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We made it to a Thursday and this is the opposite of the first day of school because your kids are like, oh, summer's over. We got to go back to school. No, this is the opposite. We finally made it. We made it through the summer and we got football coming up tonight. Who has it better than we do? Nobody. Alrighty. Make sure you check out the new merchandise. You can go to danpatrick.com the store is open stock with fresh new gear. Stat of the DAY is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the program. First hour brought to you by express employment professionals and they will provide the workforce that you need. Go to expresspros.com find the location nearest you. They have over 870 locations. That's express pros.com play the day poll questions. Stat of the day. All of that forthcoming. Your phone calls are always welcome. 877-3-DP show email address dp danpatrick.com Twitter handle the DP Show Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for downloading the app. Our streaming partner, iHeartRadio FOX Sports Radio as well. Opening night Eagles big favorites, eight and a half. The banner being raised tonight and the Cowboys come in and are they dangerous. Dak is good against the NFC East. Dak is good against the Eagles. But with what has happened in the offseason, I know what's going to happen. The Eagles aren't going to be able to run the ball because the Cowboys are ready to stop the run. I don't know if they can stop the pass, but they're going to stop the run with Kenny Clark who all of a sudden is going to be Aaron Donald. I do like him. And Ross Tucker, who will join us a little bit later on, had a great tweet because he was saying, well, apparently Michael Parsons not worth $47 million a year, but he is to Green Bay and $47 million a year and Kenny Clark and two first round picks. So it's the eye of the beholder here in what Dallas was willing to pay. And if you know, Jerry got to a point where he said all right, that's it. I'm not going to negotiate that. Maybe his feelings were hurt here. Now you go to Green Bay. He's expected to play in the opener against Detroit, although may need an epidural, which is kind of interesting of, you know, you passed a physical. You had to pass a physical to be traded, but might need treatment leading up to this game. But we also have football on Friday night. Don't sleep on that. And you have the Chiefs and the Chargers in Brazil. Now, here's the problem I have with this. I know, I know. We're getting to, you know, global expansion here. The NFL is going to get to an 18 game schedule and they're going to have, you know, 18 games that are going to be international games and they're going to, you know, once again, that's worth a billion dollars or whatever. It's monopoly money. But this is what they want to do. This way they don't take away a home game. The fact that the Chargers and Chiefs, a divisional rivalry game is going to be played in Brazil is malpractice. I mean, that's terrible because that should be played in Los Angeles or if it was going to be played in Kansas City. This is a divisional game and I don't think the fans in Brazil are going to go, hey, we better get an opening game. We better get a Week 1 game. They should have these games and I'm fine with games, you know, if you want them to have in London and Germany and Ireland. I'm not anti international. What I am anti is a divisional game we're going to export and it's week one. You can't do that to the Chiefs and they Charger fans this week seven, and then you have a bye week. If you want to do it that way, then I think it's fair to all involved. I don't like having opening day in Japan. I understand that. You know, or Korea. I understand you want to, hey, this is something different. It's still, it's our game. You can still have games there, but let's not have opening day or their first week, their first game. A divisional game and you're going to play it in Brazil. I just, it's not, it's not fair to the teams, to their fans. But this will let you know exactly what the NFL is all about. Players don't like it, fans don't like it, but the owners like it. Let's play some football in Brazil. Who's with me? I just think it's unfortunate that you have all of this build up. And now you're going to send those guys to Brazil. They should be playing this game here in the United States and it's a divisional game. It's an important game. Yes, Todd. And you can't even give the charges a home game. Week two and they get back from there, they got to play at the Raiders. It's not till week three where they host Denver. It's like, you know, give them a break a little bit. The bolts. Yes. Paulie, I think your point, especially about delaying it to week seven, eight, nine, makes tons of sense. And like people in Brazil, while they may be growing football and they may like to have a nice game with some big names, it doesn't matter if it's the opener. The opener means nothing. Like you said about baseball with the opener in Japan. Cool. And I know for timing they had to do that, but it just. There's too much downside for the local fans. They could have had training camp games in Japan