NCAA Finals, NIL, MLB Rookie Deals
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Hello and welcome to the Shrewdness Podcast.
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I'm Prue, Chis and Dex joining me.
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The whole crew's here tonight. We're here to bring you another
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great edition of the shrewdness. And this week we're going to
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talk a little bit more about baseball, but we want to spend a
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little bit of time up front here wrapping up, I guess, a fairly
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competitive NCAA final, UConn against Michigan and Michigan
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given the Fab 5A run for their money as far as being maybe,
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maybe one of the. Greatest.
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Michigan teams. Ever They're climbing.
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It. And it's pretty similar because
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while the Fab 5 was all freshmen there for the first year, this
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Fab 5 was all transfers. So they're still first year in
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Michigan. They're all first years.
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It's just new age. Sorry to interrupt.
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Sorry to interrupt you. Let's kick it on.
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Yeah. That's yeah, it was.
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The new age of college basketball.
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They look pretty dominant for a lot of the game.
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Yukon hung with them and kind of kind of started inching back
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into it. What do you guys?
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Yeah, I mean, it never really was closer than the six points
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that ended up but. No, it's it's, it's like
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watching a boat driveway in the distance.
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It's way faster than your boat. And you're like, they pull over
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and stop to eat dinner and you like catch up for a little bit
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and then they go again like, oh man, there they go again.
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They were never, ever going to catch up and pass them.
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It never felt close despite it getting down to like 5 or 6
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points a couple different times. It was just Michigan dominating
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the whole time. The whole game it just felt like
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they controlled every aspect of it, even the low runs.
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So UConn had some low runs, but this is Michigan's game.
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They were in a superior team. Yeah, I mean it.
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It was a rock fight for sure though.
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Like the field goal percentages were ugly 30. 8 similar though.
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38% for Michigan, 30.9% for UConn.
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And honestly, like I, I will give credit, I, I know that he's
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a very polarizing personality, but I will give credit to Danny
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Hurley because he knew going into this he was outclassed and
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he was going to have to make it a rock fight for them to have a
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chance. And they did.
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They they, they slowed the game down When they got in trouble
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was when there was a little run at the end of the first half,
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Yep, where Michigan got some fast break points.
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All of a sudden they're like boom, boom, boom.
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They scored quite a bit all at once.
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And that was not the game UConn wanted to play.
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It was like, OK, if we're going to open this game up, UConn
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screwed because they, they were, they could not run with them by
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any means. But when they would get him in
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the half court, they put, they played good defense and they,
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they, they held Michigan to way less than their average, but
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they just couldn't hit any shots on the other side.
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Like it was like if they would have, if they would have made a,
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you know, if they would have made 40% of their shots, they,
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they probably could have won this game, But they, they just
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couldn't pull anything together offensively.
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They looked. Bad they had.
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They had the right strategy, but Michigan made 25 of 28 free
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throws. Oh my gosh.
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Three were all in the last couple minutes and the.
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Yeah, they were like perfect. The first 22 I think they hit it
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was. Insane.
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Like you're right through. Like they that was the
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difference. They wanted it to be physical
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and they did make it physical and they wanted it to be, you
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know, slow it down, make it a rock fight.
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They made it a rock fight. But then Michigan hit all the
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free throws and Yukon just didn't shoot well enough.
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They didn't. They didn't have anybody.
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Yeah. No one got super hot.
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That drained like 7 of 10 threes in this game.
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That's kind of what they needed. I mean, Caravan, he had a good
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game, 17 point. He's a player a lot.
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He is, and it's a true senior that played with the same team
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every year. It's right.
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It's a Unicorn in today's game. What is he doing?
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He was getting offers to transfer, unaware of the
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transfer portal. What is what is that swirling
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abyss over there? Don't go there.
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It's full of money. Like just stay here.
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You you can do anything you want there.
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Oh. Terrace Reed had a good game, 13
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points, 14 rebounds. Braylon Mullins, get freshmen.
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I had kids good. Yeah.
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I didn't want you come this year till the tournament.
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He only had 11 points, but 7 rebounds, 2 assists.
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So it's a good game, but not great games.
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None of them had a great game. And that's why UConn, I mean,
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they scored 63 points, end up being 6963, so they covered
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their 6 1/2. Dang it.
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Dang it. Dang right.
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That's right. And I know to to Dex's dismay.
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It was and they just need to take the foul and shoot a free
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throw and just just kick one more.
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Point So I I predicted there would be a Duke Michigan final
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and my tiebreaker was 133. So I was was last second prayer
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by UConn away. From Totally a pretty.
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Bad. Close.
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So what an interesting stat that I saw that I didn't realize was
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accurate is the offensive rebounds.
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UConn doubled up Michigan 20 to 10.
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Wow. Which is surprising.
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Shocked by that? Yeah, 'cause there's they're
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pretty even down the board. I mean, onesies and twosies here
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and there, but then you doubled up offensive rebounds, which
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normally is a very telling stat and well, usually that team wins
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if you double up the offensive rebounds because you get totally
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more shots on your side. But when you.
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Shoot 30%, there it is. And that's when you couple it
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was not shooting well, you don't really do much.
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I do want to get your opinion, both of you guys.
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So I found it inspiring, but I also found it stupid.
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Yaxel Lindeborg, the Big 10 player of the year, looked
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broken. He looked broken.
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We could have done gone up and down the court faster than him
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and probably shot as well as him.
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I mean, he he scratched 13 points and they were the ugliest
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13 points of a championship game you'd probably get.
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Yeah. I don't know if I would have
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played that many minutes to Dusty May.
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Did Michigan's coach, did he make a mistake by letting him
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play or was it loyalty to your guy who got you there that lets
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him play and my I wouldn't have let him play that many minutes.
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What do you guys think? I think it's some of both.
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Part of us was probably the actual like, coach, I'm not
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coming out. Yeah, I got you here and I want
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to play type thing and yeah, I don't know.
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I I think you got to let the superstar play.
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He led the team in minutes, so he he was 36 minutes and.
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A broken handicap minutes like I got his little blue wheelchair
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on the. Rearview gear.
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You got five of them from the free throw line.
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Yeah, and the one on the like followed his shot and tipped it
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in kind of late. Yeah.
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Which you didn't look broken on that one.
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He was so up above everybody but.
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That was it. Like as far as athletic plays
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where he looked. Like an everybody else, a.
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Few minutes before that one, right?
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Yeah. He was. 4:00 to. 13 4 of 13 from
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the field, O of five from three. It was not not Yaxel at his
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best. But I will say that one thing I
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do admire about him is like he gave just about the most honest
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halftime interview of oh, I loved it.
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That was the best. He was like terrible.
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I was horrible. I feel awful.
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I feel super weak. I was like wow.
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Yeah, like normally that was brutally honest.
