Juan Soto Signs Historic Deal With Mets (Hour 3)

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How about this? In 20 minutes, we're going to be joined by David Sampson, media personality, podcast host, catch him on CBS Sports, CBS Sports, HQ, nothing personal with David Sampson. This guy's everywhere. He was also an executive in Major League Baseball as he ran the Florida Marlins. Yeah, he was the boss.

He was running the team. And so we're going to talk to him about this massive contract that Juan Soto agreed to with the New York Mets yesterday. 15 years, $765 million. They gave him $75 million upfront. He has an opt out after five years when he will be 31 years old.

If not the deal, then it moves from 51, an average of 51 to 55 a year in this. Forget, forget North America, forget baseball, forget Europe, forget anything. This is the biggest contract ever handed out to a professional athlete ever.

I don't care what country, I don't care what planet like ever. Listen to this news as it broke on CBS Sports HQ. Bringing news into CBS Sports HQ where Juan Soto is joining the New York Mets per multiple reports. Soto's agreed to a 15 year $765 million contract, including a $75 million signing bonus that works out to an average annual value of $51 million per season. $765 million figure sets an MLB record of surpassing Shohei Ohtani's 10 year $700 million contract last off season. Just 26 years old, Soto's coming off an All-Star season in 2024 where he hit 288 with 41 homers and 109 RBIs with the Yankees. He joins a Mets team that won 89 games last year reaching the NLCS but for falling in six games to the World Series Champion Dodgers. Let's be real, this guy, he's a freak. He's 26 years old. He's already won a World Series with the Washington Nationals. It's not like he needs to check that off his box. This guy is one of the best hitters sub 20 and he's the one of the best hitters ever already. And I know people want to exaggerate.

Oh, there's too much money. Oh, this dude is the real deal. The man does what you're supposed to do as a baseball player, put the bat to the ball. And when he doesn't put the bat to the ball, his eyes are so great. He just gets on base either way. The New York Yankees reportedly offered him 16 years, $760 million. He has $5 million less outside of the fact that I already told you Soto can make up to $800 million.

He can opt out in five years if he wants to. And the Yankees reportedly were offered an out. They were reportedly were offered an opportunity to kind of go back and forth. And the Yankees are like, nah, we good. New York Yankees are going to take this money that they would have applied to Juan Soto. They're going to divvy it up. They're going to get Corbin Burns. They're going to get a bat. They're going to get Santander from the Orioles.

I have no idea what they're going to do. I know that, let me say that again, $765 million is a lot. Hickey, the first thing I thought when I looked at the number again, I said, well, at least half of it will be taxed.

That made me feel better. That's a lot of money, man. Lower the tolls. Yeah.

Well, yeah. Why don't they, why does, why doesn't he donate? Isn't what is that stupid thing in New York supposed to start soon? Oh, congestion pricing.

Yes. Why doesn't he contribute some and, and he'd, he'd be the biggest person in New York city. If he said, I'm going to donate a hundred million, well, he's not going to do that.

That's a lot of money. He says, here's, here's to the MTA's budget, lower the tolls for the citizens. I'd rather him spend that a hundred million dollars on Peter Lonzo, sorry, other citizens of New York city, but I'll gladly pay the toll. The Mets are going to get Peter Lonzo, right? They're going to bring him back.

Why wouldn't that? I think they should, but I'm just saying, you know, you want to give Steve Cohen's money away here. I still, it's a lot of players to sign. Long way to go. Gotta catch the Dodgers. Well, they, yeah. Oh, the Dodgers. Catch the Dodgers. Is this the world that we're living in? We are fully moving into just, is this going to be Dodgers and the Mets and maybe the Yankees every now and then? Is this what we're going to? Uh, yes.

Oh yeah. Dodgers, Mets, everyone else. At least two of these two teams, well, two of these two teams, terrible English. At least we got two of these teams that they're participating in the damn, I'm so footballed out right now. Hickey, I wanted to call it the NFC, the national league.

They're just going to beat the hell out of each other for a long time, man. Well, I hope the Mets got the, uh, a good part of that. Well, to your point, Anthony DeComo covers the New York Mets. He was on MLB network and he said the New York Mets are still going to spend more money.