and they would have been happy to see the Dodgers there, and you could have accomplished whatever. I don't think they said, wait a minute, is it a regular season game or is it spring training now? You could have ramped up your lineup there a little bit and you could have said, hey, we want to showcase some of our best players. We want to make sure Ohtani's playing and maybe it's three innings that he's going to play. What they do in a typical spring training game. And maybe you get a little bit more over there. Okay. Training camp could have been over there for a couple of. You start out by playing games and then come back and go to spring training. It's just wrong. And I. I'm all about growing the game. Whatever it takes. Let's try new things, grow the game. Spring training, you can have a couple of games in Japan and I think they're going to be okay with this. And if you want to have a game in Brazil, I mean, this is why we always had. It felt like the Jags and the Panthers in London, it's like, all right, we'll give you a game. It's not a great game, but here you go, you got some football. Now we're sending the Chiefs, and if that's their home team, you know, okay, we could wait for week seven or eight and then give them a bi week when they come back. But I don't want to be in a bad mood on opening night. Air the grievances early. Well, I think people are going to respond to this after the fact certainly Chiefs fans and Charger fans, they've already voiced their concerns, disdain for this. But this is. The NFL doesn't care. They don't have to. All they care about is themselves, the owners, and this is going to be more money. Here's the commissioner, Roger Goodell. He was on the Today show on NBC talking about the possibility of expanding to 18 games. Listen, we always say, what do the fans want? What do the fans really think is important? And I think it's clear they want more regular season games versus preseason games. And it's something that we'll work through with the Players Association. We continue to make our games safer, and I think that's at the core of making that kind of a decision. Can we do it safely for our players? But it also, I think, represents an opportunity for us to continue to bring higher quality NFL content ultimately. And a regular season game is clearly better. A lot of NFL fans would love to not have to go to work. At what point do we start to see the super bowl on President's Day weekend? I think if you went to 18 weeks regular season, that would probably occur. Okay. It's possible somewhere in the calendar could happen before that, just because of the calendar, the way it lays out. But I think 18 weeks would get you to that point, and I think it'd be a great. A really great move. Yeah, we've been talking about this for years that they were going to get. I mean, this is all scripted. This has been planned out. They know what's going to happen now. The negotiations are going to happen. It'll be 18 games. You're going to have. Every team will play outside the United States. They're going to sell that, a separate TV package for those international games. All this stuff, we've talked about this for years, and you're going to move the season back. It'll be President's Day weekend. Everybody gets Monday off. This. This is no surprise here. And it almost sounded like an announcement by the commissioner. It. It was pretty close to saying, this is what's going to happen. Then, yes, we move it back. Yeah, President's Day weekend, and everybody wants more football, and we want everybody to be safe. You can't add another game and tell me you care about saf. You just. You can't. And now this is what I want. I want the NFL to promise this. I hope the Players association says, hey, we'll do 18 games. This is what we want. We want four more roster spots for each team, extra bodies. That's what we want. So Now I get four more players on each team getting paid, getting benefits, the opportunity to play in the NFL. If you say that's what you're going to get out of this, and I'm sure they'll want more, then okay. I mean, I don't. I get to watch it. But these players have to play. They're the ones that are affected the rest of their lives playing these games, the number of games. But if you have, let's say, four more roster spots, then maybe, maybe you get the opportunity to. You don't have attrition here where you're, like, limping to the finish line with your roster. And every single year, how many quarterbacks play the entire season? Just start there, and that's the most protected player on the field. You can't add another game and tell me it's about safety. It's about money. And the players know this. The clock is ticking on their sports careers. How many years, how much money, what am I going to be like when I get out of here? Yes, I like in that clip that about the 18th game, Roger Goodell says, yeah, well, you know, we're just doing what the fans want. And they've said that they want an 18th game, so we're gonna do that. Okay. But the fans hate the international gifts. Well, you know, the fans are wrong on that. That's. Our international fans love it. So we're listening to them. Well, yeah. Paulie, I'm curious. We've never really