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Five, that's the nothing personal word of the day.It is Thursday, October 31st, 2024.Happy Halloween, and of course, happy birthday to our esteemed producer, Matthew Koka.Best day of the year, Halloween, five.You knew that'd be the word of the day.
I can't believe someone in the chat, nothing personal with David Sampson, did not get that.Fives are wild. Why?Game five, last night, I feel like it just happened.The fifth inning is gonna take up several minutes of the show.
The Yankees had a five run lead and then gave up five runs in that fifth inning.And the MVP of the World Series, Freddie Freeman, yes indeed, wears number five. I've been thinking all night where to start.
And I want to be very careful not to be too full of hyperbole or recency bias, which I know drives Coca crazy.I was trying to think of a worse inning that I've ever seen in my career, in my life, than what happened to the Yankees in the fifth inning.
The absolute end of their season occurred. in a way that totally tracks to the way the Yankees play.
All season, we've been watching them not play fundamental baseball, making fun of PIP, which you may know as PFP, which I call PIP, pitchers in field practice, every spring training. They're in the backfields with no one watching.
You've got a machine or a person or a coach or a guy at five bucks an hour who wants an autograph or two and maybe the free spread in the clubhouse.Toss the ball to a pitcher, 1-1, 2-2, get over.
Forgetting Aaron Judge dropping a ball hit right to him, which is inexcusable, I can excuse it.And the reason I can excuse the first judge error, the first error is that physical errors, they happen.Judge in the eighth inning.
Not throwing as hard as he can and as quickly as he can to third base on the first sacrifice fly, therefore allowing the Dodgers to have another runner occupy third base with under two outs.Remember, they had bases loaded, no outs.
Weaver comes in the game, sack fly.Judge just throws it to third and allows the runner on second to tag.Edmund, as I recall, that's inexcusable. The second error of the fifth inning Volpe.Great story.Love the fact that he was a kid at the parade.
If I see that picture one more time, it's going to induce some sort of discharge from my throat, but it's great.He was a kid.He was always wanting to be a Yankee like Garrett Cole.God, it's my dream.Guess what?Every kid wants to be on the Yankees.
All right.26 of you.Congrats.You did it. Volpe, grand slam in their one win, that was cool.
Here's the thing when there's a ground ball to you at short and you're trying to throw to third and Kike Hernandez is running to third and you are holding on to a one run lead in a game that you have to win.
You have to set your feet properly and you have to make a good throw, hard stop. But let's even forget that, because we're still in the fifth inning.Bases are loaded.There's a chance for 5-0.There's a chance they can get out of it.Cole, two outs.
Mookie Betts, a dribbler up the first baseline.Rizzo, there's a little bit of backspin.So I'm okay with Rizzo having to sort of stop, drop, and roll.Rizzo's a guy who, Catches first base, gets the ball, generally will throw to the pitcher.
The pitchers know to get over.Garrett Cole fell asleep.So excited, I guess, that he was getting out of the inning.Give him mad props for the way he pitched.But not covering first base, it's incredible to me.Never seen anything like it.
The Yankees crowd. Disappears because the Dodgers were a lot like other winning teams, where when one thing happens to an opponent, you say we got him now.Dave Roberts interviewed during the game, said I'm using my high leverage relievers.
Even though my starter did not get out of the second inning, and the Yankees had a 5-0 lead, we got a lot of outs left to go.We're not giving up this game the way we gave up game four. And lo and behold, the Dodgers were able to tie the game.
The Yankees miraculously on the Giancarlo Stanton sacrifice fly retake the lead, but then it fell apart for the Yankees again in the eighth inning.And I'm watching the fans.I'm watching Aaron Boone.I'm watching his eyes get more, more Van Gundy.
I call it the VGE, the Van Gundy eyes. It's what coaches have at the end of every season.But Jeff Van Gundy has opening day of every season.It's sort of the bags and the dark circles from not sleeping.Aaron Boone said he was 51 years old.
I love you, Booney, but my God, maybe the Yankees shouldn't pick up the team option because you don't look great.And, you know, I say that with the utmost love managing the Yankees or managing any team, it'll get you.
