

somebody's house or they cause a divorce.

12:39

None of that is positive for them. Continued

12:42

business. That's how you can

12:44

guarantee revenue and your flow

12:46

of revenue. For

12:51

him not to know the difference between DraftKings,

12:53

a legitimate company, fandule, a legitimate company, and

12:55

giving money to a bookie. Is

12:58

that really, does anyone believe that?

13:01

And is it true if you don't believe

13:03

one thing that some person says that you

13:05

then have to investigate everything that person says,

13:07

or can there be independent mistruths, but Otani

13:09

didn't bet at all. He gave the money

13:12

or it didn't give the money. He knew

13:14

where he didn't know, but either way, there

13:16

was no betting on baseball. It's

13:19

interesting that Major League Baseball wants it

13:21

to be very clear and everyone's been

13:23

very clear to report. There is no

13:26

instance of any betting on baseball because

13:28

can you imagine if Shohei

13:30

Otani's translator was betting on

13:32

baseball? That's Pete Rose folks.

13:34

That's end game. You

13:37

think baseball wants to suspend Shohei Otani?

13:40

So what are they doing now? Baseball

13:43

is meeting in Korea. They're watching a

13:45

game. Excited to

13:47

fly home privately after the

13:49

game, commercially in the morning. Korea

13:52

time. Trying to figure

13:54

out how long they can go

13:56

with. We Have no comment

13:58

because we are in. That's getting the

14:01

situation. Right now

14:03

the let the Dodgers lead with that

14:05

and and with that and I'm fine.

14:08

The Dodgers are aware of media reports

14:10

are gathering information. There's

14:12

only one bit of mystery with that. The

14:16

Dodgers are gathering information. Mlb

14:19

is gathering information. Number

14:22

One: The Dodgers had a release a statement

14:24

on Bauer. Run. Your Rias.

14:28

It. Was all supportive of what Mlb

14:30

is doing. Mlb policies. The

14:33

Dodgers simply in their statements confirmed

14:36

said he pays been terminated. What

14:39

they didn't say is that Mlb is

14:41

investigating. But. I

14:43

promise you here today Mlb

14:46

is investigating their attorneys involved.

14:49

There are Us attorney's There's a criminal

14:51

case involved here. There's

14:54

an entire F B I involvement. You'll

14:56

read about yourself. We've been involved because

14:59

this is the same gambling ring that

15:01

we covered. I'm nothing personally. yourself week

15:03

was implicated in and mad to make

15:05

sure that we all knew he had

15:07

no idea that and been was going

15:09

on. He. Was just plaisance best.

15:14

Mlb needs to protect show hey or

15:16

Tawny. At. About.

15:19

Were forty five am sworn in. I played

15:22

a game with myself and the game was.

15:25

An announcement from Mlb. That.

15:28

Blank player and I just thought of any

15:30

player. And it happened to be that. Jazz.

15:33

She's on was on my mind but gestures

15:35

on as another player. The gal Rojas was

15:37

on my mind that supplier look at any

15:39

other player on the Dodgers. Insert

15:42

player name. Not

15:45

Superstar. How

15:47

different would things be with Mlb right

15:50

now? How different with the narrative be?

15:52

How fast would Mlb as the Dodgers

15:54

to release that player? how

15:56

quickly would mlb stand up and

15:58

say this is absolutely unacceptable. How

16:02

quickly would MLB have a statement saying we are

16:05

investigating, but then leaking

16:07

out major suspension coming?

16:11

You and I both know how fast it would be. We

16:14

know that superstars are treated differently. My

16:17

argument and

16:20

my point of view, as difficult

16:22

as this will be for MLB to hear, is

16:25

that when it comes to gambling and the

16:27

integrity of the game, you

16:29

cannot treat the superstar differently. Many

16:33

of you are going to go back and think about

16:35

Michael Jordan and his forced two-year retirement and the conspiracy

16:37

theory that gambling and

16:39

the conspiracy theory that gambling was involved.

16:43

I do believe that. I

16:47

think he loved baseball, don't get me wrong. And

16:51

that was back before leagues had relationships

16:53

with gambling the way they do now.