discussed this angle. It's so obvious. Does anyone here not want an 18th regular season game if it was an actual fan vote? I don't even know my answer yet, but I'm curious about this room. I'm fine with it. I mean, I, I don't think anybody's turning off football. I'm not big on Thursday Night Football. I don't think we're being fair to the players. When you have a game on Sunday and a game on Thursday, it's just. And having spoken to current and former players, the turnaround is really, really tough. Now, you do it because you get an extra paycheck or you're going to get a chance to be in primetime and standalone game. Like, I understand all of these things. I'm not going to say. All I'm going to say is let's be fair to the players. You're going to give them more money, another paycheck, and maybe you get some more roster spots. But let's not kid anybody. This is not about anybody other than the owners want this. We're fine. The networks want this. They get them. They give the money to the owners, and the commissioner works for the owners. That's what this is all about. You want to give me more football, great. But I. I do think about the players. And I think, and I go back to what I told you when I saw Jim McMahon out in Tahoe and what he meant to the NFL. And here he is telling me they almost had his leg amputated and he doesn't have health benefits. Those are the things that bother me when I first saw Earl Campbell in a wheelchair. Those are the things that bother me. But I've been around the sport for 40 years now, and I think you have to be fair to these players. You know, what, what's their health care? What's their benefits? Because we move on. It's like, oh, yeah, oh, that guy. What's what? Oh, he's in a wheelchair. Ah, damn. Hey, what time's the game start tonight? Like, we move on with it. I just want to make sure that we're fair to these players who are entertaining us. And if you want to add an 18 game, okay, I get to enjoy it. But let's be fair to all involved here, international games. How about not a divisional rival game? Okay. I mean, we can export a game that's not that interesting. We do it to London all the time. But that bothers me to open up in Brazil with the Chiefs and Chargers. A divisional game. I have a problem with that. All right. You got a poll question? I do. I just. I'm trying to figure out if the wording on this is fair. Okay. Because we've been talking about it a little bit. All right. But Steve Ballmer is the. Oh, let me, Let me hold off on that. I want to take a break. And we talked to Pablo Torre yesterday, who had this investigation into the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard and a fraudulent company and money that's there and Kawhi being paid for a no show job. Mark Cuban's now involved in this. Coming to Steve Ballmer's defense, there's a lot of things going on right now. The NBA says they're aware of it, which. That was an interesting response. Todd goes, you know, hey, we just want to ask if commissioner wants to come on and talk about this. Well, we're aware of this, which is good, because they said, wait a minute. What happened about the Clippers? Yeah, can you call me back? I'm gonna get off this other call. We need to talk about that. I didn't hear anything about Clipper. Wait a minute. I've been watching the US Open tennis. Is there something going on? But Pablo had sources, seven sources, one on record, one said that they specifically said the Clippers were trying to circumvent the salary cap paying Kawhi Leonard $28 million for a no show job for a company that I believe the CEO is going to jail. And there's a lot, there's a lot involved here. Now, once again, you're innocent until proven guilty. You know, did Steve Ballmer know anything or what did he know? When did he know? And did Kawhi get paid $28 million? We'll talk a little bit more about that. We'll get to your phone calls as well. And 877-3-DP Show. We're back after this in the Dan Patrick Show. 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Listen to the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you go to find your podcast. I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, host of the Psychology Podcast. Here's a clip from an upcoming conversation about exploring human potential. I was going to schools to try to teach kids these skills and I get eye rolling from teachers or I get students who would be like, it's easier to punch someone in the face. When you think about emotion regulation, like, you're not going to choose an adaptive strategy which is more effortful to use unless you think there's a good outcome as a result of it, if it's going to be beneficial to you. Because it's easy to just say like, like go blank yourself, right? It's easy. It's easy to just drink the extra beer. It's easy to ignore, to suppress seeing a colleague who's bothering you and just like walk the other way. Avoidance is easier. Ignoring is easier. Denial is easier. Drinking is easier. Yelling, screaming is easy. Complex. Problem solving, meditating, you know, takes effort. Listen to the Psychology podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It is the fifth annual Hot Take Draft coming up a little bit