So all of this happens in the fifth inning, but it's fine.The score is tied.The Yankees take a lead.Even when the Dodgers took a lead, you still feel like the Yankees are gonna come back.Why?
Because in the World Series, you don't win when you're down five.Word of the day.Teams are six and 227 when trailing by five runs or more in the World Series game. The Yankees don't lose when they have a five run lead this year.
Do you know how many times they lost a game when they were up five in 2024?You guessed it, zero, 48 and 0.I got another one for you.Stanton and Judge hit a home run.When they hit home runs in the same game, the Yankees don't lose.
Well, that's a slight exaggeration.They were 45 and 5.The odds of what took place last night at Yankee Stadium, not good.Watching the Dodgers celebrate, watching in my mind the commissioner, Rob Manford,
bleeding millions and millions of dollars because there's no game six.The fact that baseball is out of the national conversation when it could have been an off day to day heading into a game six in LA.
The fact that every Yankee fan and everyone in the commissioner's office, when the score was five, nothing said, not only are we going back to LA, but we've got a guaranteed game seven and the Yankees are going to win it.
It was incredible, and you know it too.You know that as a Yankee fan, if that's what you are, you thought the Yankees were gonna win the World Series.When Stanton hit the home run after Judge and Jazz had gone back to back.
Frankly, when Judge hit the home run in the first inning, you assumed the game was over, which of course is funny cuz the game hadn't even started.There's 27 outs, 24 outs left to go for the Dodgers.Everyone just assumed the Yankees were gonna win.
Everybody, baseball's a funny game.Did you think that Walker Bueller would close for the Dodgers?Were you paying attention to the way Dave Roberts had to use his bullpen in that game last night?Jack Flaherty was bad Jack Flaherty.
Notice how they don't do one shot of his mom.Maybe she wasn't at the game, but only when he's pitching well. We don't get to see the DM, the despondent mommy picture.Flaherty doesn't make it out of the second, he starts the cavalcade of relievers.
And you're doing the math and you're saying to yourself, hold on a second, they're out of relievers.They're not going to the dreck they used in game four for sure.So what are they gonna do?And there he goes, the game seven starter.
And it brought me back to my favorite manager.Yeah, he's my favorite manager. I'm not worried about Walker Buehler pitching game seven.I don't want there to be a game seven.What are we saving him for?
Walker Buehler comes out, pitches a perfect ninth to the bottom of the order.The most uneventful bottom of the ninth that I can ever remember of such a crappy game that the Yankees played.
It was ground out, strikeout, strikeout, all non-competitive at bats.Walker Buehler pitching as though he had turned back the clock about one and a half Tommy John surgeries. And just like that, the season ends, the celebration happens.
You get interviewed if you are the owner, the president, the GM, the manager, the MVP, Freddie Freeman number five.You revel in it, you celebrate on the field, you take pictures.If you're the owner, sometimes you run the bases, maybe slide into home.
Get into the clubhouse.The Dodgers blew about 400 employees to the games, chartered four planes, including the player plane.Other employees are in New York, celebrating like it's 1999.And you know what happens today?It's next season time already.
I always found it to be the most demonstrative of what the hamster wheel is.That is baseball.Is that no matter how your season ends and I had a season end with a hundred losses and I didn't see them with the world series win.It's all the same.
The day after your season ends, whether you're planning a World Series parade, or whether you're planning a season ticket sales event, or whether you're planning a new stadium, or whether you're planning to sign the greatest free agent at 1201 AM because you've totally tampered, and you pretend that you haven't, and then you sign the guy immediately because you give in to the extra year.
Love you, Jose Reyes.It starts the next day.So Andrew Friedman, As the President of Baseball Operations at the Dodgers, we'll get to spend some time making some ring rules, maybe using the ones from 2020.
Finding out a mailing address for Miguel Vargas, saying, yeah, you lost a buck 21, but here's a ring for you, and for you, and for you.
Or Andrew Freeman spends his time saying, I'm not exactly sure what we're going to do, except to say that next year, we're not going to have anything like the pitching injuries we had this year.We are good to go.