16:57

Now it's even more important, now that

16:59

the lines are so cloudy, now

17:02

that you've got coaches, players

17:04

who are willing to speak up about

17:06

how tough it is dealing with the

17:08

gambling part of the game. Just

17:11

yesterday, out of nowhere, you had the

17:13

coach of the, I can't

17:15

remember what team, he's the Cleveland

17:17

Cavaliers coach, the team that lost to

17:19

the Heat last night, Bernie Bickerstaff's son

17:21

JB. He was talking about

17:24

how insane it is when people yell at him

17:26

from the stands, dude, we're up 10, the line's

17:29

11, don't take your starters out. We've

17:31

got to cover. And he wants his starters

17:33

out because he doesn't want them to get hurt. You've

17:36

had players talking about how they feel like they're

17:38

prop bets where they're keeping track of how many

17:40

points they have or rebounds

17:43

or what they're combined over under

17:45

is. This is the dangerous line

17:47

that we've been talking about for months

17:49

and months and years on this show.

17:54

And I understand why the

17:56

leagues take the money. Owners

17:59

want it. But

18:01

if you don't want to be

18:03

the WWE, the WWF,

18:06

then you have to be

18:08

strong, decisive, and thorough

18:13

when it comes to this problem that

18:15

is happening with Otani or any issue

18:18

where gambling is involved. The

18:20

rules have changed. You can gamble on other

18:23

sports. Football sends 20 pages of rules to

18:25

its players. You can be on campus or

18:27

20 steps off campus. You can be betting

18:29

through your phone, but only if your phone

18:31

is in a legal state, but not within

18:33

a training facility. MLB has

18:35

rules that are read to

18:37

the players during spring training and then, again,

18:39

given to the

18:42

players and discussed throughout the season by

18:44

executives like myself and coaches and

18:46

managers and front office people. So

18:54

what will baseball actually do? Baseball

18:57

is going to punt. Baseball is going to

18:59

wait. They're going to wait and

19:01

wait. It's going to be a lot like the

19:03

Trevor Bowers situation. They're going to investigate. It's going

19:06

to take longer than it should because

19:09

what they want to announce today is

19:12

there's no story here. Shohei

19:14

Otani had no idea. The

19:16

interpreter, E-Pay has been

19:19

fired. That's the end. The

19:22

problem is it just doesn't make sense to me.

19:25

Otani giving $4.5 million to E-Pay,

19:27

that's a taxable event. There's a gift tax

19:30

implication there. You can't just give someone $4.5

19:32

million. You

19:34

can lend it to them, but then there have to be

19:36

agreements where interest is paid by E-Pay

19:39

back to Shohei, but

19:41

there's documents that have to be written and

19:43

signed. Maybe Shohei

19:46

used his lifetime gift exclusion to give

19:48

E-Pay the money. You can't just pay

19:50

the debt of somebody and not have

19:52

it count, not

19:54

have it looked at for what it is. It's

19:57

a gift. There's the

19:59

claim. There's IRS involvement. All

20:06

sorts of authorities are involved in this. Major

20:09

League Baseball cannot just say it's done and

20:11

wash it away the way they want to

20:13

because it's Shohei Ohtani. And

20:15

so they won't. What

20:20

else? Can

20:25

you imagine not knowing? I just can't.

20:28

All right. I want to switch topics right

20:30

now to something that some people

20:32

have been asking me about. And I think it's

20:34

important to cover because there's some angry people in

20:36

the US who are not being able to watch

20:38

these baseball games because you sleep more than I

20:41

do. Coca, play some music. You know what I

20:43

want. I want to talk to Samson. So

20:51

you want to talk to Samson. Get

20:53

on my Twitter at David P. Samson

20:56

or get to davidsamsonpodcast.com. Ask

20:58

me a question. Hello, David. Hello.

21:01

Thanks. Good to see you. I

21:03

don't understand why MLB and NBA and

21:06

all the leagues are so interested in

21:08

playing games outside the United States. I

21:11

had to watch opening day at 4 a.m. I

21:13

guess I know what time zone you're in. The Dodgers

21:15

are my team. And the only way

21:18

to see Ohtani play his first game was to

21:20

wake up early or stay up late. This is

21:22

horse hockey. Okay.

21:25

Thank you. Thanks for

21:27

reaching out. Where do you live in

21:29

the mountain area? Because it was

21:32

6 a.m. Eastern, 3 a.m. Pacific, 4 a.m.

21:34

mountain time. Are you from Denver? I

21:37

assume if you're from Denver, my guess is you

21:39

stayed up late and not woke up early. But

21:41

hey, that's just me assuming. Let

21:44

me explain how MLB International

21:46

works and NFL and NBA. You

21:49

may be wondering why the NFL is interested

21:51

in playing 930 games streaming exclusively on Peacock.