later on. That's where we have predictions that are kind of wild, kind of crazy. The hotter the better. Paulie, give the audience of, for instance of one that hit last year for you and one that didn't. And again, is what's more important than the hotness or the rightness? Hotness. Right? Here's one I had last year that worked out pretty well. Russell Wilson will start a playoff game. Ding. Not that terribly hot. It's warm. Okay, here's one that didn't work out. Derek Carr will start a playoff game. No longer in the league. He retired. I also had Will Levis of the Titans will win most improved player. If there is such an award in his own family, maybe that's about it. But that's the hot take draft that we'll have for you. Super bowl picks tomorrow. Tomorrow Super bowl picks 8773 DP Shell. We'll get to your phone calls coming up. Oh, Paulie heard. Can I say who you heard from? Yeah, a well placed source who knows. Former player, now broadcaster. Okay. He was talking about, he was listening and heard about you talking about international games. Mm. It's already been announced that the LA Rams will play a game in Melbourne, Australia next year at some point. 2026. Yep. This person said don't be surprised if that's an opener. Like it's for week one. And because of that it may be played on a Wednesday or a Thursday because of the timing and the schedule and the travel. So don't be surprised if Rams open in Melbourne next year. But I get that if you want to ramp it up and then they, then they get time to come back and get acclimated to, you know, start an NFL season like everybody else. I mean, if you've ever and I've, I've flown from Connecticut to Sydney, Australia, and I think it was a total of 23 hours now they're flying private, but still your body is going to take a toll. And then you play a football game, then you get back on a plane, then you come back home. If you're going to give them a good seven days, eight days to recuperate. Okay. I just don't like sent. I don't like exporting our openers. Just I don't think that's fair to the fans. You get excited. Imagine being a Charger chief fan. You're like, yeah, but I can't go to the game. You know, hey, gather all the kids. School started. We're going to Australia for the opener next year. Yes, Todd. And you're waiting all these months counting it down like we've been doing to the start of the season. Then you've got to wait another week, possibly even two weeks before the first home game that you could attend. Still driving that trusty old ride. Keep it looking sharp with Mako. Dense to faded paint. They got you covered. Get a free estimate today. Oh, better get Mako. All right, so let me get a couple of phone calls in here. Then we'll talk about the situation with the Clippers circumventing the salary cap, perhaps. According to Pablo Torre yesterday he also Mark Cuban responded social media wise. Pablo said, hey Mark, why don't you come on the show his podcast. And I guess Mark Cuban has agreed to go on the podcast to discuss this. Steve Ballmer is not, but Mark Cuban is. Carter in Minnesota. Hi Carter. What's on your mind today? Hey Dan. 6 foot 190. I know it's been harped on a lot this week, but I wanted to talk about Micah Parsons just one little bit more. The misconception about the contract is, you know, everyone here's the big number, 47 million. But people forget that the fifth year option was accepted which is worth like 21 million on Parsons. So it really is a five year contract that averages out to just over 41 million. Yes, yes, that's been reported. And thank you, Carter. Sean in Michigan. Hi Sean. What's on your mind? Hey Dan. 622 15. Wanted to talk a little bit about this game on Friday night. Completely understand that the hypeness of the first week. But the fans, the season ticket holders at any game, someone's going to be the away team. So home opener is really all that the fans and season ticket holders care about. They, they, they care about week one. If they're the away team that they can watch it. They obviously don't want the game to be blacked out. I'm assuming that this game is going to be nationally televised. Everyone's gonna be able to watch it. And I haven't looked too deep into the Chiefs and Chargers season. I'm hoping that their home opener is week two. But that's what they care about. Every team has to go through a week one. We're the away team, we can't go to the game. It's just that both teams are going through that now. All they care about is the home opener, the game that they can go to. Now with the 17 game schedule. Nine and eight, nine home, eight away or nine away, eight home, whatever it is, everyone has to go through an eight game home schedule. I'm assuming that each team or one team just going to have eight home games similar to other seasons. Yeah, but, but I still, you, you want to have the opportunity to go to a game. Going from Kansas City to Los Angeles or vice versa, seems like that you can, you can pull that off. Going to Brazil is a little bit tougher for your fan base. I understand you, you have your home games, you're going to have 18 games and you're going to have one game. Every team is probably going to play outside the United States. But