The Dodgers had eight starting pitchers, including Shohei Otani, not available to pitch eight.Now most teams will go through that many.
We were a low payroll team and we wanted 15 starters in spring training thinking that that's what we have to go through.And we would call it for injury and lack of performance. That's code word.The scouts don't like when you do that.
They like saying just injury.Here's a little funny side note, Coca.
The reason why scouts and coaches and development people don't like when we say we want depth in order to account for poor performance and pitching is that they say, no, there's not going to be any poor performance.
It would just be pitching because these are the players.We got you.These are the minor league free agents we found or the major league free agents we found or the players we drafted and scouted and then developed.
They're never going to have poor performance.It'll just be injury.But we would say poor performance and injury.So the Dodgers are going to return their entire team other than the free agents.
And so they have to decide, do we want Walker Buehler back?Do we want Jack Flaherty back?Do we want Kike Hernandez back?What do we do with Teoscar Hernandez?We got him for one year, 23 million.It ain't happening again that way.
See, Oscar's getting a long term deal from somebody.What about our closer, Blake Trinan?He's a free agent.Joe Kelly, see you later.Daniel Hudson, have fun.Bye.
You start the process of putting your roster together and the Dodgers put it together knowing that they are in the dynasty business.
They believe that with Otani coming back to pitch, with Otani signed long term, they obviously have Betts, Freeman, the top of their lineup signed long term.
The pitchers returning from injury, they believe and the odds makers agree that they are the favorites to win the World Series, regardless of bringing back Buehler or Flaherty.
Two thirds of their postseason starting rotation may be gone and to the Dodgers does not matter.Think about the craziness of that statement.
The Dodgers won a World Series over such a flawed Yankees team with two free agents to be, who it's very likely the Dodgers will say, Jack, no thanks.
And Walker, just cuz you had three great starts in the postseason, your arms hanging on by a needle and thread, three Tommy Johns is game over.There's no way we're signing you to four years plus.Andrew Friedman is not that dumb.
The second thing that the Dodgers are counting on.Excuse the mid-show drink that I just did.You see, we finished the post game about 1.30 a.m., got in the car, drove.
And the unpacking was a little tough here, Coca, because I had to do two separate loads of laundry because I'd been gone so long doing pre and post game. And I had so many different bags that there was no chance to even get a minute of rest.
So the throat's a tiny bit scratchy.Where were we, Otani?Do you know that the Dodgers are saying to themselves that we're counting on Otani to be in the rotation but not expecting it?
Otani's people will tell you, of course, he's pitching and he's a top of the rotation guy.You guys were all thinking, hey, he might pitch during the postseason. No chance toilet pants, that was never going to happen.
And there is no guarantee that Otani coming back from his second and stop calling it a procedure.It was his second Tommy John.There is not a guarantee that he comes back and performs at that level, but he's an MVP, unanimous this year he will be.
Not even an official way to see, unanimous MVP as a DH. You're looking at his separated shoulder.You are explaining his bad performance in the World Series not as a permanent bad postseason performer like Aaron Judge.
You are saying, hey, he had a subluxation.That's just dislocated shoulder.They played him, but in the regular season, He wasn't playing these games.Not a chance.
It's gonna be quite interesting to see what Otani does in year two at the Dodgers, because I'll tell you what the encore will not be.They're not gonna start in Korea, they're gonna start in Tokyo.
He's not gonna have to fire his translator for a gambling scandal that was under the table so fast that you'd think that there had been some sort of nuclear test going on. Back in the 50s and 60s, get under the table.
That's gonna help in an atomic bomb situation.Yes, no question.Those school desks where you can open them to get your four-inch math book, that is gonna protect you fully.Wile E. Coyote style.Do you know
that of all of the people who were broadcasting, and I count myself because pre and post game, every World Series game, you may be watching me on the DraftKings network.I was not on that network.We should do something on the DraftKings network.
If it's 1018 and someone's watching from DraftKings, how about doing the studio show?It'd be fantastic on your network.Anyway. Fox had the deal.They've got the postseason.They didn't spend too much time talking about the gambling scandal, did they?
