00:00on one hand i'm so pumped up that baseball is back i love opening day i'm an opening day guy
00:06but the key word in opening day is not opening it's day yeah day day opening day and now of
00:18course it is opening night on netflix a lot of you not everybody has netflix so you have to figure
00:24out a way how to get the game because if you don't have netflix you don't get the game tonight
00:28uh but baseball is back man and i know we can nitpick it if you you may have a thought
00:33on it
00:33as well my only real knock on opening night tonight on netflix is that i don't blame baseball for this
00:41i do blame netflix for this okay okay netflix thinks apparently that opening day in america
00:49is a time for gimmicks as much as they wrote a big check because they want baseball
00:54and they have this game home run home run derby and i think that's it for now for year one
01:00yes
01:00all right so they're kind of dipping their toe in the water uh to see what baseball is like on
01:05their
01:05platform apparently this is mid-contract for a lot of for a lot of sports team okay they're going to
01:09be an active bidder there's gonna be more basic for sure you're dead right and they want football
01:14they want college football they want everything and they got all the money so they're gonna have
01:17a lot of stuff uh right so but they're making it a gimmick and i said this on the radio
01:22a couple
01:23days ago and again yesterday and that is opening day doesn't need a gimmick yeah opening day just
01:30needs popcorn you know cracker jacks a hot dog a cold beer a little bunting around the stadium
01:36an introduction of every player a nice national anthem and let's go but netflix is now bringing us
01:44jamis winston yep the new york giant quarterback part of the studio pregame show they're now bringing us
01:50these uh wrestling guys yeah the usos okay the usos yeah i never heard of them but i know they're
01:56very popular wrestling people do yes and netflix owns the wwe broadcast rights right and now they're
02:02having a hand the thing from the very popular show on netflix wednesday about wednesday adams yeah okay
02:11and the thing which is just like frankenstein's hand throwing out the first pitch and i have to say
02:19this while it's gimmicky and baseball doesn't need gimmicks i can't wait to see how they figure out
02:27how a hand not connected to a body is throwing out the first pitch yeah how come out of the
02:36mound you
02:36mess with the mound i assume it's gonna be like a cgi thing okay that's already been pre-recorded
02:41but i would say this when the hand is done throwing out the first pitch i know an accused murderer
02:49who
02:50could use that hand yes although he didn't need it no not no the uh the quadriplegic with no arms
03:03no legs who uh allegedly shot his buddy in the tesla yeah who also is proficient with a rifle yes
03:09a
03:09nine millimeter see the videos climbed a ladder with the rifle with the rifle like this dude is a
03:15badass yeah like this guy is i know we're going for the tangent here i don't want to hear anybody
03:21ever
03:22say again i can't do something no no no this dude's got no feet no hands no fingers no toes
03:27climbing a
03:28ladder with a rifle right to hunt yeah apparently got a kill like i don't know what's going on anyway
03:35your thoughts on opening day now the one thing is baseball above every other sport for a long time
03:41has been americana i hundred percent this is where the netflix thing is slightly different in
03:47they're doing things because they've been going big in the international markets especially indian
03:53things like that okay i believe they added all these other things that they're adding for the
03:58global part of it i think they think the americans are going to do it but yeah they're wrestling they
04:03show internationally wednesday they show internationally it's their biggest show wednesday so i think what
04:08they're thinking is we have america locked up well i also think this is to get people from england
04:13and other places to join that might be true i don't know i mean that's a it's a valid point
04:16i never i
04:17didn't consider i think the other thing they're doing is i think this game is so important to their
04:22future as a baseball partner that they don't want to have mud on their face if this game fails and
04:28i
04:28don't know what the goal rating is or your audience is right obviously it's going to be in the millions
04:33yeah and hopefully the tens of millions for them i think what they're doing which is smart
04:38while it's probably pissing off baseball purists that they're doing all this nonsense and making it
04:43kind of a gimmick is the fact i will wrestling is very popular not every wrestling fan watches baseball
04:49right but if uh these uh you so uso twins whatever uh are really that popular they're the rocks cousins
04:55again i i know nothing about wrestling they're the rocks cousins okay i know nothing about it nor
05:00should you but i know this if i was a wrestling fan and i hear that my favorite tag team
05:05uh duo
05:06the usos are being a part of a broadcast i might want to check it out all i can do
05:11is turn it on for
05:12a minute netflix gets credit for me as a viewer so i may not care about baseball but if i'm
05:18one of the
05:18200 million people i guess that watch wednesday every week on netflix i might be apt to tune in
05:25to see thing throw out the first pitch so what netflix is doing which might piss off baseball purists
05:32is actually really smart because all they care about is tomorrow morning when the ratings come out
05:38they want to be able to say 70 million people i'm making up numbers obviously you know checked out
05:44the baseball coverage on netflix that's their goal now the question i have i guess is you're gonna
05:50watch it it's also like our job to watch yes now i'll still say baseball should start at 12 o
05:57'clock
05:57noon on opening day and i don't care if it's the reds or not i never bought into cincinnati having
06:03to
06:03open up the season but opening day should be during the day
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