thank you Sean. Thank you for the phone call. Eric in California. Hi Eric. What's on your mind? ADP65290 10 Year Charger Season Ticket holder to put A little bit of icing on top of this cake. We actually paid for the ticket for Brazil and we didn't get reimbursed for it as season ticket holders. Matter of fact, they didn't offer us tickets to the game in Brazil either, or discounted tickets. Nothing to really supplement us paying for. We actually had a season ticket increase as well. Yeah, but the NFL cares about you, Eric. Yes, that's what being part of this discussion just boggles my mind about, like, well, hey, what about the season ticket holders? We're the ones. What do you really think the NFL cares at all about season ticket holders? The current 20. I bet you 24 out of the 32 teams right now have a waiting list, 10,000 people deep waiting to get season tickets. And if it didn't dawn on you that they couldn't care less about you based on buying season tickets, you get the, you have to buy personal seat license just for the right to buy the tickets. Then you have to buy the games, which includes they make you buy the preseason games and they don't give you any playoff tickets, which you get the right because you're a season ticket holder to pay inflated, inflated prices for those two. But yes, they, they absolutely care about you guys. Ted in San Diego. Hi, Ted. Hey, Dan. Love the show. Thank you, sir. I'm curious for the adding that 18th game, you keep saying that players are gonna like it because they get paid more, but when they sign their contract, when they say $20 million a year, isn't that $20 million across X many games? So if they add an 18th game, are they gonna renegotiate all the players contracts? I don't. Well, you're not going to play an extra game and not get paid. I mean, they're going to have to tack on a check because the players aren't going to agree to play another game unless they're getting something. And the players aren't benefiting if, as I've suggested, you add at least four roster spots. But thank you for the phone call. Yes, you're going to want another paycheck and it might be average averaging out what is your current paycheck. And then they add one more to that, which I don't think that's, you know, a big bookkeeping deal. Segueing into the Clippers with the story that is front and center. And Pablo Torre of Metalark Media, his podcast, he has done a deep dive on the Clippers situation with Steve Ballmer. Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Clippers. And there's A lot going on here because you've got a company that has since gone belly up. You have the CEO who pled guilty, wire fraud. And this company was paying celebrities, Pablo Torre said, like Cindy, Cindy Crawford and her daughter, who's a model. I think Leonardo DiCaprio was in there. But they were getting paid, you know, a million, $2 million to represent this company that, you know, is all about green and, you know, planting trees. And Steve Ballmer invested $50 million into this company. The company was going to be one of the title sponsors of the Clippers. I think they were going to have a patch on their uniform and then come to find out that Kawhi Leonard, through his limited partnership or his llc, is getting paid for a no show job, that he's getting paid $28 million. Now, Pablo said that he had seven sources, over 3,000 pages of documents, and one former employee who said that this was being used to circumvent the salary cap. And the Clippers have sent out a statement. They deny everything here. But this is what I want to know. Was Kawhi Leonard being paid by this company for a no show job? Did he do something for the company? Because Pablo Torre said that he found no indication that Kawhi Leonard did anything for this company. Steve Ballmer, what's his role in this? That you spent $50 million on a company and Kawhi Leonard's getting $28 million. So just a couple of questions here. Did Kawhi get paid all this money and why? For a no show job? And did Steve Ballmer understand this? The Clippers denied everything there. Mark Cuban put out a post saying, I'm on Team Ballmer as much as I wish they circumvented the salary cap first, Steve isn't that dumb. If he did try to feed Kawhi Leonard money, knowing that what was at stake for him personally and his team do think that he would let the company go bankrupt knowing all creditors would be visible to the world? They got scammed by aspiration. That's the company, along with many others, crimes for which they pleaded guilty last week. Well, I think they were pleading guilty to wire fraud. I don't know if Steve Ballmer would have. I mean, this guy was lying about what was going on. A $300 million sponsorship deal with the Clippers. Scammers do scammy things, according to Mark Cuban. Now that's a huge deal. The better the team does, the more value the sponsorship has. It actually makes perfect sense that they stole money from investors and want the Clippers to succeed. Why not give stolen money to help keep their best player? So Kawhi did get paid $28 million from this company, is what Mark is saying. Hey, why not? Is Mark saying this is. Okay, I'll read that again. It actually makes