No mention.I mentioned it.I definitely mentioned it.I mentioned it on the pre and post game show and on this show saying, well, baseball did one hell of a job swiping that under the rug.That's a mixed metaphor.
I can't remember the word that you use for putting something under the rug. So Itani goes from investigation to ring and everything's great.I've never woken up the morning after losing a World Series.
I've definitely woken up the morning after a failed season.So I'm going to draw on that experience.The Yankees will wake up today and they got to get to work. They got to figure out if they're bringing booning cash from back.
Hi, my name is Hal Steinbrenner.All right, I'm good.There is so much construction in the middle of the night that the construction economy must be doing great.Obviously, 95 and 495, they're always under construction.It's fine.
And I love the truckers driving at night, all good.I'm just saying that was a stressful drive, but I'm good. Hal Steinbrenner saying, am I bringing back Boone?Did Boone, who had Nestor pitching in the 10th?Yeah, that was Cashman and Boone.
It's all Cashman and Boone.If you get rid of Boone, you're getting rid of Cashman.Boone has a team option. The Yankees aren't getting rid of either.So we have Steinbrenner make the decision.
And there'll be some sort of announcement, even though you don't have to announce anything other than you picked up Boone's option.And they got to figure out one thing and one thing only.
Literally, the number one thing on their postseason agenda, which now becomes preseason for 2025, has to do with this man right here.
I think every team has the same opportunities when I'm going to the free agency.I don't want to say anybody has any advantage, because at the end of the day, we're going to look at what they have and how much they want me.
I don't know what's the teams that want to come after me, but definitely I'll be open to this in every single team.I don't have any doors closed or anything like that.So I'm going to be available for all 30 teams.
That, of course, was Juan Soto telling you that the minute I hired Scott Boris is when everybody knew that I'm open to all 30 teams.Of course, it is total horse hockey.There are not 30 teams in on Juan Soto.Don't worry.
I love the audience in Toronto.I love you guys.But do not think you're signing Juan Soto. Don't be the stalking horse.I love the audience.It's only actually a few percent, but I do love you out there in San Francisco.You're not signing Juan Soto.
Yankees fans, you feel good?You think your team gets better?You bring Soto back?Match him with Judge? You know that Stanton signed for a couple more years, but you're not paying him that much money.
Next year, you got 32 million on the books, but the year after, the deal that we signed him to, it's a bell curve deal.Go look it up.
The last few years of his deal, he starts making less money, all the way down to 15 million in the last year of his contract in three years, but the Marlins are paying 10 million of it.So Giancarlo Stanton is on the books for 5 million.
Can you maneuver a Soto deal where it's not a lot of money next year?Not even Otani style.That's my new word for Gagnon style or my new word for pay me 2 million now and 68 million later, because I've got all those endorsements.
Oh man, my name is Juan Soto.I don't have those endorsements.Oh man, I'm Scott Boris.I only get my agent commission when the player gets paid.And if it's deferred, I'm not getting that for 10 years.Screw that.
Deferrals, the Nationals tried that, didn't work.But you're gonna give Soto 14 years, right?Sign him till he's 40, he's only 26.It's gonna take 14.
We'll have plenty of time to talk about Soto, but just get 14 in your mind and also get 446 in your mind.446 is a number that not many people talk about. But that is the actual value of the Otani deal.
That's the number that Boris is trying to beat in present value.He's not gonna get the notional amount of 700 unless he finds a team to do deferrals the way Otani did.That's the only way Otani got to 700.
There is no one in baseball who believes that Soto should get what Otani got because Otani gives you the chance.Even if it's minuscule, the chance to pitch, Soto doesn't give you that. And don't be fooled by him being a gold glove finalist.
He is an average defender, which is better than what Otani is, cuz he's not a defender at all.But he's a top of the rotation pitcher.That may balance each other out, just a wee wee bit maybe. Were you surprised?
I actually was totally surprised about that clip.If you're not watching this, Juan Soto gave that in his Yankee t-shirt.It was a scrum, not at the podium.