21:55

That's as much

21:57

as you can give to... the

22:00

fans in Europe because that's

22:02

still a 230 start in England, a

22:04

330 start in the rest of

22:09

continental Europe, most of continental

22:12

Europe. The

22:14

international games are not done for you.

22:18

For those of us in the United States, there

22:20

is zero consideration given. It

22:24

is all about the following three revenue streams.

22:26

One, the broadcast deal that

22:28

comes into the league from

22:31

international broadcast partners for regular

22:33

season games. Two, the

22:36

amount of profit that's made because

22:38

a promoter guarantees money to the

22:40

leagues to host games at a

22:42

venue internationally. Three, the

22:45

licensing and merchandise that

22:47

is done internationally, that

22:49

is incremental money. Add

22:53

up all of those dollars. License

22:55

being the top, the promoter paying for

22:57

the game being the second, and then licensing

22:59

being the third. The fourth

23:01

level is the overall global footprint of

23:04

the game. The

23:06

fifth level is the little

23:08

FU that happens between commissioners of the different

23:10

sports. Starting from

23:12

number five, Roger Goodell gets to look at Adam Silver

23:15

and say, you think you're going to play games in

23:17

London or Rob Manford, you're going to bring the Yankees

23:19

Red Sox to London. Good luck. We own London. How

23:22

many times have you heard the NFL say that? Baseball

23:26

goes to Asia, say we

23:28

own Asia, and then the NBA, Adam Silver calls

23:30

up Rob and say, heard of Yao Ming. Do

23:32

you know how much business we're doing

23:35

in China? We're doing more business in China

23:37

than you're doing in Japan and Korea, times

23:39

two. Then

23:41

Roger Goodell says, hey, can we go

23:43

back to talk about Europe? Then

23:48

baseball says, what about the Dominican Venezuela? And

23:52

Adam Silver and Roger Goodell say, yeah, we really don't

23:54

care. There's not much money there. How about Puerto Rico?

23:56

Yeah, not too much money there either. that

24:00

goes on between the leagues because the

24:02

owners want to be able to say,

24:04

hey, our league is the global sport.

24:07

Our sport is global. Then

24:10

you've got the owners telling the commissioner, hey,

24:12

we want more money distributed to us. So

24:15

the commissioner goes to his departments, one of

24:17

which is the international department, and says, hey,

24:20

generate more revenue. The international department

24:22

says, I can do that, but

24:24

you've got to play games. That's

24:26

all they care about internationally, is

24:28

having actual games played. How do

24:30

you feel about exhibition? Not that

24:32

great. It's X dollars

24:34

for exhibition, but it's Y dollars

24:36

for regular season. Now,

24:39

if you'd play a playoff game

24:41

internationally, like a Super Bowl, forget

24:44

about it. A

24:47

neutral site World Series game played in

24:49

Japan. Do you have any idea the

24:51

amount of money that the owners would make?

24:55

There are certain lines that every league will

24:57

not cross, though

24:59

I do believe a Super Bowl will be in London, might I

25:01

add, while it's streaming

25:03

and pay-per-view. So

25:07

going over to Asia is a little more complicated

25:09

from a time-different standpoint because you cannot play a

25:11

game at 7 a.m. in

25:14

Korea. That would be 8 p.m. Eastern

25:16

time. You can't play it 8

25:18

a.m. Korean time. Why?

25:21

Because the union has to approve both

25:23

as part of the CBA and

25:27

as a practical matter. The players

25:29

have to approve these international trips. Did you

25:31

know that players, all of them who are

25:33

in Korea, are getting extra money for going

25:35

to Korea? It's part of the CBA. In

25:38

addition to their salaries, they make extra money.

25:40

So for rookies, they love

25:42

when their teams play internationally because it's a

25:44

pretty good, sizable bonus they each get. For

25:47

Otani, it's actually fantastic for

25:49

him to play because he gets to make a

25:51

bunch of sponsored paid appearances. For

25:56

Yamamoto, Pitching 43, pitches in the first

25:58

inning, not getting out of the game. The first

26:00

any not his idea. To

26:05

the players go there. And. They won't

26:07

agree to play morning games. Major.

26:09

League baseball players as matter of fact. Professional

26:11

athletes in general are not awake at eight

26:14

am. So. Therefore, what you

26:16

do is you have to play at

26:18

the time that is better for the

26:20

promoter, better for the players. and that's

26:23

a regular night game seven Pm. That's.