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There was no like athletes speak there.
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It was just all out there. I was like, that's kind of
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refreshing. I actually know what's going on.
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He was like, I got to be better. I'm terrible.
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Like I was like, wow. OK, go back in and figure it
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out. Right, so I I.
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Mean maybe do your earlier point decks if they if this was a more
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competitive game and and Michigan was struggling to stay
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in front, then maybe he doesn't play as much or something.
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Yeah, yeah. Since it never got really close,
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it's like. Yeah, if they were, if they were
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down by 4 for a lot of the game or something, then then it would
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be a really tough decision. Yeah, they pretty much kept it
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double digits the whole game. Yeah, yeah.
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I think it made Coach May's decision a little easier knowing
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that they had a lead and that they were in control most of the
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game so. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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Another fun fact from this game, something I did not know.
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I just wrongfully assumed that solo ball was related.
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To Lonzo, Lonzo. Lonzo, I was like, they they all
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got to be brothers, right? No, no relation.
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I learned that of this game. Solo ball.
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I was wondering that the name I forgot to look it.
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Up. I was like, it's got to be.
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I was like, it's got to be Lamello.
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Yeah, you know, it's got to be the it's got to be the same.
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Nope. He's completely independent.
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Is it Jerry Ball's son? I was near the like the.
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It might be Cherry Ball's grandson.
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Grandson. Holy cow.
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Yeah, we are that old I. Butterball Tecmo Detroit
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lineman, right? No tackle I think.
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No tackle. Cherry ball he was.
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He could actually block all the kicks.
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Yeah, Butterball. Stunned cherry ball Yeah, solo
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solo ball was an interesting. I thought I was being funny
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until you told me. It's probably his grandson, not
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too old. That's so true.
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But, you know, here's The funny thing about the state of, you
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know, of college basketball today.
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The transfer portal opened yesterday I believe.
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Yeah, got it. Just I didn't know.
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Like, I was looking and I mean, Michigan just won the national
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championship, right? Yeah.
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Seems like it's like a place you would would want to stay.
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You've got a Really. You know, dominated the next
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race team. Really good.
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I and I read the headline today, there were at least four players
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on Michigan who have already entered the transfer portal.
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And I was like, what are what are we doing?
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What are we doing here? When you've got like, like this
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should be the place everyone wants to go right now.
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You got a really good coach. You just won a national
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championship like. So.
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Sure, they have plenty of money. Question on that is, and I don't
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know, I we could probably Google it right now and get the answer
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on the air, but are these only one year deals?
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Is NIL? Can it only be one year at a
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time or is that only what the players are taking?
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I mean, can we just sign you like I want you all four years
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of Michigan if you're playing here, you're my guy, like
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Braylon Mullins for UConn, is he just have a year by year?
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Is he just going to be in the portal and gone next year out of
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UConn or do they have to pay him every single year?
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I think that they just have figured out that there's no
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upside to a four year deal. Why would I do that when I could
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do a one year deal and get more money?
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Unless you're planning on getting hurt or something, yes.
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Right. But right, he's doing that.
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So it's exactly. Bad and they need to do
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something like a salary cap or a minimum of two years at a school
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or go back to where if you transfer you have to totally sit
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out X amount of games because otherwise this system sucks man.
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So here's the problem. I don't like it at all.
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Here, here's what's happened. Because the genie's out of the
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bag, bottle, bag, bottle genie's, genie's Arnold bags,
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Genie started. Bags, What are you doing with
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your genies? I.
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Keep my genie in a bag, thank you very much.
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Stay under, stay in. Because the genies out of the
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bottle are the Supreme Court ruling.
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The problem is, the only way to enforce anything upon the
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players would be if you could negotiate with them
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collectively, which means you'd have to allow them to union.
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So the only way we're going to fix this thing now, which just
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sounds gross, is to let the players unionize and then
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collectively bargain on their behalf, which is just
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disgusting. But it's the only way it can
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happen because otherwise it's just individuals making
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individual decisions and you can't stop it.
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That should go well for a group of 20 year olds.
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You know what I want them to stop saying?
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Why would? They make bad decisions.
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I want them to stop using the term student athlete.
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Stop it. Don't use.
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Students no longer applies. Here is our NBA minor team,
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Minor league team. It's minor leagues.
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This is what's happened unfortunately with college
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football and college basketball is I was never against.
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Paying them I was never. Against them getting some
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cheddar because at the end of the day, they are making
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university a lot of money. Now that said, they're getting a
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free education, which used to be like a really cool thing and
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people used to value that and say like, oh wow, I'm making a
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lot of money because I'm not having to pay for college.
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Yeah. I didn't have to go 150 into
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debt for college which. Is a baby steal now, right?
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But if you don't value the education, which unfortunately a
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lot of these players don't value the education, then then you're
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like, no, I just want straight cash.
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And I was always for like some sort of a system where like, you
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know, they're they're athletes. They have to practice all the
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time so that a lot of them can't get side jobs.
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They can't go and get a job. So if they're coming from
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someplace, they don't have any money, they don't have any
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money. So that sucks when you're making
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university tons of money and you don't get any money.
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So I was like, we should pay a stipend of some, some kind, you
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know, like like like if you were to get a minimum wage job or
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something, you should at least get that kind of money while
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you're practicing, let's say, so that you could go out and hang
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with the boys on Friday night, you know, like you.
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Want. You should be able to do that
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like a normal college kid. So I, I was all for that, but
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man, we totally opened Pandora's box and now we are in the world
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of to your point, Pruitt, I'll just say if you had given 18
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year old Brent Chisholm a $2 deal to go do
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something, anything for a year, I would be dead on the Vegas
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Strip right now. I'll just right now that is
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never going to end well. And I'm surprised we haven't
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heard more stories like that. I'm I'm fearing that we probably
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will, because let's remember those frontal frontal cortexes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. And then when you hear like,
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like going switching over to football, this is another thing.
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I saw this article today. Jeremiah Smith apparently turned
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down multiple $10 million transfer offers $10 million.
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Multiple. Like minimum mini multi?
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Like what the heck, man? Here's the interesting question,
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when is this going to affect the pros?
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Because at some point. It's already in one.
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They're staying in college. Rather stay in college #1
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College is way more fun than going to the real world than the
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real world. So I could hang in college.
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And the thing of it is like, especially in certain.
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Positions. In South Bend for another year.
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OK, just chill out for it and hang with.
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Like, for the best seven years of my life.
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Yeah, totally. And you think about it in some
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positions, like running back. Yeah, NFL.
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It's a short shelf life in the NFL.
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Your short life, yourself life's super short and so like why not
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stay and make another 5 mil, you know?
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Especially the guys that aren't going a top ten pick if you're a
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second, third round guy, but you can get 5 million more to stay
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at Louisville for a season. Absolutely.