perfect sense that they stole money from investors and want the Clippers to succeed. Why not give stolen money to help keep their best player? Mark goes on to say it's sad that Pablo Torre didn't take the time to find out how these scammers pulled off their scam. The idea that the default is Ballmer is the bad guy is going to backfire on him. I don't know what Steve knew. I don't know if he knew anything, but it sounds like Mark is saying, well, if Ballmer did know this, he wouldn't let it go bankrupt. Okay. Because you don't want creditors to be visible to the world. I understand that. So you're saying, hey, he's too smart for this to happen. He would have made sure this company didn't go belly up. It still goes back to, why was Kawhi Leonard getting paid that money with a company that Steve invested $50 million in? Let me just start there. Yeah. See, it is an interesting defense to say there's no way that this is true because he would have been better at covering it up. It sounds like that if I'm, I'm reading what Mark is saying. If he had done this, there's no way he would have let that company go bankrupt, because then that would have exposed the crime. So if he had done this, he would have made sure that that company stayed good to cover it up. That's what the subtext is. Mark makes it seem like billionaires don't make bad decisions or they don't do stupid things. Well, they definitely don't skirt the rules to benefit themselves. Yeah, of course not. I just. I just want to know if you paid him $28 million for a no show in a company that you invested $50 million in and they were one of the title sponsors. There's simple questions that can be asked. Then it might get a little more complicated. Yeah, Pauline, when I heard the story from Pablo Torre accusing Steve Ballmer of this, it actually kind of made a little bit of sense, because Steve Ballmer, I think someone said he's the seventh richest man on Earth. He worked at Microsoft for years. He now enters a league where there's a cap on how much he can spend for things he wants. He's never had to deal with a cap in any other business venture he's ever been part of. It's unique to sports. And he probably looks at and says, I have money to spend. I want to get this player, this player, but the league won't let me. I could use my creativeness as a businessman to work around it, because that's what I've done my entire life, is create as a businessman. Their rules don't make sense to me that there's a cap when I have more money than anyone to spend. And that could be almost the genesis for all of this. And owners finding ways to spend outside the rules. The Clippers in their statement said neither Steve Ballmer nor the Clippers organization had any oversight of Kawhi's independent endorsement agreement with aspiration. To say otherwise is a. Is flat out wrong. Okay, well, the NBA is investigating this. And still just a couple of simple questions there. Yes, there are a lot of things in the timeline that are just funny coincidences. You know, Kawhi negotiating, opting out of contracts, and then Steve Ballmer invests 50 million into this thing. And just a couple months later, then the deal is signed. I don't know this on paper. The timing is funny. And once again, innocent till proven guilty. But Pablo Torre, 3,000 pages of documents and you have seven different people, one who is on record, his voice was modulated though, protecting his identity, but still. And you have one person saying that the Clippers were circumventing the salary cap through this company. Feels like there's something there, whether the Clippers knew it. But I still go back to Kawhi was getting paid $28 million for a no show job and nobody knew about this. And if he did something like this is where, okay, if you're the company, Kawhi represents New balance. He does commercials. I've seen him. Okay, he's going to get paid. But this is. We're not even trying to hide this. It's like, yeah, we're paying Kawhi and I guess they still owe him $7 million. I mean, to not show up somewhere, I, I get. He's gonna get 7 million to not show up. Yes. So why would I understand the company investing in an NBA team? Here's $300 million and we're a sponsor now, Right? And I understand the company. What. Why would they just throw in a bonus $30 million for Kawhi and be like, don't worry about it. Just, you don't even have to show up. We're just gonna give it to you as a thank you for being here. Why would you do that? Unless it's, we need Kawhi to be on the Clippers if we're going to sponsor this team and then we can grow our business. If the Clippers are good, then we grow. I think that's what Mark Cuban is saying. Hey, why wouldn't you do this? I. My first question to Mark is, did you do this in Dallas? It's against the rules. That's. That's fine. I mean, I. Okay, we invited everybody on, just to let you know, Cuban, ballmer commissioner, everybody. Kauai. Yes, Marvin. The NBA. I'm nominating for worst week in sports. And then Shams, you know, coincidentally, hey, we got a new All Star format. Format. Three hours after Pablo Tory comes on the show. Okay. Do you think that this was a purposeful distraction to the Clippers situation and the Clippers