And his Yankee hat was on backwards, which is a step better than what Garrett Cole did when he was a free agent and a Boris client when he finished with the World Series for the Astros before signing for 324 million with the Yankees.
He wore the Boris hat to the post-game press conference.That was the end of me carrying one iota about Gary Cole cuz it's just so ridiculous.Soto is one step below that where he said, listen, I'm all in on 30 teams.
Do you think Hal said to himself, man, I'm a prize fool.I went public saying that we're ready to negotiate and we're gonna try to sign him during the season.Are you joking?There is zero chance.
There was the same chance of Soto signing during the season as there is of Alex Verdugo or Clay Holmes being on the Yankees next year, zero.That's two of the three free agents the Yankees have.They got a third, Anthony Rizzo.
I don't blame him for what happened in the fifth inning.I don't, I mean the ball, it spun away from him.Cole's gotta be there.Terrible. They had an option on Rizzo.You think they want to pay him 20 million?You think Rizzo's a $20 million player?
No, he's not.You could renegotiate and give him two years, tack on a year, bring the AAV down to 10, maybe get an extra year, 10 and 15, give him five more million extra, 25 over two, saves you money, keeps Rizzo on the team.
That may be the only scenario under which Rizzo stays. For those of you who say that the Yankees had a bad season or that you're not satisfied, Lin Manuel Miranda, I can only say that as someone who's never satisfied, I get where you're coming from.
But man, you are subjecting yourself to a lifetime of pain and the possibility of a moment of pleasure from time to time. No, that's not what being a husband is.That is what being a Yankee fan is.
Hey, you get an occasional bit of pleasure, but if you're not gonna be satisfied with winning the pennant and you've gotta win the World Series, sorry, it's just a bad day for you.Let me put a bow on the World Series before we go to break.
I had to wait to see that said the Yankees were winning seven.I thought these two teams were evenly matched.All the experts did, and I thought so as well.You like what I did there?I didn't wanna be that guy.Yeah, I'm the expert.
I'm not, I'm just a guy, just had a job.But I thought it was a very close series. This series was not even close, forget the fact that it was a gentleman's sweep.That's not what made the series a blowout.
What made it a blowout is the Dodgers outplayed the Yankees.They out pitched them, they out hit them, they out defended them, they out smarted them, they out managed them.Other than that, it was tight.It was so close.
Just imagine if Nestor Cortez doesn't lay it in there for Freddie Freeman.Just think about the whole world sliding door style.The Yankees take game one, they get the split in LA.
Even if they lose two out of three, we're going back to LA for six and seven.And do you know that it didn't happen? It doesn't matter how close you are to winning a game.Hey, do you know what happened last night?
But for the fifth inning, the Yankees had it nailed.They won that game.They won eight out of nine innings.Well, they didn't win the eighth.They won seven out of nine innings.That should count as a win.In conclusion,
This was a great distraction, October.We had a bunch of great storylines, a bunch of low payroll teams made the playoffs.It's hard to remember that the Orioles were in the playoffs, the Guardians were in the playoffs.
It's hard to remember how good the Guardians were because they got eliminated.It's hard to remember how good the Royals were because they got eliminated.MLB got exactly what it wanted, Yankees, Dodgers.
Side note, a series between two teams, not the Yankees and Dodgers, that goes seven is still not better than a five game Yankees-Dodgers series.Baseball got a better rating than a Monday night football game.Everything looks good.
Their star face of the sport doesn't gamble. They get to open in Japan with Otani and Yamamoto this coming March.It really is and they're playing against the Cubs.It really is great.But there's an underbelly.Major League Baseball is Ghostbusters 2.
And I don't wanna yuck on your yum if you're a Dodger fan, but it's time. Ghostbusters 2, as you may recall, underneath the subway, there was this gurgling and it was like lava.
And I'm not sort of being Seth Meyers here, except to say that I don't exactly know what it is.I just know that it's gonna be very bad.There is so many issues between the league and the union.There's so many issues between the owners and the owners.
There is low revenue versus high revenue, low payroll, high payroll.The owners are despondent about what's going on with Tampa.They are furious with what's going on in Oakland.