What? You look at what they did with Juan Soto. This is still even with him, not a complete team. They need pitching.

That is priority number one. They brought Frankie Montas in. They brought Clay Holmes in. They plan to make him a starter, but they still need more for the rotation. They definitely need more for the bullpen as well.

And you can certainly look at this lineup and say, okay, but what if we bring back Peter Lonzo as well? This is all kind of chump change compared to what they just gave Juan Soto. So the Mets are far from done. There's still a lot of work to happen. You might see some of it this week at the winter meetings, but between now and the start of spring training, the Mets are going to continue to add. That is part of why Juan Soto signed with the Mets. He believes in their vision that they were going to try to win. And that means spent. Oh my goodness.

Hickey, what does that mean? They're going to even try to get that. What's the guy's name? Sasaki. You know better than me. I think so.

I think it's how you pronounce it. It's Sasaki. Yeah. Listen, man, every year there's a new guy from Japan that nobody has ever, this is the part that kills me. Hickey is always a guy from Japan. We have never seen him, but everybody talks about the guy like, oh, we got to have, nobody's ever watched none of these guys pitch before. That's right. No, you're, I mean, Yamamoto last year, right?

Got over $300 million, which is crazy. Never saw that guy pitching my life, but, but the Hickey does the crazy part, but people will get on the radio and TV and screw. I get it. I get it.

If this is your job and you scout and you keep up with Japanese baseball and you're watching, it's just these games on at like five, six in the morning. Like, but then people will scream about like, we got to have this guy. We have to have this guy.

You've never seen a guy play ever. That's the part that kills me. Got to get him, JR. Got to get him. Oh yeah.

What did you throw? I have no idea, but you got to get him. How old is he? 22 years old or something? I don't know.

I have no idea, but you got to get him. No excuses. Yeah. I got to do this. Hey, I need you to think O'Reilly auto parts for all of your car care needs.

Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly auto parts. A lot of angry Yankee fans, man. I heard some nasty things.

It's not, not, I heard worse than this. Screw you, Soto. You left you this, you that the managers went for his money, right?

We supposed to carry Aaron judges bags for the next 15 years. And it reportedly, he had a good time and a good rapport with everybody in the Yankees locker room. But then we even got this news today or from yesterday from John Heyman, he was on MLB network. And he said that throughout the course of the year, there might've been a moment or two where Juan Soto and his family didn't get the proper respect from the Yankees security. The what? Listen to this.

One little issue. And I asked Juan Soto about this after they lost the world series. I took them aside and asked him, it was one little issue with, with the Yankees where a security guide, I booted either his mother or his father out of some area. And there were some negative feelings at that moment. Now, this I think is back in April or May and the same guy did it to his driver and chef. And, and he, the chef had a way and driver had a way out in the rain. And I mean, Soto is a family guy.

He was not too happy at the time. Oh man. I can't say I relate because I can't, but them security guys at the Yankees is like, relax a little bit.

Just take it easy. I get it. It's Yankees, Yankee stadium.

It's New York city. Just, you could be safe without being a jerk. I don't have a story, but those guys, they're a pain in the ass. So in a movie, fictitiously, one of the security guards shoots Alex or Derek Jeter. Oh boy.

And wait, wait, wait, wait. Didn't we see that in a real movie? The other guys. Oh, that was the name of the movie. Okay.

Go ahead. I knew you seen it. No, I didn't. I know about that part because Derek Jeter ended up homeless, right? Uh, I don't know about that part. I don't think so. Yeah. No, Derek Jeter played himself in a movie with the Yankees. Like he got shot.

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a different movie then. Oh, Derek Jeter was in another movie? The other guys was at Will Ferrell and, um, and they were cops, undercover cops.

And the whole thing is why, you know, he's out of desk was because when he's working security at Yankee stadium, he saw someone coming down the tunnel, said a freeze, freeze, freeze. He didn't do it. He shot him. And it was Derek Jeter, like going to batting practice.

So the whole thing's all, man, you shot Jeter, right? We're not talking about the same movie. I thought, I thought at the end of that movie, Derek Jeter ended up homeless. Like he got shot and his life went to hell after that.