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Sure man, absolutely. Like I don't.
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I'll be the NFL next year. Who gave you crap?
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I'll be a 23 year old rookie. I don't.
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Mind you, would you would think that it would.
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And I, I'm I I think you could even keep the system as it is if
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there were some. I think the thing that that
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college fans Rage Against and this is the thing that drives me
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nuts too. I mean, it's a little crazier.
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We're paying that money. But what's more crazy is just
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the transferring all the time. Yeah.
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So if there was a some sort of a commitment or some sort of rule
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like you could like there used to be you transfer once, maybe
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transfer once you're fine. Yeah.
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The second time you got to sit out a year, you know, whatever
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it is. So it's like.
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Colleges in six years, those aggressive.
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And that's what you're getting now.
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Oh, I know, so silly. And, and I think part of the
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beauty of college athletics, at least from a fan perspective,
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was you can watch somebody and you can watch them grow up.
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You watch them develop. You kind of grew like you had an
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allegiance to them. You're like, man, yeah, I like
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this guy. I remember him from last year.
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And now it's just like, like, throw all the cards up and
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wherever they land. Hey now, what is your new win
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like? I saw that one of the a kid
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that's starting for Kansas started for Kansas this year.
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Dex is is likely going to transfer to Missouri He started
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for. Kansas, that can't happen.
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And he's going to transfer to Missouri and #1 rival.
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That used to mean something, right?
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Like used to like never going to do that.
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And then and then like you're going from Kansas to Missouri.
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I'm a Missouri fan. I'm a big Missouri fan.
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But like what player does that? Yeah, that's the wrong
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direction. Unless they're just chasing
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money. Yeah, I don't want an ex Kansas
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guy on my team if I'm right Missouri fan.
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Totally. But they don't even know where
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these guys are from. It's just like who's on my team
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this year? I got a guy from Arizona.
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I've got a Utah State guy. Yeah, the Holy Cross guy came to
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my team. Cool.
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Like and a lot of these small teams, they lose all of them,
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like right, that'd be just disheartening.
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If you develop a guy, he's a beast.
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You got him for one whole year or maybe his sophomore year is
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when he blows up. You certainly don't get him a
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junior, senior year, right? That just sucks for these small
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schools. And that used to be the cool
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thing that made that we talked about there not being
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Cinderella's this year. And that's really probably why,
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because those talents for guys are like, right, Except for.
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Steph Curry School down in Texas.
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You know, you look at like Steph Curry back in the day whenever
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he took, well, shoot, I just blanked their name.
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Davidson. Davidson as far as Ronnie, he
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did like it wouldn't have happened because Steph Curry
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would have transferred to Duke at that point and gotten paid a
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bunch of money, you know, So like, you're not going to get
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that those kind of stories anymore, which is a little sad.
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But the other thing that's weird is I was even like I couldn't I
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didn't even think it would be this much of an effect on the
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women's game. But like, I don't know if you
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guys remember when we were growing up the the dominant
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program in women's basketball. Tennessee, Pat.
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Summit. Tennessee and Yukon.
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Yep. Those two were like first and
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2nd every year and everybody else was like A and they're.
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Always totally beat it. Extremely.
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The last they would get would be the championship game.
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Totally Well. You know what the headline was
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yesterday? Rocky Times on Rocky Top,
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Tennessee women's basketball to lose all 5 starters plus top
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five recruit to transfer a portal.
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Wow, The University of Tennessee, they're losing all of
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their starters to the transfer portal.
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Like this is the kind of world that we have created.
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So it there's it seems like there's going to have to be some
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sort of a correction. I don't know.
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Yeah, what it is or how quickly it'll happen.
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But I do think the game will probably suffer if something
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doesn't change and then the money starts going away and the
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money starts going away, then things happen.
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And it's unfortunately so it's bad that it's in college like
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this. What I think is more sad, or as
00:19:56
sad is I'm starting to see that trickle down into high school
00:20:00
and just. Totally.
00:20:01
All kinds of all kinds of sports at all ages, really.
00:20:05
What are you seeing trickle down there?
00:20:07
No money? No.
00:20:08
Money. Yeah, no money.
00:20:09
But there's no like loyalty and there's no the coaches involved
00:20:14
are all about grabbing the the best players.
00:20:17
That's right. There's there's no more
00:20:19
development. It's like who's good right now?
00:20:21
I'll take him and him and him. Yep.
00:20:23
Hey, you want to come and play on my team?
00:20:25
We won the championship last year.
00:20:27
That's right. And they come for a year and
00:20:28
then OK, well, this kids actually better than you.
00:20:31
So I'm going to take him now and it's just like a.
00:20:34
That's what travel sports is doing.
00:20:35
Travel teams is exactly that. You know, as we speak, that's
00:20:39
what it is. And the coaches are just buying
00:20:42
into that same mentality of like, I don't have to develop
00:20:45
people. I don't I'm only going to have
00:20:47
it for a year because I can re choose my team next year, right?
00:20:51
And just, it's, well, it's just like.
00:20:53
That's exactly right. Survival of the fittest.
00:20:56
And I'll tell you, Dex, you said not in high school.
00:21:00
Yes, in high school and I know that in Texas kids are getting
00:21:03
NIL deals. You have to be 17, the losses,
00:21:06
you have to be 17. But when you're going into a
00:21:08
senior year, you can get an NIL deal.
00:21:13
What There was a There was a five star wide receiver from
00:21:17
Duncanville this last year in Texas.
00:21:20
Did that just happen? I don't even remember hearing
00:21:22
about that. Yeah, yeah.
00:21:24
And they they got, they got nil deals.
00:21:27
This is going to make me mad when you tell me how much.
00:21:29
So yeah, well, one one of one of them, it doesn't say what he
00:21:34
signed for, but it said his approximate nil value was
00:21:38
$600. Wow.
00:21:40
So I go play like a private. School or they yanking him to
00:21:44
different schools too. And yeah, yeah, Origin got PO
00:21:48
Box in this transit now. I'm I'm going to jump to this
00:21:52
school because they've got the program and they're they're.
00:21:55
Wow. But I guess that's probably what
00:21:56
IMG Academy and some of these like baseball and basketball
00:22:01
schools. If they're not, they have to be
00:22:04
doing it. Oh yeah, yeah.
00:22:06
Yeah, they're like travel sports on steroids because you can just
00:22:10
like, I don't know if they're going to school either.
00:22:12
Some of them probably have been doing it.
00:22:14
Seriously, they're if they're to play school, at school.
00:22:17
I'm not here to play school at high school, man.
00:22:19
Yeah, I. I don't even want to do junior
00:22:21
high. I'll be here to do.
00:22:23
Too much work. I got to spell stuff.
00:22:26
I don't. I don't need a 8th grade health
00:22:28
class. I got basketball to play.