Meanwhile, I can find you eight owners who would vote right now to have the Dodgers never play another game in October.And as far as they're concerned, the Yankees can pound sand.I don't want to alarm anybody.
about the work stoppage that's coming at the end of this CBA.I don't wanna alarm you to say that you should not be able to enjoy this if you are a Dodger fan.
But to the other 29 fan bases who all left with your head hung low because you didn't get what you wanted at the end of the season.You will think back fondly to this year as the year where you could have almost had it all.
And then next year, you'll walk into spring training in only four short months.And you will say to yourself, I think we can win it all.It's a fun year.I do miss baseball already.I miss it.What a game, worst game ever.
Five, that's the nothing personal word of the day.All right, let's take a break.We come back.It is Thursday.And guess what?TSMGO, the show must go on.We're gonna review a movie from my top 100.
I don't know what number it is, but I would expect it to be relatively high.And I got to watch it this week alone in a hotel room.It's not that kind of movie.There was no Chris Cody around.
And then I wanna talk to you about Adam Silver and how he is trying to make people understand what's true and what's not true about the WNBA.We'll be right back.Welcome back to Nothing Personal.It's David Sampson coming at you live.
Thank you for downloading, subscribing, telling your friends about it, what we do every day here.With the birthday boy, Matthew Koka, happy birthday.Do you wanna say anything, Koka?Do you want your voice to be heard on this show?
Do you want your face to be seen with a quick, do you know all of us in the chat room, we could sing happy birthday to you right now.Would you like that?He doesn't like his birthday.All right, here we go.
Everybody in the chat room, do it with your fingers.If you're watching or listening, Happy birthday to Coca.Happy birthday, dear Coca.
Happy birthday to the best producer and maybe the grumpiest guy who always knows what I should be talking about, what I shouldn't be, and when I have no idea what I'm doing, but he makes me look good all the time.
And I don't think he loves his job, but I hope he really does, because we've been doing it for five years and we're not going to stop. Happy birthday.I can't believe how young you are and so accomplished in your industry to you.Thanks.Yeah.
Wait, was that just in my ear or was that to everybody?He just yelled, thanks, but I think.OK, that was.Do you know how depressing it is to watch Bridges of Madison County alone in a hotel room in Stanford?
when it's my go-to cry movie anyway, and it happened to be randomly chosen, and you made me watch it this past week, and it made me question every life choice I've ever made.
I sit there holding onto the handle, wondering whether or not I'm gonna find a Francesca, or whether I have found a Francesca, whether or not I'm the guy in the trailer, whether I'm the photographer.I don't know if I'm Robert.
I don't know if I'm a farmer.I don't know if I'm a kid discovering something about my parents.I just know waterworks and the tissues at the residence in not great.I'm talking chafing level tissues, institutional level tissues.Yes.
I traveled with my own.I love the ones that come with a little aloe because yes, I had a little tear in my eye and I had the sniffles and I didn't want to be raw because that requires extra makeup so I can get criticized for putting too much on.
It's such a good movie. Now, if you like reading books, read the book and watch the movie.If you don't like reading books, don't read the book and just watch the movie.But there's no way you only like reading the book and not watching the movie.
Who does that?Such a good movie.It's number 48 on my list of top 100, which you can find at davidsampsonpodcast.com. There we have a document where you can see every one of the top 100 movies.And you also can see inside the document this.
And what this is, is a document showing all of the top 100 and which ones we reviewed.Because every Thursday we're going to review a new movie from the top 100. And I can't remember, is yellow the ones we've done?
I think yellow is what we've reviewed.Green is what we have left.It's a lot more yellow.What are we reviewing next week?The Green Mile.The Green Mile is a fantastic movie.And I'm completely blanking right now, which is really annoying to me.
Michael Clarke Duncan, rest in peace. Coca, does that sound right to you?I don't think he'd know this.He may not have even heard of the movie.Nothing personal pick of the day, presented by DraftKings.
Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show.DraftKings, the crown is yours.It's Thursday night, and we've got a Thursday night football game in what is incredibly bizarre to me,
the New York Jet are favored over the Houston Texans.Maybe that's because Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback, not of today, but of yesteryear, and CJ Stroud is the quarterback of 20 years from now and not today.I have no idea.