He was homeless. I don't think we're talking about the same movie because it was a very small part. Like you shot Jeter. That's it.

Then you move on. Now we don't hear from Jeter again. Oh, okay. That's the only Yankee involvement in that movie. I have to look this up in the brain.

Mark Wahlberg. No, I don't know what that, I don't know. Anyway, anyway, anyway, that is security around Yankee stadium in a movie, messing things up real life security.

Maybe. I mean, again, granted, we'll see how much actually that impacted them, but maybe drove Soto across town. If that's the case, I applaud Yankee security.

Keep being stringent. You know, but the Yankees will be fine. I believe and I think the Mets will be fine. I don't think one of these teams is going to jump over the other one. These are both. How is that?

They're both going to win 90 ish games. So what's the big deal, right? Yes. Yes. And then one team has sold the Yankees have to get bats and the Mets have to get pitching. That's just what it boils down to. Yes.

I think the Mets overall are built better and for sustained success where you look at the Yankees, they got a lot of holes. Yeah. Aaron judge. Long-term.

Correct. And how, you know, as the Orioles get better, you know, see the Astros, they can keep it together. Like, oh boy, here we go.

We need to go. No, I'm saying you've had, I I've had my time. If the Yankees never win anything again in my lifetime, I'm good. I've had enough in your lifetime.

They have won anything. So I'd be happy for you. Go for it. Your turn. Your turn. Your method of coping.

No problem. It's reality. It's reality. And that's why yesterday was so big. That was truly one of the best days of my life, because that was one of the few times you could actually have the Mets going over on the Yankees. I agree. But that's why for me as a Yankee fan, is it disappointing not to have Soto?

Yeah. But I'm like, you know, the Yankees would be fine. The Yankees have been the Yankees. Eventually they'll win one.

They'll still be competitive. They can go get some pitching now. I'm I'm OK. I'm fine.

It'll be disappoint. But you see, when I'm not rooting for the Yankees, I root for the Mets. I got no problem. You hate the Yankees. You hate them. Oh, absolutely.

Oh, my God. I don't have no problem with the Mets. I like the Mets. Just like not when they play the Yankees.

So I'm I'm OK. I just don't want to see. And I used to like the Dodgers.

Not anymore. It's too much. It's too much. And now you got a guy on the Mets who's going to make fifty to fifty one a million a year. Vicki, last year, one of the stupid team moving to Sacramento, the A's, the A's payroll was 60 million dollars.

Now it's probably going to go up now. They picked up Severino. They got a guy or maybe go down. The Mets got a guy who's making fifty one. You got one guy, one team making fifty one. Last year we had a team payroll at 60 mil. The whole team.

That's not good. This is baseball is wild. You know what?

We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. Let's talk about all of this with David Sampson, former president of the Miami Marlins. You can catch him on radio, catch him on TV.

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It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Amongst all of the news, college football, playoff, NFL this, NFL that, Major League Baseball is certainly taking center stage, especially given the winter meetings and this big contract that was bestowed upon Juan Soto. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars minimum over the next 15 years. What does this mean for the Mets? What does this mean for the Yankees, the Dodgers, the ecosystem of Major League Baseball? Joining us right now is someone who used to run the Marlins of Major League Baseball. You can now catch him. Nothing personal with David Sampson. You can watch him.

CBS Sports HQ. It's David Sampson. David, how are you? I'm good. Can you hear me OK? You sound absolutely amazing, David. I guess David can't hear me. Can you hear me? I hear you. I'm so sorry, I can barely hear you. OK, I can I can hear you. If you can answer, if not, we can try again. All right, go ahead. I'm ready for you.

How are you? Good, good. This contract that initially we heard six hundred mil. Now we're hearing maybe upwards of eight hundred million dollars. Biggest contract ever.

Did you think things would get this high? Well, I think it's the perfect storm when you've got the New York Yankees and the New York Mets going after the same player. You have an opportunity as an agent like Scott Boras to really maximize the value. Plus, you've got a player who's 26 years old, who's already a World Series champion, a pennant winner, an on base machine. And you've got age on your side and he changes your lineup. And you have an owner in Steve Cohen who would not be denied.