26:25

The time at these curry games or been

26:27

played, it just so happens to be six

26:29

Am in New York. three eminent in Los

26:31

Angeles. Super. all of you complaining that they

26:33

don't care about you. You're.

26:37

right? But. That's the whole

26:39

point of it. It's to care about

26:41

them to care about the countries where

26:43

the games are been played. You can't

26:45

serve both masters at once because of

26:47

the sun. So

26:51

if you don't want to wake up and watch are tiny

26:53

than watching on opening day march twenty eighth and pretend

26:55

that's the opener. Or. Don't watch it

26:57

when your football team goes over to Europe. Or

27:00

don't go to the games.totally up to

27:02

you. The. Amount of time and

27:04

that we spent on the Mlb International

27:06

committee which I was on thinking about

27:08

the impact of the international games on

27:11

our domestic fans. Wait for it. Zero.

27:16

That's. How many minutes we spent thinking

27:18

about the Us fans when it came

27:21

to international games? When. It comes

27:23

other things you're all we think

27:25

about. international, not. Thank.

27:29

You for that question. I. Don't agree

27:31

with us or socket. Or nothing

27:33

personal. pick of the day, We.

27:36

Had the Dodgers yesterday with the run line

27:38

the and that was a winning bet. So

27:41

we were thirty five and thirty seven going

27:43

into last night's game. The. Dodgers won

27:45

the game. Five to do. I didn't get

27:47

a chance to give you my Padres bet

27:49

there's plane right now. I hadn't

27:51

the rundown Coke. As you know, you're

27:54

the only one who has proof. I

27:56

had the loser of yesterday's game winning

27:58

today's game. Because. Mlb very much

28:00

want a split. the players want to

28:02

split. It's not funny slept Japan the

28:04

where the A's did lose two games

28:06

and fly home. Not ideal. So.

28:09

I thought there be a split right now.

28:11

It's eleven, eight. Padres.

28:13

Are winning. And I had

28:15

that accepted didn't count. Because

28:18

I did say it on the show, I did

28:20

say six years plus a mass, how that go.

28:23

The sun's crush the sixers By thirteen,

28:25

we're down to thirty Five Am. Thirty

28:27

Eight. I've gotta pick for tonight.

28:30

Can. The Knicks possibly win again on the

28:32

road. The way they crushed me by beating

28:34

the Warriors though making me happy. I

28:37

don't think so. Their plane in Denver. Cited.

28:41

As I am about the next and their

28:44

chances. There is a

28:46

Grand Canyon like gap between the next

28:48

and the nuggets and I think that

28:50

will be exhibited tonight. The Nuggets a

28:52

win by double digits. they'll have Do

28:54

that is my pick of the day.

28:56

No. More regular season baseball till Thursday the

28:59

twenty eighth. We. Will have Mlb

29:01

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29:03

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29:16

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29:18

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29:20

to review one of our top one

29:22

hundred movies, confessions of a Dangerous Mine

29:24

and never talk more about employees stealing

29:26

from employers. The. Way that it was

29:29

rumored that he pay so from or tiny

29:31

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29:33

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30:20

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30:22

oh tiny and what's happening with his interpreter?

30:25

But. There's going to be more. I promise

30:27

you. I could done a whole show just

30:29

about that. I want to review Confessions of

30:31

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30:34

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30:42

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30:45

That just an old saying. The younger people have

30:47

never heard of the gong show or you're performing

30:49

live for ten of doing a show. Like.

30:51

A live show in Atlanta on April

30:53

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30:56

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30:58

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31:00

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31:03

And I don't know if I can remember the name of

31:05

that. and they bang the gone and you get taken hostage.

31:08

That's. Really expression is oh my God

31:10

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31:13

gone. It's the gong show. Were.

31:15

The gong show. Confessions.

31:18

Of Dangerous Mind is directed by George Clooney.

31:20

It's a life story of Chuck Barris or

31:22

is it. A

31:24

young Michael Cera. Sam.

31:29

Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Fun!

31:31

Movie to watch again. Unbelievable

31:33

story. A. Game show

31:35

host Been a spy? Is it

31:37

possible? Maybe. You. Never know. Please.

31:40

Watch it George Clooney. Such an accomplished director.

31:42

His last movie, Boys in the Boat I

31:44

didn't review that favorite release. But overall, I

31:47

love George Clooney as director and Sam Rockwell.