What I do know is the Texans are plus 105, lines are subject to change, and I'm taking them, the money line, not the points. The Jets are favored.I could take the one and a half, forget it.Texans plus 105 money line over the Jets.
That's your nothing personal pick of the day presented by DraftKings.I successfully took the Yankees every single game this World Series.Is that true, Coca?I think I did.I guess that means I went one and four.
We're 150 and 159 after last night's loss.Well, baseball season's over.Now we got hockey, basketball, football, plenty.This is a difficult one for me because I don't want to be accused by anyone of not giving the proper attention to the WNBA.
And the sporting class is a show that John Skipper, Pablo Torre, and I do from time to time.We should do it more.It's a good show.I've taken a position on the sporting class out of nothing personal.And I wanna make my position incredibly clear.
The WNBA is a failed league. as it is currently constituted.That's not in parentheses.That's an important part of the sentence.The WNBA is owned 60% by the NBA.The WNBA loses money as a league every single year.
That means you add up the operation of each of the teams prior to expansion, each of the current teams, add them up, and you get to a loss of about $40 million.That's the reported loss of the WNBA just this year.
Adam Silver himself said that the NBA has been supporting the WNBA since its inception.When I say it's a failed league as it is currently constructed, That doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.There's plenty of businesses that have lost leaders.
There's plenty of people who do something because for the good of the game, for the good of humankind, to promote women's sports, I'm in, but let's not call something what it isn't.The WNBA,
Had a moment, that moment could last a year with Caitlin Clark.It could last 10 years, it could last 20 years.This could be the beginning of a rapid rise in team valuations.
This could be the year we look as the year that the WNBA became a successful league, maybe.But let's talk about now.Adam Silver is willing to. He did an interview with CNBC, part of their new, I assume, part of their new sports business initiative.
People are into sports business, Coca, that's good for us.He had some very interesting things to say.When I told you on Sporting Class and Nothing Personal that the WNBA media rights deal is a fugazi because the WNBA basically got a pegged number.
The institutions, Amazon, NBC, and Disney, who got the MBA rights also had to take WNBA rights.They were assigned a value.The value made it look like the rights were worth six times more than they were worth under the last media rights deal.
The basis of that is fantasy.The basis of that is hope. And I love hope.Hope is a wonderful thing.Don't ever lose it, especially when trying to find somebody on a beach with directions you found under a rock.
Adam Silver was very clear in his most recent statements telling you, he's telling you how to look at it, but yet no one wants to look at it this way.
He is telling you that there is no indication that if the WNBA had gone out on its own to get a media rights deal, that they would have gotten what they got.
He's also telling you that we have to figure out what to do with the WNBA because the NBA owners are tired of subsidizing it. The NBA owners who own both an NBA and a WNBA team, tired of subsidizing.
The NBA owners who don't own a WNBA team, own the WNBA league, 60% of it, they're tired of subsidizing it.Just think about it.
At what point do you say to yourself, hey, we really love the optics of this, but the reality, the juice isn't worth the squeeze anymore.We don't wanna keep propping up the WNBA.
Adam Silver wants us to focus on the fact that the WNBA is starting to operate more on its own.They've got more departments that are separate from the NBA.They do their own PR.They do their own marketing.They've got their own commissioner.
There's one thing they don't have.It's a tiny, tiny little thing.They don't have their own money.It's not a big deal.Just a small issue.Very small.I gotta tell ya.
It's not even that the WNBA can't keep their coaches and that all the coaches are being fired and that they've got a league where the ratings are good because of Caitlin Clark, but then she gets eliminated from the playoffs and people are still watching.
But their version of watching is a version of the number of millions of people that, that the NBA, if not the NHL sort of look at and say, Hmm, that's not a lot of people.Here's what's going to happen. The WNBA has three years, that's it.
They have three years to figure out how to be profitable.