And you have an owner in house time renter who didn't want to be denied. And when you've got those things working for you, you can see how the numbers got to where they got to. Well, David, we know that the New York Mets still have some spots to fill with their rotation. We know that the New York Yankees now have to spread that money around, being with pitching in some depth. What do you foresee for both of these teams in the short term and the long term? Let's start with the Mets. Bringing Juan Soto onto your team that really got to the NLCS. But you look at their team, they brought in Klay Holmes and you think to yourself, is it enough?

And the answer is no. They really, if they're going to go all in, which they really are. And that's an expression that's overused. But when you look at Juan Soto's prime, you're not looking at 15 years. You're looking at the next six years where you really want to see if you can get yourself a title or two. And I think to do that, they're going to need to improve their pitching. If you look at their lineup, of course it's improved having Lindor and a perennial MVP candidate and Soto together. But you see that even with Judge and Soto, you get to the World Series and then lose in five games. And a lot had to go right for the Yankees. So I think that the Mets are likely not done. And I'll tell you for the Yankees, I know people are despondent and angry, but if the Yankees reallocate that money and they fill a bunch of holes, we've learned and look no further than the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles. They had two of the best five players in the game in Trout and Otani, and they never made the playoffs. They never made it to 500, frankly. And so you do need to build a good team.

And one player does not do that. So we'll see what the Yankees do, but I would expect them to put their resources to work to get that team, the ring that Hal Steinbrenner so desperately wants. David Sampson is joining us here on the J.R. Sportbrief show. David, when you look forward towards the economics in baseball, we know that the A's are moving temporarily up to Sacramento. OK, David is, yeah, Hickey, what did we we push the button? David is he couldn't hear.

It sucks, right? OK, well, David is we're going to try to get David. David, you're back. You OK? You got me.

Sorry about that. Oh, good. I don't know. Hey, you are you giving away too many state secrets now? They're killing off our connection.

Is that what's going on? Boy, I'll tell you with that crackling, you'd think that people were interested and they are, because this is such an interesting time in baseball, especially in New York. And what goes on in the next, you know, couple of days, couple weeks, couple months is going to be so fascinating to me, because in New York you've got two behemoths. You've got Steinbrenner and Cohen.

You've got New York and New York. And what Steve Cohen is trying to do is what Steve Ballmer has tried to do in Los Angeles. And that was make the Clippers no longer sort of second fiddle in L.A. And that's what Steve Cohen wants. And to do it, you're going to have to win and you're going to have to win consistently and you're going to have to fill your ballpark. And then you can really try to to improve your position in New York. This signing helps, of course, but it's not the last step.

Oh, David, that's what I was asking you right before we got cut off. If we go ahead and look towards Los Angeles, are we really just looking at the Mets and the Dodgers and maybe the Yankees just throwing around money for the next few years while everybody else watches? Well, you know, that's the narrative right now. But think about this postseason where you have the Guardians, the Royals, the Orioles with payrolls that were not high at all. I think there's always going to be a premium on intelligence and on good decisions. And think about last offseason when the Royals signed Seth Lugo for three years, 15 a year. And he really was a finalist for Cy Young. There are good signings to be done by smart front offices. You don't need to be a genius to give Juan Soto seven hundred and sixty five million. You don't need David Stearns as your president of baseball ops.

You can get the man on the street to do that or the woman on the street, anybody to do that. So really what happens at the margins is where you see the difference between winning and losing. David Sampson is here with us, the chair, our sport ratio. I had mentioned the I want to call them the Sacramento A's. I don't know what the hell they're calling themselves. Last year, their payroll was 60 mil flat.

And now we have Soto who's going to make fifty fifty one. Are we going to hear anything about this from some of the ownership groups later on or do they not care? No, I think they do. Whenever somebody signs like this, it owners sort of prop up and they say to themselves, is this fair? And then the commissioner's office gives you a bunch of stats that shows that the team with the highest payroll doesn't often win. It's hard for a team to repeat.

Nobody's done it since the Yankees in ninety eight to two thousand. And there are teams with low payrolls who are highly efficient with great young players who can be very successful. So I think that you've got a lot of owners who root against the Mets, Yankees and Dodgers. And I understand why, because it feels badly when you know that you can't afford something, even though you'd like to afford it. But we all deal with that.