00:22:31
Exactly. Exactly.
00:22:32
So a lot of these nil collectives are, are paying
00:22:36
them, you know, ahead of time and, and a lot of Times Now
00:22:39
colleges are going down to that and saying, hey, we'll pay your
00:22:42
senior year if you come to, you know.
00:22:45
So there's a two year deal finally.
00:22:47
That's how you're doing it. Senior year and freshman year.
00:22:51
Good Lord, it's going to happen more and more.
00:22:54
Times pretty soon we'll be we'll be recruiting and paying for
00:22:57
kids on the Little League team. 7 year olds.
00:23:01
Hey, man. I know you're going to be going
00:23:03
into your year eight-year next year.
00:23:05
That ate you some serious stuff. You just start pitching
00:23:09
yourself. Not your 8th year of playing,
00:23:12
your 8th year of life of. Life, absolutely.
00:23:16
I know it is a Wild Well world, but all that to say, we
00:23:19
diverted, but that was a good diversion, I think good
00:23:22
conversation. But college basketball, it was
00:23:25
fun and I absolutely loved it. I but back in the day, it was a
00:23:29
bigger deal and it was definitely it had higher
00:23:31
ratings. It had a much stronger
00:23:33
following, and I think it was because of that kind of loyalty,
00:23:36
yeah, you know, people staying on a team.
00:23:38
It started to. Deteriorate.
00:23:40
It started to deteriorate with the one and done.
00:23:43
Yeah, when the NBA came in and they said, hey, we'll take a
00:23:46
play after the freshman year. Wouldn't we go back to that
00:23:48
today if we could? Oh, man, They just, they just go
00:23:51
the NBA. That's fine, that's fine.
00:23:53
That's every stupid year. That that sounds easy.
00:23:56
We what a that sounds like child's play now, but but at the
00:24:01
time that was like that was super detrimental because you
00:24:03
started losing a lot of the talent in college, you know, to
00:24:07
the, to the NBA and now they've opened up this one.
00:24:10
So it, the tournament's always going to be fun just because
00:24:13
it's the tournament and the nature of it is like, you know,
00:24:16
all packed into a few days and all this competition and
00:24:20
underdogs being and last second shots and all that stuff is, is
00:24:23
always going to be fun. But it's definitely not the same
00:24:26
as when you had these, right? Like when you had these UNLV
00:24:30
teams that you either loved or you hated or Duke and Leitner
00:24:34
and, and Bobby Hurley and all those guys that you love, you
00:24:37
hated Grant Hill, like those kind of like, like one of my
00:24:41
neighbors told me the other day he was like, man, I watched that
00:24:43
game, A championship game. And he said he said, yeah, it
00:24:46
was fun to watch. But he's like, I don't think I
00:24:48
could name 5 college players this year.
00:24:50
And I'm like, it's probably right.
00:24:52
Like it's gotten to where the people don't know the players
00:24:55
anymore because, you know, they don't have.
00:24:57
They just disappear. Yeah.
00:24:58
And they just disappear. And generally you're just
00:25:01
watching your team anyway if you have a team and unless they play
00:25:04
the other team, like yeah, I don't know.
00:25:07
And you'll know where your best player went, usually.
00:25:10
Yes, that's right when he left. Totally.
00:25:14
Yeah, it's just absolutely. Yeah.
00:25:17
All right. But, well, it's fun.
00:25:18
College basketball season, hope everybody had fun with it.
00:25:20
Hope you all enjoyed it. Made some money on betting,
00:25:24
especially if you picked Illinois to the Final Four with
00:25:26
Pruitt and you made some money. But now we're going to shift our
00:25:29
attention. Excellent.
00:25:33
Timing, Pruitt and the timing. Talk about that editing ChatGPT.
00:25:37
Check out that editing. Oh transition to your third.
00:25:41
That's. Right.
00:25:42
That was called anticipation. Human did that A.
00:25:46
Human. That's right, yo, I want to say
00:25:49
on a fiscal theme and stay, yes, go to baseball.
00:25:52
I want to stay in a fiscal theme because here's what's just
00:25:56
happened. If you are a baseball fan, huge
00:25:59
news, huge news. So Conor Griffin, the number one
00:26:02
overall prospect in baseball just signed the largest pre
00:26:08
rookie deal. I guess I don't even know what
00:26:10
it's called pre rookie deal, pre playing deal in baseball
00:26:13
history. So nine years, $140 million for
00:26:16
the Pittsburgh Pirates for their 19 year old phenom shortstop.
00:26:21
The ball accounts may be worth it, but it is a trend that is
00:26:25
started a couple years ago. Yeah, I know.
00:26:27
I hope you don't miss on that decade long signing, but I want
00:26:32
to hear your guys's take on is that a good idea?
00:26:36
Is this a good trend because multiple teams are starting to
00:26:39
do it. So Jackson Cheerio for the
00:26:41
Brewers, I think last year or two years ago, eight years,
00:26:44
82. Roman Anthony for the Red Sox,
00:26:47
eight years, 134. Colt Emerson for Seattle.
00:26:50
He's like the number two or three prospect in baseball.
00:26:53
Just signed eight years, 95 for the Mariners.
00:26:57
It's a trend, it's happening. Do we think it's a good thing
00:26:59
for baseball? Is it a good thing for the
00:27:01
players? Is it a good thing for the team?
00:27:03
What do we think? Let's just start with Conor
00:27:05
Griffin in Pittsburgh. Pru, what do you think about
00:27:08
this deal? Is it good for them, good for
00:27:10
player? What do we think?
00:27:11
So I, my first thought when I hear all these things is similar
00:27:16
to my daughter's experience applying to PA schools.
00:27:21
And the, the small schools are the ones that respond 1st.
00:27:24
And they're like, Hey, look at us, here's this great deal to
00:27:27
come and play for us. And you know, hey, we really
00:27:31
value you and all these things. And they're first in line.
00:27:35
And they have to be because they're a smaller market.
00:27:38
And that's that's the only way they can fill their classes is
00:27:42
to like grab on early what they what seems like a very lucrative
00:27:46
deal and, you know, talk to you all up that we think you're
00:27:51
great, all those kind of things. Yeah.
00:27:53
That's what this reminds me of a little bit.
00:27:56
They've never seen him play in the major leagues.
00:28:01
Right. Last year, to be fair, last year
00:28:03
across 122 games, all three levels.
00:28:06
He played 122 games. Oh wait, wait wait, This is my
00:28:08
my. My, my, so he, he went up to all
00:28:11
the levels. SO333415-ON base, 527 slug, 23
00:28:16
double S, 21 homers, 94 RBIs, 117 runs.
00:28:22
He's pretty good. He tore up the league as an 18
00:28:26
year old in the minors as the youngest player in the league.
00:28:28
So did MJ Melendez. Hey, there we go.