They're in the middle of a labor issue because for whatever reason, the players have decided that they are gonna opt out of their current CBA and they're prepared for a long work stoppage, that will be the end, but they're prepared for a long work stoppage because they want to be made whole for all of the amazing appreciation that exists in the WNBA.
Where?That's just public posturing.When you sit down with the union, you show them the books. They've got the statements already.They know the amount of money the teams don't make.Maybe, maybe what'll happen is that they can call up Saudi Arabia.
That'd be something.Hey, any chance that I know you invest money and you bought the movie studio in Newcastle and You bought live and you fund that.Is there any way you want to maybe think about buying the WNBA?
My friend owns this, not my friend, I just said that as a matter of speaking.Ted Leone says through his parent company, the parent company, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, I believe it's just Monumental.They got an investment from the Qataris.
I wonder whether WNBA is gonna go after the Saudis.I mean, you'd be out of your mind not to get foreign investment money.I am not going to be deterred by the article that I read yesterday or the day before.Hear this, cuz it's funny.
The Saudi Investment Fund, they've decided to become a little more cost conscious. They decided they wanna pull back on some of their foreign sports investments, they announced this, because they wanna focus on the domestic investments.
They wanna focus on the World Cup, they wanna focus on building up Saudi Arabia.So maybe we're not gonna give 100 million to this and 100 million to that and 500 million to this.They have a ton of different investments.Remember what they got?
Saudi Arabia got the WTA finals, that was a huge tournament.That huge thing, we've talked about Live PGA and all the issues going on there. It's interesting because Saudi Arabia is the white knight for all sorts of sports teams.
all sorts of leagues where they want to prop up, however falsely, the valuations of their team.However, based on fantasy and not multiples of anything, forget revenue rebid, they're not multiples of anything.
In order to keep valuations rising, you got to find the greater fool.That's the theory.If you know, you know, because that was super funny what I just did.Not even planned.You find the greater fool.Hi, is this Mr. Arabia? You can call me Saudi.
All right, any chance you wanna put money in?Nah, we're focused on Saudi Arabia.This is the group that is spending billions on Live and signing all these people to these nine figure deals.You, it's like major Oprah Winfrey vibes.
You get a new deal from Live.You get a new deal from Live.You want 100 million?Done.Write the check.Well, there's a new sheriff in town. Wait to see is when I tell you something's gonna happen.If it does, great, if it doesn't, fine.Liv is out.
They're gonna sign, wait for it, this is the wait to see, get it, wait.They're going to sign zero new players to nine figure deals in the coming year, zero.I don't care which of the top PGA players are available.
Liv is getting out of the nine figure deal business. Bad news for you golfers out there.You're going to have to go back to the PGA and actually win.Compete.Oh, that's right.They've tried to change the whole PGA to a participation trophy tour.
Like Liv, thanks for showing up.Here's a mil for you and a mil for you just because you're here.Cuts?Forget it.Three days of rounds?Don't worry.Work a day fewer, make more money.Hold on.Where do I sign up for that? No, I would never do that to you.
We're a daily show.How many of the shows do you listen to that are weekly or a couple times a week?Forget all that.You gotta work.We all have to work.That's the thing about work.If you love what you do, then you have happy birthdays every year.
If you love what you do, then you really don't work a day in your life. If you love golfing, why wouldn't you care?Get a fourth day of rounds.That didn't come out right, 4869.
If you love what you're doing, but you have to play in a league that has three rounds instead of four, and then get paid more, as I leave you today, I remind you it's Koka's birthday.No, that's not how I'm leaving you.
I leave you today saying that we just survived together another baseball season where we crowned the awesome Los Angeles Dodgers.
A World Series champ, where the Yankees fell short, where Steve Cohen and the Mets came oh so close, where owners of every shape, size, creed, and color said, if they can do it, I can do it too.Because anything you can do, I can do better.
And we now segue into an off season of storylines of intrigue and interest. And just to keep us satisfied, we get the NFL, NBA, NHL.And before a blink of an eye, I promise you, we're gonna be talking about pitchers and catchers reporting.
That's how quick it's gonna go.Where will Juan Soto be?I bet Scott knows.It's just business.Happy birthday, Coca.This is nothing personal.
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