Everyone's got things they can't afford. And everyone is in a position where someone has more money than you and someone has less money than you. And in baseball, someone generally has a higher payroll than you and someone has a lower payroll than you.

And in terms of the apps, and that's what I'll call them, they're a team that's in transition as they try to figure out their move to Vegas and their temporary home in Sacramento. And that signing of Severino, I believe that's a far more problematic signing than the Soto signing. And the reason I say that is that Severino is so badly overpaid in terms of the amount of money he got by the Athletics, their number one contract they've ever done in their franchise history. And that tends to impact the market way more than the Soto deal, which is viewed as an outlier by other GMs.

Well, with Soto off the board, Willie Adames off the board, what do you think is the next likeliest move that's going to take place? Well, that's what's so amazing to watch right now is what the Yankees and Mets both do. I don't say that about the Blue Jays, Red Sox and Dodgers, because the Dodgers are, of course, active.

And the Blue Jays and Red Sox were just sort of dipping their toes in the Soto waters. But for the Yankees, they've got to respond with what their plan B is and reallocating those funds. And they will I don't believe the Yankees will go into spring training without having signed one of the top free agents. And I think they'd be well served to try to get a front line starter. I think that would be very helpful to their team. And as far as the Mets are concerned, they've got to put their focus on Pete Alonso and figuring out are they bringing him back? Because for me, without Alonso in that lineup, you really just replaced Alonso with Soto, who's a better player, but you're only getting the increment between Alonso and Soto. But if you bring Alonso back, then you're truly getting the addition of Soto.

And that would be a far bigger difference maker for the Mets. David Sampson is here with us, former exec with the Marlins. Now you can listen to him, nothing personal with David Sampson. Every year we find out about another Japanese sensation this go round. It's Rocky Sasaki, 23 years old. We hear that he's being courted, of course, by the Dodgers, potentially the Mets, Blue Jays, what have you.

What can you tell us about Rocky Sasaki? And I hear he's coming over on a little bit of a discount being posted, huh? So here's the deal.

And people get confused. When Yamamoto came last year to the Dodgers, he was eligible as a full and regular free agent where he could sign for any number of years and any amount of money. And he obviously ended up getting that huge deal with the Dodgers.

But Sasaki is not bad. He's a controllable player. He's coming here the way Otani did way back when he came to the Angels, where the teams post and they make an offer and his Japanese team actually makes a choice. And the funny part is the team makes the choice that the player wants. But then his home team in Japan gets a percentage. But the only amount of money that can be given to him is maybe up to six million dollars or so, which is the international bonus slotting system where all teams are really fair and square. So it's not like free agency. But does that mean he'll go to Miami or Milwaukee?

No, it does not. He will very likely stay on the West Coast. And my bet is either L.A. or San Diego. As a matter of fact, I'm sure it will be either L.A. or San Diego. That's what makes the most sense to me. And both teams are an equal footing in terms of the amount of money they can offer him. Oh, man.

David, final question. As we continue on year and year and year, we see what the Mets have with Steve Cohen, one of the richest people walking and we see what the Dodgers have. Are they just going to throw money at everything every year? Are we building up all star teams, one on each coast? Well, listen, they only have 26 spots, so they can't corner the market at every, you know, for all the great players that are in Major League Baseball. But there are teams when you don't have a salary cap, there's always going to be teams at the top of the salary structure. It's been that way for I got into baseball 25 years ago today, actually. And we were having these conversations 25 years ago.

The differences were were smaller. There's no doubt that the difference between the number one payroll and the number 30 payroll, the difference is greater today than it was. And that's something that will have to be addressed as we head into the next collective bargaining. But I think that it's sort of normal and it's not the end of the world only because the number one payroll team doesn't win the World Series automatically every year at all. Now we see that.

We'll see what happens over the next bunch of years. David, always appreciate your expertise. Where can people listen and follow you on all of your mediums? Thank you. You can find me at David P. Samson on X and on Blue Sky.