00:28:32
But he didn't get a nine year, $140 million deal, so.
00:28:36
That's my point. It's like that.
00:28:38
Yes, he should be very, very good and probably will be.
00:28:42
But that's a that's an extremely aggressive move by a small
00:28:47
market team that has to try to latch on to guys like Paul
00:28:50
Skeens. Yeah, to to make something of
00:28:54
themselves and build, build their team up around a couple of
00:28:57
guys now that. Ironically, they have not paid
00:29:00
Paul Skeens yet though. Yeah.
00:29:02
Right. And I think he might be too
00:29:04
expensive to even do. Too late now, Too late now.
00:29:08
Yeah. And I'll go into that in a
00:29:10
second because. I want to give you.
00:29:11
Your take on this too. So Dexter, you're saying that
00:29:13
they they should have started this trend a few years earlier
00:29:18
and they kind of missed? Their both these small market
00:29:20
teams have to do it because otherwise and here here's an
00:29:24
example. Washington lost both their
00:29:27
biggest name players, Bryce Harper and Juan Soto lost them
00:29:32
both the first time they got to a market with a deal both of
00:29:36
them left. Now here's the deal with both of
00:29:38
them. They ended up doing pretty well.
00:29:41
So Juan Soto in 629 is rookie year on a rookie deal and
00:29:45
then just by arbitration alone he went to 8.5 million seventeen
00:29:51
2331 and then he signed his contract, he makes 47 million a
00:29:56
year. So arbitration is still a way
00:29:58
where these players are going to make money.
00:30:00
And if they do that, I mean, Washington would have done a way
00:30:02
better deal doing something like this for 1:40 to lock him in
00:30:07
until he's 28 because he came up when he was 19 as well, right.
00:30:11
They'd still have one Soto. And they would have had a really
00:30:14
good deal. They would have the last few
00:30:15
years, they would have been at San Diego.
00:30:18
He would not have been in the Yankees in who knows.
00:30:21
But by the time you built that long of a connection with the
00:30:24
guy, maybe they would have stayed with you and you would
00:30:26
have gotten a hometown discount. Yeah.
00:30:27
So I think there's the players going to make money if they're
00:30:30
really good anyway. I think when you for the
00:30:34
player's side of it, why not take it if they're going to
00:30:36
offer you 140 million bucks? You've never had one at bat.
00:30:40
Oh, yeah. I mean, you're the number one
00:30:42
prospect in baseball. But how many of those have there
00:30:44
been? A lot, yes.
00:30:45
There's been a lot of #1 prospects in baseball, a lot of
00:30:47
first picks overall, and they don't all pan out.
00:30:51
There's a whole bunch that don't.
00:30:53
There's a ton that don't. I mean, Miguel Sano, you may
00:30:56
remember him from the Twins of a few years back.
00:30:58
He came up, we used the bee's knees.
00:31:00
He was the number 2 prospect in baseball behind Byron Buxton,
00:31:03
the other Twins prospect. Yeah, I dare say neither one of
00:31:07
those the pan in this perennial MVP candidate.
00:31:11
I mean, Miguelson, no, I don't think he's in the league
00:31:13
anymore. And Byron Buxton is perennially
00:31:15
hurt. But the Twins, So they may have
00:31:18
saved money by not doing these deals, right?
00:31:20
If they would have done the same with both their top prospects,
00:31:22
both top five MLB prospects in the league, they might have
00:31:25
gotten fleeced. But as far as the players, it's
00:31:29
good for them to take it, I think.
00:31:30
And it's actually good for the teams most of the time if it if
00:31:34
they hit on somebody, right? And you don't even have to hit
00:31:37
on all of them. If you hit on one out of three,
00:31:39
I feel like it pays off, right. So what do you think, Chisholm?
00:31:42
Is this something that a trend is going to continue for
00:31:45
rational sense makes financial? Sense I mean, I think it has to
00:31:49
continue to your point for the small markets because they
00:31:52
cannot get any of the big free agents when they come come do so
00:31:57
ever like like when a show when a show hey, Otani hits free
00:32:01
agency like everyone knows he's going to New York or LA Yeah,
00:32:05
and there's about. Four teams that have a shot.
00:32:08
At him that's right, the rest of us have no no prayer.
00:32:11
So I but I do think it's going to the casino and putting your
00:32:16
putting your money down on a number and like hoping now it's
00:32:20
maybe not that that risky, but if you look at OK, how would you
00:32:26
like to how, what's the deal again?
00:32:28
How many years? Nine years?
00:32:29
Nine years for so. They added the 9th year 149.
00:32:32
Year for 140, would you like to have Yuan Moncada to a nine
00:32:37
year, $140 million deal? I mean, right now, no.
00:32:40
He was the number one prospect in baseball in 2017.
00:32:43
He was Corey Seeger. Corey Seeger, Would you like to
00:32:47
have him to a nine year 100 and. 40 Well, back then, yeah,
00:32:49
because he would have gotten all nine years being pretty good.
00:32:51
Right. So that's kind of where you
00:32:54
Adlai Rushman. He's in the middle.
00:32:57
Probably in the middle, right? Jackson Holiday.
00:33:01
Yeah, don't know yet. Like, you don't know, right?
00:33:04
So these are guys. Wander Franco.
00:33:06
Holy crap. Oops.
00:33:07
Like, yeah. Right.
00:33:10
So he was paying off and he was. He would have been a deal.
00:33:14
He would have been a deal until, you know, until stuff till he
00:33:17
wasn't until stuff happens. But but you're right, like, I
00:33:22
mean, what's the hit rate is the question like what's the hit
00:33:24
rate going to be? But I think you've got to take
00:33:28
the chance you're Pittsburgh because you're not going to
00:33:32
build your team for through free agency.
00:33:37
No, they won't go there. They're not.
00:33:39
Going to steal the city. Where do you draw the line?
00:33:42
Like what? Like, I don't think LA or New
00:33:45
York have to do this as a tactic, but no, they don't.
00:33:50
Does the Saint Louis Cardinals or that's the.
00:33:52
Cubs. So there's different things on
00:33:55
this too. So you'll notice they all the
00:33:57
deals tend to stop when the players 27 or 28 right in their
00:34:03
prime. That's the peak year it.
00:34:05
Is because Jackson Cherio signed when he's 19.
00:34:08
Roman Anthony signed when he's 20, Connor Griffin 19, Colt
00:34:11
Keith 21, Luis Robert when he's 20 back in 2020.
00:34:15
So and then Bobby Witt, like our favorite Kansas City Royal, 11
00:34:18
years, 288 million, signed after his second year, so after his
00:34:22
runner up to Aaron Judge in the MVP race when he, Aaron Judge
00:34:26
went Triple Crown, no Royals. Went to that signing.