31:49

Find me a movie that you don't like.

31:52

What's. The movie that I loved. Ah

31:54

come on Coca The End End

31:56

End World's. There's. Like three words

31:58

to it. And. Samurai wells in it.

32:01

It's about him in a running a pool.

32:03

He. Works are. God.

32:08

Confessions of a Dangerous Minds Sam Rockwell.

32:11

Maybe. It's too early or I coca. bring

32:13

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32:16

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32:18

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32:20

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32:22

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32:44

King's Speech Number Fifty

32:47

Five. What apes?

32:51

Are you serious as you hit the random and it

32:53

came up with the king's speech. With.

32:55

All that's going on with William. And.

32:57

Will he became the throne. Know.

33:01

The. King's Speech. Queen. Elizabeth.

33:05

William Charles Nobody. All right. I'll

33:07

review it next week. Or.

33:10

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33:13

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33:15

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33:18

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33:22

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33:27

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33:54

For. A You Sarah. For.

33:56

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33:59

can't wait served the King's speech as we continue

34:01

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34:07

For next week, I'll be reviewing the

34:09

King's speech. One,

34:13

1,000, two, 1,000, three, 1,000. How

34:19

about employees stealing from employers? I'm

34:22

not very much in favor of that. I had to fire a bunch

34:24

of people for ticket

34:27

malfeasance. Remember,

34:30

we did the story in Jacksonville, that guy who's in

34:32

jail. How many millions

34:34

did he steal from the Jaguars for

34:36

all of his gambling and private jets and

34:38

yachts and lifestyles of the I'm not rich

34:40

and I'm only famous because now I use

34:42

soap on a rope, that kind

34:45

of thing, and how

34:47

unbelievably horrible that story was.

34:50

We went over the story years

34:52

ago of the baseball employee who

34:55

stole Houston's flight,

34:58

their private analytic

35:00

stuff ended up being

35:02

suspended by baseball and losing his freedom.

35:05

We have another story like that going on Minnesota. So

35:08

quickly, A-Rod is out of the

35:10

news with his deal to buy the Timberwolves.

35:13

Remember we did the segment yesterday. Go check

35:15

out yesterday's show, episode 1015 on March

35:18

20th, when we told you that A-Rod

35:20

was going to get the Wolves. It wasn't going

35:22

to be a problem. The fact that the Carlisle

35:24

group walked away, no worries. It

35:26

took A-Rod like four hours to announce, Hey,

35:28

we got money elsewhere. We're good to go.

35:31

I told you that would happen, but the

35:34

T-wolves are back in the news for something

35:36

insane to me. They

35:38

have an employee who's now been fired, who

35:41

is arrested and

35:43

will likely serve time. He

35:46

stole a hard drive from the team's

35:48

head of analytics. That's

35:51

a felony folks. He's

35:55

in prison right now because he can't make bail. And

35:58

here's the problem. Problem.

36:01

We think that sports. What's.

36:03

Proprietary by your scatter reports.

36:07

Sample. Coke thinks about their formula to

36:09

make Coke. That's not

36:11

what. Morgan. Stanley thinks about

36:13

their formula to figure out which companies to.

36:16

Back. In which not to. The.

36:19

Reason why people. As

36:22

information that is club proprietary is

36:24

they feel that there is something

36:26

that they do that's different than

36:28

what you do. They

36:30

feel that their difference makes them better

36:32

at looking at the same scenario the

36:35

you're looking at. They can

36:37

look at it better and therefore

36:39

monetize it better. Whether it's to

36:41

make money, get more, wins, sell

36:43

more soda, Whatever the case is,

36:45

it all goes down to been

36:47

better at what you do them,

36:49

what your competitor does, Corporate

36:56

espionage. Is going on

36:59

for as long as they're been to corporations? Just

37:02

like country to country espionage has

37:04

been going on since, even before

37:06

Sean Penn and. And

37:09

Timothy Hutton where the South and M a

37:11

Snowman. If you know, you

37:13

know. It's. A great movie should wash

37:15

it. How

37:17

did we protect? Our

37:19

information: On a

37:22

baseball team. Or on Wall Street. Passwords:

37:26

Firewalls. I.

37:28

See: Departments Complies departments.

37:32

Cameras. Security.

37:34

Departments. Law enforcement

37:36

people. Very Orwellian.

37:40

Why? Because we believe that

37:42

the we had was so good if that people

37:44

would want to take it. Every

37:47

team believes that. Every company believes that.