will be hosting the All Star game, and all of a sudden, you know that when this is front page headline stuff and then, oh, by the way, the NBA has leaked to Shams that here's a new All Star format, guys. Enjoy. Yes. I don't know if I think that you think it's. It's. It's just a coincidence. What is that All Star weekend bombshell that they're dropping? Like. Well, really? Not really. Here we are, it's the first week of September. Don't you want to. I mean, if they leaked something like, hey, the Nets are thinking of leaving Brooklyn, I would be like, whoa, that's a crazy story. But, hey, some tweaks to the All Star game weekend now. Well, there was also reported that Ben Simmons is thinking of retirement, so that might throw you off of another no show. He got paid salary. Yeah, another no show. Yeah, yeah. Investigate Ben Simmons. Yeah, I. Catching strays. He's not even involved in the story. Yeah, he shoots strays. Oh, yeah, that's the problem. Okay, but he doesn't shoot. Oh, that's right, he doesn't. Let's take a break. I still want to have Ben Simmons and Angel Reese have a shoot off. Oh, no. Like, funny, but sure. 15 footers. 15ft. Just shoot. She attempts. She does. She's not afraid to shoot. That's why she gets so many rebounds. They're her own rebounds. Okay, let's take a break. Let's take a break. Play the day. 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Yeah, I pretty much had the same. Same question. And I saw Pat Mc kind of, you know, promoting it, too, which felt a little weird. And just like, oh, no one will care about commercials. And now ESPN has that 10. I didn't know if there was conflict there. Just felt a little weird. I think the NFL dictates all of this. This isn't the mothership. Just let's be fair to everybody involved in this. And I'm not going to put blame on Scott Hansen or the Red Zone or anybody else. I believe that this is handed down from the NFL. Yes. And just quickly, because I think that person misspoke. ESPN got the Red Zone channel. The NFL got 10% of ESPN. Yeah, ESPN doesn't have 10 of the NFL or red zone. They have all of the NFL Network, but The NFL got 10% of ESPN. Let's see. Joe in New Orleans. Hi, Joe. What's on your mind today? Hey, good morning. Six, three and more than I Care to communicate a long time. Third time, but that's a question. It's going to lean a little more in Paulie's directions. You're a little more negative, but with the announcer of the Saints being worse your bull odds and they announced last week the Pelicans are going to get two primetime games all season. Is there any other city that's more irrelevant in sports right now than New Orleans? Well, you could probably look at the Carolina Panthers and the Charlotte Hornets if misery loves company. I mean, no offense to a wonderful city, but if you're talking about the sports teams lack of star power, then those. I mean, you got Zion. I don't know how long he's going to be there, but we got him. And you might have Arch Manning one day with the Saints. Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke. What's on your mind? Hey, gang. Good morning. Morning. Happy football season. Opening day. Excited for it. But yeah, I'm trying to think through the Kawhi Leonard situation and there's. There's a lot of different storylines and there's just a couple that I think are worth mentioning. I think I'm all for players getting what they deserve to be paid, but I do think there's a growing disconnect with fans of especially in the NBA, what payers are being played, players are being paid and the product that they are receiving the. You know, it feels like there's almost a handshake agreement of like how much can we get without actually having to, you know, put a good product on the court regularly. And then the other side is there has to be some level of enforcement that's pretty strong from the NBA. And I know that Silver is a player commissioner, but there has to be some response because more and more billionaires are coming into sports ownership as a way to almost instantly get some popularity and some credibility. And if it just becomes more and more where sports leagues are the playground of billionaires, but they're unaccountable. I think that's a recipe for really seeing a rift between fans and the league. They want to see. They want to know that everyone's playing fair. And that's fundamentally what this story feels like. The richest guy in sports ownership came in and said, how can I stretch or break the rules? And is anyone even. I want to be fair. Luke, you make. You make some nice points. But let's be fair to Steve Ballmer here. I got to be fair to him. I can't just say that he's guilty of this. This happens in the Premier League all the time, all the time. And owners get dinged. You know, whether it's Juventus a couple of years ago, whether it's Man City, anybody else in there? Well, there's, there's always rumors of like this team is doing really well. Wow. We should see if they have any offshore accounts. Wink, wink. There's, there's like always that man. How did they get this player to sign? Like, oh, somebody should check the Cayman Islands, maybe that's out. Yes. 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