00:34:29
Yeah, but they said we put you out until you're 32, you are a
00:34:32
Kansas City Royal until you are in your mid 30s, right?
00:34:35
And we're going to pay you handsomely and 11288 that's
00:34:39
nice. That's nice.
00:34:40
And Kansas City fans are like, that's a steal.
00:34:43
Oh my God, in five years, we've been double that.
00:34:45
Totally. You could easy similar to the
00:34:47
Patrick Mahomes concert. Yep.
00:34:48
Absolutely. You could see a 10 year, $500
00:34:51
million deal for a Platinum Glove shortstop in his prime at
00:34:54
age 25, which is when he would have hit free agency.
00:34:57
Absolutely. I mean anyway please.
00:35:00
I think it's a great deal for teams.
00:35:02
I, I don't, I have yet to see a downside to players other than I
00:35:07
guess if you're a mega star you could probably make more if you
00:35:11
were holding out a shorter contract with bigger deals, but.
00:35:16
But again, to your point, like how much more do you need if
00:35:20
you're making $280 million or whatever it is, like, yeah.
00:35:26
You put that in a nice high yield savings account and you'll
00:35:28
be all right. Little market index fund and
00:35:31
you'll be hitting it all right. How many yachts does a man need?
00:35:35
If you blow out your knee, you're a three on a four year
00:35:39
deal. Yep.
00:35:40
That's a lot different scenario than if you are on the 10 year
00:35:43
deal absolutely or whatever. So there's there's risks on both
00:35:47
sides. But yeah, for most teams, I I
00:35:51
think I agree, Dax, I think you have to go this tactic to
00:35:55
compete with the the Dodgers and the Yankees of.
00:35:57
The world, but you are going to end up with some Bobby Bonilla
00:36:01
deals, right Yeah, where where you're paying for a guy who
00:36:06
yeah, I mean it's probably better than average shot that
00:36:09
you're at least going to get an above average player you're
00:36:12
talking about a #1 prospect, right but like but even for
00:36:17
injuries hit or something happens and like all of a sudden
00:36:20
you've paid a guy $170 million and he's done Jack crap for.
00:36:24
Here's another reason I like it is for the player and the team.
00:36:28
You don't suddenly have this worry about yes, playing the
00:36:32
player. Like if he's talented enough to
00:36:34
be there, you don't have to like season them in AA and AAA.
00:36:39
If they're good enough to hit play the send them on up man.
00:36:42
Hit the service time. Game that's exactly right.
00:36:45
There's no service time games when you do this, you buy out
00:36:48
service time games. That's what I kind of like, like
00:36:51
again for Jackson Cherio, I mean, the youngest player ever
00:36:53
go 2020 back-to-back seasons in his year 19 and 20 seasons.
00:36:57
Now, you may say it was not that good, kids 20, man, He's 21 this
00:37:02
year and he's hurt right now. But when he comes back, he'll
00:37:04
probably be 2020 again at 21. He'll be his third year in a
00:37:08
row. So I think Milwaukee doing it
00:37:10
and they did another one too. So they signed a shortstop
00:37:13
prospect, Cooper Pratt for eight years, $50 million.
00:37:16
So the top top ones are getting in the hundreds, right?
00:37:20
But the other guys there's and I, I'm blanking on the dude
00:37:23
Philly did it for her second baseman.
00:37:26
I think stop Bryson Stott a couple years ago.
00:37:29
And it's one that he looked like a solid deal.
00:37:31
He's been OK, but his first year was really not that good.
00:37:35
And so I don't know if you do the deal right, no one really
00:37:39
loses. I mean, is the team really upset
00:37:41
you're paying 8 million to Bryson Stott instead of 8
00:37:43
million to Juan Mankata? I mean, probably not.
00:37:46
I mean, you're going to get similar results, but one kids
00:37:48
younger with upside, the other one's not.
00:37:51
And all the time That's true. I kind of see more upside in
00:37:54
teams doing this for their top prospects.
00:37:56
I don't really see a problem at all.
00:37:59
And it's really only going to those top, top ones anyway.
00:38:02
Yeah, there's there's hardly anyone outside the MLB top 100
00:38:05
in the organization's top one or two prospects.
00:38:08
They're the only ones getting these deals.
00:38:10
Yeah, but I can kind of see it working out, especially if they
00:38:13
did it for two years like Bobby Witt did.
00:38:16
Boom, that's a. No brainer to me if you if you
00:38:20
get that kind of track record. I was shocked that Bobby Witt
00:38:23
signed that deal, honestly. Yeah, because.
00:38:26
Three years from being like arbitration alone, he would have
00:38:29
been getting 2020. He would have made a lot more
00:38:31
money, but but that also I guess probably shows a little bit
00:38:35
about like what, what do you value?
00:38:37
Because they're probably there is a point where you're like, I
00:38:40
don't need any more money and I really like playing here.
00:38:43
Yeah, yeah. That like your quality of life,
00:38:46
Like guess what, playing in New York sucks.
00:38:48
Sorry. It does.
00:38:49
It absolutely sucks. Everybody's constantly on you
00:38:52
all the time. They're booing you when you go O
00:38:54
for three. Like, you know, it's, it's a
00:38:57
super hard market to play in and they're not loyal to you.
00:38:59
They're not loyal to you. They're a very they're a very
00:39:04
transactional market. You're going to make a lot of
00:39:06
money, but they expect you to win all the time.
00:39:08
So that's, that's kind of how it works.
00:39:10
Whereas in Kansas City, you know, you you could go O for, O
00:39:13
for, for 12 and then the crowd will like stand up and cheer for
00:39:16
you to try and encourage you to get a hit the next time up.
00:39:18
You know, yeah, it's a completely different, completely
00:39:22
different ball game that you're playing.
00:39:23
There, but if you want to play for titles and championships
00:39:26
right and this is where I think it's that's why the small market
00:39:30
teams have to do it yeah cuz Milwaukee last time they won is
00:39:34
when I don't know you don't know either.
00:39:37
I don't even know if they've ever won.
00:39:38
It's been a very long time. 80 maybe I want to say.
00:39:41
No, because that was Philly and the Royals.
00:39:43
But regardless, it's so long ago.
00:39:46
We're dumping 50 years ago just to try and guess.
00:39:51
So the problem is not quite. I think we're still good.
00:39:53
It's still going to be hard for some of these teams.
00:39:55
If you're a player that is not necessarily all in on Arizona,
00:40:00
like you just don't like Phoenix.
00:40:02
It's hot as balls in the summer, like.
00:40:05
Corbin Carroll, I mean, I don't know if you'll be able to sign
00:40:08
him after he's done. I know he had a contract too.
00:40:10
But regardless, some of these dudes, if you don't really like
00:40:13
this city, if you're not a Miami guy, you love being cold, right?
00:40:17
Why would you ever want to sign a 12 year deal in Miami then,
00:40:20
right? Yeah.