37:50

The. T was believed that they're noise. Sparkman spare

37:52

anybody else is just like the ashes. Believe

37:54

there's is. And so did the Cardinals. But.

37:57

What do you do as an employee when you go from job

37:59

to job? On a

38:01

low scale, you do something simple like

38:04

take paper clips, posted notes, and printing

38:06

paper. Maybe.

38:08

Your files. But.

38:11

What if you're really doing something and

38:13

a much larger scale because you have

38:15

the ability. To get a job

38:17

with the competitor and get paid a ton of

38:19

money. And you claim that

38:21

you're smart about something. You claim that

38:24

you develop something when in fact, you're

38:26

not that smart. You didn't have our

38:28

beds, and you're just generally full of

38:30

crap. Where.

38:32

Do you do? You gotta

38:34

find out how the sauces made. See.

38:38

Steal it. And

38:40

that's with this guy did? Files.

38:42

That had information about play the contracts.

38:45

the t was strategic plans. All.

38:48

Sorts of things that would

38:50

be incredibly valuable to other

38:52

teams. So.

38:55

What this employ did. when he got arrested

38:57

as he passing he said oh my god

38:59

now now now you're missing what I'm saying.

39:02

I only was bar is hard drive he gave

39:04

it to me to fix so I fixed it

39:06

and I just forgot to give it back to

39:08

him. But. The hard

39:10

drive was actually confiscated and all

39:12

the files had been copied. Why?

39:17

Would he be site copying files if

39:19

you were just fixing that name? given

39:21

it right back. The.

39:24

Cover up is always worse than the

39:26

crime. This guy is

39:28

in deep trouble. So.

39:30

What are we do about it? This.

39:33

Is where I've been thinking about. how do I stop

39:35

people. From. Stealing. And.

39:37

I've come to the conclusion that there's

39:39

certain things that never end. There

39:42

are certain. Traits

39:45

that people have. Morning.

39:48

This is one. Delusions.

39:52

Another. It

39:56

won't be me. this

40:00

Things that will never stop. No

40:02

matter if people say millennials do this, Gen Xers

40:04

do that, baby boomers or this or that, guess

40:06

what? You're just like we were and I'm just

40:09

like they are. We're

40:11

all the same. So

40:13

all I can do is put out one

40:15

fire at a time. I

40:18

can pretend and spend money and budget money and

40:20

all the security issues. But if someone

40:22

wants to really take something, they're

40:25

going to take it. And there's no way to

40:27

stop it. How

40:29

about deterrent? Jail to

40:31

me would be the biggest deterrent losing your freedom. You

40:34

don't think this Timbrel's employee knew that what

40:36

he was doing would get him jail time?

40:38

Of course he did, but not enough

40:40

jail time that it was a deterrent or the

40:43

view that I'll never get caught was even stronger

40:45

than the deterrent of losing his freedom. So

40:48

the scale, maybe the only

40:50

thing we can do is tip the scale, but all

40:52

of a sudden we're taking away people's rights and I'm

40:54

not in favor of that, but

40:56

you tip the scale enough, Hey, you're accused of something.

40:59

You're going to jail for 30 years. Forget three strikes

41:01

and you're out. It's one possible strike. It could be

41:03

a spare, but if it's a strike, it doesn't matter.

41:05

You're in jail for 30 years. Boy,

41:08

that'd be a deterrent, but that would really set

41:10

up a lot of problems like framing. So

41:15

my answer was as an executive is

41:17

that I have to keep doing what these teams

41:19

are doing, what these companies are doing, handling it

41:22

one felon at a time. The

41:29

NFL competition committee met yesterday. I love

41:31

when the NFL competition committee meets because they are in such cover

41:34

their ass mode, they're trying to reduce

41:37

concussions, make sure that kids are playing

41:39

football the way they're all playing baseball,

41:42

make sure that nobody's

41:44

getting hurt, making sure that nobody's suing them anymore.

41:47

They come out with new rules every single year. You can't

41:49

tackle that way. Our kickoffs will not allow you to be

41:51

this way. Well,

41:54

the competition committee, and I've served on one of these competition committees, This is a funny

41:56

one, the NFL one. The

42:00

to changes their tried to have approved by

42:02

Nfl owners and they're both can get approved

42:04

and one is funnier than the other. The.