But also every day, 8 a.m. live. Nothing personal with David Samson on YouTube, on the DraftKings Network and also I'm on Dan Levitard show on a weekly basis, sometimes daily basis. So pretty much anywhere and listen to me talk about sports and culture, entertainment, baseball, but any sport. And it's a whole lot of fun. And I'm really thankful to the audience and thankful to you for the opportunity tonight. Hey, David, always a pleasure.

Enjoy the hot stove as things continue to heat up. We'll catch you on down the line, OK? All right. Looking forward. Have a good night.

You as well. That David Samson, you are locked into the JR Sport Reshow here coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler. It's 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. David Samson does have a great point. The team with the highest payroll doesn't walk around with the championship every year. They don't walk away with the title every year, but it still makes it difficult to just go, damn it. What about the little guy?

What about the small market? Where is the where's the parity? Like, you may not walk away with the championship every year. 80 games, 90 games, playoff appearances. We have teams, some teams that even though they're not winning a championship, they don't even get to the postseason. They just languish. They suffer.

They end up like the A's, cheap owner. Cheap owner looking for a quick thrill in Vegas. If that's what you want to call it, that's what I'll call it. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

Thank you so much. Media personality, radio host, podcaster, former president of the Marlins. David Samson for joining us in the last break to take a look at everything going on in the world with, with baseball, Juan Soto, his $765 million deal that can be upped to $800 million.

It's a long conversation. Is this, I guess it is because the money is there, especially if you're the Mets, you're not going broke. If you're the Dodgers, you're not going broke.

How sustainable is this just for baseball? I just go, are the salaries just going to continue to rise or, and Hickey, this, this might be where it goes. Maybe even all sports as the, the money goes higher and higher. The value of sports as a live product, as an entertainment product goes higher and higher. Cause it's one of the few things that people still watch live, but are we going to have guys at the top of the, the roster making all the money and we just got to got a bunch of feelings at the bottom of when I say feelings, the money's not spread out amongst the team. And of course you're always going to have the stars, the guys who are making a big bucks, but we got to have a guy on, on the team making 50 mil.

And then we got to have a bunch of other dudes making like one. I feel like that's, that's where we might be going. Maybe, I don't know. I don't think so just because there's so much money coming in and there's no right now sign of it stopping anytime soon.

I just think the floor will be raised. I see, but that's where I go. There does come a point in time and the TV, the television distributors, the streamers, they decide this. Once we get past the, this is what TV is and now everybody's streaming and that has settled in and it might take another generation or two, but I really feel there's going to come a point in time where even the streamers have gone, okay, crap.

Well, damn it. We've bought everything. We got NBA streaming, we got NFL streaming, we got baseball streaming.

Okay, fine. We got more money than TV. Who cares about TV? We're streaming now. That's where the world is going. There's going to come a point in time where the streamers just go, all right, we paid y'all a crap ton of money.

We got you. We ain't paying out. And that's when the money slows down. So my concern and thought is, okay, well, if the money is coming in from television and yeah, sure, you got people coming in at the gate, at the gate, physically at the stadiums. Is that going to be that way forever? Specifically for baseball, which I think, yeah, the numbers might improve to improve to what, 15 years ago where the numbers were. Like, are we really creating that many more baseball fans where they're just like, ah, I got to go to the game or I got to watch? That's, that's where my concern is. Well, when you talk about creating baseball fans, I think part of that is just having owners that are willing to compete. And I think that's a whole different discussion.

I think it's part of like baseball because there is no floor, there's no cap, there's no really, you know, any minimums or anything. There's plenty of owners that sit there, cash a check and really couldn't couldn't care less about what the product looks on the field. Wow. That's what I think. Well, yeah, well, that's why he's, well, he might be moving that team sooner than later if he's still here to see it. Not trying to be crass or anything, but I'm talking about Jerry Ronsdorf.

It's, but that's tough. Like how, how much, and I want to say younger people will see through BS. They don't want to be bothered. I feel like generations have come and gone where it's just like, ah, yeah, my team, my owner's a jerk.

I wish he would sell the team. I think there's more apathy for younger fans just to go, why am I even going to bother? I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to care. And so if the owners don't care and like to your point, why should the fans care? And I mean, if we, if we got three teams or four teams that are throwing around money and everybody else is watching, then why do I want to bother? Well, that apathy though, right?