00:40:20
And so it's kind of I think location's going to matter, like
00:40:23
what you said, loyalty. Do you want to be there?
00:40:25
Do you want to be there with this team?
00:40:27
And are you fine being a Mike Trout and maybe never playing in
00:40:31
the playoffs ever in your career ever?
00:40:34
Like play one stupid game your entire career and you're one of
00:40:36
the best of all time and you still can't even make the play
00:40:39
that's. Exactly right.
00:40:40
So I think you start having to weigh like what's important
00:40:43
because you see some other people, I mean, going to the
00:40:46
Dodgers, like, hey, I'd like just to play for the Dodgers.
00:40:49
Sounds good. And their pitching staff has Cy
00:40:52
Youngs on this sideline on the DLI, don't know, I guess.
00:40:57
But they say, Oh my God, you just go cuz whatever.
00:41:00
And these other the big market teams, the Cubs, Yankees,
00:41:04
Dodgers, Mets, they can flat out say screw the luxury tax.
00:41:09
They don't even care, right? And so whereas the small market
00:41:13
teams have to take a a gamble on the front, I don't even know
00:41:16
what's gambling once these guys get them.
00:41:18
Like, I don't care if he pans out or not.
00:41:20
I don't care. He could totally suck.
00:41:22
I'll just buy the next guy next year.
00:41:23
Yeah, we're never going back under the 250 million salary
00:41:28
cap. These conversations are.
00:41:30
Very. Closely related between the
00:41:33
basketball and the baseball now. No, they absolutely are.
00:41:37
They absolutely are. Staying on the fiscal theme.
00:41:39
Yeah. No, it is on the fiscal theme,
00:41:41
which by the way, side note, Milwaukee has never won a World
00:41:44
Series. They did go in 1982 and lost to
00:41:47
the. Cardinals 82 to the Cardinals.
00:41:49
Yeah, because I didn't get to go because my parents didn't want
00:41:52
to take me because it can be too late and I didn't like baseball.
00:41:54
I'm like, what are you talking about?
00:41:55
So they sit my brother in. Come on, baseball.
00:41:58
I'm like. Totally, totally should have
00:42:00
you. Totally.
00:42:01
OK, so that brings me to so interesting, Interesting.
00:42:05
It's time for some trivia. It's time for trivia.
00:42:08
Here we go. So we have a little trivia
00:42:10
sound. Pruitt.
00:42:11
It's called anticipation, Pruitt.
00:42:13
You get some, you get some clapping maybe.
00:42:16
Yay, it's time for trivia. Fine, there we go.
00:42:22
Trivia times. OK, so it's got me thinking.
00:42:25
It got me thinking about contracts and the firsts of
00:42:29
contracts. So let's play a little trivia.
00:42:31
There's some notable contracts that have been signed at certain
00:42:35
levels, milestone levels. I want to see if you guys can
00:42:37
get who signed them. We'll start really low, the
00:42:40
first one, $50, the first person to make $50 a year.
00:42:46
This is like $50 a year, you see?
00:42:49
Yeah. Or just a contract?
00:42:50
Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth Babe Ruth Babe Ruth in
00:42:53
1922 signed a $50 a year deal 100 dollars $100
00:42:59
didn't happen until 25 years later $100 in 1947.
00:43:06
Give you a hint, Play. Carl yes.
00:43:08
Berg Ski No no. Willie Stargel, He was
00:43:12
Pittsburgh, right? Yeah, it was.
00:43:14
Hammer and Hank Greenberg. Hammer and Hank Greenberg,
00:43:17
$100. That's the most obscure one on
00:43:19
the list. OK then coming along in 1979,
00:43:24
the 1st $1 contract. Anyone?
00:43:27
Anyone. $1 I don't. Know $1.
00:43:35
I will go with Reggie Jackson. Oh, that's a good.
00:43:38
Guess but it is not correct. I'm going with that guest you
00:43:41
though. Don.
00:43:43
I'm trying to think, Reggie. Jackson again.
00:43:46
Yeah, how about that, Reggie Jackson?
00:43:51
You guys, you're going to kick yourself on this one.
00:43:53
Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan was the 1st
00:43:56
$1. I was thinking that, but he was
00:43:58
so young then. I didn't think, well, I guess
00:44:00
that was 10 years later. He wasn't really that.
00:44:02
Yeah. No, no, he wasn't.
00:44:04
It was with Houston. It was with Houston.
00:44:07
Weird. The first $10 million contract,
00:44:11
I'll give you a hint. This was, I'll give you 2 hints.
00:44:14
This was 1996 and this guy changed his name.
00:44:20
What does you Oh. Brain cramps are killing me.
00:44:26
It hurts. It's the Cleveland guy.
00:44:29
Joey Bell. Albert, Joey Bell.
00:44:31
You got it. Nice job, Joey.
00:44:33
Brain cramped right through it. Albert, don't call.
00:44:36
Me, Joey, I was going with. I had Alex Rodriguez in my head,
00:44:42
but. Albert, don't call me Joey Bell
00:44:45
was at a He actually jumped 10, got $11 million in 1996, then it
00:44:50
started escalating the first $20 million contract in the year
00:44:56
2000. I'll say pitcher Derek Jeter.
00:45:00
Randy Johnson. This guy has the 1st 20 and $30
00:45:05
million contract. A rod.
00:45:07
Alex Rodriguez. Alex Rodriguez.
00:45:09
Head of my time. You're a little ahead of your
00:45:11
time. 20 and $30 million, is that not crazy?
00:45:15
And that happened in in 2000, so.
00:45:18
Texas was the first. Yankees was the second.
00:45:20
Then right. Yep.
00:45:22
And then if you look at some other notable contracts, the
00:45:25
first one to to hit 15 was Kevin Brown.
00:45:28
Remember Kevin Brown? Pitcher.
00:45:31
He was awesome. In Los Angeles, yeah.
00:45:33
Right from Texas, so he's the Rangers.
00:45:36
First. Oh yeah.
00:45:37
Yeah, that's right. The first $3 million contract.
00:45:41
Kirby Puckett. Minnesota Twins, I remember
00:45:44
that. So I thought it was funny.
00:45:46
I thought he was the 1st $1 contract.
00:45:48
So when he said it was 79, I was like, well man, I thought Kirby
00:45:50
Puckett did something because I remember when he signed his
00:45:52
contract is all is big news. Big deal.
00:45:54
Well, I remember. Those 3 huh?
00:45:57
When Ozzy Smith signed $1 contract and that was
00:46:00
a big deal so I thought he was the first one to do $1
00:46:03
but he was not. Maybe for the Cardinals or
00:46:06
something. Yeah, I think it was maybe for
00:46:08
the Cardinals, the 1st $1 contract.