42:07

First one is remember those hip tackles

42:09

where you're grabbing a player and then

42:11

bringing them down and then landing on

42:13

their legs and were like oh that

42:15

looks like a penalty step must hurts.

42:18

While the Nfl wants to make it official

42:20

fifteen yards automatic first downs if there's any

42:22

sort of. Defender. Who

42:24

grabs a runner with both hands, Wraps

42:27

the runner with both arms. And

42:29

then on Weights himself by swiveling

42:31

are dropping his hips are lower

42:33

body. So. It's like

42:35

grabbing a player from behind,

42:37

dropping them, twisting, landing. Players.

42:41

Can't do that. The.

42:43

Nfl players says he has come out

42:45

and said this is absolute ridiculous. Our

42:49

players can be told they can't tackle that way.

42:51

What happens if they just do it? An instinctive

42:54

trying to get a player down. We.

42:56

Have to let defenders defend or else you're not

42:58

going to view defenders as premium and you're not

43:00

gonna pay him what they deserve to get paid

43:02

even in salary cap league. They.

43:06

Are two different constituencies. There's

43:08

defence. Offence. In

43:11

baseball, pitchers, Position. Players

43:14

you're always answering to people who

43:16

got two different things in mind:

43:18

Running backs don't want to get

43:21

hurt, Tight ends, receivers, quarterbacks protect

43:23

them. Don't want to get hurt.

43:27

If I can't be tackled a get

43:29

more runs making more yards, made more

43:31

touchdowns. I. Get paid more defenders

43:33

miss tackles they become more to

43:35

changeable. They get paid less. So.

43:38

The Nfl Players Association had to come out on

43:40

the side of the defense with this one. I.

43:42

Think they should just end up playing flag

43:44

football because that would eliminate all concussions and

43:46

then he could just be eighteen. Pro Bowl

43:49

Games Yes, I said a team because the

43:51

Nfl mark my words. They want an eighteenth

43:53

get and are going to get. The

43:57

second rule though, is the one that I love.

44:00

Even better, Kick

44:02

Ass! The. Nfl

44:04

has worked for years to make sure the

44:06

people do me a concussions on kickoffs. I've

44:09

always enjoyed kick off because what's more, say

44:11

many kickoff return. What's.

44:13

More sane and seen grown man running

44:15

for force. Hundred. Miles an hour,

44:18

the crew and on a treadmill that I

44:20

couldn't run for two seconds, running with a

44:22

seventy yard head start and banging into a

44:24

player who has barely gotten the ball. And.

44:26

Then you say wow, what had happened to me? I'd

44:28

be dead. Let me watch

44:31

more. That's the guilty pleasure of the

44:33

audience. The Nfl has been mandating to

44:35

stop all of those things, which is

44:37

why kickoffs are so damn boring now.

44:40

Commercial. Commercial Touchback Commercial

44:43

First down. Oh. My

44:45

God. Get the game going! To

44:48

the Nfl owners said hey we have an idea.

44:52

Let's. Take a page out of that brilliant

44:54

league. The excess out. And let's

44:56

start our tic last. But. Make

44:59

sure that our players on the

45:01

kicking team can not start running

45:03

until the receiving team catches the

45:06

ball. And

45:08

better yet, let's not give them a big

45:10

head start. Let's position them all the way

45:12

on the receiving teams forty yard line. So

45:14

the most yard they can run is forty

45:16

yards of the guy catches in the end

45:19

zone is the guy catches is the tenant

45:21

starts running use are running from the forty.

45:23

If you the same speed you'll meet in

45:25

the middle. Which. Is at the

45:27

twenty five yard line. What's.

45:30

Gonna happen after fifteen yards, you can

45:32

barely get underway in fifteen yards. Brilliance.

45:38

Now. Horrific. I've.

45:41

Got a suggestion for the Nfl competition

45:43

committee. Just. Bite

45:45

the Bullet Eliminate the special teams

45:48

people who are the return or

45:50

sorry Devin Hester Hall of Famer

45:52

Eliminate kick off altogether. Either

45:55

make it a point. Or.

46:00

Give. The receiving team the ball first

46:02

and ten on thirty yards. Every.

46:05

Possession. If. You still

46:07

want to pay for things by going to

46:09

extra commercials? Go to Extra Commercials. But.

46:12

Don't do commercial. Ridiculous. Play. Commercial.

46:15

It's. Simply not worth it.

46:19

The. Nfl just spend so much dame

46:21

time figuring out these proposals. First.