You, since we haven't seen it before for the most part, right? In terms of generations, there's really been no reason for owners to sell because doesn't matter how bad their team is, well, you gotta be loyal. So you gotta go and watch the game. So people are watching, viewership is still high. People are going to the games.

So they're not losing that much money. Well, now if you're talking about a generation that is apathetic and says, well, my team sucks and why do I care? I'm not going to watch. I'm not going to go. And no one's at the ballpark.

No one's watching. And all of a sudden now in owners, maybe not losing money per se, but they're not making the return they thought they would. Do you see more owners willing to sell than before? Possibly. That'd be nice.

That'd be nice. You know, bring in some owners that want to spend, that want to compete. I just think right now there's a, it's like a land grab when it comes to sports. And when I say land grab, I'm talking about the streamers, like the Amazons, the Netflixes of the world, the YouTubes is just saying, we need to get our hands on this. I need to take my piece of the pie and that's what they're doing. And they'll figure out the viewership later because there's, I'm not going to say there's, there's not a lot of things positive for viewership for sports. I would say outside of longterm, outside of the NFL, you know, it's, it's, it's tough going. I just, I don't want to say there's a sports bubble, but these numbers are getting nuts and they exist in the current ecosystem and the current ecosystem of now of contracts and TV rights, streaming rights, not necessarily going to be what the next round looks like. Everybody always wants to push the numbers higher and higher and higher. But what happens when one of the streamers or the streamers collectively say, okay, we got our land, we got our piece of the pie.

We ain't doling that out. You know, we'll, we'll see. This is, we live in a very interesting time when it comes to media and media is what's driving the growth of all of these, these sports. So it'd be interesting to see what happens.

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So how is it working? It is literally, it is a combination of what you, me and Marco said. There are NFL Simpsonized players on the football field. They look like Simpson versions of the football players, but then some of the players are Simpsons characters.

So I initially believe I saw Homer Simpson as a rush, throw a touchdown to CD land. Interesting. Okay. So they do have the real characters actually as players in the game. They're mixed in with the actual, there's like, it's like two or three Simpsons characters that are replacing the NFL guys. The other 19 or 20 dudes are just cartoonized, Simpsonized, you know, NFL graphic players. Yeah.

Like a video game. And even with no sound on you're intrigued. I am. To be honest, I have no idea who, I guess I'm going to assume Jamar Chase, maybe it's Higgins. I have no idea who Joe Burrow threw the pass to because graphically it was Bart Simpson to Ralph Wiggum. So it was to Jamar Chase.

Okay. He just wanted to score the touchdown. That's a little frustrating.

I guess it's more for the kids, but. Yeah, I have no idea. I'd have to look at the stats to see who he threw the touchdown to. Yeah. Five yard touchdown pass from Joe Burrow. Yeah. Well, I saw Bart Simpson throw the pass, so yeah, you have it.

Now you can tell your kids, Hey, I saw Bart Simpson throw a touchdown pass. Yeah. They got aliens here and itchy and scratchy. I was going to say the rat and the cat. Um, the rat is the mouse and the cat.

I got rat, rat cat, whatever they are. Yeah. I'm giving this about now they got the baby Lisa Simpson here.

I'm giving this about, uh, oh, they just started the second quarter. Yeah, I'm out of here, but it is very unique. I put it to you this way. It is cleaner visually than watching the actual humans. Maybe because the LA everything is so clean. There's less noise. No humans are complicated from just visually just having these graphics with the players. They look like video games and a little easier to follow. I don't know.

I can check it off the box. Seven to seven Dallas Cowboys, all tied up with the bangles. What a world we live in. And Homer Simpson playing NFL football. It's the JR sport show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. We come back on the other side. We'll give you another update on football. It looks like, uh, it looks like the bangles are trying to score.

It looks like the Cowboys are trying to score. We'll give you an update on the other side of the break. We'll go around the world and discuss a lot of the things that took place today. Uh, so many updates and news in the world of college football. What's going on with Carson Beck. We talked about Soto Belicheck had some words today about his potential future job at North Carolina. Maybe we got a lot to discuss. Don't go anywhere. It's the JR sport re-show coast to coast, the infinity sports network.