00:46:10
But yeah, it's crazy to think that it took 25 years to go from
00:46:15
50 to $100. Yeah.
00:46:19
And then and then it took from a 1989 to 2000.
00:46:26
That's eleven years by my calculation that.
00:46:29
Is that's even public math? Nice.
00:46:30
Work to to go from 3 million to 20 million.
00:46:35
Yeah. Like that is how rapidly is
00:46:38
accelerated and now we just had a guy who has had zero Major
00:46:41
League of bats sign a deal for how many million a year?
00:46:44
140 / 9 years 9. Years.
00:46:47
A lot. So that's 100.
00:46:49
I know those aren't good round numbers.
00:46:51
On. Yeah, 15 ish.
00:46:54
It's over 10. About 18.
00:46:56
Yeah. 18 a year. 16 Something like that. 16
00:47:02
a year. What is show Hay's average?
00:47:05
I mean, I know he's making like a dollar a year right now, but
00:47:07
what's the what's the actual? It's 50A.
00:47:10
Year, isn't it? I think he is.
00:47:12
I thought it was like 60 or 70 million a year or something
00:47:15
stupid. I'll tell you right.
00:47:17
Now we're looking this up as we speak.
00:47:20
But show hates contract. Now 680 million.
00:47:25
Oh, it's 10 years, 700 million. That's right.
00:47:27
So 70. Million a year.
00:47:29
Yeah. So that's the first 70 million
00:47:31
one and? He only gets 2 million a year
00:47:33
through 2034, so he's he's. Poor, broke.
00:47:37
I don't know how he's going to make it in that LA market.
00:47:40
Right. That's crazy.
00:47:41
And then 68 a year through from 2034 to 2043 when
00:47:47
he's no longer living in California.
00:47:49
That's crazy. Well, I just think we have a new
00:47:52
world we're living in with contracts and NIL, our rookie
00:47:58
deals in baseball trying to save the markets.
00:48:00
I don't know if NIL it's not saving small markets in college
00:48:04
or at all. It's kind of the polar opposite.
00:48:07
So it's kind of weird that two different things.
00:48:09
But that's why I was wondering, can we do some contracts for
00:48:13
multi year NIL to keep these small schools at least possible
00:48:17
even though they'll be the ones gambling though, like you were
00:48:19
talking about before. That's right, because you're
00:48:21
taking the high school senior out of whatever.
00:48:25
Yeah, right. And unless they went to the IMGS
00:48:28
or like the big freaking I don't even sweatshops, high school
00:48:33
hoops and baseball and football, you're not going to know if
00:48:36
they're tested. They just go to a normal public
00:48:38
high school in a normal big city and they play loser teams.
00:48:43
There's a lot of play. You want to like, go to school,
00:48:45
loser? There's a lot of great high
00:48:49
school basketball players that are have never played against
00:48:52
other greats and that's exactly right.
00:48:54
May fold. Find out quick.
00:48:56
Yeah, when you get into that, that's a situation.
00:48:58
It's a completely different ball game, right?
00:49:00
So it's crazy. Yeah.
00:49:01
Super interesting. Well, that's a this has been an
00:49:06
incredibly financial episode of the Shrewdness and I think we've
00:49:10
done a pretty darn good job of, yeah, of breaking down, you
00:49:14
know, contracts, doing public math, talking about. 15.5 is
00:49:19
what that translates to, by the way, my my calculator. 15 point
00:49:23
for Mr. Griffin. Yeah.
00:49:25
Who's? 19 and doing all my team.
00:49:27
That's 16 point. Five.
00:49:30
That's a lot of a lot of dollar signs per at bat right now when
00:49:34
he's. No pressure on your son, Pruitt,
00:49:36
but you can tell him that Conor Griffin's making 15 1/2 billion.
00:49:38
Yeah, and you're only a year or two away there, little buddy.
00:49:42
So let's start working on the swing.
00:49:46
What, what I don't want to, what I don't want to calculate is how
00:49:49
much more that is than what I've made in my career.
00:49:52
Oh God. Right.
00:49:54
Yeah, just the one year, the signing bonus, right, There's
00:49:58
all of our lifetime earnings in a sitting.
00:50:01
Bonus. I do not wish to calculate that
00:50:03
tonight. No, let's stop talking on there.
00:50:05
For a kid that's a third of my age, almost.
00:50:08
OK then, so now that we're all properly depressed, I'm going to
00:50:11
go midlife crisis myself a Camaro or something tomorrow?
00:50:16
I love it. See what happens?
00:50:17
Let's do it. Might as well.
00:50:19
All right, Jen. So I think it's going to wrap up
00:50:21
this week's episode of the shrewdness.
00:50:24
As we get closer to the NFL draft in two weeks, we're going
00:50:28
to do a little. Can't.
00:50:30
Wait. Prep show talk about kind of
00:50:32
who's slotted to go where and sure you can look at Mel Kiper's
00:50:36
list and if you want to do that, But we're going to talk about
00:50:39
like specific teams, what good fits look like where we're
00:50:42
excited to see some of these players go because there's a few
00:50:45
we are very excited to see where they go and there's I got to
00:50:48
believe there's going to be some day one trades happening.
00:50:52
Oh yeah, always, always. Especially some of these teams
00:50:55
have kind of gotten themselves bonus picks in the last little
00:50:58
bit with the trades. I think there's going to be some
00:51:01
fun stuff. So we'll we'll get into that.
00:51:03
We'll talk some more baseball. We may or may not do some
00:51:06
intermittent Royals only previews.
00:51:08
So we still like talk about them so much.
00:51:10
We'll probably just do like some individual episodes on those.
00:51:13
So stay tuned for that, but thank you for staying with us
00:51:16
today. I hope you found it interesting
00:51:18
talking some nil, some championship game wrap up and
00:51:21
this kind of the the new state of small market baseball teams
00:51:24
with having to do with their prospects to keep them in the
00:51:26
organization. I don't think it's it's it's an
00:51:29
interesting future. We'll see how it pans out with
00:51:31
some of these teams. But congratulations, Conor
00:51:33
Griffin, way to go. Proud of you.
00:51:34
Good luck in the in the future here.
00:51:37
Paul skins God, how much would he get?
00:51:40
I don't even want to know me. It might be too much.
00:51:43
They don't even want to pretend to offer it.
00:51:45
That's right. That's.
00:51:46
Going to do a half a billion but we.
00:51:47
Know we can't afford you, but we'll try this other kid who's
00:51:51
never played before. Exactly.
00:51:53
Exactly. All right.
00:51:54
You guys got any other closing comments?
00:51:56
Nope. Glad.
00:51:56
To be here. Thanks for joining guys, always
00:51:59
good to hang out all. Right, guys, next week.
00:52:03
All right, so enjoy the week and just stay shrewd.
00:52:06
Stay shrewd. Everybody.