46:27

And. The remaining time I want to talk about what

46:29

happens when you sign a player. I.

46:32

Have one more topic for a Coca: We.

46:34

Do when you sign a player is

46:37

huge contracts and the player underperforms. The.

46:39

Player has a bad spring. Or.

46:41

The player. Starts off badly.

46:46

Nothing. And. I want to explain

46:48

what that means. John Carlos then can hit three

46:51

home runs in a game like he did yesterday

46:53

or a Combat oh, Sixty Nine in Spring Training

46:55

with no home runs and it will have zero

46:57

impact on Stanton. Be in the starting lineup opening

47:00

day and be in line of everyday. He's healthy,

47:03

I've told you that about spring friends. There

47:06

are fringe players that are working for

47:08

jobs, trying to stay healthy, trying to

47:10

be in position, get called up who

47:13

take spring Training seriously. Be established veterans.

47:15

they're getting ready for the season. What

47:18

happens when you have a player was a bad start. Yamamoto

47:21

giving up five runs in today's game in

47:23

one any. Does. That mean the

47:25

Dodgers are in their sweet right now

47:27

watching them watching the games. In my

47:29

god, be wasted. Three hundred and twenty

47:31

five million dollars. Holy Cow. This

47:34

guy's not better than Garrett Cold. Doesn't.

47:37

Work that way. Even

47:39

the best pitchers. Have

47:41

games where they give up five runs or

47:44

more. Even the best position players have twenty

47:46

games with they're hitting to ten during the

47:48

course of a season or one eighty or

47:50

one seventy or no home runs are no

47:53

runs batted in or more hours than normal.

47:56

They're. Always areas of the season when

47:58

that happens and we'll evaluate. Don't

48:00

face any seen on one knee

48:02

game ever. Don't get too high.

48:04

Don't get too low. What

48:08

about The Dodgers? With. A tiny.

48:11

Are they despondent that they're dealing with

48:13

these distractions? that? they had a fire.

48:16

His interpreter are they in the sweet

48:18

watching. Themselves. Potentially lose

48:20

a game. Go. Home with

48:22

a split and are they same? The Jews was

48:25

not worth the squeeze. Absolutely.

48:27

Nuts. Couple

48:29

of rumors have been up there about this

48:32

so tiny situations. This is not an opt

48:34

out or tiny cannot opt out of his

48:36

deal. The Dodgers

48:38

have the ability. To

48:40

break the deal with a tiny if

48:42

a tiny violates any of the guarantee

48:44

provisions of his contract. Say

48:48

what some of those provisions are likely for a

48:51

tiny. There are prohibited

48:53

activities. There

48:55

are also prohibited actions. If

48:59

so here. tiny. Is. Convicted

49:01

of a felony. The.

49:03

Dodgers. Will. Have the ability

49:05

to get out of his contract, There's.

49:08

No indication that are Chinese even been investigated. There's

49:10

no indication if he is that it would be

49:13

a felony and there's no indication even if he

49:15

works that he would be charged that he would

49:17

be found guilty that he would be convicted. There's.

49:21

Other provisions: The go in contracts

49:24

about what actions you can take

49:26

and what can happen when it

49:28

comes to criminal conduct that can

49:30

lead to a guaranteed contract become

49:33

a non guaranteed. We.

49:36

Would always love it when players who were

49:38

bad would do something because then we could

49:40

try to make the guaranteed part non guaranteed

49:42

but it would never work. The.

49:46

Dodgers don't want to get rid of a tiny one, are

49:48

tiny to play. They want to win

49:50

a World Series. They've

49:53

won a Colvin World Series and twenty. And

49:55

that said, since Nineteen Eighty Eight. They.

49:58

Are making money without time? Right

50:00

now not going for but right now

50:02

they can say to themselves a this

50:04

is amazing Were only pain this guy

50:06

Two million dollars and we're getting huge

50:08

Japanese sponsorships to raise increase our tickets

50:10

prices. We are making money and are

50:12

tiny. Ten years now and a pin

50:14

sixty eight million Believe me they're not

50:16

A right now they are and they

50:19

don't want to give that up. No

50:22

matter what the interpreter does, no

50:24

matter what Oh Tiny is accused

50:26

of or what confusion exists in the

50:28

media today, and there's plenty of

50:30

it. That. Dodgers are in the

50:33

sweet right now. It's looking at him and

50:35

s. It's. Just business.

50:38

Now. Maybe for now. It's

50:40

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